visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. >> professor. >> and in washington, senior political editor and white house correspondent for "the huffington post" sam stein. we also have editor for "the washington post" david ignatius. with all going on in ukraine, glad you're in early this morning. >> an eventful weekend. willie, happy belated birthday for you. >> thank you. it was a great saturday. it was a derby/birthday combo.

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bill ford jr. took over the company, it was the first ford in generations to take over the company. they let the ex-ceo go. he had collected all these other countries, land rover, and jaguar, and all that, now you bring allen in, he was the number two go over at boeing, heel cos in basically mortgaged the company too to hilt, and takes the bitter medicine early so that by 2008, when everybody else was suffering ford was in healthy shape, now they have been grooming a man named mark fields, mark fields will take over in july, allen was a outsider, he reinvented ford. he had everything -- you are looking at pictures of mark field. he has big slews to fill, he has been in the saddle, but it's the end of an era. ford because in a lot of trouble, and allen is considered by some the finest ceo that america has seen in a long time. >> one of those pictures you interviewed mark fields what is he like? how did he strike you. >> one thing he did is he brought a culture of openness into ford. and he got out of that culture of defensiveness, it is easy when you are are a ceo, particularly in th

jon meacham, harold ford jr. still with us. in washington senior political editor and white house correspondent for "the huffington post," sam stein. and nbc news chief white house correspondent chuck todd. >> we have a lot to dig through, new polls to dig through. but before we do that, you were on this yesterday. marco rubio before you. he talked about climate change. we had a debate about what he was saying. let's roll that clip. >> oh, they have to now -- because that was the third one in. we have to stretch. >> no hold on. i told them beforehand we're going to the climate change clip. i could just do this. you were on yesterday with marco there. okay? i've already had this planned ahead of them. we've got a clip we're going to go to it on climate change. go there now. >> how big a threat is climate change? >> i don't believe with the motion scientists are putting out there that somehow there are impacts we could take today that will have an impact on our climate. >> let me get this straight. you do not think human activity

msnbc political analyst and visiting professor of nyu, harold ford jr. is here. hello.he host of "way too early," the always joyful effervescent thomas roberts. >> good morning. >> you're always in a good mood. >> i try. >> i need some of that. >> you're always in a good mood. >> i'm a little bogged down by life. but there's no reason for that. that's what you tell me. and in washington we have the ceo of politico, jim vandehei. several stories developing right now. in california 47 homes are in ruins following an outbreak of wildfires around san diego. crews battled flames on multiple fronts. some families were spared while others lost everything. the entire state is facing a serious drought. and the governor is warning this year's wildfires will be the worst. and relentless rain have left most of serbia under flooding. massive evacuations is underway. the death toll sitting at 25 is expected to rise. the mers virus is spreading here in america. now a third possible case in the u.s. doctors say it could spread through something as simple as a hand shake. we'll have a r

visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. >> professor. >> and in washingtonsenior political editor and white house correspondent for "the huffington post" sam stein. we also have editor for "the washington post" david ignatius. with all going on in ukraine, glad you're in early this morning. >> an eventful weekend. willie, happy belated birthday for you. >> thank you. it was a great saturday. it was a derby/birthday combo. >> how much bourbon did you drink? >> you mean bottles? >> you should have seen the hat he was wearing. >> it was a fascinator. >> you guys in washington, you were at the correspondents -- president was good. >> president was great. >> thought he was funny. >> his performance skills are very high when it comes to these events, i think. has that dry sense of humor. he's got the great second beat on those jokes. >> we'll stay on it. more of the jokes at the white house correspondents dinner. >> we cannot believe what these olympic athletes do. death defying feats. haven't seen someone pull a 180 that fast since rand paul disinvited that nevad