they are calling for tibetan freedom and a return from exile for the dalai lama. we have been in the province which borders tibet. >> it is china's latest crackdown. we were caught up in it trying to reach tibetan areas. a massive mobilization of security forces. an area the size of england cordoned off power to the police -- an area the size of england cordoned off. the police told us that we were not to enter tibetan areas again. when we refused, they threaten us. they said that our visas can be canceled. what unnerves china is the new and shocking form of protests, people setting themselves on fire to protest religious and cultural oppression. this is a nun burning herself a life? among those who did this is a l ama. -- this is a nun burning herself alive. footage shows angry tibetans besieging a police station. the chinese response has been an even harder crackdown targeting what they call separatists intent on splitting tibet from china. we flew higher, close to the roof of the world. china says that the immolations are terrorism. police warned tibetans not t

china, he said, but the dalai lama -- should let the dalai lama come home, tibet's exiled spiritual leader. now, what type of beard. protests are said to be expanding. china's response has been this -- and even harder crackdown targeting what it calls separatists intent on splitting tibet from china. to reach tibetan areas, we flew higher, close to the roof of the world. china says the immolations are terrorism, but it wants to keep its crackdown secret. police warned tibetans not to talk to us and watched us everywhere. this is another of the police cars that has been trailing us. outside i can count one, two, three, for your policemen who follow us all around this village, and one of them has obviously been into our taxi because down the side of the seat, he dropped this. we found is just now, this police i.d. badge. our taxi driver is spooked. he does not want anything more to do with us. then the police moved in. they seized a tibetan villager who just pulled up. one him to say nothing and hustled him away. as we left, the police chased us, detain us again, trying to get us to hand ove

we've had -- the president and i have met with the dalai lama in this room. it's also a room that i've had baby showers in for a niece or a nephew. you know, this has been really a wonderful room. just recently, mrs. goel from turkey was here. she was one of the spouses of a leader. president goel was meeting with the president and she was here with me and i had -- it was really fun to be able to tell her that this rug is a turkish rug and all the turkish members of the party, mrs. goel and the others said, well, this doesn't look like one, but i could get out my trusty guide book that the curators have put together and tell her that this was a harriki made in harriki for the french market, which is why it looks like a european rug rather than a turkish rug. >> can you remember the most interesting time you ever spent in this room itself? >> i can remember a lot of very interesting people i had the opportunity to meet here, like the dalai lama, that president bush and i have met with in here. i remember fun times of parties here, that were just fun personal p

old and a picture of the -- holding a picture of the dalai lama, this amount does not want to be identified because of reprisals. when we protest, they opened fire. there's nothing we can do. >> china has launched a massive crackdown against protesters. more than 20 tibetans set themselves on fire in the last year. campaign groups say hundreds of people may have been detained. china says that it has tightened security as the unrest continues. >> under the current circumstances, the local government has tightened security measures in the tibetan areas to counter disruptive activities andns tsoo ee urcie stability. >> china does not want the world to see what is happening in its tibetan community. this should be a time of celebration but instead it is a somber affair. many tibetans fear what the new year could bring. >> islamic extremists, ruthless pirates, and intense poverty. this is a toxic combinations and somalia has them all. to tackle this threat, 40 governments and international bodies will meet in london tomorrow to ask what can be done. in somalia itself, the front line has shifted

and the dalai lama should know that this administration has failed them 11 -- 11. now, buddhist monks and nuns have set themselves aflame. but i want to bring it back to this, and i did not know that you made a request. i would like to ask both if they would say publicly -- i see the media here looking -- what would you say, because there's still an opportunity to meet after the vice president from china leaves. what would you say if you had an opportunity to meet with president obama, and shame on them both if they do not meet. shame on that boat if they do not meet. you know that president reagan would have met with you. you know president. you know jimmy carter wouldn't have met with you, so shame on you if they do, but maybe they won't. this may be the only opportunity. what would both of the wives want to say if they were talking to president obama and vice president bush? [ speaking foreign language ] >> if i have an opportunity to meet president obama and vice president biden, i would tell him my brother. we went skiing. so why in china he has to be persecut

the dalai lama ought to know this administration failed them. buddhist monks and nuns set themselves a name. i want to bring it back to this and i did not know you had made a request. i would like to ask both of the wives if they would say publicly, i see the media here looking, but what would you say because there is still an opportunity to meet after the vice president from china leaves. what would you say if you had an opportunity to meet with president obama and shame on them both if they do not meet. shame on them both if they do not meet! you know that president reagan would have met with you and you know president clinton would have met with you. you know president bush would have met with you. you know president jimmy carter would have met with you. shame on them if they do. maybe they won't. this may be the only opportunity. what would both of the wives want to say if they were talking to president obama and vice president bush? [ speaking foreign language ] . >> if i had an opportunity to meet president obama and vice president biden,

the demonstrators came from a monastery and carried banners demanding the return of the dalai lama from exile and the release of political prisoners. >> another russian, spewing log on to the snow-covered slopes. it is the second irruption this year. italian authorities have closed the local airport, and flights to the area have been canceled. mount etna is the largest active volcano in europe. all right, it is the buzz right now at the berlin film festival. angelina jolie is in town to present her electoral debut, but the red carpe had to wait on friday. she first met with the german foreign minister to discuss her work as a united nations goodwill ambassador. saturday, she will be on hand for the premiere of her film, the bosnian wartime love story "in the land of blood and honey ." our film crew is standing by for us there on the red carpet at the berlin film festival. you have seen that film. what is your take on it? what are you hearing about it? >> first, a small correction. though it has been described as a love story, it -- i would not categorize it as that. it is much more comp

and the dalai lama ought to know that this administration has failed them. but i want to bring it back, back to this. and i didn't know that you had made a request. i would like to ask both of the wives if they would say publicly, i see the media here looking and what would you say, because there's still an opportunity to meet after the vice president from china leaves. what would you say if you had an opportunity to meet with president obama and shame on both of them if you do not meet. you know that president reagan would have met with you. you know that president clinton would have met with you. you know that president bush would have met with you. you know that president carter would have met with you. this may be the only opportunity. what would the wives want to say if they were talking to president obama? >> translator: if i had an opportunity to meet president obama and the vice president biden, i would tell him my husband is a good people. he always did good deeds. what he has done in china, comply with the world standard, international standards, s

putin, and i'm just wondering, when you see somebody like that-- saakashvili, or even the dalai lama,'s really in a whole different world and fighting for very different things than what you're fighting for, but fighting very bravely--when you see all of that, leaders like that, do you think that they will eventually prevail? - that's a question of a timeframe. i do think that authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, they always present this image that they're eternal. it turns out they're not. they tend to be rather brittle, and we've seen this in various regimes. this certainly was the case in egypt, where there was an authoritarian regime of mubarak, total state control of the media, including newspapers and magazines, state control of the economy, very strong state with security apparatus, etc. etc. and it collapsed. the mubarak regime just collapsed. it turns out it was very, very brittle. this is something we've seen around the world--that these authoritarian states or totalitarian states, they look really tough, really strong-- indeed, they can hurt you very badly if you challen

so -- >> i have the dalai lama on line three?t. i can wait. >> he's not really on the phone. she just does that when she knows i want to wrap things up. >> jimmy: oh. >> anything else? >> jimmy: all right. your book club. that was great, right? that was a big success. but let's be honest. reading is like the most boring thing in the world. so -- this show takes your book club and gives it a twist. >> have you thought about this. which character had the most to lose? clearly the hero of this book isn't scout or atticus. it's tom robinson. >> not boo radley? >> did you say boo radley? that's funny. boo radley is not a hero, oprah. he's a peripheral character, if anything. >> i beg to differ. >> oh yeah? when's the last time you actually read this book, oprah. >> no you didn't. >> did you actually read? >> you are asking me when's the last time i read "to kill a mockingbird?" >> hey! that's my husband! >> book club fight club! boo radley! >> jimmy: you pound -- >> thank you so much for -- >> jimmy: no, no, no, i have one more idea.

tibet to foreigners after opening fire on protesters, calling for freedom and the return on the dalai lamad china's vice president during his visit to the u.s. >> we are highly critical and suspicious that you will probably continue the same violations of human rights. we are trying to raise awareness and raise caution to the western audiences. >> and this protest has been very well organized. it has been peaceful earlier here today. another is planned tomorrow to end a three-day event. of protests and rallies around town. it will end with a candle light vigil from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. we are live in d.c. anny hong, 9news now. >> still ahead, decreasing your bottom line. when does it make good financial sense to refinance your mortgage? we'll break it down. >> teachers often stay after school to help students, but not today. for many teachers in prince william county. they protested. i'm peggy fox. coming up, i'll tell you what it's all about. >> but up next, president obama's new budget plan is under fire. we'll break it all down when we come back. >>> president obama delivered his 2013 b

. >> he got to this state of self-awareness with the help of a friend, the dalai lama. >> he says to "when you get angry"--i'll do an imitation-- "when you get angry, when you lose your temper, when you think that you shout and react in a poor way to other people, it is a result of a false sense of yourself, an inflated sense of yourself that is worthless." i'm steve wynn. >> and what keeps steve wynn on top while other casino moguls are tottering near bankruptcy is that he never gambles with his own bottom line, and he has always been driven by a single vision. >> to see if i could do--if i could make people go, "wow," to see if i could create a place that it was a wonderland, that it was better than the outside world, where everything--like joel grey said in cabaret: "inside, everything is beautiful. even the girls are beautiful. even the band is beautiful." that seemed like such a fun way to spend your life. >> since we first aired this story, steve wynn's personal wealth has declined from $3.9 billion to $1.9 billion. but despite the downturn in his individual fortunes, wynn repo

you know, we -- actually made it for his holiness when the dalai lama when he visited. we didn't call at this time dirty rice. we called it holy rice. >> many folks first met you and fell in love with your food through oprah. how did that experience change your life? >> oh, the -- the o factor. >> i guess it changes -- she changes everyone she touches. >> everyone picks up -- it has been an amazing adventure. also as -- you know, doing top chef masters and that was totally amazing. that's a really hot pot there. >> i will ask you more questions in a minute. we better get to the cooking. >> we should. >> quickly run through what you need if you are going to make this at home. you have to have a cup of cooked carolina gold rice. got to be already cooked. you need a half cup of soffrito. half cup of mushroom bolognese. tablespoon of butter. let's quickly see what's going on here. already put some oil in -- >> right. a little bit of broth. and -- >> broth. >> special stock. and the -- carolina rice is an heirloom rice. these rices are -- north america for many, many -- for

dalai lama being excluded from dialogue. >> ifill: there's no mided ground on that one. >> ultimately if you really want to build trust china needs to change. china needs to conform to a more democratic truly market- driven economy. of course it's still too early to say whether they can really move in that direction. but on the other hand if it were based on strategies changing there's almost no hope. if you look at individual levels you do see some riendship that exists everywhere between the chinese and the americans. there's a lot of corporations, a lot of changes: education, culture, economics. so these can be foundation of eventually leading to something very, very important. >> ifill: so a visit like today, for she in particular, or for the president of the united states, obama, is it for a domestic audience at home or is it for an international audience to raise his stature abroad? >> this is something we really have to do. here's the man who may well be running china. for the next ten years. and for him to have some face-to -face impressions-- what are america's policy priorit

. >> the dalai lama. he's always a good guy. i feel very in sync with dalai lama recently. >> ghandi would be good. >> back and bigger than ever. >> that would be an interesting conversation. hope that'd be a long flight. >>> much more "squawk on the street" straight ahead. >>> still to come, we've got six reasons why to stay tuned. and they all revolve around jim cramer. six stocks in 60 seconds. when "squawk on the street" returns. [ male announcer ] we know you don't wait until the end of the quarter to think about your money... ♪ ...that right now, you want to know where you are, and where you'd like to be. we know you'd like to see the same information your advisor does so you can get a deeper understanding of what's going on with your portfolio. we know all this because we asked you, and what we heard helped us create pnc wealth insight, a smarter way to work with your pnc advisor, so you can make better decisions and live achieveme are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i h

>> we have a barry saying waiting for "way too early" to start and deciding which book of the dalai lama's from audible.com. >> "destructive emotions," it's about inner personal conflict. really good one. i've got a tweet i want to read to you from @karenbuckner. this may be spam. wanting to date hot russian women? sign up, it's free. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ >> donald trump expected to make a major announcement hours from now in las vegas. >> what do you think it's going to be? i'm back in the race, what is he going to announce? that he's releasing the birther date his investigative squad found in hawaii, he's seceding? >> it's my honor, real honor and privilege to endorse mitt romney. i've gotten -- >> oh. that's it? i mean, seriously, what do trump and romney have in common? what does trump see when he looks at romney? >> corporations are people, my friend. >> i like being able to fire people. >> i'm not concerned about the very poor. ♪ dream weaver >> all right. good morning. it's friday, february 3rd, it's friday. can you guys believe it? >> thank god it's friday. >> welcome

the group says the visit at a religious site in india where the lecture is overseen by the dalai lama a spokesperson said details of the case were not yet clear. he also defended recent measures such as enforcing patriotic education and banning foreign tourists from visiting tibet and areas. he says groups outside china are plotting to help tibet win independence. >> translator: controls in residential areas are necessary under the circumstances. >>> the european union lifted a travel ban on myanmar officials, including the president. they ended travel restrictions on 87 myanmar officials because of the country's political reforms. the myanmar government released political prisoners. and is also allowing the opposition leader aung san suu kyi to run in parliamentary bi election in april. the development commissioner was there to show support for the reforms. foreign affairs chief katherine ashton plans to visit after the bi-election. the eu is considering lifting sanctions on myanmar since 1996. >>> u.s. government officials plan to impose more sanctions on iran. they accuse them of s