christians around the world this week. the pope celebrated palm sunday mass yesterday in st. peter s square. faithful remembered jesus crucifixion on good friday and his resurrection coming up this easter sunday. brian? all right. gretch, donald trump says we shouldn t be leaving iraq. we need to stay there and cash in on the oil. so i said very simply, that if it s me, we take the oil. you know in the old days when you win a country, you win a country. now with our stupid people, we win a country, we lose money. we lose lives. we lose soldiers and then we leave. napolean, alexander the great, seems to work for them. is trump right? joining us is the founder and bureau chief for iraqi oil report, ben landau and former press advisor for the coalition authority, thomas cosilli. why don t we cut a deal to for a percentage of their oil to get paid back for liberating their country? donald trump is a smart guy and he knows we re not going to
go back in there and grab the oil. we re not an imperialist nation. he knows that. that s not what the mission was all about. but he s looking at the gas prices and he s saying what a lot of americans are feeling. that we should be getting some sort of economic benefit for all of the blood, treasure and time that we have put into liberating that country. ben, you know saddam was starving his own people, using all that revenue to make build more palaces and that elite class. now that we balance things out, why couldn t we do what trump says? well, most and basic fundamentals as an american entrepreneur in iraq right now, as the owner of a news organization whose co-readership are the investors and potential investors in iraq, what he is saying frankly scares me. it increases the instability in the street. and it creates it feeds into the conspiracy theory that we are there for the oil. and it creates more potential for violence and risk for me, for other americans and foreigners
our chief meteorologist has been on the ground covering this story since friday night and joins us live in north carolina. rick, great job over the weekend, what can you tell us this morning? we ve moved out to the eastern side of north carolina. a lot of tornadoes moved through some of those populated areas like you saw in raleigh. that s not the case here in birdie county. this is about 20,000 residents. 11 fatalities in that one county alone. there s a home behind me, there was a home behind me. you can see the porch at this point or the front steps. there was a home there and there were three people in it. their 90-year-old mother-in-law came over to their house to wait out the storm with them. the entire house is gone, moved, scattered into the woods behind there and all three of them perished in this storm. 11 fatalities in this county alone. one of the hardest hit. the governor is going to be coming out here at 9:45 this morning to take a tour and see the situation