and from washington "new york times" reporter jeremy peters. llo, jeremy. >> good morning. >> all good, joe? >> all good. tonight a big night tonight, man. >> what's the big night? >> should i turn to willie for this? >> yes, please. >> a big night tonight, man. this run by the kentucky wildcats. >> oh. >> my dad smiling down from above. >> oh, the connecticut. >> they take out louisville amazingly. they take out michigan with a buzzer beater. and then willie this wisconsin game. what a great game. unbelievable, man. >> it was a great basketball game. >> these are all freshmen. they're all freshmen. it's just -- >> this shot that you're about to see, aaron harrison, a freshman. a twin. one of the two harrison starters for kentucky. 19 years old. for the third consecutive game makes a shot almost exactly like this. he did the same thing against michigan and won like that against louisville. and that sent them to the national championship game. it's an uncredible run. the fab five lost that game. kentucky is now favorable to win tonight. >> it won

jeremy peters in the times details a new $50 million by bloomberg to challenge the nra on gun controlit will be called every town for safety and be bank rolled by the former mayor himself. unlike his efforts which largely consists of buying tv ads it's a grassroots operation to rival the nra. when asked if his own person season that a big mayor from new york could undercut those. his quote was i don't know what your perception is of the name blackberg around the country, he said every place you go, you're a rock star. people yelling out of cabs, hey, way to go." and on the way of tackling obesity and he's telling people if there's a god when i get to heaven. i'm not stopping to be interviewed. i'm heading straight in. i've earned my own place in heaven. it's not even close. >>> it turns out s.a.t. scores are a decent predictor of college. tests predict the first year college gpas as well as high school grades. the study also says the best way to predict is to say both. what do you think best predicts success in college? use the #stay too early. we'll put the best ones up in the show.

. >> jeremy peters on the hill, what are democrats saying, what did they say today? this is a group of legislators who felt abandon by the white house and hung out to dry by the obamacare, even while the a.c.a. was being debated on the floor. we have complaints on the set, of course off air, about how little guidance the white house had been giving. who were they feeling yesterday? >> there was a press conference yesterday at the capital after the president's press conference and the only democrats who showed up were from new york, connecticut, rhode island and those are not exactly swing states or red states. so it kind of gives you an idea. no mary landrieu, big surprise there, no mark begich. but i will say what i think makes this so difficult to make sense of politically is because the facts don't really apply in the debate over obamacare. if you look at the 7.1 million figure, i think if obama had announced yesterday they signed up 14 million people on monday, republicans still would be saying the same thing. now, of course democrats don't want to run on this an

and jeremy peters wrote this piece on the koch brothers for "the new york times." i want to start with you, behind every great fortune, there's a great crime. i somehow think that the democratic strategy is to illuminate that, to show the koch brothers aren't rich by accident. they're rich because they're ruthless. >> that's exactly right. that's the plan, that's the plan that barack obama and the democratic superpacs had in 2012 when they went after bain capital. it's a very targeted and very deeply researched approach that the democrats are taking here. what they' done is they've gone into states with key senate races, arkansas, alaska, north carolina, and look to koch subsidiaries and found there are layoffs. at times layoffs that have coin sided with the purchase of millions of dollars worth of ads in a way to portray the brothers and their company as callous as they are trying to further their own political and business agenda. now is this going to work? i think what the allies of the kochs and what other republicans have told me is the republicans tried this

jeremy peters writes for "the new york times" that in her darkest hour last fall, kathleen sebelius suffereddeepest cuts from a family friend for the rollout of the affordable care act. now she's weighing revenge. mrs. sebelius is considering democrats who want her to run against the old friend, senator pat roberts, republican of kansas. now, if the idea of cebull use who recently announced her resigning from the hhs, some say she's toxic. she's too associated with the rollout of obama care to even think about running for office ever again. on the other hand, sebelius was a popular two-term governor of kansas who won election the second time with 58% of the vote. which is where president obama tapped her in the first place and considered her as a possible haven't. according to peters, some unnamed democrats consider her name is being dropped more frequently as they weigh who could give mr. roberts, who's 77 years old, a run for his money. they told peters they had no idea if she's taking the idea seriously. doubters point to the fact that post-obamacare, her popularity dropped below 40%. not

joining us for that, "the new york times" reporter jeremy peters. have you on board. >> thank you. >> you look so -- >> put together? >> well -- overdressed. >> thomas roberts offered to throw me in the dirt. >> before we get to an actual op-ed, senator rand paul and jeremy, you've been covering this, here in chicago. you covered an event yesterday. what's the senator saying at this point? >> well, it's interesting because getting a flavor for rand paul at these two very different events he did yesterday, you really get a sense for why his candidacy is so intriguing. on one hand he was speaking to a group of economically underprivileged high school students. and telling them all the things they would like to hear from a potential republican candidate. we need to change sentencing laws to get people out of prison who have been in too long. and then, he goes downtown and he talks to a more liberal college crowd. and he starts talking about abortion. and david axelrod is questioning him and tries to pin him down on where he would draw the line for lega

. >> more election news this hour from jeremy peters writing for the new york times.ormer hhs secretary kathleen sibelius is -- several democrats said that mrs. aviles had been mentioned with growing frequency as someone who could wages here is a challenge to senator roberts was running for a fourth term and is considerable verbal. one person who spoke directly to saysleen sibelius that she was thinking about it but it was too soon to say how seriously she was taking the idea. it is just last week that she said she would step down from her cabinet job. she will have until june 2 to decide as the deadline for filing for the senate primary in kansas. thecommerce department says u.s. home construction rose in march to the highest level in three months. construction of single-family homes rose 6%. offsetting a 3.1% drop in the construction of apartments, condominiums and townhouses. applications for building , clouding the outlook for future construction. president obama and joe biden traveled to pennsylvania today to announce $600 million in new competitive grants for tr

if you thought leaving office would be rest and relaxation for bloomberg, think again, jeremy peters in "the new york times" reveals a $50 million plan that bloomberg challenges gun legislation. the new group will be called "every town for gun safety" and bank rolled by the former mayor himself. 50 million bucks. with tv ads, but the new group will focus on being a grassroots operation to rival the nra. bloomberg was asked his own persona could undercut that. i don't know what your perception is of that is around the country, buttest place he goes, he adds, you're a rock star. people yelling out of cabs. hey way to go. the 72-year-old former mayor also spoke on his legacy of tackling gun safety and obesity issues telling the "times" quote, i'm telling you if there say god, when i get to heaven, i'm not stopping to be interviewed. i'm heading straight in. i have earned my place in evan. it's not even close." end quote. michael bloomberg. >> that's great. >> humility. >> so i'm wondering katty -- >> uh-huh? >> -- how would michael bloomberg fare in your confidence quiz? that one just b