. >>> and how willie mays remembers herb cain. [ male announcer ] no one just hands you the title, mostdvanced technology in its class. it needs to be earned. earned with smartbeam head lamps. earned with vented temperature control seats. earned with an 8.4-inch touch screen. and if you're driving one, you know what it means to earn something. ♪ >>> welcome back to a second look. tonight we're remembering the late san francisco columnist herb cain. a man who wrote about the city he loved for over 60 years.over the years many of cain's anecdote came from the time he spent in north beach. first at places like enrico then the wash bag as he called it. years later, mackenzie walked through the area and told us how the area changed. >> reporter: of course some had seen the end of north beach in 1969 when enrico banducci was forced to close the hungry eye. the club that had given breaks to barbara strisand as well as a new hip comedians led by mert sal and lenny bruce. at that time, banducci blamed the high cost of doing business. >> it's not very feasible to sit there with a $500 a week act

vernon lane to willie mays way. lived on that street for more than 40 years. the move is to honor may's legacy and his work with children. the proposal will be reviewed later this month. : and the facelift for san francisco's metro complex is almost complete. beginning tomorrow, several restaurants and retail stores will begin moving in or will open for business. the project is a $30 million makeover for the downtown complex. it hosts an imax theater, bakeries, restaurants, and a target store. >>> and for the first time in san jose, city and county leaders celebrated black history month by raising a ceremonial flag. several hundred people came out for the event at city hall tonight. it was complete with drums, singers, and dance. >>> valley naacp helped organize a ceremony. 50,000 african americans live in santa clara. 3% of the county's population. >>> don't look now, but there are fresh faces hitting the runway. take a look. oh yeah. decked out, doggy strutted their stuff at the first annual hot dog. haut in san francisco. the fashion show, cbs 5's julie watt

vernon lane to willie mays way. the legend lived on that street for 40 years. it would honor his legacy and work with children. the city council will review the proposal later this month. so far, no opposition. >>> and for the first time in san jose, city and county leaders celebrated black history month by raising a flag at city hall. 60,000 african americans live in santa clara, county. 3%% of the population. >> coming up, men like to think they are better at everything, especially behind the wheel. coming up, the driving skill where women beat men. hands down. >> it was supposed to be secret, but the bad guys were listening into a phone call between the fbi and scott. the mistake one agent made. >>> imagine facing this -- >> the train ran over me. >> how one man went from soldier to suspected terrorist. why he is now a living legend. coming up next. >>> well, we all heard the stereotypes about women drivers. guess what? women have won the parking debate. a british study found women are better than men when it comes to parking. no kidding. researchers studied

willie mays had trouble buying a house in san francisco.a couple of people would not show him a house. they had to enlist the mayor and a bunch of people. this is their reservoir. companies would take a block and there would start wrecking houses. there were building two a day -- they were building two with a. the 1930's were the big boom times for the sunset. >> this is a recession. >> these are the homes in west would park. -- in westwood park. >> how did this perform? the composite the assembly -- come's assembly -- composite assembly. >> they would stucco it. they would put chicken wire on it. >> when i inspect buildings that are being remodeled, i see that the chicken wire mesh is completely gone. >> it is galvanized. the saltwater was enough to rest it out. >> it people think stucco is waterproof -- it is not waterproof. it sucks the water in. you have to water protect it and paint it. >> the above the low medium that was going on -- the bungalow frenzy that was going on, people were building houses at a remarkable rate in the 1930's.

that may have been better introducing willie brown saying that than dianne feinstein. i digress.as just reminded of that quote. willie, don't take offense and please don't write about that on sunday. [laughter] >> i'm just, as diane knows, i'm a big fan that goes back to my high school days when i was that little nervous teenager that was invited in the mayor's office. she asked me what i was interested in, a shakespeare class i was talking. next day, a beautiful book, collective works of shakespeare, 300 pages, it hasn't been open. i did open the first page, there is the mayor of san francisco, dianne feinstein. i still proudly have that book on my bookshelf. i have been a fan since then. boy, do you get to know someone on a personal basis and work with them and you get to admire them more. i drive around this city, i kid you not, i see so much of the work that you probably don't know senator feinstein thas has done. a lot of work at hunter's point cleaning up the shipyards, dianne feinstein's fingerprints are on all of it. the work in transbay terminal, you see it right now, di

yourself, mika, or willie, as a soldier who has to work beside, fight beside, and in some cases sleep beside an afghan soldier not knowing what's going on in their mind and what they mayo next, willie. >> and even bigger picture here, americans watching this say this is the military, these are the security forces, and this is the government that we're supposed to turn ourselves over to within a couple of years. how can that ever happen with any basis of trust? >> well, you know, u.s. military and, in fact, state department officials will argue that those who are killing american soldiers and others in these demonstrations and protests represent a small minority of the overall afghan security forces and government officials working with the americans. but as we've seen here, a small minority can inflict an awful lot of damage. >> thank you very much, to the political side of this. as the controversy over the burning of the korans continues, the top contenders for the republican nomination are hammering president obama for offering an apology over the incident. >> i think you highlight it when you apologize for it. you make it sound like there was something that you sho

willie geist starts right now. >>> a washington post piece by david ignatius suggests israel may be ready to go it alone this spring in an attack on iran's nuclear facilities. the question is what would the united states do if israel strikes first? >>> mitt romney wiggles out of a comment about the very poor, taking a break to accept the endorsement of donald trump inside trump hotel in las vegas. how badly damage will his candy da see by a line he claims was ripp

mays and king. morehouse college hosted this hour-and-a-half long discussion. >>> i'm willis sheftal, pro vost at morehouse college. it's migrate pleasure to be greetings on behalf of our president, robert michael franklin. his schedule has him traveling to day, but if you know robert, you know that the public intellectual that he is would prefer to be here for this discussion. i want to thank our distingui distinguished panelists for their participation in what promises to be a spirited discussion of interfaith pioneers pioneers martin luther king, jr., been gentleman main mays icons and giants. also want to thank you, the members of the audience, for braving the threatening weather to hear and interact with the panelists. finally, let me extend a special thanks to deen larry carter, roy craft, terry walker, and their support staffs for putting together another outstanding testament to the college's commitment to advancing interfaith dialogues. >>> once again, welcome all, and enjoy your afternoon. >>> thank you, doctor, let me add my words of welcome to you. it's such a privilege to see you all here and

. >>> so much positive feedback about willie geist's rendering of greedy bastards that we figured we might as well do it again. yesterday he maye wasted four years of his parent's cash at vanderbilt, but between his success at "morning joe" and his extraordinary reading skills, i might add, he's putting all that in the rear view mirror. back for another dramatic reading of our best-selling book, here's sir william of vanderbilt. >> today's vampire industries too have a dark magic. an unholy alliance of government based not just on the money they can contribute to political campaigns and spend on lobbying, but on their ability to hi hypnotize us with prices we're aware of paying is only the first cost we have to bare and there's a second hidden cost that is far higher. i call this the very bad deal hypothesis, and it goes like this. first, a greedy bastard offers us a local price on something we want or need. we accept the deal, but there's a catch. along with this thing we want, we have to accept a tiny chance that something terrible will happen. here's when it becomes a very bad deal. even though on any given day, there's a t

go on past that because, willie, none of the other candidates, not one of them, shows any sign of getting out. santorum is hiring people. he's taking a lot of comfort that he may be getting more delegates in michigan than romney because of the way they're counted. ron paul's likely to stay in until the convention and newt gingrich is going to stay until at least next week. he wants to win his home state of georgia "first look" if he wins there there's a bunch of southern states in march. >> as long as they have the money men behind them there's no reason to get out. let's look ahead to super tuesday. more than 400 delegates up for grab among them georgia, ohio, tennessee, oklahoma. the biggest battleground state ohio. the latest university of cincinnati poll, rick santorum leads ohio. that's 11 points up on romney. gingrich in third followed by ron paul. how does super tuesday shape up? conventional wisdom says it doesn't look very good for mitt romney when he goes state by state? >> that's right. there are a lot of states that did go either romney or santorum. ohio is our tie breaker. that's why both campaigns tell us that they're going to be heavy economics,

and twitter, the spanish may 15 movement marched in roughly 50 spanish cities and set up camps in highly visible public squares getting occupiers another name, campouts. willie, an activist involved in some of the earliest planning sessions for ows, described the spanish encampments he visited in june. these camps became centers of information, protests and revolutionary lives, and distribute free food, council booth focus on individual issues. the environ, the military, women's rights come and held meetings, teach-ins in public discussions. they covered the camps with placards displaying revolutionary slogans, and everywhere they went they left behind cloth banner, cardboard signs and graffiti. form in general assembly and working groups that reached decisions are consensus-based process, they created structures that occupy wall street would recycle and repurpose. the spanish occupation electrified willie. in spain, he said, i gained renewed urgency, and actually recognize the nature of the historical moment and the possibility of able t. was here in the u.s. the camp feels magical, but it's also totally jerryrigged. improvisation built upon an improvisatio

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willis descend on demi moore's home. i've kevin frazier from new york city. >>> "the insider" son. >> demi moore's health crisis -- >> moore may in trouble long before friends calmed 911. >> is demi going to rehoob? >> daughter's rumer and tallulah. >> it's appropriate for the people who care about her to try and get her to get help. >> then -- >> i came to his home immediately. >> the soul train creator's son today on calling 911 after the suicide. >> what prompted don to take his life? >> he was depressed in poor health. is that true? >> how don cornelius' ex could

you may not know the researchers names, but you know their work because it's used to create attack ads like this infamous one. >> one was willie horton who murder add boy in a robbery stab stabbing him 19 times. despite a life sentence, horton received 10 wpped passes from piston. horton fled, kidnapped a young couple stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. weekend prison passes. dukakis on crime. >> that ad helped george herbert walker bush win the election. you may recall the prief eye that is gave the information for that ad, they are like bounty hunters. they spend hours combing through public records and hunting down deep background sources looking for that little spark in a candidate's background that can turn into a political fire. our guests tonight have been doing opposition research for close to two decades and they are dishing up some secrets of their own in their new book, we're with nobody. that's the name of the book, and the authors are alan huffman and michael rejebian, and they come to us from new yorklet thank you so much for joining us inside the war roommentship alan, let me start with you. w

may very well win in minnesota. even though rick santorum won minnesota. they are breaking the connection between who people expressed a preference for at the caucus and how that willisessed the picking of the nominee. it doesn't matter who you voted for, your vote counts for ron paul. this is what the ron paul campaign says they are doing. it's not a secret. look in the press release. giving examples. in one precinct, the straw poll vote was 23 santorum, 13 for paul, 5 for romney, 2 for gingrich. 13 delegate slots from that precinct in larimer county and ron paul got all 13. they are explaining that they are doing this. is this legal? apparently this is legal at least it seems to be under republican party rules. the delegates are supposed to reflect the view of the caucus or the precinct they came from but nobody says they have to, and that weakness is why ron paul i think looks excited every night when he apparently is losing these states but he doesn't think he is. here to explain further is doug wead, senior advisor to the ron paul campaign, we're grateful he has chosen to talk with us. mr. wead, thank you for being here. >> you're welcome i'm glad you were born,

willie? >>> los angeles times says as romney heads into saturday's caucuses in nevada, his religion may workvor for the first time in this year's campaign, about 1/4 of the republican primary voters were mormons. they voted heavily for romney then and they are expected to do so this weekend. >> doesn't seem like it's been much of a problem at all? no? yes? >> no. >> and in the sunday "parade" magazine. "parade" goes inside the mind -- what's there to see? of a sports super fan. i'm confused. i don't know what's going on here. don't men just sit around the tv screen, spill food, get their bellies covered with beer and like food that they've dropped out of their mouth and then -- >> there's a connection between carbohydrates and -- >> brain deterioration? >> they're watching the game, but actually talking about deficit reduction. at least at my super bowl party. or is that just me? >> maybe we're talking about someone like, i don't know, patrick gavin? actually, no, he's holding -- >> it would not surprise you to know that i'm not the world's biggest football fan. >> really? you're not going t

and i've said, willie all along, one of the things that concerns me about mitt romney is we may be aboutment republican. if you take what mitt romney said a couple days ago on florida about he will never touch medicare -- >> and like him or not, newt gingrich made a speech last night after the result came in where he shook conservatives and said, guys, look at this guy, and look at me, and then he laid out the things he would do, which were a little ambitious, i think is a polite way to say it, the day he got into office. saying one more time, are you really, conservatives, going to go with this guy? i'm the conservative in the race. and that was the case he tried to make last night after the result after he lost by 14 points. >> by the way, a fascinating article by bill crystal, why february could matter. he says watch february because there's another story going on here. it's the santorum versus gingrich story. what happens if santorum catches gingrich in one state or two in february? does that turn santorum into the possible conservative alternative to romney? >> he's that likable guy

aton or nerd land as the case may be is iror schaad manji, our muslim lesbian, elaum james white, our own black straight -- actually, not straight, our funnyman and nona willist. thank you all for being here and standing in for your entire, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious background. you can even stand in for all of canada if you'd like, irshad. >> bring it on. i'm lousy at it all, missed it in all category. >> you're going to be thrown out of each and every category. i'm here as your host, the bi-racial black lady. we're going to play what we like to say this week in identity politics. stalin from the podcast in blackness. we actually saw the republican presidential candidates asked to reduce themselves to a single word. this is my favorite part of wednesday night's debate. let's take a look. >> we have a question from cnnpolitics.com. without caveats or explanations, please define yourself using one word and one word only. congressman paul? >> consistent. >> senator santorum? >> courage. >> resolute. >> cheerful. >> you got to have hats off to newt gingrich for realizing the absurdity of the question, like which dwarf are you? i'm cheerful dwar

taught me about women's health issues and may be applicable to -- >> i learned today the social issues while dormant are coming back and could have an impact. >> willie

may they rule the world. let me tell you -- >> good morning. it's friday, february 17th, welcome to "morning joe." >> i love you, willie. >> i love you too. >> iike bunnies. >> oh, my goodness. with us onset this morning msnbc contributor mike barnicle, the chairman of deutsch inc., donny deutsch, wes moore, political writer for the huffington post sam stein and political writer for the national review robert costa. good to see all of you guys. you're kind of the chaperone today, i've noticed. >> risky business. >> you go upstairs, we're going to be partying in the basement. let's start briefly with that sound bite from mitt romney. i think we have to. donny, you're an image man. did that feel authentic to you? >> i'm going to say again, i like bunnies. there's nothing authentic about this man. i mean, you buried the lead there and i like the trees in michigan are the right height. i go back to something i started saying in an interview when his wife said he was actually a very funny guy and the reporter turned to him and said, really, tell us. he said i love comedy, i love laurel and hardy. what human being from this century? this guy -- it g

may plead the fifth on one of them. you can choose the one you don't want to answer. >> wow. >> here's the first one. >> willie geist, whoika. >> willie geist, tell us one embarrassing thing about brian williams that might annoy him. >> smells like bologna. >> willie geist, who is the hottest female politician right now? >> the hottest. i still have a fifth, don't i? >> yeah. >> go for it. >> let's go with -- go off the grid a little bit, south carolina governor nikki haley. >> he didn't plead the fifth, everybody. willie don't care. >> didn't need the fifth. >> my goodness. >> and we close out the show -- ever seen a shot ski. it's a ski with shot glasses. andy on the left, lil kim in the middle wearing my jeremy lin t-shirt. do you have that photograph of lil kim for reference for me. there she is. >> so now we know where she gets her name. petite. >> very petite. >>> jeff greenfield -- >> we need to see him in that outfit. >> we'll be right back. uh oh. should we be letting him p-l-a-y with our t-a-b-l-e-t? [ mom ] i think it's fine. it's the new element from at&t so it's w-a-t-e-r proof. cool. what else does it d-o?