of late last week, they said they had to go up the chain to washington. that doesn t mean it it goes to the white house, but it means that the irs in washington, not just the cincinnati office, knew about this and was involved in some way. so willie, you do care! he s checked in, joe. our thanks to david maraniss. you re cutting willie off. he has more to tell uls. no, i m good. i have to get back to the royal baby odds. i m busy. he s on royal baby watch. david, thank you very much. and ben smith, thank you as well. up next, new york s balancing act between privacy and security. we ll discuss the stop and frisk policy with darius char knee and william bratton. you re watching morning joe brewed by starbucks. i m part of an american success story,
is also my husband. joining us who repped the plaintiffs in this case is darius charney and former police commissioner and criminal justice analyst william bratton joins us on the set now. commissioner bratton, having seen it from the inside in three major cities, in light of the national conversation we re having about race now, can you see the dilemma that the program poses? first off, it s not a prog m program. it s the policy. it s a basic fundamental tool of american policing. you have new york s specific situation in terms of their practices. then you have practices in general in the country. look at the numbers. there s been a ramp up, has there not? if you look at how many people were stopped a few years ago versus ten years ago, it s in the hundreds of thousands now per year. and if you look at the racial
0 all right. earlier in the the show we wanted you your most creative tweets on the self-y. eric shultz, i think we have as many responses as we have ever had to a caption contest. what do you got? mark says, more like he ral do. and anyone want to open up my vault? i don t know what he means by vault. the capone thing? that s it? take it away. it s a good thing lib rach chi deny have a smart phone. morning joe starts right now. now around five hours ago, when some photographers here tweeted that they had seen a convoy of vehicles including range rovers, but no ambulance, pulling not into this area but around the side entrance, very safe, of this hospital. then shortly after that, the palace released a very short official confirmation saying only that the duchess of cambridge had been admitted in the early stages of labor and e she arrived by car. since then a palace spokesman unnamed said unofficially that all is proceeding normally. but it s very unlikely that there will