produced the video for his dad s campaign. joining us to talk about the ad, state representative mike weinstein and his son. tell me what you were shooting for. what was the inspiration? well, i do a lot of kids music and kids shows. i m used to an upgreat happy crowd and happy audiences. we were just trying to have fun and show everybody you can have fun with politics. i don t know if they used to do it. this is kind of our version of rock the vote. we just wanted everybody to have a good time learning about my dad. mike weinstein what concerns me if your son came up with a campaign platform, i don t know that the dylan ratigan show would be calling. it says something about where we are in the country politically
heat. it didn t look like it was very tough. miami might be welcoming lebron james with open arms, but cleveland is disowning its onetime favorite son. there goes that lebron jersey. and wait till you hear the reaction from the owner of the cleveland cavaliers who called lebron narcissistic, self-promotional, selfish, cowardly and then really laid down the gauntlet. alejandro, alejandro and new york city going ga ga over the lady herself. good friday morning. i m chris jansing live from msnbc world headquarters in new york. and we begin with the riot out in oakland, california. angry mobs flooding the streets, smashing windows and looting stores. their anger sparked after a white transit cop was convicted on a lesser charge in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man last year. more than 80 people were arrested overnight, some caught in the act of looting and damaging stores. nbc s kristin welker is in oakland. they ve been gearing up just in case something like this
in play a little bit better and a little bit harder. i wish lebron all the best. wish i had an tubt to coach him. but i don t. i m going to move forward. dan gilbert put it differently in an open letter to cleveland fans, saying you don t deserve this cowardly betrayal. this shocking act of disloyalty sends the exact opposite lesson pof what we would want our children to learn and who we want them to grow up to become. he slammed the decision as heartless, callous and promised the cavs will bring home a title before the self-hitted sing shall bring home one. great columnist for the miami herald. i m embarrassed i stayed up to watch it last night. in the end it was a combination of american idol and the apprentice. here s my question. was his brand injured by the way in which he handled this whole thing? i think in the short term it was because of all the backlash and all the comical overreaction from cleveland. in the short term it was. in the long term his brand wi
while chuck is on vacation, we ll get to the rundown. it had to come to an end. the surreal cold war drama that started with the arrests nearly two weeks ago now has ended with a flight out of the u.s. and a spy swap straight out of the movies. pete williams is nbc s justice correspondent. well, pete, i m sure you re sorry to see this story go. tell us how it went down in the final hours. still a bit up in the air quite rit rally because the ten russian spies on their way to russia. the plane left new york last night. landed in vienna this morning meeting the plane from russia carrying the four exchanged to the west. they were swapped on the tarmac and then both planes took off. the russian plane now on its way with the ten and some of their children, savannah. american authorities worked out with the russians that the couples that had children here in the u.s. could take their children with them. the children are, of course, american citizens born here and free to come bac
siphon off some crude oil. b.p. says deploying oil disperse r per sants seems to be erupting. england has closed airports in manchester and liverpool. while london remains unaffected for now. a rude awakening off the i ll of puerto rico which was rattled by a 5.7 earthquake s the quake s epicenter was on the northwestern end. no injuries reported. electricity has been restored to the area. turning now to the situation in thailand, we should report street clashes in bangkok are now into a fourth day. there are reports of more violence. the government has changed its mind about imposing a curfew for now. our sarah side ner in the middle of it all. sarah, we looked at your live shot earlier. you ve obviously moved. you ve moved to a location where you can t see the smoke quite as well as earlier. we saw it clearly rising behind you. how are things going there right now? same situation, though. the government reversed its decision to put a curfew in place saying that it b