and joining us is tom colicchio. top chef and founder of the colicchio restaurant. leasure to have you here. >> thanks, chris. >> tom, the documentary is -- you know, it's horrifying to watch this unfold. and it's moving in seeing the faces of people that are just kind of grinding along. and i came away thinking, well, what's the failure here? like what is wrong that we are doing wrong? is this broadly a problem with poverty in general, and hunger is the simpymptom? do we target hunger itself or do we need to make sure people aren't poor? >> actually, i think both. it is a symptom of poverty but you can't target the symptom. the discussion of poverty taking on a much bigger political discussion. you start getting questions why are people living in poverty. it goes into how can we fix that. we know we can fix hunger because we fixed it before. back in 1968 there was a doc that came out, a news doc that came out called "hungry america." and it showed near starving conditions in the united states. very quickly the populous demanded that it be fixed. you had senators dol

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. >>> coming up on "morning jo" celebrity chef tom colicchio. >>> and general odierno joins us, but bill has the forecast. >> last night a fire caused evacuations in southern california. this is supposed to be the end of the rainy season. it was scary of the possibility of things to come. this is in riverside county, just a good safe distance away from los angeles and also san diego, but some homes were threatened and evacuations took place. that fire is only 20% contained. it's going to be warm and windy out there today, so good luck with the firefighters on the scene, about 200 of them. >>> just a few snow showers, it doesn't feel like march around much of the country. if you're in the blue or pink, you're below freezing windchills, so a chilly begins to march. here's your weekend forecast. today, no real big travel issues out there. as we go through your saturday and sunday, we continue very chilly. the next storm to watch actually comes into montana and the dakotas starting on sunday. this has a chance to be a significant snowstorm as it mov

demand, at select theaters now, on itunes, christy jacobson did this along with lori silverbush and tom colicchio. since i have no joe here and just have you listening to me, this right here -- this is an example of what i would like to do to our food environment. this is is full of fat and full of sugar, and has no value. we want to eradicate, we don't need it. >> even though i ate one, i think you're right. that is eradicated. >> what i learned today is -- >> that you agree with me? >> i do agree with you, but i worked in congress for ten years. i'm used to them coming in at the last minute and getting it done. today i learned it's not always going to happen. >> i'm blocking it out. it's really depressing. everyone have a great weekend. it is friday, right? if it's way too early, it's time for "morning joe." but time for "the dylan ratigan show," right on time with chuck todd. >>> actually, mika, you banked five seconds. the beat goes on. today is the day. they head to the white house this morning for one more chat that has no chance of avoiding the automatic budget cuts that will kick in by mi

at 12, hailey thomas has already met her celebrity eyele dolls, chefs like tom colicchio and alice waterse a little slacker. no, no. you're doing a great job. how long have you been cooking? >> since i was really 5. >> wow. >> it's been a long time. >> you have great recipes kids can make starting with a quinoa and shrimp salad. >> the ingredients are simple. i will have you -- >> you cooked the quinoa already. >> it takes 20 minutes. then we have corn, black beans. these are great flavor combinations. you know, really bright with some onion, tomatoes. then add just a pinch of salt. mix it up for me and incorporate it while i go over here and work on the shrimp. >> this is something you made -- that was prepared for the first lady's first kids state dinner. >> yes. that was very exciting to have the first lady enjoy my food. all right. so once that's incorporated we'll add it to the plate. for this shrimp here, i'm going to add some garlic and some sea salt. >> shrimp cooks quickly, right? >> really quickly. i paired it with shrimp because i love seafood so much. get that in there. >> sme