." >>> good morning, i'm mika in for thomas roberts, and it's june 9th. welcome to "way to early." police mourn their own after an apparent ambush left five dead, two police officers. they were eating lunch at a cici's pizza when a man and woman opened fire. they officers opened fire back, but were killed by the shooters. the two suspects left the restaurant, shooting at bystanders, killing another by a nearby walmart. police converged on the scene an fired the suspects, but the police say the woman shot the man before turning the gun on herself. they have yet to find a motive, but there's sources saying the shooters draped the bodies in yell yellow, revolutionary war era flags with a coiled snake emblem reading "don't tread on me you know those flags, and they had a paper filled with white supremists. >> screaming a revolution has begun and get out the store. >> what pretis pated this event, we do not know. my officers were simply having lunch when the shooting started. >>> comedian tracy morgan remains in critical condition this morning, but showing signs of improvement. his publ

i'm thomas roberts.dnesday, june 18th, and welcome to "way too early," the show with premature vacation brain. the floor crew can attest to my vacation brain in full affect. and leading the a-block. the deadly attack in benghazi, and one of the suspected ring leaders is now in u.s. custody. u.s. special forces carried out a raid over the weekend. about two dozen military agents were involved after months of planning, ahmed abu khattala was taken to new york to be questioned. he is suspected of being linked to the militant group. and he is facing trial in the united states and could be put

i'm thomas roberts. it is wednesday, june the 4th. welcome to "way too early."ase of a water emergency, your wedding, take the photos after the service. wait until you see that video. it's going to give you something for the june brides to think about there. want to start off with president obama continuing his european visit today ahead of this week's 70th anniversary of the d-day landings in normandy. but it's america's current war dominating the conversation and the controversial surroundsing the captive american soldier swapped by the taliban by five senior commandsers of the taliban. video shows the transfer of bergdahl to u.s. forces in afghanistan. the 28-year-old is seen sitting in the back of a pickup truck when a u.s. military helicopter comes up. militants are positioned on hillsides. bergdahl is then given to the u.s. military. he is then escorted to the aircraft and checked

i'm thomas roberts. it's thursday, june 12th. welcome to way too early.'t crack forbe's list of highest paid athletes. but that's okay because none of us are actually athletes unless you count duck pin bowling. nobody did that? yes, okay. we have a whole crowd of duck pinners here. let's get to business as we start out with iraq. we have 11 years after american

i'm thomas roberts. it is wednesday, june 11th.ay too early," the show that loves upsets, especially when they involve political races that no one predicted. if you hadn't heard the name dave brat before last night, you were not alone in that, but now, the virginia college professor has unseated one of the most powerful men in congress, eric cantor, winning by 12 points in the republican primary. cantor, who rode a wave of tea party victories in 2010 to become house majority leader, suddenly found himself on the wrong side of the group's support and addressed stunned supporters last night. >> obviously, we came up short. i know there's a lot of long faces here tonight, and it's disappointing, sure, but i believe

i'm mika brzezinski in for thomas roberts. day off to work on his tan, getting ready for his big gig at this weekend's mice usa competition. i think he's doing the spray tan, right? the glow? that will be nice. welcome to wait wait everyone. we'll start with our top story of the morning. sergeant bowe bergdahl will be hospitalized in germany longer than expected as his hometown scrubs plans for a big event celebrating his release from the taliban. officials in hallie idaho saying they're b

i'm mika brzezinski in for thomas roberts. thomas needed the day off to work on his tan, getting ready for his big gig at this weekend's mice usa competition. i think he's doing the spray tan, right? the glow? that will be nice. welcome to wait wait everyone. we'll start with our top story of the morning. sergeant bowe bergdahl will be hospitalized in germany longer than expected as his hometown scrubs plans for a big event celebrating his release from the taliban. officials in hallie idaho saying they're being flooded with angry calls and don't have the resources to deal with thousands of supporters and protesters who could descend on the town. the obama administration is struggling to address criticism to free five senior militants in exchange for the army soldier who walked off his base in afghanistan back in 2009. senators from both parties are openly questioning the government's explanation that bergdahl's health was failing. in a private briefing lawmakers were shown a classified video recorded earlier this year that appe

i'm thomas roberts. it's monday, june 16th. welcome to "way too early," the show that didn't stay up to watch the game of thrones finale. >>> our lead story the obama administration says it will consider military action in iraq only if the government there works to bring together the competing sides. but that's no easy task. especially with new claims over the weekend that militants executed 1700 soldiers. fighters from the sunni extremist group isis boasted online about the reported mass murd murders. videos claimed to show young men in maz graves. nbc news hasn't confirmed the authenticity of the images. the militants are trying to carve out their own islamic state in iraq and syria. so far the full-scale violence hasn't reached the capital where president maliki is facing pressure. >>> want to bring foreign correspondent, amman, explain to us what you're seeing on the ground. how are people reacting to the news and the spread of isis. all right, we're having trouble with our shot with eamon. we'll get back to him there. >>>

i'm thomas roberts. it's monday, june 16th.," the show that didn't stay up to watch the game of thrones finale. >>> our lead story the obama administration says it will consider military action in iraq only if the government there works to bring together the competing sides. but that's no easy task. especially with new claims over the weekend that militants executed 1700 soldiers. fighters from the sunni extremist group isis boasted online about the reported mass murd murders. videos claimed to show young men in maz graves. nbc news hasn't confirmed the

>>> good morning, i'm bill karins in for on thomas roberts who is on assignment. his assignment. this is what he has been working on in venice. that is his husband. he is on vacation. i hope you're joenjoying it, t y tommy. >>> two big supreme court decisions. a ruling that will have an impact on millions of americans. the court ruled in no cases police needed a warrant to search someone's cell phone. legal experts say the ruling will papply to possibly your tablet and laptop. >> reporter: writing for

." >>> good morning, i'm thomas roberts. it's friday, june 13th, friday the 13th.e to "way too early," the show that thinks friday the 13th doesn't sound that scary in june. doesn't sound that scary in june, it just doesn't. jen says it's a full moon. unless you go to sleep away camp, then it's really scary. we're going to check with bill karins on

hi, i'm thomas roberts.welcome to way too early, we were using our pass part for domestic travel until the learners permit. it comes in handy now. >>> for some, it was a war-time prisoner swap, for others it was a violation of u.s. law, but for the parents of bowe bergdahl, a chance so see their son for the first time in eight years. he is in a military hospital after be

." >>> good morning, i'm thomas roberts. it's friday, june 13th, friday the 13th. welcome to "way too early," the show that thinks friday the 13th doesn't sound that scary in june. doesn't sound that scary in june, it just doesn't. jen says it's a full moon. unless you go to sleep away camp, then it's really scary. we're going to check with bill karins on the facts about a full moon coming up. want to make sure that's correct. let's get to the top story this is morning. can you tell it's friday? in many ways, there r no longer separate conflicts in iraq and syria but one sweeping insurgency ripping through the region. the group at the center of the fighting is taking aim at baghdad. the government is struggling to keep the country together. thousands of shiite civilians are pledging to fight back against sunni militants setting the stage for a civil war split along religious lines. shiite volunteers would fill the vacuum left by the iraqi armed forces, many of whom dropped their u waep weps and the scattered. several soldiers are wearing street clothes to make for

"way too early" with thomas roberts starts right now.>> i'm told you all about the recent surge of violence in iraq. and how it caught president obama with his mom jeans down. but you know what they say, every brutal terrorist onslaught has a silver lining. in this case, it's brought back my old pals, the iraq pack, and they are singing the same old tunes. >> we had the conflict won, and we had a stable government. >> john mccain is right. we had that conflict won in 2009 when we left iraq a peaceful, shouldering democracy. i believe we have some footage of baghdad at the height of the surge. ♪ >> if only it were a laughing matter. as the crisis in iraq worsens, president obama is preparing to send several hundred troops back to the war-torn country. but will that be enough to prevent another civil war? >>> plus big problems for wisconsin governor scott walker as newly released court documents put him at the center of a criminal finance scheme. we'll have reaction. >>> and two other potential 2016ers makes the headlines for the wrong rea

." >>> good morning, i'm bill karins in for the great thomas roberts. enjoy your time off, thomas. we miss you here. as far as "way too early" goes, a lot happened last night. the nasty republican primary in mississippi finally over. but the losing candidate isn't conceding just yet. last night thad cochran narrowly edged out tea party challenger chris mcdaniel. just three weeks ago, mcdaniel got more votes but failed to win outright. he seemed to have all the momentum going into last night's runoff. but yesterday's vote defied conventional wisdom about getting out the vote. with nearly 56,000 more voters going to the polls. so where did the new voters come from? the cochran campaign got the help from the national republican senatorial committee and some big names in the state who helped turn out voters in strong cochran areas. and cochran supporters actively sought out african-american democrats, making the argument that cochran had delivered for mississippi. mcdaniel has called the tactics to get liberals to vote in the republican primary illegal. last night he stopped well short

." >>> good morning, i'm bill karins in for the great thomas roberts. enjoy your time off, thomas.ere. as far as "way too early" goes, a lot happened last night. the nasty republican primary in mississippi finally over. but the losing candidate isn't conceding just yet. last night thad cochran narrowly edged out tea party challenger chris mcdaniel. just three weeks ago, mcdaniel got more votes but failed to

>>> good morning, i'm bill karins in for on thomas roberts who is on assignment. i heard we have pictures of thomas and his assignment. this is what he has been working on in venice. that is his husband. he is on vacation. i hope you're joenjoying it, t y tommy. >>> two big supreme court decisions. a ruling that will have an impact on millions of americans. the court ruled in no cases police needed a warrant to search someone's cell phone. legal experts say the ruling will papply to possibly your tablet and laptop. >> reporter: writing for a chief units court chief justice john roberts said many of the american who have a cell phone on their person a digital aspect of their lives. to search one the police must get a warrant unless an emergency. a huge advocates for privacy in the digital age. >> because the police turn you over for speeding they shouldn't have access to your entire life. everything about your life that people carry around with them in their phone. >>> also the justices sided saying the extremely service by retransmitting channels to subscribers for

i'm thomas roberts. it is june 3rd.as a theory about florida georgia line and i'm not talking about the country pop duo. thanks, guys. we've got more about sergeant bowe bergdahl. he could be back by the end of the week but the questions surrounding his release will extend longer than that because a lot of the focus is on how he was captured back in june of '09. multiple reports say bergdahl sent an e-mail to his parents just before he went missing. writing i'm sorry for everything here. these people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are st

hi, i'm thomas roberts. it's monday, june 2, and welcome to way too early, we were using our pass part for domestic travel until the learners permit. it comes in handy now. >>> for some, it was a war-time prisoner swap, for others it was a violation of u.s. law, but for the parents of bowe bergdahl, a chance so see their son for the first time in eight years. he is in a military hospital after being exchanged for five detainees at gitmo. he's been ahead nheld nor nearla decade. the only p.o.w. from america from the war in afghanistan. >> reporter: less than 12 hours after bowe bergdahl departed the base in afghanistan, the troops there were thanked for his return. >> this is a happy day, as you all know, for our country, for our armed force. because we got one of our own back. >> but just how bergdahl was freed has sparked a political firestorm. on nbc's "meet the press," secretary hagel defended the release of five top taliban prisoners in exchange for bergdahl. >> sergeant bergdahl is a member of the unite

. >> that looks like thomas roberts. >> that's right. that's how i dress at night.n animatronic crime fighter throws out the first pitch. not a terrible throw. >> i mean, robocop should do better. >> better than nelly. or 50 cent. was it 50 cent who had the bad throw? >> yes. >> so we jump to the ninth. now up 2-0 with runners on the corners. three-run blast there. outlasting the tigers 5-3. we go to arlington. rangers leading 5-2. drills a three-run homer to the left. that's his league leading 21st home run of the season. the o's win it 8-3. we go to houston. astros rookie john singleton gets the first major league hit. it's a home run. it helps the astros win it 7-2 over l.a. >>> finally, this happened on monday night. but it was brought to our attention by the good folks during the yankees/mariners announcement. trouble with the home run call. take a listen. >> there's a drive deep right field! say good-bye! do some -- delivery for the truck to the airport. a three-run jack by seger. >> what? >> yeah. >> okay, so a little confused. explained in the rush of excite

i'm thomas roberts, it's tuesday, june 10.to "way too early" that loves a rags to riches story especially from first presidents and ladies. they had a lot of debt when they left that white house, but how they overcame that. the va out with an audit with 700 centers highlighting the problem of the department. this report finds more than 100,000 vets

i'm thomas roberts, it's tuesday, june 10. welcome to "way too early" that loves a rags to riches story especially from first presidents and ladies. they had a lot of debt when they left that white house, but how they overcame that. the va out with an audit with 700 centers highlighting the problem of the department. this report finds more than 100,000 vets faced extended period of time to see their doctors including over 57,000 who waited at least 90 days for medical appointments and over ten years, 6 4,000 vets sought care and still waiting to see a doctor. in 76%, they were ordered to falsify records to hide the wait times and 13% of schedules were directed by their supervisors to alter data related to party wait times. the editorial board of the "walk street journal" writes, they wish to wish away the problems saying they lack doctors and say schedules were poorly trained, but to the contrary, they were trained well, and the bureaucratic rot at the va is endem endemic, and at this point, criminal investigations seem richly

i'm thomas roberts. it's wednesday, june 18th, and welcome to "way too early," the show with premature vacation brain. the floor crew can attest to my vacation brain in full affect. and leading the a-block. the deadly attack in benghazi, and one of the suspected ring leaders is now in u.s. custody. u.s. special forces carried out a raid over the weekend. about two dozen military agents were involved after months of planning, ahmed abu khattala was taken to new york to be questioned. he is suspected of being linked to the militant group. and he is facing trial in the united states and could be put to death if convicted. in a 2012 interview with the new york times, he said it was not planned, but developed from a protest over an anti-islamic video, and no role in the violence at the consulate. the obama administration faced questions over why it took nearly two years to make an arrest since his whereabouts known. and he defended the pace and said the arrest sends a clear message to the world. >> americans

hey, everybody, good morning, i'm thomas roberts. it's tuesday, june 17th. and welcome toway too early. we love football 365 days a year, and soccer in the world cup. and this crew believes. we believe. couldn't you tell off the top of the show? everybody but jen believes. she just wasn't playing along with us today. but we will get her in a good mood in 30 minutes or less. i promise. but let's begin with the top story that we have for you today. it does concern what's taking place in iraq. the government there is focused on stamping out the insurgencin but not with the tactics favored by the obama administration. the prime minister is paying far more attention to the military mission against the extreme fighters. the "new york times" saying he spends most of the time on war strategy and not on the efforts of bringing together the competing sides. in fact members of his inner circle are wearing military uniforms instead of civilian clothes. and president obama is boosting security at the embassy in baghdad, employing more personnel. and outside, the sunni te

." >>> good morning, i'm mika in for thomas roberts, and it's june 9th. welcome to "way to early." police mourn their own after an apparent ambush left five dead, two police officers. they were eating lunch at a cici's pizza when a man and woman opened fire. they officers opened fire back, but were killed by the shooters. the two suspects left the restaurant, shooting at bystanders, killing another by a nearby walmart. police converged on the scene an fired the suspects, but the police say the woman shot the man before turning the gun on herself. they have yet to find a motive, but there's sources saying the shooters draped the bodies in yeow

hey, everybody, good morning, i'm thomas roberts. it's tuesday, june 17th. football 365 days a year, and

the vacationing thomas roberts says back tomorrow morning. now "morning joe" only moments away.ature valley crunchy granola bars give you energy from 1/3 of your daily whole grains, so 1/3 of this commercial is dedicated to what you could do with all that energy. energy for making new ocean friends. ♪ waiting is the hardest part ♪ every day >>> >> one kick away and he gets it! destiny at his feet -- or in his hands. he scores! the graet adventure continues! >> what a weekend of football as they call it. the world cup. costa rica winning on penalty kicks against greece. an incredible game in many over the weekend. good morning. monday, june 30th. i'm willie geist. joe and mika are off this morning. that is incredible kick. with us on set mike barnicle.

i'm thomas roberts. it's thursday, june 12th. welcome to way too early. the show that didn't crack forbe's list of highest paid athletes. but that's okay because none of us are actually athletes unless you count duck pin bowling. nobody did that? yes, okay. we have a whole crowd of duck pinners here. let's get to business as we start out with iraq. we have 11 years after american troops arrived in baghdad that city is facing the threat of a new invasion from some of the same insurgents they spent a decade fighting. they're toppling major cities with stunning speed and now fighters are vowing to march all the way to the capital. their goal is to establish an islamic state that is across iraq and syria. they already control huge portions of both countries. the group used to be known as al qaeda in iraq but was kicked out of the main terror organization for being too vicious. now, the fighters have teamed up with other factions to simultaneously battle the governments of iraq and syria as well as other rebels and as nbc's richard engle reports the conflict i

i'm thomas roberts. it is june 3rd.elcome to "way too early," the show that has a theory about florida georgia line and i'm not talking about the country pop duo. thanks, guys. we've got more about sergeant bowe bergdahl. he could be back by the end of the week but the questions surrounding his release will extend longer than that because a lot of the focus is on how he was captured back in june of '09. multiple reports say bergdahl sent an e-mail to his parents just before he went missing. writing i'm sorry for everything here. these people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid. i'm ashamed to be an american and the title of u.s. soldier is just the lie of fools. the horror is that america is disgusting. his father said obey your conscience. and he walked off the base without his weapon. in the months that followed at least six were killed in the mission to find their fellow soldier. some are speaking out. the parents of lieut

"way too early with thomas roberts" starts right now. >>> can they do something here? it's a great cross, and it is an equalizer! >> equalizer is right. u.s. soccer fans stunned after the red, white and blue squanders its lead against portugal in the final seconds. what the u.s. has to do to advance in the world cup. >>> plus secretary of state john kerry has just arrived in baghdad as militants make major advancements over the weekend, but is there a diplomatic solution to this crisis that's already spiraled out of control? >>> and prelude to 2016. republicans pounce on hillary clinton as she tries to distance herself from those who are, quote, truly well off. this is "way too early." >>> good morning. i'm mika brzezinski. welcome to "way too early," the show that never celebrates before the clock runs out. we do not do that, jen, do we? we begin with secretary of state john kerry arriving in baghdad this morning as the u.s. tries to bolster iraq's security forces in the face of a raging insurgency. militants from the isis now control two keyboarder posts in the west,

"way too early with thomas roberts" starts now. >>> i'll work with anybody, but he's got a very steepse he has no background or knowledge of the issues that challenge us including right now. >> on the attack. senator john mccain in mississippi trying to help his longtime colleague thad cochran beat back a serious tea party challenge. it's election day, and things are getting really ugly. >>> plus, the latest from iraq where militants have now marched within 20 miles of baghdad. will u.s. military advisers be able to counter those massive gains? >>> and talk about presidential overreach. why this picture of president obama's lunch outing is making the rounds on social media this morning. this is "way too early." >>> good morning, i'm mika brzezinski. welcome to "way too early" where there's really no such thing as lunch, but it is beach cover-up day. allen, where's yours? you didn't know? you don't have your pineapples? too bad. we begin in mississippi where it is decision day again for voters. polls will be opening up in a few hours for the republican senate runoff. chris mcdaniel loo

"way too early" with thomas roberts starts right now. ♪ >>> the policies of the last six years have leftica diminished and weakened. our enemies no longer fear us. our allies no longer trust us. empty threats, meaningless red lines, leading from behind and engagement with rogue regimes have put america on a path of decline. >> former vice president dick cheney and his daughter, liz, blasting president obama's foreign policy in the wake of the crisis in iraq, both on video and in print, but are they really in a position to offer advice on this issue? we'll have reaction. >>> plus, the latest from iraq, where officials say the country's largest oil refinery is under siege and could fall under extremist control. >>> and a big win for those fighting to get the redskins to change its mascot. which native americans and many others consider a racial slur. this is "way too early." >>> good morning. i'm mika brzezkinski. welcome to "way too early," which for me is about 30 minutes too early from "way too early." thomas is off this morning. >>> president obama is expected to lay out his plan for i

i'm thomas roberts. it is wednesday, june 11th. welcome to "way too early," the show that loves upsets, especially when they involve political races that no one predicted. if you hadn't heard the name dave brat before last night, you were not alone in that, but now, the virginia college professor has unseated one of the most powerful men in congress, eric cantor, winning by 12 points in the republican primary. cantor, who rode a wave of tea party victories in 2010 to become house majority leader, suddenly found himself on the wrong side of the group's support and addressed stunned supporters last night. >> obviously, we came up short. i know there's a lot of long faces here tonight, and it's disappointing, sure, but i believe in this country, i believe there's opportunity around the next corner for all of us. so, i'll look forward to continuing to fight with all of you for the things that we believe in, for the conservative cause, because those solutions of ours are the answer to the problems that so many people are facing today. t

. >> jay, this is thomas roberts.ng we're too chummy with the white house. what's the perspective? is the media too chummy or does your example of being on defense the whole time put the kibosh on that? >> i've never felt that was true. when i came in as a young white house reporter, there was a huge amount of tension in the white house and the west wing between reporters covered the new president and the white house press corps. you saw that periodically through clinton and bush and the obama administration as well. i think what we have to division between is the sort of normal tension that exists because reporters are out there trying to get information. sometimes they feel they're not getting enough. and then kind of the thee -- th theatricality of it all. if you watch a briefing in its entirety, you'd be struck but how much the same questions are repeated when they were asked two minutes before. i think reporters want a crack at a moment on tv. >> let me ask you this is closing. you worked for joe biden. how good

scalia, kennedy, thomas, roberts, and alito, they are all roman catholic. you can see that anthony kennedy, and one of his writin gs, said that he needed to protect women from themselves. he did not think that they could tell women what they need to do with their bodies. really -- itit is will not stop here. >> this in the walkie, wisconsin, republicans line. caller: that is a bunch of baloney. people have to understand that hobby lobby provided a lot of birth control for a lot of people. they do not agree with the morning-after pill and other things that terminate pregnancy. we have religious freedom. you do not have to work for the company. this is a blow to obama and ty ranny. what kennedy's issue with this whole law was was that the law was written not by an elective body,but by an appointed which was created. they were making the rules on this. that is what turned him against this. -- see ople,ave people, good pe that have religious backgrounds. they do not believe in terminating a -- abortion is murder. . simple. life can start anywhere. >> we will ha

in the case of our navigation example, we had companies like thomas roberts and garmen and imagine elan, and they knew that the smartphone was starting to take off. had he knew it was possible that somebody google, apple, somebody else, start-up could launch a navigation app, but they said we don't see any threat yet. hasn't shown up wret. we'll wait. we'll respond when it does show up. when it did respond, it took off. you had millions of people saying this is better and cheaper. this is worse and more expensive. which one am i going to hoos? by then it was too late for them to respond. we say that, in fact, innovators, that is to say incumbent businesses of any kind need to start looking much earlier into the life cycle of new technologies and recognize that even before -- things like kickstarter that allow to you see how people are playing with new technologies, and we say that's the moment when you should get worried. >> how technology is changing the way companies do business. tonight on the communicators. 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> steven hadley recently spoke at an event a

ambassador, this is thomas roberts. you subscribe to the abm approach, anybody about maliki? >> no.had to leave as prime minister. of all, he won the election. this, by the way, was the sixth election the iraqis had since liberation. it is a democratic government. which is rare in the region. they live under a executiconsti 'cha is a liberal constitution. >> can there be success if mr. maliki is there, mr. ambassador? can there be success if maliki is in power? >> there can be. >> how? >> as long as it is a broader, more politically responsive and representative government. i don't think we should take positions in trying to choose who is the leader. what we can do, as the president began to do on friday, is to say that there has to be a broader political base of operations for us to make the commitment to come in and help. >> but, mr. ambassador, we were there in '09 and se'10 and '111 and pushing maliki every step of the way. he always made the wrong choices. he was always exclusively a shiite first. how do we do that unless we start -- unless we surround him with ten american gen

it is thomas roberts' biggest fan, my daughter, that's the single biggest ride she's been on and thathough, and to go a second time. he's coming back and he's done. anyway i think it's great. >> tell me about my phone, brian. >> well, we'll see. we'll see. amazon expected, it's not guaranteed, to launch a new smartphone today. it's very crowded space, mika. to your point everyone talking about their phones, either iphones or samsung. 3% have microsoft. it's a hard space to break into, and the expectation is that amazon will try to break into that space today. what would differentiate them? there's some ideas. amazon's goal is really not to make any money on a phone. it is to sell you more stuff on amaz amazon.com on the easiest way possible. it may have a 3-d display. let's say you got a sudden urge to buy a futon or water balloon sling shot. you could look at the product, rotate it, hit buy right on your phone. it might even tell you if there's a place nearby where you can get it through an amazon partner. everything is designed to drive you to buy more stuff through that phone. it's

thomas roberts -- >> was he there?d trump tapped him to be on assignment, to co-host the event. >> lucky guy. >> our next semifinalist is -- going to have to wait a little longer. >> such a tease. >> big tease. >> you have said you go country line dancing all the time? >> you're my soulmate for the night. >> nor the night. >> featuring super star nelly, get on your feet for florida georgia line. we encourage you to visit baton rouge for their hospitality it is a fun town. >> we have lad way too much fun here. >> yes! why didn't he invite me to go? >> i told them not to. i did not know he would go for thomas. >> i would have gone for tom pass. >> it's a pageant. >> it's a scholarship contest. it's -- >> i actually watched. >> they're doing important things. >> full disclosure i went from the tony's and flipped over and doing the bikini thing like 1962. >> what? do you mean -- >> i can't believe it. >> we have bikinis in 2014 as well. >> it was ridiculous. >> the thing is, you look at that, i think that's a negative way

scott leah and thomas dissenting from the roberts opinion striking down that conditions had two bad. they could just say no. turned on the money. and roberts says freedom to turn down the government's offe goves not always a sufficient answer and the offer uses a government leverage over the private resources to get people to sing the governments to. so the court is moving in lots of intriguing directions the book deals with. the book identifies powerful trends in various justices views of coercion and marginalization that connect connect important s of the decisions discussed in the book. like, for example, the 5-for ruling upholding the core of obamacare. this has been-to rulings striking down the medicaid part of obamacare, the 5-for ruling striking down one campaign-finance regulation after another. those may not seem like they have a lot to do with each other but i show in the book that in fact they are born of similar views and they are subject to similar contradictions. and then there are decisions that of course i don't discuss in the book that were handed down since it was f

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i was too much, not just for scalia, alito, roberts, thomas, but justice kennedy flipped over and wanted the liberals there and said that does compromise at least the appearance of due process. so we are going to send that one back and say that the judge should not have sat on the case. it was fascinating to me that the next year we have the coal mine collapse from the massey 29 people died, the governor issued a report and said one of the factors and what happened was the failure of politicians to try to sell a sleek and force the laws and regulations against domestic corporation because they were afraid of the political spending and the willingness to engage in independent expenditures of the ceo. >> thank you. i went to look at that case. we have heard about it. it is one example of that story of what has been going on. i think your argument about the corruption and what this is leading to is of great merit. i would also say that i'm glad that you have come out, mr. abrams, saying under this scenario we would have no rules, no limits on contributions, no limits on corporate contributi

justice john roberts alito, scalia, and thomas. the decision today upholds that law. the supreme court said it serves an important purpose. >> and perter, it was a rare blw to the gun lobby. what was the argument from the other side to justify as a defense for the straw man purchases? >> well, they said it shouldn't matter when the person you're buying it for is legally into the told have the gun or not. in fact they pointed out that the federal agency in charge of enforcing the law, the atf had changed its view over the years about the purpose of the law. whether it should be enforced only against criminals straw buyers trying to get hands into the people of guns who couldn't legally buy them or other purchases who were making it for somebody else. but the court said aatf has bee pretty consistent about applying it to everybody. >> pete williams live with the breaking details from the supreme court. >>> we're following fast moving developments in the crisis in iraq. where baghdad is now bracing for an attack by sunni insir sur gents who captured another major town. t

thomas's feedback. he just does not know this place. robert e lee knows it like the back of his hand, his men do. the army of the potomac do not know the terrain well. their maps are poor. they go to places which do not exist. it is kind of hard to do certain things if there is no hotchkiss. do know the maps are awful. it is not his yard. we have time for two more. >> i am struck with the -- of those union forces that are in theto launch attacks spring of 1864, you have some eds leading those prongs, except for sherman and grant and meade. was there no other choice? was grant stuck with those guys? would it have been possible for a mcpherson or a sheridan to have gone into one of those spots? >> he was stuck with those guys not because they are politicians, because that had seniority, more than anything else. they could command. they could request and demand, in certain places, the man positions. porter writes saying one of the objectives of the spring is that grant can fire people, but that have to show they are incompetent first. specificop look -- his reference is nathaniel banks. grant has to

interesting is the split number one we've got alito school and thomas who are actually going with this and on the other side you've got actually roberts siding with what you would call the liberals of the court did that surprise you that it came out that was roberts didn't so much because roberts has always been the bigger the corporation the more he likes them i mean roberts was a two million dollar your corporate lawyer so shocking top drawer firm i forget the name of it but you know he always sides and you look at his decisions you're going to entire career he always is on the side of whoever is the biggest most powerful you know force out there and in this case that's the telecommunications industry or the broadcast industry so that that on its face didn't surprise me. he's he's going to have a weird just like you see you know the this whole roberts court thing it's you know every court wants to at the end of the day you know roger tanny we had to be rolling over in his grave you know. rehnquist. i think he was horrified by citizens united you know. and so that i excuse me by bush v gore i think that citizens united and these kind