Of highway, i saw before me that endless skyway i saw below me i almost feel like you should say vote for me or ill put out another album. Oh, thats cold. I like him. It had kind of a reggae beat behind it. Some of the best little known fact here actually. Bob marley from jamaica, but born in burlington. Lived there until fourth grade. Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to morning joe. You would think they would at least have a monument to him. Tom brokaw who is better. I think his wife is amazing. She is. Mary is fantastic. Yeah we were up last night at toms event talking about his life. Hes talked about the greatest generation. Time to talk about one of the greatest reporters and journalists. 50 years of nbc. I didnt realize that until at. I kind of stepped back and took a breath. Next year a half century. He has been without the funny accent, hes been sort of the forest gump. He has always been in extraordinary places. Wsb in atlanta at the start of the civil rights movement, really right in the heart of the civil rights movement. Then he went out to l. A. And he covered the rise of Ronald Reagan. And all the tumult in california. Watergate at the white house. Hes been there every step of the way. For so many reasons, great to be able to celebrate with him. Lets get to the news. Big changes are under way at the tsa after a series of stunning security failures. The acting administrator has been reassigned after agents at dozens of the nations busiest airports failed almost every single undercover breach test. Here is tom costello with more. Reporter the tests were conducted by Homeland Security red teams, charged with probing tsa checkpoints nationwide. Nbc news has confirmed tsa screening officers failed to detect smuggled weapons in 67 out of 70 attempts. A 95 failure rate. In one case an alarm sounded, but even during a pat time the screening officer failed to detect a fake plastic explosive taped to an undercover agents back. The former chief calls the undercover red teams super terrorists because they know the tsas weaknesses going in. Plus they have the benefit of being able to construct device in a lab, theyre not out in the desert some place. Homeland Security Director is jeh johnson also immediately ordered new Airport Security procedures following the investigation. A couple things. First of all, i think we will it will take longer time to go through the tsa lines. It will be fun. You can count on that. Yeah. Secondly, i just wondered ive read stories over the past ten years that we just dont invest enough. Im the first guy to say first gay to say its not always about the money. But in this case you look at some of the tsa agents there are some really really between ones, but also some that dont seem to be quite as effective. And ive heard that they dont pay the people who are on the front line of defense against terrorism enough money to get the best and brightest. I think thats probably true although there have been hundreds of millions poured into buying new government that was supposed to plug some of the holes that they found in the first years after 9 11. And obviously that hasnt worked out. I think what the tsa would say is these check points are just one piece of the puzzle that they use. They have dogs and people watching. But it is depressing when you think about how our lives have changed at airports and trains and everywhere else over the last 15 years. And standing in long lines, taking your shoes off and Everything Else that this still 14 years after 9 11 is the outcome that 95 of the weapons get through. A 95 fail rate. Thats a bad day. Thats sort of me taking a chemistry test in high school. Im sure it was hard though in fairness. It was. And you really werent supposed to buy a guitar with the money your parents gave you for books. I did that my junior and seen aror year. Can i borrow your book, can i borrow your book . Didnt have a book for high last two years p. Makes it hard. Are wrwere good student . I was good enough. I wasnt top of my crassqulas. I struggled. As your mother would say, she was a difficult student. She still calls me that right now. To 2016. The republican candidates are going to disney world. Jeb bush, marco rubio, scott walker and more will speak today in florida at governor rick scotts economic summit. And there is a new official candidate this morning with a laser like focus on National Security. Senator Lindsey Graham announced his campaign for president on monday calling out opponents on both sides of the aisle and putting a Strong Defense front and center in his appeals. Ive got one simple message. I have more experience with our National Security than any other candidate in this race. That includes you, hillary. Those who believe we can disengage from the world at large and be safe by leading from behind, vote for someone else. Those who believe the best way to defend ourselves is to lead the world, to make history rather than be overwhelmed by it, i ask for your support. So you can say hes the antirand paul. Graham brings the total number of official republican candidates to nine with double digits expected by thursday when former Texas Governor rick perry higly likely announces. Well have him later this week. And as for a candidate who claims he is not in yet, although he is but hes not, so he collude New York Times reports jeb bush is not inheriting the network of his brothers support. Only 25 said they were supporting the former florida governor. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton says shes going to hold the first rally of her campaign at new york citys for freedom park named for president roosevelts for freedom address. Shes on which cited Eleanor Roosevelt as a role model. Clintons kickoff takes place next saturday and take park is accessible by tram subway. So that will be fun. That will be something. That will be interesting to see what she puts on the table. So what do you think about lindsey . Weve talked a lot about how there is not a lot of strong Foreign Policy voice in the republican field. You have governors, you have some young senators. There are some obviously Rick Santorum has some experience. John kasich if he gets in. But Lindsey Graham will make Foreign Policy his issue. Hell talk about isis being the biggest threat to the yun and i think hell highlight the fact that hes the bon with the most experience. Whether are or not you like his experience is another question. But hes got it. But, yeah hes been working on capitol hill for 20 years in congress, in the house and u. S. Senate. An he knows Foreign Policy. And i think having lindsey in as well as rand will be good for the party. It will be a great debate. There is a split right now what the Republican Party believes the u. S. Governments role in the world should be. We will hear that debate. So hell at least be able to churn up a conversation. I think it will be a fascinating debate. And i think it will be important for the party. An effort to get senator Elizabeth Warren to run for president says it will take one last plea to the massachusetts democrat on monday a joint venture by moveon. Org Political Action and democracy for america say they will deliver over 350,000 petitions asking her to run. And then they will suspend that i ever operations. In december, they announced a commitment to spend at least 1. 25 million in convincing her to challenge Hillary Clinton. Wash has said repeatedly that she is not running. And i dont think she is. Does anyone here think she is . They need to give up. Are you ready to give up . Yeah, but dont you think like lindsey and all these others, it would be really great if she joined the conversation . I dont think shes as far to one side as someone like Lindsey Graham, but i think she brings up important legitimate points. And the it would be a shame not to have her in the conversation. Well, she should be in the conversation. It would be great to have her in the race. I will say, though she is further left than lindsey is. How. Where . On what . If you just look at their voting patterns. Behind lindsey is Foreign Policy, shes a bit more to the right. Shes a bit more left. Not far left. Shes just trying to make sure that actually things that people talk about in their sum speeches happen. Youre saying lindsey is an extremist because hes a conservative. He wants to bomb everybody. Interest lendindsay oig is a moderate for the most part. Elizabeth warren may not be in the race and probably wont join the race, but dont you feel like her impact has already been felt . The message shes been pushing for the last three, four, five year, you hear snippets of it from Hillary Clinton every time she gets on the stump. She talks about wage stagnation inequality those were themes not brnorn outs but certainly pushed on to the National Stage with warren. What i worry about with Hillary Clinton is that its sgraet for great for her to touch on those themes and mimic Elizabeth Warren and sort of gather into what people tap into, but will she do it. What about her experience and her connections and the way she sort of operated what is the proof that she will stand up for the middle class and are poorer americans who are really struggling right now raising the minimum wage in places that hasnt seen it enough. I dont know. I dont know. Id like to and i cant believe im saying this. I think shell get there. I did. Im pretty confident she can say it but will she be able to do it. Yeah i think so. On what basis is that answer coming out of your mouth . Because shes running in a democratic primary. And if she wants to win the democratic primary and gfrn likeovern like a democrat aboutbut will she do it. Bill clinton was far more moderate than most democrats around him, but the Democratic Base would take those eight years again. So is he going to is she going to be a flaming left wing liberal . No shes not. But i think shell be sort of a mainstream democrat. I think what is interesting is bill clinton moved the Democratic Party to the center. And he made bill clinton matt Democratic Party relevant again in National Politics. But democrats had the white house five out of the last six times. So they saw that as their pathway to success. And since he left office, democrats as a party have moved farther left bit by bit. They are far more Progressive Party today at the core than they were back when bill clinton was president. And so, yeah hillary may not be where they are, but i think she holds the middle shell have a much better chance of winning a general election. But shell be a traditional democrat. Youre skeptical, mika. What does that mean . Does that mean shell stand up to wall street and make sure banks are not too big to fail and because i havent seen that. I dont think shell stand up to wall street any more than her husband stood up to wall street. Her husband didnt stand up to wall street. So the answer is ultimately no. We literally come back to my question and the answer is maybe no. There is also the argument that that might be a pretty good thing that shes not going to go to wall with wall street like Elizabeth Warren or going around raising taxes. You want to see an example of what happens when you have a legislature and executive at war with businesses . Just look to my home state and where youre from connecticut. An absolute nightmare what has been going on up there. I dont know if you heard about this. They raised massive taxes a couple years ago. And its one of the worst tax states in the country for business. And now theyre coming back asking for another tax rate and General Electric iconic business, General Electric aetna and travelers have all said theyre thinking about leaving the state. When you first started going there, connecticut was the most thriving i mean it was an economic i was covering it it was an electric making neither. Magnet. Lowell walker decided he was going to implement a state income tax. And from that point forward with a lot of republican governors by the way, connecticuts economy has gotten worse, a lot of us predicted and ive been talking about his tax for year. You can trace their economic stagnation back to 1991. And now theyre talking about even more taxes on i think its ranked 50th for the worst Business Climate. I have stood in front of more companies include i think it was like saab in orange connecticut withholding a microphone saying they are leaving and going to the south or wherever. Do you know 50 of connecticut residents in a poll over the past year said that they would leave the state if they could . 50 . But they cant sell their house. Because nobodys coming in because they keep raising taxes. The Business Environment is worse than its ever been. So why would you move your business to connecticut . I moved to connecticut because i love connecticut and my children love connecticut and my dogs. We love the state. And i think ive lived a gazillion places, but i think thats where ill be the rest of my life. Three companies coming out publicly against this Dannel Malloy will have to slam on the breaks and say 700 million of new corporate taxes, and gm usually doesnt speak publicly about tax issue, so this is new for them to come out and say this is absolutely unacceptable we have to start looking at other options dan emmale other options dan emmale malloy and the lenlsz lays chur theyre looking at raising the cigarette tax, which that was a big issue when i was covering the news in connecticut years ago. Not sure what this has to do with Hillary Clinton protecting the middle class but its a big story. What im telling you is you actually have a legislature up there and a governor who has decided they will go after the big corporations. Its a tax that they want to put on people who establish their Corporate Headquarters in connecticut. Now, every other state in america will give tax incentives for people to establish i can tell you, jeff immelt if you want to move gm to pensacola, florida, 0 taxes, state income taxes, and in South Carolina they will actually give you tax cuts. Dont do it. Stay where you are. I dont think they will raise the taxes. But it is pure insanity. And this is really at the heart of the economic debate that we have had for years. I know but we dont im not sure i mean i think someone who a politician in charge a leader in charge can make deals on tax breaks and incentives, in exchange for treating your workers better. I think that could happen. But you need a candidate who is actually willing to not just say it, do it. And not be so cozy with those Big Companies that you cant. I dont know who that is yet. I really dont. It was Elizabeth Warren. Well, no i think liz weatherelizabethlizelizabeth may be too hostile to businesses. Maybe. That was my point. What you dont want happening across america what is happening in connecticut. I understand what you mean by too hostile and im not sure thats what she is. But i understand that concern. Just tell me who is not too cozy. Name one who is not too cozy, who youre sure will be fair p. Bernie sanders. Ill get you the sticker. All right. Lets go. Coming up on morning joe, two p of the republican candidates for president , first joes conversation with Mike Huckabee and former governor George Pataki joins the set. Later this week well talk with behind zir Lindsey Graham and rick perry. But first bill karins with a check on the forecast. Its like winter. Dud, its june. Im wearing snow pants. For people not in the city its i was out walking. Took a couple pictures because we were going to defeat them. Tweet them. The fog was coming in everybody was shivering. Like navy s. E. A. L. Training in the pacific ocean. Not fun. Lets show you, i have lee things. A couple of areas. First of all, you look and say what am i staring at. Time lapse video from south today come he take. This is a super cell thorm that sat over the open plains. You can see in a time lapse how it spins and rotates and sucks in the warm humid air from below. Didnt produce any tornados but almost looks like a ufo. Secondly you how the Lightning Strike captured from a Police Dashboard camera. Boom. See the smoke trail on that one. Actually took a chunk of concrete off the edge of the bridge. Close call for that police cruiser. And finally, downpours were all in the northeast and mid atlantic yesterday. And this is the capital. Flooding capitol hill even. Hallway there about 2 to 3 inches of water. That is in the past its all cleaned up and things are improving. So thorn as joe mentioned, the rain continues in the northeast. Ugly morning. Jacket, maybe especially boston portland. Its a cold rain. The temperatures 46. Thats not even including the windchill this makes it feel like the low 40s. Even philadelphia youre in the low 50s. So this is probably one of the coldest days well have until the late fall. In the Northern Plains watch out for severe storms later today. Maybe even a few more additional str