we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small businesses that want to grow use 4g lte technology from verizon. i wonder how she does it. that's why she's the boss. because the small business with the best technology rules. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 1-800-974-6006. ♪ >>> back to "morning joe." let's take a look at the morning papers from "the washington post." the reports that the united states and pakistan were in negotiations earlier this year over the future of the cia drone program. concessions including advanced notices of pakistan's territory. the offers were rejected. good because they would tell al qaeda where the drone strikes were going. president obama met with pakistan's prime minister to discuss the strained relationship between the two countries. >>> the financial times dominique strauss khan, remember him? charges of aggravated pimping for his alleged role in a prostitution ring. >> willie? >> yes. >> it's a crime now? >> idiots? st

we pushed him overboard because he was dealing with dave more than steve largent. >> the only thing i could say to myself is joe just took another drink on that one. >> no, but -- can you believe that? like even last night. even last night, michael, he's talking about they were purists who couldn't get anything done. i'm sorry, newt wanted to back down on tax cuts. what he'd called a week before the crown jewel of the contract with america. and we went to him and said, you're not going to get rid of the tax cuts. in you try, we're going to get rid of you. and guess what? we got the tax cuts. >> you did. >> we got the balanced budget. we get all the things that newt at the end didn't want to fight for. we had to push him out there to do it. you can talk to tom coburn or steve largent or mark sanford or any of these people. this is an important point. >> no, it is, joe. >> when push came to shove, newt always wanted to back down. >> but i want to make two quick points on that. and one is a parallel point to today. what you've just described about the conservative revolution within the c

dave rodriguez or karrelli or somebody like that. then when withdraw begins, he's probably going to have to replace him with another interim guy. it's going to look like it's rotating guys. it doesn't matter the people at the bottom of the food chain but politically it's an infeasible thing to do. but -- and that argues strenuously to keep him there. but i think on balance he's got to get rid of him and -- because if he doesn't it just ruins the chain of command. >> is it possible it could go further than a firing down the road. was there anything in the article that said blatant suborderination? >> there's a uniform code, article 134, which is the general article. and you throw that -- but there's nothing in there that would -- >> michael crowley, "time" magazine. you've spent a lot of time in afghanistan. >> not that much. >> you now have a condo there, as we understand it. you think mcchrystal should stay there. >> i think continuity of the war effort. i'm not in a position to say definitively what the damage would be of removing

dave winfield, my favorite player. here's a little bit of what you can see today if you go to mlb.com. >> hello, everybody. we're out here at yankees stadium where it's a beautiful day for a game. >> is it? >> 135 on the field. with 98% humidity. >> we go on vacation to wherever we go, cape cod for a week. and over the course of the vacation, i realize that i've sort of been out of touch with the yankees, not watching as much. but figured winfield is wondering where i had been. >> i'd imagine. >> and what i was up to. so i'd go out and buy a postcard, address it, "dear winfield." >> it was last night. >> right, just "winfield." went to the beach a couple times. >> lobster roll. >> mini golf. >> i'll see you in about a week. then i hand it to my dad, "dad, send this to winfield." >> at least you put "new york" on it. >> my dad, like, son, i turn my back, right in the trash. >> did you see that? >> yes, i used to write postcards from my vacations to dave winfield. and my dad would throw them in the trash. >> your dad wou

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>> fedex guy -- you dave letterman? >> i am. >> i got a package for you. >> i think that may be my new computer screen. >> where do you want me to put it? >> over there by the desk. that'll be fine, thank you very much. >> merry christmas. >> thank you. >> all right. time now to take a look at the morning papers. and we'll start with the parade of papers. the los angeles times says the current presidential candidates are choosing late night tv over sunday talk shows. republican front-runner mitt romney has yet to appear on one of the three major broadcast network sunday political talk shows this fall, yet twice has found time for david letterman. >> he was on fox news sunday, may i suggest in this race, is the most important show to be on right now. >>> "the new orleans times," drew brees needs 265 passing yards to break dan marino's record. >> i think he'll get it done. >>> and steven spielberg talks about family, going to the movies, and the problems with theater popcorn. >> i've got to say, you know, overall there's

>> seriously, in that movie "dave," remember the great movie "dave" where kevin klein takes over the white house and calls in his personal accountant and says let's go over this. in 30 seconds, in very simplistic methods, they call you and go, you could change everything. what's the game plan. very, very simple. $5 trillion deficit, we can't push the economy backwards, got to get our arms around that, peter orszag, 30 seconds -- >> do we still have congress? >> that's the thing. the whole point is you're called in. that's my point. a pure economical visor accountant -- >> that is not the problem. >> how do you do it? >> we can do a lot more on health care -- >> specifically. you've got a ledger. we're doing accounting -- >> we get the idea. we get it. >> i would move much more aggressively toward value based payment in health care. i would reform social security along the lines that peter diamond and i put forward in a book a couple years ago. and then on defense and nondefense discretionary spending, which is the bulk of it, the rest of it, it's not 30 seconds, but you can go throug

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we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small businesses that want to grow use 4g lte technology from verizon. i wonder how she does it. that's why she's the boss. because the small business with the best technology rules. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 1-800-974-6006. >>> 26 past the hour. time now to take a look at the "morning papers." >> it's been a great winter. >> don't jinx it, please. let's start with "the new york times." a federal judge ruled that the owners of the new york mets who profited from investing with bernie madoff must pay millions of dollars to the madoff victims fund. the exact amount could be as high as $83 million. the judge also ruled that the owners, fred wilpon and saul katz, will face a jury over whether they were willfully blind to madoff's fraud. if so, they could be forced to pay an additional $300 million. >> willie, they're getting hit with $83 million, possibly $300 million. and the plaintiffs are actually going for $1

we have to find some way to get together. >> senator dave walker, final question. before we get there, any way americans can see the 80% of the language down there so we can look at the details? >> we've got that laid out. a lot are budget target cuts what we lay out are enforcement mechanisms in terms of spending caps. what we say is we do give, you know, we do say there's not going to be an independent group alone going to solve this. you have to involve the various committees. if the committees don't do their job there's a bypass mechanism for an equal number of republicans and democrats to put together -- >> dave walker. >> senator, you've done good work. it needs to be in writing sooner rather than later. here's my concern. no matter what you do with regard to committees and how good of work the g6 does another group that has on this that doesn't get talked about, it's called american people. all of the work that's been done so far with regard to simpson/bowles and your good work on g6 inside the beltway. we desperately need a fact-based, nonpartisan, nonideol

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. >> who's on the show tonight, dave? >> we have a great show. i'm very proud. we have selena gomez is here and steve martin is on the show. >> there is he. >> steve martin, huh? >> yep. >> now wait a minute. hey, alec! wait a minute. where are you going? >> i'm not really a fan, dave. >> wow. welcome back to "morning joe," happy st. patrick's day. is this this thing we're not allowed to show this until a certain time or something? the white house has this rule, you can't show this until 7:00 a.m. someone tell me why. >> seriously? it's not 7:00 yet? >> why is there a person in there? what -- >> i don't know. >> i'm disturbed. >> seriously, was that somebody pouring green dye? >> yes. >> barnicle you'll have to explain. i know you're doing sports. >> that's the guy who just came from chicago where he dumped the green in the chicago river. that's our sense of fun being irish in america. let's go to sports. you're sitting next to the king of bracketology. president obama picked all number one seeds yesterday to make the final four. who does he have winning it all?

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karl rove, when he brought in dave carney to help him in perry's race in 1998 there was essential in that race. disagreements about tactics and strategy. perry thought he needed to go more negative. that tension exists, without a doubt. for a lot of insiders, it's fascinating to watch karl weigh in on the race. he's not a huge associate of romney's. i don't think he thinks michele bachmann is a strong nominee. every time karl talks about the race because of that history, people look for the nuance. he's favorable to perry. the advice he gives to all of them is right. it's what he told all his clients to do. don't focus on battling each other in a primary. >> karl rove says go after the incumbent, go after president obama. don't attack each other, even in the primary. what do you think? >> he's right. karl rove nailed it. they should be going after president obama if they are a republican candidate, not devouring each other. what you are seeing is more and more bachmann and perry going after each other, battling for that part. ron paul was there first and staked out the anti-fed situa

in the spin room after the fantastic vegas fight night, dave carney, his chief strategist said people are going to start tuning these out. and i said, oh, no they're not. if it's like this one, everybody's going to be popping the popcorn. >> if i'm running perry's campaign and i'm dead serious right here. i would say exactly what he's saying which is, you know, the whole idea that it's a gotcha game. i'd pull him out of the debates and make a statement. i'm not going to go up there with eight or nine people yells at each other, i'm going to go with voters. people who have seen perry campaign from door to door and convention hall to convention hall say he is great one-on-one. he is a retail -- >> how would you then if you were managing romney say you address or attack him for not appearing at debates? >> well, i think romney attacks him every night. but you know when rick perry goes into a debate, it's going to hurt him. the poll numbers will go down. and you always -- the key is you always get somebody. you figure out what they're strong at. george w. bush was always horrible in forma

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of course, dave obey decided to call it quits. you at politico figured out there are a new group of sort of bulls rising up to replace the old bulls that are going to be leaving. >> that's right. and politico's jonathan allen drew a long among these stories and saw that we have obey, the -- chairman obey leaving, deciding to retiring. senator murtha lost this year, chairman dengle unseated this year and a couple other chairman threatened in races, i'm skelton on defense. what we're seeing in this shuffling of chairs is a lot of new power for speaker pelosi, that she's always had an iron grip on her chairman and now she'll have a group of people boldin to her. also out, chairman rangel, out early because of scandals. so, if democrats hang on, and i can tell you that in my conversations here in d.c., democrats are increasingly pessimistic, people who thought that they were going to be down 20, 25, now think they may be down 35. the magic number was 40, 41, that republicans needed to pick up. that's even coming down one or two becaus

. >> jimmy kimmel showed this week why he was bumped up to the 11:35 slot to take on dave and jay. when he alerted the nation to a bizarre mother/daughter television interview. >> i looked up the stage beverage of virginia was and it was milk and the first soup that came to my head was chowder. >> as her daughter responded to a host questions mom conducted her own shadow interview, mouthing along silently with the answers. >> what did you tell the first lady when you saw her? >> i saw her, i told her i was really glad to see her and i was really excited for that day. >> after the interview, the mother removed her hand from the little girl's back and returned her to her carrying case for the trip home. >> sigh ya nar ra. >> and the number one story of the week? >> it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> missouri republican congressman todd akin, the man running for senate against inbum can't claire mccaskill drew near universal fire when he offered a free lesson on the female reproductive system. >> i can't defend what he said, i can

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comptroller dave walker, vet wes moore and chuck todd live from the g-20 summit in mexico. up next, an exclusive first look at top stories in the politico playbook. first, here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> mika, get ready for the heat. everyone on the east coast including the mid-atlantic and new england will see the hottest temperatures of this early summer seasonp the middle of this week. all that hot air is in the middle of the country. there was a very hot weekend in the four corner region, colorado especially with the wild first burning and now that hot air will spread east. the cool air with us today will be long gone by wednesday and thursday when temperatures will be about 95 to 100 from boston, d.c., new york, baltimore, and philadelphia. so, it's the first one of the season so that's why it's going to be a little shock to the system. we have a little bit of light rain trying to head from west virginia through northern virginia and central pennsylvania a few showers today. d.c., a cloudy, cool day, 77. still very cool from boston to philly.

. >> mike, dave's echoing what you said. >> you know, david, we were talking about this earlier in the previous hour, and while it is a tremendous loss to anyone who knew anthony and anyone who worked with anthony, it's also a huge loss to the consumers of news because as we spoke to earlier, he wasn't tweeting about things from syria or blogging about things from egypt or libya. his name was on his product. and as you just indicated, sitting in coffee shops, talking to people in cairo or damascus or tripoli. he would give the reader a sense of what the larger, more dangerous world was all about. and before he wrote for consumers of news, whether it was for "the globe" or the "washington post" or the "new york times," he would do something that i think too few people in our business do nowadays because of the pressures of the web, he would sit and think about what he wrote before he provided what he saw and heard to readers of anthony shadid's reporting. >> well, you put it just right, mike, he was a craftsman. i used to love to see in these far away war zones where life was often very

dave said there was evidence of terrible things he's been doing to his staff, having sex with members of his staff. so he went to the district attorney's office. district attorney took the case, had him write a fake $2 million check to this person, and they went and arrested the guy at cbs news just yesterday. >> it's a squalid story all around in terms of personal behavior, but the criminal behavior all around in terms of his producer -- >> i don't know which is worse. >> criminal behavior is worse. $2 million extortion blackmail is appalling. but the personal behavior, people are going to have to judge for themself. i think it's a squalid story. >> harold? >> it's terrible for him, for his family, for it to go out to his wife and to those who may have been affected by this. i would agree with willie. the criminal behavior is what's unacceptable. >> the other thing is note is we don't have any timeline on this. he married his wife eight months ago. he's got a 6-year-old son. we don't know when this took place, what was going on. >> besides, hello. it's with staffers. i had sex with s

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dave's always right. the most amazing statistic in his career was what he said. triples. led the league in triples. wasn't a very fast runner. they call him the greyhound and he did have some speed in the early days. he's a depression era slim guy. you could see his ribs, his sternum. people didn't eat a lot in the '20s and '30s, he could run. after the war, you can't run as much, but he came out of the box in those days. in those days, he was a left-handed hitter. >> moving. >> flying. >> heading to second base as opposed to the paragons today who admire their handy work. >> you mentioned the, you know, team to save civilization and you're still getting it done for the new york city new york city. couple of times a week. >> thank you. >> and stan musial, unfortunately, ted williams, for too many ballplayers today, they don't know who these players are. they have no memory of their own game. it's so disappointing. >> there's so much information for anybody. i don't care what field they're in. so many signals coming at them from different angles and ballplayers today, ther

dave, good to see ya. >> good to see you. >> let's get through the details of what's happening here. rebels are taking to the streets. it appears to be ending in the final moments in the 6-month-old conflict. the compound of the libyan leadership. they opened fire after emerging from inside the complex. gadhafi's younger son is leading forces into central tripoli. a top diplomat says they are in control of 95% of the capital city. sunday's final assault was part of a plan patched by nato, the rebels and anti-gadhafi forces. fighters surged into the city on sunday with very little resist ten tans from the regime. what are your impressions as you turn on the tv last night and this morning? >> partly joy and partly deja vu. the joy is to see a dictator that's been around since the beatles were together. wreaks all kinds of havoc on his own people. to see him gone, to see his family gone or let's hope that's the case is wonderful. on the other hand, it's excitement. then there's tomorrow. we have seen it all throughout history and in the middle east. it's a tribal nation. very rightly, t

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dave writes taser, a pocket taser understand gunn. stun gun. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> president obama once said, he wants everybody in america to go to college. what a snob. [ laughter ] no, not! what a snob! well, look who is educating his children, woo woo. i guess someone is too good for not knowing things. >> a lot of people in this country that have no desire or no aspiration to go to college. there are other places, technical schools, additional training, vocational training, there's skills and 'prentisship's, which is hardly barack nonbama's position. >> i ask every american to commit to one year of higher education. vocational training or apprenticeship. >> woo woo! woo woo woo. [ growning ] >> oh, my gosh. >> good morning, it is tuesday. february 28th. welcome to morning joe. >> things are set up for the primaries. are you okay? >> it's a big day. >> a huge day. >> we have to change the furniture. >> how important is that? >> i'm opposed to this. >> you know what? >> can i go on the record. >> i feel like -- >> big, bold. >>

the editor of gardening gun magazine, dave debenideto is back. including how ted turner is helping to save the southern landscape. we will be right back. we love gardening... yeah, but the feeling wasn't always mutual. i should be arrested for crimes against potted plant-kind. we're armed, and inexperienced. people call me an over-waterer. [ female announcer ] with miracle-gro, you don't have to be a great gardener to have a green thumb. every miracle-gro product helps your garden grow bigger, more beautiful flowers and bountiful vegetables. guaranteed. so even if... i have all these tools, and i have no idea how to use them. [ female announcer ] everyone grows with miracle-gro. oú >>> joining us now, editor in chief of garden and gun magazine, dave dean benedeto. the magazine is amazing. look at the cover. last month, i want to show that too. >> we love ted turner. he is crazy. >> crazy like a fox. >> he is crazy in all the good points. >> grace recipes in it as well. first of all, you are looking here and your cover story, southern heroes, 11

we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small businesses that want to grow use 4g lte technology from verizon. i wonder how she does it. that's why she's the boss. because the small business with the best technology rules. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 1-800-974-6006. the other office devices? they don't get me. they're all like, "hey, brother, doesn't it bother you that no one notices you?" and i'm like, "doesn't it bother you you're not reliable?" and they say, "shut up!" and i'm like, "you shut up." in business, it's all about reliability. 'cause these guys aren't just hitting "print." they're hitting "dream." so that's what i do. i print dreams, baby. [whispering] big dreams. >>> santorum got to the point where he released a robo call telling democratic voters to vote for him. since michigan's republican primary is open to voters of all parties and mitt romney did not care for this tactic. what are the odds of the tape existing of mitt romney endor

. >> and dave obey's always been in the middle of a fight. he likes provoking fights. and i think his time has come. >> it's his right to be tired. but he's definitely walking away from a fight. did you see "newsweek's" for sale? >>> up next on the defensive, why the white house is facing tough questions despite the rest of the suspected times square bomber. up next in the "politico playbook." >>> also, where is osama bin laden? ahmadinejad makes a strange claim about where he might be hiding. >>> plus, news about how long we sleep now being linked to how long we live. >> we're if trouble. >> we're dead. >>> first, here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> good morning, everyone. yesterday how perfect was that? what a gorgeous spring day we had yesterday. today, not the same. clouds will be moving in. it will be warm but showers are mixed with that also. forecast right now does call for rain moving into albany, new york, during the morning commute. all of northern new england is getting wet. there will be showers around philly and new york. temperatures will

>> the front man dave mustane has spoken. and the man we've been talking about rick santorum has the vote of that guy. in an interview with musicradar.com, the former metallica rocker, he said he admired rick santorum's decision to return home to his sick child. he said santorum has "presidential qualities." the lead singer of megadeath. >> you see how much that helps in the republican primary. >> other celebrities, gene simmons of kiss is behind mitt romney. >> kelly clarkson and barry manilow both behind ron paul. >> barry manilow? another reason to love him. by the way, he's coming to radio city. we've got to get him on this show. >> march. >> i'm not ashamed to say, i love barry manilow. you know he actually played bathhouses in new york. >> what? >> he would sing and he played the piano. early '70s, man. >> back houses in new york? >> that's what casey casem told me in '74. >> and his new hit -- >>> one endorsement that didn't quite pan out, wayne newton. remember this? >> how proud i was of this lady. >> good luck to bo

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most of the speculation is that the likely ceo right now would be dave soco who used to be the ceo of mid-american energy. now is its chairman. that's one of berkshire's major operating business. berkshire hired a guy named todd combs to run the investment portfolio and they'll likely try to hire other people. one of the interesting things is how hard it is to find somebody to replace buffett in that role of chief investment officer. you would think people would be clamoring to have that job. and buffett zould his pick of just hundreds. >> this guy is an investment genius. i am not so sure those skills are transferrable, are they. >> i'm not so sure they are either. when you look at what buffett has accomplished, it's really remarkable. he has all these built-in advantages. he built these advantages for himself. and it's really pretty incredible. the closer you get to that company, i think, the more impressive his accomplishment is. and then when you think in today's modern hedge fund world, there are a lot of really fantastically talented hedge fund managers out there. but how many o

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of i have a feeling dave camp's constituents are going to be very excited to vote for dave camp, instead of a democratic candidate. >> i see. >> i said this before. it can't be stated enough. we, in the national media, focus on these presidential candidates for obvious reasons, because they could be the next president of the united states. but there are 200, at least -- 200 members of congress in the republican caucus that are more qualified and know more of what they're talking about on foreign policy and domestic policy, on tax policy, on debt policy than just about any of the presidentipresiden presidential candidates out there. we had paul ryan on yesterday. willie, agree or disagree. you know you could talk to paul about policy for five hours and never once would he have that -- you know, he would never have to once resort to one of herman cain's stupid, rhetorical tricks. >> well, do you know what one plus one is? >> excuse me. excuse me. >> i don't think there's any question. that's what paul ryan -- that's what they do all day. they look at the numbers and they look at policy. i

. >> dave, exactly. all these things. and i think the reason it's a perennial fantasy, the reason it's working so well right now, it feels so broken and so beyond conventional repair that you think why not? but we have these moments where we think why not, but they are just that, they are moments. >> if cain were really good on the issues and hadn't made the mistakes on china and everything else, would you consider him qualified to be president? >> sure, i would. dwight eisenhower was never in politics before. and if he said you know what? we've got problems with china militarily, but i'll tell you my bigger problem with china right now is economics and then if herman cain had explained how we've been losing ground since china went global in 1978 and talked about how we were also fighting against the forces of productivity and how actually we would've had 30 million more people in the workplace if we were as productive today as we were in 19 the 3 and this is what we need to do as far as trade goes, as far as our relation

and you saw -- did you see the dave camp news? dave camp, ways and means, throwing out the possibility that you would have -- it's not just two votes. you could have two bills. so everybody gets to vote for an extension to everything. and the senate ignores it. then the house votes on something that extends the middle-class tax rates and then maybe either puts the top 2% rate all the way back to clinton or passes something that goes to 37%, hands it over to the senate and says, i dare you not to pass that. >> you could make this argument on capitol hill, but when you're at grover norquist's meeting and talking to conservative house members, they're not able to go back to their districts and make some convoluted argument on rates. >> they won't have to vote for it. they'll never vote for it. >> you need to find the tom cole caucus. >> that's right. >> i will say just strategically -- and man, i was in one of those districts where you didn't want to vote to raise taxes on anybody. go home. you wouldn't be able to go to little league

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we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small businesses that want to grow use 4g lte technology from verizon. i wonder how she does it. that's why she's the boss. because the small business with the best technology rules. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 1-800-974-6006. >>> 258, 259, 261, 232, 264, 338, 349, 346, 403. >> he is electric. let's take a look at the morning papers, "the new york times" for the first time in the 39 days since a luxury cruise ship capsized off the coast of italy. fuel something drained from the vessel in an attempt to avoid an environmental disaster. >> "los angeles times," turning now to papers, with gas prices on the rise, experts say the question is no longer if a gallon will hit $5, but when. threatening to cause a major road block in this country's economic recovery. >> gillian, $5 happens when, based on what you're hearing? >> it will be a while. but the issue is that gas prices are definitely rising, it's not just becaus