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>> you got it. thanks for not rapping for us this morning. >> thats your job. "first buzz" is ahead. a close encounter of the scariest kind. >> uh-oh, hes going to take our chum bag. hes going to take our chum bag. he took our chum bag! he grabbed our chum bag! so now weve turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. im janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. i never really thought i would make money doing what i love. we created legal...

The republican party in trying to figure out which way they want to go, do they nominate someone in the primaries with whos a far more conservative candidate? the national party has talked about finding someone who can win in the general election? i think thats a big question, youre talking about issues like immigration that the party appears to be strongly divided on. what kind of national program youre going to run on. so, romney, has been through this and so people are certainly going to look...

>> thats true. >> right now we have a situation where those of us in pundant land are trying to justify what it means. i always had this fantasy live shot i wanted to do when the anchor would say we now go to capitol hill and bob franken, bob, what does this all mean and i would turn to the camera and say absolutely nothing. and i think this is close to being one of those things. >> well, thanks for telling us nothing today. appreciate it bob. >> call me seinfeld. >> all right. have a good one. ...

Critics say they took out the loans, beyond their means, if they cant pay them back, what does that say about other things? >> others say the president is making the case we have to help students with debt to spend more and get into even more debt. is there some truth to that? >> well, absolutely, i think there is truth to that. not all the 5 million people would abuse this, but the idea is, hey, the people who took out the loans with inability to pay them back, thats a problem, whats that say g...

Rendition of "billie jean." they appeared on last years britains got talent. bottle monday plays a new song on the last monday of the month on youtube. theyre pretty talented. i dont know if its because they drank everything that was in the bottle. and thats how -- >> be entertained. its crystal clear, the sound. first buzz. you have quite some video to show. >> weve seen the wing suit of guys jumping off cliffs. big deal. dean potter is bringing his dog whisper with him and making a movie bas...

Deals. she went on to say hard choices have to be made in these moments. could this turn into possibly a political issue. did you call it a hard choice? >> yes. little reference to the memoir. >> this is a woman that knows how to do book work. this is going to be seen through the lens of a likely presidential campaign. so of course shes going to get pounded. shes going to defend the president. get used to it. theres more to come. >> all right. ellis, thank you so much. >> its not a hard choice t...

Which was supposed to be a drug cocktail. perhaps all of this is is going to get people to really start thinking about should the united states be one of the few developed countries that still has executions? >> yeah. i think one interesting point that a proponent of that made said that, well, this way they dont have to go through the pain of a needle being injected and waiting for the drugs to take effect. thats an interesting way of spinning it, wouldnt you say? >> i cant speak from experience...

They feel that the american public deserves to see the legal justification for why this type of thing should ab loud to happen. it looks now that at least the democrats who were concerned about this will, you know, drop their opposition or their concern and vote them in. >> all right. ed, thanks so much for your insight. we appreciate it. >> take care. >> coming up, first buzz is next including a hero cat and another who cant stand the music. you have to see this. all over the world know us, but...

All right. its that time of the morning for first buzz. i have bill and craig with me today. its hard to believe its been a career since that explosion in west, texas. >> little town of west, texas. amazing explosion. yesterday they had the memorials. 12 first responders that died, 15 in all. nice live moment on our dallas nbc station last night. donna beckham was singing a song called "still around west" and the mayor happened to be in the room and happened to be listening and then he kind of a...

New organization. combining with some other groups. hes aiming to spend about $50 million in the 2014 election. i think this is important for gun control advocates because part of their problem in recent years and for a long time, has been a lack of funding. so hes aiming to basically kind of trump the nra when it comes to the amount of money thats being spent on pro-gun control candidates in the 2014 election in hopes of changing this debate which, of course in recent years, hasnt exactly worke...