. >> and at first the obama administration pooh-poohed it, remember, the president said he didn't watch any of the rallies, doesn't know anything about it. i got calls from the grown-ups in the media saying so you and exxon are doing this right? [laughter] they thought i had organized it with some fortune 500 companies before the kochs -- >> yeah, yeah. [laughter] >> exxonmobil. and you'd say, actually, no. [laughter] we're trying to find all these guys, because we'd love to work with them but we've never seen many of them before. and i went to some of the early rallies, and people would say how many have ever been to a political rally before? 10-15% of the people would raise their hands. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here are a few of the book festivals we'll be covering this spring on c-span2's booktv: >> that's this spring on c-span2's booktv. >> next on booktv, johann hari talks about the history of the 100-year war on drugs around the world. he spent three years and traveled 30,0

this time winnie-the-pooh, our parent company, disney developing a live action feature of the animated bringing him back to his best bear friend and the story hundred acre wood. >> the announcement comes on the heels of disney's plans to release live action version of several classics, including "dumbo," "beauty and the beast," another "alice in wonderland" and "mulan" in the live action winnie-the-pooh is early in the development stages. stay tuned. curious to how it will work out. >> can't wait to see it. >>> continuing the over indulgence in nostalgia this morning comes reboot of another classic '90s movie. >> "ground hog day." we're talking about a musical this time. it is headed to broadway march 9th 2017. this is a 1993 classic comedy starring bill murray a tv weatherman from pittsburgh covering groundhog day in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, stuck in a repeating loop of days. >> theatergoers will be treated to the same show over and over again every single night. i always wondered if for actors on broadway, every night feels like groundhog day. >> i'm so impressed with them. they d

if you were to look at ronald reagan early when the mainstream was pooh-poohing him with the challenge to president ford in '76, who would have envisioned the conservative ranks would have become the mainstream four years later and led him to a landslide. in other words could any one of these guys be that guy? >> you know, reagan always is a dynamic, exciting guy. something about reagan you should know. when he was a young actor voted the best looking man in the world by some kind of movie star poll. a movie magazine poll. we don't have anybody like that right now. reagan was dynamic in the 64 convention, you weren't born then when he spoke in favor of barry goldwater. we don't have anyone like him. neil: who do we have that at least the people you talked to, and you know the tea parties and the mainstreamist, the money guys who were they saying stands the best chance to recapture the white house? >> well that's an extremely good question and i don't really feel much enthusiasm for anyone. i've told you now several times talked to you on other shows and said i love lindsey graham beyon

if you were to look at ronald reagan early when the mainstream was pooh-poohing him with the challengeoentord in 6, w wod henvion the consvate ranoulave comehe minsteamour year lat aedimo a lanlide in therwor cld a one the guye tt y? >> y knw,eagalwas dyami excinguy. somhingbouteaga you shld ow. wh hewas you actor votedhe best looking man in the world by some kind of movie star poll. a movie magazine poll. we don't have anybody like that right now. reagan was dynamic in the 64 convention, you weren't born then when he spoke in favor of ba anyone neil: who do we have that at least the people you talked to, and you know the tea parties and the mainstreamist, the money guys who were they saying stands the best chance to recapture the white house? >> well that's an extremely good question and i don't really feel much enthusiasm for anyone. i've told you now several times talked to you on other shows and said i love lindsey graham beyond words. neil: why? what is the fixation with lindsey graham? >> a national security candidate. he is a strong military vital strong foreign policy. neil: 10,

. >> this is not something that you just sort of pooh-pooh away and say, well, we didn't quite have enough advanced notice or we should have listened to the guys in tampa more. no. this is a gap that needs to be fixed. >> reporter: how much do you think we spend on homeland security each year? >> hundreds of billions of dollars. >> reporter: are we getting our money's worth? >> probably not. >> reporter: by the way, the budget for homeland security is said to be more than $30 billion a year. now, coming up at 6, congressional reaction to this gyrocopter caper. back to you. >> pat collins. if you want to see more video or pictures of gyrocopter in flight check out our nbc washington app. >>> making it tougher to climb and jump. now the changes just approved for the white house fence as the u.s. secret service tries to make the executive mansion more secure. only on 4 i-team reporter scott macfarlane has pictures and details about some of the bolder security upgrades proposed but then scrapped. >> reporter: one of two federal agencies that must approve changes to the white house fence did so

. >> this is not something that you just sort of pooh-pooh away and say well, we didn't quite have enoughdvanced notice or we should have listened to the guys in tampa anymore. no, this is a gap that needs to be fixed. >> reporter: and the faa is investigating this gyrocopter case. wendy, back to you. >> pat collins. >>> only on 4, a first look at the changes that are coming to white house security. two immediate changes were approved today by one of the agencies that oversees the white house fence. the news4 i-team scott macfarlane broke the story and shows us when these upgrades will be in place. >> reporter: the first set of changes could come in the coming weeks. they're going to bolt on new steel spikes atop the current white house fence. other bigger changes come later. here is a close-up look at the spikes, images obtained by the news4 i-team. you can see the sharp pieces of black metal designed to make it more difficult to climb the fence. in the coming weeks the secret service will beef up security of three vehicle checkpoints along the ellipse. the current checkpoints are on the

>> guest: a bear, pooh, pooh. c-span: where did that come from? >> guest: he'd had that nickname before. and how -- jim always assigned animal names to everybody. i mean, there was the rabbit and the owl and the cat. c-span: does scott, your son have a name, an animal name? >> guest: jim will just call him the cub, the cub. c-span: now, this man has played a big role in your life. >> guest: art cobrain, dr. cobrain, a magnificent technician as a surgeon, a wonderful surgeon, but a wonderful friend, and somebody who agonized and spent so much time with every decision because jim had so many, many setbacks that first year. he had blood clots, he had life-threatening blood clots. he had air that went into his -- back into his ventricles and had to go back in, the doctor had to go back in and do another craniotomy. that was life-threatening. he had a grand mal seizure. c-span: which is what? what's a grand mal seizure? >> guest: and head injuries very often, almost with most head-injured people, severe, you get seizures afterwards. so you -- they put

. >> guest: and at first, the obama administration pooh-poohed it. the president said he didn't watch the rallies, didn't know anything about it. i got calls from grownups in the media saying, you and exxon are doing this right? they thought i'd organized it with some fortune 500 company. before the kochs. and say actually, no. i was trying to find all these guys because we'd love to work with them but we'd never seen them. went to early rallies and people would say how many have ever been to a politicallal before, and ten to a% would raise their hands. these were people who had never done this before. 2010, the democrats got wiped out, lost the house, because the tea party surge in voter turnout, and it was at that point that senators and the president were screaming outloud, something has to be done. nobody rid me of this turbulent priest and lois lerner gave a speech on my birthday, october 19, 2010, and she said they're all telling me i have to do something. so people who are looking for the e-mail? you don't need the e-mail. she said outloud the

you see him seeing giant things giant dinosaurs, coke cans geese, a pooh bear he crosses saskatchewansh, columbia clean the chair because it's picking up road dirt. he's pulling it in. >> i love it that it's a rocking chair, too. it makes every place he's sitting seems homey. >> normally in a place like this you got maybe a camp chair, if you're lucky. but here oh yeah i could just imagine this right now. >> cool part of it is at the end when you see him, he sits down destination, and quickly, throws it into reverse and see the entire journey in just a few seconds. >>> firefighters in china blasting towards this fire. brave souls. whoa not so brave. back pedal a bit. firefighter laid out a hose and retreated a bit because of two minor pops there. but as the firefighters get ready to start putting this fire out, all right, get closer, guys. there's another pop. one of them ran away. >> yep, one's like i'm out. i'm out. three small pops usually followed by a big pop. okay. you know what? let's back off a little bit. the last boom though you can see even what appears to be like the capta

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. >> guest: and at first the obama administration pooh-poohed. remember the president said he didn't watch any other branscum did know anything about it. i get calls from one of indie media sank so you and exxon are doing this right? they thought i organized it with some fortune 500 company. s.o.b. for the koch brothers. actually know. we are trying to find all these guys because would love to work with them but we've never seen them. for. i went to some of the early rallies and people would say how many of them into political bow before? 10 to 15% of the people would raise their hand. people who'd never done this before. 2010, the democrats got wiped out, lost the house because the tea party surge in voter turnout and it was at that point that senators and the president were screaming out loud something has to be done. nobody rid of his turbulent priest. and lois lerner gave a speech on my birthday october 19, 2010 just before they lost the election and she said they are all telling me come i have to do something. so people are looking for the e

several varieties contain up to 5 grams of saturated fat, more than what the fda considers a healthy poohed item. the fda could have the bars pulled from the store shelves if the company doesn't fix the problem. kind, the name of the bar, argues the fats are healthy as they come from nuts. but they are willing to comply. mark what is happening with the nut? it is getting maligned. everywhere you go people are against almonds. >> did you hear that? somewhere this brooklyn they fainted when they heard the news about the kind bar. throw an a on there and call it k nie da healthy. >> it is kinda healthy. >> are you dating yourself. how about an abazabba. >> >> let me say i like nuts. leave my nuts alone, would you? speaking of all of the saturated fat and the protein bars that look like the snickers snickers snickers and milky ways. they are full of sugar and fat and nonsense. if it tastes too good to be true it is too good to be true. >> i am not sure this kind bar is unhealthy. i eat them all the time. >> they are 20 seconds from death. >> they are full of nuts. >> you have to admit the gover

disney announced that it's working on a live-action version of "winnie the pooh." [ light laughter ]n he heard that they were looking for a bear that doesn't wear pants, harvey fierstein was like, "you rang?" [ laughter ] this doesn't really surprise me. but there's a new survey that says 64% of americans own a a smartphone. which is interesting because in a related survey, 100% of smartphones say they own an american. [ laughter ] [ robot voice ] my human never stops staring at me. [ laughter ] [ robot voice ] >> steve: can't keep it's hands off me. >> jimmy: let's get to some local news here. this is where we get some of our weirder stories. in fact we realized recently that we could plug in any three random words and it would link to an actual local news story somewhere in america. i'll show you what i mean in a a new segment called "local news roulette." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: okay. here we go. let's have the computer just generate three random words and we'll see what we get. ♪ [ laughter ] drunk, casino, dumpster. no way. let see. >> a florida couple safely rescued

the real issue -- a pooh people trapped who are concerned that their kids will have worse opportunities than they've had. let's figure out how to get the business community organized to start offering more jobs to people who live in the heart of west baltimore. we have people here who feel like the cops focus on what they are, poor black and not who they are. figure out how to get the cops out of the cars just like we did in los angeles after the riots, because other cities have burn in the last 40 years. and let's change the dynamic. what's happening tomorrow i think because all of us were concerned. people should be saying how can i help? what can my church do? what can i do? how do i convince my boss not to fire me so i can stay home not just for the sake of my kids but the other kids. that's ultimately what's most beautiful about west baltimore. in many ways we're still a community. folks still care most leadership historically has come out of the mccullough homes housing projects off of pulaski street. folks may have moved out to ash burton but they can still come back to the heart

. >> the difference, though is also that john calipari never acts like thinks pooh does not sink.siness and i'm the dirtiest man in the skirtiest business take it or leave me while mike krzyzewski acts like he's st. k. >> he's making plenty. >> that's the other thing that bothers people coach k acts like he's above what is a very dirty business. >> but the political comments also disturb us on the left. i don't think he's a big obama fan. >> he said obama should stop talking and go back to doing his job. i've always had a kind of enmitty since he denied allen iverson a spot on the olympic team, but he's had the royalist stability that's threaded thus hess career but i have to confess, last night i was a duke fan, because i did not want wisconsin to win? >> what? c'mon, now! >> they beat kentucky and if you beat kentucky i'm riding with duke. >> the freshmen kids they felt no pressure they didn't even know the atmosphere and they just kept shooting. it's the coach's job to have them ready, and his team was ready. >>> that's "the ed show." "politics nation" with al sharpton starts r

winnie the pooh, wherever he lived. no problems. san mateo bridge moving smoothly across the bay. high raise is where you might get a gust or two. the camera is shaking over from the foster city side from time to time getting movement. just hold on tight across the bay right now. as we look at your map we see that volume building just like you saw in the live camera. folks are coming off of 880 and making their way. bay shore freeway through senate. that's kicking in there. 101 and redwood city not a problem just yet. that build continues off the dumbarton bridge. the biggest slowdown is southbound 08 south, from hayward to fremont. we had a couple of crashes. one in union city and fremont. 20 minutes was enough to cause a big backup and holding here through hayward down into fremont. that's the worst of the bay. over here, "today in the bay," 680 slows but pleasanton and 680. we're going to look at oakland. 880. camera shakes from time to time as we look north past the coliseum. we do see a lighter flow of traffic. from time to tim

i don't want to pooh-pooh that.re have been other economic indicators that haven't necessarily proven that the economy is -- i think people are waiting to see whether or not 2015 will be a good year. host: we showed our employers the bureau of labor statistics saying that there are still people long-term unemployed. is the federal reserve looking at this number, and is that a factor in their decision making on interest rates? guest: that is a great question. the federal reserve is trying to decide when they will raise interest rates. i think indicators like unemployment and the long-term unemployed definitely influenced their decision. if the job report on friday wasn't that great, we have to see what the revisions are and what the report is next week. these are the indicators that they are watching to decide when to increase interest rates. the federal reserve, once the stimulus was passed and it is no more stimulus money, the federal reserve is the key people trying to pump money into the economy. host: we will go

the plot involves an adult christopher robin reuniting with pooh bear in the hundred acre wood.at? and favorite tv family could be soon making a comeback. >> when i get all hot, you're going to hear me shout, tip me over, baby, and poorur me out. >> rock and roll. >> it's tanner time. is it true? maybe netflix is reportedly close to signing a deal for a full house spin-off that would bring by d.j. along with kimny. she was one of my favorite. bob, john, and dave would have guest rolesen to. i'm keeping my fingers crossed. >> knee >> me too elisabeth. >>> rahm emanuel is locked in a suited battle of re-election, against chuy garcia. here's part of the ad. >> he used his position to turn his brothers investment in uber into a billion dollars. how many more people will be exploited by rahm's greed? rahm makes money, rahm's family makes money chicago gets screwed. >> oh if you're voting election, you might want to know that. if you watch abc in chicago you won't find out because the affiliate is refusing to air that ad. it took issue with the ad's claims. with a plummeting credit ra

there were a few elite columnists who pooh-poohed it hillary was already very well known and well lovedzellny reported a moment ago she moved up seven or eight points in the enthusiasm democrats have for her. i will say this is as good as it gets though. whatever the cyber version of clippings are, they should clip these, paste them in a scrapbook and give them to her grand baby charlotte when she grows up. she'll never be in a stronger position than she is today. >> it's a much different view kevin on your side. we look at the polls and there is some new information. jeb bush still ahead of the group, but there's really two packs right now. this is now the lead pack with jeb bush scott walker rand paul and marco rubio. marco rubio's name is news today. this is the first time we've seen him run with the big dogs. he has doubled his numbers since he announced last week. what do you make of the numbers on your side? >> that was one thing i noticed, too. there seemed to be a little bit of a rubio boomlet in the numbers. i think rubio does have an opportunity heretofore a lot of those voter

pooh shares of go daddy. the web hosting company is raising $460 million after offering 23 million shares at $20 a piece. they're currently sitting at $28.16. sears also higher. it's currently up by nearly 1% on a real estate joint venture with general growth companies. delta, american and united continental all moving to the down side. all over by 4% to the down side after deutsche bank downgraded them to a hold from a buy. ty. >> mandy, thank you. >>> the u.s. and cuba working on re-establishing diplomatic relations after 50 long years, but what does this mean for american businesses that would like to do business there? or not american businesses? shares of norwegian cruise lines up big in the one year. 62% as you see there on that chart. our chief international correspondent michelle caruso cabrera live at a major summit about investing in cuba. she's with one of the ceos. the ceo of that particular cruise company. hi, michelle. >> hi there, tyler. yes, frank del-rio, the ceo of norwegian cruise lines, an

>> i stole a winnie the pooh doll from sears.ebrity would you take to a desserted island? ooh, i don't know. >> what's the color of your underwear? >> can i check in i don't know. >> did you put them on? >> it looks blue to me. >> one thing you would never wear? >> a thong bikini. >> don't say that. do you like the orange couch, no really. >> no doi not like the orange couch. nothing changes around here. >> the best movie quote or song lyric of all time. let's go crazy. >> good one. out of time. >> that was so good. >> revealing. >> blue underwear. >> that's what's trending today. >> something else getting a lot of attention online a personal note from taylor swift to her fans. chanel jones has been following that story. >> the emotional letter was titled just so you know. her mom andrea swift has been diagnosed with cancer. they are hoping her message will inspire others to be tested. known for her close relationship with her fans taylor swift now revealing something close to home. news that her mother andrea has cancer. in a po

i stole a winnie the pooh doll from sears. >> did you ever give it back?eep going. >> which celebrity would you take to a deserted island? ooh. i don't know. really into chris hemsworth right now. >> good. >> don't let brian know. >> you need thor by your side. >> what's the color of your underwear. can i check? i really don't know. >> you don't know? >> no not right now. it looks blue to me. >> to match your outfit? okay. >> one thing you would never wear. a thong bikini. you're welcome. >> why not? >> you wouldn't want to see that. >> okay. do you like the orange couch? no really -- >> this is coming from you. >> no we do not like the orange couch! but nothing changes around here. >> the best movie quote or song lyric of all-time. natalie. >> yes. >> "let's go crazy." >> good one. >> out of time. >> oh. saved by the bell dylan dreyer. >> that was so good. very revealing. blue underwear. >> hemsworth. that's what's trending today. >>> all right. something else getting a lot of attention online, and it's serious. it's a personal note from taylor swift to h

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britain's wartime prime minister winston churchill, george orwell and even the author of winnie the pooh most interest. a woman who changed the royal family and became a global superstar. and there it is again, diana's signature on the end of her will there. isn't that just amazing? and 20 -- almost 20 years ago she died. it just seems incredible guys that all this time has passed. of course i'm standing here outside buckingham palace waiting for kate to go into the hospital and give birth to her second child. and it's something really special about that couple getting ready for that moment with everything that's gone on in william's wife before. >> all the things she's missed that has to be one of the most precious grand kids. keir thank you. appreciate it. >>> now we have a special kickoff to a week we're doing here on "today" called make your today. we are making viewers' dreams come true. yes, that is elvis music you hear. it's no accident. we are starting by announcing the finalists for our ultimate elvis wedding. >> on thursday one lucky couple will become the first to ever be marr