susanna hoffs is with us this evening. [ cheers and applause ] so, excited about this.>> thank you. >> seth: welcome, thanks for joining us. and fred, i owe you an apology because for years you have been telling me that you know susanna hoffs and i don't believe you. and now here she is. that's great. and that's a thing that you can prove. you can like prove to me is true. 'cause now that you have presented her i can't say you're a liar. whereas there are other things that i feel like you can't prove. and it's a shame because i feel the things you can prove are impressive. and if you could just like be happy with those things you wouldn't have to lie about other things. do you know what i mean? okay. [ laughter ] well, it's funny because backstage i heard you say to susanna that you are a good person because you just started a charity for pets. >> fred: yes, i did. >> seth: you did? >> fred: yes, and it's a charity to help pets learn to shake hands with each other. [ laughter ] you know? because people are sort of always trying to shake hands with pets. i think with eac

oh, i forgot you susanna. go ahead, anita. >> the pilgrimage to mecca, is it required of the religion, or does the qur'an state that it's necessary, a command of allah? >> i'm not hearing you very clearly, and it's because my daughter says, "daddy, you need a hearing aid." >> i can help. >> well, thank you. >> the pilgrimage to mecca, is it required by the religion, islam as a religion, or the nation of islam as a religion, or does the qur'an state that it's the command, or a command of allah for this pilgrimage to take place? >> yes. the pilgrimage to mecca is the fifth pillar of islam, or the fifth essential principle of islam. it's been interpreted by scholars, and i think most of the learned people in islam will agree with this meaning. it's the pillar of- it's the fifth pillar, and it's the pillar of the unity of humanity, the unity of mankind- the unity of mankind. and god orders us to make pilgrimage once in our lifetime if we have the ability, the health and the ability or the means, the financial mean

so, this was a new insight for me because i felt very much like susanna. i was grateful that the liturgy was in english, so that i would be able to truly participate, not just feel good but to have my whole self my intellect as well as my emotions involved. >> you see that's part, exactly what i'm talking about with these dilemmas of institutionalization, is that's the struggle on that particular one. well let me take you to first off tabor lutheran church. now, the key point is here is a lot of stuff that we've wound together might be a kind of a tangled web at this point, but first we'll hear from rev. lowe and then from sheryl pero. and listen to them speak about the context; listen to their intuitive understanding of their place in the community, and yet at the same time see how they are keeping their religion which in this case is christianity vital but they are meeting the needs in the community. and that's what we are trying to get at looking at this religious ecology theme and why they're so successful. so, rev. lowe at tabor lutheran church. we're

they're going to have to look for a vice presidential nominee. >> i think so too. >> susanna martinez in mexico. nikki haley. marcia blackburn putting herself out there. i think it's smart for her to do it. i think there will be tremendous pressure. >> senator kelly ayotte would have done good with the whom town crowd -- hometown crowd. >> she was there. >> straight ahead a prominent democrat calling many republicans racist. who was it? that's next. also developing now new information about a possible phone calling on from on board flight 370 moments before it vanished. live report coming up. time to take care of business with century link's global broadband network and cloud infrastructure. we constantly evolve to meet your needs every day of the week. >>> one prom innocent democrat claiming many republicans are racist. steve israel making that accusation. is he in charge of getting democrats elected to the house. is he under fire for saying this. >> your republican colleagues are racist. >> not all of them. no, of course not. but to a significant extent, the republican base does hav

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. >> rising gop star, new mexico governor susanna martinez caught on tape demeaning women's issues asthe petty and juvenile language used. for the love of money, after pro-russian separatists are killed overnight. she is the hip hop bebop dance till you drop and yo-yo make a wicked cup much cocoa granny. the best news, mrs. doubt fire reignited for a sequel. this is "way too early." ♪ >>> i don't know if you can tell i'm excited about that. hi everybody. i'm thomas roberts. it's thursday, april 17th. welcome to way too early, the show like the movie mrs. doubtfire. jen, put on a chicken. that's where the line comes from. put on the chicken. we're going to get to that in the cooler. we'll start with news that we need to. the disaster in the sea of south korea. nine people have been confirmed dead at this hour. nearly 300 still missing after a ferry loaded with high school kids capsized off the country's coast. they're racing to find

so, this was a new insight for me because i felt very much like susanna. i was grateful that the liturgy was in english,

this morning a discussion on the future of internet governance followed by former reagan adviser susanna massey on the history of u.s./russia relations. from the fifth annual women in the world summit firsthand stories of bombing and chemical attacks in syria. here is a look. >> we were placed, bringing activities to the kids, working with them. we heard on the internet -- after an hour we here at a similar attack hit my count. we were hitting the missiles, the bombing organized and organized the bombings this night, different from any other night before gathering so after half an hour we start feeling dizzy. our eyes were running so there is something different in the air and we wake up with a family member and the kids, we try to help them to put some kind of scarves on their noses and then we decided -- >> throats burning and eyes burning at this point? >> yes. our noses were running. we had some difficulties breeding. we didn't imagine it would be worse. we decided to go to the hospital to help because we use to the nurses at the hospital so we went to the hospital and tried to help.

i often go back to susanna martinez when run for governor of new mexico, he was out shooting guns, aobamacare, putting the health care law out there in front of him and shooting that. does it get your votes? >> in some small pockets. the issue of drones have been big on the news. faa announced the first drone test this week as well. it's galvanized a lot of people who are concerned not only about privacy and these civilian drones, unmanned aerial vehicles that are not armed but those on the other side concerned the government is over reaching the use of the armed drones that are used at the pentagon. >> big part of this year's debate and next presidential debate. robert, haven't seen you in a few days. a piece you wrote last week about mitt romney'srei'm her jens. he's about to have his big annual retreat. coming to that retreat, chris christie, mike huckabee, rand paul jumps out at me. here's the guy of who came to power as tea party guy. more and more he is trying to hug the establishment. >> and going really inside politi politics. i spoke with rand paul's people. he's meeting wit