sequester? a few hours after voting, members left capitol hill and headed to the airport for a week long recess. oh, right. oh, right. because it s the problem from the sequester that affects them. they don t care about meals on wheels unless it s rolling down an aisle. good morning. 6:00 on the east coast, it s thursday, april oh, my gosh, it s tuesday only. it s only tuesday. are you kidding me? april 30th. i get home yesterday thinking it was friday. no, it s definitely thursday. my 9-year-old daughter, i swear, she says, is today friday, daddy? no. i said, no, come on. tuesday. it s going to be a long week. welcome to morning joe. it is a big day, though. and you ve got the reason why. with us onset we have historian and author of thomas jefferson jon meacham. holding the book. the book. by the president of council of foreign relations, richard haass. with the same tie. different tie. the case for putting america s house in order is out tod
what that solution is, however, remains highly unclear. during the press conference, president obama said it would be quote a game-changer if chemical weapons were used in syria. when asked to clarify what exactly a game-change would mean, the president provided little clarity. do you mean u.s. military action? by game changer i mean that we would have to rethink the range of options that are available to us. and if the president is rethinking the range of options he s going to do so with great caution. if we end up rushing to judgment without hard, effective evidence, they we can find ourselves in a position where we can t mobilize the international community to support what we do. there may be objections, even among some people in the region who are sympathetic with the opposition. if we take action. so it s important for us to do this in a prudent way. for this white house, caution is the order of the day. the president echoed what other members of his administ
0 children, elderly are not able to come and complain about the parts of the sequester that hurt them. it is business travellers, the affluent and people who travel and had flights delayed. it effected lawmaker s all acrs the country so they can agree to amend it in a way that they wouldn t necessary for some of the programs that represent fewer people and not in the same bipartisan way. that the complaint you have heard from the white house. that is not the way they expected the sequester to unfold. some headlines are that the democrats have caved despite the fact the white house said this is not what it wanted to see happen. people say the stink gets on you. you may not be the person that did it but it can get on you. this is stinking all of washington again. people at home are watching them not do their jobs and come up with deals that not help everyone but just a certain select group, lawmakers and the airline industry which is an influence in that town. the speed with which co
0 berger is saying. it s an investigation and international, and we re really good at this. the fbi is very good working with our other agencies. there are persons of interest in the united states. we re looking at phone calls before and after the bombing. this type of investigation. let s go to boston. nbc s michelle franzen. a good sunday to you, my friend. new information about the suspects and their mother. reporter: yeah, again we re learning more, alex, more overseas and also here at home. as you heard earlier, u.s. officials tell nbc news that they are focussing on leads here at home and also overseas. authorities have been operating under the theory that the suspects acted alone, but at the same time saying they are not ruling anything out. investigators say they are still looking into all possibilities in the boston bombing case, including tracking possible leads on the two bombing suspects here at home and overseas. authorities confirm the brothers mother was placed on
0 it makes anything we did post 9/11 looks pretty modest. comparison to world war i, world war ii and even in respects to the korean war was not anywhere near the record. but in world war ii we have camps for japanese citizens. we untheir ilt, even though we didn t have the word but we can say, okay, it wasn t that. we also have to be careful to recognize how problematic those policies were. yeah, not as bad as the bomber raids isn t great for the bush administration. it could be an exhibit in dallas. i m a sports writer by trade. that means i get to know the family of pat tillman. the story of pat tillman, the nfl player turned army ranger who died in an instance of friendly firing in afghanistan. pat tillman who thought the war in iraq was illegal. i great with pat tillman about that. his family was lied to about the circumstances surrounding his death. and george w. bush gave speeches about pat tillman that were lies. every time i hear about his principles i keep wonder wh