with us now, reporter for the washington post and msnbc contributor david farenthold. also with us, the chief content officer at hearst magazine s joanna coles, the author of the book love rules, how to find a real relationship in a digital world. it was great to see you at the matrix awards yesterday. congratulations, mika, you gave a great speech. nice to be presented by joe. wasn t joe great? he was very good. the two of you were very good and you kept on time. we kept it to time and it was great to be able to talk about know your value with such a remarkable group of women on the stage. well, it s the oscars of the communication business. that s one way of looking at it. joe, did you hear that, it s pretty good. david, we ll start with you and your reporting on the trump name and i want to try and make
the new york times, yesterday new york city officials revealed a proposal to raise the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21. the new law would not prohibit people under 21 from possessing or smoking cigarettes. if passed, the measure would be the strictest limit on tobacco of any u.s. city. awesome. you kind of wonder when the mayor is going to pass a law that is going to require each new yorker to read at least 30 minutes of poetry. no. this is good. that one i would not expect to happen. this is what we need. we actually don t even need anybody buying or smoking cigarettes and getting sick from it and getting other people sick too. mika, can i point something out? sure. the matrix awards yesterday. women in communications. mike barnicle s wife introduced by mika brzezinski. oh, look at her. mika did a great job. and you know, ann did pretty
example for public speculation. now, both oprah and her friend gail king addressed this issue in o magazine saying neither she nor gail are gay adding, i understand why people think we re gay. there isn t a dmechx our culture 0r this kind of bond between women. all my stuff is out there. people think i d be so ashamed of being gay that i wouldn t admit it? oh, please. oh so, you know, we have only seen one public comment recently from oprah herself from his unauthorized autobiography. here s what she said. i was a couple weeks ago, gail her friend honored at the matrix awards. listen. may i say that last week was a rough week for gail when a so-called biography came out. every day she s getting herself more and more worked up about