melissa? >> thank you very much, dr. ruth. she's saying hello to you. >> she hasn't been on our show for quite sometime. melissa francis is finally here. >> thank you. thank you. i'm so excited to be here. my family is watching at home. boys, brush your teeth before you go to school. >> your kids are not up. >> they said they're going to watch it on tivo from the beginning. my 5-year-old likes to kiss the girls at school. i think it's better if he brushes his teeth first. >> a lot of people think they have baby teeth, why brush them anyway? please brush them. >> the francis kids have the minty fresh breath. >> i heard that. >> anyway, busy three hours. lots of politics to talk about. we'll do that after the headlines. >> that's right, let's begin with the headlines with an extreme weather alert. major destruction in nebraska overnight where two tornadoes struck derailing a dozen railroad cars in north platte. there are reports of several homes destroyed and several people trapped. these are th

and i'm melissa francis in for gretchen carlson. just one hour away from the next republican presidential showdown. the illinois primary and the candidates are fighting over focus. is the race about the economy or freedom? we report, you decide. >> brian, by the way, i think that counts as your sportscast. >> i guess so. he's 100% right. >> there you go. meanwhile in 2008, obamacare was more important than getting millions much americans back to work. remember how excited joe biden was? >> i almost had forgotten about that. >> i'll remind you. so why is the white house now ignoring this week's two-year anniversary of obamacare. why are -- aren't they talking about it? it's a big deal. >> it is. it will be for the supreme court. salt police strike again. this time, food donations to the homeless are being banned because they may make them fat! really? i mean, really? melissa talks through everyone of my cold opens. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> ♪ you can feel it our love ♪ >> note to the bank next door, you need to replace the

we need melissa. >> melissa. >> jimmy: melissa, come on out. melissa rivers, everybody! ] >> we have a shared birthday. >> jimmy: oh, that's right. happy birthday. questlove. it's questlove's birthday today. happy birthday, quest. [ cheers and applause ] and melissa. welcome to the show. >> yeah, i'm so excited to be here. >> jimmy: happy to have you on. >> thrilled. >> jimmy: congrats on this. now, season two, this one -- explain what the show is about if you haven't seen it. >> the show is about -- the last season was about that my mother moved in with me. >> jimmy: yeah, which was a little bizarre. >> yeah. awkward. >> jimmy: yeah. doesn't make any -- >> and this season, apparently, according to my mother, it's all about my mother staying with me because it's only four days a week. so, apparently, there's a subtle difference between staying with me and living with me. >> jimmy: but coming from the daughter, is there a difference? >> four days a week. >> jimmy: yeah, there's no difference, is there? >> yeah. there's no difference whatsoever. >> jimmy: not at all, no. >

while she is here, melissa's contact with corey has been limited to cards and letters.hey have been approved for inmate to inmate correspondence within the jail. >> oh, this is from lisa. >> that boy, he got something wrong with him upstairs. ain't nobody perfect. everybody has their little moments and stuff. but every minute, every day, all day. i don't know. i don't care what he do, what he does, i don't care. that's my baby brother and i love him. i'm always there for him. >> remember i said i was going to write her yesterday. i started. i was going to write her today. and then i'm like, no, busy day. then i received her letter. you know what i'm saying? it's just stuff like -- if it makes me feel happy, makes me feel sad, even though she forgot the "e" in my name, that's all right. because i'm corey. my family is one of the most dysfunctional families that's out here. a lot of people that meet miss family loves my family, you know what i'm saying? there's something good about us, you know? >> if i get out i will send some pictures and money orders. be good. stay out

so melissa allen has turned to another inmate, megan dooley, for help.o 18 and it gives you the next answer. >> it's great. i'm not embarrassed when she helps me. i sit there and listen to her because i know shy ain't judging me and stuff. >> i treat people how i want them to treat me. math is one of my better skills. it comes easy to me. so something that she struggles with, that's easy for me, if i can help her with it, it's not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 -- >> yes, okay. >> melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. >> monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there's not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy -- i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i'm like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don't know. 37 years old. i can't do this no more. i don't want

melissa's adopting now. >> jimmy: oh, she is?to be exciting. >> a very good friend of nicole kidman's. >> jimmy: okay. >> but god bless her. 125 feet tall. 3 pounds. always in a red dress with a white face. looks like a ketchup bottle. walks around. [ laughter ] and no -- i was wearing like a mustard dress. look, we're condiments. [ laughter ] and she's adopting all these kids. she has one kid. she walks around. my children don't know who this -- this is bull. children who is adopted who is for real. and who is adopted. i treat them all the same. isn't that right? little jimmy, little benji, little alice, little magumba. nobody knows. so, they got a kid from australia for the summer. >> jimmy: wow. >> that clicks. it -- a click tribe. you know about this? >> jimmy: this is for real? >> i swear to god. >> jimmy: makes the clicking noise? >> they don't talk. they click. we have cooper and click click rosenberg. >> jimmy: sounds like you're having a lot of fun. >> the kid loves me. and every time i'm walking, open and close -- shut

when we talk about our branding, we call it the joan and melissa.s like there's a third person in the room. i wouldn't know. i wonder with cooper. he was on the red carpet at 6 weeks old. >> let's see the two of you getting high together. >> that is bad. that is one of those -- >> i'll take -- >> you're not sucking it in. >> 40 years ago. >> hello. >> you have to come get us. we need you. >> i don't know what you guys are up to. do not go anywhere. mom, get in the car. i'm ashamed of both of you >>> shut up. >> tell me what we just saw. >> you just saw i had to pick up my mother and her friend because they were no longer capable of driving safely. they wanted food. >> of course they did. >> they were being annoying. when you are the designated driver it sucks. >> you are driving around the two idiots. my mom kept touching me. they want to change the radio station. i finally got them home and thought they were in bed, they were in the backyard. they were by choice in the hot tub. >> in our clothes. which i love after a certain age. >> i got yanked in

i recently talked with comedy legend joan rivers and her daughter melissa.e discuss their reality show, joan's plastic surgery and what it's like when fans expect you to be on all the time. you know that pressure. >> i do. all the time. all the time lester. and then you work out. and we're both getting older. i work out a lot, too. you get the little aches and pains, your joints start hurting a little more and more as you get older. why rush to the doctor when you can just sort of exercise more and work your way through the pain. there's a new book out that offers relief so you don't have to stop exercising al to the. i had a chance to try it with a good friend of ours here at the "today" show, dr. jordan metle. he's a superstar on the left in the blue and i'm sort of tagging along on the other side. but it's a really interesting concept. so it keeps us from the doctors, and sort of getting back out into the great wide open to do some -- >> can he fix my broken foot back years ago? >> i didn't know that. >> he's working on my knee. >> we're going to get a ch

there's something good about us, you know. >> my sister, melissa, is loving. she's kind. >> she took care of me. she made sure we eat when we didn't have food. >> my little brother, he called me ma. >> she couldn't really cook but she forced us to eat it. we had no choice. >> corey is a complicated person. >> my brother corey is a funny guy. >> nasty. >> we used to beat each other up, steal candy, steal bikes. >> my brother william is very smart. >> take money out of wishing wells together, set fires. >> i don't know how he got caught up. >> family, it's been so many years since we drifted apart. it didn't mean i don't love you. i was lost in the dark. >> william would just start speaking in spoken word kind of out of nowhere. we would just be talking to him, and he would break out into a rhyme. his poems were really meaningful to parts of his life and his story. >> at one point in time, chop was my friend. it was a friend. i will call it a genie in the bottle. my name is addiction. and i'm the genie in the bottle. wherever you go, sir, i will surely follow. h

i want to bring up melissa which -- melissa rich as my honoree for women's history month. [applause] she is the president and founding ceo of a company that is based in district 2. as you know, the presidio is a big part of district 2. the presidio has become an amazing place in our city in terms of entrepreneurs said. -- entrepreneurship. her company was certified as a b corporation in the city of san francisco. it is an amazing testament to what you do. innerscola was founded in 2004. it helps public agencies reduce waste with sales of surplus goods. they have raised over $15 million in online auctions selling off surplus materials. they have helped divert over 3 million pounds of goods from landfills every single year. they are partnered to work with schools crossandra cisco and about one-third of all california school districts. and destroys all across the united states. as president, melissa has focused her efforts on strategy, fundraising, sales, business development, and the organization itself. despite the economy, it has grown year after year and was named the 201

melissa had fled her rehas been program and back on the streets with a warrant issued for her arrest.liam violated the rules by entering another inmate's cell without permission. and lost the chance to earn time off his sentence for good behavior. corey had been sent to segregation after he was caught on surveillance cameras fighting another inmate. >> today is not a good day. haven't been taking my meds for nine days i'm constantly dealing with jimmy, and i'm on voices, yo, are you serious, man? >> it was emotional covering the allen story can't help but thinking who was on the outside missing their children all locked up at one time together. >> i love my family, there is no other family like my family, so we all crazy. but we love each other. >> from that love came poetry. >> the streets and drugs calling me physically and mentally i can't be free. perhaps later on in life we can meet at a church or get something to eat but for right now i'm standing the don't be discouraged i can build up the courage. i was pounding the streets, damn i was pounding the streets looking for the love

melissa?ecause producing more oil and gas heret( at home has been and will continue to be a criticalñ part ofé@ an all of the above energy strategy. now, under my administration america isp, producing more oi today than at any 4r in the last eight years. that's important to know. over the last three!u years, i directed my administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil exploration across 23 different states. we're opening up more than 75% of our potential oil resources offshore. we have quadrupled the number of operating rigs to a record high. we have added enough newjf oil 1 gas pipeline to circle9 the earh and then some. so, we are drilling all over the place. right now. that's not the challenge. that's not theñrt( problem. in fact, the problem in a place so much oil and gas in places likeÑi north dakota and colorad that we don't have enough pipeline capacity to transport all of it to where it needs to go, both to refineries and then country and around the world. there's a bot

thanks very much for joining me tonight, melissa. >> oh, absolutely. >> melissa, melissa, melissa. this guy, romney, he understood that question. >> oh, yeah. >> the blunt/rubio -- he knew exactly what that was. he just didn't know what he was supposed to say, so he said when he actually would have said if he wasn't running for office, for pete's sake. >> i think what's so astonishing here, is every time he has a moment of sort of authentic, reasonableness -- and that's actually a reasonable position. why in 2012 are presidential candidates talking about contraception that is largely occurring in the context of heterosexual marriages. like that mitt romney is one that made me feel like, oh, look, there's a person running for office that actually makes some sense on this question. and yet, you know, sort of where the republican party and where the republican primary has gone, challenged him and pushed him back on that reasonable position within an hour. >> it sounded like we got a little glimmer of this is what it sounds like at the breakfast table with ann when they're talking abou

. >>> >>> i'm melissa lee. here are tonight's top three trades. stocks took a hit on china fears but plenty of opportunities in the emerging markets. jim rogers is joining us from singapore with an emerging market play that may surprise you and nike and micron report after the bell and who will be the winners and losing in a rights rate environment? doug cass is bringing his shopping list exclusively to "fast." let's get straight to the market selloff that we've seen over the past couple of sessions. are china concerns enough to push stocks meaningfully lower from here. pete? >> yeah. i think that we're definitely due for a correction. looking for 1375. we talked about that last thursday. i think that the s&p 500 goes there. 2% correction is what you're looking for. do people know that china has slowed, yes. do people know europe is slowing. maybe not as much as they did before we started the evening or at least coming into the opening session, and i think the bigger surprise would be going forward, what the u.s. consumption growth really looks li

. >> reporter: we first met noah, seth and melissa two years ago. like thousands of other families in the u.s. every year, they just adopted noah but they didn't find him through an agency. they found his mother, a friend of a friend through facebook, after posting a flyer on seth's page. >> it was frustration after a couple of months of trying advertisements or sending e-mails out to all of our friends. >> reporter: seth and melissa soon met noah's mother at a coffee shop. three weeks and several meetings with their lawyers later, they were with her for his birth and the rest, as they say, is history. a very happy history. their kensington home filled with love and smiles. since noah more heart break trying to conceive. now they're going back online in search of a sibling for noah. >> it has no difference whether you have a biological child or you adopt a child or donor egg, you love this child so much. >> reporter: finding noah was a pretty amazing feat. at the time seth had 40 friends on the social networking site, but it ended up that's all he n

. >> joining me is melissa harris perry, host of melissa hairy perry and dana milbank, columnist for the washington post. thank you both for being here. >> hi, reverend. >> hi. >> let me start with you. the president is not waiting for the republicans to have a nominee. are you surprised at all by that? >> no. because the president, as you can see, loves campaigning. and it's interesting because in many ways i think a lot of the criticism about president obama over the course of his administration has been that while he was governing, he wasn't communicating enough about what his accomplishments were with the administration. but particularly maybe this is in part being at home, in the chicago crowd, you can see the feeling he's having in front of that crowd, the sense that, i have something substantive to run on, i have something to say. and as he sort of begins to warm up for this campaign and it's going to be a relatively long one here, i'm not at all surprised he's going to start it now, keep taking it wherever the republicans are in their primary mode he's going to go and remind

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wrong. >> joining me know joe klein and melissa harris perry. both for joining me tonight. joe, your "time" magazine piece this week is entitled the hair fire manifesto, derived from something mitt romney said about lighting his hair on fire. we should also listen to that right now. >> we've seen throughout the campaign if you're willing to say really outrageous things that are accusative and attacking of president obama, that you're going to jump up in the polls. i'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try to get support. >> melissa, he's burned all of his pair off trying to get support. there's not a hair left on his head. >> he sets out on fire, he puts it out. he sets it on fire. he puts it out. >> and he's pretending he hasn't been accusative of the president on anything. this is crazy. >> he hasn't called him a secret muslim. >> that's right. or a non citizen. that now counts as moderation. >> the greatest attack on the freedom of this country. >> he's a -- arsonist. we learned something really important this week, and it was a first t

and on the set with me is melissa harris-perry, host of msnbc's "melissa harris-perry." thank you both for being here tonight. congresswoman, let me start with you. as a member of congress, let me just put it straight at you. do you think rush limbaugh should be on the air? >> rush limbaugh should be fired. but we're not helpless in the meantime. there are now all kinds of pressures on his advertisers, and i think everybody should go online, see if -- there is a list of all their advertisers and to his advertisers and make sure that they call for them to withdraw their support. this -- he has to be stopped because we can't create an atmosphere where there's permission for that kind of talk. it has gone way, way over the line. but i do have to say, reverend al, if his goal was to create a leader for this growing movement to put a face that sandra fluke on this growing outrage that he did a really good job of it. >> you know, melissa, when you listen at this, this is a young college student. rush today said he chose absurd rhetoric on purpose to point out the absurd -- how

melissa, we need you here because we need someone who has never been in one of these physical fightsye and ear about what all this sounds like to you. >> i'm sorry. what makes you think i've never been in a fight. >> i think i'm the one wo has never been in a fight. >> we'll pause and come back to that conversation at a later point. what i will say is this, i unfortunately disagree with jonathan that this makes no sense, because it feels like it makes far too much sense. it doesn't make sense if we assume trayvon martin is innocent. if you assume that the body of an unarm ed 17-year-old minor i presumed guilty, potentially by zimmerman and apparently by various stages of the sanford police department, zimmerman's own father, other witnesses the assumption is somehow this young man is sul culpable in his own death, culpable in his own killing despite that he walked to the store and attempted to walk home unarmed. even the need to look at the video and to say, oh, look, zimmerman doesn't appear to have blood. he doesn't appear to have a black eye. he jumped out of the back of the polic

. >> joining me now is melissa harris-perry, host of msnbc's melissa harris-perry and chris hayes, host of "up with chris hayes" here on msnbc. thank you both for being here tonight. >> absolutely. >> melissa, let me start with you. how did we get to this point of ugliness and divisiveness again in this country? >> well, i think the sort two of different things going on. one is a question about partisan divisiveness. and if you ask how we got here, the answer is one of the people currently running for president. so if we look at newt gingrich and sort of how this language of partisan division really begin to take hold in washington, in the early 1990s. i think it's both a good and bad part of the story is althoh race is the main strategy being used as the criticism of president obama, i actually don't think that racism is the reason that republicans are criticizing the president. so let me say that again real quickly. the way they went after, for example, president bill clinton, going as far as actually impeaching the president is an indication that -- and remember, bill clinton is, in

rick. >> well, thanks, melissa lee.talk to futures traders. and of course, you're in the nonfinancials now, so dealing in livestock and grains. but you also farm. how many acres and where's your farm located? >> my farm's located in southwest michigan. it's about 200 acres. >> now, 200 acres. you told me you've been farming about seven years. you started out with 60 acres. what were you paying for an acre back six, seven years ago? and i want the audience to realize, china made everything change in your area of michigan. they used to grow apples, china competition, now you're back into beans and corn. what's the price difference from then versus today? >> i paid between $1,800 and $2,000 for my initial property and recently it's closer to $3,000 and $3,500 and a local near me paid close to $5,000 and he's a bigger farmer. >> we are definitely starting to see a payoff. there's only so much great farmland and michigan may not be as great for corn as. iowa or parts of illinois, but it's still good. input costs. how much do