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Also got a lot of news and a really good guest here tonight for the interview, somebody whos doing his first Live Television interview since getting a really important job in the government. But here we go. It is an unusual source of hope for three british families tonight that had the city of istanbul in turkey has no freaking idea how to deal with large amounts of snow. Much like our cities here in the southeast that got whacked by sfloe this snow this week nothing against the cities but they have no idea how to deal with it. Much like whats going on in the american southeast this week. Istanbul in turkey is also not used to getting a ton of snow but they got like a foot of sfloe this week. They shut down the airport. They diverted tons and tons of international flights, including some that were already in the air before they got diverted. One shop keeper in istanbul got so upset by a group of guys having a snowball fight outside his shop that he stormed out of his shop and stabbed a guy. Apparently he did not realize that snowballs actually are not a deadly threat either to him or his shop. People who live in istanbul dont have snow tires or fourwheel drive cars. They have no idea who you to drive in the snow. One day this week when they got the heaviest snowfall officials in istanbul reported more than 800 car crashes in the city in that one day. 800. But istanbul being shut down by snow right now. Its a minor weather story in its own right. It is a major story, a major potentially life or death story for the three families of these three teenage girls from england. These three teenage girls told their families in england on Tuesday Morning that they were going off to school. Two of them are 15 years old. One is 16 years old. Theyre all good friends, all a students in high school in britain. They told their families what they were going to school. What they did instead was turn up at the airport in london got on a Turkish Airways flight to istanbul. Their families now believe they were planning to land in turkey, then cross the border from turkey into syria to go join isis. And the families major source of hope right now is that they may be able to stop these girls by virtue of the fact that turkey has been socked in by this huge snowstorm and that has pretty much stopped anybody from being able to travel anywhere efficiently in big parts of that country and that is their hope. That is their hope right now. Today the metropolitan police. London made a Public Appeal for anybody who might know anything that might stop these three british schoolgirls before they get to syria, before they get to isis. The three girls walk through security at Londons Gatwick airport showing no hint of their intentions. They flew to istanbul, bound for syria, officials fear to join isis. This 15yearold, this 16yearold and another 15yearold whose parents asked not to be named raised alarm bells when they didnt come home tuesday night. These three families had no idea of the intentions of their daughters. No idea whatsoever that they were going to be traveling to turkey and that they intended to go to syria. Reporter they were known as normal teenagers, good students. But on one twitter account sunday, a message to a female isis member a known recruiter asking for a private conversation. The three girls are known to be Close Friends and in the same form here at this academy. But it has emerged that they were also friends with a fourth girl who traveled from gatwick last december. Shes in syria now and its thought her journey may have inspired them. Thats reporting both from nbc news and from itv in london today. About these three london schoolgirls about whom the British Police have issued a public alert hoping that these girls can be found before tle end up with isis in syria. Also today, nbc just put together some remarkable reporting. They found a 16yearold boy who had joined isis in syria as a 15yearold. He became one of isis child soldiers. He was wounded fighting alongside isis and everything. He ultimately became disillusioned and he quit isis. Nbcs jamie novagrad found this kid in hiding in turkey and just did this remarkable interview with him. Watch this. 16yearold khaled says he is lost and on the run. We found him in this turkish city near the border with syria. He agreed to an interview on the condition that we not show his face. Translator im not afraid here but im afraid of isis. Reporter he was once part of isis. He didnt like it so he escaped. Isis calls its child soldiers lion cubs of the caliphate. It celebrates them in propaganda videos like this one. Children are trained to use a rifle, given classes in religion, and taught to love isis and hate its enemies. Then the children are sent into combat. For khaled that day came sooner than he expected. His camp was attacked only two weeks after he had first picked up a gun. Four isis fighters were killed. Khaled was shot in the neck. He was terrified and he missed home. His mother heard he had been wounded and she found him at the isis camp. What did she say to you . Translator she said take care of yourself. He cant continue telling his story without crying. Two months later, he managed to escape across the border to turkey. He now lives in hiding sleeping in a cheap hotel. What would you say to a young person who came up to you and said im thinking about joining isis. Translator i will tell him my whole story. I will tell him dont do it. That remarkable interview for nbc news today. Whether it is boys from syria, like that 16yearold kid, or teenagers from the west apparently like these three girls from east london whose parents are desperately looking for them right now, isis brags about using young people using teenagers, using kids. They do it in those propaganda videos. They also do it online in their social media presence. Here for example is a proisis twitter account. Posting a picture of child soldiers from an isis propaganda video and the tweet says in english, there you can see it the bravest of men here are between the ages of 11 and 13. The Sleeping Lion is now been awoken. You can see from the stats there, didnt get a huge amount of traffic. That tweet was retweeted 20 times. It was favorited 12 times. But you know what else that tweet got . It got a direct response from the u. S. State department. On the state Department Twitter account thats called think again turn away they respond directly to that guys tweet. That guy bragging about the isis child soldiers and calling those 1 1yearold kids brave men. Look at the state department response. Theyre writing directly to this guy. It takes men with absolutely no honor to rob children of their innocence, encourage them to kill, use them as conenanon fodder. Having this rg ament online about these child soldiers these kids. Isis does these super slickly produced propaganda videos. They have a big slick social media presence. It is part of how they are able to recruit muslim kids from all over the world so aggressively. And its interesting, the most visible fight against isis in that space online where they operate so effectively, the most visible fighters against them online have actually been the hackers who hate them. You might remember right after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in paris, the hacker collective anonymous, the guy fox mask as their symbol they basically declared online war against isis after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Say expect a massive reaction from anonymous. We are tracking you down we will find you and never leave you any rest. They did this threatening video. They push blishd a big long list of websites and twitter accounts that they said were affiliated with isis and were isis supporters. And annoy muss,onymous systematically just started knocking them offline. They had all been knocked offline. Now they started another round of that. Anonymous has posted a new list of hundreds of other twitter feeds and social media accounts that they say are linked to terrorists and terrorist propaganda specifically to isis. And as hackers, anonymous has targeted those websites and those social media accounts and knocked them offline. But you know they really are just an anonymous collective of random hackers. Right . I mean anonymous is really nothing official. As they have been going after isis online and knocking off all of these twitter accounts and social media accounts and websites they have also recently in the last few days given a friendly nudge to governments and to Companies Like twitter saying hey, if were just a bunch of hackers doing this at home in our pa jam pla as can attack isis you can, too, governments of the world. Greetings citizens of the world. Governments and corporations. We are anonymous. First a message to isis. Isis, we will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts emails, and expose you, this time we will expose your new twitter accounts with our last operation, isis we show the world and especially governments its not that hard to fight back isis online. So why no government doing it they dont know how, though they dont want to. It is so weird to engage with the talking computer voice guy fox mask guy. Right . But there is how anonymous communicates. Anonymous is basically saying here, hey, we are able to totally disrupt isis online. Why do we have to do this . Shouldnt governments be doing this . But then they make a very specific offer. Were opening new accounts that isis members and supporters have created since then. Were not trying to tell you how to do your job, but just trying to help out. Were just trying to help out. Your friendly neighborhood of spooky hackers. It is really nice that theyre against isis right . Theyre going to destroy somebody online. If you had to pick one, youd have them destroy isis online. Right . But anonymous is also basically clal lengthing governments achbd also Tech Companies saying what theyre doing is not that hard. More can be done to shut isis down in terms of their Online Presence, online propaganda online social networking. Well, this week the u. S. Government said basically the u. S. Government said yeah. The u. S. Government this week said they are upping what they are doing against isis online. In terms of isis online recruiting and their Online Presence an their online propaganda. And the u. S. Government lass just put a new guy in charge of their efforts. The newly designated wait it is a long title special envoy for strategic counterterrorism communications. At the state department. He is the First American muslim to hold this job or any job like it. His name is Rashad Hussein and hes our guest tonight for the interview. This is his first live american tv interview since taking over this new post. Mr. Hussein, congratulations on your new gig. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me rachel. Let me ask you a laymans question here, layman in terms of not understand being the overall strategy here. Do you fight isis online by taking their stuff down by closing their accounts by trying to wipe them off the web, or do you fight them online by leaving them up but trying to keith with their message instead . Well, the challenge that were facing online is that terrorists around the world are in many cases using perverted interpretation of islam and theyre playing off the grievances of people around the world, particularly disaffected young people and trying to recruit them to their ideology. They are offering a message which they say provides a sense of purpose, a sense of meaning and a sense of religious obligation. So its our obligation to work with our International Partners around the world to provide an alternative message and to promote a positive alternatives. We want to amplify facts that we believe speak for themselves. And if you hear the voices and the arguments of former radicals as the ones that you just profiled on your show and you hear the voices of muslims around the world that have rejected their message and you amplify the fact that murzs are muslims are overalmostwhelmingly the victims of terror attacks worldwide. There are parts of our countergovernment that will do the more covert parts of this project, taking down websites and things like that but our focus and what we are doing is working with our International Partners and coming up with flish tifs initiatives to prevent violent extremism, also to work in the online space to coordinate our messaging as the United States government. We believe that there is a role for government but obviously there is a huge role for Civil Society and a huge role for our partners around the world often times which will be in many cases credible with audiences in their immediate geographical regions. Everybody says that isis is so good at their Online Presence. Obviously we can see from the quality of their propaganda films that theyre very good at Video Editing and special effects, stuff like that. But in terms of how they recruit online and how they reach people online and the way their message resonates online why are they so effective . What is actually so good about what they do . We have to acknowledge the fact that they are playing off of grievances that in many cases are widely held around the world. Theyre playing offer the grievance of muslim suffering. They say 200,000 to 300,000 people have been killed in syria and they make the point that the world isnt doing anything about it. We have to counter those facts, put the right facts out there. They play off this notion of the caliphates which many muslims around the world look at and, quite frankly, those that are uneducated dont understand. So they make this argument that once the caliphate has been established, that muslims around the world have to go there and fight. Now there are people that have grievances around the world and may be disaffected for a number of reasons, and that combines with this violent ideology theyre putting out and creates a dangerous combination. Theres grievances about lack of opportunity, economic opportunity. There is political grievances in many cases against their own governments for suppression, political expression for violations of human rights for violations of freedom of religion, for example. And so they play off those grievances and try to have a hook which provides a sense of meaning and purpose and religious obligation which in many cases can be very powerful. Can i ask you one specific question about something that emerged in the news today. There were some reports today that al arabiya obtained some really specific identifying personal information about the selfproclaimed leader of the caliphate and isis, al baghdadi. Whether that information turns out to be true that strategiry helpful making that public stla a way of going after these guys a way of interrupting their e inginge inging flaire inging narrative about themselves . Their actions speak for themselves. Look what theyve done over the last months. Youve seen brewal executions in libya. Weve seen the jordanian pilot thats burned alive. There is nothing in islam which permits this. These actions are prohibited. To the extent they are recruiting young muslims from around the world, we have to be clear when they are calling people to defend islam and muslims, what theyre actually doing is lamping islam and muslims more. Oftentimes it is our partners around the world, governmental partners and more importantly, nongovernmental partners that will be essential in making that message. I have had the opportunity to have honest conversations with muslims around the world. What theyll tell you is that theyll acknowledge that many of these actions are lapping inhappening in different parts of the world in the name of islam. But theyll also say the overwhelming majority of muslims reject these actions. Incredible muslim voices and leaders have spoken out. But despite that muslim communities around the world are often the targets of unfair treatment because of actions that are occurring in the name of islam. Muslims are constantly having to play defense on these issues and deal with discrimination whether theyre trying to go about their own daily lives and their careers. They do believe that they have an obligation to speak up with this and theyre doing their part, but there is a challenge. It is what the president and secretary have called a generational challenge. It is something that were going to be working on over the next couple of years. Rashad hussain, thank you. Again, congratulations on this really important new job. Thanks for being here tonight. Thanks. Great to be with you. Fascinating stuff. Plaj imagine if thats your job. Make isis sound dumb in the world. You no he . Make their arguments not stick anymore. Thats incredibly important work. It feels like the government lass to make a decision to try to do that. And it makes sense as a strategy whether it comes to actually the tactics of how you do it its fascinating stuff and an incredible task that people couldnt have even imagined a role for our government in doing. Even a generation ago. Lots more tonight including president obama slowing what i believe is fair to call undisguised joy in public. Theres confidence. Sowing what i believe is fair to call undisguised joy in public. 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Officials in dubai say everybodys been evacuated from the tower. There are no reports of injuries at this time. Reuters is reporting this in addition to the hundreds evacuated from the burning building itself residents of at least a couple buildings nearby were also evacuated for their safety. One witness told nbc news tonight that the fire at one point spread about 15 floors beyond where it started, driven up into the other parts of the building by what he described as a huge wind. He said he lives on the 27th floor and when he looked out his window he saw fire raining down from the windows above. In these booming cities like dubai where construction has been going so fast and the buildings are rising so tall there has been a question as to how safe the buildings are to be inside in the event of a fire. Now it appears that another question is whether it is safe to be near a skyscraper thats burning like this. People in dubai tonight describe watching not just flames but also debris falling from this giant tower and into buildings nearby and into the street. Tonights blaze is the fourth large fire in a residential tower in the emirates since 2012. After the last one, one expert warned publicly that about 70 of the very highrise buildings in dubai are wrapped in Construction Material that is considered to be highly combustible. We dont know yet whether that estimate includes this specific building, the torch tower. But dubai is a city of super, super tall buildings. And even among dubais many super tall skyscrapers, this one that caught fire tonight, it stands out. The torch is the fourthtallest building in dubai that is designed for people to live in. But again, the news tonight is that a very large fire broke out in the skyscraper in dubai in the united ash emirates, broke out overnight. Apparently somewhere around the 50th floor. We are told residents were evacuated safely. At this point we have no reports of injuries. But were joineded right now by john chorus. He lives across the street from the torch. He was evacuated tonight once it caught fire. Thanks so much for joining us. It is very late at night there so thanks for being with us. Hi, rachel. Thanks a lot. It is my pleasure. How did you find out that the fire was lapping . What did you see . Well actually i was asleep because it was 3 00 a. M. And basically the room came quite bright so at that point i was also starting to hear fire alarms and police are out there and the fire departments. So from the noise and everything. But mainly because the room was litten. I eventually woke up and i opened my balcony door. Im actually on the 45th floor so im very close to the actual fire where it took place. Matter of 100 feet or so. Wow. Yeah. It was over there. Right in front of me. Could you tell how much of the building was involved, how many floors, or how much of the buildings circumference was affected . Actually when i woke up it was only about two to three floors. But it really accelerated quite fast in a matter of 20 to 30 minutes, at most it reached i think like 15 floors above. So i was actually quite worried so actually myself and two more friends of mine we started to evacuate to leave the neighboring building. Dubai is so famous for its incredibly tall skyscrapers and for the speed with which theyve gone up in a very short number of years. In terms of this fire tonight, and you getting out and people in that building getting out, did it seem like there was an orderly well understood way that the authorities were handling this and keeping people safe . Did it feel like they had it under control once people realized what was going on . I think overall the Civil Department reacted quite well and we see that also from the fact that the fire was extinguished quite quickly. Yeah. I think overall my feeling was good although i did get worried some time from the sparks, pieces of debris were falling from around, i dont know, 500 feet. Because i was on balcony, i was still seeing quite a few people walking if the area where the debris was falling. John tsioris safely evacuated from the scene tonight. The skyscraper fire alarming to see these pictures. Thanks for helping us understand what happened. Good luck to you tonight. Thank you, rachel. All right. Wow. Those pictures are incredible. Again, the bottom line with that fire is that it is extinguished now. It burned for a few hours. Not exactly sure of the extent of the damage to the building. Happily, no damage there. We have a lot still ahead tonight, including the friday night news dump and a first here on this show. Halfpriced canadian underpants make the news today. 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The new plan apparently of Congressional Republicans and this is progress the new plan is to rebrand them selfas the party of the middle class. Not making this up. Our republican leader in the senate as he was coming in after having tried to block every single thing that we have done to strengthen the economy, starts looking at job numbers and says, you no he its Getting Better because we just got elected. And people are feeling more optimistic. Which okay. I didnt know thats how the economy worked but maybe. President obama speaking at the Democratic National committees winter meeting today and having a very good time doing so. The democrats are about a month in to this new congress in which they are the minority in both houses. So president obama was there, in part today to turn their frowns upside down. But also to basically set the tone for how he thinks democrats ought to wage their side of the argument heading into 2016. I always find it curious that when a democrats president , deficits go down republicans president , and then deficits are going up and yet they try to take on the mantel of fiscal probity. Our Auto Industry is firing on all cylinders. None of this is an accident. It is not an accident that america is creating jobs faster than since last time any democrat was a president. Its not an accident that our manufacturers are creating jo bs for the First Time Since the last time a democrat was president. Its not an accident that health care inflations running at the lowest rate in almost 50 years and that our deficits are falling faster thatten they have in of 0 years. Love you, obama. Thank you. The president basically gaming out for his fellow democrats in public in this oncamera speech today how he thinks they ought to fight for the next election. Even though they lost the last one. One of the policies on which Congressional Republicans are now fighting president obama the lardest and with the highest stakes is also one of his most popular policy moves and it garnered some of the biggest applause in this speech today. And stop trying to deport millions of striving young kids who just want to earn their shot at the American Dream like the rest of us. Help us fix a broken immigration system. There are a lot of ways to help the middle class. On that issue, on immigration, the president is giving limb selfanother chance to make a public case at a really crucial time next week. Host of the rundown here on msnbc on weekday mornings is one of the main anchors on telemundo. And on wednesday, jose got the get. Joses going to host a town hall with president obama live at Florida International university in miami. It is going to air here on msnbc at 8 00 on wednesday night. If things keep going the way they are between now and then between now and that town hall on wednesday, that town hall with jose on wednesday is going to be basically on the eve of the Homeland Security department shutting down. Republicans in congress say they are willing to shut down the whole Homeland Security department as a protest against president obamas executive actions on immigration. So that fight is happening in congress right between congress and the white house. That fight is also playing out in the courts this week a federal judge in texas blocked the president s new immigration policies. But next week in just a few days the president is also going to take that fight over immigration and over Homeland Security and all the rest to a third venue, to the court of public opinion. That is going to be wednesday at 8 00 right here. Jose is such a badass for guesting this get. It is very exciting. Well be right back. Sweet mother of softness. 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I bought a bunch that was clearly too small for me. I find it difficult to sit tore any for any length of time, mr. Speaker. So i apologize if it was necessary for me to leave my seat briefly but i did not mean to forfeit my right to vote. And that is a thing that did happen today in the canadian parliament. If there is a version of the too tight cheap underpants excuse that has ever happened in american politics please let me know. Rachel rachel msnbc. Com. If thats ever happened anywhere in american politics let me know and that will be a thing. Okay lets go go, go, go. Woah go right, go left, go left stop now go. shouting lets go i gotta go can i go . Yup you can go. beeping alert woah there you go way to go lets go buddy, lets go anncr the ford fusion. We go further, so you can. Hes out there. Theres a guy out there whose making a name for himself in a sport where your name and maybe a number are what define you. 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His defense was basically that yes, he did take all that stuff, including the White Ferrari and all the rest of it. But his defense was that he shouldnt be blamed. His defense was that actually it is the lady in the passenger seat who is really the one who did it. Governor Bob Mcdonnell and his wife maureen, retained separate defense lawyers when they were put on trial even though they were tried together. And his Defense Strategy was basically to blame the whole thing on her. Basically his play was that as the governors wife Maureen Mcdonnell technically wasnt a public official so she couldnt technically be corrupt or take bribes because she was just a private person. The idea was that if he could blame it all on her, maybe neither of them would get nailed. They both got nailed. They both were convicted in september. When Bob Mcdonnell was sentenced in january, the judge rebutted that defense. The judge said from the bench, while mrs. Mcdonnell may have allowed the serpent into the mansion, the governor knowingly let him into his personal and business affairs. Le le. Well today it was Maureen Mcdonnells turn. She was looking at up to 6 1 2 years for her felonies. The judge said to her that the defense in this case had gone from the lets throw mama under the bus defense to the lets throw mama off the train defense. Maureen mcdonnell told the judge today, i am the one who let the snake into the mansion, the venom from that snake has poisoned my marriage has poisoned my family and has poisoned the commonwealth. I am the one that opened the door. Guidelines called for more than five years in prison. Her defense was calling for community service. In the end she got one year and one day. The extra time is important because you cant qualify for time off for extra behavior unless you get more than a year. Where shes most likely to serve her time is at allegedersonalderson in West Virginia which you might remember at Martha Stewarts onetime prison home. Her husband has been allowed to be out on bail while her husband has been out on bail. She presumably will ask for the same treatment. But we know the result for the blame the wife for the governor of virginias corruption results. Hes going to prison but she is also going to prison. And virginia is one step closer to putting them into the rearview mirror. I make a lot of purchases for my business. And i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. Like 60,000 bonus points when i spent 5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. And i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at Office Supply stores. With ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. Travel, gift cards even cash back. And my rewards points wont expire. So you can make owning a business even more rewarding. Ink from chase. So you can. 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Who is playing tonight . Tonight, we have rocky marten. Hes from hatfield indiana, an electrician, married 29 years. And he fishes in tournaments. Youre kidding . Rocky, very nice to meet you. Thank you. What do you fish for . I fish for bass. I seen on friday that you had a fish, it was looked like a white perch to me. It was a white perch. An unusually large white perch, if i dont say so myself. But you fish for bass. Do you do any ice fishing or only open watter . No we dont get the thick ice, nope. Well if you ever want to come out here in new england, maybe if we make better friends, i would invite you. I just got a new auger. Rocky, thank you for being here. Nice to have you here. Thank you. Im going to ask you three questions. You get two or more right and what will rocky win . This fancy cocktail shaker. If you get all three right, or if you only get one right and we just need to give you a consolation prize, we also might send you something random that we found in our office its particularly random tonight. Im sorry ahead of time. What is the prize . A briefcase we can only open halfway. Were not quite sure whats in it. We have busted one lock other than that we dont know what were sending you. Is that okay with you . Yes. Okay. We also need to bring in steve benin, the guy who determines whether or not you got the right answer. Steve, meet rocky. Good evening to both of you. Good evening. Morning evening, steve. All right. Lets go with our first question. Our first question rocky, is from mondays show. On mondays show we talked about senator rand paul. He recently told the chamber of commerce that he holds a College Degree, which it turns out he does not actually have. He does have some degrees, but he doesnt have the one he claimed to have when he spoke to the chamber of commerce recently. Rand paul claimed to hold a College Degree in which field, a, chemistry, b, ophthalmology, c, biology, or d, acting. I am pretty sure its c, biology. Acting is the funny answer but lets check the segment from mondays show. Rand paul does not have a degree in biology. The amazing thing is nobody said to him, senator paul do you have a degree in biology . He just volunteered that. What rocky said is correct. C is the right answer. Well done on question one. Remember, you have to get two right to win the prize or you might have already won some junk. So lets go to question two. This is also from mondays show. We learned that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg used to have a seat mate at the state of the Union Address who she relied on to pinch her if she was falling asleep. Which was the designated pincher, a jus david souter b, sandra day o conner c, john paul, or d. That would be a. Lets check the tape from monday. David suitor was when he was on the court, he sat next to me. He could sense whether i was beginning my head was beginning to lower, so he would give me a pinch. The correct answer is a. And rocky is correct again. Well done rocky. I thought learned hands being pinchy would have distracted you. This is a little twist. For your last question, you have a choice. I have two prepared. Do you want a politics question or a weather question . Politics. Politics, okay. The answer to the weather question was portland, maine. But were going to do the politics question. This is from thursdays show. We talked about the reaction among republicans to Rudy Giuliani saying that president obama does not love america. Now, one republican president ial hopeful responded to that comment by volunteering a statement saying he agrees with Rudy Giuliani did that. Who did that George Pataki scott walker ben carson, or bobby jindal . D, bobby jindal. Steve, you got the answer for us . It is bobby jindal and he has the correct answer once again. All right did rocky win . Uh yeah he wins the cocktail shaker and you win the briefcase we cant open. If you get it open and theres something notable in there, i hope you let us know. Did you see my prop this your prop . Whats behind you . What is it . Is it an owl . Youre my man. Rocky, thank you for bringing the owl. Thank you for winning all that junk. Really nice to meet you and i would like to be in touch with you about bass in the future. Thank you. That was awesome. The owl right behind him. If you want to play for a cocktail shaker or some worthless junk we have around the office, please send us an email. You have to el us who you are, where youre from and why you want to play. There is cheap stuff in our office with your name on it i swear. Now you have to go to prison. There are 2 Million People behind bars in america. For the next hour we open the gates. Lockup. Its not our job to extract justice. Its our job to keep these people in these cells here. Pretty rough, you know. You eat yourself. Its an adventure every day. You cant let your guard down for a second. You know where mommy is . And he says, yeah, in jail. Nobody plans on coming to jail. I dont think they do. I dont. It just happened. How come youre all