our guest reporter, jasmin melvin of reuters. >> host: yes. just following up on the lightsquared issue, um, the company has said that if federal communications commission were to pull the authority it had priestly given -- previously given the company to build its cellular network, it would be -- they called it a bait and switch by the government of historic scale. do you believe that the government at all misled lightsquared, um, in this proceeding? >> guest: well, this is really a matter over at the fcc, and i'm really not in a position to speculate or comment on those sorts of allegations. >> host: okay. and the company has proposed several possibilities including, um, possibly swapping its interfering spectrum. um, do you believe, do you think there's any spectrum that ntia manages that might be available for this? >> guest: again, that's a matter initially between lightsquared and the fcc. if lightsquared wishes to put a proposal at the fcc for a swap that might involve spectrum used by federal agencies, in our role we would certainly re

our guest reporter jasmin melvin of reuters. >> just following up on the light squared issue. light squared issue. the company has said that if the federal communications commission were to pull the authority and it had -- that it had previously given the company to build its cellular network they called it a bait and switch by the government of an historic by the government of an historic scale, do you believe that the government at all misled light squared? >> well, this is a matter over at the f.c.c. and i'm not in a position to speculate on those positions. >> and the company has proposed several possibilities including possibly swapping interfering spectrum. do you believe -- do you think there is any spectrum that mpia manages that might be available for this? >> again, that's a matter initially between light squared initially between light squared and the f.c.c. if light squared wishes a credit proposal for the f.c.c. for a swap that might involve credit use, it would certainly respond to any request from the f.c.c. to any request from the f.c.c. to work through those i

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go see the melvins. in their third decade.ally know who they are. >> eric: dana? >> dana: i want to point out that on friday, over the last week, president bush held his second annual wounded warrior ride. this was him. we have a -- this is him dancing with the first woman to be injured in iraq. she sacrificed her leg and dancing with president bush at the event afterwards. her name is melissa stockwell. our own dr. seigel got to go riding with president bush on that ride. did a piece about physical fitness. here is president bush talking about e ride from friday night. >> really cool. it's really cool. to mow ten tum, how inspiring and motivating it is. >> this is a huge celebration. celebration of fitness. >> dana: i love that. great ride. great american -- >>ric: great americans and great patriots. check it out. freem tower today became the tallest structure in new york city. probably tallest for hundreds of miles. it's proof americans, you can attack us but we will prevail. in the long r, patriotic. 1776 feet up. that's it

i'm craig melvin.t be the bumper sticker of the future for the republican party? next hour we will get our first peek at the dynamic duo on the trail together for the first time. senator rubio is scheduled to join mitt romney for a town hall in pennsylvania one day before republicans vote in that primary. rubio continues to dodge questions about the possibility of being the vp pick while romney keeps his focus on the man he wants to replace. >> on his own measure people getting good jobs to pay a mortgage he's failed. it's time to get a president who can succeed. he's out of ideas. he's out of excuses. in 2012 we got to make sure he's out of office. david axelrod, who is his political strategist, was on the sunday shows and he said roughly these words.

i'm craig melvin.t be the bumper sticker of the future for the republican party? next hour we will get our first peek at the dynamic duo on the trail together for the first time. senator rubio is scheduled to join mitt romney for a town hall in pennsylvania one day before republicans vote in that primary. rubio continues to dodge questions about the possibility of being the vp pick while romney keeps his focus on the man he wants t

melvin blevins of pataskala. they call in the police department and soon it's revealed the video is of blevins and his 16-year-old girlfriend, angel daley with blevins' 18-month-old niece. >> the first reaction i had was shock. >> after the police department took the camera, later on we were watching it on the news that they were being arrested for the footage that was on the camera, and we were just amazed that it happened that quickly. the police department wasted no time. >> two teenagers at the center of a disturbing, even horrifying form of child abuse. a 16 and 18-year-old were accused of forcing a toddler to smoke marijuana. >> at first, blevins, the baby's uncle and daley both plead not guilty. blevins even claims the incident never happened. >> i do recall him saying he didn't remember -- that maybe it was possible but he didn't remember doing it. until he got on video and it's hard to dispute that. >> angel daley is charged with corrupting another with drugs and endangering a child and she's sentenced t

[applause] >> hello, i'm melvin. i'm 17 years old and a senior. i'm on the debate team, and ever since i have joined, i have been having a lot of fun. i got a bunch of my friends to join, we enjoy is. ever since i joined the debate, i noticed my reading skills and my public speaking has become way better. i am able to speak in front of you guys right now. [laughter] reading in class, i was a little shy and hesitant, but now i am able to go to other glasses and talk about programs of the school is introducing. it goes my confidence. -- it boosts my confidence. [applause] before debate, i did not think about college much and now high want to take into the next level. thanks for listening to me. >> and the coach at the downtown high school on the debate came as well as special education teacher. i was a bit later in high school and gave me access to the experiences that i never would have had if i did not do debates. i think it is one of the things that is really valuable for students. you can tell them they should care about her political theory, bu

giants win 4-3 tonight in new york >>> bob melvin, ladies and gentlemen. here we go. shin su chu for the indians is awful good. and before you know it, it's 4-1 indians. they had 13,000 there tonight. and here's the thing, just in under the tag. played before 40,000-plus, four nights in a row in anaheim, then you come back to a ghost town. the kid from cuba cuts the lead to 4-3. chance to be a hero, bottom 9. and that's it. indians 4-3. >>> the first day of the world title team will be honored at the coliseum. blue -- you know vita, right? >> i've met him. >> he'll go to reunions with the giants, and -- raleigh fingers. let's hear from raleigh fingers. of one of the first truly great closers. >> it took us two, three years to get our stuff together. and in 1971, it jelled a little bit. and then in 1972, we put the icing on the cake for three years in a row. those were fun years. you don't really know how good you are while you're doing it. then you look back and say, hey, we had a pretty good ball club! >> it's always fun when i can -- like i said, jacky knows everyth

manager bob melvin hoping they will continue to be a team of opportunists per se. >> very rare that you score four runs, you get less hits than you have run and the other team has as many errors as you have hits. so ended up with a guy that was a nemesis for us, cj wilson. it was nice to beat him and come home. >>> albert pujols playing the indians and warriors in progress against dallas tonight doing their thing. they're trailing by 10 which is as you know exactly what they should be doing. for the lottery pick. i'm not trying to be mean, i'm trying to be fair. >> giving us the facts. >>> squatters have taken over a home in antioch but this time they're battling against the homeowner. the reason they think the homeowner has crossed the line. >>> thank you so much for trusting ktvu channel 2.

[applause] >> hello, i'm melvin. i'm 17 years old and a senior. i'm on the debate team, and ever since i have joined, i have been having a lot of fun. i got a bunch of my friends to join, we enjoy is. ever since i joined the debate, i noticed my reading skills and my public speaking has become way better. i am able to speak in front of you guys right now. [laughter] reading in class, i was a little shy and hesitant, but now i am able to go to other glasses and talk about programs of the school is introducing. it goes my confidence. -- it boosts my confidence. [applause] before debate, i did not think about colle

and melvin laird, his son was also an anti-war protester. it's going to be difficult for foreign policymakers in the 1960s and early '70s to justify intervention in indo china when their own children are not going and are protesting well, given the facts, you know, it's like, wow, the '60s is all myth. why are we even bothering? why are student protests remembered or for that matter even exaggerated? and there's a variety of reasons. i'd say first it's precisely because of the demographics of protests. think of protests as -- well, politics and porotests are like selling a product and think of how networks operate. beginning in the '60s and now to today, the media went from broadcasting to what we now call narrow casting or segmentation of the market. the trick in broadcasting or what we now call narrow casting is not the size of the audience but the composition, the demographics of the audience. and protest movements work much the same way. one son of a secretary of defense as an anti-war activist is, i would have to say, probably worth mor

melvin watts and jake england could be charged as earle as today. the two white men were arrested for shooting five black people on good friday. three of the victims died. police say messages on england's facebook page hinted at avenging the shooting death of his father two years ago pie a black man. >> it sicken me. it angers me. this is not what tulsa, oklahoma's about. >> police say the victims of the she spr shooting spree did not know the suspects. it's too early to tell if the deaths are racially motivated. >>> today students will hold a town hall to discuss the trayvon martin case. the naacp will be on hand for the event. it starts at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow a grand jury in florida will decide whether to charge the man who killed martin. george zimmerman maintains he shot the 17-year-old in self-defense this past february in sanford, florida. martin was unarmed. critics believe zimmerman's decision to shoot martin was racially motivated. >>> a developing story now. north korea invited journalists to tour the area where it's believed they'll launc

and so bob melvin announced it will be jared parker who gets the nod on wednesday.t the coliseum, kate longworth, nbc bay area. >> thank you, kate. >>> warriors/t'wolves in the nba. check out who the team met before the game. this is the tallest living american, igor, he's 7'8". he makes david lee and nate robinson look small. that's the long and the short of it. first quarter, martell webster, he is red hot. he has 11 points in the frame. down 15 points after one. second quarter, j.j. barea's turn. drives and scores off the glass. and then the warriors come back. they win it 93-88. charles jenkins had 24. >>> lakers and the oklahoma city thunder game was physical would be an understatement. the lakers' meta worldpeace with the elbow to james harden's head. harden with a concussion. he had to leave the game. and meta worldpeace was ejected. 114-106, that is the final in double overtime. the lakers get the win. >>> to the nhl playoffs as seen on nbc bay area. caps trying to finish off the defending champion bruins. third period, that's alex ovechkin with a blast. he

join our discussion with larry stripling of the national telecommunications administration is jasmin melvin who is that telecommunications reporter for reuters to thank you. in terms of your latest proposal and the emphasis on sharing the airways between government and commercial users, the ctia has said that while they know some sharing is inevitable, their hope is that the primary goal would be to clear as much of the band as possible for solely commercial use. what is your thinking in this area? >> that is the way we have done in the past. in the past, the solution was always to move the federal agency somewhere else and allow the commercial provider to take the exclusive use of the spectrum. we just don't have the ability to do that much any longer. part of the problem is that would use is growing. just as the commercial demands are increasing, so, too, are the needs of federal agencies to perform the emissions they carry out. aerial drones is a good example of a system that didn't exist as a spectrum user 15 or 20 years ago, but increasingly, these systems are being put into operation,

suddenly bob melvin and the athletics are back to 500 for the season.t pitcher c.j. wilson. lines to left and it's time for smith to giddy up. oakland had just five hits but. cj williams forgets his fundamentals. >>> the worse kept secret in the world has gone viral today. the colts will take andrew luck. should become an instant starter for the colts. now luck threw a stanford record 35 tuck do you -- 35 touchdowns. >>> don't text while playing full prize for floor seats. hopefully he wasn't texting his wife with that lovely lady next to him there. >>> that's sports as we see it this thursday night. sharks, they head to st. louis looking for a one win at least. >> i'm still laughing about the guy with the basketball. >> that has to be a couple thousand dollars to get that seat and what is he doing? >> he was busy working the phone. probably texting the score, thank you for trusting ktvu news. >> the morning news will be here, they'll be following mirkarimi's next court date. we're always here for you on ktvu.com and mobile can, the, vu. -- mobile ktvu.

suddenly bob melvin and the athletics are back to 500 for the season.hey jump on that pitcher c.j. wilson. lines to left and it's time for smith to giddy up. oakland had just five hits but. cj williams forgets his fundamentals. >>> the worse kept secret in the world has gone viral today. the colts will take andrew luck. should become an instant starter for the colts. now luck threw a stanford record 35 tuck do you -- 35 touchdowns. >>> don't text while playing full prize for floor seats. hopefully he wasn't texting his wife with that lovely lady next to him there. >>> that's sports as we see it this thursday night. sharks, they head to st. louis looking for a one win at least. >> i'm still laughing about the guy with the basketball. >> that has to be a couple thousand dollars to get that seat and what is he doing? >> he was busy working the phone. probably texting ♪ ♪ pop goes the world ♪ it goes something like this ♪ everybody here is a friend of mine ♪ ♪ everybody, tell me, have you heard? ♪ ♪ pop goes the world ♪ pop goes the world [ female announcer

melvin is in monroe louisiana. hey, melvin. >> how are you doing? >> what do you think about this?you are in rome, do as the romans. >> do you think what obama did as a kid in john ease i can't he didn't have any choice? is that what you are saying? >> that's what i say you know. >> was it okay to joke about it? >> pardon? >> was it okay to make jokes about it at the dinner. >> you might as well have fun while you live. >> okay, melvin. just for the record dogs weren't on the menu. it was shrimp and steak. he von down in florida. hi, yvonne. >> hi, bill. how are you? >> i am doing good. what do you think? >> about the dog thing? >> about republicans saying the president should never have made jokes about eating dog and some dog lovers are saying that too. >> no. you know what? listen, i have been in the animal business my entire life probably like 35 years now. >> you have a pet store or something? >> no. i am a biologist, but i used to have a ranch. >> uh-huh? >> you know, a long time ago, so i have been you know in the animal health industry, but people need to understand that if

there was a bit of an embarrassment yesterday, laura, when a man named melvin montgomery took the stand. he was supposed to recant his testimony about what he said in 1985 in the trial. when he took the stand here yesterday, he said no, in fact, what he said on the stand at that time was true, a bit of an embarrassment for this post conviction hearing, laura. >> thank you for bringing us up to date. thank you, paul wagner. >>> homeland security secretary janet napolytowno testified on the hearing of the is essex scandal. president obama was never at risk she said as a result of the prostitution scandal at the colombian hotel. she called the alleged behavior by secret service employees, quote, inexcusable and said the secret service director is doing everything he can to get to the bottom of it. >> d investigation implicated 12 secret service personnel. eight individuals are now separated from the agency and the secret service is moving to permanently revoke the security clearance of another and three of the employees involved have been cleared of serious misconduct and will face appropr

nbc's craig melvin is in hartford with the latest on that. craig, good morning. >> matt, good morning to you. the debate comes just months after that deadly home invasion that you mentioned in nearby cheshire. the two men who are on death row for killing the wife and two daughters of dr. william pettit pettitte, if this becomes law, warns that those two men will file endless appeals to avoid paying the ultimate price. he's the sole survivor of a crime that sent shockwaves through connecticut and beyond. dr. william p eechlt tit's wife and daughters were murdered in a brutal home invasion. two men were convicted of breaking into the home, tying up his two daughters, sexually assaulting his wife, then burning down the house. dr. petit escaped after being bound and beaten. this week he went to the state house to support the death penalty which he believes is justice for his familiar lip >> the people who died and can't speak for themselves. the people who were tortured. the people who were raped, delay do not seem to have a voice. and they seem

his only downer was manager bob melvin did not give him a shot for the complete game shutout. >> i definitelyto come back out. my longest outing was 75 pitches and i was already in the '90s. so bob actually said that he was contemplating not putting me out there in the eighth. there is no safe from me being a rookie. i need to bite my tongue and go with it. >> the shirts and not the only team to make it to the nhl final four, each of the past two seasons. if they do it again it will be an even more tough road. they struggled to earn a playoff berth, clinching the seventh seed in the last on the next-to- last game of the season. the first pup spa paul pills was the blues, they did not be this year. >> what is the difference this year, starting the playoffs on the road as the no. 7 seed verses a one or two? it is a little bit different? >> it is different but hopefully maybe this is something to do in order to get over that hump and win the stanley cup. we have done at the other way so we will try it this way. we're looking forward to it. >> a lot of fans were panicking and i was sitting back t

i'm ken melvin. and left the dinner early to join us, a big thank you.an as well. thank you. we will have continuing news updates throughout the night. be sure to tune in to msnbc tomorrow morning. up with chris hayes kicks off our day. and melissa harris-perry, 10:00 a.m. to noon. followed by weekend with alex witt. for a full rundown of the news with alex. be sure to tune in to meet the press, hosted by david gregory. reair at 2:00 p.m. eastern. that's all for us. have a fantastic weekend. [ male announcer ] what can you do with plain white rice? when you pour chunky beef with country vegetables soup over it... you can do dinner. four minutes, around four bucks. campbell's chunky. it's amazing what soup can do. mcallen, texas. in here, heavy rental equipment in the middle of nowhere, is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a mobile asset solution to protect and track everything. so every piece of equipment knows where it is, how it's doing or where it goes next. ♪ this is the bell on the cat. [ male announcer ] it's a

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i'm craig melvin. you're watching msnbc.r george zimmerman there in sap ford, florida. we just heard from george zimmerman there. i want to go ahead and bring in some folks who have been watching this play out over the course of really the past two hours. this has been the last 30 minutes. it's lasted -- so far it's lasted about two hours. it's still ongoing. the question is whether george

nbc's craig melvin is in grosspoint park, michigan, with details on this.aig, good morning. >> ann, good morning to you. jane beshar met a gruesome death. the mother of two was found strangled inside her abandoned mercedes. her husband bob has maintained his innocence from the beginning. but there are reports this morning that he led a dark double life and may have even been involved in his wife's death. inside his ritzy grosse pointe home, his future is in question. >> robert besh ar ra, his children are treading water in a lake full of sharks. >> reporter: it's a horrifying, bizarre case. that shocked this affluent detroit suburb. it started in january when jean beshara, mother of two, was found in this detroit alley, dead, inside her mercedes suv. the successful marketing executive had been strangled. days later police named bob beshara, her husband of 26 years, a person of interest. >> we -- we loved each other. >> reporter: while their marriage wasn't perfect, beshara insists he would never hurt his wife. >> the fact that maybe the person of interest i

back after suffering from flu like symptoms which led to dizziness after playing last night so bob melvind him as day to day. kate longworth, nbc bay area. >> thank you, kate. meanwhile, the san jose sharks cleaned out their lockers, much earlier than expected. a loss to the st. louis blues has the sharks searching for answers. our brody brazil talked with several of the sharks about where do they go from here? >> reporter: we are now just about 72 hours after the sharks were eliminated from the stanley cup playoffs. and while the players came here to the practice facility today to clean out their lockers, the emotions were still very fresh. >> it's hard to watch hockey right now, just because you want to be out there, and it's just disappointing the way we finished. >> i may catch myself a month from now driving down the highway and just thinking about something. and that's -- i've always been like that. and i don't know if i like being like that. but no, it's going to eat away at me probably all summer at different points in time until i get back on the ice. >> definitely a little bit o

melvin. democrats lined. caller: we have to look back and understand where the founding fathers started out. here are the problems i have. i had -- heard one in beijing gentleman indicate -- i had -- i heard one gentleman talk about who rode -- who signed it, and it did not cover slaves, women, native americans, so other than white, wealthy man, who did the constitution cover? that leads into all these other things. host: i want to give in to the point about the -- get to the point about the 10th amendment. caller: certain individuals were able to maintain the rights over what happens. host: let's address this tweet host: your thoughts, roger pilon? guest: on your previous caller, there is no question that the framers wrestled mightily with the problem of slavery. they knew it was not consistent with their founding principles. they settled the matter in order to have unity among the states, hoping the institution would wither away in time. it did not. it took a civil war to end slavery, yet in that context we

. >> melvin, these... this is the time of the month we go over the conflicts that we turn in once a month minute. tio was telling him, "just come listen. just check it out. if you don't like it, you can walk out right away." >> i'm gonna shift the agenda to just bring up a hypothetical problem that's taking place somewhere in our town. let's say somebody tricked on your brother. and somebody called the police and said that he has some guns in the house. and the police came and locked your brother up. they found two guns, and they put your mother in handcuffs. and you know who the guy is that told on your brothers. now, how would we resolve a conflict like that? >> if we gonna keep it 1, that's real real hard. when you put mama into somebody else's business, that's... that's super-duper hard. >> we're not gonna be able to be effective in all interventions. >> okay. >> there's gonna be some that gonna slip through the cracks. >> i let him know that, "hey, you get messed up, you add to the burden." so what you gotta do is you gotta put your little personal pride aside and start dealing with

ntia administrator and jasmin melvin, telecommute patients reporter for reuters. thank you for being on the program. >> thank you. >> mr. clemons, once again, i remind you that you are under oath. why would laura pettit will number about the conversation? >> once again, a kinkiness remembers -- i would've known it but he would've done. [inaudible] he has come to me to ask about the events of it. on the five-year anniversary of the virginia tech shootings, members of gun violence prevention meant to talk about gun regulations. this is an hour and a half. >> good afternoon. i am dan gross, and i'm not just president of the brady campaign. but today my brother matthew gross and i are proud to be part of the 32. we want to welcome all of you here today. it is a beautiful day and an exciting day, but it is a somber day. five years ago today, 32 people were killed at virginia tech. in the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. but this is not just a somber day because of the tragic anniversary that it represents. it is a somber day because today, 32 more will be murdered

host: melvin is in lynchburg, virginia, on our support from the line. please go ahead. caller: it is amazing how emotional obama supporters can be at times. listening to that lady, i have never understood how people can put down a man just for being successful. one of the reasons i support mitt romney is one of my criticisms of obama in 2008 was his lack of executive leadership. mitt romney brings that to the table in addition to that mitt romney also has shown that he can work bipartisan -- in a bipartisan way. barack obama has not shown that. there's no liberal that can call in to show that barack obama has worked for bipartisanship. barack obama had two years of a democratic-controlled congress, the same congress that in the last two years of the bush and administration that helped in the decline we have today. if i support romney because we need a different direction of someone who has shown effective leadership. it was a trial and error or a trial and fail, to the obama supporters. take the loss. maybe we can reconcile the nation. under this president we are more d

joe allen, chris ferguson, patrick forrester, john grunsville, tom jones, janet combante, leland melvin, ken wrightman, steve robinson, casey thornton, and now last but not least, payload specialist, too, john glenn. [applause] thank you. ok. [laughter] this is one of the greatest gatherings of astronauts probably in the history of nasa. [applause] the things that they have tended to become an astronaut are incredible, but when you are commander -- this is harder than i thought it was going to be. when our commander, you are at the top of the clutch, but this is only a handful of people that missed their lives every day in space and developing new capabilities to get there. you are experiencing something that is not only this -- you are not going to see this again, either. 2012 is the 100 anniversary of aviation, and we are going to celebrate that here in this entire year. you will see at the evidence by this group, and you will see more of it right now. prior to becoming an astronaut, he was a distinguished aviator who served in the marine corps 35 years. it is my pleasure to introduce