mike barnicle, thomas roberts, and at that tim katty kay are b. where's heilemann? >> i don't know. i can't vouch for him anymore. he's not my problem. >> that's what i'm saying. >> i don't know. actually the problem is that as long as he was at new york magazine, he was a i believe to keep him in control. he leaves and goes over to bloomberg and they have dope parties over there. so you know. >> not confirmed. >> not confirmed. but i don't know. drop a lot of acid over there from what i hear. >> stop. >> we don't want to spread rumors. i'm sorry. >> before we get to the news, we were texts and on the phone you with your kids me not anymore. this is kind of sad. i used to watch ai with my kids. they were excited for it. now i watch it alone. there was an incredible performance by john legend last night. take a look. ♪ you fix your makeup just so guess you don't know that you're beautiful ♪ ♪ try on every dress that you own ♪ ♪ you were fine in my eyes a half hour ago ♪ >> so, mika, kate was blown away by john legend and everything. kate watches al

mike barnicle, nicole wallace, and katty kay are still with us.f politico jim boeheim. and iraq and afghanistan vet paul riecoff. we love having him here to update us on capitol hill. here's thomas who has a look at last night's incredible finish. >> this was cool. the scripps national spelling bee. this is the first time something happened in years. >> they let the bees loose? >> no. but we have two winners now. >> really? >> everybody's a winner there. this was an amazing night last night. we saw that off the top, the one kid -- surprised me he's 15 in the eighth grade. >> maybe that's why he won. >> that kid didn't win. that was just the funny kid. their enthusiasm is fun to watch. but it's not only the kids that make mistakes. sometimes the moderator can mess up. >> watch for his reaction on the language of origin. >> may i have the sentence please? >> tabitha discovered while all her bmilk shake brought all the boys to the yard -- i'm sorry. i was reading the wrong sentence. kurt enjoyed a dish of fashawatha and greens. >> what is that senten

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." >> this is "bbc world news america" reporting from washington, i am katty kay. a u.s.m will head to nigeria to search for more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by boko haram. the white house wants time is of the essence. in south sudan, this leader has been singled out and slapped with sanctions by america. as the fight continues, prospects remain bleak. click the you win or the isernational community, it hartsock about peace unless the violence stops. the u.n. or the international community, it is hard to talk about peace unless the violence stops. >> we relive the very moment with roger bannister himself. welcome to our viewers on public coalition here in america and also around globe. the u.s. team will head to nigeria as soon as possible to help search for the more than 200 schoolgirls who were abducted last month. the announcement comes as international anger is growing towards the nigerian government which has failed to find the students. today, there was news that eight more girls had been abducted in the same part of the country. correspondent begins our coverage.

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katty kay is with us, eugene robinson, julie all still here. you knew him -- what are you hearing there? >> plastic spoon. >> you knew him from kool-aid commercials and like kool-aid you love him as a kid, but you got to stop doing that. we're on the air. you can't do that crinkly thing. >> it's like in the cinema. >> it is. >> "morning joe" contributor mark halperin. we've got some questions for you in a few minutes, but first let's go to the news. >> the latest on jill abramson. there is more fallout today after the firing of executive editor jill abramson. "the times" is now waging a pr battle to save face after reports she was dismissed because she complained about receiving less pay than her male predecessor. yesterday they tried to reassure staffers that there was no foul play writing in a memo, quote, it is simply not true that jill's compensation was less than her predecessors. her pay is comparable than that to executive editors. in fact, in 2013 her last full year in the role, her total compensation package was more than 10% higher th

and the next book is "the opposite of loneliness" and then finally "the confidence code" by katty kay and claire shipman, finding out what makes women successful. >> in 1903, doctor hosta told us how to do the mastectomy, removing the rest and we described going all the way down to the third level of lymph nodes. and a woman who had this in 1903, they were unable to raise their i'm higher than this for the rest of her life and always had swelling in the arm. we did this hall stead vasectomy well until the 1980s in the united states. in the '30s and 40s there were doctors were saying that we need to do this severe of an operation. some actually lost their academic peers because they questioned this mastectomy. and also had been dead for 20 years. burney fisher and a number of other financial trials were done 60s and 70s ultimately showing that instead of removal of the entire breast at morbid procedures, we could just remove the outer breast and later on they showed the you could boston radiate the press and they were all equivalent in terms of outcomes. until you see the hall stead ma