this is an open letter in the "new york post" to chelsea clinton's unborn baby.you so special is that you're going to live your whole life in make believe. they label this child a an asset for hillary pant suit. and it goes on and on bashing this unborn baby and the clintons. >> to some extent some would say that what this letter is doing it perhaps describing what many people think about this whole situation. others would say it's totally unfair and uncalled for but it the "new york post" and they have an on again/off again relationship with the clinton and this won't help them. this baby, as the article suggests, it's very possible one day this could be become the third or fourth clinton to, as they put it, rule the kingdom. >> we'll see if that baby makes an appearance on the campaign in 2016. >> you better believe it will. >> bill karins back here. swimming in new york's east river. would you swim in the river? next. her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn't fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so s

this book is being hailed as the most important deck in a century, but a "new york post" title says that ridiculously far left economist is candying for the liberals, and he said, you can think of it as a "50 shades of grey" for the professional and intellectual status. and now joining me ahead, zachary who is from the global strategy investment firm, and the author of "the leading indicators" the numbers that rule our world. zachary, thank you for coming in, and the critique of the book comparing it to the acela, that is a train from new york to boston and it is considered to be the upper echelon of those who take it, so is why is this book taken in such a way that it is hostile. >> well, it is a great line from the "new york post," but people are reading nit droves faster than "50 shades of grey." that is a whole other subject on "newsnation," but it is a great point of conversation whether you agree with the general view, and it is about growth and equality over the past 30 or 40 years, and looking at the his h or the cal patterns, and the 19th century, and says this hasp happened bef

and robert george from the "new york post."nk you all. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" for this evening. the "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> that all came together like a symphony. thank you for joining us at this hour. this is a man named william potter gale, the man on the left there. he was a self-styled preacher who held a very long grudge. by which i mean he held a grudge that started half a century before he was born. william potter gale's beef with the universe began in the late 1860s, right after the civil war.

"the new york post" weighed in with an open letter satire addressed to chelsea's child. come to advanced gestation. since you are new i thought you would look to know what makes you so special. the reason is you are going to live your whole life in make believe. satire or not and attention bait or not, the letter gingerly moved on to an obsession weighing clinton family planning as a matter of politics. quote, although you will at all times pretend to be a normal baby, you actually already have your own, your very own career, doctor, fireman, lobbyist, can you say campaign asset. good, now let's learn about skill celtics. you need one talent. ready. it softened the candidate like a human bubble bath. joining me, jessica valente, author of "why have kids." >> what are we to make of all this? >> pretty predictable and sad. turned into an absurd sexist side show. and but we should be used to it. i think people have liked to attack the clintons from this sort of tabloid sensibility. what we sawen the new york pest today. we would never see these questions asked if it was a ma

"the new york post" reports they are one weekend reminiscing and getting wild. their most memorable moment came together from the golden globes last year. remember this? >> we are hosting the golden globes for the second time because this is hollywood and if something kind of works they will just keep doing it until everybody hate it is it. >> amy poehler is nominated for her work on "parks and recreation." >> i believe amy is here today. can we get a shot of her? >> wow, radiant. >> it's hard to believe she's a 42-year-old moerp of two. >> i hear she's a little difficult to work with. >> it's really exciting. they are set to host the globes again, but my friend jason moore, who was the director of "pitch perfect" is the director of the nest. that's who gave us the phrase awkward. >>> still ahead on "way too early," ft colbert the best choice to replace letterman? "morning joe" is moments away. popular because when you buy the new samsung galaxy s5 on verizon, you get a second samsung galaxy s5 for free. so, who ya gonna give it to? maybe your brother could use

he's 25 and a self-described performance artist less affectionally described by this morning's "new york post" as a cross-dressing lunatic. he was arrested and sent to a state hospital for psychiatric evaluaon after causing a lot of people a lot of needless concern and heartache. >>> at a high school near pittsburgh one week back to school after a student went on a rampage. returning students were greeted with words of support as they came to franklin regional high school. 16-year-old suspect allegedly attacked 21 students and a security guard with two kitchen knives. he's charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault. four students from the attack remain hospitalized. >>> the issue of gun violence and how to reduce it in this country is back on the agenda tonight, largely because of a new effort financed by the independently wealthy former new york city mayor michael bloomberg, with polls showing a overwhelming number of americans support background checks for all gun purchases, this new initiative takes aim at the nra by borrowing some of their own tactics. our report tonight from our

. >> tim, new york post. adam, what was the process to come into this decision over the last couple of days, and when did you decide that this was the appropriate action to take? >> i ultimately decided this morning that this was the appropriate action and the process beginning saturday morning when this first tape -- when this tape was first released was to a point an investigator. it was david anneders from the watell lipton firm. he conducted a series of interviews. some by phone, some in person. he concluded his investigation late last night. >> seventh row on the left. jeff. let's give the microphone to jeff please. >> no. jeff, right there. seventh row on left. >> jeff. jeff, usa today. adam, you said you would encourage owners to force the sale of the clippers. when will that action take place? is. >> the process will begin immediately. we will most likely include a standing committee of the nba or the equivalent of our executive committee, our advisoriry finance committee. i've had plenty of discussio

are so much smarter then you it is good to subvert them so i created does is it ended up at "the new york post" and "new york times" that was ever illustrated the important point of political correctness there was something going on in the audience that no one pointed to redress one woman said can we say something is happening here? there are three little people? i did not know there was one. [laughter] and nobody would say anything they were scared to be politically incorrect so they were escorted out and i was promoted out of my job. [laughter] they've made up a title. director of brand development that is called please get away from our product and even sent me to california paid for the transfer of might apartment they paid to get me away. >> that is a great transition to your new book that just came out last week called "not cool" i had a chance to read this list leaf on the floor of my office i worked with you on the joy of hate and as your sixth i think it is your best. >> i mean that -- they accuse. >> i mean that sincerely. >> ironclad you said that. it is now on "the new york times"

so i created a buzz using their own conference because it ended up in "the new york post" and "the new york times." it was everywhere and it illustrated a very important point about political correctness. there was something going on in that meeting in the audience but nobody wanted to actually address that accepts one woman stood up and said can't we just say something is happening? she basically was saying there is no -- i didn't even know there was one. there can't be free but nobody would say anything because they were scared of being politically incorrect so inevitably they were escorted out of the building and i was promoted out of my job. [applause] they actually made up a title it was called the director of brand development which is defined please get away from our produ product. they would throw money to get me away. >> that was a great transition i must compliment you. your new book that came out i think you all have a copy. i had a chance to read this when it was on the floor of my office and i spent a day and i worked with you on the joy of hate on the publicity piece. and

the report was featured on today's new york post.arlier today, he responded to those allegations during a press conference. take a look. >> i was not and am not a rat because i wasn't with the rats. i was never told i was an informant. in my own mind, i was not an informant. i was cooperating with investigations. >> tonight we also have gotten our hands on an hbo sports video of an undercover fbi agent acting as a drug trafficker negotiating a cocaine deal with al sharpton himself. >> i can get coke for 35,000 a kilo, but i've got to get more than one. >> you know, i mean ten kilograms is a drop in the bucket. >> we can -- if he can do it 100 times over. >> that video is reportedly from 1983. after it aired, al sharpton threatened to sue hbo for thousands of dollars. guys, good to see you. thanks for being with us. i don't know what to -- you were on the streets at that time. >> you know, this is not a new revelation. it was all over the streets at that time. people i know from east harlem, everybody knew he was an informant. >> did

as reported in "the new york post" he says he scores a $300 per hour for what he calls dates that includeder women and wealthy women telling the campus newspaper i'm may prince charming, i reminded middle age women of the popular guy they liked in high school. and extracurricular activities are in no way unique even at colombia university. all right, male gigolo having with older women for money. is this a tough job for them? >> i don't think it is. i know we have seen the woman that came out publicly as saying she was working in photography to pay for her tuition at duke was vilified for that. we're seeing him being celebrated as if he is at home and this is a great thing because he is a guy. there is a bigger question here of should students be doing this to pay for college and that is a bigger issue of why college is so expensive and should everybody be going to college. they find ways like this to pay for it. >> there is a growing trend. not just the duke porn asterisko said she was a victim because they were making fun of her. more and more girls are stripping and becoming prostitute

the new york "post," no conservatives find company bear f colbert funny. everybody in this business is a failure. nobody can to anything. from fox news, karl rove, he's not pleased at all. he's still waning about a gag that compalbert did on him. >> he took a ham, decorated to look look me and took out a knife and stabbed it continually. so i'm not sure that's the best model for a national figure to have on television. at minimum maybe vcbs ought to look into anger management courses. >> lightenen up, dude, it was a joke. a few days after the segment, colbert made clear karl rove had nothing for worry about. >> there was a little bet of anxiety in his stabs there. >> karl, no need for anxiety. i'm in notice way encouraging anybody to stab karl cove. there is a big difference between karl rove and ham rove. put up the pictures. no, jimmy -- ask it did it ever put anti-gay marriage legislation in swing states to t tip the election. >> well, it's not only rove. >>> a lefty replacing a guy who is a levity. >> but i'm caught up in the fact that he was wasting f

. >> abortion clinics in new york city are under less governmental scrutiny than tanning salons. the new york post reports that the state conducted very limited inspections, eight of those facilities never inspected. tanning salons are inspected once every year. >>> republicans say the former irs official linked to the targeting scandal may be guilty of criminal offenses. we'll discuss with the fox all stars, when we come back. they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. thousands of people here in alaska are working to safely produce more energy. but that's just the start. to produce more from existing wells, we need advanced technology. that means hi-tech jobs in california and colorado. the oil moves through one of the world's largest pipelines. maintaining it means manufacturing jobs in the midwest. then we transport it with 4 state-of-the-art, double-hull tankers. some of the safest, most advanced ships in the world: built in san diego with a $1 billion investment. across the united states, bp supports more than a qua

it ended up in "the new york post." it put kids on the front page of "the new york post," circled in red. it said "bagmen." there was a memo sent to police. it turned out those guys had nothing to do with it all stop it might be fun for people to try to solve a crime in their house. it was not productive to law enforcement. the other thing is, the night of the shootout, there was a kid, alex, the neighbor -- clients berg or something. he was live tweeting the shootout. his pictures have become evidence. he was taking pictures out his window. those are evidence in the federal trial, which is important. oftreated those out, kind real-time, but that was productive. victors.e have those this is tamerlan tsarnaev, this is dzhokhar tsarnaev, this is the car, the license plate, the bombs. citizent was not only journalists making mistakes. "the boston globe" made mistakes in the need to get information out there quickly. there was a report later that week that a suspect was in custody and was being arraigned at the federal court

a front page in the piece in the "new york post," morgan, we're talking about local versus federal. > jenna: this is a little bit of a different story. apparently some sort of a computer meltdown is crippling the nation's immigration court according to "the new york post." we reached out to the department of homeland security to ask about but apparently there is a problem with the servers that feed this very important part of our u.s. government. it doesn't really instill a lot of confidence when you read a report like that. go into talking about the health care website and everything else, about who we can really trust when it comes to internet security. how would you answer that. >> look the five servers, immigration and custom enforcement, they, how do five servers go down? what is the backup plan? disaster plan? continuity of operations? the fact that it has been down this long still waiting for parts to show up, i looked at this, something is terribly wrong when you can take all five servers down and waiting for parts to show up. i don't know if we're still dealing with vacuum tu

one parent of a six-year-old student told the new york post said her daughter doesn't understand the decision. she just wants to sing. a petition to reinstate that show has more than 2,000 signatures. >>> one business is certainly booming in this time of economic uncertainty. the regulation business. tonight, correspondent shannon bream reports on what administration critics call the alarming expansion of the federal rule book under president obama. >> there's no question that some regulations are outdated, unnecessary, or too costly. >> reporter: and yet a new report claims that despite the president's public pledges to rein in federal regulations, the breath and scope of them is alan all time high. >> this administration is not philosophically not opposed to regulation. >> competitive enterprise institute will release its annual snapshot of the federal regulatory state next tuesday. no one should be surprised by the massive statement. >> i really have great trepidation of where we are headed because we are creating a new system here, something that is not almost designed, we have a

these are the two most influential papers in the country, the washington times, the "new york post."ions not mentioned at all. the american media talk a lot about elections, but when they do they are talking about the elections that will happen next november. and politicians almost never talk about iraq. president barack obama for the most part seems to have left all of the communication with bagdad up to his vice president. and he hasn't picked up the phone in about a month. so that gives you an indication of how much iraq is talked about. >> it'ses a -- astonishing when you think about the trillions that they poured into iraq, and now it just seems like well, we just want to close that chapter and move on. >> that's right. president barack obama has his lowest polling number on that issue as well. able only 4% of americans polled thought iraq was an ally, 75% called its an emmy. and the general feeling in washington is that the u.s. has very little influence in iraq. and i think that's part of why you don't hear the politicians talking about it. >> thank you for that, patty. just a

new york. listening post gateway coming up next. for news updates throughout the year, you can always head over overaj.com. >>> hello. i am richard. you are at the listening post. this week, algeria and the presidential e elections where the incumbent shies away from the cameras and looks set to win anyway. some accused snowden of breaking american laws, the pulitzer prize people beg to differ. israel where more and more journalists are giving up media for politics and books take the fall. libraries and the domino effect. when examining the coverage of e elections, one of the measures is the amount of air time can debts get. when approximately butiflica decided to run for a fourth term, there wasn't a declaration of his candidacy. he has hardly been heard or seen in public since. he is widely expected to win because for many, he saved the country from a brutal civil war in the 1990s, which left something like 200,000 people dead. so algerians are understandably wary of instability. there have been stories of crackdowns on media outle

it came out initially "the new york post" reporting there was a probe, are excited been launched a probeto herbalife the same sort of allegations fox business network has done is i just thought let me see if bill ackman ever gave a campaign contribution to eric snyderman. liz: in a time he has been shorting herbalife. liz: he gave his contributions before the short. he shorted herbalife late 2012, gave two contributions. can point out $30,000 bill ackman has given the attorney general since he has been running for office, one of the largest single contributors as an individual. one of the largest. if you look at it. he spreads a lot of money around. he gives two other attorney general's. i why does this matter? if you are a short seller. i will lay off the political dynamics. i am not saying anybody is doing anything illegal, i will let you, the viewer, draw the connection. one of the most powerful law enforcement offices in the country. it has something known as a bar you have to reach. much lower other states, so if you are a short seller like bill ackman. , he is a guy you want to be

number one cheerleader worked as an fbi informant spying on new york mob figures in the 1980s a report featured on dye's cover of the "new york postarlier today he responded to those allegations during a press conference. take a look. >> i was not and am not a rat. because i wasn't with the rat. i was never told i was an informant with a number. in my own mind i was not an informant. i was cooperating with investigations. >> now tonight we also have gotten our hands on an hbo sports video of an undercover fbi agent acting as a drug trafficker negotiating a cocaine deal with none other than al sharpton himself. take a look that. >> i can get you 99% for about 35,000 a kilo. but i got to get more than one. if we're going to do this. you know, 10. that's a drop in the bucket. we can go bigger. how does that sound? >> i hear you. >> but that's a drip in the bucket. we can do it hundred times over. >> that video is reportedly from 1983. al sharpton threatened to sue hbo for millions of dollars. guys, good to see you. thanks for being with us. i don't know what -- you were on the streets at that time. >> yeah. you know, this is not new

legitimate stories by sending it out to other publications like the washington times and sited "the new york postat would somehow legitize the stories she thinks shouldn't have been legitized. >> i believe she used this as a propaganda technique to gain sympathy, however, what her problem was was the jeff girth with the new york times and chris and jackie jude, lisa myers at abc and nbc, those were the members of the vast right-wing conspiracy, true investigative journalist, the men and women who were true investigative journalist back in the '90s, i wish we had them back today to invest in the investigations. they stood tall and won awards for their investigative journalism. >> your point -- part of the vast right wing conspiracy, the sexual acquisitions against president clinton made by flowers and -- >> sure. >> that wasn't all made up. >> l.d. brown and other arkansas state troopers, they have a problem because it's always with reliable sources. it was the police officers, the men and women of the secret service. >> and whenever you run for president, there is a bunch of people that want to t

. >> "new york post." adam, what was the process to coming to this decision over the last couple of days, and when did you decide this was the appropriate action to take? >> i ultimately decided this morning that this was the appropriate action and the process beginning saturday morning when this tape was first released was to appoint an investigator. it was david anders from the whatell lipton firm. he conducted several interferes aninterviews,and concluded his n late last night. >> jeff, there on the left. >> jeff, "u.s.a. today." you said you would encourage owners to force the sell of the clippers. when will that action take place? >> the process will begin immediately. we will most likely use a standing committee of the nba or the equivalent of our executive committee as our advisory finance committee. i've had several discussions with glen taylor, our chairman of the board, and also the leader of the advisory finance committee, and we'll begin that process immediately. >> third row on the end, howard

some of these kind of cases this story, i think it drove these stocks lower, but the fact is "new york post" did not break any new ground, revealed nothing new but you can see how interested the stock market is in this because they did bid down these stocks? >> yes. actually i think in august this investigation began, but, high frequency trading is under intense scrutiny right now. the attorney general of the state has made several proclamations. he is against it. recently he made thomson reuters stop releasing information to high frequency trade years that was your case. >> that was my case. gerri: let's back up a little bit to tell folks what we're talking about with e-trade and ameritrade here. >> sure. gerri: the idea is that, you describe it. you will do a better job than i will because you represented these cases. >> sure. there is a concept called front running. and front running is a process where certain trades are made before other trades. that drives up the price of the stock. then the person who is the frontrunner gets the stock at a cheaper price. then they sell it at a higher

the new york post, she's out sick. from the usa today web site.e, sebelius exits battered and blamed. and from the wall street journal, sebelius to exit amid the turmoil. hhs secretary kathleen sebelius decided she will retire from that post. does she deserve blame for the rollout? does she deserve credit for the fact there are more than 7 million enrollees under the affordable care act? she certainly weathered a storm last fall during the disastrous rollout last fall. we just still can't tell. we don't know who the 7 million are. we don't know the relative mix with the sick and healthy. we don't know whether long term it will live up to its name. it is the affordable care act and will those premiums ultimately be affordable? here is the headline i would put on this story. my headline sebelius legacy tbd. to be determined. how hard is the ocean search for flight 370? i'll have a man who makes black box pingers and a man who finds them. c'mon, you want heartburn? when your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast, with tums. heartburn relief t

and the headline in the new york post, the sports section, reigning cats and dogs.eference to the huskies and the wildcats. the last time that florida had lost was to uconn 30 games ago. >>> now moving to the other headlines. a fire ripped through an historic reception hall in massachusetts as a wedding was taking place inside. flames went through the 100-year-old lake view pavilion just minutes after the couple exchanged their vows. firefighters from several towns were called in. fortunately, everyone at the wedding was able to get out safely. fire officials say, the building, though, is a total loss. a local high school that scheduled its prom at the same site now scrambling to find another venue. >>> and in california, chaos near santa barbara as an annual street celebration gets out of hand. officials called it an extreme situation with more than 15,000 people hitting the streets. four santa barbara officers were injured while confronting the revelers. including a sheriff's deputy hit on the back of the head with a bag full of bottles of alcohol. the annual cele

here in new york city, the very liberal new mayor bill de blasio has cancelled undercover police operations targeting militant muslims. write not guilty "new york postday, former deputy police commissioner paul broun says that's foolish. mr. brown cites a number of terrorists captured before they could kill because of targeted nypd operations. for example, this man. 21-year-old causey, arrested in november 2012 by federal officers based on information provided by the nypd who located and followed this man. after surveying him with other militant muslims. mr. causey now awaiting trial on terrorism mr. brown cites a number of other self operations. mayor de blasio playing to his far left base doesn't want muslims underwatch in his city. probable cause. so once again political correctness puts all new yorkers in danger. under the previous nypd policy, information was gathered, no one was intruded upon. it was simply a watch game. over the easter weekend, dozens of suspected al qaeda, who were watched by our intelligence agencies, were killed by drones in yemen. and last week the world saw pictures of al qaeda fighters braisingly operating in the open.

new york. listening post gateway coming up next. for news updates throughout the year, you can always head over overaj.com. >>> hello. i am richard. you are at the listening post. this week, algeria and the presidential e elections where the incumbent shies away from the cameras and looks set to win anyway. some accused snowden of breaking american laws, the pulitzer prize people beg to

the "new york post" reporting this student was accepted to every single ivy league school. it's true. 17-year-old from long island, new york receiving acceptance letters from brown, colombia, cornell, dartmouth, harvard, princeton, the university of pennsylvania, and yale. so, of course, the big question, where will he go? well, he says he is leaning towards yale and he hopes to become a doctor one day, it looks like. he is he off to a pretty good start, doesn't it? use #greta on all your tweets and posts. straight ahead, we have breaking news in the mystery of what happened to flight 370. we now have the full transcript of the conversations between the cockpit and ground control. here is the weird part. who is talking on it? a live report from malaysia is next. and also senate majority leader harry reid can't seem to get enough of the koch brothers. now even coining a new phrase a modern koch topia. what does >>> this is a fox news alert. there is more southern miss industry about flight 370. 25 stays after the eerie disappearance of flight 370. malaysia finally releasing

the new york post reports the court reporter repeatedly typed, i hate my job, along with other gibberishead of testimony. the botched transcripts are allowing criminals to claim evidence is missing. one lawyer handling the appeals says, quote, i never had a situation where a single court reporter was responsible for so much damage. this since fired stenographer admitted screwing up on purpose. >>> finally, fast food is taking a standard against an old cold war enemy. mcdonald's has decided to temporary close its restaurant in crimea. it did not mention the ongoing tension in the area, instead citing operational concerns beyond its control. >> a moscow contention wants to retaliate by closing all the mcdonald's chain stores in ri russia. and here in the u.s., mighty taco posted this soon, banning president putin from its restaurants saying no one likes a bully so stop picking on people and maybe you will be welcomed back to mighty taco. >> there's been a lot of buzz in the past few days about allegations the stock market is rigged and not in your favor. fox business network's senior washi

. >> new york post quoik. adam, what was the process to come into this decision over the last couple days, and when did you decide that this was the appropriate action to take? >> i ultimately decided this morning that this was the appropriate action, and the process beginning saturday morning when this first -- when this tape was first released was to apoint an investigator. it was david anders from the wachtel lipton firm. he conducted interviews, some by phone, some in person. he concluded his investigation late last night. >> seventh row on the left, jeff? let's get the microphone to jeff, please. >> "usa today." adam, you said you would encourage owners to force the sale of the clippers. when will that action take place? >> the process will begin immediately. we will most likely use a standing committee of the nba. the equivalent of our executive committee is our finance committee. i've had discussions with glen taylor, chairman of the board and leader of the advisory finance committee. we will begin that

new york allegedly in there. there was a report in the "new york post" saying that snyderman was in there. you now have illinois. you know, the issue that people -- people who said that no one would ever investigate this company, they always forgot that there was this other side to the story and the other side to the story possibly was the attorney general. so you start looking at that. and you know, i've often compared this to for-profit education. and if you go back several years ago before for-profits really hit it, who was investigating? it was the a.g.s. >> all right, herb. hey, buddy, it was a pleasure. thank you very much. we'll see you again. have a good weekend. >> you, too, brian. >>> up next, russia now says it has taken, quote, concrete steps to calm the situation in the ukraine. we're about to get a live report from geneva where talks with russia, the u.s. and ukraine have just wrapped up. >> but is this optimistic statement from russia even believable? and larry kudlow himself is here now to explain why putting together real sanctions against moscow is probably going to be a

and robert george from the "new york post." thank you all. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" for this evening. the "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> that all came together like a symphony. thank you for joining us at this hour. this is a man named william potter gale, the man on the left there. he was a self-styled preacher who held a very long grudge. by which i mean he held a grudge that started half a century before he was born. william potter gale's beef with the universe began in the late 1860s, right after the civil war. in the years after the civil war the southern states were still far from folded back into the union. they were still under the control of the federal troops. the southern states were legally part of the union again but only because they had lost the war. and so they were also kind of occupied territories. and they hated it. after years of the reconstruction era of the southern state capitals being occupied by federal troops after the civil war, white southern lawmakers used a series of politic

according to a report by the new york post, george clooney is engaged to his girlfriend brush lawyerering at noon eastern tomorrow. >>> chris wallace. does a supreme court decision upholding race-based college admissions mark the beginning of the end for affirmative action? >> today this ruling say wonderful victory for the voters of michigan. >> with similar bans in several other states, what does it mean for creating diverse student bodies in our nation's public universities? jennifer rejection by the university of michigan inspired the case. debates of a rights attorney shanta driver who argued for affirmative action before the supreme court. then republican presidential hopefuls court pro-gun advocates. >>

let's bring in our national security correspondent karen from the "new york post." >> thank you. >> and kiev says that they show a russian takeover in disguise, but is that what is happening? is that what president putin is planning? >> well, i think that what the west is saying and the ukrainian government is saying is that we have seen this movie before, and we saw it in cry mimea where th were allegedly russian special fosts on the ground, and the russian government denied it, but of course sh, after that wa completed, president putin has acknowledged that in fact, they were russian forces. what the united states and its allies and the government of ukraine now charge is that the same thing is happening in eastern ukraine, that a group of russian special forces, soldiers, coming in and going from town to town, and mobilizing separatists and arming them and organizing them and telling them what to do and then moving on to the next town to take it over. >> as this plays out, we are hearing the tough talk from vice president biden today aimed at russia, and he also announced that the wh

. >> "new york post." adam, what was the process to come to this decision over the last couple days and when did you decide that this was the appropriate action to take? >> i ultimately decided this morning that this was the appropriate action and the process beginning saturday morning when this first, when this tape was first released was, to appoint an investigator. it was david anders from the wachtel lipton firm. he conducted a series of interviews, some by phone, some in person. he concluded his investigation late last night. >> 7th row on the left, jeff. give the microphone to jeff, please. no, jeff, right there. 7th row on the left. >> jeff, "usa today." adam, you said you would encourage owners to force the sale of the clippers. when will that action take place? >> the process will begin immediately. we will most likely use a standing committee of the nba, or the live went of our executive committee is our advisory finance committee. i've had several discussions with glen taylor, who is our chairma

. >> the new york post michael goodwin who voted for president obama saying he is finding it hard tonything good coming from the white house. he said quote his chickens are coming home to roost and what are mess they are making. his sixth year is shaping up to be a problem and he owns the world he made. >> we have mary catherine here and bob as well. what do you make of that? >> if i heard everything commonitator say i voted for obama and then slammed him. we were at war who obama took office and we are not now. people were dying on the field and they are not. bin laden is dead. housing prices went up. the number of people under water went down. the lily led better act for equal pay so i can go on and on >> mary katharine, that is an impressive list. >> it does gave weight to people's talk who say they they voted for obama. not many say this was the guy i thought would change the season. you can give the list of the three things obama has done, but he was supposed to change the world. this is the worst rebound we had have from a recession and people are muddling along and not seeing

. >> and from "the new york post," two kids had a chance.he pope got out of the pope mobile yesterday, he gave a t-shirt. that's when he asked if they wanted a lift. the kids hopped in and the pope gave them a ride around st. peters square. he then gave them a kiss on the cheek before dropping them off. >> i love him. that's nice. let's go to thomas. >> two kids and the pope mobile. something to remember. with us now the chief correspondent for politico mike allen with the morning playbook. good morning. >> good morning, guys. >> let's start with politico reporting there maybe some reluctance with jeb bush because of concerns over his family. now not necessarily because of his brother george w. bush. what's the big concern? >> well, it's a holding pattern. there's all these bush family supporters over the years of people out there. people who supported president bush 41 and 43. and they're frozen while they're waiting for jeb bush's decision. as politico poked around, spoke to those supporters in florida and elsewhere, they found part of the

two legitimate years coming back, this guy was in spring training for the new york yankees outside tanaka. look how the new york postis not nice. this is saying are you crazy? how can you put that on the back of your neck with 50 cameras on live national televised -- stuart: before he did that he said hi to somebody. he got the kind car in his hand, consistent cheating. >> give of two runs, a little concerned about gripping the ball. it is an embarrassment. to the yankees credit they say they are embarrassed. not trying to cover for him. stuart: next one still on sports. >> did you just blow up my opinion? you don't like the story? stuart: i don't think you were going far enough. >> how dare he did something like that. stuart: northwestern university football players voting on whether to joy union. which way do you go? >> there has to be a way to pay the top revenue generating top athletes but not through a union. i don't want to see the players union a bunch of 17 and 18-year-olds led by an expense of high-priced lawyer tell the n.c.a.a. how it should be done. you cannot treat them like pros, the unions look to max

. >> "new york post" a man charged with smuling cocaine inside frozen meet at jfk airport. >> is thatgainst the law now? >> after noticing the unusual packages in his suitcase last month. officials found a powdery substance which tested positive for cocaine. >> look at that. >> my lord. >> "the boston globe," a convict looking for freedom from a crime he says he didn't commit has an unlikely ally. whitey bulger. he's been behind bars for 32 years, says he was framed by bulger himself. bulger has tried to write letters to help overturn the murder conviction. >> there's a credible witness. >> yeah. let mim go. >> freshman republican vance mcallister was caught on camera kissing a married staffer. the video is dated december 23rd, less than two months after the married louisiana lawmaker won a special election. congressman mcallister's campaign focused on family values. in a statement he admitted to falling short and asked for forgiveness from god, his family, and his constituents. >> so it wasn't just a peck on the cheek. >> wow. >> boy, let's run that all morning. >> wow. >> i was givi

they linked to a story from "the new york post" which was about hookers using air b&b. >> why do hookerst such a bad rap? >> they are a california company and a lot of the new york politicians said, they are not from here and don't care about our community. the definition of what is an illegal hotel is very unclear. that is why they are in court today. air b&b says, look, we are getting rid of the bad actors. we don't need the governor -- government to do this. >> and we talked about this earlier, that they have to go public. they don't want any regulatory risk overhang in their f-1 filing. that is the only reason they are doing it. if they didn't want to go public, they would not be doing that. >> it is a breath of fresh air. >> let's move onto amazon, because sales are taking a hit in the face of the election of online tax. a new study found that states that have a tax, the households have been reducing their spending on amazon by about 10%. amazon collects a -- sales tax in 20 states. this is interesting, because a lot of analysts on the street couple of years ago were saying, this is