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inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast.ve, served daily. >>> welcome back, everybody. earlier in the show we asked you about the caption could be test we wanted to have for the most retweeted photo of all time. ellen's selfie from the oscars. >> here's a good one. i'm more famous. no, i'm more famous. i'm the most famous. you only need to see the eyes. another good one is nobody puts president underwood in the back of the photo. if you see kevin spacey there. >> house of cards, house of cards. who we don't see is liza minelli who is in the back. if you look from the back, she's in the front. that is it for "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ hollywood hollywood ♪ >> when i was here, last year, cate blanchett was nominated and merle streep was nominated and leo dinardo dicaprio was nominated. what is important in life is love and friendship and family and if people don't have those

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which light is a first for russia this year and then add tomorrow cross country skiing comes out tuscany jam packed with action. hopefully rash that can keep this momentum going well i surely a very very impressive start dear liza think is too much for bringing us this update and as you said there's a lot more to look forward to it than to friends. reporting from such for us. the other stories now here on rt german school skits and teach children about minority sexual lifestyles as part of the curriculum. the plan is already met strong opposition from some parents the only one kids taught traditional family values. ike is this account. this explains. he has shown to cause this much of a star in southern germany fight is brewing over a proposal to teach sexual minorities in school the initiative won't go into effect until next year old to teach students to be tolerant of different lifestyles relationships. according to germany's largest family planning and supplication nonprofits understanding and accepting differences is what it's all about. one to one in the world is confident and that'

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inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast.ley of love, served daily. >>> congressman paul ryan has stirred controversy with comments he made yesterday about people from the inner city and what he said is a quote, culture of not working. ryan made the comments in an interview with conserb tiff radio host bill bennett. >> your buddies, you know, have written books on this, which is we have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working. just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work. so there's a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with. everybody's got to get involved. >> ryan's comments sparked immediate reaction from california congresswoman barbara lee, who called the remarks dively offensive. she had reian's comments are a thinly veiled racial attach. when mr. rye an yes, sir inner city, culture, these are simply code words for what he really means, black. >> ryan responded said his remarks had nothing to do with race and

inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast.ley of love, served daily. >>> welcome back on this monday morning. senator marco rubio has been one of the most vocal voices hitting out at president obama's handling of the events in ukraine, demanding the administration acknowledged that its so-called reset with russia is dead, but as politico points out today, senator rubio is orchestrating a reboot of his own right now. in his case, a reset with gop conservative base, part of an attempt to put the bitter immigration fight behind him as he positions himself for what allies say is an increasingly likely presidential bid in 2016. rubio has been raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the republican party and has a series of speeches planned, including one this afternoon at google's headquarters in washington. joining me live now is nbc's kasie hunt. the immigration reform was supposed to be proof that marco rubio cold get legislation moved perhaps in a bipartisan way and instead what he ended up getting is a lot of tough rhetori

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inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast.love, served daily. >>> house budget committee chairman paul ryan hit a big public snag with comments he made upon bill bennett's conservative radio show. >> we have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men not working and generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and culture of work. so there's a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with. >> the backlash from those comments about culture wasn't lost on ryan or his staff. here's part of a statement he then sent to reporters. after reading the transcript of yesterday's interview, it's clear i was inarticulate about the point i was trying to make. i was not implicating the culture of one community but as society as a whole. i know that the congressional black caucus invited congressman ryan to meet with the caucus. have you heard a response? >> i imagine representative ryan will come. but i think when he was talking about -- he meant the culture of the american culture

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inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast.ed daily. >>> putin on the line. the president, his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, and an hour-long telephone conversation. this morning, competing versions of how that conversation played out. the president heads south one hour from now to miami, but first he'll deliver a speech on expanding the middle class at a florida high school. then, well, a warm weather weekend for the first family. >>> and on top of the ukraine question, the president will also pass on air force one, a jobs report that's rosier than expected. already the markets are reacting. take a look, the dow up at this point 36 points. good morning, i'm chris jansing. we'll get to all that, but we begin today with day two at cpac, which got under way about an hour ago, day two featuring a trio of guys who wanted to be

inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast.e, served daily. >>> we go to florida right now, where the families of trayvon martin, jordan davis, and marissa alexander are joining civil rights organizations for a rally against stand your ground laws. the rally in march at the state capitol in tallahassee will launch what is being called a, "self defense campaign," aimed at reforming stand your ground nationwide. also speaking at the rally, lucy mcbath, the mother of jordan davis, who was shot and killed while sitting in an suv after an argument of loud music. the man who shot him claimed it was self defense. he was convicted on multiple counts of attempted murder, but the first-degree murder charge ended in a mistrial. cheryl anderson is a family friend of jordan davis's family and chapter leader for moms demand action for gun sense in america and joins us now. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> absolutely. i know that the reverend al sharpton is speaking right now, president of the national action n

inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast. medley of love, served daily. >>> the north korean government reported today that dictator kim jong-un elected sunday with 100% of the vote and 100% turnout. which is not suspect at all. a north korean ballot just one candidate for each seat and its citizens supposedly can vote yes or no. there are no exit polls available about voter whose may have muzzle their descent, perhaps out of fear of the brutal regime which the u.s. says is committing crimes against humanity. after the break, how do you know when a key intelligence report contains critical and foengslily damaging material? when the cia reportedly spies on the lawmakers responsible for that report. so i get invited to quite a few family gatherings. heck, i saved judith here a fortune with discounts like safe driver, multi-car, paperless. you make a mighty fine missus, m'lady. i'm not saying mark's thrifty. let's just say, i saved him $519, and it certainly didn't go toward that ring. am i right? [ laughs ] [ dance music playin

inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast. medley of love, served daily. >>> welcome back. this week governor cl butch ot or may them the state to allow guns on college campuses. to carry concealed weapons in many parts of campuses and it has sparked a heated debate in idaho. the reach issue may be how legislators shut out colleges that are most affected by this bill. it was opposed by all presidents of idaho's eight public colleges and universities who argued it would put those on campus at risk and require extra safety measures costing hundreds and nows of dollars. the question they and many students who fear for safety are asking, why can't schools decide for themselves? joining us now is lori haas who co-wrote a letter asking him to veto the bill. her daughter emily survived after being shot twice during the virginia tech massacre. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> your letter said adding more people with guns on campus would only make the situation more dangerous. can you explain your logic

inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast.of love, served daily. no, really, do not call it a comeback. after a 48-hour whirlwind that saw a christie administration commissioned, tax-payer funded vindication, network interview, cable interview, and good old combative press conference the new jersey governor tried to get back to being the presumed republican front runner in 2016 race by heading to sin city to court billionaire casino magnate pro-israel activist and big-time republican pooh-bah, sheldon adelson. the event, republican coalition jewish spring meeting. how chris christie tried to win over. >> i took a helicopter from occupied territories across and just felt personally how extraordinary that was to understand the military risk that israel faces every day. >> #foreheadslap. note to governor christie, occupied territories is not how staunch israel advocates refer to areas like the west bank. sources tell nbc news that christie later apologized to addleson during a private meeting after the speech, but it was just ano

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inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast. a medley of love, served daily. >>> republicans have a problem, and it goes by the name of a rapidly expanding hispanic population. they can run, hide and restrict voting all they want, but the number crunchers have all kinds of charts and graphs that prove that a larger latino population, absent some attempt to appeal to these emerging voters, is a huge problem for the gop. meanwhile, house speaker john boehner continues to block immigration reform from getting a vote because what the gop also has is a base that's highly resistant to reform, even if it's in their party's best long-term interest. immigration activists have had it with the delays, and now they are not just targeting republicans. a recent study out of the university of california estimates that the obama administration is on track for more than 2 million deportations, more in six years than all people deported before 1997. at a town hall last week the president responded to critics labeling him the deporter in chief, pu

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inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast.y of love, served daily. >>> we are back, and you are in the storm cycle right now. in new york temperatures are the mid-60s, that's right, mid-60 vmgtz you heard me right. >> no, i didn't. >> that's going to change thanks to what's lurk out west. snow and ice blanketing an area and some areas will have a foot of snow by the time all is said and done. looks like the big cities will escape the worst of it. up in maine anywhere between 18 and 24 inches is expected. spring begins in nine days, krystal and looks like mother nature is soaking up every minute of it. >> congressman paul ryan's attempt to overhaul government assistance programs got off to a rocky start. the house committee chairman released a report on the war on poverty and blasted government assistance programs for low-income people as inefficient and ineffective. right there he proves it by showing the poverty rate as near lit same as it was on the onset of the war on poverty, but, wait, what is that little end note there?

took the pics is actually a trip to tuscany where religion has endured but the statement added from washington to try and and twitter is the equivalent of book burning in the twentieth century in all those who are we looking at this too westernized a dvd cd release all the rallies huge numbers of people who've been coming out. old people in the heartland. this is like a toy that they don't read this the same way. yes but if you look at the recent history people who bend the tree terrible bar and the internet that he has finished pretty badly and dance and eighty minutes. what use is true then that the dude in the vocal supporters of. i don't care but did not retire and times and they're not suited to their users but i think it's a very bad sign for a man who was described on the recent eu remember what was said about him a couple of years ago he was the most powerful men in the mid eighties he was taking the tomato tomato with a roll on the floor and did their abbreviations. honestly who wouldn't be a democratic way and so and so is it that the change of mood to change off of situation in in j

inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast.aily. >>> welcome back. we want to update you now on some breaking news that we've been watching all day. an explosion has destroyed two five-story buildings in new york city, and at least two people have been killed and 24 injured. more than 250 firefighters are at that scene right now battling the five-alarm fire caused by what is what apparently is an explosion. new york city's bill de blasio says the explosion was caused by a gas leak. just learned that the national transportation safety board is sending a go team to the site of the explosion. also this hour we've learned the explosion caused weak seismic readings at the observatory at columbia university. maybe further signs of instability. we'll keep following this story and keep you updated with the latest information. all right. but for now, we're going to turn to a story that has also been causing international headlines today, the oscar pistorius murder trial finished its eighth day today and the double amputee olympian was t

trying to secure the ball to stop suicide bombers coming in and and eighty cars coming in they say tuscany and coming in from syria as it seems content to stay in his lair is going on to say despite this post in its. we see today rick thank you very much indeed for updates. now he's the one hundred people are reported to be killed in clashes in central nigeria during the last forty eight hours to get to the lounge religion and ethnicity awful top spot on its two states all but i do not list of bullet solve regional countries known as the middle belt. the policy of the area has been seen to that deadly sectarian clashes between muslim and christian communities investigators in malaysia are continuing to such choices to you all watch might've caused a budding triple seven passenger plane with two hundred and thirty nine people aboard to vanish without a trace on the eighth of march. what's an investigation continues and color them with such area for the ashcroft has been extended and several countries among them frogs united states and china have been helping such entering a new face. alyssa

that's where the inspiration for this dish came from in my time in tuscany, and i got cooked for by the, i'm doing chicken today, because that's what people love. i've got chicken thighs, four of them, but they would have put anything, anything they've caught or anything that was about, from pork to wild boar to hare, rabbit, to pheasant, quail. you name it, it would have been in a hunter's stew, because it would have been whatever they would have caught. the one thing we haven't got is time. you know, one of the key parts of a cacciatore stew is hours and hours of blip, blip, blipping away. we haven't got that; so, we've got to be clever, and we want to bring those flavors together. so, first up, i've got the chicken thighs sliced. so, we've got little chunks. okay, from that point, a couple of tablespoons of olive oil go into the pan. you can see it's hot. as per usual with 15 minute meals, we have got no time to wait for nothing. we've got pans on. we've got kettles on. so, we're going to give that a good old stir straightaway. of course, with hot pans, it's, like, exciting cooking.

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inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast.e, served daily. liberty bills that we've been talking about often say their faith is under attack. disrespected in the culture, dismissed in the schools, and squeezed out of government. it's a fear of a secular planet, or at least an atheist government. one sponsor of the arizona bill that we've been covering said, for example, that the bill was aimed at preventing the rising attempt at discriminating against religious folks because they are sincere and serious about the free exercises of their religious faith. brian walsh says the threat to religious freedom is really being driven by government officials and policy focused on compelling people to violate their conscience. and a sponsor for a similar bill in georgia, state senator josh -- i should say, josh mccoop said, coat, the only folks who have spoken against this legislation are people who wont the government to be a tool to promote militant atheism. it was something that governor mitt romney also warned about in the 2012 campai