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Because he's evil. he's been with us all night and he asked us to do this segment. it would have been awkward to say no. so we're going to talk to tom about his album called "don't force it." i've downloaded it 17 times. >> illegally. >> this is your 900th comedy album, right? >> it's my 12th of the year. i was online, and i said, my 12th album is out. i released one a month for 12 months. i'm like evel knievel. somebody wrote, are you kidding? i thought this was a red eye running gag. every time i got on here, i plug a cd and it's always a different one. so fans think i'm joking. i'm releasin...

Springsteen's e. street band. first, here is bill karins. spring is trying to break out. >> today is patriots day. boston marathon is today and the red sox game. a big deal up there and get to the forecast in a second. one place in the country it doesn't feel like spring or even early spring. north dakota. unfortunately, they got nailed last night with more heavy snow. windchills are currently 17-degree range and rapid city a windchill of 5 and not much better in minneapolis. still snowing very hard right now from grand forks to fargo. interstate 94 is actually closed across the state of nor...

Morning and get joe scarborough off our back? i have no idea what accounts for that low rate. often, it's very substantial charitable contributions that ended up loring the tax rate and you need to look at his return. i have to say even if he did just pay a low rate, to me, that doesn't really undermine the arguments for changes in the tax code to tax cuts for the most wealthy. i think those were good for the economy. i don't think they will have a harmful effect on growth. so like you, i look at that graphic and athink, geez, what kind of a chump am i to be paying so much money? but it doesn'...

They got that money and secondly i can't pay 15% in tax rates. how have we let that stay on the books as long as we have? >> first of all, it's not just a carve out for hedge funds. this is an issue about broader pass-through income that hedge fund managers collect a lot of it. i think we have built up a mythology in this nation that tax policy drives all economic decision making and not true and maybe not the extent it used to be. if a hedge fund manager pays more in income not change their decision making and not top them from making risks. they will still make billions of dollars. i think w...

Water. >> it was such a tough time. you know, this is very early in my career as a columnist. i'm writing a column for "the daily news." this terrible thing happens. this is one of the few times where i feel -- i mean, i was on the wrong side of this issue because i thought these guys were guilty. but one of the things that happened there, the woman was so brutalized that it really seemed like she had been attacked by a gang and then they had confessions and this was before i had done all of the work that i subsequently did on criminal justice, so you don't have an understanding of how people ...