you are sweating a lot. let me get you some tissues here. no, we are good. good. do you mind if i dab you, mr. mayor? i m auctioning this off on ebay afterwards. actually, i ll take a dna on this tissue and have a whole army of you here in l.a. wow. what do you think of that? i don t know. dabbing his face. wow. welcome back to morning joe. great to have you back with us on the coldest march, i think, since 1473. with us at the table is assistant editor for the financial times gillian tett and bill kristol and jeffrey goldberg. let s start with ukraine. there is no sign of agreement or easing over russian s invasion of crimea. earlier putin spoke to reporters
high pressure around the northwest, in the northeast and the great lakes we are talking about the cold air plunging southward and around this storm track, the jet stream we are seeing these quick-moving clipper systems bringing a fair amount of snow of the three to five inches in ice isolated amounts toward chicago and even parts of long island reporting an inch. boston also getting in on several inches of the snow. these are clipper systems. they are quick-moving storms, but we could see some snow and winds and cold air in its wake. back to you, arthel. yikes. thank you so much. wednesday it is going to snow here, but good for me. i will be on my way to l.a. is that right? going to beautiful los angeles, california. sunny. although they really do need some rain. it is like 80 degrees in l.a. wow, amazing. caribbean vacation doesn t end well for some cruise
there s growing outrage over the just published salary of one public employee in the cash-strapped state of california. according to several local papers, this county administrator is guaranteed payments of more than 400,000 a year for the rest of her life. trace gallagher has more live from l.a. wow, good work if you can get it, trace. part of the outrage in california we passed the nation s biggest tax hike and that money was supposed to go towards education and of course, a big chunk of the money is going towards pension. and we learned that the alameda county administrator is now making $422,000 a year, megyn, and as you said, for life. now, let me break it down for you and tell you what s included in that.
aside the bonus issue? and she s been there 38 years, as you step up, the contracts read that you step up a salary and then there are added bonuses, longevity pay, all of these things add up into this. her base is 300 some odd thousand, but she gets all of these additions into this and base salary and they have to pay it in perpetuity. forever. megyn: more than our president makes. okay. and the president makes 400,000, i was going to put that up, but everybody knows that. megyn: the president of the united states is getting paid less than the county administrator in alameda county and we leave it at that. i m sure she s very busy, however, taking a lot of the same risks and responsibilities he is. trace, thank you. sure. megyn: wow. up in just a beat. nationally renowned pediatric surgeon dr. ben carson, he s here live. s made a lot of news lately challenging president obama for not doing more to traaddres
was found hanged. he committed suicide, police say. there were just a lot of issues going on. some of his friends say he was having tremendous financial problems, he was really upset the two were separated. taylor had filed for divorce. she claimed he had been physically and verbally abusive for years. so, just this terrible situation involving russell. so sad. the weirdest part about it, i met him a few weeks ago when i was out and about in l.a. wow, really? i had to ask him, can you yeah, that s the night that i met him. right. i asked him, i said, you really are portrayed as a villain on that show. how do you feel about it? he told me he never wanted to do the show and he only did it because taylor wanted to do it. and that he had agreed to do it as long as he didn t have to be on camera. heheaid the producers spun the storyline. this is all what he said. i have no idea if it s true or not. i think this story will spawn lot of questions about reality tv, who should be on