The entire east coast is still dealing with all this snow and frigid weather. People have a lot of time on their hands. Theyre making some pretty funny videos because theyre stuck in the house. Check out this lady calling her cat in from outside. Watch this. Come here. Come here. Well played. Well played. Welcome to morning joe. Great to have you here. You know im looking at all the front pages of the papers donny, and there is a story that youre not going to hear a lot about today, but big, big news. Walmart is giving a pay raise to its employees. I know there are a lot of people out there, this is great for people at walmart, the evil corps. Blah, blah blah. No the wall street journal has it right. Its on the front page of every newspaper. What does this mean . It doesnt mean that walmart woke up yesterday morning and said, you know what we feel bad about ourselves. No, what it means is the market is tightening up. Why am i looking at you. I need to talk to sarah because this is your beast. I mean donnys beat is the hamptons and wearing seersucker. I was socked to see him in gray. I know. You insulted me in ten seconds. Can i finish. You can finish. Look at this. So this headline is great because it talks about how the market is tightening up. Thats not just good news for walmart employees. Its good news for waul orcers. Its not like walmart was the first. Gap did it. Ikea did it. Walmart was late to the party. Realizing in order to maintain employ whether es in the retail profession, they had to raise raises. Not that theyre hugging, cumbayah. It was going to hurt brands. These brands were starting to get effected. The brand of the people everyday low prices. Right. So there is another thing. We have Mark Halperin here as well. Mark you made news yesterday with Rudy Giuliani. Rudy seemed to back down on whether i loved america or not. Interview last night about you and the president loves america. Thank god. I was holding my breath there for a second because we all know, i mean if were all judging how much we love america by what Rudy Giuliani says. Hes got were going to get to that story. Also, very excited to have David Ignatius here. Hes been on a whirlwind tour. I do mean whirlwind tour. Were going to talk to him about a lot of stories including libya, now dealing with a setback in efforts to fight the Islamic State militants. The United States and britain are both rejecting the countrys request to lift a United Nations arm embargo. They see they need a National Unity government in its own country. The United States announced a agreement with turkey. Meanwhile, Senior Pentagon officials are confirming there are major plans for offensive to regain control of the second largest city in iraq. Officials are now saying battle for mosul will likely begin in the spring and involve up to 25,000 iraqi fighters. Here at home 19yearold man from minneapolis has been indicted for allegedly trying to help isis. Hes pulled off a plane in november while trying to fly to turkey. With us now former supreme allied commander at nato retired u. S. Navy admiral james
stravitis, the dean of the Fletcher School of law and diplomacy and live from istanbul turkey richard engel, and as i said we also have David Ignatius. Richard, let me begin with you. Youre there. Weve got a lot of motion but do you see positive Movement Forward over the past couple of weeks a lot of different announcements from the white house talking about sending drones to other country, arming Syrian Rebels now training Syrian Rebels. Arent these the same rebels that have had trouble over the past couple of years making any gains . Well, first on the Syrian Rebels piece. Turkey and the u. S. Finally signed a deal that would allow Syrian Rebels to be trained here in turkey. But were talking about a very small number of rebels. They would also only be given fairly light weapons. Trucks perhaps machine guns mounted on the backs of the
trucks, very little that could actually turn the tide of the battle. This is being perceived by many people including some people who were big advocates of supporting the rebels including the former u. S. Ambassador ambassador ford as far too little, far too late the syrian Rebel Movement has died. That this is not going to change the course of the battle. It could end up complicating things. David ignatius the same thing. Seems that our policy now, were going to arm the Syrian Rebels that were ineffective and were going to rebuild the iraqi army which dissolved as i said earlier this week like sugar in hot water in 1991 in 2003 and again in 2014. Is that really the solution . Well, joe, those are things that are being discussed. What i saw on the trip in the last two weeks was that first, the part of our strategy that involves working with the Kurdish Peshmerga in north iraq
is working powerfully. Peshmerga got off to a rough start when they broke out of mosul. They have really retain a ten territory. Some of their fighters took me around kurdistan and outside mosul. I saw the ground they have taken in the last few weeks. Theyve cut the road between mosul and talafer, the way out of syria. Its possible now to really squeeze mosul. Do you sense that the momentum was on their side . Did they because i saw the story this morning that youre talking about in the post about how the supply routes are being cut off. Do they feel like over time they will be able to strangle isis . They feel they are on the offensive now that isis is on its back heels. You sense that as you see them retreat. They will fire mortars in the distance from where i was, but almost half hearted, were still
here. The question is how youre going to finish the job. I have little worried when i see stories saying that mosul will be retaken this spring in a few months. And the reason is that the people who would retake it will be iraqi army and probably iraqi Shiite Militia men and thats precisely what scares the sunnis in iraq. Theres one theme i kept encounters sunnis saying were not sure even now that the government or Prime Minister abadi is prepared to give sunnis power to create real militias. Thats job one for u. S. Trainer, military official diplomats in the region. Help the sunnis to feel they really got skin in the game. Lets go to the admiral now. Its very early in the morning. I dont know why im having so much trouble pronouncing your name which ive pronounced many times before. Admiral, americans woke up a couple days ago reading news that isis now could be going into italy. Obviously a lot of people shaken up by that news. Is that more hype or is that a possibility . No, i think its real unfortunately. As we know this is an aspiration for isis. They talk a lot about fighting back against the crusades going all the way to rome putting the black banner across st. Peters square. Thats not realistic. What is realist isistic is they infiltrate from the mounts libyan coast across cuba. This is quite the revenge of geography. I think the italians have something to worry about. Admiral, you helped lead the air strikes against libya a few years ago. Looking back any regrets about how it turned out . No in the long throw, i think libya is going to work. Its got oil. Its got an educated population. It has enviable geography along the mediterranean. Theyve got challenges obviously right now but if you look at the nature of almost any revolution, the two, three, four years
afterward, think the french revolution, 1789 think our own revolution, these things take a little bit of time. Im back on syria. I think the key is both david and richard had said is the put isis under three axis pressure from a military perspective. Thats peshmerga from the north. Get the Iraqi Security sources firing up from the south. Bam in the west. Get the jordanians on the ground in the game. Richard engel, let me bring you back in. Had john mccain on yesterday. He was talking about how terrible it was that iran was involved and obviously davids exactly right. He knows as well as anybody, you and he do that the sunnis obviously terrified by the prospects of moving through the country, but arent we actually gaining an awful lot right now by the iranians stepping in and stopping isis from moving into baghdad . Something that policymakers in washington would not want to
admit . Were gaining and were also losing at the same time because if you look at the strategy the strategy that the u. S. Military is leaking out to some reporters that theres going to be this major offensive against mosul involving 20,000 iraqi troops and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters the way its supposed to work. And david i guess nashsz isgnatius is right. Kurdish fighters are holding their ground in the outskirts of mosul, kurdistan. The iraqi army which is now fighting hand in glove with the Iranian Military and that shouldnt be you cant hide the fact that the Iranian Military is deeply involved with the Iraqi Military. The Iraqi Military according to plan, is supposed to sweep up from the south and thats going to pressure squeeze isis in mosul with the kurds above them and then the iraqi troops moving in from the south. But as you just said the iraqis are working with the iranians and the people of mosul dont
really want to be liberated by Iranianbacked Shia troops. So you have to also ask what comes after isis. Does assad get to stay in syria . Does the government of iraq fall apart . Does the do the kurds establish independence . All of these are very open questions. So when you talk about having an offensive to take territory, a lot of iraqis and other people in the region are asking who is actually going to take the New Territory if isis is pushed out . David ignatius obviously you have spent an awful lot of time in Northern Iraq over the past few weeks. Maybe you can answer the question a lot of us have been asking onset from the safety of our manhattan studios. Why dont we tell turkey if theyre not going to be an ktive partner, willing partner, a positive partner, that were going to support kurdistan, that were going to support the kurds taking care of the northern part of iraq and we actually may see
something that i dont usually say, that joe biden was right, that iraq is not one country, its three and we should allow the shia to have their part the kurds to have their part shs and the sunnis to have their part. Joe, the deal actually i think is working slightly differently. Kurdish desires for independence were stronger when they had more confidence in turkey as their protector. And they were in effect choosing turkey over baghdad. And whats happened in the last six months or a year as turkeys done nothing to help the kurds is they begun to look back toward baghdad. Theres in new Prime Minister. Hes more reasonable. Working with the u. S. When i ask kurds how soon are you going to be an independent country, they say, oh, of course, some day, some day its really important. But for now clearly theyre a part of iraq. Thats in part because of disenchantment with turkey. Let me mention one final thing i saw on this trip because in the long run it may be the most important. We always complain in america and rightly so that the muslim arabs who are being op pressed, slaughtered by the terrorists dont speak up and take the fight themselves. In the last few weeks theyre actually beginning to do that. The jordanians are still enraged by the horrific burning to death of their pilot. In egypt the fact the Egyptian Air Force flew missions to avenge egyptian Coptic Christians saying youre christians but youre egyptian. Those are new things in the arab world. What they say is people are more willing to fight back. Thats really the most important variable. I think its more important than how many boots on the ground and the timing of the offensive and its is there a will to make this their fight. And im seeing more of that. That is the important question. Admiral, thank you so much for being with us. Greatly appreciate it. Hope you will come back. Richard, thank you as well. We appreciate you coming back as
well. Lets now talk about american politics and, boy, what a mess in new york city. Mark halperin was a part of it yesterday afternoon. Well tell you why in a second. But former new york mayor Rudy Giuliani now seeking to clarify controversial remarks he made about president obama but in doing so many believe that hes only made things worse. It started wednesday night at rye investigate event for Governor Scott walker in new york. And thats where giuliani reportedly said, quote i do not believe, and i know this is a horrible thing to say when you say i know this is a horrible thing to say, stop period, end of sentence. But he continued. But i do not believe the president loves america. He doesnt love you and he doesnt love me. He wasnt brought up the way you and i were brought up through love of this country. Heres what giuliani said yesterday, though. During multiple media appearances. Hes a patriot, im sure. What im saying is that in his
rhetoric i very rarely hear him say the things that i used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things i used to hear bill clinton say about how much he loves america. I do hear him criticize america much more often than other american president s. I dont also believe he expresses the love of western civilization that he should or an understanding of western civilization or what western civilization has brought to the world. Im not saying it out of context. It wasnt. But the reality is i am at a stage, as i told you personally i think last night, of real real worry for my country. You dont want to live through. 9 11 again. You were on the front lines. You dont want to see this happen and it very well you know president obama didnt live through september 11th. I did. President obama didnt almost, you know, have a building fall on him. Myself and my Police Commissioner and my Fire Commissioner did. I lost ten of my very Close Friends. And now ive lost about 100 Close Friends who have become so
friendly with many of the families. So excuse me its a little bit emotional for me. But its also real. Mr. Mayor, do you want to apologize for your comment . Not at all. I want to repeat it. The reality is i, from all that i can see of this president , all that ive heard of him, he apologizes for america, he criticizes america, he talks about the crusades and how the christians were barbarians. Leaves out the second half of the sentence that the muslims were barbarians also. He sees christians slaughtered and doesnt stand up and hold a press Conference Although he holds a press conference for the situation in ferguson. And then in an interview with the New York Times Rudy Giuliani said this. Hes merely describing the outlook on the world in which the president was raised. He said, quote, some people thought it was racist. I thought that was a joke since he was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of what he learned was from white people. This isnt racism. This is socialism or possibly
anticolonialism. How deep can that hole go . I was just going to say, just stop already. He did fortunately call in to our good friends Mark Halperin and John Heilemann on their bloomberg show, with all due respect, before his appearance with meghan kelly and he said this. I should say that the president does or does not love anything or anyone. I dont know. Im not a psychiatrist and he doesnt have one and he doesnt need one. Mark halperin you seem to get him to back off it a bit. A little bit but then he veered back. Then he veered back. He never hears the president say he loves america. Hes not a psychiatrist some people said after that interview maybe he should seek help from one because this is just not helpful rhetoric. He said it at this event. Whats interesting to me is that scott walker didnt repeed yat what he said. Bobby jindal embraced what he said to some extent. The Republican Party really is almost got this obsession with talking about the president rather than at this time even coming close to rallying around him. Mayor giuliani is not going to run for president but he is someone who has a pretty good feel for where his party is. And its saying something that strikes a chord with a lot of republicans that is not helpful to the country. Donny deutsch, you are a liberal but you are a liberal who also have been critical of barack obama. And said actually said a couple weeks ago you would have voted for mitt romney if mitt romney ran in 16. So youre not quite as liberal as you seem to be when you wear your rich mans suits and have your Upper West Side swagger or Upper East Side swagger. Come on. In all seriousness, im just wondering and i wondered this in 2012, why mitt romney and one of the reasons i was so critical of
mitt romney is when people were going out and saying terrible things and calling the president racist saying he hated all white people and you could go down the list of things that he was a marxist, that he was a communist. I kept waiting for one republican candidate to be smart enough to have that Sister Soldier moment. To say, listen i disagree with the president economically, i think he has a disastrous Economic Policy disastrous Foreign Policy but lets agree on one thing, he loves this country. Hes doing what he thinks is best for this country even though hes wrong. Hes a good father. Hes a good husband. Hes a good man. Hes just wrong for america. Are we really going to go through another cycle where republican candidates are too stupid to get out of the way of the stupidest people in their party, that keep them from winning president ial elections by spewing hatred instead of telling people how theyre going to get back to work . First of all, this moderate, this guy who is right in the middle. Left wing. No. Heres my stance. You dont love america, do you, donny . I am im a pro torture guy. No okay. We dont really care about you. Lets talking about your expertise. My mother cares about me. No we love donny. Were joking. The answer to your question is no no because jeb bush is not stupid that way. John mccain, although he did not win, was not stupid that way. So you think jeb bush will be smart enough to say of course barack obama loves america. 100 . Ive never met the man, youve met the man. Everything i read and hear, no youre not going to win elections that way. Thats tone deaf. It shows that Rudy Giuliani is just not in step. Just go home. Go to florida. Enough. Thats my question. Did he take himself out of any future political career for himself . I think thats why hes able to do what hes doing and play it, joe, as you said off camera the ugly base. No jeb bush will not make that mistake. Chris kristi would not im not a Chris Christie fan, will not make that mistake. Well see. Its not enough to say well let Rudy Giuliani speak for himself. When you have somebody thats as major a figure in the party as Rudy Giuliani saying the president of the United States, the commander in chief, the man who is sworn to uphold the constitution of the United States and protect its 320 million citizens hates does not love america . Lets make the show the challenge. Today lets hear from christie and lets hear from them today. They should be speaking out. They should be speaking out. We tried this four years ago and unfortunately nobody took the bait to do the smart thing and win moderate middle of the road swing voters working class americans who disagree with barack obama economically and disagree with his Foreign Policy but dont like people questioning his patriotism or his love for america. Lets bring in bob costa right
now and eugene. Rob bob, let me start with you. You are a reporter so obviously you do not associate yourself with any of my remarks but i just feel like ive seen this before and i wonder when the republicans are going to have aer is soldier moment and have somebody step out and go of course this guy loves america. Any evidence of that out there yesterday . It was interesting to see Governor Jindal come out so quickly with a statement from his Gubernatorial Office saying he did not condemn mayor giuliani appeal to the republican base. But its going to be interesting to see how some of those on the center right, christie jeb bush, how they respond. Any criticism yet from anybody out there, republican elected officials . Not so far. Were seeing a lot of hesitancy to weigh in. I think a lot of republicans know that giulianis comments are toxic and they dont want to wade into that swamp. Bob, you know Rudy Giuliani though still for most republicans, americas mayor. I know my parents loved him. Voted for him when he ran. I mean he is a guy that you want standing by your side or at least in the pass of one standing by your side to show that you can be tough on terrorism. How delicate of a dance is this regardless of how toxic the remarks were . Its a very delicate dance. Washington post reported on governor walkers dinner on wednesday night with a lot of supply side economists and journalists in new york city. It was interesting from everything i heard from attendees when giuliani went on the rant at the dinner table, walker sat there, he did not really respond or contest giulianis comments and he did the same when he was with cnbc the following morning. Gene robinson obviously in 1984 we all talked about the San Francisco democrats, they were radicals, they were left winger they were extremists. Michael dukakis didnt really help that with Middle America in 1988, but in 1992 bill clinton
did and that Sister Soldier moment which offended part of the base and thats the idea bill clinton seemed to change all that and tell Middle America, hey, were not crazy. Were not that far out there. We are in the middle just like you. Do you agree that jeb bush may repudiate giuliani . You know, he may. I think somebody better if they intend to win the presidency. I mean its you know barack obama got elected president of this country twice. Twice. And by the way, with over 50 twice. The first democrat to do that since fdr. And again, even if i disagree with the overwhelming number of this policy i find this to be a remarkable line that you would not repudiate. Yeah. I dont get it. I mean, frankly, when i read the comment to the New York Times about, well, he had a white
mother and white grandmother and therefore this is not racist i wondered is Rudy Giuliani well. I mean is he you know is this because it doesnt this is so crazy and counterproductive that it doesnt seem to me to be part of any sort of thought out political strategy. You know i mean its a guy losing it basically. And will his party go along with this or will people start to stand up and say, wait a minute lets not go over this cliff. Finally, bob costa to you, going back to you. Let me ask. Any do you know if there are any scheduled events for Rudy Giuliani moving forward . Do you think this makes it less likely that Rudy Giuliani campaigns for a potential president ial candidates . Comesome candidates may be resident to bring the mayor along for mund razor but he does still bring in significant dollars. When i checked in with the campaigns yesterday, privately
giuliani is still toppopular with donors and activists. You still want the mayors endorsement. Hes on fox news and other conservative channels. Hes popular with the base. Thats who their looking for. Joe jeb can define who he is today. Were going to see the real jeb bush. He wont come out today. Theyre too safe. Playing it too safe. He had a Foreign Policy speech where he said nothing. Jeb will answer questions when jeb is forced to answer questions probably and not before. I think thats unfortunate. I hope he proves me wrong. This is me personally talking. I hope rudy cloo enscleans it up today so other republicans dont have to. Bob costa, thank you for being with us. Gene, stay with us. More on the raise for walmarts lowest paid employees. Were going to talk to sar that about that. Whats behind the companys decision. And the news that apple may be challenging tesla when it comes to cars. That has wall street excited. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Introducing the citi ® double cash card. It earns you cash back now and cash back later. With 1 when you buy and 1 as you pay with two ways to earn on puchases, it makes a lot of other cards seem onesided. We come by almost every day to deliver your mail so if you have any packages you want to return you should just give them to us since were going to be here anyway its kind of a no brainer
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make autos. The question is would they do a big acquisition like tesla . Thats not apples style. They have it overseas and hoard it but it will be interesting to see what the car of the future the from apple. Its not like an iphone market where there are hundreds of Million People to sell it to. The brilliance of apple and probably the greatest brand in the world today, is they have understood as they move from ipads to iphones, its still in the core communication vettering everyday life. This is transportation. Theyre backing into it saying its going to be a about the connected car. I just wonder if consumers at some point just kind of go we dont know if thats you, a. Donny, how many times have we heard, do what you know. Stay focused. What are you t good at . Thats what you need to do. How many times have we seen Companies Jump from one area to another. Yes but how good is apple at connecting the eco system. You need your phone for your ipad for your payments for your car. Core benefit is human
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official argued this week that the break has been building for more than two years and reflects a deep disagreements about how to best limit the rising threat of iran. Im going to stop right there and just ask you, do people simplify this by saying its a personality dispute . They do. But what i found on this trip is that its an awful lot deeper than that. Its been developing for two years. As we head toward probably the conclusion of the Iran Nuclear Negotiations its really important for people to understand the issues that are in dispute here. Netanyahu will be addressing the Congress Next month. It will be very unusual appearance. Very polarizing. But the basic argument the question hes asking is are you and we going to be safe safer under this deal . And in the column this morning i layout for one of the more articulate members of netanyahus government his arguments why we would not be
safer. Its worth reading even for people like me who think this deal is probably a good idea. You have to be able to answer the we cans that israelis and others are putting saying this doesnt add up before you really support it. David earlier you were talking about how sunnis feared the si shiia obviously in iraq and the battle for land there. But as you went around the region, let me ask you a question. Are the arab nations, the sunni arab nations just as fearful of iran getting a Nuclear Weapon as israel . Yes. Joe, the americans dont really understand that, do they . They dont understand the level of distrust. They look at iran and the rest of the middle east and they think that its that theyre all together. Theyre just not, are they . The slaughter thats been taking place with sunnis and shias killing each other. The truth is isis has killed so many more arabs than has killed westerners. These attacks, so many of the dead people end up being arabs. Look at the killing of the
jordanian pilot, burning them alive, the beheading of the poor Coptic Christians on the beach in libya. Theyre going after arab muslims they believe are apostatets. If the arabs stand up to that, if they push back and say, wait a minute, this is our part of the world. Youre not going to keep doing this. Thats i think the only way this is going to lead to an outcome that will make the place more stable for real. You know Gene Robinson one of the things thats fascinated me over the past several weeks is i called powerful democrats, the United States senate, and asked them to come on the show and talk about netanyahu and back their president. They said i would love to but actually i knew him when he was in america 30 years. Its amazing to me that this crisis, you dig down deeper so many policymakers im about to interview joe klein who has known him for 30 years or so say hes more american than israeli. So many policymakers know this guy and know him from his time in america. Yeah. I mean in some ways he is more american than israeli, as is his ambassador to the United States ron dormer who is in the middle of this whole speech transaction, is also american. But you know first of all, David Ignatius what a fabulous column this morning. Unbelievable. I just thought it just laid out the israeli case or the netanyahu administrations case better than ive seen it laid out anywhere before. And the central question really is what you leave iran with and do you leave iran with the capability to enrich uranium essentially or not. That seems to be the issue thats in the middle of it. Tell me a bit about israeli Public Opinion and how do you think it falls overwhelmingly for what netanyahu believes or is there another prominent view . Gene interestingly in israel
you sense theres a real election taking place. Election date is march 17. Theres a Coalition Running against netanyahu and theres a lot of talk that neither side will get enough votes to enough seats to form a government. Can be a lot of bargaining and brokering. And you could see another Prime Minister. Thats what israelis tell me. All right. Thank you so much david. Greatly appreciate it. Gene, thank you, as well. Coming up next why ranging conversation with Time Magazines joe klein and strategy session on whats the best way to beat isis. And the big question looming over fight against terror is saudi arabia on our side or our enemy . Ameriprise asked people a simple question in retirement, will you have enough money to live life on your terms . I sure hope so. With healthcare costs, who knows. Umm. Everyone has retirement questions. So ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. Now you and your ameripise advisor. Can get the real answers you need. Start building your confident retirement today. Most of the products we all buy are transported on Container Ships. Before a truck delivers it to your store, a Container Ship delivered it to that truck. Here in san diego, were building the first one ever to run on natural gas. Ships this big running this clean will be much better for the environment. Were proud to be a part of that. Here i am. Rock you like a hurricane. Fiber one now makes cookies. Find them in the cookie aisle. Daughter do you and mom still have money with that broker . Dad yeah, 20 something years now. Thinking about what you want to do with your money . Daughter looking at options. What do you guys pay in fees . Dad i dont know exactly. Daughter if youre not happy do they have to pay you back . Dad it doesnt really work that way. Daughter you sure . Vo are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed . Wealth management at Charles Schwab. Okay, you ready to go . I gotta go dad
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the seat of power. Muslim brotherhood rises up after the arab spring. Allegedly democratic election. They have these elections in places that arent ready for democracy yet. Muslim brotherhood was the only organized faction in the egyptian population. Nobody had a chance to organize. And, you know you cant really be happy about a coup but the Muslim Brotherhood were killing Coptic Christians beity thousands before they were thrown out. So we showed headlines this week about how the Obama Administration is not supporting egypt. Keeping them at an arms length. Doesnt seem like a realist approach to a war with a movement as evil as isis. No. Dont you want friends in all corners . Yes. And etch given a fact that the egyptians are committed. They have one of the few real armies in the region right . Right. And theyre committing these guys. Theyre fighting them in sinai and theyre going to be fighting them in libya as well. I mean libya is the kind of thing that really ticks me off about this administration. I had you know i was against going in there because who knew what was going to happen when they came out. Libya is you know a country with Straight Line borders. Its a collection of tribes. We made that mistake obviously with saddam hussein. Autocratic ruler. That was the biggest mistake. Evil. We go in there and, you know we crush him and were still paying for that. You see what happened with assad when we say assad must go, chaos there. As you said in libya, who would not have believed getting rid of gadhafi would have been a great thing to do ten years ago but now gadhafi seems like a pretty good bargain. Saddam almost seems like a pretty good bargain now given how completely ruthless he was. But, you know you cannot have a president of the United States
say things like assad must go without assad going. Is that the sad tragic fact that we have to put up with autocratic rulers in the middle east if we dont want chaos right now in 2015 . Yes, yes. And future as well. I mean the whole Education System there has to change. Its all been rogue learning of the koran. Theyre not trained for really good you know, tech jobs and the rest of it. And, you know the president talked about that at the another his summit on terrorism this week. But that really thats down the road. What we have right now is a bunch of people who are there who are training other people who are going to come back and kill us. Lets go from egypt to saudi arabia, nearby. Youve been there. You understand it. You followed the money. If most americans understood what saudi arabia has done over
the past 20 years would they consider saudi arabia a friend an ally, or an enemy . It would be a tough unbalance. On balance . Saudi arabia funded al qaeda and funded the madrassas, the Islamic Radical schools that produced isis isil. Let me ask the question this way. Has there been any country more responsible for those oh me spread of the sort of islamic rad k58icalism that has led to the situation were in now more than saudi arabia . Probably not. Not even iran . Oh, iran you know the iran issue has been tremendously overplayed. If you want to worry about a Nuclear Program in that region you worry about pakistan which, like saudi arabia is a nominal ally of ours but theyve been harboring terrorists since 9 11
and before. I mean Osama Bin Laden was living within spitting distance of their west point. Right. Tell me no pakistanis knew about that. Will the new saudi king give us new saudi leadership . Well, its hard to know. I mean there are rumors that he has some kind of mild alzheimers or Something Like that. I think saudi arabia is a very very conservative stabilizing force on one hand and they have been cooperating really closely with the israelis. Theyre sharing intelligence. The saudis. The saudis. As we look at the map, with have saudi arabia and egypt and israel working together now. Its an Extraordinary Development in the middle east. The two, probably the richest and the most influential arab countries now helping israel. Well,er is rip tishsly, yeah. Joe klein, thank you so much. Morning joe will be right back. Sometimes the present looked bright. Sometimes romantic. There were tears in my eyes. And tears in my eyes. And so many Little Things that we learned were really the biggest things. Through it all, we saved and had a retirement plan. And someone who listened and helped us along the way. Because we always knew that someday the future would be the present. Every someday needs a plan. Talk with us about your retirement today. Would you be willing to give up sharing your moments . Sacrifice streaming all night long . Is it okay to drop a connection, when you need it most . If youre not on the largest, most reliable network,
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mosul will likely begin in the spring and involve up to 25,000 iraqi troops. David ignatius i know you just got back from an extensive trip to the middle east. Any sichbs that were making gains or winning the fight against isis . Yes. You can travel down roads in Northern Iraq on the way to mosul that two weeks ago were being held by the Islamic State fighters. Theyre now open. The amount of ground thats been gained in the last month or two really has surprised me. That part of the fight is going well. My concern is that they dont rush the battle of mosul, send fighters in there who will deepen the sense of alienation of the sunni population. But basically thats going well. I thought it was interesting yesterday to watch president obama speaking to a gathering of islamic leaders here in washington talking about the ideological base of this campaign. He had an awful lot of foreign leaders coming in. Sharing the same message. These isis fighters are destroying our countries and we want to fight back. So those are two good things. I could go on 50 things that arent going right but i did see on this trip some things that encouraged me. David, following the question. Mike. Let me ask you, the three countries in question here this morning that were talking about most specifically. Iraq syria, libya. The governance of those three countries. Will those three countries ever come back to what they once were five or six years ago . My honest answer mike would be we dont know yet. I used to think when i covered lebanon in the early 1980s, when it was divided, had artillery duals back around forth across the green line that divided the country that never came back. If ever there was a country sunk, it was lebanon and yet here it is. One country lebanese seems to be a part of it. A poll taken of syrians in which the overwhelming majority of syrians said in the future they
wanted to live in one country called syria. So we shouldnt be hasty in assumeing its all over. The world of 1915 16 is finished. Were going to have some years of sorting out how these pieces fit together. For the moment finally its interesting the kurds who desperately want their own country have decided theyre better off for now staying as part of iraq than trying to be on their own. Thats one small sign that shouldnt be too hasty in thinking its all over. All right. Mark halperin to you and then maybe David Ignatius can pick it up. Of course, there are complaints by of republicans and others who think the president doesnt have a clear strategy. What is the political impact of this and then the bigger question is the global question, do our allies in the middle east agree, do our allies in europe agree . The president made i think, his best effort yesterday to try to present to the country and the world a big unifying
strategy and rhetoric that will unite people against the current threats. Republicans didnt embrace, to say the least, what he said. And hes got lots on his plate. Not just in this one issue but this tension yesterday was palpable in the meeting between needing allies to fight this war but also having allies like saudi arabia and other countries who dont respect individual liberty. David, i want to ask you about iran. In this country the focus is on Nuclear Negotiations which pick back up today. Increasing ties between iran and iraq. How does iran see the current fight against isis . What is their hoped outcome and which role are they playing right now . I think iran from what ive told realizes it made a mistake as the yitsdsUnited States did supporting a much too polarizing shiite Prime Minister nuri al maliki. That was really irans mistake. They owned it and they owned the very bad consequence of having isis on the move. They want to be able to dominate a future iraq while i think keeping it as one country. They dont want to see it break apart. The biggest question ahead, i mean, our strategy for iraq will not work unless sunnis believe that we stand with them against the iranianbacked Shiite Militias that have been killing people in sunni towns even as this fight is going forward. And unless sunnis believe that i think that tent pole of our strategy isnt going to be there. So watch that question in the next month. Is the government in iraq taking action to curb the Shiite Militias, to curb the power of iran to dictate the future of iraq . If they are taking those steps, this is going to work. 23 they arent it probably isnt. That would be my judgment. All right. A lot of other news to cover. Former new york major Rudy Giuliani is seeking to in doing so he may have only made
things worse. It started wednesday night at a private event for Governor Scott walker in new york where giuliani reportedly said this. Quote, i do not believe and i know this is a horrible thing to say, but i do not believe that the president loves america. He doesnt love you, and he doesnt love me. He wasnt brought up the way you were brought up and i was brought up through love of this country. Heres what giuliani said yesterday during multiple media appearances. Hes a patriot, im sure. What im saying is in his rhetoric i very rarely hear him say the things that i used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things i used to hear bill clinton say about how much he loves america. I do hear him criticize america much more often than other american president s. He does not express the love of western civilization that he should or an understanding of western civilization or what western civilization has brought to the world. Im not saying it out of context. It wasnt. But the reality is i am at a
stage, as i told you personally i think last night, of real real worry for my country. You dont want to live through 9 11 again. You were on the front line. You dont want to see this happen and it very well you know president obama didnt live through september 11th. I did. President obama didnt almost, you know, have a building fall on him myself and my Police Commissioner and my Fire Commissioner did. And i lost ten of my very Close Friends. And now ive lost about 100 Close Friends who have become so friendly with many of the families. So excuse me its a little bit emotion ol for me. Its also real. Mr. Mayor, do you want to apologize for your comment . Not at all. I want to repeat it. The reality is, from all that i can see of this president , all that ive heard of him, he apologizes for america, he criticizes america, he talks about the crusades and how the christians were barbarians, efs loo leaves out the second half of the sentence that the muslims
were barbarians, also. He sees christians slaughter and doesnt stand up and hold a press Conference Although he holds a press conference for the situation in ferguson. All right. And then in an interview with the New York Times giuliani said he was merely describing the outlook on the world in which the president was raised. He says, quote, some people thought it was racist. I thought that was a joke since he was brought. By a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools and most of this he learned from white people. This isnt racism. This is socialism or probably anticolonialism. But take a listen to what he said on wt can all due respect, marks show before his appearance with meghan kelly. I should say that the president does or does not love anything or anyone. I dont know. Im not a psychiatrist and he doesnt have one and he doesnt need one. Okay. First of all, these are stupid comments. Im sort of not surprised, gene
that Rudy Giuliani made them because hes appealed to a divisive sector of the base before. Ive heard him do that. Im surprised he didnt walk them back more quickly. Hes an intelligent man. But the Bigger Picture id like gene, then mark and then donny, to cap things off here. The Bigger Picture is how other republican president ial contenders react to this. What are we seeing and why are we surprised that were not getting more . Gene . I would like to hear more from the republican contenders. Weve heard from bobby jindal who is not going to criticize Rudy Giulianis remarks. This is crazy. This is a president who was elected twice with more than 50 of the popular vote both times. Approval rating just as politics, it seems crazy to me
and just personally for Rudy Giuliani, yes, mr. Mayor, it is racist and it sounds frankly kind of unhinged. Marco rubio, mika is the only republican weve been able to find who spoke out and said he believes the president loves america. Behavent heard from rand paul or jeb bush or governor Chris Christie who are probably the biggest opportunity to help define themselves in a positive way. It doesnt mean you have to attack Rudy Giuliani or repudiate what hes done positive in public life but this kind of rhetoric, so unhelpful for republicans in winning back white house because while its attempting to appeal to the segment of the population its not going to let votes. Before donny jumps in i feel this is a slippery slope. This is an opportunity for all the president ial contenders who are going to have to go out there and somehow appeal to the base but then make it to the big game. Put this behind you so you dont have to fall into these sort of terrible areas of divisive talk. This is an easy one to put behind them but theyve got to speak out. So its tempting if youre a republican now and youre trying to raise money or trying to rally a crowd or build support in iowa or New Hampshire its tempting to build your rhetoric around attack on president obama because for the part of the country that doesnt like him, thats the easiest applause you can get. Rudy giuliani in that room in manhattan with 60 prominent conservatives and some journalists, easiest thing you could say. Scott walker as best we can tell, scott walker no, one else in the room objected to what mayor giuliani said. I want to say something, millions of new yorkers think about Rudy Giuliani. Rudy giuliani, this is not your 9 11. Okay . The country, the over 2,000 new yorkers that lost their lives. Im so tired of Rudy Giuliani cooping the tragedy that was 9 11. You did your job as mayor, okay . And to suggest a good one. Yes. To suggest that barack obama donny, go ahead. Go ahead. Not a Great America does not love this country. Enough, rudy. We all suffered. Mostly those families suffered not you. Well, heres what jumps off in your ear when you hear it. And we just heard it. When Rudy Giuliani says president obama didnt live through 9 11 i did. As if he were the only one who lived through september 11th. Im speaking for new yorkers. Enough. Shut up about it already. What we have now is and were paying attention to a publicityseeking, selfabsorbed, ego maniac who is on the fringe of the politics of his own party. Thats what we have. I agree. Youre right about the last part though hes not really at the fringe. I said this earlier. Its a chance for jeb bush to
say whether hes a leader or not. Were in a lot of rumblings. This is a consensus guy, a different republican, hes just right of center and he is if right guy. You will define yourself in the next day or two. If you dont speak up against giuliani youre just more of the same. Look what happened four years ago. Rush limbaugh criticizer a georgetown lawsuit calls her a slut. Rudy giuliani said, those are not the words i would have used. Rush limbaugh a few days later himself apologized for what he said. The party still hasnt gotten to a place where they can just say the truth about things that are over the line. But rudys comments have made first at 21 where a roll costs you like 150 and his extended comments yesterday are so low, they are so low that only you would have to be living way out there on the fringe to even think they were worthy of listening to never mind regarding the serious as far as the political jabs
go there are so many ways republicans can go after obama. Look at the economy. For every positive thing thats happening in the economy right now theres a negative they could point to. They could point to the fact that wages have not picked up, point to fact that Many Americans are not feeling this recovery. But to go after patriotism does feel a little unproductive and given whats going on with our economy. And exploit 9 11 at the same time. Speaking of the economy, hundreds of thousands of walmart employees will be taking some more money in just a few weeks. The nations largest retailer is raising wages after years of criticism about its salaries. But some krit sicks say its not enough. Nbcs Anne Thompson has the details. Reporter after ringing up a stronger than expected Holiday Season walmart said it would share the bounty, raising wages for half million employees. Today were investing in them and we want them to know pow important they are. Reporter walmart will boost the wage to 9 an hour in april for 40 of its workforce. Almost 2 above the federal minimum wage. The move comes after years of protests by those workers complaining of low wages and poor treatment by americas largest retailer. Now walmart faces increasing competition for these workers. Ikea gap aetna, and other Big Companies are a step ahead, already paying more to keep hourly employees. Its likely that walmart and other companies are increasing wages because they have to because the labor market is not as bad as it was a few years ago. Now its becoming a more Competitive Labor market. Reporter there is also political pressure. Seven states, plus the district of columbia, already have a minimum wage of 9 or more. And new york and minnesota will do the same later this year. For walmarts hourly workers the boost in pay is a boost in confidence. Very exciting. Everybody is just smiling. Its just really great. Reporter after some tough years, finally a reward for the people walmart says are vital to running a Good Business. So, sarah, not to be the wet blanket here but is this a big raise for the employees . What were they being paid . It seems like theres still a long way to go. At the low end now 9 an hour. Thats good. Thats 1. 75 above federal minimum wage. Then it goes even higher to 10 an hour by february 2016. You could argue a, what took so long and, b, the writing was on the wall here. Yes, our economy is doing better. Employment rate, Unemployment Rate is down to 5. 7 . Full percentage point over last year. 5 million job openings. It is up to walmart, the biggest employer in our country to raise wages and do their part because we havent seen the kind of wage growth that weve wanted to see, mika. The question here is will others follow . Will we see Companies Like target, like starbucks. A lot of people looking at that. Companies that are notorious for either paying the federal minimum wage or above that. Follow in walmarts footsteps and, yes, its not like 9 an hour is that much but it is the step not right direction. Right. You know its interesting, mika first of all. Go ahead, donny. A lot of conservatives, since im a liberal, said that basically when 45e89 care passed it was going to cut into the profits of u. S. Corporations. It has not. Statistically that is a fact. This will not cut into the profits. I think its actually price of entry at this point. If youre a walmart, a Great American company, you almost have no choice to protect your brand. Forget its the right thing to do. Forget that it is not going to damage now. And to sarahs point, youve got to keep employees. You almost have to protect your brand because you cant say on one of the bed rock of this country and continue this way. You will see more of the same here. Thank goodness. Donny, theres municipalities doing this. Its definitely happening on the government level, the conversation is happening. Doesnt it seem in terms of what you do and what you would advise a company, doesnt it seem at this point like a no brainer to be on the cutting edge of this to be to get, quite frankly, your reputation where it needs to be as a company . Thats what i said. I dont think youre progressive. I think its price of entry. Youre in trouble if you dont. As i said especially if youre a Populous Company like walmart who makes their bones being, we are for the everyone were for the little guy, everyday low prices but we dont give our employees everyday reasonable rates. Or their profits. I think youre going the see every Company Following suit. Its time. Up next he used to be the Senior Adviser to president george w. Bush. Hes now walmarts executive vp of corporate affairs. Were doing to talk to dan bartlett about this wage decision by the big company. Plus it could be the republican showdown that wasnt. 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Welcome back to morning joe. Jeb bush may be encroaching on Chris Christie turf in the race for 2016. The Washington Post and New York Times report in similar stories that new jersey power brokers are feeling hesitant to back governor christie and are eyeing bushs candidacy. Both papers for instance note that jets owner woody johnson, the republican money man and christie supporter was at a Bush Committee fundraiser in chicago on wednesday. Meanwhile, a Rutgers Eagleton poll show 59 of jersey residents dont think he would make a good president. Joining us from washington nbc moderator of meet the press,
chuck todd. Chuck, this is not a good sign for governor christie. How significant is this in the big picture . Look, i think its pretty significant. I want to give a shootout to our own Political Team perry of nbcnews. Com wrote this piece a week ago on christie. Christie goers going to jeb world. Kudos to him. This shouldnt be that surprising. Look, the Donor Community is more pragmatic than any other community in the sort of republican as the republican activists start sorting themselves out and deciding which candidate to go with particularly the rch donor world in the northeast. And that does reside in new jersey or in new york. The people that are very familiar with Chris Christie. And if you look at christie and his poll numbers, there is a lot of these donors look at it like a business decision. Whats your Business Plan . How do you get this nomination . And you cant find a sort of
realistic path right now for christie that he gets this nomination. You can see how he could do well in a New Hampshire perhaps. Its the one place he got double digits in the polling we did last week. But you cant figure out how he does how is he not just Rudy Giuliani with a little more baggage having to do with his governorship and Rudy Giuliani of course was a big crash and burn eight years ago. And in many ways christie feels like the same type of candidacy. You know Mark Halperin i just anecdotally i know a few backer, big money backers of mitt romney who are heading in bushs direction. So it seems like after mitt romney left the race there was a little bit of a battle for support and it looks like jeb bush is winning that battle. Look the three biggest stories in the republican nomination race in the last few weeks and months has been the rise of scott walker dominance behind the scenes of jeb bush and the inreshl collapse in the conventional wisdom of chris
christie. I do think though hes going to have a second act. This is a very determined aggressive guy. He can rattle off a litany of problems hes having right now but, chuck, dont you see the possibility given that walker still has a lot of questions he faces and given christies skills, dont you see the possibility hes got some trent strength and can challenge jeb bush in the way others cant . I give you this. I think christie in the debates, right, christie is a performer as a political athlete. He is. If he can get there. Right . If he can get there without look the fact is. Every time he seems to take a step forward on the National Stage hes got something that drags him back in new jersey whether its a downgrade in the States Economic borrowing rating or something having to do with personal scandal issues having to do with the whole bridge thing. Hes got to get there in all these debates in the fall but i will grant you if he gets into the debate you can see how he is
a great performer. Again, this is a case where can he go to jebs right on anything . And jeb is already got his own issues of being, is he conservative enough. I just dont see if a primary situation where christie is able to do this. Mark let me ask you a question. Mike. About chris kristi. Is his campaign in New Hampshire where i think he has Great Potential in New Hampshire, is it basically three guys from new jersey arrive in Campaign Events or larger christie umbrella with someone who can say, hey, governor, dont do that. Hes got advisers who are helping him lay the groundwork. Hes been there a lot. Theres always been criticism about him being too insulated. He is a smart political strategist. But to grow this thing he needs to show hes listening and he cannot be imperial. The biggest thing he needs to be is to be out without a big entourage, without the state troopers talking to voters because in that hes as good as anybody in the race. This country has never
elected a pujulous president. Thats about true. Andrew jackson, he was. Different media time okay . He was very popular. Different media time. Next time he screams at a teacher and asks dont ask why my kid doesnt go to school game over. Doesnt play. Thank you. Well be watching meet the press this sunday. Lets turn back to the walmart wage story. Joining us now, its good timing because we have some other questions for him, too, walmarts executive Vice President of corporate affairs, dan bartlett. Dan, good to see you. Good morning. How are you . I wond ir you must be liking this new role. Youre making waves. Youre doing the right thing. What was behind this decision and what do you say to critics who say you should have gone farther, walmart, you should have really significantly raised the wages of all the employees . As you reported over approximately 500,000 of our fellow associates here at
walmart all receiving a pay raise this year and its something that was part of a larger process, mika, in which we looked at the entire eco system around our associates when it comes to pay, training scheduling, 401 k s, paid sick leave. It was important for us to look hard at this and make sure were doing everything we can to engage our associates in a way in which they can bring their best to their jobs everyday and satisfy our customers expectations. This has been a deliberative process really over the course of a year. Obviously culminating in the decisions and announcements we made yesterday to increase the wages to 10 next year. So really proud of it. Weve been listening to our associates. Listening to our customers. And this is a business decision that will pay off for us in the years to come. Sarah . I have a question. Walmart has an image problem. No question about it. Shopping at walmart is not considered one of the best most pleasant shopping experiences out there. Weve heard numerous reports about shelves being empty. Is this a political statement . Are you trying to change 1 2 marts image or is this about growing the bottom line and weighing in on a National Debate . Whats the impetus behind this . Were proud of the fact that over 60 of the American People shop our stores in any given month. That demonstrates we provide value to Many Americans but were always trying to find ways to exceed their expectations. And that means we have to take look at our business we is have to look at the critical part of our business really is our people. And this announcement we made yesterday was to take a hard look at that. Where are the key invest chlts to make to make sure theyre reaching their full potential. Not only as entry level wage but grow a career at walmart to make sure that not only today but in the future we meet and exceed the expectations of our customers. Donny deutsch. So happy you made this move. Walmart one of the great brands in this country. You did a lot of research on this brand. Was there brand equity being chipped away because of the nonmove here and was that part
of the decision . We listen to a lot of people. We get a lot of advice you can probably imagine. The people we listen to most here are associates themselves. Its something that dates back to the founder of this company sam walton if we invest in our associates, well get a Good Business result. And so as you look at the changing landscape in retail Higher Expectations that customers have we have to continue to take a hard look at our business and what were doing and chart the future. And the future right now means investing in our associates giving them the tools they need not only to succeed in life and to have a career at walmart but obviously to meet the expectations of our customers. We feel confident that this is a billion dollar commitment were making this year alone and its one that we think will pay off in the years to come. It want to end things off in a political question dan. I knew i wouldnt get out of here without it. Jeb bush says hes his own man. And hes certainly trying to draw that line in the sand
obviously. But, how can he be his own man when his Foreign Policy team looks much like his brothers or his fathers including names like Paul Wolfowitz . Thats not his own man. Well, ive known both of them for more than 20 years. I can tell you theyre very different. That i obviously share the same values that were passed down to them from their parentsnd their family but they do bring different approaches to the job. They bring in different, you know, way in which they think about things. And look the people who are talking about the types of advisers who advised both president bush 41 or 43 and in this case jeb, there is a wide range within that group of advisers. I can tell you because i sat in a lot of the meetings in which a lot of them gave conflicting advice. It represents the full spectrum of Foreign Policy thinking across what would most would argue the Republican Party or the philosophy thats guided the Republican Party. So the range of advisers that i
see giving participating in these conversations with governor bush demonstrates that he is seeking out a diversified set of views. So i wouldnt over interpret that as being, they advised president bush therefore governor bush is like them. I wouldnt buy that comparison. All right. Dan bartlett thanks very much. Talk to you soon. Coming up speeding up americas past time. What Major League Baseball is doing to prevent a slow death. Well be right back. How much money do you have in your pocket right now . I have 40 21. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . I dont think so. Well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. Ring ring . Progresso its ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. Its our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. Apology accepted. Im watching you soup people. Make it progresso or make it yourself ideas come into this world ugly and messy. They are the natural born enemy of the way things are. Yes, ideas are scary and messy and fragile. But under the proper care, they become something beautiful. Know your Financial Plan wont keep you up at night. Know you have insights from Top Investment strategists to help set your mind at ease. Know that planning for retirement can be the least of your worries. With the guidance of a pnc investments financial advisor, know you can get help staying on track for the future youve always wanted. Really good news america, on this friday morning. Baseball is about to get a little faster. Fox sports is reporting that the major league is set to announce three new rules intended to speed up the pace of play. Managers will now have to make instant replay challenges from the dugout instead of going out on the field and talking about their kids with umpires. Thats intended to limit the amount of time manager s do spend out on the field chatting with umpires. Hitters are going to have to keep one foot in the batters box between pitches unless theres an exception like a foul ball or wild pitch. Play is going to resume immediately after tv broadcast return from commercial breaks. That will take a total of what do you think donny, 55 seconds . 17 seconds. I like the pace. You and i will get a bottle and go out to fenways p. Smoke cigarettes. Nothing wrong. Great stuff. Mika, i knew you would be please with that. Baseball is going to be faster and youre a huge baseball fan. Yes, i am actually. Up next i love fenway park. How could you not . Do you know what sport is played there, football or baseball at fenway . Its cute what they do. Its something with a little ball and a stick and they run around. See, she knows. Okay barnicle. All right, coming up, a man went to russia. Locked himself in a hotel roomnd watched 168 hours of russian tv. Putin. Huh . Why we did that and what he found out when morning joe comes right back. Shopping online is as easy as it gets. Wouldnt it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple . Thanks to angies list now it is. Start shopping online from a list of toprated providers. Visit angieslist. Com today. Hey, girl. Is it crazy that your soccer trophy is talking to you right now . It kinda is. Its as crazy as you not rolling over your old 401k. Cue the horns. Just harness the confidence it took you to win me and call td ameritrades rollover consultants. Theyll help with the hassle by guiding you through the whole process step by step. And theyll even call your old provider. Its easy. Even she could do it. Whatever, janet. For all the confidence you need td ameritrade. You got this. Theres confidence. Then theres trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. Our expertise, technology, and high quality parts mean your peace of mind. Now you can get the works, a multipoint inspection with a Synthetic Blend Oil change tire rotation, Brake Inspection and more. 29. 95 or less. These new Nature Valley nut crisp bars are packed with nuts, seeds and sweetness. Stick to simple, like Nature Valley nut crisp bars. Nuts. Seeds. Sweetness. Boom. Delicious. Kid hey dad, who was that man . Dad hes our broker. He helps looks after all our money. Kid do you pay him . Dad of course. Kid how much . Dad i dont know exactly. Kid what if youre not happy . Does he have to pay you back . Dad nope. Kid why not . Dad it doesnt work that way. Kid why not . Vo are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed . Wealth management at Charles Schwab how did i set a new personal record today . I started with a test run. Then i got a solid nights rest in a great room. And before i hit the road, i hit the breakfast bar where i got my fuel for the next 26 miles. Great endings begin here. And now when you choose choice twice, get a night at no price at 1,500 hotels. Book now at choicehotels. Com
[ speaking Foreign Language ] that was a clip from russia where they were mocking president obama and ambassador nick fall for the upcoming issue booked a room at new York Four Seasons Hotel and watched statecontrolled russian tv for most of his waking hours. For an entire week. Oh, my god. As the subject of his bizarre experiment, gary writes this heres the question im trying to answer. What will happen to me an americanized russian speaking novelist who im greated from the soviet union as a child if i let myself float into the televisionfiltered head space of my former countrymen . Will i learn to love putin as
85 of russians profess to do . Will i dash to the russian consulate on east 91st street and ask for my citizenship back . Will i leave new york behind and move to crimea which, as of this year putins troops have reoccupied claiming it has belonged to russia practically since the days of the old testament, or will i simply go insane . Im going to suggest he went insane, but lets find out. Here with us now to discuss this piece, the new editor in chief of the New York Times magazine jake silverstein. Jake welcome to the show. Good to be here. What was the result of this experiment . Youre right. He went insane. He was in there for seven days. He was essentially locked in the room for seven days. Could go for a swim every morning. Those were the rules. And, you know after about day five his psychiatrist had to pay a house call to him and, you know, check in on him and see how he was doing. And by i think, day six he had
stopped wearing pants and was just drinking right after breakfast. Oh, my. Things unraveled for gary. Okay. So jake, first of all, just full disclosure here. I would say if you watched a weeks worth of american tv you would go battie. I dont know what youre talking about. Oh, i know what im talking about. But in all seriousness, what did he learn, especially about the news angle of things and how russians consume their news and what appeals to them. Sure. You know part of the reason that we you know sent gary on this sort of sadistic experiment was because we wanted to get a sense of how it is that putin, as he says in that initial quote that you read has an 85 Approval Rating despite saber rattling despite the drama of the past year that he continues to be perceived at least at very popular within the country. We anticipated a lot of this had to do with the propaganda coming out of russian statecontrolled
television and we want edgarry to experience that and let it wash over him for seven days. Gary came out of that experience, i think, with a pretty deep understanding of how the way that both the news programming but also the Reality Television for instance, what is he seeing . We got it. So whats actually happened . What are they putting of it there . So as in our television as well, a lot of focus on some of the trivial details, state television anchor had a cellphone knocked out of her hands and smashed on the ground on i think day three of his experiment which became huge news, huge news. He was in ukraine. Had this cellphone knocked out of her hand smashed on the ground. Gary, this enters his nightmares that evening. He begins to have nightmares that he had his own cellphone knocked out of his hand. Its the same sort of stirring up of nationalistic sympathy you would expect. This the piece in the big relaunch though of the sunday
magazine which is huge news. In the newspaper business this is huge news. Thats right. Thats right. This is one of the stories in this big relaunch issue of the New York Times magazine thats coming sunday, its the global issue. So theres this story as well as six other pieces from around the world. You got a piece from france. Youve got a piece from brazil. A piece from hong kong japan. This is the piece to capture whats going on in ukraine for the past year. This is, i will say, the relaunch of the magazine the largest issue in the history of the New York Times magazine. 119 years. Good luck man. Exciting. I love it. Jake thank you very much. Look out for the upcoming issue of the New York Times magazine with its multiple covers this sunday. Collect all five. Jake thanks again. Up next, the gulf coast, five years after the bp oil spill. Well be right back. Toenail fungus . Dont hide it. Tackle it with new fdaapproved Jublia Jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. Use jublia as instructed by your doctor. Once applied jublia gets to the site of infection by going under, around and through the nail. Most common side effects include ingrown toenail, applicationsite redness itching, swelling, burning or stinging, blisters, and pain. Tackle it
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after the bp sdamp as what i call it it went to nothing. The fishing dropped off. I couldnt find any fish on my racks. Nothing. I had a diver go down and he said everything was dead. Barch barnacles, sea grasses. Its not coming back. A fisherman on what happened to his business and livelihood since the bp spill. Five years, can you believe it since that disaster and traveled down to the gulf ridge and my
home to see what was going on. The day this went on we had a shot of oil coming out of the pipe. Yeah. Coming out. And it seemed that everybody was there. Then they fixed the spill, the cameras left and that was it. Yeah. How are we faring five years later . Out of sight out of mind is really what it is. Theres still a lot of sufficientoring down there, joe, and i dont know if it will ever be right. Bp has done good things but the folks there think they havent done enough and theres a lot of people that have been financially injured by this and theyre still struggling with it today. So many facets. The environment, the recovery, the Business Aspect of it. Talk about the business because something that i heard about, and im sure you saw this when you went down there is that people would be promised a big settlement and waiting for it because Family Businesses were ruined and right as they got up to the finish line and
thought they were going get the check, bp would say, hold on a second. Hold on. One little problem. Its what we called in congress on the va the slow roll. Did you see that . Oh, yeah. I had half a dozen people on camera saying sbpbp is trying to run out the clock. Stretch it out for years and have taken the position, at least the sentiment of the people is that bp has taken the position, weve paid out a lot. Were not going to paper out anymore and theres a bunch of Different Things floating around about how many have that been paid and there are those that have been paid. And the more likely you are to be able to as you know on that shoreline theres folks two or three paychecks from shutting the doors and they count on the tourism, count on the fishery industry, and when that goes away and the people arent around and business drops 40 , 50 almost instantly, the worry
kicks in and it steamrolls from there. Telling me a sad story about a jet Fighter Pilot and his soninlaw . A jet Fighter Pilot, hes 71 years old noud, retired, served his country, took his retirement bought this with his relative grossing over 2 pll a year, life was good. Paying bills, putting money away for retirement and oil showed up and everything went. Didnt take very long and they lost the warf still owe the bank 1. 3 the bank repoed everything and theyre hoping bp will come through, through the process, and give them some kind of the restitution. Theyre still waiting . Five years later. Oh yeah. Theyre still waiting. In fact, there are three different divisions. Theres a congressional program. Theres an economic Restitution Program and then theres a medical program. I mean they have broken this out. This is after feinberg left after the first year. With the 20 billion committed by the president and that
number, they havent even come close that when it comes to fayoutfay payouts, havent done that. How much, do you know . Conflicting numbers there. From the Deepwater Center that i got my resource from, therapy say theyre saying only about 5 billion. Wait. 5 billion instead of 20 billion . Wheres the rest of the money . Good question. Why havent they paidout . Well good question. You know what joe . I dont know where this boot on the neck of bp went. Because that was the sound bite we heard from the Obama Administration. We have never seen anything quite at this magnitude. Our job is basically to keep the boot on the neck of british petroleum. Well, theyre still waiting for that kick. Turned out to be a bedroom slipper, is what it was. A light touch. Now what i want to know as a guy that eats way too much gulf coast seafood, whats the impact on on wildlife . Whats the impact on the environment . What do we know right now on the
food supply . And i worry about that for my health but more importantly i worry about it for the fishermen. Whats it looking like there . A lot of fishermen have been put out of business because the reefs created, the wrecks created have simply got oil on them and killed ban edbarnacles, all the sea life around it because the fish dont feed there so theyve moved. Recent studies showing problems with the dolphins. You can see the problem with some of the fish. Bp said well the oil spill didnt cause that. Might have been some something elses. The oil that went to the bottom it went to the bottom because something was put on top of it. You put that chemical on the oil it comes together makes little rocks and, of course fell to the bottom and all of a sudden was gone. So you got oil and then you dump chemicals thats right. Doesnt sound like the two ingredients i want in my shrimp. That oil in many respects is
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train moderate rebels fighting isis in syria. Meanwhile, Senior Pentagon officials confirm a major plan to maintain control of the second largest city in iraq. Mosul, beginning in the spring involve up to 25,000 iraqi fighter. Here at home a 19yearold man from minneapolis indicted for allegedly helping isis. Pulled off a plane trying to aid isis. And with us retire edd admiral and at Tufts University and from istanbul istanbul, turkey, richard engel. As i said also David Ignatius. Richard, let me begin with you. Youre there. We have a lot of motion but is there do you see positive Movement Forward over the past couple of weeks . A lot of different announcements
from the white house, talking about sending drones to other countries, talking about arming Syrian Rebels. Now were talking about training Syrian Rebels. Arent these the same rebels that have had trouble over the past couple of years making any gains . Reporter well first on the Syrian Rebels piece, turkey and the u. S. Finally signed a deal that would allow Syrian Rebels to be trained here in turkey but were talking about a very small number of rebels. They would also only be given fairly light weapons. Trucks perhaps some machine guns mounted on the backs of the trucks. Very little that could actually turn the tide of the battle. This is being perceived by many people including some people who are big advocates of supporting the rebels including the former u. S. Ambassador ambassador ford as far too little, far too late that the syrian Rebel Movement has really died nap this is died. That this is not going the
change of course of the ballots but could complicate things. David ignatius ask the same thing. Arm the syrian rebel ineffective and rebuild the iraqi army which by the way sdovldissolved like sugar in hot water in 1991 i said earlier in the week in 2003 and again in 2014. Is that really the solution . Well joe, those are things that are being discussed. What i saw on this trip the last two weeks was that first the part of our strategy that involves working with the Kurdish Peshmerga in Northern Iraq is working powerfully. Peshmerga got off to a rush start when isis broke out of mosul. They were pushed back on their lines. They have really retaken a territory. They took me, some of their fighters took me around all of kurdistan and into nineveh province outside mosesal. I saw the ground theyve taken, theyve cut the road tleen mosul
and the way out to syria. Its possible to really squeeze mosul. I also saw do you sense that the momentum was on their side . Did they feel because i saw the story this north that youre talking about in the post how the supply routes were cut off. Do they feel like over time they will be able to strangle isis . They feel that they really are on the offensive now that isis is on its back heels. You sense that as you see them retreat. Theyll fire mortars in the distance from where i was, but theyre just almost halfhearted were still here. The question is how youre going to finish the job . I am a little worried when i see stories saying that mosul will be retaken this spring in a few months and the reason is that the people who would retake it will be iraqi army and probably iraqi Shiite Militia men and thats precisely what scarce the sunnis in iraq. One theme i kept encountering
sunnis saying were not sure even now that government of Prime Minister abadi is prepared to give sunnis power to create militias. Thats job one for u. S. Trainers military officials, diplomats in the region. Help the sunnis to feel they really got skin in the game. Admiral, americans woke up a couple days ago reading news that isis now could be going into italy. Obviously a lot of people shaken up by that news. Yes. Is that more hype or a possibility . No. I think its real unfortunately, and as we know this is an aspiration for isis. They talk a lot about fighting back against the crusades going all the way to rome putting the black banner across st. Peters square. Thats not realistic, but what is realistic is that the infiltrate through the migration routes that come from the libyan coast across to italy which is really about as close as parts of cuba are to florida. I mean this is quite the revenge of geography. I think the italians have
something to worry about. Admiral, you also helped lead air strikes against libya a few years ago. Looking back regrets about how that turned out . No. In the long throe, i think libya is going to work. Its got oil, an educated population enviable energy along the mediterranean. Challenges but but if you look at the nature of almost any revolution, the two, three, four years afterwards think of the french revolution think of our own revolution these things take a little time. Im back on syria. I think the key is both david and richard, as theyve said its put isis under three axis pressure from a military perspective. Thats peshmerga from the north, get Iraqi Security forces firing up from the south. Keep bombing in the west and hopefully get the jordanians on the ground in the game. Richard engel, bring you back in. John mccain was on yesterday and he was talking how terrible it was that iran was involved and
obviously davids exactly right. He knows as well as anybody you and he do that the sunnis obviously terrified by the prospects of the shiite moving through the country, but arent we actually gaining an awful lot right now by the iranians stepping in and stopping isis from moving into baghdad . Something that policymakers in washington would not want to admit . Reporter were gaining and were also losing at the same time. Because if you look at the strategy, the strategy that the u. S. Military is leaking out to some reporters that theres going to be this major offensive against mosul involving 20,000 iraqi troops and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters the way its supposed to work and David Ignatius was absolutely right. Ive been to some of those areas as well. The kurdish fighters are holding their ground in the outskirts of mosul in areas generally called kurdistan but the iraqi army
now fighting hand in glove with the Iranian Military and that shouldnt be you cant hide the fact that the Iranian Military is deeply involved with the Iraqi Military. The Iraqi Military according to plan is supposed to sweep up from the south and thats going to pressure squeeze isis in mosul with the kurds above them and then the iraqi troops moving in from the south. But as you just said the iraqis are working with the iranians and the people of mosul dont really want to be liberated by Iranianbacked Shia troops. You have to also ask, what comes after isis . Does assad get to stay . In syria . Does the government of iraq fall apart . Does do the kurds establish independence . All of these are very open questions. So when you talk about having an offensive to take territory, a lot of iraqis and other people in the region are asking well whos actually going to take the New Territory if isis is pushed
out jrchlt out . David ignatius, obviously you spent a lot of time in Northern Iraq over the past few week. Its maybe you can answer the question a lot of us have been asking on set from the safety of our manhattan studios. Why dont we tell turkey if theyre not going to be an active or willing partner, a positive partner, that were going to support kurdistan . Were going to support the kurds taking care of the northern part of iraq . And we actually may see something that i dont usually say, that joe biden was right. That iraq is not one country. Its three, and we should allow the shia to have their part the kurds to have their part and sunnis to have their part . Joe, the deal actually i think is working slightly differently. Kurdish desires for independence were stronger when they had more confidence in turkey as their protector, and they were in effect choosing turkey over baghdad. And whats happened in the last six months or a year as turkeys done nothing to help
the kurds, is theyve begun to look back towards baghdad. A new Prime Minister. Hes more reasonable, hes working with the u. S. So when i ask kurds, you know how soon will you be an independent country . They say oh of course some day. Some day its really important, but for now clearly, theyre a part of iraq and thats in part because of disenchantment with turk pip let me mention one final thing i saw on this trip because in the long trun may be the most important. We always complain in america, and rightly so, that the muslim arabs who were being oppressed, slaughtered by these terrible terrorists dont speak up and take the fight themselves and in the last few weeks theyre actually beginning to do that. The jordanians are still enraged by the horrific burning to death of their pilot. In egypt, the fact the Egyptian Air Force flew missions to avenge egyptian Coptic Christians saying youre christian but egyptians and were taking action on your
behalf, those are really new things in the arab world and what they say is people are more willing to fight back and thats really the most important variable. I think even more important than how many boots on the ground and the timing of the offensive and its is there a will to make this their fight . And im seeing more of that. That is the important question. Admiral, thank you so much for being with us. Greatly appreciate it and hope youll come back. Richard, thank you as well. Appreciate you coming back as well. Lets now talk about american politics and, boy, what a mess in new york city. Mark halperin was a part of it yesterday afternoon. Well tell you why in just a second but former new york mayor Rudy Giuliani seeking positive clarify controversial remarks he said about president obamas in doing so many believe he made things worse. Started wednesday at a private event for Governor Scott walker in new york where giuliani reportedly said, i do not believe and i know this is a horrible thing to say
anything you say that stop. Period. End of sentence, end of paragraph and he continued, but i do not believe the president loves america he doesnt love you and he doesnt love me. He was brought up the way you he wasnt brought up the way you and i were brought up through love of this country. What giuliani said yesterday, though during multiple media appearances. Hes a patriot, im sure. What im saying is in his rhetoric i rarely hear him say the things i used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things i used to hear bill clinton say about how much he loves america. I do hear him criticize america much more often than other american president s i dont also believe he xress the lub of western civilization he should or understanding of western civilization or what western civilization has brought to the world. Im not saying its out of context. It wasnt. But the reality is i am at a stage as i told you personally i think last night of real real
worry for my country. You dont want to live through 9 11 again. Youre on the front lines. You dont want to see this happen and it very well yes. You know president obama didnt live through september 11th. I did. President obama didnt almost have a building fall on him. Myself and my Police Commissioner and my Fire Commission did and i lost ten of my very Close Friends and now ive lost about 100 Close Friends ba ive been so friendly with many of the families. So excuse me its a little emotional for me and its also real. Mr. Mayor, do you want to apologize for your comment . Not at all. I want to repeat it. The reality is from all that i can see of this president all that ive heard of him he apologizes for america. He criticizes america. He talks about the crusades and how the christians were barbarians, leaves out the second half of the sentence that the muslims were barbarians also. He sees christians slaughtered and doesnt stand up and hold a
press conference. Although he holds a press conference for the situation in ferguson. And in an interview with the New York Times Rudy Giuliani said he was merely describing the outlook on the world in which the president was raising saying, some people thought it was racist. I thought that was a joke. Since he was brought up by a white mother a white grandfather, we want to white schools, and most of what he learned was from white people this isnt racism. This is socialism or possibly anticolonialism. How deep can that hole go . I was just going to say, just stop already. He did 0 fortunately call in to our good friends Mark Halperin and John Heilemann on their bloomberg show with all due respect, before his appearance with megan kelly and he said this i should say that the president does or does not love anything or anyone. I dont know. I shouldnt say. Im not a psychiatrist and he doesnt have one and doesnt need one. Mark halperin you seem to
get him to back off a bit. Tell us . A little. Then he veered back and he never hears the president say he loves america. Hes not a psychiatrist. Some people said maybe he should seek help from one, because this is just not helpful rhetoric. He said it at this event. Interesting to me is scott walker didnt wee pud yate what he said. Bobby jindal embrace wld he said to some extent and the Republican Party really is almost got this obsession with talking about the president rather than at this time even coming close to rally around him. Mayor giuliani is not going to run for president but he is someone who has a pretty good feel for where his party is. And its saying something that strikes a cord with a lot of republicans in a way thats not helpful to the country. Donny deutsch, you were a liberal, but a liberal who also has been critical of barack obama. And said actually said a couple weeks ago you would have voted
for mitt romney if he ran in 16. So youre not quite as liberal as you seem to be when you wear your your rich mans suits and your you have your Upper West Side swagger or Upper East Side swagger. Come on come on. But in all seriousness, im just wondering, and i wondered this in 2012 why mitt romney and one of the reasons i was so critical of mitt romney when people were going out saying terrible things and calling the president a racist saying he hated all white people and you could go down list he was a marxist, a communist. I kept waiting for one republican candidate to be smart enough to have that sister sow diasow soulja mama. Disastrous Economic Policy disastrous Foreign Policy but lets just all agree on one thing. He loves his country. Hes doing what he thinks is best for this country, even though hes wrong. Hes a good father. Hes a good husband. Hes a good man. Hes just wrong for america. Are we really going to go through another cycle where republican candidates are too stupid to get out of the way of the stupidest people in their party that keep them from winning president ial elections by spewing hatred instead of telling people how theyre going to get back to work . Personally, this moderate this guy right in the middle. Left wing marxist . Are you you dont love america, do you, donny . Heres my stance. I am a protorture guy okay okay. We dont really care about you. Lets talk about your expertise. My mother cares about me. No. The answer to your question is. We love donny. Joking. No. Because jeb suburb fought stupid that way and john mccain, although he did not win was not stupid that way, shooting out remarks u. Think jeb bush will be smart enough sow say not even a question. 100 . Ive never met the man. Youve met the man. Everything i read and hear no youre not winning elections that way. Thats tone deaf. It shows Rudy Giuliani is just not in step. Just go home. Go to florida. Just, enough. You sound like an idiot. Did he take himself out of any future political prayer for himself . Thats i hes able to do what hes doing and play joe, as you said off camera the ugly bass. No. Jeb bush will not make that mistake. Still ahead on morning joe, joe kline, how to solve the puzzle of the middle east peace process. Why he says the key to fixing relations with iran may be simply to praise them . Okay. Plus, the beginning of the end for the colt classic mad men. The final season. Mark halperin will sure to be tearing up. I cant believe its come and gone, mark. Just seems like yesterday, having his first dirty martini
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time to wake up the kids again. Its time to take a look at morning papers starting in l. A. Where los angeles may go from having no nfl teams to two nfl teams, the san Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders announced they plan to build a shared stadium in carson, california, that actually looks like a spaceship out of star wars 7. Releasing a statement writing, were cannot find ap permanent sflugs our home markets and have no alternatives but to preserve other options to maintain the future viability of our franchise. Sounds like a shakedown. Sounds smart. Instead of building a stadium nor eight sundays, build it for 16. Trying to shake down oakland and san diego . Obviously. Starting fresh, a smart thing to do. A smart move and taxpayers probably shouldnt pay for billion dollar stadiums. Cost an estimated 1. 7 billion. Mark halperin . I love carson. One of my favorite cities. Yeah. Where is carson . Near los angeles. Its about well its like
half way between los angeles and san diego. Its a beautiful place. Really . I think a little further east. Its not in Orange County is it . Yes, Orange County. Google maps in a second. And Bloomberg News taking on the biggest name in electric cars. Bloomberg is the latest report on apples intention to jump into the auto business with the goal of making an electrical vehicle in less than five years putting apple in direct competition with tesla. There is speculation ap coal try to buy tesla in hopes of dominated the connected car market that involves everything from streaming music to weather, traffic, games. Yeah. Seances. Sara eisen, cnbcs sara eisen. Apple has so much cash they could buy most small countries. Are they really focused on this . Theyre focused on autos. We know that. A secret plan to make autos. A big acquisition like tesla . Thats not apples style. Use the cash return to shareholders, hoard it have it overseas. Interesting to see what the car is from apple. Not like an iphone market where there are hundreds of millions of hell to sell it to. The brilliance of apple and probably the greatest brand in the world today, theyve understood moving from ipads to iphone and everything in the core communication bettering everyday life. This is transportation. Backing into it saying its going to be about the connected car, and i jut wonder if consumers at some point just kind of go we dont know if thats you, apple. Donny, how many times have we heard do what you know how to do. Stay focused. What are you good at . Thats what you need to do. How many times have we see Companies Jump from one area to another . How good is apple . Connecting the ecosystem . Need your phone, for payments for your car. Benefit in human communication. The core benefit of a car is human transportation. I dont know why they build cars as opposed to selling to
existing automakers the front of the car Transportation System . Exactly. Lets go to variety now. Speculation is swirls on internet after the first trailer released for the final seven episodes of mad men. Man, it looks good. And here it is. Theres a cure for this i dont want it, i dont want it if theres a remedy ill run from it from it think about it all the time never let it out of my mind ive got the sweetest hangover i dont want to get over sweetest hangover oh. Boom boom thats great. All right. The partys over and hampton pete and peggy may get back together and buzz the series in the mid70s because, that song you heard, diana ross the slow part of love hangover that
came out in 1976 when i was only 48. The midSeason Finale of mad men tock place in 1969 returns to amc april 5th. Turn to you, mark. Return to watergate. How excited are you, though man . Looking good. Drapers looking good in his jacket. Some series close weak. This series appears to be closing strong. A lot of people say through the years, gotten worse. Ive stayed with it every season. There were some seasons, like for the sopranos slept through. One off season but not this past one. The one before. You can tell from the clothes and hairstyles. Look by the way, i had some of those bell bot ups in fourth grade. Look at the flares. Awesome. Still ahead, the socalled american sniper trial. Did they make their case that their client was insane . Were back in a moment. I make a lot of purchases for my business. And i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. Like 60,000 bonus points when i spent 5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. And i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at Office Supply stores. With ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. Travel, gift cards even cash back. And my rewards points wont expire. So you can make owning a business even more rewarding. Ink from chase. So you can. Ring ring progresso i cant believe im eating bacon and rich creamy cheese before my sisters wedding well its only 100 calories, so youll be ready for that dress uhhuh. You dont love the dress . I love my sister. 40 flavors. 100 calories or less. How much money do you have in your pocket right now . I have 40 21. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . I dont think so. Well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. Welcome back to morning joe. The defense has rested in the trial of the man accused of killing american sniper chris kyle. A forensic psychologist took the stand yesterday testifying that the defendant Eddie Ray Routh suffered from schizophrenia and actually believed he was acting in selfdefense. When he shot kyle and kyles friend chad littlefield, but during crossexamination the psychiatrist conceded that routh lied to him about how traumatic his military Service Really was saying its my opinion that he does not suffer from ptsd. The prosecution will call rebuttal witnesses today. Closing arguments are scheduled for monday. Well be following that. Today is a big day for greece as eurozone ministers ganger to decide its fate. Joining us now on set at 30 rock cnbc chief International Correspondent michelle crusoe carusocabrera carusocabrera. Gathering in brussels to see about giving an extension to a bailout deal for greece. The president of slovakia saying, wait. The minimum wage in greece is twice as high as slovakia and my poor citizens a poor country, supposed to give more money to the greeks . Its becoming a difficult situation. At stake here is whether or not greece actually stays in the eurozone. Could you see a country decide theyre no longer going use the euro . That would be a huge watershed moment for what has been a big currently experiment there. What happens to the euro if
greece withdraws from the euro . Thats the big question. The greeks tell you if we leave a house of cards, others will leave as well and the germans say, not necessarily. Youre the weakest players. We all climb up the mountain. Maybe if we let you go the rest of us can climb bester without you. And for a second apple, on the brink of becoming 1 trillion company. Amazing. Talking about getting into cars i earlier said dont overstep. Always in the communication making life better business. This is transportation. Can they mark the leap . They make beautiful hardware though. Dont they . Right . I mean the original computers were so much more beautiful than any other. Design, sure. And i think about the way they have reinvented the clicker for your tv. My time warner clicker versus my apple tv clicker, i mean the elegance and beautifully simplistic, its so simple and elegant. I would love it if they brought
the same design expertise to cars. The original point you were making is, apple could be the first trillion dollar company. The way we calculate that how many share doss they have the stuff can you buy and sell on the new york stock exchange. How many shares . And the nasdaq. Multiply that by the stock price. I never knew how they came to that. I let you do they can pay dividends, buy other companies. Stock they should buy, like a twitter or something. Who knows . Shown an inclaination to do that mika you should know ive spoken to johnny ivy apples designer of everything and hes going to design for me and for you an apple convertible car. Okay . Thats coming up. I need that. That would be great. Id go anywhere with you in that. Nothing is going against my 66 mustang convertible. Nice. Mika a whole new thing happens with you. Wow. I like that. Dont you like it . Havent you seen it in the pictures . What color . Yellow. Very pale yellow. Beautiful. Its gorg. Look at that. Still ahead joes picture on the hood. Oh god. And Time Magazine nuclear iran doesnt concern him but a different country does. Revealing which one, next. Theres confidence. Then theres trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. Our expertise, technology, and high quality parts mean your peace of mind. Now you can get the works, a multipoint inspection with a Synthetic Blend Oil change tire rotation, Brake Inspection and more. 29. 95 or less. woman the constipation and belly pain feel like a knot. How can i ease this pain . man when i cant go, its like bricks piling up. I wish i could find some relief. announcer ask your doctor about linzess a oncedaily capsule for adults with ibs with constipation or chronic idiopathic constipation. Linzess is thought to help calm painsensing nerves and accelerate bowel movements. It helps you proactively manage your symptoms. Do not give linzess to children under 6, and it should not be given to children 6 to 17. It may harm them. Dont take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. Get immediate help if you develop unusual or severe stomach pain especially with bloody or black stools the most common side effect is diarrhea, sometimes severe. If its severe stop taking linzess and call your doctor right away. Other side effects include gas stomacharea pain and swelling. Bottom line, ask your doctor about linzess today. Most of the products we all buy are transported on Container Ships. Before a truck delivers it to your store, a Container Ship delivered it to that truck. Here in san diego, were building the first one ever to run on natural gas. Ships this big running this clean will be much better for the environment. Were proud to be a part of that. Before larry instantly transferred money from his bank of america savings account to his merrill edge retirement account. Before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling winter an underserved season. And before he quit his friends leafraking business for not offering a 401k. Larry knew the importance of preparing for retirement. Thats why when the time came he counted on merrill edge to streamline his investing and help him plan for the road ahead. Thats the power of streamlined connections. Thats merrill edge and bank of america. Welcome back to morning joe. Now more of our discussion with time columnist joe kline. Let me ask you the question weve been asking policymakers over the past month. If turkey is not going to be an ally or a better ally then why not place our bets with the kurds . Well we should be placing our bets with and actually use that as a threat against turkey. You either play ball and start
being an ally or were going to start pushing for kurdistan . Well the problem with that is, you dont want to open any more kansas of worms in that area. I mean just its great for us and the kurds are, should be much admired. You know. Ive said before on this show that im not sure that iraq as a country ought i am sure that kurdistan is and we should support them in their fight against isis. But im not sure that we need to support radical kurd organizations that exist inside of turkey that might be a bridge way too far. Whats the future of turkey . Where do we go next . Because ive been talking to people from turkey for a decade now and been concerned about the move away from what was built and developed, a move away from reliance on the army and more towards an islamist approach. Do we continue down this path . Well i think that theres not much we can do. One of the things youve got say about turkey and about egypt,
and about iran is that these are real countries. You dont see Straight Line border theres. This is, you know turkey always was and always will be. And youve got to hope that because of turkeys economic ties to europe because its a member of nato because the public there has savored western culture, theyre not going to let this go on much longer. Lets move to netanyahu. Obviously, a very divisive figure in the United States and across the middle east. Why are relations so bad between bb bsh barack obama and Benjamin Netanyahu . Well, because obama, first of all, gave him a really tough time on the settlements and then backed down and showed weakness. You know, the relations between the george h. W. Bush jim baker and Brent Scowcroft running the show were as bad if not worse than these. But bb is practically an american. Grew up in philadelphia. Ive known him from the u. N. 30 years ago and thinks he can play american politics. Can he . Well he has. I mean you know they bring over a lot of members of congress. Did you ever make this trip joe . I never made the trip. Put him in a helicopter. Show him israel is smaller than new jersey, and then bb tells them that iran is going to launch a Nuclear Weapon as soon as they get it which is completely ridiculous and hes got a lot of friends. Why is that ridiculous . Why is that ridiculous . Because sirn a country of 70 Million People, and they know that if they ever launched on israel tehran with 25 Million People would be evaporated 20 minutes later. Ill ask you this question that ive asked the past three years, and nobody has a good answer. Im going to see if your nonanswer is better than every others, because nobody can know. Who is in charge of iran . Because because at times it
seems like its the ayatollahs. At times seems its the revolutionary guard. At times reformers. Whos in charge . I think the revolutionary guard is in charge. The Supreme Leader is a pretty good politician and he knows he cant go against them. But the public the public desperately wants to rejoin the world, which is why were seeing these negotiations now. Can you explain to americans that are watching that may not know this. Explain about iranians . Iranian culture . How educated they are. How educated theyve been. Their history goes back 4,000, 5,000 years . Im always struck by military men, because military men back then, that always told me how great it was working with people in the Iranian Military, because they were professional. They were western. Ask the israelis about it. You talk to people and ask who has the best Security Forces in the region aside from you . Best Intelligence Forces . They say the iranians because we trained them. Right. And ive been to iran twice, and it is its a great place, actually. The people are wonderful. Theyre the best were going to keep you away from john mccain, but continue. They are the best educated people. Right. In the region. They are the best educated women in the region. They love us. The people do. Right. It is the greatest mismatch between a people and a government of any country in the world, perhaps with the exception of cuba. You could be in damascus or tehran and have a lot of people very positive about america. Yeah. Well, its a pretty complicated part of the world. And i think, you know when i was there, they had the museum of the great satan in tehran our old embassy there where they held the hostages and they have graffiti all over the place, and one of the graffitis said on the day of the great satan praises
us we shall mourn. And i always thought that would about pretty damn good Foreign Policy toward iran. Recognize them. Say, we want all the pistachios and rugs and everything you can send us. Well send you, you know Britney Spears dvds. I dont think they want that. Well not not right now. Not yet. All right, joe klein, thank you so much. Appreciate you coming in here and taking us on a tour of my pleasure. Next time we needed to come and give us a tour of new music. Yes. All right. Morning joe will be right back. Here i am. Rock you like a hurricane. Fiber one now makes cookies. Find them in the cookie aisle. Sometimes the present looked bright. Sometimes romantic. There were tears in my eyes. And tears in my eyes. And so many Little Things that we learned were really the biggest things. Through it all, we saved and had a retirement plan. And someone who listened and helped us along the way. Because we always knew that someday the future would be the present. Every someday needs a plan. Talk with us about your retirement today. How do i know im getting the best price on this . Well match any competitors price. What about this . Price match guarantee. And this . Yup. So no Monkey Business . No tom foolery . Oh, we do have tom foolery. Tom . Staples has a price match guarantee. Make on budget happen. Make best prices happen. Staples. Make more happen. Ive been called a control freak. I like to think of myself as more of a control. Enthusiast. Mmm, a perfect 177degrees. And thats why this road warrior rents from national. I can bypass the counter and go straight to my car. And i dont have to talk to any humans, unless i want to. And i dont. And national lets me choose any car in the aisle. Control. Its so, whats the word . Sexy. Go national. Go like a pro. Welcome back to morning joe. We want to introduce you to an adorable 7yearold girl named emily. She was born blind, but as nbcs Kerry Sanders explains theres now new technology allowing people like emily to watch television. Im going to let you lead me. Okay . Shes a spit fire and full of life. First step. Up this step. She just has the most engaging fun personality. And now what do we do . Go hide. And we wanted to see the world through a different lens. Did you ring the doorbell . Katie and tyler groves 7yearold daughter emily was born blind. He eyes they did not look
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look like to me. Reporter emily is in a new commercial for comcast for technology to assist the blind. Press okay to select. Reporter the talking guide reads allowed selections like Program Titles and ondemand setting giving users the freedom to select their own shows and movies. Is this our set . Reporter the commercial is emily the vision of what she thinks the wizard of oz looks like. My scarecrow has wooden teeth and his fingernails are really long. Reporter there are a number of recent technological break throughs targeting disabled consumers. Double tap. Reporter from a mean assists pair pleechraplegics recognizing Head Movement and using a cursor to an app identifying objects from your Smartphone Camera to turning your phone into a hearing aid. The great thing about technology is, we can give people back capabilities that theyve lost or give people capabilities theyve never had. Leveling the Playing Field for
everyone. Reporter and that technology is changing lives. Because youre blind what do you want everybody to know . You can do other things. That i can do other things. There are things i cant do as much as i can. I hope that all of the people ive passed in Grocery Stores that looked at me with pity in their eyes would see a child who is just brave and happy and had so many capabilities that they would no longer feel like they had to pity her, but that they would see all of the possibilities. She is not blindness. She is a beautiful little ghirl happen girl who happens to be blind. Emilys commercial is set to air for the first time this sunday during the oscars. Up next what if anything did we learn today . Ower. Surprised . In fact, america is now the worlds number one natural gas producer. And we could soon become number one in oil. Because Hydraulic Fracturing Technology is safely recovering lots more oil and natural gas. Supporting millions of new jobs. Billions in tax revenue. And a new century of American Energy security. The new Energy Superpower . Its red, white and blue. Log on to learn more. You owned your car for four years. You named it brad. You loved brad. And then you totaled him. You two had been through everything together. Two boyfriends. Three jobs. Youre like nothing can replace brad then Liberty Mutual calls. And you break into your happy dance. If you sign up for better car replacement, well pay for a car thats a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. See Car Insurance in a whole new light. Liberty mutual insurance. These new Nature Valley nut crisp bars are packed with nuts, seeds and sweetness. Stick to simple, like Nature Valley nut crisp bars. Nuts. Seeds. Sweetness. Boom. Delicious. How did i set a new personal record today . I started with a test run. Then i got a solid nights rest in a great room. And before i hit the road, i hit the breakfast bar where i got my fuel for the next 26 miles. Great endings begin here. And now when you
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