talk with one of the participants and ask him why he feels persecuted as a white man and does fred phelps have a secret in tonight's edition of everything you know is wrong we'll ask a former member of the westboro baptist church about its infamous leader and about life in america's most infamous church. the best the rest of the news sparks flew at the conservative political action conference as an annual convention on friday and watch washington d.c. or nearby a panel discussion on how republicans can overcome their issues of the race and tolerance quickly spun out of control when a member of the audience terry seem to suggest that slavery had been a good thing and that young southern white males are being disenfranchised in america the host of the discussion kay carl smith from the group frederick douglass republicans was talking about douglass forgiving his former slave master when terry made his mind blowing claims take a look. when does. he write the letter that was going. to give you. that if you're. going to. join me now to talk more about these controversial comments another man w

games jessica ennis was on hand to pick up her prize while the most decorated olympian ever michael phelps was handed a one off award for his exceptional achievements in the swimming bowl the american voters eighteen golds. on choose the n.b.a. star dwight howard worked his magic with his new club the los angeles lakers becoming a hostile. well come on now it's returned to face former team orlando the center top scoring with a season high of thirty nine points sixteen rebounds and repeating his own league record of thirty nine free to. the lakers one hundred six to ninety seven to cling on to be a final playoff spot in the western conference. on wednesday after turning forty one surfing great kelly slater proved he still the crest of a wave of time before the world champion michael told parkinson. of the season opening event in australia american veteran securing his fifty second believe win and he did so on his opponent's home parent slate last competed at hera beach seventeen years ago. as the managed united defender rio ferdinand was recalled to the england squad at the world cup qualif

involved in the westboro baptist church when her father decide join the congregation led by fred phelpshe had planned to make a documentary mocking the church but instead found its doctrine convincing and moved his entire family to the church compound. >> at about age 14 my father started making some huge changes. he pulled me out of high school, he took me away from my friends, and he told me that he was going to start raising our family christian, according to the phelps' church. and their doctrine. >> drain participated in westboro baptist's effort to spread its vitriolic message. but she was ultimately banished om t church becae she had been found chatting online with a boy. dropped off at a nearby hotel with a few possessions, drain is tried hard to reconnect with her family, but her family wanted no part of that. >> it's a desperate act. you want to save your relations with your family. and at that time i did, and i was traumatized. but fortunately for me, i've grown from that. >> as time went on, drain met several people whom she once would have condemned as sinners. due toer crc

. >> what have your interactions with the phelps been like? what's it like to have them as neighbors? >> i've run into them a couple times before we painted the house. before we did this we kept this on the down low and did not want the city to find out what we were doing and did not want the phelps to find out what we were doing. shirley did come over the day we were painting and we asked her what she thinks of the color and she said she loved the color and we're very happy she loves our color schemes. >> thank you so much. >>> i'm in for ed schultz and now for the woman who brings the pot at the end of the rainbow. >> that makes me feel positively leprechaunish. thank you. i am a little hoarse and have a little cold and i hope you stick with me as if i were not any horse but your favorite pony. we have a lot to get to in the show tonight. this is a news day with a lot going on. we left with a crime in colorado. news of the murder of the corrections chief in that state. he was shot dead in his home hours before the colorado governor signed in

a cross between young george harrison and michael phelps? let's check the audience.t guy right there? [ light laughter ] that's pretty good. not bad. yeah, that's pretty good. [ cheers and applause ] i think it's good. "jimmy, my favorite tv personality is hoda kotb and my favorite jedi master is yoda. do you think you could combine them to make yoda kotb?" yoda kotb, that sounds interesting. i actually would like to see that. so, ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for yoda kotb. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] [ clears throat ] >> fourth hour of the "today" show, it is. >> jimmy: there you go! oh, my gosh. [ cheers and applause ] yoda kotb, everybody. >> steve: -- as a button. >> jimmy: isn't that -- yoda kotb, everybody. yoda kotb, give it up for yoda kotb. [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: come on. >> jimmy: this one's from connor o'malley. "hey, jimmy, can you have two actors come out and reenact the romantic rain scene from 'the notebook,' and since it's almost st. patrick's day, can they be dressed as leprechauns?" that's a great suggestion, connor, i woul

i could have been michael phelps and winning the olympics. >>> g.o.p. offered to give the president more flexibility. >> and he turned it down! >> he turned it down. >> no, i understand, i am saying charles, this is more kabuki theater. >> the republicans and showmanship and playing to the press and hold a press conference to say that just shows the lunacy of where we stand right now. >> you know, adam made the point earlier about everyone's fault. here is the thing. everybody can think that, but it's aided by these press kwlgsz when the president doesn't say, guys, america has to take some pain to avoid a whole lot of pain in future. that is presidential. >> what is even crazier. the democrats in the senate offered an alternative to the $85 billion in cuts including some tax increases and some cuts ten years out, zero net spending cuts. the democrats do not want to cut spending and they are hoping some small cuts lead to armageddon and it will not. >> the president won 59.8%. >> i though was 9.7. >> but he is running around saying he 'is not a dictator

i could have been michael phelps and winning records at the olympics, didn't happen. >> the g.o.p.ered to give the president more flexibility. >> he turned it down. and he turned it down. so, that's what makes me think, charles payne-- i understand, i understand. no, no, i understand, but i'm saying, charles payne, in the end, this is more kabuki theater than anything else, here is the president on friday, bemoaning that to the press and for them to say that, just shows the lunacy of where we stand right now. >> and you know, adam made the point earlier about it being everyone's fault. here is the thing though, everyone can think that, you know, the thoughts they think of aided by these kind of press conferences. when the president doesn't say, guys, america's got to take a little bit of pain now to avoid a whole lot of pain in the future. that's presidential. that's stepping up to the plate instead. it's going to be armageddon, lights out. >> and what is even crazier, the democrats in the senate offered an alternative to the 85 billion dollars in cuts, included some tax increases

michael phelps, great. the country needs to be more competitive. we have no problem with that. as a basketball team. but with people, to know somebody really competitive in board games, that is the dilemma. we are wondering when it comes to people, this competition mean you have to sacrifice integrity? doesn't mean you have to be cut through or take out even your best friend? but great competitors do not have that dilemma. they respect their opponents, realize i do not have to win at all costs, because there is another competition coming up, and i want to learn and improve. tavis: how do you explain that over time, competition has gotten such a bad rap. >> we were talking about people in the self-esteem movement. in competition, if there is a winner, there is a loser, and we do not want people to feel like losers. it is about making a mistake, being bested won it, but then learning. it is about having this challenges and then moving forward. it is not about making people winners or losers. competition challenges you to be the best that you can. tavis: is it worth having a conve

>> way more than the other olympian, michael phelps. >> reporter: tim's parents helped him open the restaurantway of ensuring their son's independence. but it's tim who makes this place special. describe your job to me here, what you're in charge of. >> the hugs. >> reporter: the hugs. >> i do serve food and drinks, but the hugs. that's the best part. >> who doesn't like hugs? >> breakfast is unbelievable. of course you can't beat the hugs. >> reporter: this is a part of it you'll never see on the check. after all, how do you price a hug? when you get a hug, what do you get out of a hug? >> it makes that person feel good and they'll come back again. >> i see him touch someone's life genuinely every single day. that is meaningful. it's pretty great. >> if you dream it, you can do it. that's my motto. >> reporter: did you dream this restaurant? >> i dreamed it and i got it. >> reporter: this restaurant will serve as an inspiration for lots of families. >> reporter: as for those hugs at tim's place no one is charging, but they are keeping count. more than 32,000 hugs so far. >> i love you so much

brandon phelps. the giants lose 4-3.ory, the warriors and the special liks hosted 45 athletes from the special olympics of northern california for a basketball clinic tonight in oakland. jarrett jack, andris biedrins and richard jefferson coached for the hoopsters. >> the way they support one another. they have each other's back. it is all genuine and all authentic. that's something i admire about them. in our daily lives. not just sports. >> i'm dave feldman. have a good night. back with more of the news after this. [ male announcer ] it's a rule of nature. you don't decide when vegetables reach the peak of perfection. the vegetables do. at green giant, we pick vegetables only when they're perfect. then freeze them fast so they're are as nutritious as fresh. [ green giant ] ho ho ho. ♪ green giant there's no subtext... just tacos. yeah, it's our job to make you want it. but honestly... it's not that hard. old el paso. when you gotta have mexican. but honestly... it's not that hard. the words are going this way-there's n

director john morton, mean, saying that there are only 2,000 folks who have been released, all the a phelpsfour of whom will have been recaptured, new had criminal records. is morton, are they lying? >> i think there absolutely misleading the public at best. our officers out in the field protested these releases. we believe that more and more of these 2,000 people that were released were actual criminals. beaches and by seven very good at using their words so that they can mislead the public and put out a completely different story with regard to what happened. for instance, with those 2,000 prisoners we think that ny of those were, at minimum, rested for a very serious criminal charges but were not actually convicted yet. they've never been in front of a court of law. but ice is trying to spin this to say that there was no public threat and they are not criminals because ice is now the fighting a criminal to be someone that had to have been convicted of a crime. they ignore the fact that, you knowmany of these local jails and county simply don't have the funds to hold these prisoners in th

people who were in the fbi with mark phelps, it isn't on truth that the details were leaked to press it forward. there was nothing in "the washington post" that the fbi didn't know. sometimes days or weeks or months before the piece in the post. >> how premeditated you believe that felt was in regards to leaking? >> completely premeditated. one of the things i discovered is sandy smith, he leaked more to her than to woodward. kaj: didn't know that he could trust. woodward betrayed the big part of his existence. it ended in 1973 and felt was very upset. that is one of the things that he was honest about, how upset he was with all the presidents men. he stopped talking to him. >> in regards to today, we look at the current administration. >> absolutely british as the competent relationship between sources and washington reporters and, you know, the true blue individual. the truth is why people leaked to the media is much more complicated and compromising for both sides. i think that a week for reasons that would not be principled were looked upon well by his colleagues and the way that

>> fred phelps and kenny chesney come out in support in a duet. that i think that would be great.you could get me in trouble if you finished that thought to its conclusion, because kenny chesney is an amazing straight country singer. >> after years of demon sizing gay marriage to get votes, karl rove is now open to marriage equality to get votes. karl rove has long been fostering fear and scorn of his fellow gay americans because that's part of the job description. in 2004, the rove controlled gop warned us constantly of a dire threat to traditional marriage and anti gay initiatives. seeing one of the greatest architects of homophobia is so exciting and tint lating, it should be described as gay porn. i wonder if it has

beijing had michael phelps winning 10 medals. we went from $200 million loss to break even. if that continues, it will prove to be ok. for the employees at the company for our relevance to the gesture bhushan -- distribution andnels, we can do more more coverage. for instance, we have over 5000 hours of the olympics. go back 20 years. it was in the 100's. go back to china. it was maybe half or less. we put every single event live streamed. they did not do anything like that in china. the chance to have more of our cable channels. olympics content, it was called triple play. 10 networks. if you are a golf fan in rio, g will be an olympic sport for the first time. we will have it on the golf channel. we will have all the hockey on nbc sports net. it is a real vibrancy. it is a huge operation. thousands of people do a marvelous job. we are very proud. it is an exciting thing to be apart part of. as a business matter, it is the engine. >> if you say to the olympic committee i would like to have squash as an olympic sport, would you have influenced to do that? >> i think the curr

. >> you know what is great entertainment, google fred phelps, george carlin. into a propaganda in order to advance their filthy -- >> stephanie: you need to step in. >> this dialogue is going to be elevated with a bit of seriousness, or this conversation is over. it has been awful nice talking to you -- >> stephanie: don't you want to talk to some callers? no, don't. but i love you. [ explosion ] >> stephanie: bastard. >> take care then. bye-bye. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: that was the longest i ever kept him on. >> yeah, it is. >> he is so -- such a loving christian. >> stephanie: so awesome. yeah exactly. in another edition of wow is that random. dennis rodman as you know went to north korea, and now -- isn't he at the vatican waiting to meet the new pope. he says he will go wherever he is needed. he is needed anywhere as i pointed out. >> clearly things are not going well with north korea now, so i'm really curious, what did you do -- i can imagine him getting all chummy with him -- >> yeah, john kerry on the phone with you. >> what is going to happen at th

swimmer michael phelps says he's staying out of the water. >> he's okay with where he's at in a momentf loving you is wrong ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal -- heart-healthy, whole grain oats. you can't go wrong loving it. bee happy. bee healthy. with clusters of flakes and o's. oh, ho ho... it's the honey sweetness. i...i mean, you...love. diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. live the regular life. phillips'. >>> all right. michael, new look, new philosophy. and he says he doesn't even miss swimming. >> i don't blame him. imagine all the hours in the pool. anyway the world's most decorated olympic swimmer of course he says he's not going to be making a comeback. >> i have to ask you, michael jordan did it, mario lemieux did it, many boxers did it, you don't know what the question is? >> i do. i already know where you're going. >> so is there a comeback?

close to $22 an hour, all things being equal, of course, all things being equal, i would be michael phelpsth case, is it? businesses already worrying about the president's push to hike it to nine bucks an hour. warren eking out the victory over my next guest, scott brown, whofound that race to be never, ever again, although they begged him to run. >> great to havyou. >> great to be on, neil, thank you. neil: what do you think of this? she's arguing phenomenon a substantial hike in the minimum wage when a lot of businesses and folkses, say, well, that could put us over the top. >> reviews are important, something that's been done throughout history, but you need to make sure businesses are at the table, number one. number two, to think it would go to $22 an hour, there's many businesses that pay that high wage because it's warranted, but if we doit across the board, it's going to, obviously, increase prices dramatically. what she's failing to understand, and people in washington fail to understand, you already have obamacare, crushing businesses. the 18 new taxes are clicking in. some of th

that's why michael phelps can eat 12,000 calories and stay slim. burns about 4,000 or 5,000 of those during his exercise periods. the point is his energy expenditure even during sleep is increased. so by stopping your exercise, you actually went back down to baseline but you didn't change your total dietary intake by sitting on the couch, probably increased it. so not at all surprising you gained your ten pounds. >> doctor, there's a quote from your book that i wanted to read and get you to unpack a bit. you say the current food environment we have created does not match our biochemistry, and this mismatch is at the heart of our medical, social, and financial crisis. what do you mean by that? >> i mean exactly what i said. it is at the heart of our medical crisis because by this metabolic syndrome epidemic, and i don't mean obesity. that's a loser. i don't want to talk about obesity. 20% of obese people have completely normal metabolism. yet 30% of thin normal weight people have the same metabolic distungs as the obese and they're what is costing s

i remember when they did the phelps-dodge deal, similar price action, they turned out to be right.e thing sets up. though, timmy is spot on. >> that was a copper move. they are not copper. >> that is true. all right, well, we want to hear from you, as to who you thought within our street fight. tweet us at @cnbcfastmoney. we'll have the results at the end of the show. going to be a nail biter. >> can't wait. >> china stocks plunging the most in a year and a half, this as the government tries to reign in housing investment and avoid a massive real estate bubble. how worried should you be about tightening in china? take a deeper dive with stephen roach, former morgan stanley asia executive chairman. he's now a fellow at yale university. stephen, great to have you with us. >> great to see you. >> to a casual china observer, you watch the "60 minutes" piece last night, get scared about the ghost steps and then you come in today, hear about what china is doing in terms of reining in the speculative activity and you think, wow, that's got a problem. but you think there are problems with

after complaining of cold weather and too many hours on the course, phelps does what?this, maybe he should just stick with the swimming. >> great swimmer. >>'s a great swimmer. i'm great at many things. >> how about golf? >> i am horrible at golf. >> i don't play golf. someday when i get older i'll take it up. >> your career part two. >> one of these days. >>> coming up here in "the situation room," osama bin laden's son-in-law just blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks. up next, should accused conspirators like abu ghaith be tried in the united states? you'll hear both sides of the issue. lobster tacos. the bar harbor bake is really worth trying. [ male announcer ] get more during red lobster's lobsterfest. with the year's largest selection of mouth-watering lobster entrees. like our delicious lobster lover's dream, featuring two kinds of lobster tails. or our savory, new grilled maine lobster and lobster tacos. my favorite entree is the lobster lover's dream. what's yours? come celebrate lobsterfest and sea food differently. [ male announcer ] visit redlobster.com

in phelps, who leads the health care practice the washington council, ernst & young and we have the privilege to be moderated by president, donna shalala, who as it is also former secretary of health and human services in the clinton administration. let's read our panelists. thank you. [applause] >> will start with karen and connie. >> good morning, everyone. it's such a pleasure to be here first of all from the standpoint of the climate. anyone coming from the east coast today said breath of fresh air. but that's not the reason the abyss came. we came for donna shalala. i started to feel been there done that because the guys made the point, but just stay with me. a gust of all you see here on behalf of your wonderfully energetic president is exactly what we saw in washington during her tenure as secretary of health and human services. we also saw not only gusto, but we saw heart, without equanimity and missile fairplay. for any of us coming from washington today in these times, those are the qualities all of us respect and we treasure in love. so on behalf of everyone in washington, you hear

estimates are down 10% with the audience because of the time zone change and beijing had michael phelps winning gold medals but the largest event in history with a $200 million loss to break-even so if that continues it will prove to be o.k. but for the employees of the company to are relevant to the distribution partners and all the channels, we can do more and more coverage. for instance 5,500 hours of olympics. go back 20 years it was in the hundreds. just to china it was maybe half or weigh less. then may put every single event live streaming and we have not done anything like that in china. so the chance to have more cable channels carry olympics content back when it was called triple play now we have a non 10 networks so if you are really a golf and in rio it will be an olympic sport every single piece will be on the golf channel and all of the hockey on nbc sports net. it is a vibrancy but a huge operation. i thought the coverage was the exciting thing to be a part of but with a business matter it is the engine itself not to make a huge profit. >> did you say to the olympic commi

my friend matthew phelps hazard in the united states green card for 11 years, and in may is going to. the other marine officers will be accompanied by their husbands and their wives, but not matthew. in the eyes of the law, ben does not count. last month, we buried my friend, army warrant officer charlie morgan, of the new hampshire national guard. the honor guard carefully folded the american flag that covered her coffin. there's a moment where the sergeant touches the flag to the coffin, just a moment. before he hands it to the general, who then handed it to charlie's wife, karen, her wife. the new hampshire national guard knows what marriage is. [cheers and applause] they no marriage when they see it. and yet the military is prohibited by u.s. law from treating karen as charlie's wife. we are better than this. we are better than this. as americans we know in our bones what freedom and what equality are. what they really mean. that's why the majority of americans, including my aging parents, and pretty much everyone in southland suites in lakeland, florida, who has ever had a conve

>> way more than michael phelps. >> reporter: tim's parents helped him open the restaurant as a way of you're in charge. >> the hugs. >> reporter: the hugs. >> i do serve food and drinks, but the hugs. the best part. >> who doesn't like hugs? >> the breakfast is unbelievable. and you can't beat the hugs. >> reporter: this is a part you'll never see on the check. after all, how do you price a hug? >> when you get a hug, what do you get out of the hug? >> you make that person feel good. and they'll come back again. >> i see tim touch someone's life genuinely every single day. that is meaningful. it's pretty great. >> if you can dream it, you can do it. that's my motto. >> reporter: did you dream this restaurant? >> i dreamed it and i got it. >> this restaurant really will serve as an inspiration for lots of families. >> reporter: as for those hugs, at tim's place, no one is chargi charging. but they are keeping count. more than 32,000 hugs so far. >> i love you so much. i'm glad you're here. >> i'm glad i'm here today. >> reporter: for today, janet shamlian, nbc news, albuquerque. >> so

beijing had michael phelps winning eight gold medals. we were up 10% with the largest event in television history. we went from a $200 million loss to break-even. if that continues it will prove to be okay, but for the employees of the company for our relevance to distribution partners of all the channels, we can do more and more coverage. for instance. we have 5,500 hours of olympics, i think that is the number. go back 20 years and it would have been in the hundreds. go back just to china and it was the half will weigh less. and then we put every single event live streamed. did not do anything like that in china. so the chance to have more of our cable channels. olympic content. way back it was called a triple play, three channels. we have it on ten networks or thereabouts where you can watch. if you are a gulf fan in rio, golf will be an olympic sport for the first time. every single piece of golf on the golf channel and all the hockey probably on nbc sports that. so it is a real vibrancy, but is a huge operation, thousands of people