may i go to mike mike mike in wisconsin. mike mike mike in georgia, mike? mike in louisiana, please, mike mike mike? >> caller: hey, this is mike. >> mike. >>> right in the middle of a huge long-term secular shift in the way people shop with more and more consumers buying things on the internet and fewer of them going to the mall. and with consumer spending increasingly moving online, any company that can help businesses move merchandise on the web stands to be a major winner. which brings me to channel adviser. ecom for you home gamers. here's a cloud-based software as a service company, part of the holy tech trinity of social, mobile and cloud. it helps -- i write about so adoringly in "get rich carefully" that helps retailers optimize and expand online sales across multiple web-based channels, especially third-party marketplaces like amazon, search engines like google and comparison shopping sites. and a retailer might be moving merchandise across hundreds of fragmented sites, the platform makes it easier to manage across vary channels at the same time wh

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let's go to mike in connecticut, mike i, did not do the mike, mike, mike joke because nobody likes it>> caller: boo, boo, boo, boo, boo-ya. >> all right. >> caller: ayi acuity brand. >> outdoor lighting is going up a great deal. i am a thinker. going up too much. i want to take profit. i'm not gondone. going to justin in ohio, justin? >> caller: jim, bulldog boo-ya to you. >> definite recall call yeah, i was wondering if you can give me perspective on go go. >> it's a long, short battle ground. i think under 20 you should buy it. when it gets to 27, 28 you got to sell it. it's a trading vehicle. can i go to john in florida? john? >> caller: yeah, hi, jim -- >> john from florida. man, first -- many times and long time. what is up? >> caller: yeah, well originally from new york. i'm down here four years, jim. i have a question about mct. >> john, we got to up our quality of the companies. we do not want molycorp. some great consumer brand companies, we go with them, not down the food chain and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the lightning round. >> the lightning round i

rachel, brigitte, mike and mike or is it one michael and one mike or both mike. >> i would say michael sometimes. mcduck. >> stephen: all right. >> i will go mike nordic, mike italian. all right, okay, you are lake street dive. you guys eck employed-- eck ploded this career with a youtube video, everybody watched. you did a great cover i want you back by the jackson 5. are you also what is the fox say guys. >> unfortunately, not. >> no, okay. >> didn't receive that. >> stephen: okay. got a couple of questions here, to cut. first television appearance, tonight. >> very first. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: are you guys ready for the bump. >> yes. >> stephen: ready for the colbert bump. >> yes. >> stephen: where did you meet? >> in college at the new england conserve tore of music in boston. >> stephen: what is a conserve tore? is that the place where colonel's mustard kills you with a candlestick, what is that. >> it's a place where, conserve tore of muss sick where you study music and you don't generally study other subjects. you study just music. >> stephen: okay, all right. >> ver

. >> mike, mike, mike.ened is we've got two solars, we've got solar city which is a musk company and therefore a must-own company for growth managers because they have a financing program that really makes it so individuals can put solar panels on the top and then we have a real solar company, when i say real, meaning it has real earnings and does a lot of megawattage and that's first solar and they did 444 megawatts instead of 485 megawatts and that's regarded as disappointment. when you see that, these companies have to produce results. it's further along than solar city so to speak. and they -- last time they had a good analyst meeting and got the stock right back up, but i find this to be one of the signs of what you got to be careful for when you get a junior growth stock becomes a senior growth stock where you actually have metrics you must beat. first solar didn't beat them, stock gets hammered. >> first solar still up, what, 70% in a year. >> it's a good company, but do you know what you have to pro

mike drove to the state park and buried shirley's body. mike answered her cell phone while there, a call that utilized the cell tower nearby. mike then headed to key west, florida, for his cover story. the cameras in the toll booth and convenience store proved that mikeo key west alone. after he checked into the hotel, records show mike ordered only one chicken sandwich in the restaurant, another inconsistency, one he lied about to police. the next morning, he reported his wife missing. >> that was his alibi. that's what he was going to do, report her missing from key west so that law enforcement would center their investigation in key west and not in jacksonville. >> six weeks after shirley disappeared, the gps showed mike in the state park not far from shirley's grave, probably to make sure no one had found it. a week later, mike drove out there again, this time with a girlfriend who said she knew nothing about the murder. mike told her they were going hiking. when they left, police found shirley's body in a shallow grave. it was less than 30 feet from where mike parked his car. >> how could he have possibly ended up 29 feet from the body not once, but twice? >> the great irony of this case is that michael garvin, more than anyone else, solved the

moments of panic where he said maybe i got the wrong message and then i realized it was just mike mike being mike which reminded me of a story told by a former member of my staff david barlow who was my chief counsel a couple of years ago. he has a son named william who was sometimes restless during church. william was five years old and be sitting there in church one day. david said william, you need to be good during church and if you have a hard time holding still make you should stop for a minute and think about jesus. .. few more minutes. and then the -- this part of church will be over and you can go to sunday school and you can see your friends. and that'll be fun. and he said, just to be clear, dad, i will not be thinking about jesus during sunday school either. i will still be thinking about trains. so one day as i was on my way to deliver a speech on the senate floor, actually, about railroad policy, my wife sent me a text message saying, i'm thinking about trains. before i began writing my remarks today, i want to thank heritage action. and all of the scholars at heritage that have mad

mike huckabee. mike huckabee, mike huckabee, he had no money in iowa. >> right. >> we were very close to him. we had him on 452 times -- >> oh, no, more like 652. >> he did the weather. >> very talented guy. >> mikeed politician, he is also what i call a matthew 25 christian. >> yeah. >> he is a guy that actually sweats out details about the poor and more importantly than that, he's got a populace streak in him that reagan had that republicans need that we have turned our backs on that has made us the party of the 1% that has made us the party of the corporations that have made us the parties of k street that ronald reagan's party never was and mike huckabee's party would not be either. the consulting class would all wither up and die if mike huckabee made a run at this and so i -- chuck, i'm going to go to mark here but let you respond. >> yeah. >> mark, mike huckabee, again, like sarah palin, except with more substance, mike huckabee is a great talent out on the campaign trail. >> he's the most underrated person on the campaign trail in terms of leading the nomination. someone did a poll, cnn or abc. >> he was in first. >> abc left him off. i agree. shouldn't leave him off. >> he is so talented

mike harding, andrew risch and sharon snyder. >> the first suspect, mike harding was a friend of john's. a witness recalled seeing harding's truck parked around the home around the time of the murder. >> mike harding was good friends with john. we knew that john and mike had some narcotics business together. >> but harding had an alibi for the time of the murder and he passed the polygraph test. the next two suspects, andrew risch and sharon snyder were friends of john's who lived about an 18-hour drive away in greybull, wyoming. >> we learned from a good friend who saw andrew risch and john together on january 18th, 1999, that in fact, andrew risch had been at the trailer house of john. >> but andy said that john was alive and well when he and sharon left to return home. police searched the couple's apartment and found marijuana, methamphetamine and several .22-caliber bullets, the same caliber used to kill helble. these bullets along with the slugs from helble's body were sent to the fbi for a neutron activation test. >> that's where the lead is shaved up to the ball, it's melted down and atoms are counted. >> counted and then compared. but the atomic composition of the bullets recovered from john helble was not what investigators had hoped for. >>

mike in louisiana, please. >> caller: hey, this is mike. >> mike. >> caller: i'd like to know my stock is monsanto and i'd like to know if you see any growth in it? >> monsanto is so tough because here we are -- i talked with jeff hartung, talked about the idea of feeding the world at all costs and it comes to monsanto, we're getting a big farm bill. we talked to agco. here's the way i come out, monsanto is okay. i can't rave about it because i think there's a move coming against gmo and i think it's unstoppab unstoppable. sure we had a bounce today because i don't trust that the sellers are gone. you have my new leaders, you got my magnificent seven, google, kors, facebook, netflix and those are bounce hardest if we get bad numbers including a bad number on friday, the employment number. "mad money" will be right back. >>> coming up -- a powerful quarter from its electrical business. could it help spark eaton stock? it's down 10% so far this year. opportunity knocking? or more weakness ahead? find out in cramer's exclusive. >>> and later, tech transformation? big news out of microsoft today. as a new ceo was

mike, i have to do one sports analogy. mike ght the former shanahan -- he's still mike shanahan, but the former coach. >> i have a problem with my line backers and backs. you have a problem with the whole. and that's the problem with have with our defensive systems. we have 20th structures dealing with a 21st century environment and that is not going to work. i'm very pleased that n.s.a. my former agency has now linked organizationly it's counter intelligence and security functions but i don't think that has to be the model for everyone. structure in the'1"st century is going to be less important than process. you can put people wherever you want structurally and communicate well and you'll get past the structure. i still have these great fears when i see wiring diagrams to think that is really a metaphor. that's a metaphor of an industrial model and yet we think those are very, very real. john and david said over a decade ago that in a 21st century contest between bureaucracies and networks, network will win. i look at our government and intelligence community and i think we are far more bureaucratic than network and that does not help the cause. first of all, we all know this, the national discussion or conversation raised by the snowden disclosures is going to continue. and i don't continue to give mr. snowden any credit for this. you could argue john brown with the harpers ferry raid deserves credit for bringing to the country's attention slaverry. who didn't know slavery was an issue? and i sometimes think even dwhrooned that we had better building demodse our cities after the chicago fire but i've never been to chicago to see a statute of mrs. oh leery's cow. part of that cow would be where i'd put mr. snowden. let me not go there. orderlyprefer to see an review of intelligence and counter intelligence. i stay in contact with the american security project which is the staff of the former heart rudman commission now out on their own. i look back at the reports and i think we missed a terrific opportunity. there calls for a very serious comprehensive review of our 1947 national security instruments never came to pass. it was going to be looked at everyone told me in the summer of 2001, in fiscal 2002 and then we know what happened in september of 2001. instead of this orderly thorough look we had post crisis legislation and we all know what that means. as i also tell my students, the most dangerous thing you'll ever hear in washington is a group of congressman around the cameras saying we must do something. frightening possspect. how would we do a review in i think we could do worse than look at the method doling. make an attempt to define the environment we think we'll be in the in the next 10 years. define a strategy to deal with that environment and look to see if our instruments match either the strategy or the environment. and i look around at our national security systems and i don't see that matching of tools and the problems they face. mike and ents are air force academy graduates. we have a program with the air force academy to bring graduates to the school of public policy. and they are good sports when i come in and ask how many sort, the's did the f-22 fly in iraq and the answer is zero. something is wrong when we spend billions of dollars on instruments we don't want to use. i hate to pick on the air force, i'll buy you guys a drink later. i think they are free actually. but i could do the same sort of thing with the other military services. and we could do the same thing in the intelligence the issues that we face in the future are among those defined in large part i the information environment. by theave not faced at snowden target, who else got hacked this week, i do not know. the information environment drives a lot of the national security. mayart brand, whose unless remember as the founder of the whole earth catalog, david interview last august in which you set the most important event of the last 20 years --

mike tobin is there. says a lot about mike. sandra: thanks, mike. david: we asked you on twitter and facebook if you think the uaw is ever going to succeed in unionizing foreign auto companies in the u.s. after volkswagen vote they lost? michael on twitter told us, perhaps, if they abandon their political agenda and become more balanced. sandra: ah. brian on twitter wrote in to say, probably not. foreigners are not as gullible as u.s. automakerses david. david: not quite sure about that. we'll wait and see. i think we're becoming a little more aware what they're up to. he says i hope not, as long as states allow right to work, we will see a migration of auto makers to those states. sandra: and mikepe not! unions are irrelevant. probably a few of our viewers are appreciate that sentiment. david: i would think so. sandra: thanks for letting me join you. david: we'll put in "off the desk." remember this? we teased it. you may remember the self-tying laces worn by marty mcfly in "back to the future" part two. nike women make the power laces reality in 2015. once they slip the their feet in the shoes, they automatically tighten just like in the movie. they used introduced the nike air mag as exact replica of the high top sneaker. those came without the power laces. >> they are trying to find a way to get rid of shoelaces right? always tripping on them? >>> also off the desk. stop complaining about the rent on yyur new york apartment. hear it all the time. according to online website for apartment hunters, the rapidly growing city in new york today of williston has the highest rent. 700 square foot one bedroom apartment in the city, $2492 a month. the same apartment would go $1500 in

mike, what is the latest from the obama administration? wonden was like. mike, what is the latest from the obama administration?wonder was like. mike, what is the latest from the obama administration? people aren't receptive to any red line comments. >> and john kerry continues working the phones. kerry called lavrov again this morning and we're told expressed strong report for the ukranian parliament names an acting president and prime minister and moving quickly to stabilize the country. today the susan rice also weighed in. >> the escalation of violence, we want to see constitutional change. we want to see democratic elections in very short order. and the opportunity for the people of uhe crepe to cokraine together. >> and raice said the united states is on the side of ukranian people. >> we are hearing, though, very deep concerns from members on capitol hill. what are they saying? >> definitely. and there have been calls to work with the european union to help ukraine move forward with western values. senator bob corker, the top republican on the foreign relations committee, says the u.s. should do everything possible to ensure

mike in wisconsin. mike? >> caller: hey, jim, how you doing? >> real good, how about you, mike?ller: i'm doing all right. hey, i'm kind of new to the show. been watching a couple of weeks. i need to buy your book. i'm wondering about your thoughts on cal amp. >> that's a great sweet spot, i really like that area right now. i think you're in the sweet spot. let's go to andy in massachusetts. andy? >> caller: hey, jim. what do you think of the recent earnings announcement of general motors and the impact on ford? >> i'm going to be clear. i do believe that gm had better earnings than ford. i was upset this morning when people were so quick to say that gm's quarter wasn't that good. it was exactly what i was looking for. it wasn't better. but gm is a buy right here. and that's why stephanie lincoln, my coportfolio manager of action alerts plus.com bought gm and so should you. marilyn in michigan? >> caller: booyah, jim. this is marilyn calling from michigan. how are you? >> good. >> caller: what happened to viva? >> people didn't like that quarter. i didn't mind the quarter. the so

sounds like he sat down with mike kelly, columnist for a couple of hours and mike kelly took him through everything. mike kelly says we have a cohesive narrative, wow, it's changed from this and changed from that. if you tape together all of the different interviews given, i didn't see anything that was that major, that was that new in the interview that he gave on friday. what he said on friday there were little gestures from christie and christie's crew, in hindsight, looks like they were doing outreach, their subtle way to get me to endorse, there was a man who tried to say, look, there's a democratic mayor here, endorsing the governor 0 is it something you might? i'm a democratic mayor. he told me about david wildstein meeting him at ground zero, told to treat him well. what he still -- i talked to him as recently as last thursday, what he still unable to tell you, okay, look back to august that infamous e-mail, right? asked about an endorsement close to the e-mail? he says, no. any contact, any communication with somebody the administration, somebody in the campaign side, somebody on christie's team

the house intelligence committee mike rod gers who confirmed they are reviewing the testimony of mike morell and david petraeus. they were leaving the door to recall to mikeand petraeus. there were issues over the petraeus testimony about the benghazi attack in the 50 few weeks afterwards. they were unhappy with the characterization as spontaneous and like a flash mob. it seemed like the former leadership of the cia is under the microscope. >> thank you, kathryn. >> it is astonishing behavior and doesn't lend credit for the majority leader of the senate who is the most significant democrat in the majority to use this kind of language. and further underscores they are desperate. everyone single one of them provided the vote that passed obama care and it is it a disaster for the country and they are going to pay the price for it this september. >> that was senator mcconnell reacted to harry reid. >> here's what was said yesterday. >> there are plenty of horror stories untold. all of them auntrue and they are told all over america. lies. distorted by republicans to grab headlin headlines. >> and senator reid said he was referring to the vast majority of stor

mike." and mike rowe joins me now. all right. what happened to your support of the underdog, sad times, mike writes kevin? and you say to him? >> kevin, listen, what are you -- people find what they look for, right? you can look at "dirty jobs" and you can see an honest tribute to hard-working skilled labor. that's exactly what it was. but it was also a tribute to risk and entrepreneurship and business. there was always two sides of the same coin. so for me, i've never looked at it as selling in or selling out. it's just work, and the idea that you can either be on the employee's side or the employer's side, it's a bad choice. you know? and i just don't want to make it. >> i want to just make it clear here because you were there with mitt romney on stage. you never endorsed him, right? >> no. >> some people might be going okay, this guy's a republican and this is -- you're saying no. you didn't endorse anyone. >> right now what's going on in the country as i'm sure you know, there are certain things, if you touch them, people immediately can't hear what you say. what they're going to do is they're going to look at who you're talking to. a couple months ago, i did an appearance with bill maher on hbo and later in the same week, glenn beck. we talked about the same exact stuff, manufacturing, skilled labor. we talked about college debt. we talked about all these things. same stuff i've been talking about since i started the foundation back in 2008. but the explosion didn't come from anything anybody said. it just came from who i was talking to. it's the same thing with walmart. you know? i think my comment to kevin was, you know, it's a hell of a thing when somebody you've been trained not to like suddenly does something that you actually agree with. it's cognitive dissonance and it forces you to look at american manufacturing as separate and apart from really everything. >> now, some of the other comments, not just kevin, someone wrote rome apple. it's hypocrisy. walmart's products are all made in china. walmart contributes to the empty factories. what's so powerful about an ad that makes no sense. i looked at the numbers. from 2001 to 2006, these are the latest numbers, not up to date, 133,000 u.s. manufacturing jobs were lost to china because of walmart. so what do you say when someone comes to you and says, you're supposed to want jobs in the u.s. walmart's not doing that. >> i'm not a spokesman for walmart. i'm a spokesman for american manufacturing. self-appointed, maybe. but i'm a fan. when a company has a reputation, deservedly or not for doing a thing a lot of people disagree with suddenly does a thing people have been calling for for decades. >> investing $250 billion in the u.s. manufacturing like they say. >> it's a quarter of a trillion dollars. it's like a po to the u.s. economy for a quarter of a trillion dollars. now, there are a number of ways. if you want to twist yourself, to feel bad about that. but you can also step back and go, you know something? i hope it works. >> are you proud of that? or does any of this -- let's go with the numbers. 7 million people have seen this on facebook. half a million people are involved in this conversation with you. a lot of them mad, some are defending you. are you going to say, i'm still proud that i did that ad? >> of course. here's my favorite part. you have to think of it in terms of pr and the big criticism is, it's just a pr campaign, dude. they're using you for pr. >> people say too that to you. >> i say sure they are. don't you think maybe it's possible i'm using that, as well? what's it take for me to get on your show? i have to have somebody somewhere get suddenly upset because something feels counterintuitive. now i get a chance to talk about my non-profit foundation and talk about skilled labor, work ethic scholarships, a whole list of things that i genuinely believe are decent for the country. >> still to come, much more of our conversation with mikee i wanted to ask him about something really important we've been talking about on this show which is whether he agrees with this. >> this country should not talk about envy of the 1%. it should talk about emulating the 1%. the 1% work harder. n a for a fi. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life. personalized home security and automation. get professionally monit

mike emanuel is back over here, and he is in deck two. let's see. deck two. mike emanuel. there he is. hello, mike. what went down with this bill and what do we need to know about the farm bill? >> 68-32 vote in the senate so passed the house and senate. they negotiated this thing for three years. gives certainty to farmers and ranchers over the next five years. what they can expect from the federal government. they say it tightens up a lot of policies and makes sure that waste and fraud is taken out. they say it will save $23 billion over the next he can decade and they're calling it a victory. >> what about food stamps? >> that held up negotiations for about a year. house republicans wanted to slash $40 billion. they ended up agreeing to cut $8 billion and say they're not going to take people off food stamps but tight 'it up to make sure there's not waste and fraud and abuse so some say it is a step in the right direction. >> mikesee you. thank you very much. >>> two of three teenagers accused of gunning down a baseball player out of boredom, went to court in oklahoma today. we told you about this last august when it happened. prosecutors say the suspects chose their victim as he jogged by their car. the police say one of them admitted they didn't have anything to do so they decided to, quote, kill somebody. the victim was christopher lane, a college baseball player from australia, who was heading into his senior season. the case gained so much attention in the united states and overseas for that matter, that the judge ordered a gag order to keep anybody involved from talking about it. the teens could face the rest of their lives in prison. the thing is, their lawyers want the court to try them as juveniles. trace gallagher has more. only two suspects in court. where is the other one? >> well, the third suspect is also in court, but he is testifying against the other two. he is 16-year-old james edwards, and he

mike caden onor of who is not here. i've always thought of this as former mike e shanahan -- well he's still mike shanahan but the former coach -- saying i don't have a problem with my defense. with my problem defensive line, my linebackers and my backs. got a problem with the hole, ace. that's the problem we have. we have 20th century structures a 21sts century environment and that is not work.to 'm pleaseed that nsa has now linked organizationally it's security functions. but i don't think that has to be model for everyone. structure in the 21st isn'ttry important be less than process. you can put people wherever you structurally and communicate well and you'll get past the structure. still have these great fears when i see wiring diagrams to really a met t's for. that's a met for of an industrial model. yet we think those are very, very real. david -- john and david said that in a 21stgo contest between bureaucracies networks will win and i look at our government and our intelligence community and i think we are far more bureaucratic than network and the cause.ot help let me add a few thoughts on the reversing the cultural way that i've spoken about. irst of all, and we all know this, the national discussion or onversation raised by the snowden disclosures will continue and i don't intend to any credit for this. you can argue that john brown the harper's fairy raid deserves credited for slavery. who didn't know shrelavery was ue part of that cow is where i would put mr. snowden. go there. i would prefer to see an orderly national security instruments including and ligence counterintelligence. i stay in contact with a tkpwraoupld the american in washington t which is very much the staff of he former hart-ruddman commission. i look back at the reports of a or saopbd think we missed a terrific opportunity. calls for a very serious comprehensive review of our 1947 instruments rity never came to pass. at as going to be looked everyone told me in the summer fiscal 2002. then we any what happened in september of 2001. this orderly thorough look we had post-crisis all know whatd we that means. the most dangerous thing you hear in washington is a group of congressmen around microphones in the rotunda saying we must do something. frightening y prospect. review?d we do such we could do worse than look at ruddman methodology. to deal with egy our environment the next 10 to 15 years and see if our match either the strategy or the environment. lot ofaround at an awful our national security systems of i don't see that matching they and the problems face. my two students lieutenants mike echi and christina england. that.logize for are favors academy graduates and we have a program there to bring graduates to the school of public policy and they are very come in ts when they nd i ask them how many sorties did the f-22 fly in iraq. and the answer is zero. something is wrong when we spend billions of dollars on instruments we don't want to use. i late to pick on the air force guys a drink you later -- i think they are free ctually -- but i could do the same thing with the other military services. i think we could easily do the ame thing in the intelligence services. we are simply not adapting our that to the environments we face. the issues we face in the future, i think, are among those part re defined in large by the information environment we face. if we have not faced that with snoweden, target, who else got hacked this week? i don't know. environment ion drives a lot of the national security environment. graham who we may remember as the whole earth catalogue. he ga

mike allen. >> thank you, mike. >> it's always great to have mike. >> amazing. so adorable. >> -- doesn't run around in circles like your dog. >> well, my dog did what he did because you were present. and i think that was a sign of affection. >> it was disturbing. >>> what's driving today's market? brian sullivan has "business before the bell." keep it here on "morning joe." [ julie ] the wrinkle cream graveyard. if it doesn't work fast... you're on to the next thing. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair has the fastest retinol formula to visibly reduce fine lines and wrinkles in just one week. neutrogena®. ♪ [ male announcer ] you're watching one of the biggest financial services companies in the country at work. hey. thanks for coming over. hey. [ male announcer ] how did it come to be? yours? ah. not anymore. it's a very short story. come on in. [ male announcer ] by meeting you more than halfway. it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. >>> okay. now we can stop talking about this -- >> how you doing, nicolle? meacham switched out my caffeinated beverage -- i think chuck should come back, because i'm good now. >> yeah, i know. >> thomas was shattered. >> this is what i was talking about nuance. >> this is, when she was talking -- >> best for irish catholic tongue like my way to lean -- >> babylon, new york, new york, republican congressman peter king, who sits both on the house homeland security and intelligence committees, really good to have you on the show this morning. peter. >> thank you, mika. i just want to drink whatever nicolle is drinking. >> i'll have what she's having. >> let's smell this. >> it's -- i mean, it's been replaced. >> peter, hey, fascinating stuff about -- not so fascinating about the debt ceiling -- well, pete, i think you and i will probably disagree on this, there's no need to waste your time on it. yoo you are a guy that knows a hell of a lot about homeland security. it's been your life since september 11th. let's talk about edward snowden and russia. nicolle was saying beforehand there is suspicions rising in the community, intelligence community, that snowden may not have just been this lone wolf that was able to macgyver his way through and get three toothpicks and gauzepads and 28 ballbearings and uncover the greatest secrets ever uncovered from the united states government. answer that, if there's even a question in there. >> no, somewhere there's a question. no, seriously, joe, that's in discussion. ive been in a number of the meetings, but i don't think there's enough known. people are wondering how he was able to do what he did. the fact he went to china, went to russia, still there in russia, apparently being treated very well. the russians had to had access to all you brought over. and it really was in many ways treasonous, because it has been brought out in the last few days the information involving the nsa is probably less than 1% or 2% of the information that snowden has made available, including countermeasures that we use to stop ieds. now, the enemy can be aware of that. this goes far beyond the nsa. and that's really -- i don't want to go any further than that, because again, it's sensitive. i know chairman mike. that's certainly as far as i want to go, other than to say there's a lot more than just meta data with the nsa. i think it was bad enough he did that. i think that's really hurt the country. that's why i'm so angry that rand paul is bringing this lawsuit. in addition to that, the vast amounts of other information, that's sensitive information, classified, top-secret information involving our military, does remain available, it's disgraceful. >> okay, i know you don't want to go further, so let me just ask for you to confirm something. the fact that he's there, that he went to russia, isn't that enough of a concern that they will try to get at him, offer him whatever they can give him to get information from him? i mean, shouldn't we have been extremely concerned about this from the get-go? and assumed it was happening? >> absolutely. and we have to assume, by the way, that all of the material he had, all of the data he had, is available to the russians. i mean, they can break any typ

mike huckabee. here's what it took for mike huckabee to the the new front-runner. chris christie had to collapse in scandal and then mike huckabee had to say this. >> the democrats want to insult the women of america by making them believe that they are helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing them a prescription each month with birth control because they can't control their libido without the assistance of the government, then so be it. >> a week after that, what happens? a cnn poll shows that mikeis right up there in front of the pack now of the republican, possible republican presidential candidate next time around. and so once again, the republicans have a front-runner for their presidential nomination who has absolutely no chance of ever actually being elected president of the 50 united states of america. joining me now are msnbc political analyst steve schmidt and "the washington post's" nia malika henderson. i know steve -- i will let steve take a little pause to get over the nightmare of that video we just showed over various people who at various crazy times who have been front-runner. and now mike huckabee. >> mike huckabee has always brilliantly strung everyone along talking to different reporters saying he was looking at this field and possibly entering the field in 2016. then this very quotable, you know, message that he had about women and the democratic party. uncle sugar, whoever thought of that. but again, i think it is 20 112 all over again. i covered all those

mike huckabee leadinthe way with 16%, jeb bush at 14 and chris christie at 13%. joining us now is mike huckabee, he's keeping an open mind about exploring a run for president, mike, it's great to have you here. you got to feel good about these polls that show you consistently at the forefront, among the leaders are leading for potential 2016 candidates. >> always better to be at the top of those things than at the bottom. i'm glad your name wasn't on the list. i would be way back. >> you have never been safer. >> you know what, i think all of the talk about who's going to run and who's leading, little premature, the most important thing that republicans have to focus on getting control of the senate, pushing harry reid back to the room. he has become the great hen sitting on the egg of every idea coming out of the house. things go in and they never come out. >> senator ted cruz said today, republicans will lose their opportunity to regain control of the senate if the boehner plan goes forward, that is, apparently his preference for a pathway to citizenship and any reform legislation, rather than full support for the chairman cjudiciary committee. pathway to legal

mike, i have to do one sports analogy. i thought the former mike shanahan -- he's still mike shanahan, but the former coach. i have a problem with my line backers and backs. you have a problem with the whole. and that's the problem with have with our defensive systems. we have 20th structures dealing with a 21st century environment and that is not going to work. i'm very pleased that n.s.a. my former agency has now linked organizationally it's counter intelligence and security functions but i don't think that has to be the model for everyone. structure in the'1"st century is going to be less important than process. you can put people wherever you want structurally and communicate well and you'll get past the structure. i still have these great fears when i see wiring diagrams to think that is really a metaphor. that's a metaphor of an industrial model and yet we think those are very, very real. john and david said over a decade ago that in a 21st century contest between bureaucracies and networks, network will win. i look at our government and intelligence community and i think we are far more bureaucratic than network and that does not help the cause. first of all, we all know this, the national discussion or conversation raised by the snowden disclosures is going to continue. and i don't continue to give mr. snowden any credit for this. you could argue john brown with the harpers ferry raid deserves credit for bringing to the country's attention slavery. who didn't know slavery was an issue? and i sometimes think even dwhrooned that we had better building demodse our cities after the chicago fire but i've never been to chicago to see a statute of mrs. o?leery's cow. part of that cow would be where i'd put mr. snowden. let me not go there. i would prefer to see an orderly review of intelligence and counter intelligence. i stay in contact with the american security project which is the staff of the former heart rudman commission now out on their own. i look back at the reports and i think we missed a terrific opportunity. there calls for a very serious comprehensive review of our 1947 national security instruments never came to pass. it was going to be looked at everyone told me in the summer of 2001, in fiscal 2002 and then we know what happened in september of 2001. instead of this orderly thorough look we had post crisis legislation and we all know what that means. as i also tell my students, the most dangerous thing you'll ever hear in washington is a group of congressman around the cameras saying we must do something. that is a very frightening prospect. how would we do a review in i think we could do worse than look at the method doling. make an attempt to define the environment we think we'll be in the in the next 10 years. define a strategy to deal with that environment and look to see if our instruments match either the strategy or the environment. and i look around at our national security systems and i don't see that matching of tools and the problems they face. my two students mike and christina are air force academy graduates. we have a program with the air force academy to bring graduates to the school of public policy. and they are good sports when i come in and ask how many sorties did the f-22 fly in iraq and the answer is zero. something is wrong when we spend billions of dollars on instruments we don't want to use. i hate to pick on the air force, i'll buy you guys a drink later. i think they are free actually. but i could do the same sort of thing with the other military services. and we could do the same thing in the intelligence services. we are not adapting our tools to the environments we face. the issues that we face in the future are among those defined in large part i the information environment. if we have not faced at by the snowden target, who else got hacked this week, i do not know. the information environment drives a lot of the national security. stewart brand, whose unless may remember as the founder of the whole earth catalog, david inter

mike mansfield. max melt mike as a teenager and for many montanans of today, myself included, max connects us to mike's legacy as a champion for the greater good, as a champion for putting service and sacrifice well before self, and as a champion for montana. montana's leaders always put montana first and max is no exception. just like montana has shaped max, max has shaped montana. max's dedication to our public lands is legendary. montana's known as the treasure state because of our incredible natural resources and unroistled public space -- unrivaled public spaces. from yellowstone to glacier montana is like no other, and max has set out to preserve our treasured lands for future generations to enjoy. in 2008, the same year he won reelection and became the first win to win all 56 counties in montana, max helped set aside 320,000 acres of prime hunting and fishing lands across our state. this land which will forever be open to the public is part of max's brainchild called the montana legacy project. max's love of our outdoors extends stendz to those who share his love and in march of 2000 he came to the floor to remember a young montanan, sean michael miles, who had tragically died in a car accident just over a year before. and he dedicated a scholarship in sean's name and max repeated sean's words. i know this land may pay a price for being beautiful as change advances, carrying with it the prospect of loss. it is a land i desperately love. it is a part of me. it hurts so much to care so much. yet as a westerner, i am invited to breathe it all in deeply each day. max, sean would be proud of your hard work to preserved our treasured places and i pledge to carry on your efforts so montana yants can continue to cherish our special places and pass our transitions down to our kids and grandkids. but it's not a stretch to say i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for max baucus. max has brought world leaders to butte for his economic summit, he brought camera criewls and small businesses as part of his montana work days. he operated fork liches in warehouses, made bread and dug ditches. all to get a better feel for what hard working montanans do each and every day. and he fought for montana farmers and ranchers who feed our nation but he brought a dry land farmer from montana to the united states senate. max, i cannot tell you how much you've meant to me as a present frend, a mentor. i've lost track of how many meetings and rallies we've attended together across our state but i know you've had my back. when i arrived in the senate in 2007 it was because of you that a guy with seven fingers and a flattop haircut quickly figured out how to get from his office to the senate floor. because of you i had a model for would go across the aisle for this governmentful legislation and i know i have a friend to turn to when i need advice. along with your tremendous tre staff, you've always put montana first and built the montana democratic party into a beacon of common sense, freedom and opportunity in the west. our party is stronger because of you and your dedication to our state. after retiring from the senate in 1976, mike mansfield became the ambassador to japan. and now you are poised to continue following in senator mansfield's footsteps as ambassador to china. i know you will continue to serve montana even as you serve our nation's interests overseas. i wish you the best and while you're gone, i'll keep up your fight for montanans, particularly the montanans who need someone to fight for them. montanans like les gramstead. he was a longtime libby resident, saw politicians come to libby with a promise to help. but that help never arrived. when max came to libby, les told him he'd be watching. les passed away in 2007 but max keeps les' photo close because in montana, a promise to help is a promise to keep. that's the montana way, and that's the max baucus way. max, it's been an honor to serve with you, an honor to call you my friend and the senate will be a lesser body without you. i relinquish wish you god indeed-speed and good luck. -- godspeed and good luck. it's an incredibly important job and you

mike tyson quote in relation to emerging economies, but i think it might be --? >> mike tyson, noted economist. jenna: exactly. mike tyson once said everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. [laughter] >> that's a great quote. jenna: until something stuns you, are we kind of there? i don't want to say are we getting punched in the mouth here, jon, but are we? >> we've seen a lot of volatility in the stock markets, people getting worried about emerging economies like china and india and russia. but i think we have to be careful about getting too panicky. you know, after this financial crisis in 2008 whenever we see something that might be going wrong, i think people get very panicky. if you actually look at these data going back three, four years, what we see is an economy that's growing very slowly and an economy that's producing jobs very slowly. and i think that's where we are. i think that's where we still are and where we're stick. we get these little shocks but, frankly, i don't think that problems in turkey, you know, it's not like a punch in the face, it's kind of like a tap on the side more than anything else. jenna: i'll take a tap in the side -- >> i don't want to contradict mikeyou quote tyson as well in your articles? >> i was a big fan, but i haven't looked at him for economic idea. that's a great quote. i might use it, thank you. [laughter] jenna: jon, thank you very much. great to see you. jon: there's the keynesian school and then the tyson school. jenna: makes sense. jon: is hillary clinton already the de facto democratic presidential nominee for the 2016 election at least in the eyes of the media? we'll break down media a portrayal of the former secretary of state. >>> plus, this brutal winter taking its toll on drivers, and some states are running dangerously low on road salt. we're live in the salt mines of utah, next. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+. i didn't think i could buy them their own, let alone for under $300. t this asus with windo

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"the washington post" putin's ukraine gambit. whatever anything obama says says or does would stop anyone remains unquestionable. but surely the west has more financial clout than crush's extraction economy that exports little but oil, gas, and vodka. it's a lot of money but less than one half of one-tenth of 1% if the combined eu and u.s. gdp and treasurer is preferable to compensat expending blood. putin keeps ratcheting up the pressure. can this administration puster the counterpressure to give ukraine a chance to breathe? >> the secretary said yesterday russia is complaining about other on countries. they should listen to themselves about that and not be hi hypocritical about it. the secretary talked about an ifm loan and about europe doing more and i think folks are looking into that. the ifm is there in kiev talking about this and, yes, a lot more money in the west and ukraine wants to lean towards the west. i think everybody wants us to do more. >> but -- go ahead, gene. >> i was going to say, there is an issue in ukraine, though. there are parts of ukraine that lean toward russia and see themselves historically as more a part of russia and filled with russian speakers. the crimea where stalin marched everybody out because he thought they were centrally collaborationists in world war ii with the germans and filled it up with russian speakers and they are very nervous about going the other way with ukraine and that is an issue has to be dealt with and putin will have a lot of populace support in russia if he takes a hard line. >> the paramount goal is let the ukrainian people decide on their own destiny and there is a wide range of opinion like there is almost everywhere. but that is the main thing. >> what is the time frame for all of this unfolding? in terms of weeks, months? >> it's complex. in fact, the other day, the secretary came to the morning meeting and said it's a sign of people power but then he also said for efficient refer luvolu is there a counter revolution. it's not simple and not a pure happy story so i think we have to see. i think the west has to help. america has to help and i don't know what the time line is. >> sam stein has a question for you, rick. >> two questions. first, rick, what is on the cover of "time" magazine? >> sam, i don't know. >> obamacare. >> i'm sure it's good, though. >> i'm sure. secondly switching topics. secretary kerry took a little heat and causing a little controversy for saying a week or so ago that saying climate change was the biggest complexity facing the globe in a couple of decades ahead. can you elaborate on what he meant and whether or not you think this is a big deal? >> i do think it's a big deal. i know he feels passionately about it as does the president. we are talking about environmental diplomacy here. this is an issue that affects every single person on the planet and i think he wants to marshal the leadership of the u.s., the integrity of the u.s. to get nations to start thinking about it and, of course, the u.s. has to think about it too. it's no small thing to him and no small thing to all of us. >> how will that affect keystone? >> look. keystone, i mean, there was a ruling about the legitimacy of how the state department process is going and that is a decision the secretary will make, along with the president. i don't know about that. i know that looking into it and analyzing it in every way possible. >> are you holding the position that -- >> yes, yes. >> she is in. >> and karen hughes? extraordinarily important position. in the past, i talked to both of those leaders and your position, talking about how hand-fisted the united states had been in the past in its efforts to reach out to especially young students across the world. very quickly explain what this very important position is and how you plan to expand on the work of karen hughes and margaret -- >> thank you for teeing me up, joe. public diplomacy is helping to explain american policy around the world and basically to americans as well. public affairs as you know is our outreach to the media and so it has those two tiers, including educational and affairs with the exchange students and then there is also a countering violent extremism to the job. there are many acronyms in the state department, by the way. but part of the idea is to actually think about public diplomacy and public affairs when you're creating policy because as you know when you're creating policy, if you can't sell it, if you can't explain it, then it's hard to actually get it done. so part of my job is to actually talk about american foreign policy to foreign publics around the world. you know what? the idea is not so much they are not necessarily hearing from us. we have to explain our policy and they may not like it which is fine. but i want us to be able to explain it. >> no doubt about it. >> back to you ukraine. how concerned are you that vladimir putin won't listen to the warnings, heed the warnings to stay out of the situation? >> unfortunately, it seems like russia is looking at that old cold war paradigm which we have long past. i know the secretary of state has talked to the russian foreign minister and they said they are going to respect the integrity of ukraine, but that the saber rattling doesn't help anybody and makes everybody a little nervous. >> rick stengel, thank you. >> good to see you, rick. >> i'll see you in washington. >> do we call you mr. undersecretary? >> you can call me rick. you know when henry kissinger game secretary of state he was on a morning show and the host say what do i call you? dr. kissinger or mr. kissinger or secretary kissinger? and henry kissinger said, "your excellency." >> i'm sure that is not what we are calling mr. stengel. >> rick. >>> ahead we talk to a author on a new book on china relations. he says how america can win the era of new competition. 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mike rowe, author of the book "profoundly disconnected, a true confession from mike rowe." great to have you here. >> great to be had, thank you. >> we know the dulcetones of the ad, mike rowe, but the actions you've gotten with aligning yourself to walmart and it created a backlash for you. why? >> yeah, backlash -- i asked for it a little bit, i checked out facebook. and there was some chatter. it wasn't all pretty. >> what were people angry about? >> the shrinks would call it cognitive dissonance, when somebody does something that you hate, it takes you a minute to kwet get your head around. it's easy to punish the messenger, scream about it. especially if you're home with your libation, and, look, you're a broadcaster. >> it's not unionized and -- >> the anger was i -- >> you. >> -- came out and said a thing that somebody -- i shouldn't have said. >> so it was -- you used to be our guy. >> yeah. >> the fact you're working for walmart. >> and now, you, you turn up doing an ad for the big guys. >> right. >> for walmart, selling chinese goods in their stores, and you were our guy -- >> that's right. >> so boom. >> you're not doing that for lexus. walmart is about as middle america -- i'm not understanding the anger -- >> okay, jobs, right, made in the usa is the initiative that walmart right now is looking at, you know something, we will write a p.o. to the united states of america for $250 billion, and during that time, we pledge to buy goods made here, because they're challenging the suppliers in a way few companies have done. this sounds great in a vacuum. people get upset because historically walmart hasn't done that. i stepped in and said, look, whatever, we can spend all our time on this segment or any other segment talking about what walmart has done, or we can talk about the fact that in my field they just kind of set a really interesting bar. so i'm making the rounds saying, look, i don't much care what side you're on or how you feel about a big, giant retailer, but what would happen in the country if other major retailers, other major companies said, okay, in relative terms, we're there, too. we can't do $250 billion, but what can we do? look, i'm not an economist, but, man, wouldn't something extraordinary happen in the fortune 500 said, okay, let's follow suit as best we can, not challenge the consumer, not beat up on the consumer for not buying american. that's too easy. challenge suppliers, motivate them with longer contracts, and see what comes out the other end. >> do you think there's an issue with capitalists not paying american workers the waej that they deserve? as you say, this is a challenge thrown down to other businesses to invest in american-made products, so we have the gap come out saying they'll raise the minimum wage of their worker to $10.10. walmart workers that are fighting for a living wage, where some of them are on federal assistance, that we pay for them. food drives for themselves at christmas and holiday time. do you understand where people would say, well, why doesn't walmart instead of investing in this ad ploy, invest in the actual people that work for them with the money that they deserve for a living wage? >> i understand if we're talking about cars. you can focus on power steering, brakes, undercarriage, interior, pick your conversation. that's a fair conversation to have and half the country right now is having it. i'm telling you, we no longer have the will or the skill to simply fill the jobs that are created. the skills gap's real. you have 3 million jobs right now that for whatever reason people aren't jumping up and down to get. you might make the point that, well, if they were more attractive, more people would want them. frankly, i think it's a tertiary issue, an important one. but the fundamental issue is we don't have the capital over here right now in skilled labor -- >> there's a whole other playing field of highly skilled well-paying jobs that nobody ever talks about to young people just embarking in the job market -- plumbers, electricians, carpenters. you make a terrific wage, and they seem to be a forgotten minority in the job component. >> sure. i've spent ten years crawing through -- crawling through sewers, every single state, every single employer told me the same thing. the single biggest challenge for them, finding people who are willing to learn a useful skill, show up early, stay late, and work their butts off. i've heard it in every state, mikeucation. there's no better example. you have a trillion dollars in student loans now on the books. we hold the note on that, by the way. you have a few million jobs, nobody seems to want. real shortages in states right now where things are at crisis level. we're still pushing a four-year education like it's the best path for the most people. we're still lending money we don't have, to kids who will never be able to pay it back, to train them for jobs that no longer exist. that's nuts. but that's what we're doing. and with respect, tom, what we do while this is happening, is we step back and go, well, let's talk about how we can increase the outcome we want as quickly as possible. look, i just think it's a sucker's bet. i would go back to every lesson i learned in the dirt. and maybe i'm spoiled, but my bias is the people i've been working with, there's no such thing as a bad job. they roll their eyes and laugh when you talk about bad jobs. they're, like, whatever. whatever. 45 people o

mike, what was the cover story, mike? >> well, this morning, i'm liter literally on the way to the airport. >> he is going to a bachelor par party? >> yes. have fun, mike. >> it may be my favorite moment of the olympics so far, you three not recognizing your -- >> i am shocked. >> yes. >> and look behind you. >> oh. >> very nice! >> oh, that is so nice substituting for our husbands. >> i thought those were our wives. >> i know it is not mine. >> and that is not going over well at home. >> and savannah, these are for you. >> thank you. >> and thank you very much, guys. thank you sh, fellows. >> thank you. as you were. >> and well done, guys. >> happy valentine's day. >> and by the way, can we -- >> from russia with love. >> and annette, happy valentine's day to you at home. >> and deborah, i love you and kiss the kids for me. >> and lucy i love you, and chris and mom and grandma and i don't want to leave anybody out. happy valentine's day to everybody. >> and happy valentine's day to everybody. and coming up, lindsey vonn on the skiing competition and the skiers to watch over the weekend. >> and the swonn brothers perform live, but first this on nbc. 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>> to be honest, i expected more from our team. but the conditions were tough. it was warm weather. i think it was more difficult for the later starters. you know, ted's main event is definitely going to be, so he'll have a chance to win a gold medal. bode, i think he was the champion, he won the combined in vancouver. but, you know, he still has a lot more chances, as well. he can easily win in the comb e combined as well. it's disappointing for sure, but they have a lot more chances. >> let's move over to the women. and next week we're going to get our first look at mykala. she's been compared to you for a long time. she was on the cover of sports illustrated saying is she the next lindsey vonn? how much pressure is she having to deal with right now? >> well, i mean, she's really young, had a lot of success early. i think she has one thing going for in that she's really young. a lot of times you don't really realize the pressure that you have. so i think she's going to do really well. she's obviously won many world cups already and won the world championships last year. so she has a very bright future. from vail, colorado, just like me. i think she's going to handle the pressure very well. >> as you mentioned, though, there's a lot more chances for all of these skiers. much more competition coming up. lindsey, always good to see you. thanks very much for joining us again this morning. >> oh, hey, matt, i also have a really cool hat for you. it's pretty cool. and what you do is push it in on the back so it doesn't stick up, you know, like yours did. >> i'm learning. i promise you, i'm taking lessons and i'll have one for you monday, i promise you. >> okay. sounds good. get it done. >> have a good weekend. you got it, lindsey. >>> coming up next, yevgeny plyushchenko joins us live to talk about his stunning decision to withdraw from this games and retire. but first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> well, welcome back to sochi. thursday was a tough one on the ice for yevgeny plyushchenko. he suddenly skated over to the judges and announced he was withdrawing from the event. and a short time later, he retired from the sport. he is a legend. and he's with us now. yevgeny, good morning. >> hi, good morning, everyone. hello, america. >> what a whirlwind week for you. you started in the team competition, have this beautiful skate. and now by the end of the week, you're suffering from these injuries, withdrawing and retiring. what happened between then and now? >> yeah. well, first of all, i would like to say i did good job in my career. i skated many years, and here in sochi in team event, i won gold medal. so that's -- for me really important. so right now i have two gold medals and two silver medals. of course, i would like to skate more, but i can't right now. i am injured little bit. and i try and do it all, event. and before the competition, we have six minutes warm-up. i did step out and i feel some problem with my back, something click. because, you know, i have a plastic disk in my back. >> so right up until that moment, you were planning to skate. >> yeah, if i feel i'm able to skate, of course i would like to skate. short program and long program. because in the event -- in the team event, i skate, i did two quadruples, i skate very good, you know. also, i -- who is great skater. and for me it was really important. >> here you are on your home ice in russia, to have to go in and withdraw and retire, it must have broken your heart. >> well, it's hard. but you know, it's life. it's life. and of course i would like to skate in front of my audience, in front of my fans. i have this army of my fans. but it happened, you know. it happened. i tried my best. tried to skate and i tried to change a little bit of figure skating. i'm 31 years old. and if you remember, before this figure skating, the men skater, they stopped skating and they skate in exhibition. so i would like to change figure skating. and, of course, i would like to say a lot of thanks to michelle kwan. she supported me all the time. and i told her thank you very much and evan lysacek for supporting me. >> a great competitor. it's an honor to have you here. congratulations on all you've accomplished and done for the sport. >> thank you very much. >>> and coming up next, we are going to have a live performance on our sochi plaza from the swan brothers. but first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> all right. welcome back to sochi, everyone. we decided to bring a little music from back home right here to russia. >> yeah, the swan brothers were finalists in season four "the voice." now out with the debut single "later on." take it away. >> thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey baby won't you tell me what you got going on a little later on tonight ♪ ♪ how about you and me get together have a couple drinks don't you think that sounds all right ♪ ♪ a good time ♪ we can't get no closer ain't no room in the middle girl what you doing a little later ♪ ♪ let's go start a fire how about you and i get this thing shaking baby telling what you're doing later on later on ♪ ♪ later on later on later on later on ♪ ♪ hair shining like a movie star and you know you look so good i can't stop staring ♪ ♪ i can tell that you're feeling it too what you wanna do with that smile you're wearing ♪ ♪ what you say we get lost let's go spend a couple hours getting to know each other ♪ ♪ out there in the moonlight when we get alone ♪ ♪ we can't get no closer ain't no room in the middle girl what you doing a little later ♪ ♪ let's go start a fire how bout you and i get this thing moving shaking grooving baby tell you what you're doing later on ♪ ♪ later on later on ♪ ♪ oh yeah come on ♪ ♪ you start sliding over we can't get no closer ain't no room in the middle ♪ ♪ girl what you doing a little later ♪ ♪ let's go start a fire how bout you and i get this thing moving shaking grooving ♪ ♪ baby tell me what you're doing later on later on ♪ ♪ later on later on ♪ ♪ that feeling getting strong drink it up and feel it ♪ ♪ this is what we're waiting on later on later on ♪ ♪ yeah >> yeah. >> thank you swan brothers. a reminder, we've got all the olympic action tonight on nbc prime time. meredith vieira filling in for bob costas this morning. >> let's take a look back at some of the experiences we've had in our first week here in sochi. ♪ we're up all night to the sun up all night to get some ♪ >> and good morning, everyone, welcome to "today" at the olympic games. ♪ she's up all night for the fun i'm up all night to get lucky ♪ >> go usa! >> thank you so much. >> america's sage kotsenburg becomes the first to strike gold at sochi. america, team usa! first time in luge history! >> shaun is not stopping, though. >> my goodness. >> farrington is nonstop right now. >> mancuso to the line and gets the bronze. just the third time in u.s. winter olympic history, americans have swept the podium! >> this could be it for jamie anderson, we may see a gold medal. >> this is gargantuan. >> thank you very much. >> we're going to be in the history books. >> i was stoked to be on the first ever slopestyle competition. >> no american man or woman has ever gotten a medal in luge singles until you. >> yes. pretty surreal. i was like, holy cow, this is going to happen. >> is there a chance you could come back? >> i think so. need everybody now more than ever. yeah. >> i think it's fair to say you don't have a poker face. >> no. ♪ >> i don't know if you've come up with a secret handshake yet. >> we may have to think of one. ♪ >> oh, yeah, natalie. >> can you hear what's happening? we're live at the bellagio in vegas right now. >> yeah! >> matt was a little chatty on the ride home. >> you know what that means? >> we've kind of done about everything in the lead-up to these games. we're missing some kind of a swagger. some kind of bold statement. >> norwegian curlers. >> our outfits couldn't get any worse. >> people's eyes will bleed. >> by the way, that will not be our camera guy's first beer today. >> coming out of the bullpen again tonight, matt. >> i had to go in early, not to practice my lines, but to lysol your whole dressing room. >> one, two, three four. >> matt and i learned to relax like olympians, russian bathhouse style. >> feels like there's more than two things going on right now. that tingles. >> oh! nobody told me about that. >> let's take a turn to our return to the luge. >> we vowed we'd never do this again. >> that was then. this is now. ♪ . >>> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. the beverage industry up for a fight after a lawmaker proposed changes to sugary drinks like so day. that introduced legislation that a label should be added to the products that say it could cause obesity and today decay. >>> we're waking up to lots of low clouds once again. this is a sign of the showers that will arrive through the evening hours tomorrow. we'll see lots of cloud cover, a few peeks of sunshine tomorrow. that will warm our east bay and south bay valleys. have yourself a good valentine's day. >>> from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today's take." with al roker, natalie morales, and willie geist. live from the olympic winter games in sochi, russia. >> and wcome to "today" on a friday morning. it is february 14th, 2014, valentine's day, i'm willie geist along with al roker and natalie morales. we are in olympic park once again here in sochi, russia, and you are radiant. >> that's right. i'm actually going to help give you a little fill light. >> shadow. >> that is a hot jacket you got on the air. >> very nice. >> that thing is working. that is working hard for you. >> deflecting heat here. but not feeling a lot of heat back home. >> no, unfortunately. >> a lot of weather issues. >> 49 of 50 states has snow on the ground at this point. and this latest storm really caused major problems. i mean, new york city picking up officially 12 1/2 inches of snow. some places to the south, picking up 18 inches of snow. it was a real monster. and, in fact, this 2 1/2-month period that we've had there have been 75,000 flight cancellations. the most in 25 years. >> and 21 deaths caused within the last few days. nearly 424,000 without power across 12 states. as al said, flight cancellations up over 1,000. 1,164. >> just for today. >> yeah. just for today. a photo of a man skiing outside the united states capitol building in washington, d.c. just to give you an idea of how deep that powder was in the nation's capital. and we've got a shot of this man struggling a little bit in the snowstorm in new york city. >> why bother with the umbrella? >> at that point. what are you doing? >> give it up. umbrella's not going to help. >> speaking of new york city, al roker. >> making a lot of waves, mr. roker, in the mayor's office. >> bill de blasio and the chancellor there made the decision not to close the schools yesterday. but then sent the students home early during the day. al kind of was tweeting his thoughts on that over the course of the day. >> look, i think that a number of people were concerned for the safety of kids. >> yeah. >> and -- look, my main concern is for the safety. some people, the mayor has raised the fact that -- and school's chancellor had a lot of kids depend on the meals they get at school. >> right. >> we talked about that yesterday. a great point. >> which is true. but there are families that struggle with that in other cities around the northeast. and those school systems close down. and even the fact that there are parents who, you know, it's tough for them to take a day off to take care of their kids from school. i understand, i get that. but what is more difficult? to know your kids are off from school and try to make plans? or get your kids to school, get to work and find out you've got to somehow get them back because they've been let out early? so that was my main point. >> points you made on twitter. >> another thing to think about for people who don't live in new york city is we don't go into the garage and drive the kids to school. you're taking kids outside, dragging them through the streets. it's a complicated process in many cases. >> the other four boroughs that may not have subways or access to the subways. >> wherever you live, it's a dangerous situation going in weather like that. and the national weather service warned and you had given plenty of warning about how fast it was going to come. >> here's a sample. one of al's tweets to the mayor, snow policy ridiculous, tell people to stay off the roads, stay home, but then send your kids, teachers and staff in? well, al was tweeting, reporters in the mayor's press conference were reading twitter and actually asked in realtime questions of the mayor about al roker. >> i respect al roker a lot. watched him on tv for many, many years. it's a different thing to run a city than to give the weather on tv. so i am comfortable with our decisionmaking. and we just got off the phone with the national weather service. and, again, i respect all the meteorologists out there. but the one i respect the most is called the national weather service. >> you knew going down a bad road when he starts, i respect al roker. >> oh, yeah. >> but -- >> and i tweeted back, mr. mayor, i would never -- i could never run new york city, but i know when it's time to keep kids home from school. and i don't regret -- there's one i said my forecast is one term for mayor de blasio. i regret that. i was very passionate -- i'm very passionate about the weather, i got carried away. i apologized for that one. >> heated debate. >> but the fact of the matter is, i tweeted this out, a picture of the national weather service forecast, wednesday at 4:15 when the city was under a winter storm warning, and the total forecast was for 4 to 12 inches of snow by saturday -- by thursday afternoon. which is exactly what we got. >> and there was a little bit of a contradiction. because in the governor's office were telling people not to go to work, stay in their homes and then the policy was different from the mayor of new york city. >> look. like i said, i get it. the school's chancellor, again, said, oh, well if macy's is open, the schools can be open. well, macy's is also open on thanksgiving, evenings and holidays. i don't know we want to follow macy's schedule for our schools. >> plus, you're talking children. >> yeah. maybe in a parallel universe, it was a beautiful day. >> probably don't have windows. >> no, got to get windows for the board of education. but, again, i apologize for that one tweet. >> and a lot of people online having fun with this. i was sitting with you, and you were not delighting in this. >> no. >> you were defending the national weather service and took exception to that point. >> but we move on. >> we move on. >> that's it. we're done. >> in one area, though, valentine's day was almost canceled. well, sort of was canceled. >> that's right. >> because of the weather issues. >> can we do that? >> well, postponed because of what they were doing in a county in georgia. the sheriff's office decided to cancel valentine's day. they said the office actually posted a message on facebook and said declare the swath of north georgia a no valentine's day zone. and the message was this. men who live in a designated no valentine's day zone are exempt from having to run out and buy lottery scratchers and hershey bars due to ice, snow, freezing rain. guys were off the hook in that one county in georgia. >> wow. >> wow. >> i'm sure there were a lot of guys who had actually put thought into it and gotten a valentine's day present earlier. >> hopefully it wasn't a scratch-off. >> which scratch-off did you get debra? >> the three stooges one. >>> all right. let's get to the olympics. u.s. skiers bode miller, ted ligety, had high hopes for them. >> did not happen. >> did not place in the men's super combined event combines. we thought there'd be a medal out of at least one of those guys. >> issues factoring there. they did move up the start time for the downhill portion and apparently the guys said that may have affected their runs. because the guys who started earlier had faster times and the guys who were later in the later pack. >> and what about plyushchenko? >> yeah. >> pulling out of competition and retiring, giving medical reasons, saying he actually fell during the warm-up. >> yeah. he's had a bad back for a long time and couldn't go. you were over there. >> when he pulled out, there were almost audible gasps throughout the stands. people were really sad to see him leave in such a way. >> and what about -- >> and then jeremy abbott, you saw him fall during the team skate. and he had a horrible fall last night. and i've got to tell you, everybody, i think, cheered him on, cheered him back up and got him up and moving again, finished his performance. almost a standing ovation in the stands there. because people really felt for him. but jason brown is apparently looking good. he could possibly be in medal contention here tonight. >> yeah. he's in sixth place, hanging around, could sneak in and get a medal. to give you an idea how big of a deal plyushchenko is. when he went down, withdrew, i was watching on tv, about half the arena cleared out. >> cleared out. >> right. >>> one more clip we want to show you. the utah a capella group in the valentine's day spirit performing sneak attack performances at byu on the campus there with the help of of a filmmaker. ♪ ♪ is for the only one i see ♪ "v" is very, very extraordinary ♪ ♪ "e" is even more than anyone that you adore ♪ ♪ and love is all that i can give to you ♪ ♪ love is more than just a game for two ♪ ♪ two in love can make it take my heart and please don't break it ♪ ♪ love was made for me and you ♪ >> thank you so much. you guys scared me. >> nicely done. >> i think they're popular guys on campus. that's my guess. getting lots of dates. >> first it's horror, and then -- >> as leila would say, what creepers. >> you're being serenaded. >> all right, mr. roker, we've got another storm on the way. >> unfortunately,'s show you what we've got. we are talking about the snow that fell. up to 21 inches in some spots, falling as you go up the coast. you can see how much snow we w saw. and it's, unfortunately, going to get added to as we move along. the good news is this one storm is off and away. that's good news. just about out. but the next storm comes, wintery conditions from iowa to ohio valley, heavy thunderstorms down to the south. but then it transfers the energy to the north. this nor'easter which will bring rain to the mid-atlantic, snow into the northeast, early saturday into saturday night. and you can look at that low pressure strengthening, winds gusting 50 miles per hour. the snow is going to be heaviest in new england. 2 to 4 inches generally through the ohio valley. but as you make your way into the northeast, some areas picking up up to 21 inches of snow in northern maine. that >>> good morning. 9:11 is the time right now. lots of cloud cover across the bay. that goes for the coast, the peninsula, and the south bays. temperatures are cool, and what we will find later this afternoon is that we'll clear out and that will be enough to push our temperatures closer to 70 degrees. that will be the case everywhere across the bay area today with the exception of san francisco and the north bay. temperatures will be cooler, closer to 60 degrees there. >>> and that's your latest weather. >> all right, al. thanks a lot. >>> coming up next, they shredded their way to an american sweep. the slopeskiers who walked away with the gold, silver and bronze. >> all right. >> looking good, boys. wow. wow. wow. 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what emotions over the last 48, 24, 48 hours? >> happy. >> happiness? >> it's been pretty hectic, but it's been great. i don't think any of us have stopped smiling since the end of the contest. even yesterday it was an amazing day. the weather was so good for us. we couldn't have asked for anything better than that. we're able to put on a good show. hope everyone enjoyed it. >> talk about what it means to do it with the group. it's cool enough that one of your buddies wins a medal at the olympics, but here you are sitting next to two of your friends. all three of you wearing medals. >> yeah. this has been an incredible -- an incredible opportunity for all of us to come out and showcase our sport. and our sport and individual sports, get to do it as a team that's unique for us walking around the village wearing team usa stuff. i think we're all really proud of. and then to compete the sport in the way we did and sweep the podium for the u.s. and look to your side and see two of my best friends. and it's been really incredible. it's really emotional and it's been awesome. >> nick, you really embraced this sport. you grew up in what a lot of people consider a skiing mecca. this is no surprise for you. >> yeah. exactly. the skiing center of the world is southeastern indiana where i -- >> exactly. >> i like to call home. it's crazy. >> no, in fact, you grew up building your own rails, i read, in your backyard and putting soap on it so you could get out there in the back? >> i skied for three months out of the year in indiana, trying to keep myself busy the other nine months, skied on astro turf and pvc pipe. >> it's a good message for kids, find a way. >> if you want something bad enough and having fun doing it, you can accomplish it. get creative and find a way. >> joss, coming into this, i don't think a lot of people were using your name to talk about medals, but especially for the gold medal, you were sort of one of the last guys to make the team, they were calling you an underdog. did you view yourself as an underdog? >> a little bit. i mean, i've been able to keep up with the guys, but it's been hard for me to get on top. >> what was different? >> i didn't really see this happening, but was able to just have the day of my life yesterday. and squeezed in last spot on the team and sparked the fire under me. and showed -- just wanted to prove myself. >> and you lost your dad recently, 67. what were you thinking while you were doing that? were you thinking about him? >> i was definitely think about him the night before and the morning of, but while skiing, i just try and focus on what i want to do and just try and have fun. make the family proud. >> we've got to ask you, gus, about this puppy thing. because you sent out -- you posted on instagram. and every woman in our office went nuts. and i think they were ready to propose to you, in fact. tell me about what you're doing with some of the stray dogs around here. >> yeah. kind of came across a family of strays while i was here. and i've been a dog lover my whole life. and my dog passed away a year and a half ago, our family dog, and just kind of showed up here and there's this adorable family of strays and no one's doing anything for them, looking after them. and here at the moment, there's a lot of dogs being exterminated. they're trying to keep them out of the public eye, don't want everyone to know, but there are these stray dogs here, not really shelters set up. so i felt like it was kind of my duty to do what i could. so, i don't know. >> you're trying to take them home and trying to get them vaccinated and taken care of. >> yeah, going through the process. this whole medal and everything's been incredible, but it's been sort of like a setback for that because i haven't seen them in a few days. hopefully when we get back to the village tomorrow, finish making the arrangements and since i've posted that, it's been insane how much outreach i've gotten from people and people want to help. i think that is a lot of people trying to help me accomplish getting them back to the states. and i think it'll happen for sure. >> we hope you go home with more than a medal. and congratulations to all of you guys. you make us all proud. a shining moment for the u.s. >>> coming up next, we'll get you caught up on the news you need to start your weekend. >>> then, the hollywood celebrity going for gold. brian williams goes one-on-one with oscar winner sandra bullock up for an academy award for "gravity." ♪ [ male announcer ] the forecast says it's too cold. ♪ the mountain says it's too steep. ♪ just as long as the clock doesn't say you're too slow. ♪ now it's our time to show our support. 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[ male announcer ] your favorite bars: bite-sized. introducing snickers bites. >>> taking a look at the headlines. thanks to the brutal winter weather we've been seeing, the highest number of flight cancellations in more than 25 years, u.s. airlines has canceled more than 75,000 domestic flights since december 1st, including 14,000 just this week alone. but mother nature isn't entirely to blame. cost-cutting measures as well as new government regulations made airlines more likely to scrap flights. >>> a warning for commuters and students in california's bay area, health officials say you may have been exposed to measles. word comes after a university of california berkeley student with measles attended class and used bay area rapid transit from february 4th through the 7th. >>> a new study says children who live near fast food restaurants are more likely to be obese. researchers study more than 1 million kids and how closely they live to pizza and burger joints and said the effect was strongest in older children who had more control over their food choices. >>> the number of foreclosed homes in january dropped to the lowest level in more than six years. the listing firm realty track says banks took back about 30,000 homes last month, that's a 4% dip from december and a 40% drop from the same time last year. >>> well, we have all heard about the water skiing squirrel, but a pig? turning heads off the hawaiian coast there. turns out, these two go everywhere together, even sleep in the same bed. getting so popular in the island that costco gave him a surf board and a bike shop gave them a go pro camera. i hope that pig likes the water. >>> coming up on this v valentine's day, a couple gets a dream wedding. we'll have the story after your local news. >>> tonight in prime time, alpine skiing continues with the men's super combined, 2006 olympic gold medalist ted ligety and bode miller chase a third straight united states gold medal in this event while norway headlines a strong international field. for more top moments go to nbcolympics.com/nbcmoments. 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[ female announcer ] come together this valentine's day a very good morning to you. i'm laura garcia-cannon. firefighter facing drug and sex crime charges this morning after getting arrested at the station where he worked. he allegedly sold methamphetamine and sexually abused kids he met on the internet. it's unclear how many children were involved and how longle alleged kids went on. this morning, a health warning after a us berkeley student went to class with measels. they are highly contagious, you don't even need to touch someone to get it and it can linger in the air for hours after they left the room. high fever, runny nose, coughing, red eyes are classic symptoms. >>> welcome back 9:28 right now. imi impressive totals this morning. oak lamb and san jose got just enough to get the ground wet. low clouds and drizzle and that will be the case for san francisco and the north bay through most of the day. we will imagine to get sunshine in here as we head towards the east bay and the south bay. pretty nice day coming our way here, otherwise we'll be closer to 60. let's check that drive, here's mikears moving slower and you can't really make it out. >> another local news update coming up in half an hour. happy valentines day. ♪ >>> welcome back to "today" on this friday morning. it's february 14th, 2014. it is valentine's day. this is your first reminder. let's get moving. we're here in olympic park, sun setting once again in sochi. we thought on the occasion of valentine's day, we'd run through spodify's list of most streamed love songs on valentine's day. >> number three, "just the way you are" by bruno mars. >> number two -- >> "make you feel my love" by adele. so beautiful. >> and your number one love song is -- >> classic. ♪ and i -- will always love you ♪ >> whitney houston. >> that's number one forever. >> the best of all time. and nobody can hit that note. no one. >> amazing. >>> all right. how about another check of the weather, al? >> that didn't make it. not even close. nowhere on spodify. >> all right. let's show you what's going on on your weather. who's warmer? soch