. >> msnbc contributor mike barnicle. hello, mike. >> hello, mika. >> are you okay?m good. >> for "businessweek" josh green. good to have you all on board this morning. >> a quick question before you start with the news. all of the kids who gather around. can i ask mark halpern a question? >> make it true/false. >> true/false? i was wondering when the gary bauer pancake flipping incident was. was it '96? >> i think it was -- no, 2000. he ran against george w. bush. >> that's how we the new millennial? >> he was a pretty good candidate, gary bauer. >> he was a good candidate. >> like the pat buchanan of his era. agile. >> you look very nice today. what happened? >> is like mike huckabee going to run? >> i hope so. huckabee, santorum, mike pence. every lane is going to be crowded. >> so we have something on that later. we start with our top story. >> what is our top story? >> we are going to begin right now with the latest on missing jet in southeast asia. >>> the uncertainty surrounding its 239 passengers and crew. officials say they are skeptical of foul play. but th

with us on set, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. handgun?ek. >>. >> turn off the phone right now. it's my children. yes, you should get one. don't start me. it's the whole iphone/samsung thing. >>> former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst steve rattner is here. finally, i get to see you. how are you? >> we are like ships passing in the night. >> yes, we are. joe, willie and me. your weekend good, willie? >> pretty uneventful. >> did you work? >> no, not this weekend. what about you? >> i love daylight savings, don't you all? get to get up an hour earlier. when you wake up at 2:30, it feels like 3:30. >> it hurts a little bit more. >> it's lighter later, though, so we can play basketball and stuff late into the night. won't that be fun? >> because that's what is wholesaler good at. >> or stick ball. >> that's what the kids do on my street. >> you live in the bronx in, lie, 1954? >> out there with willie mays. >> we are all a little tired but good to be here. a lot to get to. we are going to you about what is going on in ukr

do you like the replay, mike barnicle, as a purist? too long. >> the game is too long. >> you need a guy upstairs to get it right. >> we should at some point show the picture of joe "willie" namath and derek jeter. >> he was left off the guest list for the "vanity fair" party but his rather shared it instead. we will speak with dr. zeke emanuel up next. don't go away. we will be right back. up. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we will up it yet again. (announcer) from the company that invented litter, comes litter re-invented. (woman) hey! toss me that litter! (announcer) introducing tidy cats lightweight. all the strength, half the weight. ♪ >>> let's bring in now former white house adviser for health policy for global initiatives at the

. >> mike barnicle?> john, it's also the fact is you just mentioned it, we don't know -- is there more that we don't know than there is that we do know. one of the things we do is all of this speculation about terrorism, why is it we haven't heard anything from any group anywhere at least according to our knowledge? >> and that is another good point because the first thought when you hear of missing airplanes, and i'm a terrorism guy so that is one of the first things that pops into my mind is, okay, look at a terrorism act. but it seems unlikely you have no group that has claimed no responsibility. you have zero information coming from the intelligence community. no chatter as they say, any group discussing this. so terrorism, at this point, seems to be a bit more remote. i mean, i will throw another scenario in there and, you know, i hate to be the guy that, you know, kind of introduces another theory, but when you have a navigation system that's controlled by a computer, i would be asking the question

we have mike barnicle, thnicoll wallace. up his aud yenience with the pope. they arrived for the private meeting at st. peter square. secretary of state john kerry and the president followed rows of long hallways. they met and shook hands and posed for photos in front of rows of cameras. they sat the pope's desk where the two spoke briefly in english, and the president told him it was a great honor and that he was a great admirer of the pope. the president also briefly discussed his meeting with the pontiff's predecessor, pope benedict. and while we don't yet know what they might have discussed, both have championed in the past income inequality, but lately, the white house and the church have been at odds over reproductive rights, so we can talk about that, as well. the pope, also, joe, gave the president a book. it was very symbolic. i love this pope on every level. he goes right there with everybody. so the conversation can actually start halfway through it instead of, you know, with the pleasantries of, you know, whateve

with us on set we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. are you and thomas dressed the same today in. >> no, no. >> thomas roberts is racing down the hall. look at him. okay. very nice. >> okay. >> right on time! speaking of fantastic, fantastic style, the host of politics national and president of the action network, may i please see the glasses, the reverend al sharpton and host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell joins us. we have major updates on ukraine and really disturbing video out of thereof. and senior political editor and white house correspondent for "the huffington post," sam klein. >> we now know however changed the flight plan on board the missing jet was experienced. >> still the u-turn could reflect the pilot's alternate route in case of an emergency and doesn't necessarily mean something more sinister at play, with a search area more than 2 million nautical miles. a huge portion of that is in the southern indian ocean. southwest of australia where american aircraft are combing through rough waters for any sign of

with us on set washington anchor from bbc news, katty kay and mike barnicle and the host of "way tooly" thomas roberts. >> good morning. >> >> mark halpern. in washington, the former chairman of the rnc, michael steele. the associate editor and columnist for "the washington post" david magazine nay shus. as the show? >> it was all solid. that tweet that she did, the most retweeted tweet of all time i think was emblematic of the evening. i would say no surprise winners. >> no. beginning with best picture at the end of the show as most people expected, "12 years a slave" did win that award. they cleaned up. i think "gravity" won seven awards. >> "american hustle" was shut out. >> that surprised me. >> it got nothing at all. "gravi "gravity" and "american hustle" entered with ten nominations but "gravity" won seven of those. "american hustle" went home empty-handed joining "true grit" and "gangs of new york" empty-handed. "12 years a slave" winning best picture and john ridley won for best adapted screen play. last night, he spoke about how he got his big break. >> i started writing in

mike barnicle, this is an ongoing concern with republicans on the hill. politico has a list of the unilateral changes to obamacare, all the delays, and it's one of the things irking the republicans on the hill is the white house just changes the plan whenever they want to. >> i understand it's irking people on the hill but it's not irking people trying to get health care. if they're standing in line -- >> are they standing in line. >> that's the premise. it's like standing in line to get into a theater. >> or vote. they keep the polls open. but there's an honest system. clearly there are issues or they wouldn't be extending this. some of the other extensions i would tend to agree with you. but if indeed you're in line, the only odd part is that there's an honor system. >> it's like wind sprints in football. just check the honor system. >> if you want more people to have access to health care, it's positive they're delaying it. i just wish they wouldn't put the poor secretary of state of health and human services out -- >> what do you say of that, sam? >>

that's mike barnicle, right? >> that sounds like barnicle. i'm pretty good with voices. says there's a lot of work you can do on the civilian side, on the contractor side, there's a lot of waste and inefficiency we can go after, that's not what they're doing here. what they're doing is reducing the army to a size we haven't seen since before world war i. they've taken 11 cruisers out of the fleet. they're doing so much, in my opinion, damage to our military posture. they're trying to reap a peace dividend when we don't have peace. focus on the waste, the inefficiency. they're not doing that. they're doing much, much more than that. big difference of opinion between us and them. on the other issues, let's reform the programs. medicaid isn't working. doctors don't even want to take medicaid patients because they lose money. let's fix this. let's not keep pumping money into programs that aren't working. let's fix the programs so they deliver on the missions, they provide comprehensive health care to low-income people and it's health care that providers want to take. that's

mark halperin and mike barnicle are still with us. >> a complete loser!at. t.j., please, could you put him up? i'm not talking about the good people of chicago. this was just a slight at that man. good lord. way to go, t.j. he goes for the coffee slurp. from chicago's institute of politics, which i want to go see -- >> any time, we'd love to have you. >> the kids would love you there. >> msnbc contributor, david axelrod. and chief white house correspondent and political director and host of "the daily rundown," chuck todd. >> chuck, a lot to talk about. the nbc/wall street journal poll, not great news for democrats. let's talk about the special election last night. on the republican side going up against the best the democrats had, it was some would say -- republicans say a referendum on obamacare. the republican won. break it down for us. >> was it? >> the basic question was going to be can a campaign overcome a troubled atmosphere? i think in this test, in this one place, atmosphere trumped the campaign. if you just take it campaign to campaign, candida