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According to a recent poll more of this country believes obama care has been repealed than have been able to sign up for obama care. [ laughter ] the whole point of websites is to design them so it is nearly impossible to not sign up for something. Every time i go to amazon ill mistakenly sign up for six seasons of night court. Are you sure you want to leave this page . Yes. Oops, it turns out i ordered something. Good morning, everyone, its tuesday, october 22nd. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set we have former Communications Director for president george w. Bush Nicole Wallace. Msnbc contributor mike barnacle. Thought you were is going to colombia . I am. And in washington, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. Thats what you do. You are the president of the United States and you can call anybody. Nixon even called elvis got him over to the white house. Im serious. This is how leaders think. So im doing this. Anything is possible. Your president you can call anybody. You can bezos. Listen, i see that you can actually run america now from your app on my iphone. I can buy anything i want in america. Can you make it so people can sign up . But the floppy disk thing. You need 35 floppy disks. I have those and then i have the eight set dvd set of the bible. I get it i just lay it out. Then maybe if i have some slim whitman songs. The president was pitching. Giving out the 800 number. You hear what happened. He gives out 2800 number. Stop it. They called 2800 number. They cant get through. People who get through you get through the first layer what do they tell them to do. Go visit the website. Youre on to something because amazon eventual carries everything so maybe amazon can start selling obama care. Because in the beginning amazon only had a few products but now literally anything you want from anywhere else the amazon website is better. Maybe amazon. Com can carry obama care. Were not even talking about the final product. I ordered shoes on amazon. So people say but its just shoes. Right. Were just talking about the order. You cant even get through. Do you think you can order another pair and at least stop . Please. Really quickly, mike. I want to ask nicole a question really quickly. If the president of the United States when your Communications Director goes out there and you write in there tell them to call this number and everybody calls that number all the news organizations and its busy and it keeps staying busy and then when people get through go back to the website. Im just curious, what would w not a good day to be the Communications Director who wrote that number into the president s remarks. How do they keep making these mistakes . Well, again, i dont think they are solely communications hold on a second. I under your administration might have missed one or two things, a war, a hurricane. So dont tweet. Thats why i go to you, you speak from experience. I have been to this movie where things go awry in the second term. We all understand, okay. Iraq, katrina. Shes an expert at this. You read them all last night. Harriett meyers. Whats when the Communications Director says do this and the president does that and then busy signals and three journalists that get through thank you for getting through, please go to our health care site, healthercare. Gov. Not a good day. The president , im sure is already very mad at his staff and everyone around him. But the fact that the clean up what they are trying to do now is cleanup a disastrous roll out because now that the shutdown is over people are focused on how badly this roll out went and the fact that they cant get the clean up right. Youre coming in for a landing. Youre having flashbacks to 05. Its bad. All right. Mike, well get into this in a second. You know the problem when you call the 800 number and its a call center in india thats where all the call centers are located. You call for a refrigerator you get somebody from india. They didnt do that. But they spent a couple hundred dollars on a canadian firm. Your done . That was a great tease for a story we have a little later in the newscast. Well start with the front page headline in usa today, Congress Control may be up for grabs. According to a usa today princeton survey poll 47 of americans say congress would work member if every member was replaced next year during the midterm elections. Only 4 say congress would be changed for the worse if all members were replaced. The left think it would make no difference. The figure is similar to but higher than past election years when the Minority Party won control of the house. In 1994 when democrats lost control of the house the number was at 40 . According to cnn, 54 democrats think members dont deserve to be reelected, republicans, 75 think they dont deserve to be reelected. Just last week the Cook Political Report said 14 seats that are up for grabs next year are now leaning democrat because of the damage done to the gop. So, obviously, some of these numbers, gene, are not surprising. What are the opportunities here . Well, you know, the opportunity is potentially to take back control of the house, which did not seem to be even remotely in the cards for democrats, frankly, before the shutdown and this whole drama. And put it back in play, perhaps just as important it tends to take the senate out of play for the Republican Party and the republicans had a shot at it. This was politically a very bad thing for the Republican Party. But, theres time. Its a year and thats two eternities in politics so things can change. Right now going into it this is not good for the Republican Party at all. I love escalating leading questions, were asking in the polls how much do you hate congress. Would you replace every member. Would you put them in an unmarked grave. 47 said yes. We get the idea. No one likes congress. Nicole, do you believe as a lot of people has said this has big impacts in 2014 or the other side of the argument is it will be forgotten by then and it will be about Something Else . I find the pace of the news cycle disorienting. If you remember 11 weeks ago all we talked about here for maybe a whole three years was obamas very muddled leadership on the red line he had drawn for syria. I think its a little disorienting how consumed we get. I think nature of governing by crisis is you cant predict the effects on Public Opinion of these all consuming news cycles. Think about it when people go to the voting booth. This is what we got to figure out as youre looking at this. Think about the message out of the Government Shutdown. Government doesnt work. Right . Right. This comes on the heels of syria and red line. Nsa stories. The drone story thats come out this morning. The irs story thats come out. The ap story. The james rossen story. Benghazi. Theres one after another, after another, after another. The billions of dollars wasted by republicans shutting down the government. Theres that too. The other side. Theres that too. But its so there are so many of these stories, though. The question is, why at the end of the day do people hold on to it. What conclusion do they draw . Mika, i dont disagree with you about the effects of the shutdown but is it and on the economy. I was watching when was the last time that led the news the economy. I was watching my daughters soccer game yesterday afternoon and a guy came up to me. He had a bad taste of having a 10yearold on the other side he was cheering for. What do you think. We were talking at halftime. Hes a business guy. Hes always been republican. He said, im not supporting these people and my friends arent supporting these people any more until they stop governing by crisis every two months. He was like i cant figure out what to do in the next three months, six months, nine months. Thats another thing. If those voices rise up and the narrative that they string together is that this democrat led senate and democratic president have contributed to that economic insecurity or lack of ability to predict and make Business Decisions then that doesnt necessarily go towards the democrats benefit either. Were in a position where Neither Party should be resting on their laurels and heading into the midterms with confidence. But you have to ask yourself dont you, gene, the poll, the poll numbers we just saw is such a generic question, been asked for years and people answer the same way, i hate what congress is doing, they are ineffective, inefficient and yet they like their own member of congress and reelect their own member of congress. Thats the eternal result of those polls and as a result we get the same old congress. Occasionally, though, theres a wave. And, you know, there was the Tea Party Wave and before that there was the democratic wave and, joe, you came in on a wave. So these things do happen. Amazing what waves bring in. It was great until we created another wave because we did what people just did a couple of weeks ago. Did you get anything out of it . These are wave numbers right now. Its a long time but these are wave numbers. Mika, if this was happening, if we have these numbers a year from now we can say with confidence that congress was going to get routed. I actually think long term there may be some opportunity if the party would actually take the advice of some of the people in it who like to actually win elections. I dont see that happening right now. I dont see it happening right now. I still see a complete and utter blindness among some members. When i see online over the weekend people actually at some respected conservative outlets saying the reason this didnt work was because the senate didnt stand united with ted cruz. Do they not understand the process . It is such ignorance. It is such complete willful its willful ignorance or they are lying, they are subscribers will get excited because even if they had stood shoulder to shoulder the president would have vetoed it. They couldnt have overridden a veto. They could never do a majority. They were never going to do that even if all the senators. So instead of saying listen we should have listened to you guys, we screwed up and lost 20 Percentage Points in our Approval Ratings and both the lowest Approval Ratings ever. They dont have to say i was right because i was or krauthammer or walker or tom coburn, all of us were right. The wall street journal editorial page dont have to say the wall street journal editorial page was right. Just be quiet. You know, clean the rooms. Learn from their mistakes and stop being stupid. Im cool. Lets just pretend it never happened and work towards winning next year. They wont do that. Because now they are saying we were right, we were right. No they werent right. Constitutionally, the great irony of these people oh, i love the constitution why dont you just read the first three articles of the constitution and call me in the morning. Review. Mike barnacle. Joe and nicole, who in the Republican Party has enough of a voice, strength of voice to stand up and tell people like ted cruz look at what we missed by doing the Government Shutdown. Jeb bush tried on sunday. They dont listen. When the money people come in and say to some of these guys yeah i know you are ahead 6040 but ill come in and fund a primary opponent and guess what hes going to be pro life, hell be pro gun, hell be pro family, hell be pro tax cuts but hes going to give a businessman or business woman who wont put a gun to my businesss head every three months and ill keep funding them. 30 second commercials against you. Well gut you. Thats when it has an impact. They are not going to listen to jeb. They are not listening to chris christie. They are not listening to anybody. Whats clear is that people like ted cruz are not worried about what youre talking about. Its the republican brand. They are not worried about a National Brand. Ted cruz goes back to texas. We saw the pictures yesterday. His Approval Rating is 70 . Hes not thinking big picture. This is about ted cruz and he had an interview yesterday and a lot of people didnt see it. He had an interview where he showed his hand for the first time where he said i know about negotiating. I wanted to take the hard line and then i wanted someone to come in behind me and take a more pragmatic position. He wasnt saying that on 30 second commercials and he was skewering a lot of people who could have been pragmatic and come within a deal in the middle. But i think youre going to soly see 8,000 people ted cruz didnt just want to be senator the rest of his life and knows he has got to make that turn. How do i know . I know. Does he know he did damage to our country . No. Does he know there are a lot of people that believe ted cruzzing brought this to the forefront. And our country is a big, resilient country. There are democrats and liberals that have done worse things to our country and managed to survive. So well survive like a shutdown. I dont think we can afford another one and we cant afford another government by crisis. Everyone says it cant happen again. I want to know how it doesnt given better not. Its not the end of the world as we know it. It could be the end of the Republican Partys chances in 14 and 16. Thats the thing. They are hurting themselves. I remember talking to one of my College Professors and i was a huge Ronald Reagan fan and i made the mistake what do you think about reagan because reagan was way ahead of mondale. He said i think the United States of america is Strong Enough to survive even eight years of Ronald Reagan. I was so crest fallen but it was a revelation to me that he thought the world, gene, was going to hell at the same time i thought this was the greatest thing that had ever happened. For the country. And we will survive this shutdown or that shutdown but what so many of my friends on my side dont realize they are hurting themselves. Weve seen this before some times. They are setting themselves up for a democratic monopoly in washington, d. C. In 2014. Yeah. They are trying their best to take themselves out of this game. Take themselves off the field and they are being egged on by some voices that either didnt exist or in previous times like this or that have changed like the heritage foundation, for example. Which, you know, you would think ought to be coming out with those sort of reasonable policies. You would have expected heritage to be saying heres a republican idea for health care. Heres our idea for something thats better than obama care and it would have assumed that we have a problem and heres a way to solve it. In fact they did that years ago and came up with romney care obama care but they dont believe in that any more. They would have come up with something new. Now they are one of the loudest voices thanks to jim demint and heritage which used to be a real think tank now is a shrill voice thats not happening. We talked so much and heard brilliant advice about your party we never got the obama care sound bites. Thats too bad. Coming up on morning joe the newest member of the msnbc family, ronan farrow will be here. Also Henry Louis Gates, peter baker and later Michael Hainey gives us a new look at the edition of gq. Up next the top stories in the political playbook but first heres bill karins with a check on the forecast. Looks like that world series forecast for boston looks very dicey as we go throughout wednesday and thursday night. First, the cold air. Were tracking it through the great lakes. Its winter coat weather, jackets, hats and gloves all through areas from minneapolis to green bay. Look at chicago this morning, 26. All of this is whats heading to the east coast eventually. Now as far as the rain goes theres some in the southeast today, umbrellas needed definitely north florida, southern portions of georgia. Not a huge rain event but dreary and a little bit on the cool side. Heaviest rain moving into tallahassee, savannah, charleston for the afternoon. West coast youre fantastic. One more nice mild day here from boston all the way to d. C. And i mentioned that world series forecast. Look at the temperatures in boston. The game will be wednesday evening and thursday evening. 50 degrees with drizzle around. During the game wind chills in the upper 30s. Definitely cold. Typical world series weather. East coast, everyone, enjoy one more mildish type day because that cold in the great lakes is heading your way tomorrow. Youre watching morning joe. The American Dream is of a better future, a confident retirement. Those dreams, theres just no way were going to let them die. Like they helped millions of others. By listening. Planning. Working one on one. Thats what Ameriprise Financial does. Thats what they can do with you. Thats how ameriprise puts more within reach. All right. 24 past the hour. Time now to take a look at the morning papers. Las vegas review journal another community is coming to grips with a School Shooting. Thats left two people dead including the shooter. It happened in the town of sparks, nevada yesterday around 7 00 a. M. An armed student opened fire on two classmates killing the math teacher who tried to protect them. He then turned the gun on himself. Two wounded students are in stable condition. Michael landsberry is being hailed as a hero. A former marine and National Guardman he leaves behind a wife and two step daughters. He was 45. The chicago suntimes a mother from chicago is taking twoi twitter to court after her daughter was bullied. She wants the company to reveal the names of the people involved. She said her phone number was listed and encouraged others to sends her sex. The Washington Post netflix says its profits quadrupled in the Third Quarter creating a jump in its shares. The online Video Streaming Service gained more than a million new subscribers in the u. S. Bringing its users to 45 million worldwide. It can be linked to original content and orange is the new black. From San Francisco chronicle apple will announce new gadgets to showcase in San Francisco. Insiders anticipate the ipad 5 and an ipad mini with retina display. The release date for a new operating system for Mac Computers and mac laptops. The chicago suntimes the head stone of an iraq war veteran have been removed at an Ohio Cemetery that says the marker is inappropriate. The sevenfoot gravestone is shaped as a smiling Spongebob Squarepants. The cemetery said the employee who approved the design made an error in judgment. Officials are offering the family compensation for the gravestone and an identical one next to you. The salt lake tribune, the boy scouts fired two leaders who filmed themselves toppling an ancient boulder. The men said they tossed the boulder because they were worried it could fall on somebody. But the boy scouts said they violated the leave no trace rule. The men could still face criminal charges. Ringo starr is asking for help on his quest to fund the identities of the people in this photo, ringo took the photo during the beatles first trip to the u. S. Back in 1964 when their cars passed each other on the freeway. Its part of his new limited Edition Photo book called photograph. He believes it may have been taken in miami. If you recognize anyone in the photo head over to genesis website. Imagine 1964, the beatles. Thats so cool. At the peak of the frenzy. Driving down the road and ringo starr takes your picture. Thats a great shot. Lets go to willie now with politico. Lets go politico, playbook politico editorinchief john harris. You guys have a piece up about the virginia race, Michael Bloomberg of new york city is now getting involved in that gubernatorial contest pumping some money from his group into the race. How will that impact things hell drop a million point one which is not just pocket change where Terry Mcauliffe bill clinton friend and democrat is up over conservative republican ken cuccinelli. I dont see this having a huge effect on the race. I find it surprising. Terry mcauliffe made homage to Michael Bloomberg in august and happy for his help. Ive been covering virginia for 25 years. Cultural liberal new york mayor helping a demonstrate in the state is a puzzle to me. If you got an eight point spread with two weeks to go, Terry Mcauliffe courted Michael Bloomberg. Do you think thats wise with an eightpoint lead . Well see. Mcauliffes position on gun control, if you go issue by issue are popular. But the last thing he wants to do especially like terry who doesnt really have still battling the carpet bagger reputation in virginia, the last thing you want to be doing is seen as a National Democrat rather than a virginia democrat. So i would really see this as at best a toss up and to be honest last think he wants is mark prior where bloombergs money creates a backlash and helps republican. Cuccinelli campaign is jumping on this saying tens of millions of dollars coming from outside of the state. Another interesting piece you guys have up you guys interviewed nancy pelosi. She said shes quote on a mission. What did she mean by that . On a mission not a shift. Im not going anywhere. A lot of people are wondering pelosi at her age in her early 70s, on the last lap. She gave us the exact opposite impression and so did her associates in the house people that know her. They think she wants to stay through obamas term and possibly beyond. She is totally buoyed in the wake of the shutdown she thinks democrats have a better chance than ever to take back the house. Certainly in 2014 if not certainly 2016. She wants to stick around until shes speaker again. It could happen. 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He moved the team to tennessee in 1997 and eventually changed the team name to the titans. Forbes magazine estimated the titans value at more than 1 billion a team he bought for 25 grand. This years poll of the nfls most disliked players is out. Any guesses. Most disliked player. Randy moss keep guessing. Forbes magazine lists mark sanchez at number five. Ben roethlisberger at number four. Ndamukong suh, plays dirty sometimes. Manti teo. At number one the most disliked player in the nfl is michael vick. Whats that about . Unacceptable. That dogfighting thing. Dont hate him. People love their dogs. Earned his way out of prison. I cant tell you how many people did things and never went to prison i dont know. Just whatever. Hes done really well in the last two or three years at every level. His privilege is he gets to play football he doesnt get to be liked. People love dogs period. Love dogs. Obviously you dont. Heres a happier story. 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Lets get the most read opinion pages and ill start with wall street journal. 1800obama care denial. By the way we called the hotline on monday and the automaticed menu redirected us to healthercare. Gov which in turn to get in touch with someone in a call center. In an era where google is make selfdriving cars and amazon offers next day deliver for just about everything, the white house plunged ahead with a system it knew to be defective and is relying on the technology thats 19thcentury as the fall back. Five days before the exchanges launched the health and Human Services department increased the Virginia Information Technology company sercos 114 Million Contract by 87 million to help process paper applications. People who can use the internet which are people we need to enroll. Thats not is going happen if the current favorability numbers stay in play. 46 views it as a serious problem. 56 feels its bigger problems with the law. The administration really has to get out there i feel especially to College Campuses and talk to those Young Healthy people. The only way this thing works in the long run you sign up people that are healthy. People like me not my age but your age. You look great, joe. I do look great. Its just a show. Dying inside. Im dying inside. We all are. Well talk philosophy next time. But, what blows my mind is, they know. This is like the one big thing the president has passed. This is hell be judged by this in history. They knew this was coming. It wasnt like they knew this date was coming. They spent money. It didnt work. What blows my mind is on top of that they are in the middle of the crisis. They give the president a phone number that doesnt work. Its a real problem and i think it stems from much broader more systemic issues. There are republicans on the hill saying get Kathleen Sebelius to resign. That wont solve the bigger problems which is the Competitive Bidding process for these huge over priced contracts is beltway bandits get them. A very black belt process. Did they have a Competitive Bidding process. Its british and 1. 2 billion contract. They receive all their money from government, 90 of their income is from government deals. One of the companies feeding off government teats. The canadian company, were not sure, we had the nbc report last week on that. I think theres some Good American companies, gene robinson, that, i dont know, a few good tech start up guys and women over here. You go back, to again, like the wall street journal said, you just go back and you look. Are you trying call am. Its too early. Seriously. I say this all the time. I go on my iphone, do my banking on my iphone and buy just about everything from amazon. Like we got americans that know how to do this stuff. Yeah. You know i work for the guy now so i would be happy to give jeff a call and see if he would like to step in and fix the thing. Although it is i am amused. Youre tight with bezos. Yeah, exactly. You know, this is ridiculous. I have a feeling the whole architecture of this is wrong and needs to lay out a design, a new one. Its a bit rich for wall street journal to say obama care is awful, its terrible, its horrible and why isnt it working better . Why dont we have more of it now. So its a bit of a contradiction. Gene, the point of the wall street journal editorial is the point that republicans have been making for a very long time which is that its not appropriate for the federal government to assume a bigger role in the health care. Mika has just gotten through. It took me 20 seconds. Thank you so much. Have a good day. There you go. She got tagt. Up and running. So call. Did they refer to you healthercare. Gov. No it was a live person. About one minute. Less than. That was Chris Christies number. No it wasnt. You were talking to chris. No i wasnt. It was valerie. I think the bigger story thats getting lost here is these bidding processes for these huge contractses are deeply flawed. The American Public needs pay more attention to it. They are too much of a black box. Theres no transparency about how this happens. By the way, and im not knocking public union, im not, god knows i do that enough. Not here. I understand we have unions for a reason. But if this had happened in the privatesector everybody would be fired. Walk in and fire everybody on the floor. Get out there was. They would hire, start over immediately. And it would be fixed. Like dont tell me if steve jobs had a disastrous launch on monday that that stuff wouldnt be working by friday. We got to figure out a way yeah. Yeah, im sorry. Gene, really quickly . I was curious. Is this a union firm . Do you know that be a fact . I dont know how unions got involved. Its a government operation. Im guessing, gene, its just a wild guess that probably there are union connections on a contract awarded and run by the federal government. Well i would be glad to bet you. Ill bet you if im right you and jeff bezos have to put me in the the Washington Post box for the opening game of the were the nationals now. Well see what we can do. You know, i think more relevant perhaps to this discussion is Civil Service rules which the fed bipartisan support for many decades that make it difficult to walk into any Government Department and just like fire everybody. So Civil Service rules then. All right, by the way, unlike the wall street journal if you want to get through call 18003182596. Youll get an agent. Ronan farrow, thank you very much. Mika makes things happen. She could be making it up. Im just saying i guess somebody had a bad experience but i got through. Ill try again. Were excited youre here. We have cool ideas for the show. 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Fear not, help is on the way. Weve had some of the best i. T. Talent in the entire country join the team and were well into a tech search to solve the problem. Your website is so [ bleep ] we have to use the same strategy we used to salvage the iraq war. Well, its the top of the hour. Welcome back to morning joe. Nicole wallace is still with us, joining us on the set. Political analyst for yahoo news Jeff Greenfield who is out with a new book if kennedy lived. An alternate history. Well get into that in just a moment. Also with us in washington, editorial director, ron fourney. Yesterday president obama defended obama care, his signature piece of legislation while admitting the roll out has been flawed. Experts from some of americas top privatesector Tech Companies who by the way have seen things like this happen before, they want it to work. They are reaching out. They are offering to send help. Weve had some of the best i. T. Talent in the entire country join team and were well into a tech search to fix the problem and were confident well get all the problems fixed. So heres the bottom line. The product, the Health Insurance is good. The prices are good. It is a good deal. People dont just want it. They are showing up to buy it. Nobody is madder than me about the fact that the website isnt working as well as it should, which means its going to get fixed. The white house urges individuals having issues with the website to utilize one of their call centers. However, some reporters from the wall street journal and politico called immediately after the president s speech and they got a message redirecting them back to the main website. You called this morning. Called this morning. At 6 45 in the morning. I got through in less than a minute. So if you want to get through you just need to wake up before everybody else does and it works. Meanwhile the Washington Post says all these issues shouldnt come as a surprise to the obama administration. Just days before going live the Health Care Website reportedly crashed during a simulation where just a few hundred people attempted to logon. House republicans are hoping to get a little clarity about the flawed roll out of obama care when secretary Kathleen Sebelius was the on capitol hill next week. The Washington Post and abc news found voters are still willing to give the Health Care Law a chance. 46 of voters support obama care and 49 are against it. And while 53 those numbers have gone up, considerably since the republican action. Which is great for conservatives, the bitter irony of all this. The very people who claim to stop obama care have made it and this is a matter of math. So people can get upset if they want to, made it actually more popular. They did. They certainly took the attention away from this story which would have done the job for them. Driven the numbers down into the 20s. Like some republicans drove our partys numbers down. 53 disapprove the way president obama is handling the laws rollout. 33 say it should be repealed. 66 say the law should stand even though a third say they oppose it. Jeff, where do we start. Lets start by asking how does the white house bungle this so much when they knew the day was coming and the president goes out and then we have stories of incompetence on top of incompetence on top of incompetence. I think the central lesson of when administrations go wrong is that they dont to quote the music man they dont know the territory. They make assumptions, make miscalculations whether its about the war or a massively complex program. The ultimate irony is the white house may look back in six months if we could have only kept the shutdown going six months longer. But the crucial question, though, and i think the numbers show it and what youve described is this, in fact, a technical problem with the website, or are we going to get to a position by the end of the year with the very people that have to enroll in order to make this work, younger, healthier people. Its a burden. I cant do it. They havent fixled it. The entire economic structure of the Health Care Program goes phlooey. They have to give a delay that the republicans who were shutting the government down get. In fairness we should mention it almost wouldnt have mattered how this thing rolled out. The republicans are prepared to call this thing a disaster because they have been fighting it. The description you gave of the republicans would like to have some information from Kathleen Sebelius, no they wont. This is an inquisition. They want to hide. Absolutely. If things keep 0 going this badly they should want her to stay flight if they dont want the Health Care Act to work. This comes down in large part to leadership. I worked along the gulf coast with fema and with a lot of governors over, you know, better part of four terms. I saw a lot of hurricanes come in and you could tell the difference between the governors who were real leaders and the governors who werent. During katrina i was absolutely shocked by the gross incompetence of the governors in every state involved. And you know why . Because i had seen jeb. I shouldnt say anything nice to jeb after what he said about our program like watching baby seals being beaten every day. But jeb watches us three hours a day which tells us he likes seeing baby seals being beaten. When a hurricane came in, you knew under jeb you knew what was going to happen. Stay in your house. Dont try to go the affected areas because hes got it blocked off. Then you drive to middle schools because there are going to be people there handing families that dont have anything to eat or brink handing them little boxes and you think im telling you, it was pure leadership. Then you go to a governor one state over, two states over and its completely opposite. So much of this comes down to leadership and you just got to look at president obama and ask how did he allow this to be bungled so badly. He loves to blame republicans for everything. He cant blame ted cruz for this. He knew this day was coming and he botched it. The buck stops with him does it not . Exactly. Before we go there and we talk about gross incompetence and katrina the buck started and stopped with president bush. We see similarities with the way president obama handling this. My family is already benefiting from obama care. I want obama care to succeed. I want my family to be able to continue benefiting and i want 40 million americans without Health Insurance to get it. But when i see this administration spend an unforgivable amount of money on a website that doesnt work and the president of the United States gets out there yesterday and instead of taking responsibility and say im going to fix it and rolling heads, he diminishes the significance ever whats been happening, he points the fingers at the republicans, and doesnt really take full responsibility and hasnt. We had the secretary of hhs, a woman who i respect, identify known for a long time, Kathleen Sebelius, she was sitting in the front row. Maybe she should have been shown the door, frankly. Real quickly, mika, all the folks making money off of president obama right now who worked on the campaign and technology and stateoftheart Technology Work they should be in the white house right now working for a dollar of the year. I dont disagree with a number of those things but didnt he say he would fix it. That was the first thing on rons list of critic jim for the president. Thats what he went out there in front of the country to say. He did take responsibility for this and he has to take responsibility. Im assuming you agree with the fact that obama care is something thats already helping families and if you cant get this done right the hardest part is still coming as jeff was saying. You cant get this right how will you do the hard stuff . I think the statement no one is madder than me is what sticks in a lot of peoples craw. The notion hes sitting and watching from the residence of the white house and says oh, gosh that didnt go well just brings really strange to people. He should have been, you know, in the command and control post, making sure that everything was in order. Should he have been running his own simulation of the site obviously not. Should he have made sure that his signature domestic achievement was rolled out smoothly and did he have plenty of times while the republicans were running a goat rodeo, he had plenty of time and space whats a goat rodeo a goat rodeo is you can use your imagination. Its a term we use all the time in the Bush White House because we ran many of them. But obama, to continue to speak about the actions of his administration as a guy with a great seat but no responsibility is off putting. If i could on credibility just like katrina when the big problem president bush had was diminishing the significance of what was happening say hey way to go brownie, you had the president yesterday talking about glitches and kinks. This is bigger than glitches and kinks. Katrina was a storm and Health Care Law is obamas creation. Im not defending my white houses handling of katrina but it was a national disaster. This was a disaster of obamas creation and imagination. Maybe at war is a better analogy. We get it. We got a few. But we litigate iraq later in the show. Jeff, let me ask you if we take the long view on this as youre particularly good at doing. If we get through this time, if the president gets through it, the website is eventually fixed as ron said 40 million americans get health care, will we remember, will history remember this period where it looked pretty bad for the white house but ended up okay according to him . No. I do think that this is a wonderful point to make because the over coverage of everything. Thats the state of the United States, everything is over covered. Everything is overstated. If they get through and by the end of the year people are enrolling particularly younger people this will be nothing like the first few weeks of Medicare Part d. Unless young people dont sign up. If this thing is fixed and it rolls out then this is nothing. But if, in fact, this reveals more substantive problems that some of the critics are saying, wait until people start finding out they wont like it thats the great debate. This is a good deal for most of the people. Its a big change from the era i was writing about when there were three networks and two or three important newspapers and you had time for issues to ferment. We ought not to think this is the end of the world but its a danger. One quick point. Most second term president s get of a flibted by things that happen in the first term. Iraq war, watergate, monica lewinsky. This is a disaster for president obama if it doesnt work out. The first term agenda comes back and bites him in a sensitive place. Ron, you were talking about your family and 40 million others impacted by this. At the end, at the end of the day this is going to either sink or swim if it makes peoples lives better. If like medicare, medicaid, social security, it becomes a part of the American Fabric because it actually works. And that has to do with pricing and markets and in get so sick and tired of people running out going oh, look, look whats happening in california, it proves this will work. Look whats happening. Nobody knows yet ron and we wont know for a eror two, will we to jeffs points there were all kinds of glitches and problems and political debate that went on for years around medicare. Whats happening now is significant it tells us whats happening in the future. Can fortunate and miss Administration Learn from this and fix the problems or do they dig in, spin and just keep in a defensive posture. Youre exactly right. If we cant take the early successes and early defeats to reflect whats happening down the road. If this works and a good policy and implemented well great for our country, great for president obama, wonderful thing for his legacy and the country will be better. So Jeff Greenfield alternate history buff if kennedy lived take i want away. By the way whats with the obsession on alternate history. This goes way back for you. When i started getting obsessed about politicians shortly after i entered kindergarten, it did strike me how many times in American History these tiny little twists of fate could have had enormous consequences. Franklin roosevelt almost being assassinated before he got to the white house. His assassin got to the park five minutes later, killed the mayor of chicago. It grew and grew until i started realizing that this is true about our personal lives how did you meet the person you spend the rest of your life with. She happened to show up at dinner at the last minute. How did you get job. Its true about history. When i started thinking about john kennedy in particular there were so many turning points in his life not just the one we obviously know about. He almost died of scarlet fever, he almost died in world war ii, he almost died from a life threatening operation, he almost died from a suicide bomber. And if his brother hadnt been killed it would have been joe kennedy. If he didnt make a phone call to Martin Luther kings wife he would have lost the election. Then you look at dallas, the skies clear at the last minute. The bubble top on his car was removed at the very last minute. Keep the bubble top up because the rain doesnt stop and the assassins aim, is thrown off just enough to have him survive. Then you ask the questions, is the point because not just oh, look what almost happened but what are the consequences of these twists of fate. I couldnt write an alternate history if dukakis beaten bush. It wouldnt have mattered much. If john kennedy is president and you believe as i do he would not have escalated the vietnam war and i research this stuff as much as i can, you read document, you read all history. Why do you believe that . He had won as a hawk. He had gone through the cuban missile crisis which almost incinerated the world. But coming out of the missile crisis he was determined to ease the tensions and he also was skeptical militarys aserges that it knew what it was doing. He was a political guy. He kept saying im not doing anything about vietnam until im reelected. When you read his impulse, his believe in nationalism, his skepticism about the military and his determination always to take the narrowest path the narrowest path. Excuse me. This is an alternate history. Didnt kennedy have something to do with the assassination of south vietnams leader. Thats not a narrow path. This was all after the bay of pigs. He didnt seem to have changed that much. The coup was the worst mistake of the kennedy administration. Happened because aflac of information. Nobody really signed off on that. But, yes, he was stuck if he did not sanction a coup those leaders would cut a deal with north. My point he would have stumbled through 1964, avoiding the issue as much as pork not giving Barry Goldwater red meat and gone back up. The most fascinating domestic trend you follow is civil rights. Lbj took that baton in the name of jack kennedy. What would it have looked like if it was kennedy himself. Kennedy would have been much more cautious because he didnt know the congress. He wasnt the master of the senate as johnson was and he was a Foreign Policy president. His only black adviser said you care more about germany than alabama. And it was true. He gets Richard Russell powerful senator from georgia and a segregationist to say protect my rear as i get out of vietnam and well go easy on civil rights. We would have had a vote rights act because that was too important black and whitish. We would have had a great society. Thats not how john kennedy thought. Johnson wanted to be fdr. In my alternate history johnson would have been kicked out of office because investigations would have continued had kennedy not been murdered. Do you look at anyone in modern politic, do you look at bush v gore or obama die a bush v gore ebook because people demand it. This book ends in 1968. Also by the way i should mention take it through John Kennedys private life because tissue of whether his sexual behavior would have become public. We may not want to talk about it. It was a critical Public Policy issue and i have some things to say about how that might have is your passed a or not. It ends in 68. I find this fascinating. Do i think its a small twist of fate with huge consequences. But as my people would say enough already. The other thing is in talking about alternate histories, you saw the last week of the 1994 campaign of jeb versus child. Jeb lost six, seven, eight points because child just brutalized him. Jeb would not punch back. If jeb punched back i dont know many people in politics that dont say he would have been president in 2000 instead of his brother. The other part i have to say about this enough already. The whole culture of the country changes. You dont have a dark pessimistic student revolt. Absolutely. You have a much kinder gentler Counter Culture because vietnam drove this country into such divisiveness. The book is if kennedy lived. Jeff greenfield thank you very much. Congratulations on that. Ron fourney thank you as well. Always great to have you. Days of fire, journalist peter baker paints the george Bush White House, his relationship with dick cheney and how their political relationship evolved through two terms of intense pressure. vo you are a business pro. Maestro of project management. Baron of the buildout. You need a permit. To be this awesome. And you. Rent from national. Because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. And go. 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Bush praising Vice President dick cheney at the dedication of his president ial library more than four years after they both left Public Office and here with us now chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times peter baker. Hes out now with a new book days of fire. It looks amazing and Nicole Wallace says she has a twitch in her eye from reading all night. Other people told me that worked in the administration that reading it brought back posttraumatic stress disorder. You get right in there. Lets talk first of all, heres george w. Bush being gracious. Their relationship which started close got so bad by the end that they were constantly clashing werent they . Winter personal lir bitter relationship but it was a relationship that drifted apart. We had this sort of cartoonish version, i think, of president bush and Vice President cheney as if cheney was the puppet master and weak which would president did what he was told. Never that way. It was never that way. Always over stated. Cheney was influential in the early years. He was an incredibly important figure in that white house. Did that end after we diana nyad find wmds in iraq . Exactly. President bush began to see things didnt go well in the war. He saw alliances were frayed. We made Condoleezza Rice a second cheney. By the end of their tenure they are on opposite sides of most issues. Iran, lebanon, sir area climate change, gun rights, gay rights, auto bailout. What was the impact everybody talks about Scooter Libby. What was the impact of bush firing in 2006 after the election, firing one of cheneys best friends. Rumsfield. Right before the war starts in march of 2003 president bush is told you can go in early, have this early strike, get saddam hussein. He kicks everybody else out of the room and its just him and the Vice President. Thats who he wants to talk to at the very end. By the end of 2006 he decided to replace don rumsfield, contacted bob gates about it without talking to dick cheney. I sktd Vice President cheney about it for the book he said by time it got to me that decision was done. A real evolution in the way decisions were made. Whats the single revelation that you think most disspells the caricatures. Whats the single thing about president bush that you think is revealed in your pages. People have a two dimensional stick version of him. He does change over time. People didnt give him credit for that or see that. Partly he didnt want to see that. Nicole knows better than i do. He denied there was any difference between the first and second term but there was. He began to shave the harsh edges of his policy because he wanted them to survive. He goes to congress squans and military tribunals. He closes the secret prisons all one pressure because the courts and congress and media have made it hard for him to continue. The Vice President is secretly to his view frustratingly fighting inside the white house. Off of nicoles question, we had a had this cartoonish portrait of president bush over the years in the media, largely in the media and yet you hear let me ask you, whats the impact, the increasing weight of the disaster that the iraq war became of the casualties on president bush on a daily basis. You hear internally from people who were close to him that the weight was enormous and growing. I think as. In writing the book we discovered that he was grinding his teeth so hard that they hurt literally. He would go into these meetings with families that lost people and just sob in a very meaningful way. In front of no cameras, not for public consumption. There were moments he was so down. It feet like he wanted to say stop telling me bad news. When they finally got the main leader in iraq hes glum. Whats going on. I dont even know how to take good news any more. It was a burden. He didnt want to show it. To be lbjlike teen agonize in a public way would undercut the troops and politics that were hard enough for him at that time. Misperceptions about the relationship between bush and cheney but how did the relationship change or evolve over those years . Yeah. I think by the end they have this fight over the Scooter Libby pardon and a proxy for the frustrating two years they had before then. For cheney that lost so many battles felt bush went off in a different direction. In effect he was asking for validation. This man who worked for me was illtreated, unjustly convicted. President bush calls his lawyers. He brings him in and says you examine it. They met with Scooter Libby in a Seafood Restaurant and came back and said we think the jury had every reason to convict him and the president decided against it knowing it would fracture their relationship. You saw that clip at the library and very polite and proper because thats what the bush family is. The truth is they dont talk very often any more. They were never buddy, but they have a very proper but distant relationship today. Lets talk about speaking of caricatures, lets speak of dick cheney. Had a picture of dark vader mask. It will come in the archives. Lets talk about the characterization of him. I remember my first introduction of dick cheney was a book and the republicans were fighting about how far they can go with another round of tax cuts. Dick cheney then spoke and said i dont think the American People will take another round of tax cuts. Weve done all we can do. Stockman said he was so respected it ended the debate. You talk about the giants of washington. The republicans got up and walked out of the room because dick cheney was the man everybody listened to. He was still that way during the first gulf war. Right. He was that way in the first bush 43 term. He was. After 9 11 he took it on himself, i guess, what happened. He took it on himself to say this will never happen again and i will do anything, anything to protect americans from another attack. Thats exactly right. You have to remember what he had done in 1980s as a congressman he participated in this continuity of government exercises where you literally spear off a few high level people to the mountains of virginia and maryland and pretend a nuclear war just had happened and reconstituted america. What happened on 9 11 was a culmination of years of fear and preparation. It was his pseudo mission and throughout the rest of the presidency that nothing like this would happen again. If we had step on toes, water board people or do things other people felt was repungent. President bush felt that way too but he moved away from that, see other priorities and other balances. Vice president cheney didnt move away from that. Isnt it fascinating on the ten Year Anniversary of the attacks how will new yorkers respond to george w. Bush who was not popular. A lot of families respond with a booming ovation. That was a moment of strength for him when he went down to ground zero in days after. We have different opinions of the presidency overall but this book is a fascinating look at a relationship as well. Dick cheney right now is talking about his health. Do you look at that along the way and how that play as role . Yeah. You know, people also speculated his health was part of this notion he changed. Thats nonsense. Do i think, those there was a certain fatalism on far of a man who had three heart attacks, four heart attacks that, you know, he didnt have time to waste. It does change you. It does. It changes you in some sort of psychology you have to be empowered to move dont sit there and waste time, and we talk about in the book days of fire at the end his energy level was down, his aides noticed it. They scheduled him lighter. He was not off in the oval office but health did have an impact on him especially in the last few years. The book is days of fire. Peter baker, thank you very much. Nicole is still twitching. Its so good. On every page theres things i knew, things i cant believe you found out and theres things i never knew. Former Vice President dick cheney will be right here on the set this coming monday. So well talk with him. Coming up netflix cements its status as a dominant player as a subscriber. Thats next on morning joe. At a ford dealer with a little q and a for fiona. Tell me fiona, whos having a big tire event . Your ford dealer. Who has 11 major brands to choose from . Your ford dealer. Whos offering a rebate . Your ford dealer. Who has the low price tire guarantee, affording peace of mind to anyone who might be in the market for a new set of tires . Your ford dealer. Im beginning to sense a pattern. 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They have become the tip of the spear. A year ago, two years ago they were flat lined. They have come back with these two pivotal movies house of cards and orange is the new black. Google and other companies are going to copy netflix. They will get into the movie business. Amazon is already producing stuff. Its changing the entire nature of delivery. Up next Michael Hainey has the new issue of gq. Your excited . In it Anthony Weiner provides an alternate history of his own as in what could have been if the internet didnt exist. Plus confessions of an american drone warrior. Well be right back. Its a growing trend in business do more with less with less energy. Hp is helping ups do just that. Soon, the worlds most intelligent servers, designed by hp, will give ups over twice the performance, using forty percent less energy. Multiply that across over a thousand locations, and theyll provide the same benefit to the environment as over 60,000 trees. Thats a trend we can all get behind. 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And joining us now is the magazines deputy editor, Michael Hainey. Wow, michael. You sound incredulous. Im sure youll clear this up. He also said im an empty soul vessel. Has he said that . Yes. It came at the end. Its a great piece because we were on trail with him the whole time and saw this meltdown and i think, you know, whats fascinating the guy could have won but for the twitter thing. His point is if i was in a pretechnology world i would have done very well. If he just not used technology the way de. This is a guy for ten years people are saying hes going mayor. Democratic fundraiser a decade ago. No, no, no. In 1955 he would have walked around naked in a rain coat flashing women on a subway. This is a guy with problems. This is not a guy who was corrupted by the internet. Pee we her man got in trouble before the internet. Does anybody think the trouble with Anthony Weiner is he had an Internet Connection . Theres good anthony and bad anthony. Both anthonys would have flashed his goods to women in 1940s or 50s if he didnt have access to the computer. Mi miley cyrus has her stuff together. Its guys who are able to compartmentalize their existence in politics. You actually have the last page of something that was very helpful for me in law school. Going to mcdonalds on it was like the most depressing thanksgiving ever eating a big mac and going back to the law library and studying. This could be for Anthony Weiner, what to do when you spend thanksgiving alone. What does gq tell us . Maximizing your time alone and renting your netflix house of cards and binge watching. You teach gentlemen of today, because i guess need help with this. Rugged style. How to look rough and ready all year long. Michael. We need hire you to do a voice activated cover line reading. Hes rough and ready. Let me explain something to you. Hes working hard. Heres the problem. Men work too hard looking rough and ready and it doesnt look pretty. Its not attractive. Its not rough and ready its made up. Its too quite frankly contrived. I was saying before the break they have to be how would you describe joes style. Wouldnt call it rough and ready. He looks very hes casual and ready. Yeah. You know the thing is i usually have food all over me so its hard to say im calculated. What your deal breakers . Dont like it when men work too hard like this guy. Sorry. She likes authentic rough and ready. Im going put sweat on my chest. It was a hard cover shoot. They are getting their picture taken. You are not rough and ready these guys of today. There is the food issue. The book shes going to be ben afflecks mistress in a movie. After she gets off the hamburger shes sitting on. Or away from the ice cream cone. She has a of talent. He was quiet. Now he perks up. Lets talk about confessions of a drum warrior. Tell us about it. If you saw the front page of the New York Times theres a big story. Fantastic piece. We got a story about a guy who was a drone pilot, in the u. S. Air force. 60 of americans support this strategy right now. They dont realize the cost to our people. This guy is responsible by the militarys calculation for more than 600 kills. Whats fascinating he and guys like him are not eligible for ptsd treatment because they are not in active combat he couldnt talk to people for weeks after the first missile hit,er cant pull over to the side of the road without crying. So they dont see come bamt yet sometimes hes flying for 18 hours a day if you read these stories. Drinks himself to black out. These are our American Service people. Its a tremendously powerful story about this new wave of warfare. Has no cost to our servicemen and 60 of americans support it because its clean. Theres nothing clean about what happens not only here but more tragically what happens on the other side of the drone hits. 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On the west coast as you take a live look at new york city. Back with us on set, we have Nicole Wallace, mike barnicle, and in washington eugene robinson. Eugene what . Seriously. Thats what you do. Good point. President of the United States and you can call anybody, right . I mean, nixon even called elvis, got him over to the white house. Okay. Im serious. This is how leaders think. Lets see, im doing this. Anything is possible. With your help. Leaders are usually dressed before they get to work. You can call anybody and you call bezos. Listen, i see that you can actually run america now from your app on my iphone. Right. I can buy anything i want in america. Can you make it so people can sign up . Right. But the floppy disk thing, you give me 35 floppy disk, i have those, right, and eni have the eightset, you know, dvd set of the bible. The miniseries. I have it all right there. I just say lei it out. Right . Maybe if i had some slim whitmans on. Okay. The president was pitching yesterday. He was giving out the 800 number, doing the whole thing. Buy the full set. He gives out the 800 number. Stop it. They call. Were getting there. They cant get through. You get through the first layer, what do they tell them to do . Visit the website. I think youre on to something because amazon eventually carries everything, so maybe amazon could start selling obama care because in the beginning a. M. Son only had a few products but now literally anything you want from anywhere else, the amazon websites better, if youre amazon prime, you dont have to reenter your information. Maybe amazon. Com could carry obama care. Were not even talking about the final product. Were talking about signing up. I ordered shoes on here. So on amazon, order shoe, got my shoes. People say just shoes. Right. Were just talking about the order. Right. You cant even get through the order. Really quickly, i just want to ask one question really quickly. If the president of the United States, when your communication director goes out there and you write in there, dont call this number, all right, and then everybody calls this number, all news organizations, and its busy, and it keeps staying busy and then when people get through, they say go back to the website, im just curious. What would w say to yall . Not a good day to be the Communications Director who wrote that number into the president s remarks. Well start this morning with the frontpage headline in usa today. Congress control may be up for grabs. According to a usa today princeton survey poll, 47 of americans say congress would work better if every member was replaced next year during the midterm elections. Only 4 say congress would be changed for the worse if all members for replaced. The rest think it would make no difference. That figure is similar to but still higher than past election years when the Minority Party won control of the house in 1994, when democrats lost the house, that number was at 40 . According to cnn Opinion Research poll, 75 of americans believe republican members of congress do not deserve to be reelected. 54 say the same for democrats. This follows a Government Shutdown mess that was led in large part by ted cruz. When asked if the senator should keep his mouth shut, the head of the chamber of commerce said, quote, that might be one thing we could work on. Just last week, the Cook Political Report said 14 seats that are up for grabs next year are now leaning democrat because of the damage done to the gop. So obviously some of these number, gene, are not surprising. What are the opportunities here . Well, you know, the opportunity is potentially to take back control of the house. Which did not seem to be even remotely in the cards for democrats, frankly, before the shutdown and this whole drama. And to put it back in play, perhaps just as important it tends to take the senate out of play for the party. But this was politically a very bad thing for Republican Party. But its time. Things can change. Were asking in the polls about how much you hate congress now. Would you line up every member and shoot them in the back of the head into an unmarked zblaif 47 said yes. Nobody likes congress. Nicole, does this have big impacts in 2014 or is the other side of the argument it will be forgotten by then and it will be about Something Else thans whats happening right now . I find the pace of the news cycles disorienting. If you remember that 11 weeks ago all that we talked about here i think for maybe a whole three hours was obamas very muddled leadership on the red line hed drawn for syria. So i think its a little disorienting how consumed we get by i think the nature of governing by crisis is that you cant predict the effects on Public Opinion of these allconsuming news cycles. And think about it when people go to the voting booth. This is what weve got to figure out. As youre looking at this, think about the message on the Government Shutdown. Government doesnt work, right . Right. This comes on the heels of syria and the red line, the nsa. These nsa stories drone stories this morning. Drone story thats come out this morning. The irs story thats come out. The app story. The james rosen story. Bengha benghazi. Theres one after another after another after another. But billions of dollars wasted by republicans shutting town the government. Theres that, too. On the other side. There is that, too. Billions and billions of dollars. It is so there are so many of these stories, though, the question is what at the end of the day do people hold on to . And what conclude do they draw . Mika, i dont disagree with you about the e effects of the shutdown. And on the economy. I was watching when was the last time that was used . I was watching my daughters soccer game yesterday afternoon and a guy comes up to me. He had the bad taste of having a 10yearold at the other side he was cheering for, but he said hey, you know, what do you think, talking about halftime. And hes a business guy. Yeah. And hes always been republican. He said, im not supporting these people, and my friends arent supporting these people anymore until they stop governing by crisis every two months. Right. He was, like, we cant he was, like, i cant figure out what to do with the next three months, six months, nine months. Thats another thing. And if those voices rise up and the nary thaich they string together is that this democratled senate and democratic president have contributed to that economic insecurity or lack of ability to predict and make Business Decisions, that doesnt necessarily accrue to the democrats benefit either. I think were in a position where Neither Party should be resting on their laurels and heading into the midterms with confidence because i think both sides i think the public is pretty fed up, obviously at the moment more so with republicans but i dont think the public holds either side in high esteem. You have to ask yourself, dont you, gene, the poll numbers we just saw, its such a generic question thats been asked for years and people always answer the same way, hate what congress is doing, theyre ineffective, inefficient, tet yet they end up liking their own member of congress and reelecting their own member of congress. Thats been the eternal result of those polls, and as a result we get the same old congress. Occasionally though theres a wave. And, you know, there was the Tea Party Wave and before that there was the democratic wave. Joe, you came in on a wave. So these things do amazing what waves bring in. Isnt it. It was great until we created another wave because we did what people just did a couple weeks ago. Exactly. And these are wave numbers right now. Its a long time, but these are wave numbers. Mika, if this was happening, we had these numbers a year from now, we could say with confidence that congress was going to get routed. I actually think long term there may be some opportunity if the party would actually take the advice of some of the people in it who like to actually win elections. I dont see that happening right now. I dont see it happening right now. I still see a complete and utter blindness amongst some members. When i see online over the weekend people actually at some respected conservative parts saying the reason this didnt work was because the senate didnt stand united with ted cruz do they not understand the process . It is such complete willful ig new orleans or they are lying so their sub vibers will get excited. Even if they had stood shoulder to sthoerld president would have vetoed it. They could have i mean, they couldnt have overridden the a veto. They could never do a majority. They were never going to do that. Even if all the senators so instead of saying, listen, we should have listened to you guys, we screwed up, and we lost 20 Percentage Points in our approval rate sogs we have the lowest Approval Ratings ever. They dont have to say that i was right, because i was. Walker or tom coburn or all of were wright, tthe wall street journal editorial page, you dont have to say theyre right. Just kind of be quiet, you know, clean the room, learn from their mistakes, and stop being stupid, im cool. Lets just pretend it never happened and work towards winning next time. They wont do it. Youve been saying that for a few years. Now theyre saying we were right, we were right. They werent right. Constitutionally. The great irony of these people, oh, i love the constitution, why dont you just read the first three articles in the constitution and call me in the morning . Review. Review. Joe and nicole, who in the Republican Party has enough of a voice, the strength of voice to stand up and tell people like ted cruz, look at what we missed by doing the Government Shutdown . Look at thiey dont listen. They listen to the money people. When the money people come in and say to some of these guy, i know you got 60 i know youre ahead 6040, your district, im going to come and find a primary opponent, and guess what, hes going to be prolife, hes going to be pro gun, hes going to be pro family, hes going to be pro tax cuts, but hes going to be a business man or a business woman thats not going to put a gun to my businesss head every three months. And im just going to keep finding 30second commercials and were going to gut you. Thats when it starts to have an impact. Theyre not going to listen to jeb. Hell, theyre not listening to chris christie. Theyre not listening to anybody. Whats clear, though, is that people like ted cruz are not worried about what youre talking about. Its the republican brand. Theyre not worried about a National Brand or whats happening to the party. Teld cruz goes back to texas, saw the pictures yesterday, his Approval Rating is 70 . Hes not thinking big picture. This is about ted cruz and he had an interview yesterday and a lot of people didnt see it, but he had an interview yesterday where he actually showed his hand for the firsttime where he said i know about negotiating, i wanted to take the hard line, and then i wanted somebody to come in behind me and take a more pragmatic position. He wasnt sayinging that on this 30second commercial. And he was skewering a lot of people that could have been pragmatic and come in with lets say a deal in the middle. Right. But i think youre going to slowly see yeah, there are 8,000 people ted cruz doesnt want to just be senator the rest of his life. And he knows hes got to make that turn. How do i know . I know. Because i know people like ted cruz. Does he know hes done damage to our country . No. Does he know hes done damage not yet. Billions of dollars . You know what, there are a lot of people that believe that ted cruz has brought this to the forefront. So and our country is a big its a resilient country and i guarantee you there are democrats and liberals, nicole, that have done worse things to our country and weve somehow managed to survive. You will survive a shutdown. I dont think we can afford another one, and i dont think we can afford another government by crisis. And everyone says it cant happen again. I want to know how it doesnt given the given the better not. Its not the end of the world as we know it, but i will tell you this, it could be the end of the Republican Partys chances in 14 and 16. Thats the thing. Theyre just hurting themselves. Yeah. I remember talking to one of my College Professors. I was a huge Ronald Reagan fan and i made the mistake of asking, so what do you think about reagan . You know, because reagan was way ahead. He goes, i think the United States of america is Strong Enough to survive even eight years of Ronald Reagan. I was so crestfallen. But it was a revelation to me that he thought the world, gene, was going to the going to hell the same time i thought this was the greatest thing that had ever happened for country. And we will survive this shutdown or that shutdown, but what so many of my friends on my side dont realize, theyre just hurting themselves. Yeah. Theyre setting themselves up. Weve seen this before so many times. Theyre setting themselves up for a democratic monopoly in washington, d. C. , in 2014. Yeah. Theyre really theyre trying their best to take themselves, you know, out of this gig, take themselves off the field, and theyre being egged on by some voices that either didnt exist or in previous times like this or that have changed, like the heritage foup dags, for example, which, you know, you would think ought to be coming out with those sort of reasonable policies. Ould think ought to be out with those sort of reasonable policies. You would expect heritage to to say heres republican idea for health care. Here is our idea for something thats better than obama care, and it would have assumed that we have a problem and heres a way to solve it. In fact, they did that years ago and came um with romney care obama care, but they dont believe that anymore, but they want to come up with something new. Now theyre, like, one of the loudest voices thanks to jim demint and heritage, which used to be a real think tank, is is now this kind of shrill voice thats not helping. Coming up on morning joe, another installment of this mornings politico playbook. And apple is expected to roll out its new ipad today. How the latest device stacks up against its competitors. Plus ringo starr is trying to solve a mystery nearly 50 years in the making. Well show you the photograph that has the former beatle asking for the publics help. But first zmoosh thats a tease. Bill karins with a check on the forecast. Just watch the tease. Good morning, guys. As far as the forecast goes, all eyes in acapulco over the last 24 hour, huge hurricane, as strong as weve seen in north america this season. Thankfully its starting to weaken but its drifting near the resort town, 115mileperhour winds. As far as the lower 48 goes, the cold air on the way as advertised, the Northern Plains gets it today through the great lakes. Right now in chicago, 16 degrees colder at this hour than it was this time yesterday. And look at the windchill right now, 26 in indianapolis, cleveland, detroit, all through the chicago area. Definitely need the winter coat and the hat and the gloves. A little snow this morning moving down from minnesota to areas of northern iowa. Maybe the quad cities and see some of the first snowflakes of the season. As far as the rest of the forecast goes, were looking pretty nice for one more day on the east coast. I dont expect a lot of airport problems. Light rain in jacksonville, late today in orlando. As far as st. Louis goes, the world series games take place tomorrow and thursday night in boston. It will be cold for your Baseball Team while you also are waking up to a nice chilly morning. Youre watching morning joe. For seeing your business in a whole new way. For seeing what cash is coming in and going out. So you can understand every angle of your cash flow last week, this month, and even next year. For seeing your businesss cash flow like never before, introducing cash flow insight powered by pnc cfo. A suite of online tools that lets you turn insight into action. Time to take a look at the morning papers. Las vegas review journal, another community was coming to grips with a School Shooting that has left two people dead including the shooter. It happened in the town of sparks, nevada, yesterday around 7 00 a. M. An armed student opened fire on two classmates killing the math teacher who tried to protect them. He then turned the gun on himself. The two wounded students are in stable condition. Michael landsberry, the teacher who faced down the gunman, is being hailed as a hero. A former marine and national guardsman, he leaves behind a wife and two stepdaughters. He was 45. The chicago suntimes, a woman is taking twitter to court after her daughter was bullied on the social media site. She wants to company to reveal who the bullies were. She was accused of being fat, listed her phone number and ebb couraged others to send her sexts. Those casualties have been suspended. The Washington Post, netflix says profits quadrupled in the Third Quarter creating a jump in shares. The online Video Streaming Service gained more than a million new subscribers in the u. S. Bringing its total to 40 million users worldwide. Its success can be linked to original content like house of cards and orange is the new black. From the San Francisco chronicle, apple is expected to announce new gadgets for the Holiday Season today to showcase in San Francisco. Insiders anticipate the ipad 5 and an ipad mini with a retina display and an eightinch screen. The tech giant also may provide a release date for its new operating system for Mac Computers as well as a new lineup of mac book pro laptops. Chicago suntimes, the headstone of an iraq war veteran was removed by officials at an Ohio Cemetery who say the marker is inappropriate for the historic grounds. The sevenfoot gravestone is shaped like a smiling Spongebob Square pants wearing an army uniform. It belongs to Kimberly Walker who died after leaving the military. The cemetery says is the employee who approved the design made a, quote, inexplicable error in judgment. Officials are offering the family compensation for the gravestone and an identical one next to it. The salt lake tribune, the boy scouts fire two leaders who filmed themselves toppling an ancient boulder in the utah state park. The men said they tossed the boulder because they were worried it could fall on somebody. But the boy scouts say the leaders violated the leave no trace rule where natural areas are spoetzed to be preserved for future jgenerations. The men could still face criminal charges. Usa today, ringo starr is asking for help on his quest to find the identities of the people in this photo. Ringo took the photo during the beatles first trip to the u. S. Back in 1964 when their cars passed each other on the freeway. Its part of his new limited Edition Photo book called photograph. He believes it may have been taken in miami. If you recognize anyone in the photo, held over the genesis publications website and let them know. What a cool photo. Imagine, 1964, the beatles at the so cool. The peak of the frenzy. Driving down the road and ringo starr takes your picture. Thats a great shot. Lets go to willie now with politico. Really cool shot there. Lets go to politico and the playbook editor in chief, jon harr harris. Good morning. Good morning, willie. You guys have a piece up about the virginia race. Michael mayer is getting involved puffering money from his group into the race. How will it impact things . Hes going to drop 1. 1 million, not just pocket change here in virginia where Terry Mcauliffe, a bill clinton friend and a democrat is up over conservative republican ken cuccinelli. You know, i dont really see this having a huge effect on the race. I must say i find it a little surprising. Terry mcauliffe went up and sort of paid homage to Mike Bloomberg in august so presumably hes happy for this help. Ive been covering virginia 25 years. The idea of a cultural new york mayor having a positive impact for a democrat in the state seems a puzzle. That was my question. If youve got an eightpoint spread with two weeks to go, we know Terry Mcauliffe courted mayor bloomberg, came to new york city and asked for him to get involved. Right. Do you think thats wise with an eightpoint lead . Well definitely see. Mccauliffs positions on gun control, if you go issue by issue are popular. But the last thing he wants to do, especially still battling the carpetbagger reputation in virginia, the last thing you want to be doing is seen as kind of a National Democrat rather than a virginia democrat. So i would really see this as at best a tossup. To be honest, the last thing you want to be is mark prior out in arkansas where bloombergs money really create ags backlash and helps republicans. Obviously the cuccinelli campaign is jumping on this saying tens of millions of outside dollars coming into our state to restrict our gun rights. Return on investment. Exactly. Another interesting piece you guys have this morning. You interviewed House Minority leader nancy pelosi. She says she is, quote, on a mission. What did she mean by that . On a mission, not a shift. Read between the lines. Im not going anywhere. A lot of people wondering pelosi at her age, in her early 70s, maybe shes sort of on the last lap. She gave us the exact opposite impression and so did some of her associates in the house, people that know her. They think she wants to stay certainly through obamas term and possibly beyond. She is buoyed in the wake of a shutdown. She thinks the democrats have a better chance than ever to take back the house, certainly in 2014 if not 2016. She clearly wants to stick around until shes speaker again. Coming up, live coverage of the monthly jobs report that was delayed by more than two weeks because of the Government Shutdown. Cnbcs kelly evans will have those numbers. And harvard professor hnry louis gates here to share his groundbreaking new series on africanAmerican History. Well preview the project next. Sfx oil gushing out of pipe. Sfx birds chirping. He was a matted messiley in a small cage. Ng day. So that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. Without angies list, i dont know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. From contractors and doctors to dog sitters and landscapers, you can find it all on angies list. We found riley at the shelter, and found everything he needed at angies list. Join today at angieslist. Com hing, helicopthierhis hibuzzing, andk engine humming. Sfx birds chirping sfx birds chirping okay. What are you talking about . Weve got to get to breaking news, the monthly jobs report just crossed. Lets go to cnbcs kelly evans. Kelly . Good morning. A lot of interesting things going on here. The headline is probably going to be the disappointment for september in terms of hiring. This is the delayed jobs report because of the shutdown. That means it captures the data before the bulk of the shutdown really hits. It was our last clean read on how the economy was doing. Frankly the news isnt all that encouraging. The headline number showed that payrolls increased by 140,000 for the month, well shy of the 180,000 and 200,000 number some were looking for on the street. In the meantime, there were revisions. July was revised much lower to a gain of 89,000 from 104,000. August was revised higher to 193,000. So those krotsz currents are playing out. Thats one survey. Theres a separate survey that tells you whats going on with the nations Unemployment Rate and what that showed and this is a trend weve seen playing out this year with a little bit of an improvement. 7. 2 . The Unemployment Rate fell in the month of september even though fewer people than we thought were employed. So whats going on . It all comes down to whats happening in the labor force. While it will take some time to dig through the guts of this 50page report, usually, what often happens is that fewer people are frankly coming into the labor force looking for work. So you can have a situation where fewer people are looking for work but the Unemployment Rate falls and thats what were looking at for september. Thank jim for sticking his head in. Jim says hi. Like your head, dude. They can see you over there. . Thank you so much, kelly appreciate it. I will tell you, most americans looking at this who arent wall street analysts, theyll see 7. 2. You know what theyre going to say . Even with the shutdown, even with the chaos in washington, that numbers going down. Right. If it gets under 7 then we get back where the fed come into play to pull things back with quantitative easing. The key takeaway with the shutdown garbage is the economy is still growing but it is not strong. We strip it all down, even with all the sugar in the water, we are not growing fast. Weve had analysts talking about we need 200,000 new jobs a month to get back to where we want to be. We have a new normal now, especially when we have government by crisis every three months, thats the new normal. Can i say quickly this is where education is huge because some people think weve lost a generation of workers, that they will never get back to the income levels they were at and never find the groove they had ten years ago. So if we dont have the kids coming through the pipeline able to have the skills to get the jobs that are available, we will continue that past the generations. The problem, we have an Energy Revolution going on, manufacturing is coming back to america, and the fact of the matter is that we have been like the single track. You either go to the best colleges on the planet or else you dont. People look down on, you know in the past, people went to vo tech schools. Guess what . Thats what America Needs right now. Those jobs are coming. We want the best and the brightest at the best schools. But the vo tech men and women over the next five, ten years or these job jobs are going to go elsewhere. Brian, thank you. Up next, professor Henry Louis Gates takes viewers on a 500year journey through africanAmerican History. His impressive new Series Premieres tonight. Were going to get an early look next on morning joe. As your life changes, fidelity is there for your personal economy, helping you readjust along the way, refocus as careers change and kids head off to college, and revisit your investments as retirement gets closer. Wherever you are today, fidelitys guidance can help you finetune your personal economy. Start today with a free oneonone review of your retirement plan. With this visual evidence, houston began building a legal case against jim crow, showing just how unequal education was between black and white students in america. They would film a black school. Often it would be in just shacks, you know, places that had cracks in the walls and children crowded on the benches, no desks. And then he would go to the white school, neighboring white school. Twostory, brick, Basketball Courts. So heres this astounding visual essay. And he used it to inform people around the country and to help mobilize black people to fight for their childrens futures. That was a clip from the upcoming pbs sixhour series the africanamericans many rivers to cross with Henry Louis Gates. Here with us now, the series executive producer, writer, and presenter, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates. Welcome aboard this morning. . Thank you. Good morning. This looks incredible. Very excited about it. Took us seven years. And we used 40 historians. We wanted to be impeccably researched. I took the historians on location to the historical sites rather than interviewing them in their offices or in the studios. What were you setting out to do . Well, first i wanted to tell the full history of the africanAmerican People in the United States. And it turns out that the first africanamerican, the first african arrived in the United States in 1513, exactly 500 years ago. Every other history, every other documentary about africanAmerican History has started in 1619 with the arrival of the first 20 angolans in jamestown. We found out the first african we found out his name, juan garrido, and he wasnt eve an slave. He was a black conquistador came with Ponce De Leon in search of the town table of youth. We go from juan garrido to Barack Obamas second inauguration. You talk about the 500 years of the africanamerican experience in america. It reminds me of, you know, when you learn that for 2,000 years it took the same amount of time to get from rome to paris. And then everything change sod quickly. Here you go 450 of those 500 years, nothing happened, and even, god, for 4 0 of those 500 years nobody would ever believe there would have been an africanamerican president. No. An exponential change. A paradigm shift. So quickly. What caused it . I think the Civil Rights Movement. The success of the Civil Rights Movement led to the birth of affirmative action. And ill give you an example of the importance of affirmative action. I entered yale in 1969 with 96 black men and women. You know how many graduated from yale this in 6 6, three years before . Six. There were racist quotas on the number of black people who could matriculate at what i call historically white colleges and universities. And now youre seeing our generation come of age. And Barack Obamas part of that larger sweep. All of us have been produced by the gains made possible by affirmative action. Since the terrible day of dr. Kings assassination in 1968 the black upper middle class has quadrupled. But heres the kicker. At the same time the percentage of black children living at or beneath the black poverty line is about in the mid30s, about what it was when dr. King was two classes within the black community. You said something fascinating about class, too. We were talking off camera about where America Needs to go in the future. You think affirmative action needs to be redirected . I do. I think that far lot of reasons, political and also practical and economic, we should think about affirmative action for the poor. And i grew up in West Virginia with poor white people. They need affirmative action as much as my people do. And i think it would be a thing to reconsider. Also im upper middle class. My daughter was born at yalenew haven hospital. They have a privileged life. Do they really need to benefit from affirmative action . Affirmative action was a class escalator when i went to yale, and i think it still should be. So i want to get more more black people into the middle class and i want to get more poor white people in the middle class as well. Talk a bit more about the class distinction within the black community. We obviously talked somewhat about class distinctions in the white community, but in the black community, for instance, the knowledge of the history that is presented in this series, if you go to a Street Corner in certain sections of boston and new york, cambridge, massachusetts, and you talk to a young black person, 14, 15, you say who are your heros . You get lebron james perhaps, somebody like that, you wouldnt get Henry Louis Gates. Talk about that class distinction that separates unfortunately a certain percentage of young blacks from people like you. Well, i dont think i rank as a hero, but they could say w. E. D. Dubois or Phyllis Wheatley or harriet tubman. The problem is twofold the schools and i think our own private institutions within the africanamerican community. The Southern Poverty Law Center published a survey recently just looking at how well states public education, how well those states teach the Civil Rights Movement. You think the one thing that schools could get right would be the recent Civil Rights Movement. Think of mlk day. How many times do you hear i have a dream. Only three states got an a. Only three states got a b. 35 states got an f, including california. So we need to integrate africanamerican content into the Public School system because that, mike, is where we shape citizens. Think about the stuff you learned in first grade, mike, my ton country tis of thee, i pledge allegiance to the flag. Nobody says today were going to teach you how to be a citizen. They just teach you how to be a citizen. Conversations about race never work because people feel good after oneday town meeting and two weeks later theres another racist incident. We need to have conversations about the race os mottally without having a banner or a neon sign up. We need to integrate that content. And so also i think our private institutions within the race like sunday schools. I think sunday schools should function like Hebrew Schools. My jewish friends say you dont know what youre talking act, but my fantasy is Hebrew School is where jewish kids go and learn about jewish culture and history. Why shouldnt our sunday schools or organizations like jack and jill teach computer skills and black history skills . Because if we wait for someone else to do it we e beal waiting for godot. Youre obvious right. And i made this documentary series in order to provide teachers with a tool, a sixhour dvd and a companion book so that that content can be integrated seamlessly, whether its prek up to College Level black history or American History voices. Do you think the conversation about race in this country are better now after 5 1 2 years of our first africanamerican president , or do you think that conversation has deteriorated . Do you think kids today around their own dinner tables and most families in america are hearing a better, more constructive conversation about race . Or do you think the conversation has been degraded . I think its in the most cosmopolitan generation of teenagers in the history of the world, highly technological, very comfortable with race. I dont think they see race in the way but theyre our hope. Yeah. Theyre our hope. That niece why we need to have fornal knowledge structures and mechanism in the classroom, because black culture, since soul train, one of the things we talk about, is the e effect of soul train on shaping american Popular Culture so, in the last episode we have a whole sequence of Don Cornelius and soul train because it made american Popular Culture black. Theyre comfortable with black superheroes. They just dont have the Knowledge Base in order to understand the history of slavery and its effects, which are still lingering, the history of a century of jim crow, which are still lingering. And all of us need a better understanding. Conversations are fine, these emotional conversations, but we need something sustained. It is, though, about time, though, isnt it. Were not so far apart as far as years go, but, you know, the world you saw was so much radically different than when i started first grade in read, mississippi. We were integrated in 1969. And so when i saw barack obama being elected, white guys who are ten years older than me were crying, i looked at the screen and i go, i went to law school with that guy, whats the big deal . My son white cries are crying for the wrong reason. Im talking the white guys were crying, can you believe what happened, weve come such a long way since i saw somebody, you know, beat en in the streets. I see. But what im saying is for me, i saw barack obama i was worried. I saw barack obama and said i went to law school with that guy. Whats the big deal . And my son and this generation, my son heard somebody, you know, make a racist comment in this group and he laughed. He said, you were being ironic, right . You werent and then he just looked at him and everybody turned its changed. I mean, but its changing exponentially like you said, too, isnt it. But in times of economic peril, where people people scarce fi, they start to demonize. Look at the history of antisemitism, economic based. The history of antiracism, home phobia, sexism, when Economic Crises occur, the level of hatred goes up p thaps what were seeing all too often in the United States. We have a sequence in this series. We go to the Jim Crow Museum at a university in michigan. They already have a wing of racist images of president obama. Look at the tee party. I do think that some people in the tea party are motivated by concern about big government, which is fair enough. But i also think that for a lot of these guys, at least subconsciously, the fact that a black man is the most powerful man in the world drives them nuts. Weve got to go, but quickly, you were with our friend tavis last night. Yep. Tavis and cornell. Being kind of tough on the president , arent they. No ones criticism. Right. Sometimes i think they go a little too far. Very diplomatic answer. All right. You can understand more, which is a greater understanding that comes with talking about the africanamericans, many rivers to cross premieres tonight at 8 00 p. M. On pbs. Look forward to it. Henry louis gates, thank you very, very much. Thank you. Well eel ll be right back. Customer erin swenson ordered shoes from us online but they didnt fit. Customers not happy, im not happy. Sales go down, im not happy. Merch comes back, im not happy. Use ups. They make returns easy. 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