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$391 million of aid held up for these investigations as we understand it at this point. it would seem to me that its just obvious that pompeo knew about it. >> i think it is obvious. anything is possible, but it does not seem likely. both given his role as secretary of state, the fact that he office that call, as you mentioned and the fact that he seems to be very close to the president and the president seems to rely upon mike pompeo for an awful lot. so the idea that the president would be pur...

Despicable way. >> you know, joe, this is one of those stories, probably with the exception of the shooting death of dealo, this has affected me personally because as i wrote in a piece that was in the paper on monday, you know, growing up as an african-american male, i wrote one of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other peoples suspicions. and so the reason why youre seeing all of these demonstrations, yesterday in union square, tonight in sanford, and people on...

Analyst and host of pbss "need to know" jeff greenfield is back with us. nice to have you. >> good to be here. >> good day to have you as well. joe and i have been talking about the jeb bush endorsement. we want to get your take on that. joe, rank and file republicans are rallying around mitt romney as their likely presidential nominee coming off that decisive victory in illinois. and he did get finally yesterday the endorsement by former governor jeb bush. what do you make of it? >> well, i thi...

You might have had some influence or something. family or something. >> that is the problem, they havent convinced the american public this is good and in their interest. yet the bill is good and in the american publics interest. >> why dont you just dope slap the former chief of staff, your brother? >> good point. >> if i may quickly, one of the problems which overarches every attempt to reform health care is that there say fundamental i believe american sense of what they want from health care...

Looks like a cartoon version of dracula or dracula dracula. because of my teeth? you know what it is? my hairline. got it. thank you. >> this one is actually sweet. can it be my turn to punch andy dick until there are bones in his stool? >> will farrell is a [ bleep ] fool. that one i can tell is a compliment. thank you. thank you. >> thats just not right. >> its funny because its so true. >> can will ferrell keep his clothes on in anything? >> no. thats the core of his humor, and thank god. >> ...

Politicos top stories. but first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. the incredible heat wave is over in chicago. out with a bang yesterday, 87 degrees in the middle of march in chicago. detroit, you had your warmest march temperature ever at 84. so what are we going to do today to top this? well, we are watching more record heat up in new england. mid-atlantic, we get rid of those foggy conditions, we could even see some record highs from d.c. up through areas of southern new england. ...

On the things that make conservative dorks like me get excited and stand up at conventions and cheer and say, this guy has to win! if we want america to be greater. i have never heard one of those speeches from mitt romney, and neither have any other conservatives in america. here, though, is the great irony about i think -- well, perhaps not an irony, but, you know, nixon always said go to the right and then go to the middle in the general election. look over the past 25, 30 years, even 40 year...

Heart. and it breaks my heart that this young boy shot dead, gunned down, in the middle of the street, with nothing but iced tea and skittles, was the one that the police officers decided to drug test. they drug tested his corpse. they kept hemlocki him locked u days away from his parents. they didnt try to notify the family. and now they are still allowing a man who most of america thinks is a murderer to walk free. this is an injustice unlike any that i think weve seen in quite some time. and ...

2008 when he had to make this move to the right that hes like the guy who learned to dance at arthur murrays dance studios. and unlike somebody who is naturally flowing into what he believes, he is counting the steps. ok. this is where i have to be on gun control. this is where i got to be on gays. this is where i got to be on whatever. and there is no sense of an organic coherent theme. and i think what joe said touches on this. no matter what he does almost, the only way the conservatives can ...

Caring about poor people. they win illinois. thats huge. they say we can just erase -- after he wins the republican nomination, what are they going to talk about? harvesting poor peoples organs? this is not good. these people cannot stand success, mika. >> they really cant. >> its just not a good thing for my republican party. >> its not healthy. >> sshhh. just stop. >> exactly. >> thats the problem. joe has put his finger on the problem. i mean, what the etch a sketch thing does as we were spea...