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cruise missiles. at this hour former trump lawyer michael cohen is before a manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments made to stormy daniels. straight ahead what he told us as he enter had courthouse. and the assurance from president biden to americans worried about their money after the collapse of two big banks in a matter of days your deposits, he says, are safe our nbc reporters are here with the latest developments. and that's where we begin on wall street, where the markets have been up and down all day after the president tried to convince americans the collapse of those two banks is not a reason for alarm cnbc's senior markets correspondent bob pisani is at the stock exchange what's happening there >> well, there is some relief and there is some confusion, chris. there is relief because the government stepped in and essentially made all of the depositors at silicon valley whole by saying you're not going to lose a dime

that was a great sigh of relief on wall street the government also implied that ul aof the other banks might get some backstop as well although they didn't spell it out that way, but that's the implication and the president said your deposits at banks around the united states are safe there is a little bit of confusion about whether there is any other deposit risk in any other banks that are out there even though the government has provided plenty of assurances that everything is going to be fine so big regional banks that trade very strongly every day are down another 15%. a lot of people are trying to figure out why, given the fact the government is trying to imply everybody's deposits are safe right now so relief and a little confusion, chris. >> all right, cnbc's bob pi saun -- bob pisani meanwhile we're watching the courthouse where michael cohen is talking to the grand jury regarding hush money payments made to stormy daniels

ron, this appearance from michael cohen has come after we heard from donald trump's lawyer that he has decided not to appear before the grand jury what are we expecting the focus of cohen's testimony to be >> well, he is expected to say as he has for several years now that donald trump instructed him to make these paemts and he was aware of this situation. trump denies knowing stormy daniels or any affair and has called this entire process a witch hunt, a scam, injustice, a mockery. here's what some of michael cohen had to say as he was entering the courtroom a little while ago. take a listen. >> this is not revenge what this is is about accountability i don't want to see anyone, including donald trump, indicted, prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated simply because i disagree with them this is all about accountability he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds.

>> we believe that cohen will be testifying for a couple of hours very shortly this will be his first appearance before a grand jury he has met with prosecutors here in new york as many as 20 times to go over the case and what he might say in testimony of course the d.a. here has not pursued a case against former president trump. and michael cohen, again, we'll perhaps hear from him afterwards he, remember, pleaded guilty to eight counts, eight federal charges, including tax evasion and campaign finance violations and served prison time as house confinement, all of which strike at his credibility and what his critics say would make him a very difficult witness before a grand jury. >> ron allen, thank you. later this hour, why michael cohen met with the d.a. 20 times before going before the grand jury today and what it might signal about the investigation in our legal analysis. that's ahead. now let's go to nbc's josh lederman who's in seoul, south

korea. josh, are we seeing anything what are we expecting? >> reporter: the response has already started from north korea, chris, with the north koreans yesterday on the eve of these exercises launching two submarine-fired cruise missiles from a sub off of north korea's coast in the sea of japan. they flew about two hours making figure eights before reaching their targets and the south koreans have tracked one of those missiles and are working with u.s. intelligence to figure out what it was and what capabilities it showed off it shows you how concerned the north koreans are about this in fact there are concerns that their retaliation could involve a seventh nuclear test as the u.s. intelligence community just last week warned that north korea was likely preparing an additional nuclear test to try

to get the west to accept them into the family of nuclear nations and essentially accept them as a de facto nuclear state, something the u.s. says it is not ready to do. over the next ten days or so of these uninterrupted u.s./south korean military exercises, we expect to see live artillery exercises, amphibious landings as well as computer simulations of defense against an attack from north korea the u.s. and south korea, they say that this is all about deterrence against that threat from north korea but the north koreans say they view these exercises, the largest in five years, as rehearsals for an invasion, chris. officials say at least eight people are dead after two boats carrying migrants crashed off the san diego coast. here's nbc's dana griffin. >> reporter: san diego police received a 911 call from a woman in one of those boats around midnight sunday. she said there was a crash and that her boat, carrying eight

people, made it to shore, but a second one carrying 15 capsized in the water at least eight adult bodies have been found seven people remain missing. now, this sparked a dangerous rescue attempt that lasted about an hour yesterday. it then transitioned to a recovery mission that lasted about five hours crews found no additional survivors. according to the u.s. coast guard, since 2017 there's been a 771% increase in human trafficking in the southern california coastal region. since 2021, there have been 23 lost lives at sea. officials say this is not necessarily people trying to find a better life but a transnational criminal organization smuggling people into the u.s officials adding that these people are often labor trafficked and sex trafficked when they arrive the search has since been suspended. officials say for those missing it's unclear if they made it to land or if they died back to you. >> dana griffin, thank you for

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more now on what's next in the grand jury investigation looking into donald trump's alleged hush money payments to stormy daniels we're waiting for details from the manhattan courthouse where former trumpfixer, michael cohen, is now testifying before the panel. i'm joined by nicholas confessore also with me glen kirschner,

former federal prosecutor and msnbc analyst. glen, take us inside that jury room a lot of people are already saying didn't he already go to the manhattan d.a.'s office? he actually did 20 times, but now he's in front of the grand jury what do you imagine that he's focusing on? and why now? >> so, chris, first of all, let me state what may or may not be obvious to folks meeting with a witness 20 times before presenting him or her to the grand jury is extremely unusual. in my 30 years even handling rico cases i don't think i met with a witness more than 10 or 12 times undoubtedly michael cohen has a lot of information about his long-term relationship with donald trump as his lawyer and as his self-described fixer. so there's a lot of evidentiary terrain for the prosecutors to cover when they're deciding, okay, what do we want to present to the grand jury when he

testifies. but here's something else they need to make sure they know. they need to know about the universe of crimes michael cohen committed. we know he was involved in this conspiracy with donald trump to violate campaign finance laws to make these hush money payments we know he lied to congress. but that may just scratch the surface. and more importantly before a prosecutor can ever know whether to put somebody on the stand as a witness at trial, we need to know their fullback story and their misdeeds why? because you can bet, chris, donald trump's defense team come trial time will go scorched earth after michael cohen trying to expose all of his misdeeds and all of his warts of so there's a lot for the prosecutors to cover before they make the decision to, one, present michael cohen to the grand jury and, two, can they rely on his testimony as such that they're comfortable presenting him to a trial jury in the event of an indictment.

>> based on what we know, glen, and i feel like we know a lot, we've talked about this a lot. when you weigh what he knows, the access he had, all of the information that maybe in some cases he has more than almost anyone else against what may be considered a credibility problem, some of his past deeds, how do you weigh those out >> you know, here's how you weigh it out, chris. what i would always tell my jury when i was putting a cooperating witness or a witness who had committed his or her open crimes like michael cohen, i would say ladies and gentlemen, ploease don't understand the prosecutor did not pick michael cohen as a witness, you know who chose to pick him as a witness? donald trump once he picked him, we as the prosecutors have to work with him and present his testimony to the jury. >> let's talk about how crucial his testimony could be, nick >> look, cohen is the first

person in the original trump inner circle who flipped it was years ago now it's been quite a long time. >> we've almost forgotten. >> a lot has happened since then he was the key figure in the stormy daniels hush money payment. if this case as we believe is going to figure around a hush money payment, he is the crucial witness. he set it up he was the middle man. and he can testify as to what steps were being taken, what misdeeds or violations of the law took place what were they trying to hide, how did they bookkeep it, how did they lie about it, and he knows all of that. he was in the middle of the action. >> a vital part is consistency has he been consistent about this >> since he flipped he's been pretty consistent. as glen was saying, it's always tricky to bring a witness onto the stand whose credibility is i used to lie about this but now i'm telling the truth for you. that's always a double-edged

sword for the prosecution. but again, he was in the middle of it. they have to call him. if the case is really about stormy daniels, they have no choice but to make the best they can with him. >> do you agree with that, glen, without him they really don't have a case? >> yeah, i agree, they have to put him on the stand but keep him at arm's length. they're not going to embrace him as somebody who is instantly credible and reliable. they will probably front of the misdeeds and they will signal to the jury we're not hiding anything about michael cohen's back ground and behavior, but let's remember he is the one donald trump chose to commit these crimes with. >> donald trump will not appear before the grand jury, his lawyers have said that's a no go so are we close to them having to make a decision >> oncy heard that alvin bragg's team had invited donald trump to appear before the grand jury, which we sometimes do because we do want to give the target of

the grand jury investigation an opportunity to set the record straight maybe the prosecutors are misunderstanding the evidence. maybe the target really didn't commit crimes. not a surprise donald trump declined the invitation. but because i know that's the last step that we ordinarily take before we ask the grand jury to vote out indictments, it feel like the indictments could be coming very soon. >> nick, in another world maybe a long time ago, just the whole question of whether there might be an indictment would have political ramifications. now it seems like donald trump is able to flip it, right, and say more persecution, more of a w witch hunt when we start to talk about political implications for somebody running for president the old playbooks don't apply, do they? >> there are other people running for president besides donald trump in the pocket universe of the trump base, he has long since

baked these into his persona, as you say the witch hunt. >> as he says the witch hunt. >> but there are also voters on the gop side who want to win he has now lost three elections for the party in a row and they're going to look around and say is our best shot to nominate a guy who lost three times appearedes under investigation in several places. is that the best they can do and they really want to win. if the other candidates can come in and make the case they can pick up the case of trumpism as desantis is doing, ike that's a powerful argument versus sticking with a guy who has all these problems. >> nick, glen, always appreciate it taking on one of the most consequential messaging jobs of his administration what we're watching to see if president biden has convinced americans their bank deposits are safe, and how could this exact you personally plus chaos in el paso, where officials struggled to contain

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numbering in the hundreds pushed mexican soldiers out of the way in an attempt to rush the american side of the international bridge in el paso. nbc's guad vinegas happen following this what's happening when can you tell us >> reporter: you can see in the images, women and children, a lot of children on their shoulders as they push mexican soldiers out of the way and force their way onto the area where essentially the u.s. and mexico are divided, right where we can see in this images. cbp officers used these barricades to stop them. we know it was a large group the images show what was hundreds of them that crossed from mexico attempting to enter the united states. customs and border protection informs that this happened on sunday about 1:30 p.m. they had to shut down that international port of entry both to traffic and pedestrians our local affiliate on the

ground says they spoke to people there who say some of the migrants could have been lied to in mexico. many of them saying that they believed that they forced their way through the bridge and arrived on the american side, they would be allowed to enter the united states. that of course did not happen. customs and border protection also says that two other bridges in that area of el paso were affected this is part of the u.s./mexico border where the city of el paso borders it the only way to cross is to use bridges with different ports of entry. the images you see are from el paso paso del norte where most of these migrants arrived. we also have reports on the ground that other migrants attempted to enter through the river. these are areas in between the bridges where we've seen some asylum seekers arrive an turn

themselves into authorities. at some point some gas canisters were set off into mexico that's something that nbc news has not verified but these are reports coming in as we learn more of what happened. now, customs and border protection has said that they regained control of the area and the port of entry, we can see that bridge has reopened to traffic and pedestrians. chris, this isn't the first time we see a scene like this in 2018 when we had a large immigrant caravan in tijuana, mexico, we saw something similar where a large group of them tried to force their way through the port of entry in san ysidro and were also stopped by customs and border protection. chris. >> thank you for that. right now millions of americans all across the country may be wondering if their bank is any danger after waking up in twin falls, idaho, and fort wayne, indiana, where local papers focused on government

efforts to ease bank fears and avert a new financial crisis i want to bring in nbc news and business data reporter brian cheung i actually heard this conversation walking into work between two these having coffee on the street wondering if their money was safe. >> i was having breakfast in burlington, vermont, yesterday and the same table next to me having the same conversation there's a lot of fear out there. three banks failed over the last week, two large ones over the weekend. the three banks that failed are not the banks that you and i hold our savings accounts in so these are banks that primarily do business banking. so their depositors are tech firms, think silicon valley bank, and crypto firms, was was the case with silvergate last week and signature just yesterday. when you're thinking about pulling your savings deposits or doing any changes there, also remember there's no change to the fdic's insurance up to

$250,000 per depositor that means if you have less than that in any bank that's fdic insured, even if there were an adverse situation, you would still be able to pull out your money. >> let's talk to the folks in silicon valley because i know you have been talking to them, particularly with businesses that have their money in that bank >> i've been calling sources all weekend and all of this is moving so quickly. but there were a lot of startups and young stage companies that had money with silicon valley. they were financing a lot of these high-growth companies. but these companies were worried they wouldn't be able to get a cent beyond the $250,000 insured amount up until yesterday when the government said we're going to make sure we insure all the deposits for every depositors at silicon valley and also signature. it was a huge sigh of relief at the end of the day there were lots of jobs on the line i spoke with one silicon valley bank banker, who didn't want to be named because he wasn't authorized to talk publicly, but he was telling me if he wasn't

able to get his clients that money, which all of that was out of his hands once the fdic took receivership, that could have been tens of thousands of jobs in the startup community that would have evaporated overnight. >> what are you going to be watching for what is wall street, what the experts watching for to see if this is contained or a sign of a longer term problem? >> naturally it's going to be whether or not the three banks grows into more than that. we've been watching some pressure on wall street and some shares of regional banks, specifically first republic, which is a bit larger than silicon valley was prior to friday, we're not seeing signs of a run there, the fdic hasn't done anything, but there's concern maybe this could spread elsewhere. but the government's move yesterday, opening up a liquidity facility as well as guarantee money that is beyond the $250,000 fdic limit, really underscores the government's response that we want to stop the bleeding as fast as we

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no more drilling on federal lands. no more drilling including offshore no ability for the ill industry continue to drill. ends, number one. >> they dramatically reduced the size and tried to soften the blow by imposing sweeping restrictions on future arctic drilling joining me now, mayor anna sotomayor and the senior advisor to biden's 2020 campaign marianna, a congressional letter signed by two dozen democrats said and i'm quoting it here, you can stop this ill-conceived and misguided project, inconsistent with the administration's historic achievements on climate justice. what's been the reaction on the hill, especially among progressives >> you know, i've checked in with a number of progressive democrats and they're angry. they're very upset by this and it's just another issue that

they are very surprised by the last couple of weeks we've seen biden and the administration make decisions on immigration that has really upset progressives, whether it's on asylum or possibly family detention, as well as biden's own back and forth on intervening in d.c. crime law. many of these progressives are talking about and they realize biden is likely on the cusp of running for re-election again. they realize this is a big democratic base. they argue that they make up a significant part of it even in that clip of it that you showed, that was march 2020, right before biden was able to actually clinch the democratic nomination and was trying to win over a lot of bernie sanders' supporters at the time progressives pointing to someone that was pivotal and trying to get a number of progressives to back biden when they were skeptical of his candidacy as a more moderate democrat that is his former chief of

staff, ron klain he has since departed. many progressives telling me that is probably a reason why they are no longer able to have more easily connected conversations to the white house, and they're worried about that. >> alencia, president biden released a nearly five-minute long video slamming president trump's climate decisions filled with all sorts of pledges about a climate revolution does this mark a change? why this why now? >> you know, i think the president is doing a couple of things, right? he's understanding there is this energy crisis that we are dealing with because of the war in russia and ukraine and he's also to the point just being made, he is about to hopefully announce his run for re-election and there are some key issues that he needs to actually appeal to a larger base in order to hopefully do well and not only just clinch the nomination but of course be re-elected. so i think what we're seeing in

all of these decisions that sometimes feel a bit as if he has gone back on some of his promises, he is trying to speak to as many people as possible. now, i will say as someone who has worked for some of the progressive members of congress in the 2020 primary election, it is frustrating and challenging because the democratic party has done a lot of work to be really good on climate change issues, to be really good on environmental justice issues so on one hand it's great to see that he wants to put limits and restrictions on drilling in parts of the arctic. but to go forward with this piece of legislation, to go forward with this project is really frustrating and challenging for a lot of people to get by and say we can restrict on this one area but if we're going to continue to put pollution into the atmosphere, we're going to accelerate all of the work -- excuse me, we're going to accelerate down the field the climate change issue that many people have been working towards and working against. >> are you worried that it sends

the message at a critical time that we're for the environment unless it's not political expedient, unless it's problematic for the campaign do the ends justify the means i guess is a key question here >> it is frustrating, i think. people often actually do say that when they're listening to these conversations, that sometimes people go along with the policy to just solidify the vote and solidify their seat however, we have seen president biden, he has moved on the issue of climate he was a leader on the issue of climate. and so a lot of democrat progressives or whoever it may be were actually -- are actually rightfully so concerned about this you also have a president sitting here who doesn't have a house behind him the republicans have a slim majority so he's trying to figure out what can i get done as well as make sure that i'mre-elected t go back to some of the things that he has continued to say, i need to finish the job

part of finishing the job is being re-elected and having a democratic house so i'm hoping that we will see him hopefully move back to where he was on these issues in his first two years as well as when he was the nominee in 2020 because he actually can win by staying true to some of these policies when it comes to the environment, when it comes to climate, when it comes to so many issues that so many of us have fought for over the years. >> let's talk about the environment in particular. so understanding that whoever the republican nominee is, there certainly is going to be a lot of daylight between that person and president biden and where he stands, what he wants to get done so how do you use that look, everybody who's an activist in any area wants to believe that their particular issue is the issue we know that's not the case. but we also know that you can motivate certain groups. let's say with the environment, young people i know among my nieces and nephews, my great nieces and nephews talk about it a lot more than the older generation does

how do you use this in 2024 if that's the idea that you want to move to the middle >> you know, i think what he's doing and how you use this is actually have a conversation with the swing voters. look, woe know how presidential elections are run. they're run and won and unfortunately in the swing states, not necessarily the popular vote so the conversation a lot of times gets reduced to those key swing voters but you made the point about young voters young voters who do not get polled well when it comes to elections, young voters whose opinions aren't often represented on these shows, and yet they are paying attention and making a difference as we saw in the 2020 midterm election so the biden campaign -- the biden administration, the democratic party, is going to have to have this nuanced discussion around climate with something -- a move like this that causes pause for some

people but i'm very confident that they will be able to have this conversation and hopefully move us back to a place young people can feel very confident that this is the president to get our climate crisis under control. >> thank you both so much. now i want to bring in environmental activist and of source singer songwriter carole king who is here on set. great to see you again. >> you too. >> you have spent the better part of 40 years beating the drum about climate change, advocating for environmental protections. are you concerned about the environmental impact of willow >> absolutely. it's not helpful, the fact that he leased as much land as he did, it's not helpful. that's 23 million acres, which is equal to a bill that i've been working on to protect the northern rockies northern rockies ecosystem protection act, that's the amount of acreage that we're

talking about in that bill but i do want to say one thing i was listening to alencia talking about how do you get people to care about this, how do you motivate people one way is you educate people and you say what the issue is. but also what i do with my forest issue -- >> and can i show people this? >> please. >> this is a book let that she uses when she goes and speaks to people it's full of charts and graphs and pictures you get the idea but are people open to listening about this >> people don't know about that. like in the discussion about climate, and by the way, i have been working on climate but not knowing i was because 40 years ago it wasn't as big a problem as it is now and wasn't even known for many of us but protecting an intact forest ecosystem is a climate solution. that is a way to address climate change instead they're doing the

opposite and we are paying for it which is -- i'm going to tie this to the listeners, the viewers, by saying that the forest service is not the good guy, and that's under biden's administration but it's institutional it's been a problem under republican and democratic presidents for decades what it does is it facilitates logging in -- commercial logging for profit in our national forests to the benefit of the timber companies and we, the taxpayer, pay for that there's going to be allocations in the new budget. there's al kalocations in the infrastructure bill. billions of dollars that we are paying think about if you're a person at home and you need child care or you need any of the other help with so many of the things you struggle with every day. that's how it affects you.

that's how it affects all of us. not even considering the effect on the climate logging in the u.s. annually emits as much carbon or comparable, an amount of carbon comparable to that of burning coal in the u.s., the totality annually and i am getting that from 200 independent scientists who wrote a letter to president biden and that's in the packet. >> you know, everyone knows your music. they may not know that you spent i think it was three years living in a log cabin essentially, in a cabin of some sort in idaho. no running water. >> we talked about this. >> no electricity. then nearly four decades you live next to a national forest, right? >> that's right. >> so what did that teach you? again, as you said, before being an activist and climate change was cool, what did that teach you that led you to all these years of activism?

>> it taught me that my nearest neighbor, the national forest, the forest, can take care of itself it's been taking care of itself for centuries. the forest service has all these names for what boils down to logging which they do at our expense. they say wildfire risk reduction, forest management, forest health, salvage after a fire they're going to salvage a post-fire habitat is actually an amazing thing and certain species like a black-backed woodpecker eat a beetle that only lives in a post fire habitat and that's just one example. >> we have so many things going on now that you rightfully point out that are different the way that climate change has affected all of us, that it wasn't in 1977 when you moved into that cabin, that remote cabin. as we watch it and many of us live it.

watch what's going on in california where you also used to live. what is it going to take to give weight to these arguments especially given where we are politically in congress to make the change that you have studied and taught and understood need to be made >> it's going to take an educated public and it's going to take a motivated public so to all the young people who, like me, are disappointed in the willow project going forward, i say keep advocating, because that is what they listen to. don't give up, don't say i'm not going to vote. go -- you know, keep leaning on our elected officials. when i make a call to my senators, who are not of my party, they count my call. and if they had more people calling, literally calling, phoning the district office or writing a letter or demonstrating in numbers, that's what matters is numbers.

numbers matter to people, to these people and that's what we do, we just keying going and be louder and stronger those people that are advocating for climate change -- climate action recognize that logging in our national forests for profit of timler companies, which we pay to facilitate, is not acceptable so please add that to your advocacy as well as fossil fuels. >> carole king people come i'm sure many times to see the person whose music has been the soundtrack of their lives and leave with a very different idea of what's happening in the world thank you so much for coming and taking the time. >> before it's too late, baby. you got both. >> now how can you say no to that carole king, thank you. and the oscar goes to "everything everywhere all at once" pretty much across the poured we've got a recap from the

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history was made at the 95th academy awards and a big night for representation in hollywood, "everything everywhere all at once" took home the best directors and script and mich michelle yeoh won best actress. >> for all you boys and girls at home looking like me, this is proof that dreams -- dream big and dreams do come true. and ladies, don't let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime. never give up. >> love that and arguably the most emotional

moment of the night came when ke huy quan accepted his best supporting actor >> my journey started on a boat. i spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow, i ended up here on hollywood's biggest stage. they say stories like this only happen in the movies i cannot believe it's happening to me. this, this is the american dream. >> and the youngest winner ever of a nobel peace prize and she gets our award for quip of the night. asked whether harry styles spit on chris pine she said simply, i only talk about peace. it's march madness, the time of year when bracket talk takes

over work places and when universities begin their quest for a national championship. this year when an overachieving cinderella team take the country by storm and obliterate your bracket? steve kornacki is at the big board to help us break it all down what are we expecting this year? more march mad snns. >> it's always what we get last year who would have expected st. peters to make that run to the elite eight the field of 68 announced last night. a couple play in games and this thursday, 64 teams start duking it out, one of the most exciting weekends in sports all year. first, you have the number one seeds, the top seeds, alabama is the number one overall seed in this tournament, first time the crimson tide has been a one seed

in the tournament. you have the houston cougars, three, four decades ago they were a power in the mid 1980s. they're back, a top seed the final four this year is going to be played in houston. then you have kansas trying to defend the national title, won it last year, can they do it g again? p purdue won the big ten championship is this the year for them? those are the heavy hitters, the one seeds. how about this, the teams that just missed out? the committee that selects tell us the first four to miss, oklahoma state, clemson, rutgers, and a tournament without unc this year. you have a couple days to fill out your brackets. looking at the one seeds playing those 16 seeds, tempted to take

a 16 i don't want to say it's impossible but almost impossible for the 16 to beat the one since the tournament went to 64 teams back in 1985, the 16 seed is one and147 against the one seed the only 16 to pull it off, the university of maryland baltimore county back in 2018, they beat virginia the only time. look out for the 12 seeds. in 12 of the last 14 tournaments, at least one 12 seed has sprung an upset over a five seed in the first round and also in the end, the cream does tend to rise to the top two thirds of national championships since 1985 have been one seeds but don't be too challky here because only one time in that span, 2008, has the final four been made up of all number one seeds. one final tip. it is hard to repeat kansas trying to go back-to-back

in the last half century only done twice, duke in '92, florida in '07 that's what kansas is up against trying to defend their title. >> i'm feeling lucky, i don't know about you >> why >> bauecse carole king sat here with us. that does it for us. katy tur reports is next ♪ it's our turn now we'll make it up again. ♪ ♪ we'll build freelance teams with more agility. ♪ ♪ the old way of working is deader than me. ♪ ♪ we'll scale up, and we'll scale down ♪ ♪ before you're six feet underground. ♪ ♪ yes, this is how, this is how we work now. ♪ (vo) businesses nationwide are switching to verizon business internet. ♪ before you're six feet underground. ♪ (woman) it's a perfect fit for my small business. (vo) verizon has business internet solutions nationwide. (man) for our not-so-small business too. (vo) get internet that keeps your business ready for anything. from verizon.

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