Children before their parents got their green cards. Thats going to do it for a monday edition of way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning. Its monday, may 19th. Welcome to morning joe, everybody. Look, it just might be a Beautiful Day. With us on set we have the chairman of deutsch incorporated, donny deutsch. Good morning. Pretty. No. Youre in trouble. Okay. Really . Well talk. Some people have excuses. And other people have excuses. All right. Msnbc political analyst and visiting professor of nyu, harold ford jr. Is here. Hello. The host of way too early, the
always joyful effervescent thomas roberts. Good morning. Youre always in a good mood. I try. I need some of that. Youre always in a good mood. Im a little bogged down by life. But theres no reason for that. Thats what you tell me. And in washington we have the ceo of politico, jim vandehei. Several stories developing right now. In california 47 homes are in ruins following an outbreak of wildfires around san diego. Crews battled flames on multiple fronts. Some families were spared while others lost everything. The entire state is facing a serious drought. And the governor is warning this years wildfires will be the worst. And relentless rain have left most of serbia under flooding. Massive evacuations is underway. The death toll sitting at 25 is expected to rise. The mers virus is spreading here in america. Now a third possible case in the u. S. Doctors say it could spread through something as simple as a hand shake. Well have a report from dr. Nancy snyderman in a few minutes. And the va admits 23 people have died because of delayed care. A new information points, though, to a far deeper problem. An ohio paper says delayed treatment is a factor in more than 100 deaths. Well be looking into that. And it was a packed house for fridays first know your value conference which donny missed in hartford. Hundreds of women took part in a wide ranging issues. Were going to show you some of the highlights coming up. Mea culpa, i was privileged
to be invited to judge yep. Celebrity judge. With yourself and mr. Scarborough. And i got plans. I got big footed because of you. Exactly. I was big footed because of you and i sat home friday night. Its always about the children. I got plans to come up to hartford and i was taking morning joe chopper 5 up there, and i have to be home at 4 00 on fridays when my kids get home from school. This is a true story. So its children first. Thats what happens. And once again the scarborough chopper 5 did not work. By the way, 500 women you know what i said when your chopper wouldnt go in the rain, they all went, please. Do you think id turn down 500 women . Thats a good excuse. How was the conference . It was amazing. Well have more coming up. You owe me some shoes. Let me get to the shoes. First heading into the heat of the election season. According to politico. Likely voters around the country would prefer a republican over a democrat by seven points. Nine in ten say the Health Care Law would be important in determining their vote. 60 of the voters say the Health Care Debate should not be over. But a number that perhaps could help democrats, 58 say a candidates stance on the income disparity between men and women will impact their decision in november. We have a story coming up connected to that. These numbers come as some of the toughest races will be decided tomorrow. Races playing out across the map from oregon to pennsylvania to
the deep south. Despite big money from the Senate Conservatives fund, Tea Party Candidate matt bevin trails Mitch Mcconnell. The Senate Majority leader is on Cruise Control. But the same poll shows mcconnell trailing democratic likely challenger Alison Lundergan grimes. David perdue seeming in the lead. But it would take both slashing, spending, and increasing revenue to take down the debt. Its what his opponents have jumped on. He never voted in a regular republican primary. Hes flipflopped on issues that are key to Republican Voters common core. And now we found out just this week that he seems to be a little bit soft when u it comes to not raises taxes. I use the word revenue. Revenue is a code word for taxes in politics, obviously. The point ive been making for over a year is weve got to get the economy going that will increase the tax base and help the crisis. Voter turnout is expected to be below 20 and at least three other candidates are in striking distance. The winner takes on Michelle Nunn. Then theres mississippi where Chris Mcdaniel is trying to unseat thad cochran. A blogger has been charged with felony for taking a picture and posting a photo online of cochrans wife who was in nursing home. What . The blogger Clayton Thomas kelly is a mcdaniel supporter. But whats the point of this . How would that not backfire . Politics these days has become more and more nonsense. Mcdaniel has condemns the bloggers actions. First of all, well be hearing from kasie hunt in the next hour. Big conversation on the midterms and whats going on with those primaries. But what do you make of those polls and how it looks its playing out on the campaign trail . Start with the politico poll. The important part there is the poll was just in competitive house and senate areas. Its not a national poll. Its where the elections will be decided and republicans have a decisive advantage. And the fact that 90 of people have very passionate feelings about health care shows you that is the singular issue of the campaign and does tilt the republicans way. Which is the reason they have that lead. You have that broader environment. Then inside of that, the big story of the campaign has been that the establishment has been able to get better candidates, to get more money in to support those candidates and beat back the most electable candidates in the races. We dont know whats going to happen in georgia. One of the most interesting things you said about the
georgia is less than 20 of voters are going to vote in that primary. Theres almost more candidates than there are people that will vote. But it does look like an establishmentbacked candidate will win. You come out of those with the candidate republicans want. Donny . Obviously your poll shows for health care a robust issue for republicans. But as we get close to the general election and as better and better news comes out for health care, is there a possible misstep waiting in the wings for republicans here . Thats always a possibility. In durability in Health Care Numbers i see on which people planning on voting do oppose the law work in the republicans favor. The other thing to keep an eye on is win back the senate, i would look at that poll youre talking about in kentucky where its really a dead heat for
whether or not Mitch Mcconnell can thought it was going to be down. Almost every poll ive seen shows hes up. This is still very much up for grabs. I think health care is going to be the issue which is why every outside group is pouring money into that issue. I think they can capitalize on income inequality. Are you surprised at the numbers . I think Alison Grimes is a better candidate. Have we underestimated her . The sense of those in the National Press are wrong. Ive met her. Ive wachd her. She has performed at a lel that democrats in that state are proud of. I watched matt bevin, a republican opponent for mcconnell, yesterday on one on the sunday shows. Even if he said he wouldnt support grimes, he said he
wouldnt support Mitch Mcconnell. If we know any kind of division amongst republicans could open a door for her to win narrow in this race. I give her a lot of credit for hanging tough. And obviously hanging well to beat the head bot with the error in news polls. Whether the president has been completely successful against the Republican Opposition or not. That is a fair shot. And the issue of equal pay within that, but the income disparity problem that we are seeing in this country. People like Elizabeth Warren who are heroes on the left and youve also, donny, got companies now stepping up realizing if people arent going to come around in washington, were going to do what we have to do. Were going to do what we can do. The Health Care Law worked better in kentucky than it did in other states. That could be one of the key factors to the extent the political poll is being decided. He opened up kentuckys
health care state exchange. Didnt rely on the federal government and they were able to get people in the special statewide program that other states could try to emulate. I think his opponent is shes not running on that. Portland, oregon, is pulling its money out of one of the biggest corporations. The city will no longer invest in walmart. The city has adopted socially responsible concerns. Wages is mentioned in this as well. By 2016 the city will have eliminated 36 million in holdings or about 3 of the citys portfolio. Its interesting. Particularly with millennials today, corporations behaving the right way has everything to do
with income inequality, so on and so forth. This also goes back to the health care thing and the Republican Party of no. Its all about populism today. As our nation, as these young people come up, they want income inequality across demographics. They want it across sex. They Want Companies to behave a certain way. And they Want Health Care for the masses. And i still believe that although on paper this health care argument seems to be juicy for republicans, as we get to november, the issue will backfire. I totally agree with you. And the argument against that is you dont want everybody to have health care, really . Its all the same blush. Its all about a populist nation. The story after story of walmart employees, mcdonalds employees getting food stamps or living below the poverty line. Its impossible in this country to say im against a minimum wage hike. Are you serious . The one thing weve seen from the issue with minimum wage and so many fast food worker strikes and thats ignited a fire worldwide about what that means for quality paywise. And women by the way. But we get the video, right . We get the video of the protests and we can see them really relate to what theyre trying to say, but donnys point to millennials and how they organize now. Its hash tag protests. Its social media. The fact two things that concern me about what democrats in the congress and white house have not been able to accomplish, number one is that. Number two, makes no sense why they have taxed private equity who are benefitting from the interest. They tax people over a quarter Million Dollars a higher rate. The thing they havent done to address one of the great
inequities that could create extra resources for Small Businesses who say if i raise minimum wage, it hurt this bottom line. The fact were not producing higher paying jobs is equally as shameful. In this mornings usa today, the front page dominates with the at ts purchase of directv for 48 billion. Its a huge challenge to cable and stands to reshape content on everything from mobile devices to tvs to tablets. To offer a single bill for cell phone, internet, and tv. That would be nice. It still needs to go through the fec. But if approved, the entertainment giant would serve 26 million people. Lets bring in david goust who wrote the story. What is it for the consumer in terms of when this could come to
pass and how it would change their lives . The Companies Say if this does come to pass, it would probably not show up on your bill until next year. What it could mean is the second largest wireless provider in the country would also then become the second largest paid tv provider. That represents part and parcel the big part in the entertainment industry. That is not done. My gosh. Its im trying to think of a bigger deal that obviously the comcast time warner deal was in this same vain. The end of the day, we want to watch our morning joe. So in the past whether it was a cable, now its a possibly device, whether its a telephone company. He or she who has content equals ie balls, equals winners. When it comes to how many devices you have to have around your house for sure. But david, what are some of the challenges going through. All these deals sound amazing in the headlines but anything could take it down to an extent. Regulators are in a bind. They want to compete with wire companies. They want more competition from comcast and very verizon. Theyre faced with not letting these Companies Get too big. A couple of major media and Technology Companies serving the vast majority of more thanes. There are already these pending deals. Comcast is trying to acquire Time Warner Cable. Sprint has made no secret of its ambition to take over tmobile. Regulators may have to step back and say what does the new landscape look like together before letting one of these go ahead. In every industry, the good news here versus take the pharmaceutical industry where youve got pfizer making a bid to astrazeneca, thats to move the money out of the country. As long as thats not hurt by this deal, i think its something the fcc should look favorably on. Thank you very much. All right. The u. S. Transportation department is ordering gm to pay 35 million for waiting a decade to recall 2. 6 million cars over defective ignition switches. That is the maximum penalty allowed. An internal investigation is focusing on how the legal team handled the safety issues. They released a report of words they were told to refuse using. Were shaking our heads. Instead of the word problem, employees were to say condition, issue, or matter. And they were urged to say does not perform to design instead of defect. Do you smell coverup . Other words they werent allowed to use, titanic, things like that. At least 13 deaths have been linked to the faulty ignition switches. It was the focus of a special documentary last night on cnbc called failure to recall. They asked us to investigate further to try to determine exactly what happened knowing we may never know the answer. Cooper hired an engineer, mark hood, who started testing cobalt ignition switches he bought from junk yards. When he compared older switches to newer ones, he discovered something shocking. When he put the replacements through the test protoll kal. He found they were almost three times stronger as far as the difficulty to turn the key. He said youre not going to believe what i found. I said what, he said they changed the switch. Cooper and hood realized gm had changed a part quietly. The s. E. C. And Justice Department are resurgeoning. The company, this is a terrible thing to say, but its true. The company were going after, that company doesnt exist anymore because it dissolved. Theres a new gm now. The liabilities dont follow the new company. Its a murky and dicey situation. It is a new gm today. Legally. Completely. And look. This is a serious problem, but this is a completely different organization. Theres a woman running General Motors now. Theoretically peeking, you couldnt have a different type of management. She knows the culture of gm that got them to this point. The big thing for anyone that has a gm, this is on you to figure out if this car is under this recall and figure it out. Because these things have caused deaths. Bankruptcy . The company, are you going to say its a new gm now . No. Dont misunderstand me. Where the recourse is. I think this is terrible. And there needs to be a fix to this. These families need to be taken care of. The thing ive not heard that ill likely hear from gm is this problem has been fiked and Going Forward you have nothing to worry about. I dont know how you trust that at this point if theyre telling to mislead people. Can you just declare bankruptcy. Is there a problem with the bankruptcy laws and just legally be completely of everything but also morally. Obviously not morally, clearly. I feel really sour for the first female president of a car
company. But this is unacceptable. Also, just before as we were doing that figure on friday for the cnbc report, there was a new gm recall that came out. So they have this litany of problems. Again, it is on the people who own the vehicle or people in the market looking for a vehicle to buy. Go to their website and figure if the vehicle is under recall. The New York Times has issued a more detailed statement explaining the reasons behind the firing of executive editor jill abramson. Equal pay for women is an important issue in our country, one that the New York Times often covers. But it doesnt help to advance the goal of pay equality to cite the case of a female executive whose compensation was not, in fact, unequal. I decided that jill could no longer remain as executive editor for reasons having nothing to do with pay or
gender. Jill is an outstanding journalist and editor but i concluded her management of the newsroom was simply not working out. You know, i wasnt here friday. I know you had a lot of this last week. Two points. Number one, ive had people in the same exact job at different pay scales because maybe their seniority is different. Thats number one. We have to be careful. It sounds like a lot of people in the New York Times says she wasnt doing a great job. Theres always a dangerous pay saying i was fired because i was a woman, because i was an africanamerican, because i was gay. And theres two sides to this sword. If you do a deep dive here, you are going to find out from her subordinates she was not well liked and she was very hard on the furniture. And, you know, its very easy to rush to, oh, she was fired because of gender. I think theres a level of potential reality to what youre saying. It might or might not be true. But its to be considered. Having said that, the numbers that were learning in erm thes of who was paid what and what she had to do to get the pay she deserved, thats a story within itself. Because its and it might be hers to tell at some point. Shes actually speaking at wake forest this week. I think today, right . Is it today . I believe so. They said she was tough and abrasive. When guys are tough and abrasive, they get treated differently than women are. Hopefully well get more, i think it makes the New York Times look kbrt. But right now they dont look good. This is what we talked about at the know your value conference. Equal pay, the descriptions used for us in terms of leaders, women. We talked about all of that. Take a look. Could you make a lot of noise . Thats pretty good. Great ased advocates for our s s spouses, business partners, bosses, friends, kids. We are so fierce. But when we make the case for our own value, what happens . Where do we go . What happens to our personalities . We start to selfdeprecate, we depreciate, we apologize. And usually we get less. And its time for that to stop. Isnt it . I think it is. And we can all start by just stopping with saying the s word. How many of you today said it several times . Im sorry i didnt mean to get in the way. Im sorry, i know this is a bad time. How many have done that . Somebody apologized to me walking in the room. Im sorry. Why . Youre lying. So dont do it anymore. Dont use that word. Its so true. The women over the years who have asked me for a raise are always apologizing. Whereas men are like, or im out of here. Then theres the jill story. Are we afraid of it . Well see much more coming up in the show. Coming up on morning joe, third instance of the deadly mers virus has been detected in the u. S. But theres something unique about this case that has doctors extremely concerned. And south koreas president is taking action after the death of 300 people. Well explain today in morning papers. 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The wildfires burned across 39 miles in san diego county. Officials say the flames caused at least 20 million in damage. And california governor jerry brown is warning it could be one of the worst wildfire seasons ever because of drought conditions. Lets go straight to bill kairns on this. Bill, how dry are the conditions out there . How long will they continue . This is the dry season. It really starts as we go through the end of april and continues until the fall. We dont really start the wet season until november, maybe even december. Thats why theyre saying this could be an epic summer of one fire after another in the west. Yesterday they got the break they needed. Only 70 degrees. It was cooler in the region. Thats the recipe we needed. Today it will be 70 degrees also, but heres the problem. The drought situation for california, 100 of the state is in severe drought. 25 in extreme. Dont expect hardly any rain over the next five months. So in other words the scenes we
just got through with, any time theres a heat wave with the winds, itll happen again. Also the middle of the country. North texas and oklahoma is in a pretty bad drought too. We have rain in wisconsin through minneapolis and the dakotas. What a fantastic weekend we just finished with. As we go through today, its going to be gorgeous. The other story that was getting huge headlines over the weekend and these pictures make you open your eyes. The flooding situation, the catastrophe in places around serbia and croatia. They got nailed with threemonths worth of rains in three days. The rivers swelled up. They swallowed cities that were evacuated. A third of bosnia was under water. Thats home to a million people. And the other thing, remember the civil war that took place not long ago. There were still huge open
fields that had active mines. And the flooding went over those areas. Not only do we have flood water, but now we could have active mines that have been moved by these. They need a lot of help in that area. This is going to be a catastrophe that needs worldwide support. Thank you. Lets take a look now at the morning papers. From our parade of papers, the los angeles times, the president of south korea is vowing to disband the coast guard over its response to the ferry disaster which left nearly 300 people dead. President park. The deadly mers virus. And for the first time it was transferred from one person to
another. Nbcs dr. Nancy snyderman talks about it. Reporter the man that tested positive became infected after coming into contact with a Health Care Worker that was in contact with a worker that was in saudi arabia. It would be considered not close contact, but not a passer by. Reporter this Research Shows the closest contact was shaking hands, reported to have mild cold symptoms. But Officials Say he is no longer sick and was asked to isolate himself from contact. Yet, u. S. Health officials worry. We are concerned because it does lead to the hypothesis you can get it easier than we thought. That is of concern. Reporter and since 20 of patients are asymptom mmatic, know it can take up to 14 days for anyone to show symptoms. Those infected get severe respiratory illness. 30 of those in the middle east who have gotten the virus have died. Still cdc guidelines say its not easily transmitted. We have to be careful of giving people the false sense of security. But at the same time, right now we we have to state if the problem is larger in the middle east. Reporter worldwide there has been 572 cases in 15 countries. 173 people have died. Officials posted warnings in nearly a dozen airports the the u. S. Warning people to be alert of sick passengers. Health care workers on the front lines have been told to be extra careful when treating anyone suspected of carrying the virus. Still ahead, saturday night live explains what really went down between jay z and beyonces
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now president obama did you just say president clinton . He did. He fell back in time. Harold . If you were advising this administration, the fact that voting and outcomes, how would you advise them to change anything. And what would you urge them to sustain in terms of policy . These are india has a long democratic history. Theres not a whole lot the United States should do in india. But in other countries like ukraine, the outcomes are much more perilous for the United States because you have the potential of people coming to power who can do quite a lot of damage to American Foreign policy. I think this best policy is one that speaks to the people. Speaking of ukraine, why dont we move on there . Well learn in a couple weeks if the revolution in the square led to any kind of stable government in ukraine. We know the east is in turmoil because of putin. But now the western part of ukraine gets to decide who will run it next. So we i saw some pieces over the weekend eviscerating president obamas foreign policy. Yet is anything working as it pertains to russia and ukraine . Not at all. Nothing . Is he not pulling back troops . Nothing . Nothing significant. Putin has the world and europe exactly where he wants it. Under his thumb. And he has ukraine in his pocket. Theres not a whole lot that the u. S. Or president obama could do, because youre facing a person who doesnt care about the immediate consequences. Were looking at parliamentary elections to be announced may 25th in iraq. The results will be announced. Iraq has been incredibly violent. Weve been looking at other parts of the world. Were missing the fact the person we left behind in charge
of that country has done an extremely poor job and has brought more people sort of revived civil war between the shiites and sunnis. It would be enormous bloodshed if it wasnt for the fact that next door in syria theres even more bloodshed. Lets move to egypt where there will be a president ial election. Big demonstrationings in new york yesterday. Pro and antisisi. The general who led the coup is going to win the election, the question is the expectations from him are so great for egyptians, were not sure how hes going to meet it. Hes inheriting a country thats bankrupt. The people who came to the streets and brought down two governments, theyre now supporting him. But in six months the mood can turn. One more, afghanistan. Afghanistan, well, what we do know from the theres going to be a runoff next month, but the candidate who was eliminated from the president ial election is the candidate closest to hamid cakarsai. Two very smart people left. Former foreign minister, finance minister. Both of them are prowest. The real question there is which one of them will be able to talk. On a much lighter note, weve got to bring it back. Im not kidding. Lets do it. There are probably places in jersey where you can get it. Of course. I got a guy in jersey. Bobby ghosh, thank you so much for the whiparound the world of elections. Up next, can republicans hold jo onto a key seat in georgia . Ive been endorsed by the u. S. Chamber. What the republican primary voters are looking for, i have a
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with Lifetime Service included. You can record six shows at once. Pick a number for a tivo. 197. Were going to give away another tivo. Pick a number. Six. 421. 200. Joe was handing out prizes all day friday. Donny, thanks to you. He was great. He was really helpful at the know your value conference in hartford, connecticut. Welcome back to morning joe. Donny deutsch who owes me big. Yes, i do. Im going to milk this. Later in the week i will be bringing you shoes. One more person stops me and says when a mika getting more shoes, now is the time i owe you. Right . Harold ford still with us. Were going to talk about the key race ace cross the country. Chuck todd and kasie hunt are standing by for that. But first i want to break down
the battle states. Races from oregon to pennsylvania to the deep south. Despite big money from the Senate Conservatives fund, Tea Party Candidate matt bevin trails Mitch Mcconnell. The Senate Majority leader is shown an Cruise Control up 20 points. But the same poll shows mcconnell trailing likely democratic challenger Alison Lundergan grimes. Saxby chambliss is retiring opening up a power vacuum in the state. The latest marist poll shows democrat Michelle Nunn leading or neck and neck with each republican candidate. Political reporter kasie hunt traveled to georgia in our latest states of play. Reporter the pecan trees on the nunn family farm are rooted
in history. Were going experimentation with cucumbers and zucchini. Reporter it was here that Michelle Nunns father sam launched a storied senate career. I have a father that taught me you can make an enormous difference when you enter the public arena with a real statesmanlike perspective. Reporter republicans need six seats to win back the senate. And none could be the key to preventing that. But sometimes its hard to tell shes a democrat. In this tv ad, she doesnt even mention it. Would you have voted for the Affordable Care act . So, at the time that the Affordable Care act was passed, i was working for points of life. I wish wed had more people who would help architect a bipartisan option. So yes or no . Its hard to look back and say. Reporter polls show shed be come pet ty against any of her
five challengers. Leading is businessman david perdue, the first cousin of former georgia governor sonny perd perdue. Not far behind is Jack Kingston who has backing from the u. S. Chamber of commerce. And gaining momentum is karen handel. Shes been endorsed by the Tea Party Express and sarah palin. And with arch conservative congressman paul broun and phil gingrey also in, its a free for all. Ed shoits hard to believe. Opponents have been in office for 60 years. Voted for debt ceiling increases, bridge to nowhere. Shes run five times for five offices. David perdue is actually part of the establishment as much as anybody. Reporter contrary to
conventional wisdom, its not necessarily establishment versus tea party do you consider yourself a part of the tea party . Tell me what that is. Somebody who i support so much of the tea party values. I get a little frustrated with all of the labels out there. I guess i suppose i would be tea party. Reporter it will likely head to a runoff which means eight more weeks of infighting. Thats all good news for Michelle Nunn. When i look at the Republican Party, i see a race to extremes and more of what is happening already in washington. The dysfunction and the polarization. Caskay kasie, great job. I love how nunn said its impossible to look back. Actually, you can. But okay. Chuck todd, how big of an upset would it be if georgia went democrat in this race let alone kentucky . I think if you look at just
the demographics, the upset would be kentucky. Not georgia shifting. Georgia is moving. Georgias going to be a swing state in 2020. But the question is does it do democrats have a chance a little bit quicker simply because maybe the republican primary, the eventual nominee gets farther to the right. And Michelle Nunn, theres a reason she lays down the points of light thing. Whoa, i worked with george h. W. Bush. Were about two cycles away from georgia being a swing state. Caskasie hunt, you have an element for us. She did work closely with george h. W. Bush and used his image in an ad but hes not supporting her. Reporter did you have his blessing to use his photo in
your ad . I worked for George Hw Bush in the points of Light Organization for years. The ad was focused on my history in service and the story of who i am. I think president george h. W. Bush will continue to be republican and a leader of that party, but i think that we have a mutual admiration and one that i think will far outlast this political race. A spokesman for the former president , quote, we did not give approval for that and in fact the president was disappointed to see that his image had been included in a political ad as it was. As much as he personally likes and appreciates the job she did, hes stronger in his belief that republicans need to retake the senate. He looks forward to welcoming michelle back to points of light after her defeat. I have no problem with what
she did. This is part of her resume. I get it. I get what shes doing, donny. But ethically, i dont think theres anything wrong with it. This is who she is. No. But, jim vandehei, chuck todd was talking about how georgias shifting to a swing. Having said that, not so quickly, because as kasie pointed out, she doesnt necessarily sound like a democrat. And sounds like shes equivocating her way to the end. Thats how you have to run in georgia. You asked a question would it be an upset. I think it would be an upset for a republican to lose in georgia. The fact she was talking about she didnt have a position on health care was the big e topic in american politics over the last five or six years and everybody paid attention to it. So i assume she did have a position at that time. But obviously cant state it because she has to run as a centralist. And i think she knows that once this primary is over and republicans rally around whoever
wins it on the republican side, those numbers are likely to shift and shell go into this election in somewhat of a deficit. She knows a lot of outside money is coming the republican way. Harold ford, good morning. Having run a race in the south seven or eight years, and im confident she will have Better Success than i did. People says she doesnt sound like a democrat. She sounds like a democrat where she comes from. People want better schools, Affordable Health care. My question to you, her and Alison Lundergan grimes, dont they have to run the races theyre running as democrats to have any chance of success in these states . I separate these two races a little bit because, look. The kentucky race is the questions going to be how much of a referendum is it on washington and Mitch Mcconnell. Obviously Alison Grimes wants to make it all of a referendum on mcconnell and washington. If she does that, hast thats her path to victory. She actually has more opportunity to win Republican Voters simply because of this potentially anger at mcconnell that she could tap into. In georgia, youre right. Thats been the path to how conservative democrats and house races are there. Think john barro who has survived for a long time. This is the tight rope hes walked on these issues. But i thought it was such a nothing screamed practiced politician like that answer Michelle Nunn gave on health care. You just cant it just doesnt come across as credible. Whats at least more credible, saying, well, i supported it but i dont like this, this, and this. At least theres credibility when you give that answer. When you say well, i was busy doing another job swob ydoing
you cant look back. Come on. She has to give a better answer. If republicans could get david perdue, thats probably the best. Hes very much the atlanta businessman candidate. Boy, thats where w thats in the mold of saxby chambliss. These center right mainstream republicans. Theres one prominent republican that has endorsed her. I love these interview. You honestly ask the question. Then they hang themselves sometimes with their equivocating. Because that answer kind of listen. Id love for her to do well, dont get me wrong. But come on. I disagree. I think its very if i were in the senate when the obamacare, Affordable Care came about, probably not inclined to vote for but maybe i could implement change to that. Why couldnt you say that . I dont have a problem with
her saying dont saddle me with that. Im looking forward. The real question perhaps kasie asked is how does she fix that. She has a pretty good answer for that. She says that among other things you need to put in a more affordable tier of health care. She has an answer on how to fix it. Do not hide from health care. Tie it to income inequality, say it was not done as well as it could be done, but i am for giving millions of more People Health care as i am for income equality and go straight all in. This is what youre good at. Also with us from washington, josh crosshaur. You guys have been calling all these races. But lets go to oregon. How does oregon fit into this picture . This is a race where the general election will be more
significant than the primary. Republicans have worked to support a moderate republican physician by the name of monica webby. If this map gets big and theres been some polls that theres a possibility that happens, they recruit a credibility candidate in a female physician whos been spending money on very compelling adds. Also running for reelection. If theres a big wave, oregon is going to be the place to watch. If monica webby is the republicans favorite candidate there wins the nomination, it could be one to look keep close attention to for the november elections. We have the portland, oregon, news this morning about the city pulling basically no longer investing in walmart which i think plays into some of the politics here and whether or not
health care, a fair shot, income disparity will be the big issues of the midterm elections. Then ultimately the president ial elections. And actually fair well for democrats. Right. On the oregon front, you have a state exchange that didnt work. And thats what makes sort of, i think, whats going on in oregon why republicans are potentially enthusiastic on this. But by the way, that republican primary has gotten nasty. A lot of dr. Webbys personal life has become fodder in the last few days. Its really been this ugly thing. This establishment recruit has struggled on the fund raising front. A tea party more conservative challenger has opened up. Theres been nasty politics. Theres a story out in mississippi from over the weekend thats just disgusting and ugly. What weve seen going on in oregon i think has been a little bit disgusting about dredging up peoples personal lives in ways youre just wondering is there
at least some honor code in politics anymore. Not anymore. I think people are also really at this point immune to it all. Weve been around the block since bill clinton and the internet has made people a little bit sort of desensitized. Chuck, you mentioned mississippi where a blogger posted a picture of one of the candidates wife whos in a nursing home. As fed up as americans might be, this is a little bit beyond the pail. This blogger as you say is accused of going into this nursing home where Thad Cochrans wife is. Whats the motive . The question is, do they Chris Mcdaniel is a Tea Party Candidate whos been waging this campaign whose manager was on the phone before the story broke. The details arent clear. Whats the point of doing that . The point look. Theres an obsession by some and i think this is what happens when you get fringe candidates on the left and right. They think theres this ends
justify the means aspect and you get crazed supporters. But theres this obsession because senator cochrans wife has been basically a convalescent for over a decade. Shes had dementia and been in a home. Theres some people in mississippi who dont like thad cochran think this should be plastered all over the state and somehow held against a moral judgment should be made against cochran should be by her side. That is sort of getting into peoples personal life in ways, that youre like, put yourself in that same situation and ask yourself do you want the public to be part of that process. Now i see this obscene motive. Call me crazy, if somebody has a sick partner, that might create empathy for them. Jim vandehei, josh kraushaar, kasie hunt, thank you. Youre headed where next . Kentucky. Its going to be big. We look forward to hearing from you. Chuck todd, we will be watching the daily rundown at 9 00 eastern sharp. Ahead, how we made one woman cry at our know your value event in a good way. And there are appropriate times to cry which we talked about. Coming up this hour, how deep does the va scandal go . Weve got disturbing new details on that. But first, bill kairns with a check on the forecast. How great was the weather this weekend . Beautiful. I want more. I know. Dont we all. Last night i bet a lot of people were surprised. Ohio valley, great lakes, new england. I bet your heat may have kicked on in the middle of the night. It was a chilly night with clear skies. Pittsburghs at 40 degrees. Thats definitely coat weather. 43 in albany. This time of year when you get the strong sun, its going to be a beautiful afternoon. Not concerned at all. Were going up to 70 today for d. C. And hartford. Just as beautiful as it was over the weekend. Looks to last probably until
tuesday. Then some rain wednesday in new england. Some rain around fargo, rain in the northern plains. The northwest, some showers. We had those fires, of course, out in california to start the weekend. The weather cooperated and its still relatively cool. 71 in l. A. Today. The heat is where it should be. Well call it 100 degrees. I think the thing thats great about today that will happen this past weekend, the humidity has been low through the southeast in florida. We should continue that into tomorrow. Theres not a lot of rain to be had the next five days. This is going to be a quiet period of spring weather. This is peak tornado month. I dont see many happening this week at all. Washington, d. C. , its cool and crisp. What a beautiful afternoon you have headed your way. More morning joe coming back. 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 business even more rewarding. Ink from chase. So you can. If you have a business idea, we have a personalized legal solution thats right for you. With easy stepbystep guidance, were here to help you turn your dream into a reality. Start your Business Today with legalzoom. Were here to help you turn your dream into a reality. Are we still on for tomorrow . Tomorrow. Tomorrow is full of promise. We can come back tomorrrow. And we promise to keep it that way. Csx. How tomorrow moves. What a day. Cant wait til tomorrow. The president is madder than hell and ive got the scars to prove it given the briefings ive given the president we have seen obviously the reports out of places like phoenix and ft. Collins and nart carolina and were going to get to the bottom of those things and ensure they dont happen again. That is president obamas chief of staff Dennis Mcdonough speaking over the weekend. A new report suggests the Veterans Affair scandal may be more widespread than first thought. According to the dayton daily news, the va settled 167 claims since 2001 that were apparently linked to delays in treatment. That financial payouts total more than 36 million. It coincides with a federal investigation into allegations the Phoenix Medical Center kept a secret waiting list to cover up long delays for veterans looking for care. A doctor claims the falsified records led to dozens of
presentable deaths. Joining us about this, bob carey and ryan galucci. Thank you for being with us. Ryan, if i can start with you. I think the va has always been plagued with problems. Is that fair to say . Because i wonder if its truly m misdeeds happening here or an overflow of people who really need care given what this country has been through over the past decade. Well, there are a couple of major issues at play here. And we think that a lot of this does have to do with the influx of veterans coming into the Va Health Care system and looking for care that theyre entitled to. What weve seen around the country is the vfw started polling through our hotline and found in places with high concentration of veterans,
veterans are having trouble getting into the system. All right. Bob carey, lets just deal with shinseki himself. He runs the place. Has he just adopted old problems that ballooned out of control given the fact weve had so many endless wars going on . Theres no question the pace of the conflict. I was a patient of the va system for eight or nine years after i was out of the vietnam war. I understand the importance of that medical system. And i think shinseki has lost the confidence. Hes done a terrific job in many areas, but it is time for the president to replace him. When you lose the confidence of the people coming into that system and i would personally hope the president can identify some iraq or afghan veteran,
youve got to restore confidence. Because that confidence is gone. So you think shinseki should go. I think the president should find somebody else to run the va, yes, i do. And its actually, its in some ways disconnected. Because i dont have the facts. Nobody knows exactly what happened in arizona. But this isnt the first incident. In february of 2007, the press broke a story about the warehousing of iraq vets across from walter reed because the computers couldnt talk to each other. Seven years later they still dont. You still cant track the discharge of a soldier who leaves the system and goes into the va. You were a war hero. You mentioned eight, nine years. Whats your experience . If youre going to grade it throughout your time. You have the perspective. I would grade it well. Saved my life. Gave me a chance to put my life back together. It was a great benefit to me. The two or three most important things, number one,
restore confidence with a new leader. If you were the leader of the agency, what would you do to fix the problem . The reason i would look for somebody who was an iraq or afghan war veteran, youve got to come with the right sense of urgency. These guys have got multiple tours. Theyve got traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, a higher set of problems associated with the multiple tours. Youve got to have the right sense of urgency. You cant come to this thinking ive got all the answers. I think thats part of the problem that shinseki has had. Hes created that image with people here. Ryan, how do you think the secretary should be handling the cases that are right now on deck with these allegations of people dying waiting for care . Obviously the buck stops with secretary shinseki. We think the problem is accountability across the board. The organization has some problems. One problem is how long it takes to sanction an employee. But then if theres a vacuum in care, if a doctor quits or somebody leaves, it can take them six months to a year to replace them. What were calling for is a accountability from top to bottom and an independent view. One of the reasons i say somebody with an iraq or african war vet, you also need to have the stature and credibility to say to the American People heres where were not going to say yes. We have 300 men over the age of 90 that applied to 100 disability because their ptsd keeps them from working. So you need somebody that can say the answer is no. Thank you so much. Ryan galluccii, thank you as well. Very much. Coming up, the epitome of why we need to take better care of this countrys veterans. Newly honored medal of honor recipient kyle white is here. But first, is confidence the secret ingredient to economic global prosperity . Not to paul krugman. Thats next. Hey there can i help you . whispering sorry. whispering hi, uh we need a new family plan. whispering how about 10 gigs of data to share and unlimited talk and text. whispering oh ten gigs sounds pretty good. whispering yeah really good whispering yeah and for a family of 4 its a 160 a month. What get outta here whispering im sorry are we still doing the whisper thing . Or . whispering o sorry yes yes whispering well take it. Ameriprise asked people a simple question in retirement, will you outlive your money . Uhhh. No, that cant happen. Thats the thing, you dont know how long it has to last. 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. Well, knowing gives you confidence. Start building your confident retirement today. Time to take care of business with century links Global Broadband network and cloud infrastrucme to take cab we constantly evolve to meet your needs every day of the week. Nehey r [squeals] [ewh ] [baby crying] the great thing about a subaru is you dont have to put up with that new car smell for long. The versatile, 2015 subaru forester. Love. Its what makes a subaru,
we have some breaking news. Im chief strategy officer. We didnt even know you were going to be part of this today. We are so impressed by your spunk, your scrappiness that we want to offer you a scholarship. I think what just happened here kind of brings the message home. If you dont put yourself out there, you dont know whats going to happen. So we had this competition, and women from all over connecticut came up to the stage and gave twominute pitches. There was a woman who won. Her name is darcy. And she has this cool shop in madison connecticut and wants to expand and help more women. She won. That girl came in second. And we were having a hard time deciding who the winner was. And this jennifer hotchkiss, she has a great voice and put it out there. I want to be like you. I want to have people doing things for me and i want to run things. I thought to myself like at the last second it was so close, i was like i know good things are coming for her. I just know it. And literally a minute later, this woman officer, shes going to be the first person from her family to graduate from college. Can we see more pictures of joe handing out things . Hes available for anything. Events and parties. If you have a raffle, its a free dinner, 20 travel expenses. Joe looked natural doing it. It was meant to be. Donny, joe showed up. I know. Im locked and loaded for next year. Guaranteed. Im going to come with were doing a National Tour next year. You tell me three cities and
i will be there. Im on. As long as i get a lesson on how to pass things out. Lets do it. It was so much fun to see these women rise up and speak for themselves. Okay. I want to do a must read right here, because this is paul krugman and i think what he has to say may have an influence over the midterms and maybe even the next election. In both europe and america, Economic Policy has been governored by the slogan save the bankers wsh save the world. And government actions have indeed restored financial confidence. Unfortunately were still awaiting for that promised prosperity. In the end, the story of Economic Policy since 2008 has been that of a remarkable double standard. Bad loans always involve mistakes on both sides. If borrowers were irresponsible,
so were those who loaned. And refusing to help families in debt, it turns out, wasnt just unfair, it was bad economics. Wall street is back, but america isnt. And the double standard is the main reason. I think this president tried. I think the people running for office in the future need to do better. The scary thing, there was a kid sentenced on friday Insider Trading going away for three years. Theres not been one prosecution of any banker that pretty much almost brought down the system. Not one. No perp walk. Nothing. Literally, we almost the average person does not understand it was almost over. It was armageddon and there has not been one person prosecuted as a result. Harold, do you think theres a way that democrats can take and run with this even though it has been look, this president can be held as well responsible for holding the banks harmless and not helping out the middle
class as much as he could have. Having said that, hes been fighting to do so and republicans have held him back repeatedly. Theres a new book out that makes the case that paul krugman makes. Theres a new book that says we should have saved homeowners as opposed to the bankers. Probably would have had pearl on Elizabeth Warren tried really hard and built the financial protection bureau. Right there for the consumer. Saying whether or not the money should have gone straight to homeowners or where it went. I think theres probably a decent argument made that way. Creating higher paying jobs has to be the focus. Saving aig, youve had to do that. To let them go under was not the issue. Tafs big mistake to let lehman go under. The people getting prosecuted, thats for Insider Trading. Again, im not here to defend that at all. My only point is youve got to
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forms or held back by family obligations. Some dont know how to choose the right college, so they drift into a mediocre school that produces more dropouts than graduates. Many are overwhelmed by expenses and some do what vanessa was on the verge of doing. They get to a good college and encounter a minor obstacle and they freak out. They dont want to ask for help or they dont know how. Things spiral and before they know it, theyre back at home resentful, demoralized, and in debt. Paul, where do we begin with that . Also joining the table contributor to msnbc victoria defrancesco soto. Welcome back. Its an incredible story. Because its almost impossible for a poor kid to go to college, make ends meet, pay for it, and keep it together. Its difficult. Income is part of it and
finances are part of pipt it goes beyond that as well. It has to do with the sense of connection and belonging that students feel there. And its also not just a problem for poor kids. Its a problem for middle class kids as well. When you look at the National Statistics for who graduates, anyone in the bottom half of the income distribution, only a 25 chance theyre going to make it to a degree. It is a situation now in a lot of College Campuses where the rich kids are doing well and everyone is struggling. The rich kids have the support they need, they dont have a pay for it. They go in there stress free. And they get to actually go to college. What are middle class and lower class kids shouldering beyond the massive dead which is totally completely unfair and the percentage that theyre paying on the loans that theyre getting are criminal. Its huge. And i think what we need to do is find a way to help those kids. We dont want college to continue to be a place that is
just for rich kids. I think that means that institutions need to do a better job of helping those kids making sure they persist. And our bigger institutions and nation as a whole need to take on the issue. What do you do other than loan reform . Because it isnt fair, obviously. From a kid coming from a stable home whenever they leave for whatever reason is in better position. Other than making the loans more affordable, its an unfair society. I dont know what you do to change it. This is just one slice of an entire life of unfairness. What do you do . How do you solve this . I think what the university of texas is showing is if you take, you know, not huge supports but serious supports for kids who right now have a low likelihood of graduating, give them mentors, advisers, a sense of community, give them the right kind of messages instead of messages that exclude them, they perform much better. I think what ut is showing that, you know, some minor supports can make a huge difference. So i am a professor at the
university of texas and im very proud to be a longhorn and its programs like this that make me even prouder to be one. And i think in your piece when you talk about the need for that Community Support and that leadership support, youre really hitting the nail on the head. And i wanted you to drill down a little bit about that specifically. What type of Community Support, just from my experience you have the kids that are First Generation College students from the rio grande valley. Its not just that academic support or Financial Support but the cultural support. Youre in a new place. Austin is new to you. College ask a new experience. I think when you have that base, thats when you can succeed. And how do we replicate that model . I think we underestimate what a big deal that cultural side is. If youre from a family where everybody has gone to college, everybodys gone to college, you are familiar with the ideas. Even thats stressful. Even getting to college for kid
that had every wind push him along is hard. Youve also been taught to ask for help and you will receive it. Vicki, im interested just in terms of when you view your students and see these kids that come from different backgrounds, do you say i cant do my night job and im never going to make it to class. This feels impossible. I feel like the only one whos in my situation. Because thats got to be one of the most isolating feelings a student can feel. Earlier in the semester, i had a student come to me afterhours in her fast food outfit. She had a break of 20 minutes and ran over to get her paper and help. Then had to run back. These students are spread so thin. Financially. And then you add onto that that emotional component. A lot of these kids parents many times dont even speak
gli english. Theyre helping their parents. Not only not getting help from their parents, but theyre having to be a support system for their own family members. So theres a deep level of need there that goes beyond just kind of the textbook and financial aspect. Its a fascinating story. You think its college, good. Done. I think whats important at the university of texas is it shows despite all of those obstacles these students are succeed. Especially at a place like ut. What would be the point of going if youre going to leave strapped with such debt that the rest of your life is plagued by trying to pay for something that you could barely get through because you were working in a fast food place while trying to go to class. Yeah. Ive got to say. Those numbers are scary, but when you look at the numbers of that why do you go. If you get that Fouryear College degree, your whole
future changes. It changes. But im going to take a leap here and think when youre in the middle of that, chances are if you could choose to perhaps, you know, get out of that type of pressure, you might cave. You might cave. Weve got to stop that. Paul, thank you so much. What an important article. Vicki, thank you as well. Im very excited for you. Another one. Thank you. Yes, she is. Theres still plenty of football to talk about. I wont know what hes saying. But hell say it to you. Football or soccer . Football. Its not football. It is football. I get confused. Roger bennett stopping by. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Here at fidelity, we give you the most Free Research reports, customizable charts, powerful screening tools, and guaranteed 1second trades. And at the center of it all
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democrats control of senate is heading into the heat of the election season. According to politico, likely voters around the country would prefer a republican over a democrat by almost 90 points. Despite calls from Many Congress al democrats to move on, 60 of the voters say the Health Care Debate should not be over. But a number that perhaps could help democrats, 58 say a candidates stance on the income disparity between men and women will impact their decision in november. I really do think its going to make a difference. We have a walmart story coming up, which is connected to that. These numbers come as some of the toughest primary races will be resolved tomorrow. High profile gubernatorial senate races are playing out across the map. Tea Party Candidate matt bev in
trails Mitch Mcconnell but the same poll shows mcconnell trailing Alison Lundergan grimes. Perdue said it would take slashing, spending and increasing revenue to bring down the debt. Its a comment his opponents have jumped on. Hes never voted in a regular republican primary, hes flip flopped on issues key to Republican Voters, common core, bailouts, repealing doddfrank, and now we found out just earlier this week that he seems to be a little bit soft when it comes to not raising taxes. I use the word revenue and revenue is a code word for tax increase evidently in politics. The point ive been making for over a year is we have to get the economy growing that will
increase the tax base and that will help solve the financial crisis. And then theres mississippi where Chris Mcdaniel is trying to unseat republican thad cochran. A local political blogger has been charged with felony for taking a picture and posting a photo online of cochrans wife, who is in a nursing home. The blogger is reportedly a mcdaniel supporter. Whats the point of this . Politics have become more and more of this nonsense. Jim, what do you make of this . The political poll was just in competitive house and senate areas so its not a national poll. Its where the election are going to be decided. Republicans have a decisive advantage. The fact that 90 of the people have a very passionate feeling about health care shows that is the singular issue of the campaign and it really does tilt the republicans way, which is the reason they have that lead. You have that broader environment. And then inside of that, the big story of the campaign has been that the establishment has been able to get better candidates, to get more money in to support those candidates and beat back the most unelect abable candida. In georgia less than 20 of voters are going to vote in that primary. Theres almost more candidates than there are people that will vote. We dont really know what the outcome will be. It does look like an establishedbacked candidate will win. Johni deutsche. Is there a head fake going on . As we get close to the general election and as anecdotally
better and better news comes out for health care, is there a possible misstep waiting in the wings for republicans here . Its always a possibility. I will say theres been some durability in the Health Care Numbers across almost every poll ive seen over the last few years where most people that are planning on voting do oppose the law, which does work in the republicans favor, but you dont know if you have four or five months of good news, that certainly could change the climate. I think the other thing to keep an eye on is everyone thinks the conventional wisdom is republicans will win back the senate. I would like at that dead heat on whether mcconnell can win the election. This is still very much up for grabs and i think health care is going to be the issue, which is why almost every outside group is pouring its money into that issue. I think they could capitalize
on income inequality. Lets go to Mitch Mcconnell. I think Alison Lundergran is a much better candidate. Ive watched matt bevin, the republican opponent for mcconnell yesterday on one of the sunday shows. Although he said he would not support grimes, he zant he would support Mitch Mcconnell. Any kind of dissension, division amongst republicans could open the door. I give her credit for hanging tough. Theres a message that has framed everything over the last few years, whether the president has been completely successful against the Republican Opposition or not and that is a fair shot and that is the issue
of equal pay within that. The income disparity issue we are seeing. You have people like Elizabeth Warren who are heros on the left and you have companies stepping up now saying if people arent going to step up in washington, were going to step up. The Health Care Law also worked better in kentucky. That could be withone of the ke factors. The governor there did a better job of implementing than perhaps others. Because he opened up their own health care exchange, didnt rely on the federal government and they were able to get people to be really a special a statewide program that other states could try to emulate them. Shes not running on that. Now look at what cities are doing. Portland, oregon is pulling its money out of within of the woon
biggest corporations. The city will no longer invest in walmart. They have adopted socially responsible companies, which take into court health, and corrupt Corporate Governance and wages are mentioned as well. The company will have withdrawn from 3 of the companys portfolio. Corporations behaving the right way is going to be the price for doing business. This is price of entries for companies doing business in the country today. Im going to also go back to the health care thing and also the Republican Party of no. Its all about populism today. As our nation, as these young people come up, they want income equality across demographics, they want it across sex, they Want Companies to behave a
certain way and they Want Health Care for the masses and i still believe that although on people this health care argument seems to be very, very juicy for republicans ambassador we get to november, its going to back fire. I totally agree with you. And again, the argument against that is you dont want everyone to have health care . Really . Its minimum wage. Its all the same blush. Its all about the populist nation. We hear story after story of walmart employees, mcdonalds employees, anyone who is paid the minimum wage getting food stamps. Its impossible to accept that in this country and be against a minimum wage hike. Are you serious . The one issue with minimum wage and so many fast food worker strikes and thats ignited a fire worldwide about what that means equality pay wise less than women, by the way. We get the video and we see
the protest and we can relate on what theyre trying to say but its hash tag protests. 25 of the voting population. Its social media thats driving the force. Minimum wage should be increased. There are two things that concern me about what democrats and the congress and the white house have not been able to accomplish. It makes no as soon as why they have not tagged private equity and Hedge Fund Managers who are benefiting from the interest. They taxed people earning over a quarter of a Million Dollars to the higher rate and they could create extra resources to defray what restaurantures who say if i raise my minimum wage, it hurt my bottom line. Its equally shameful. Headlines in usa today, the front page dominated with at ts
purchase of directv for 45 billion. It represents a huge challenge to cable and stands to reshape content on everything from tv to tablets. It still needs to go through the fec but if improved, the entertainment giant would serve 26 million people. Lets bring in david ellis who broke the story. What would this man for consumers . If it does come to pass, it would probably not show up on your bill until next year. It could mean the second largest wireless provider in the country would also then become the second largest paid tv provider. That represents a radical reshaping in the entire
telecommunications industry that weve been seeing over the last couple of years and that is still not done. Im trying to think of a bigger deal. The comcast time warner deal was in the similar vein. Its constant versus eyeballs. At the end daft, we want to watch our morning joe. In the past whether it was a cable, a mobile device, at the end of the day he who has or she who has content equals eyeballs and winner. David, what are some of the challenges of this actually going through . All these big deals sound amazing in the headlines but anything could take it done to an extent. Regulators are in a bind. On the one hand they wand Wireless Companies to compete with Wireless Companies. They want more competition from comcast and more competition for verizon. On the other hand, theyre faced
with not let thegs Companies Get too big. At a certain point were going to see just a couple of major media and Technologies Companies that are serving the vast majority of americans. Tease something regulators are going to need to weigh. The other this evening is there are already these pending deals. Comcast is trying to acquire Time Warner Cable and do divestitures with charter. Sprint has in a maid no secret of their interest to take over tmobile. So theyll have to step back to say what does this mean before letting any one of these go forward. The good news here is the pharmaceutical industry, you have pfizer making a bid against astrazeneca so they can move money out of the country. I think the fec should look favorable, as long as theres nobody hurt in the deal. The u. S. Transportation department is ordering gm to pay 35 million for waiting a decade to recall 2. 6 million cars with defective ig nation switches. That is the maximum penalty allowed. An internal gm investigation is focusing on how its legal team handled the safety issues. Officials released a list of 68 word that gm employees back in 2008 were told to avoid using. Instead of the word problem, employees were told to say condition, issue or matter. And they were earned to say does not perform to design instead of defect. Other words they werent allowed to use, titanic, widow maker at least 13 deaths have been linked to the fault y ignition
switches. This is from failure to recall. Cooper hired an engineer, mark hood, who started testing cobalt ignition switches he bought from junk yards. When he compared older switches to newer ones, he discovered something shocking. When he put these replacement switches through this test protocol, he found they were almost three times stronger as far as the difficulty to turn the key. He said, lance, youre not going to believe what i found. And i said what . He said, they changed the switch. Cooper realized gm had changed a part, quietly. He brings up a great point. This is a terrible thing to say but its true that the company that were going after
who made all these that company doesnt,ist anymore because it dissolved in bankruptcy. You have a new gm now. So the question that comes with all those liabilities, the liabilities dont follow the new company. It is a new gm today. Legally. And, look, this is a serious problem burke this is a completely different organization. And there is a woman running General Motors now. So metaphorically speaking you couldnt have more of a different type of management. Shes spent 30 years at gm. So she knows of gm. If youre looking to buy a used gm car, the onus is on you to figure out if its a recall. These families are left hanging in the debt. Up. Next, what does it mean to be a hero . Carl white is here. And what do literary giants
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his side. It is our honor this morning to have Sergeant Kyle white with us now. Also msnbc military analyst and our friend, jack jacobs. That was november 9th in afghanistan. When you heard the president describing those moments, what came to mind . Just reliving pretty much every single moment of that day. And as he was, you know, progressing throughout the you know, his narration, it was hard are and harder to hear. Because . Just, you know, the loss that day, what we all went through, that shared team effort. You know, everybody experienced something that day. I think, jack, i want to bring you in as soon as possible
now because of the connection obviously the two of you have, which i can never completely understand, but i can see that theres so much is it guilt connected with getting an award like this or whats the word or the well, guilts not the right word i dont think but i dont know what the right word is. If you ask anybody who spent time in combat theyll say they dont deserve it. Theyll a there were other people who were brave that day, nobody does anything by himself. Theres a medal of honor recipient named nicky bacon, received his award in vietnam, he said i dont wear it for myself, i wear it for anybody who cant. It not just the medal it was but the forged bond that occurs as a result of being there on into
the crucible of war changes anybody in it and the perception is you are one of a number of people and that the bond cant be broken in life or in death. It something that you carry with you the rest of your life. Another thing that bonds you is tens of thousands of fellow soldiers, his ptsd. Explain where you are in that process and what youre doing to help yourself and others. So, you know, it was about a year after 2007 that i realized somethings wrong, i need to go get help. And i took that initial step of reaching out to my chain of command and being like, hey, i need to see some people. The army did a great job, got me the help i needed. And combined with the treatment that they had for me, you know, i kind of they encouraged me to found my own coping mechanisms as well. Since that day exercise has
worked great for me. Now i feel like the healing process is well on its way and, you know, i couldnt be more pleased with where i am today. Kyle, youre only 27 years old right now so back in 2007 you were 20 yooears old . Yes. So to be able to comprehend exactly what it meant to be suffering from something, maybe you werent able to put your finger on it as ptsd, what do you think about that acronym and some of the sigmas that come with it for our vets . One of the issues for me was not sleeping well. This isnt right, sleeping a couple hours a night. We need to get past that. That individual Service Member can get g out and get help and everything will be okay. Im hoping by me sit hearing
today theres a Service Member in uniform thats contemplating whether to step forward. I did wearing that medal you can say that and that is something that every man and woman who is suffering needs to understand. Were talking about 22 suicides a day, if you look at the data. This is as real as any physical trauma that any soldier has been through. I see a steel bracelet on your wrist and im told it symbolic. Can you tell us about inthat . In building off what mr. Jacobs said earlier, we do wear it in their names. This bracelet has all the names of those lost that day. Theyre the heros i used the word guilt, it was probably inappropriate, jack. It very difficult to found the right word. What is it . I dont know what it is. It shared sacrifice. In Benjamin Franklins word, we will hang to the or well sure live hang separately. Theres something i get, almost this reaction you get or physically in the face, i cant even talk to you about this. Not that i dont want to, but its a disconnect because you have been through something so advi visceral, so real, so unbelievably giving to our country that there are so many of us that cant even measure up halfway. It not a high and mighty i cant talk to you about this, its i cant relate. You havent been there, you havent been in the foxhole. Well, thats true. But one of the things that brings it all together for us, for anybody who served in combat is not the difference between people who have served and most who havent. Most americans dont know
anybody in uniform. I its not that. Its that in the heat of the moment, we fight for each other, the idea that we are all in it together. I think that is not only the way to get through any difficulty, but it is also a way to heal. And thats why we focus our attention on that and for kids who have pts, to get them to realize we are all in it together. I know you have family members. The skills and the moral compass and the ability to make decisions, if you hire a veteran, you get something that is so much better than anything else thats out there and thats the next sort of layer of this is to connect that disconnect. And not only to try and understand as much as we can,
but to bring these people into our workforce and make them the leaders that they were out there on the field. Kyle, i thank you, you sit with you across the table can Great Respect and admiration and thank you so much for your service. Efs just doing my job just like everybody who cares the uniform. Exactly. What else is he going to say . Thats the hero, right, jack . Hes the best. Hes also among the youngest, too. Hes a baby. Colonel, thank you so much, and thanks so much to you. Enjoy charlotte. Its a great place to live, great city. Within days of this speech being posted online, it was shared more than 2 million times. And next, everybody was in a
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season, were living in it once again, how has your life changed since you give that speech . The fact that a million feel have seen that speech was amaze persian gulf. I was touring for this big 10th of december when that book came out and suddenly there was a third more people at the ra readings. So how do i i hear it. I do want to be more kind. Is there a little trigger, a little thing, like today x. Luckily it was an eightminute speech so i could step around it. Its kind of like instituting the idea that the other person is just as real as you are, even though they might be in opposition to you or making your life difficult, theyre just every bit as real as you are. Its a fairly complicated thing when you get into it. In new york sometimes youll see people asking for money, people really down on their luck. And i just always give them of course i want to and i say, wow, a lot of people say, hey, that person could be working or its a scam. How do you get people to get rid of their cynicism because that buck or that five bucks youre going to give to them if define kindness as i want to be beneficial with the people i come into contact with, pretty good definition. How do you know youre benefitting that person . You have to have good discernment of who that person is. The other question is how able are you to fight off your own projections . You start with just trying to enact that simple thing, you
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