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Leader of the free world. Thats a pretty huge ego to be complaining about that. Its complimentary and im flattered. Good morning. Its thursday, november 7th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set you introduce and i ask. No, no. Ill ask that question. No. You can take all the time you want. No. Im going jump straight to it. Chris christie, we love him. Hes wallowing in this. You did this. I love that zoom in. Like that 1972 candidate. Chris christie represents all the hopes and dreams. Just answer the question now. Just shut up now. Come on. Political talk, just stop it. Answer the question. Answer the question, if you will. If you were managing Chris Christie, would you tell him to wallow in this just a little bit . Hes not. I dont anybody manages Chris Christie. Okay. But i think that to make sure that this moment is about a rise to national prominence, about a rise to Winning National elections he should stop. He should stop. You should 0 stop. Shut up. Designee doesnt have to say anything. Everybody else is saying it for him. By the way, heres the biggest sign that hes a big problem and, you shut up. Okay. Just be quiet. Look at the knives that are coming out in the Republican Party. Like trying to compliment him in a backhanded way. Wait until you hear what they say. Hows the beard . Itchy. Can i feel it . Oh, yeah. Later. I want to know what thats like. That doesnt look good. No. Not good first thing in the morning. Please dont go close up. Tight zoom. Ill come over there and check it out. You let me do the news and shut up. Thats the third time you told me to shut up. I got one too. But im ahead by two. And hes elegant, thank god. The rest of us no, youre elegant. We pride ourselves on being a civil television show. Shut up. You shut up. Ive never been told to shut up. Not you. Nicole wouldnt, willie wouldnt. You told me to shut up three times. I know. Nobody notices when i do it. Youre mean there. Shut up. I can go thats nice outfit and beautiful we could have one of those shows where i hit you. Weve had those before. Get blamed for that. You get bruises and you get in trouble for that. If you want that to happen keep going down that road, all right. It certainly didnt take long hours after a landslide reelection victory new Jersey Governor Chris Christie faced questions about running for president in 2016. What is he supposed to do. Joe, be quiet. He said hes flattered by the talk. Im a better executive today than i was when i answered those questions about two years ago. And so you would think that would make me better prepared to be president. But ill be really clear about this. I have a job to do. I got reelected last night. Thats the job im going to do. If the time comes i change my mind ill tell the people of new jersey i want to do something else. Christies strong win combined with Ken Cuccinellis loss in governors race have many republicans questioning whether its time to limit the influence of the tea party influence of the gop. But republicans that could challenge Chris Christie did not get that memo. Here we go. After christies win, senator marco rubio was quoted saying, i think we need to under that some of these races dont apply to future races, everyonery race is different. It has a different set of factors. Thats not gracious. No. If you win by like 800 points in a state that barack obama won by 800 points, you take a look at that, dont you, nicole . Absolutely. You congratulate him and say wow hes a contender. You all said that Chris Christie wasnt wallowing in it. Marco rubio, you would say to him be gracious. Its the day after. You would at least be as gracious as the democrats. I dont know when as a party well wake up and realize that as long as the targets of our ire remain each other. Seriously, if you think that hes a contender the best thing you ought to do is support him. Because if you say things like this it shows youre really threatened. So, what theres more. It wasnt just marco no. Senator ted cruz. Them. I think its terrific that the ones ruining the Republican Party i think its terrific hes brass, that he is outspoken, and that he won his race. But i think we need more leaders in washington with the courage to stand for principle and in particular obama care is not working. Wait. What happened . He doesnt stand on principle. He basically had a death match. Hes great. Now i feel hes overshadowed. Thats a man thing too. No its pitiful. How could anybody say Chris Christie doesnt stand on his principle. I heard somebody say yesterday, i forget which one it was but somebody on the radio said if Chris Christie wants to prove that hes conservative he has to call barack obama a liar. I know who that was. I dont. I dont want to know. The standard. Thats our standard. Doesnt have to do with ideology. Heard that and i thought why are we putting ourselves and our own party through litmus tests and setting ourselves and each other up for party. How did Ronald Reagan call jimmy carter a liar . No. Never. By the way, youre exactly right, mika. We should at least as republicans be as gracious to each other as democrats are to us. So what do you do if somebody is a potential threat to you . I go hug them. If im about to fire somebody i give them a raise. When people get a raise oh, oh, they are being nice to me. You embrace people that might be running against you. You have to be confident. You cant look small. Speaking of that, senator rand paul at a Senate Hearing launched an attack on Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts. Look at this. The first two were good. This one is a zinger. Criticizing governor christie who just won historic reelection in new jersey for appearing in ads entitled stronger than the storm to help tourism. These ad, people running for office put their mug all over these ads while they are in the middle of a political campaign. In new jersey, 25 million was spent on apds that included somebody running for political office. You think there might be a conflict of interest there . Thats a real problem. Thats why when people who are trying to do good and trying to use taxpayers money wisely they are offended to see our money spent on political ads. Thats just offensive. Did he get that off of wikipedia. He did that in a hearing . Yes. Oh, my god. Who is he questioning . That was the secretary of they are obviously all scared of him. Thats what this is all about. They are all scared of him. Willie there could be more. You want to be gracious. They want to be specific about why he doesnt quote stand on principle. How about holding off just a couple of days. Im thinking huge win, congratulations are in order. President obama called Chris Christie yesterday to congratulate him. Weve gone down the list. Low tax. Took on the teachers unions. If youre a conservative you presumably like. Hes against gay marriage. Hes against abortion. The things they point to is that hes soso on Climate Change. He believes its real and partially manmade. So if youre looking for a candidate 100 pure youre looking for a long time. You have Ken Cuccinelli. And you lose. I actually think theres some instances in which marco and ted cruz speak for some republicans. I dont think this is one of them. I think this is an instance where republicans around the country are hungry to win, they are wildly attracted to Chris Christies Straight Talk and attracted to the idea that republicans could recapture the white house. Thats republicans around the country. What is the Republican Party going to do. They didnt invite him to cpac. They are scared of him. One of the things that was in that earlier clip that truck me, i dont think hes been as outspoken on obama care as the republican dogma has been. Hes been quiet about that. He was running for reelection of governor. Im saying. Theres plenty of time. The republican litmus test and dont throw yourself in front of obama care. You mean Like Congress that shutdown the government . Okay. So much of this, i mean its past. You got, nicole, you know so much of this is the rightwing noise machine. In 2008 every single conservative talker, everyone was against everyone, including myself we were all against john mccain. We worked every day against john mccain. And john mccain won. I mean you name somebody that a talk radio show with a billion listeners a day they were all against mccain. Mccain won. 2012, none of them except hugh hewitt supported mitt romney. Rush at one point said he might not even vote for mitt romney. But anyway obviously mitt wasnt conservative enough for me but they run. They won the primaries. This noise all it does is it hurts our brand nationally and then we end up electing guys like Chris Christie anyway. What happens independent voters who are largely made up of women voters see republicans attacking republicans. So when they get in the ballot box they say how good can he be, his own party doesnt like him or her. The thing that strikes me and the thing well never know if ted cruz hadnt shut down the government to achieve an unachievable goal might obama care have been a bigger issue in virginia. Of course. Theres no doubt if the republicans take the Republican Party if the Republican Party brand had not dropped 10 points nationwide in virginia over that month or two, k cuccinelli would be governor right now. Terry mcauliffes victory have some democrats worried about their future. They should be. Yesterday the president met with a group of 16 senators who are frustrated with the roll out of obama care. They are concerned. Its trouble launch may come back to haunt them during next years midterm elections. Democrats believe cuccinelli was able to narrow the gap in virginia after focusing on obama care during the final weeks of the campaign. Exit polling showed 53 of virginia voters were opposed to the Health Care Law. Of those voters 81 voted for cuccinelli. Also yesterday the president flew to texas where he was critical of the states lawmakers for not opting into obama care. One of the things that sometimes gets me a little frustrated although i understand it because im in politics is folks who are complaining about how the website is not working, and why isnt obama fixing this and all these people are uninsured and yet they are leaving a Million People right now without Health Insurance that they could immediately fix. Theres not a lot of logic. Okay. That was inspiring. What next . What . I think hes working on fixing the problem. Was that kind of like the berlin speech where you swept to your feet rhetorically. He was set up terribly and the roll out was terrible. If they can fix it. They have tech experts in there. If they can get people signed up all this chatter will be forgotten. So Steve Rattner i talked to two people from pensacola yesterday. One had one has two children with preexisting conditions that cant get Health Insurance. And they went online. They signed up. They got a great plan through blue cross of florida in about 30 minutes and said it was the greatest thing ever and their two kids that have preexisting conditions can do it. Then i heard from somebody else who got on and tried to get it and could never get past the second or third screen. One person said it was a republican, greatest thing ever and the other a democrat who couldnt get on was frustrated and angry. The point is, obviously, if you start having a lot more americans with that first story, being able to tell that story around communities, then it will do more than any 30 seconds ads run during political shows at night could ever do. If they file like in the second instance it doesnt matter what Barack Obama Says or does. It fails. First, the website is what it is, disaster. We all agree. Thats going to get fixed. Thats a technological problem. Its not an insurmountable problem. Were trying to get a website to work. The bigger question is how many people will sign up and what are the rates for those who do. You need younger healthier people in the pools to keep the rates down so your two friends with preexisting conditions can get insurance at a reasonable rate. That the jury is out. It worked in massachusetts. Its not looking good in the early months. The question is how will it unfold. The president unfortunately got himself in a box on two issues. One nobody would lose their Health Insurance no matter what and the other idea is not everybody will be better off. Some will have to pay more. Thats the nature of insurance. For every story of yours, theres an editorial in journal where a woman cant get insurance and is very sick. Its a year to the midterm elections. The website will be a memory by then. The question is are people signed up. Well get back to this but we have another big story this morning. Later today twitter will begin trading on the new york stock exchange. The company has listed its initial Public Offering at 26 a share. Its the Largest Technology ipo since facebook debuted last year. So steve should willie and i buy this stock . Willie asked me that before. I didnt want to answer off camera. I know. I heard that. I pretended i didnt hear it. I asked you on camera. Steve, should i buy twitter . Lets talk about the price. 26 a share at ipo. A little bit higher than people expected. Sure because what happens in an ipo they go through a marketing process and there was a lot of demand for this. They kept raising the price at which it would be offered up to 27. Its interesting to compare twitter to two other big ipos, facebook and google. Lets start by look at how long these companies have been in business because this gives you a baseline. Google had been in business six years when it public. Facebook eight. Twitter seven. Heres the big difference. Google had 3 billion. Facebook had 5 billion and twitter has 640 million of revenue when its going public. Much smaller company. Same is true as of profits. Google was making money. Facebook was making a tiny bit of money. Twitter is losing money. So that gives you a little bit of the background. Is there a chance to sell ads on twitter. They will sell ads. Tougher for facebook. Thats because you cut in specifically to your interest, people can see what your timelines look like. Facebook does that too. They dont do it well. They do it to the tune of six or seven billion ad revenue. Theyve gotten better. Who is that . Facebook. They were doing better . They were doing poorly. The stock is up. We said we called it. All right so when you translate that whether you should buy the stock or not one thing you should look at is where will this come as a multiple. When google went public it was the two times its revenues. Facebook was at 20 times its revenues and twitter is 28 times its revenues. This is coming at a much higher multiple than the other two. You can factor that into your decision as to whether to buy or not. I want to give you one last word of caution, willie. They dont always go up. Heres what happened to five recent ipo, companies you all know. Six months after the ipo gogle had doubled. Linkedin was up 60 . Facebook down 40 . Maybe you wait six months. Now facebook has since recovered and is up about 30 . Google has done great. Linked in has done great. Zynga and groupon is still sitting down there. On wall street, what are the potential down falls to investing in twitter and whats the big upside for twitter . The downfall is the stock is very expensive and is predicated on twitter continuing to grow at a fast rate and if they slip a step as facebook looked like they were doing which is why that stock plummeted, then the stock could collapse. The upside is that as joe said its a very fast growing service. Its got 650 million revenue. And, you know, google today, if you bought google at its ipo its up 12 times since its ipo. Sounds like a buy to me. It sounds like a buy. Its bet. Take the money you were going to put on the horses willie. By the way, the dog buy with money you can afford to lose. You cant get through that wall of trust. I cant believe it. You knew i was going to be a hedge fund guy. Youre a born hedge fund guy. Other than that i was going to be i am. You would be a great hedge fund guy. Coming up on morning joe were going to talk to former White House Press secretary to president clinton, deedee myer, chuck todd will talk to us later and later actress Debra Jo Rupp playing a sex therapist. Dr. Ruth . No along the same lines. Really . The thing we got to do nicole, you might want to be here for this one. Anyhow, also more on todays big twitter ipo, the author of a brand new book. Up next the top stories in the politico playbook. Speaking of dr. Ruth. Dont go there with him. The sex therapy session is what time . What do do i . Heres bill karins with a check on the forecast. Good morning, everyone. Today we have a little bit of light main heading through the northeast and midatlantic. Not too significant to cause too many delays but washington, d. C. , philly, new york, boston and our friend in the Pacific Northwest have a pretty good storm. Seattle and Portland Airport concerns. You can see the light rain on the map. Two to three hours from syracuse to binghampton to scranton and work its way through new england. Bring the umbrella with you. As far as the heaviest rain going targeting southern new england, central new england around 2 00 this afternoon a lot of you will drive to work. The rain will be over with during the day. When you drive home the roads should be cleared out. Well be watching the rain ending this morning and there is like pittsburgh the middle of the country youre dry and cooler today and i mentioned that storm in the northwest. Have you heard about this super typhoon . This is sue per typhoon yolanda. One of the bigger stories of the world. It has 12 hours until the strongest storm on the planet this year makes landfall in the central philippines. Look at the center eye on this. This is equivalent of our category 5 hurricanes we get like a katrina so we feel and wish everybody in the philippines the best as that huge typhoon makes landfall later this evening. 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These records also include americans in the United States making international calls. Now Officials Say the relationship between cia and at t is completely voluntary but thats go to be a real problem for at that time. Chicago tribune, video rental chain blockbuster will close its remaining 300 Stores Beginning next year. We have to sell our blockbuster stock. Not going to do that. You going to take that one straight into the ground. Keeping all my beta tapes. Beta max is coming back. Couldnt find a way to get into the future. They now have to layoff 3,000 employees. Also end its blockbuster by mail service in december. Dish Network Corporation said it plans focus on demand and streaming services moving forward. The San Francisco chronicle after weeks of speculation google has broken its silence about that mystery floating barge out in San Francisco. The company said its exploring using the site as a place where people can learn about its new innovations and technology. Mystery barge was spotted in portland, maine. Reports said it could rival apple stores. From the Chicago Tribune a video captures a standoff between a motorist and a cab driver that place like a real life version of grand theft auto. The driver of the black suv is involved in ooh fender bender with the tax i. Driver gets out of his car but the driver of the suv decides to try to escape. That leads to another collision and then a double kwligs the original cab and another suv. Five collisions in all. Oh, my lord. Police say it was a stolen car and the driver is in custody. Goodness gracious i dont think he ever played grand theft auto. Boston globe, Vice President biden congratulates the wrong martin walsh. Lets say youre sitting in your living room, sitting with your wife on a tuesday night. Phone rings. Guess who it is. The Vice President of the United States congratulating on you becoming the next mayor of boston. Son of a gun, you did it. Problem. Different marty walsh. I hate it when that happens. It happens to the best of them. Tough month. Debbie wassermanschultz did the same thing . Sure. His name would be in the list of contacts not the guy who became mayor. He gets it. Cant run websites. Cant place calls. Stop it. I kid because i love. Thats the bidenist biden thing. You son of a gun, marty. All right. Lets go to politico the chief White House Correspondent you know what, willie, theres only one mike allen. There is. We like it better when youre up here. Good morning. Good morning, guys. So lets talk a little bit about new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg. He says Terry Mcauliffes win in virginia is a big loss for the near . Nra. Is it a mistake for Michael Bloomberg to spend money in virginia and talking about the guns issue. Signs are that it helped Terry Mcauliffe and virginia is the headquarters of the National Rifle association, Ken Cuccinelli the republican who had an arating from the nra went down. The nra did not like Terry Mcauliffe and yet he triumphed. The mayor shows in the nras backyard a state thats traditionally00er friendly, gun friendly, someone can win. Also yesterday we learned what mayor bloombergs day job is going to be after he leaves the Mayors Office at the beginning of january. Our colleagues at capital new york which is now part of the politico empire reported that the mayor will work at bloomberg view, the opinion part of bloomberg. Hell be writing some highprofile pieces of his own. Getting top contributors. His new title after being mayor of new york city may be chairman of bloomberg view. Steve rattner youve known Mike Bloomberg for a very long time. Eem focus on his charitable stuff, foundation. What does his future look like . Its going lot bigger and a lot more than writing a few oped pieces here and there. Thats a piece of the puzzle. But theres a lot more to come. Bill de blasio and mayor bloomberg had a meeting yesterday. You can see how they hit it off. Notice the clock. Can we zoom in there . Up here. Zoom in. Look how much they love each other. But also notice theres a clock. There is a clock. Thats not a warm fuzzy, thats more like a cold prickly. Yes it is. Mike allen the one and only. Mike, thanks so much. Have a great day. Coming up next an update on the harassment accusations surrounding incognito. And how his teammates are rallying around him. Is mine was earned orbiting the moon in 1971. Afghanistan in 2009. On the u. S. S. Saratoga in 1982. [ male announcer ] once its earned, usaa Auto Insurance is often handed down from generation to generation because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaas commitment to serve current and former military members and their families is without equal. Begin your legacy. Get an Auto Insurance quote. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Lets do some spores. This Miami Dolphins story is crazy. Were learning more and more about this. The general manager of the team offered one way Jonathan Martin could have handled the situation to punch ritchie incognito. Multiple sources say that was the gms response when martinsing agent called last month complaining about the treatment of his client about his teammates. Citing multiple team sources dolphins coach asked to toughen up martin. Martin left the week earlier amid claims of bullying and a racially charged voice mail left by incognito. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell apoint ad special counsel to assist in the investigation. Some teammates are speaking out in support of ritchie incognito. I know ritchie personally. Ive been around this guy for four years. We have a system of basically thats just a big joke. It keeps things light in the room. Everyone participates. No one is exempt. Youve seen pictures of him playing around. They are always playing around. Its a big family. If you would ask john martin a week before who was his best friend on the team was he would say ritchie incognito. First guy to stand up for him on the field, ritchie was there. When they want to hang outside of football, who was together. Ritchie and jonathan. If, if the coach asked him to toughen up john martin why would they ask a racist bully arch rival of person to do that. We never put him in harms way. If we did were sorry. We did not. The challenge of the leadership and character of this locker room is wrong. Period. Pretty strong. Not him but the guy before that, Ryan Tannehill is the quarterback. He knows this offensive line very well. He said martin and incognito were the best of friends. He was shocked to hear this allegation. He said the characterization is untrue. Its hard to put if those voice males are incog fitto, its really hard to put them in any context other than bullying or harassment or given the language that was in there unless they have some relationship. Part of an abusive relationship if theres a relationship. This is human, you know, human behavior. Human relations. Human intelligence. I dont buy their explanation. The locker room, a lot of stuff goes on in the locker room, the bullying goes on in the locke room. The hazing. Thats part of it. We shouldnt sit here on the set and judge. That said there are extraordinarily racist messages left on phones. That are now public. The Miami Dolphins should not have white guys going out here explaining what a great guy ritchie and incognito are and this is part of whatever. If there are africanamericans on the Miami Dolphins that feel comfortable vouching for his character and saying i know we had a clip of one teammate doing that. They had four or five white guys saying theres nothing to this. Really . The dolphins need to get their act together on this front. Theres been a couple of africanamerican players who have spoken out in defense of incognito. Its that hey this is the culture. This is the way things go. This doesnt explain some of this stuff. Jonathan martin left the team for a reason. He wasnt cool on what was going on. He needs an explanation what forced him to leave. Listen to the voice males. They are terrible. Racist and horrific. We dont know their relationship but its hard to put that in any other context than racist. One other big story out of the nfl former nfl superstar tony dorsett confirmed he has a condition linked to depression and dementia. The 59yearold cowboys hall of famer said the news hit him like a ton of bricks. According to espn three other former players have also been diagnosed. Here we go. Starting to turn into boxing. We saw what happened to boxers. Weve seen players taking their own lives because they cant deal with the depression and everything that comes with it. You have a face like tony dorsett who is the biggest star there was in his era. Where does this go for the nfl as a sport. Where does this go for football. You talk about high school, pro, whatever. They recognize ad huge problem and trying to make rule changes. Cant go after the head. They are calling some of these plays very differently. Cant take away contact. These guys are 63, 250 and run 440s. They are in train wrecks and Car Accidents every time they collide with each other. These injuries will continue. I saw High School Football team in practice had an extra sort of layer of protection. First time i had seen that on the helmets. It is. These guys are going faster than ever before. You know, they are, you know, dont know if they are on hgh or what they are on but man they are going faster and stronger. Than they ever seem to be youre right. Its a car accident every 15 seconds. Go stand on field level during an nfl game its so scary. They are big and fast and its a mini car accident and its a problem for football. If youre a parent now and see tony dorsett i have dementia from playing the game. Would you let your kids play football . No. Played it from the time i was 6 years old. That explains a lot. But right now i would not. To what end . All right. Coming up next proof that a republican can win over the middle. Joe explains how Chris Christie did it in one of the cover stories of this weeks time magazine. Nancy gibbs joins us. You worked all week on that. Dad dad katy perry is coming to town. Can we get tickets, pleeeeease . . . Tickets . Hmm, sure. How many . Well, theres hannah, maddie, jen, sara m. , sara b. , sa whoa, whoa. Hold on. under his breath here it comes. We cant forget about your older sister thank you, thank you, thank you seriously . What . I get 2x the thankyou points on each ticket. Can i come . Yep. The Citi Thankyou preferred card. Now earn 2x the points on entertainment and dining out, with no annual fee. To apply, go to citi. Com thankyoucards no longer in uniform,. But still serving. On the job and in our communities. 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Here with us now managing editor of time magazine, nancy gibbs with a new cover of time magazine. It features Chris Christie for the second time this year. And joe has one of the cover pieces and in the issue, joe, you write in part this. To hear the rightwing tell it the pda between the republican Chris Christie and the democratic president should have been as lethal as a Michael Corleon kiss. Romneys campaign sulked. Talk radio republicans demanded blood. Tea Party Leaders branded him a traitor. Christie, however, didnt give a damn. Throughout the intradition party fight the jersey boy tore a page out of his hero Bruce Springsteens song book and defiantly struck a no retreat baby no surrender pose against the withering rightwing rage. And now the november 5th Election Results suggest that brazen, christie style bipartisanship worked. Chris christie looks like hes in it for the long game. Certainly sounded like that on tuesday night. The long game for him, remember hes about to take over the Republican Governors Association which is basically like handing him a corporate amex card. So, yeah. Hes in a very strong position to raise a huge amount of money and build a network and collect ious and hes completely scrambled this race. Let me ask nicole and joe, youre a consultant to governor christie. Lets assume he decides he wants to run for president. What do you tell him over the next year and a half, two years, how could this be derailed. Because if you look at it right now things are lining up for him. How could he screw this up . Keep your eye on the ball and the ball is your day job. Do well in your day job because if you dont do well in your day job, nothing else is going to matter anyway. It will all slip away very quickly. By the way, dont talk about it any more. Keep your head down. Youre governor of new jersey and nothing else. The only other thing i would add is be very judicious with our interactions with the national media. Youre the governor of the new jersey. The new Jersey Press Corps is the press corps thats responsible for covering you and the people that voted for you and the taxpayers that pay your salary. I would issue that warning. You have joe who spoke the right path. Then the double down boys. His rivals will use that against him. What is that . Who are his rivals. If you ask that question this morning they are rand paul, marco rubio and ted cruz. We look at how the romney vetting team when they were looking at running mates what they learned about Chris Christie and concluded if he ran they could have destroyed him. They were bothered he would turn up late at events and his staff was a little overbearing but they were looking at things like a defamation suit settled against him about his spending patterns as u. S. Attorney which the Justice Department had investigated. A civil settlement that his brother made with the s. E. C. Your typical research. Then there were concerns about his health and feeling as though maybe christie was not forthcoming on things they were looking for. Like what . Answers to. Like records for his health reports. Romney was better saying well need more detail from him about this. Ultimately as we know they decided to go in a different direction. Nancy gibbs, thank you so much. The new issue of time is out. This is amazing timing for your book. Let me talk about it because it thoops have the added value of being true between shutdown and this election. Its amazing. Joe will be at columbia universitys miller theater to talk about his brand new book the right path. On tuesday at barnes and noble at union square. So check out our website, moj jom mojo. Msnbc. Com for details. From what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. I can tell you safety is at the heart of everything we do. 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The highlights from Country Musics biggest night thursday, november 7th, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller flaz za welcome to today on a thursday morning. Olympian Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer along al roker and natalie morales. This whole thing has been about raising awareness. You and i are going to get a prostate screening live on the air. Men over 40 have to do this. They also have to practice moon river. They have to talk to their doctors. Were going to explain much more about that and take you through the process live but in a very tasteful way. This is taking today show bonding experience to a whole new level. What are we going to do to top that off . Dont ask. The olympic torch has traveled to a place it has never been before wechlt are talking about space. Back on the ground, will so shi be ready in 91 days. There are concerns about everything from terrorism to the weather and the president of the so s Sochi Organizing Committee is here the site of twitter, the site has changed the world. Should you stop tweeting long enough to buy . Carl quintanilla is over in the orange room a very big day. Twitter is going public. They priced at 26 a share. With all those problems facebook went through when they went public last year, can the company with the little blue bird make some green . Ipo. Todays opening bell kicks off one of wall streets most anticipated days of the year. Social media giant, twitter, goes public. The twitter iipo is a specia moment in their history. Twitter dopt have a popularity problem but it has its sceptics, specially in the wake of problems facebook faced bh its stock went public last may. Losing almost half its value in months. Given the more recent launches, im a little bit skeptical. I would wait a while and see what everybody else does. It is not for me. I dont see the mon et tie zation of that. They are betting there is big money to make in under 142 characters. They have generated 142 million mainly from sponsor tweets and promoted trends featured on twitter home pages. Twitter investors are banking on new profit strategies like recently announced tv partnerships with comcast and Nbc Universal rg the Parent Company of nbc news which will bring new futures to your twitter feed. Everything from setting your dvr to sports highlights from sponsored tv networks. The more we do those things and have Platform Partners building into twitter. The company is looking to go from trending to trading high. We are investing for the longterm. We think this is a longterm company, a company for which there is a fantastic use for every person on the planet s. It is worth noting even though facebook did have those problems, it has since gone up to 49 a share. 11 more than their ipo price of 38. For those of us that dont speak fluent cnbc, why does this matter . It is a chance for early investors to catch up. Thats important to them. It is kind of like when a College Athlete goes pro. You want to know how the rookie season is going to go . How is their first game going to go . Do they have the stuff to play with the big boys . You mentioned facebook. Another example of a company thats extremely popular but isnt turning a profit right now. In social media, you get big or you get lost. It is not that they are not bringing in money. It is that they are putting it back into the business, hiring salespeople, buying servers. It is too easy to disappear if people dont know about you. Would you advise somebody to invest . For the average joe, there is a lot of uncertainty in this space. There is a saying investing wise, dont play with the rest money. That probably applies with twitter. Well send you over to matt. Now, to politics with 1,097 days to go until election day, 2016, is the president ial race always underway. Kelly odonnell has been traveling with new jerseys newly reelected governor, Chris Christie. Kelly good to see you. Good to see you, matt, as well. Governor christie calls the height and questions over his run for the white house a compliment and not a distraction. Time magazine is giving christy the cover. Chris christie says he is most proud that as a republican he won the majority of new jerseys latino vote. If you want to make inroads into a community, you have to get there and work it. Tapping right into the National Curiosity about christies prospects, they asked about the governors future. Four years from now, i will be out of a job, because they dont let me run again. His ambitions may go far beyond new jersey. At a lengthy news conference, he relished repeated questions about running for president. Oh, please, it is such a burden of you speculating me to be the leader of the free world. Stop, im so burden. Thats a pretty huge ego to be complaining about that. It is complimentary, flattering and no problem with it. Do you feel to be president right now . I feel im a better executive. Whether that would apply for me being a better president , i dont know. He is running hard against washington. Nobody is amused or entertained or gratified by whats going on in washington, d. C. Right now. No one. Everyone is frustrated. Look at the numbers. The numbers dont lie. People want effective government. They want government that gets things done christie is already poised to take on a National Role as the new head of the Republican Governors Association giving him a ticket to travel the country, fundraise for his party and road test his popularity. Thanks so much. The investigation into allegations of bullying by a Miami Dolphins player is getting some new highpowered help. Nbc cary sanders is with the dolphins. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. Profootballtalk. Com is reporting that the dolphins general manager was informed by Jonathan Martins agent that martin was being bullied. The report goes on to say that the general managers advice was to fight back, that Jonathan Martin should punch his alleged tormentor, richey incognito. The dolphins have not responded to this specific report. While the Miami Dolphins tried to stay focused on their game, the nfl has hired an independent investigator, prominent attorney, tell wells to look into allegations that say richey incognito bullied Jonathan Martin leaving him hatefilled phone messages. If the review reveals anything that needs to be corrected, we will take all necessary measures to fix it, to ensure that this doesnt happen again. Reporter with reports surfacing that dolphin coaches pressed incognito to toughen up martin, head coach, jim philbin headed off information about the situation. Martin remains out of sight. His father gave a brief answer when asked how his son was doing. Incognito was seen driving his new ferrari wednesday. He wasnt answering questions but his glendale, arizona, High School Football coach described him as a hardworking kid. He wasnt a boy scout but we never saw anything like this coming down the road. Dolphin teammates say they didnt either. Do you believe richey incognito was a racist . I cant understand this question. I know he dont mean it. Jonathan was like richies little brother. It is a surprise whats going on. Reporter this morning, the dolphins owner, steven ross, has issued a statement that says, in part, we take this situation seriously. As the owner, imcommitted to creating a professional environment for all of the members of the dolphins family, once the review is completed and i have all the facts, we will respond accordingly. Jonathan martin, who reportedly had checked himself in for a local hospital for Emotional Distress is not expected to play in the next game, which is monday. Thank you. This story is raising a lot of eyebrows. There are new questions surrounding the death of Yasser Arafat. Some are saying this is the new evidence and accusation. It is amazing we are still talking about arafat. He was a controversial figure in life and death. For years, there were allegations he was assassinated. Whats new is a report that suggests there is proof. Reporter a palestinian gorilla fighter, a terrorist to many israelis, a nobel peace laureate. There is a report that says he may have been the victim of assassination. It is a political crime. It is a political assassination of a great leader. Reporter the proof is allegedly in arafats bones. His remains exhumed a year ago. A team of swiss scientists in contact with the tv network, al jazeera said their findings moderately support the finding that the death was the result of poisoning with plutonium 210. The scientists said the poison could have been planted in his food, drink, even toothpaste. Reporter anyone that looks at this report would have to conclude he had plu loan yum circulating in his body when he died. Pel loan yum. The Peace Process had collapsed. Israel had just retaken the pest bank and arafat was hold up in his compound when suddenly he fell ill. Quickly, Palestinian Leaders blame israel. Now, we know when and how. What we need is proof that the Israeli Occupation is responsible. Israel denies it had any role in killing arafat and says, he was 75 and unhealthy, an aging man, not a target. An israeli spokesman this morning was dismissive of this study saying that israel has long been accused of wild conspiracy theories in the middle east. Palestinians say, okay, how did this radioactive poisoning get in his body. We will have to wait for those questions to be answered. Thanks very much. For the first time, we are hearing frantic 911 calls from the shooting inside a crowded new jersey mall. Nbcs ron allen has the story. Reporter it was about 9 20 p. M. , minutes before closing time. There is somebody shooting. Reporter with hundreds of terrified shoppers and mall workers franticly began calling for help. Somebody is shooting up Garden State Plaza right now. He had a Motorcycle Helmet on. A Motorcycle Helmet, okay. All black and he had a big, long gun. Reporter 20yearold richard shoop, police say, had fired at least half a dozen blasts from an automatic rifle. Were hearing shots being fired next to the nordstroms store. Stay on the phone and dont hang up. Reporter those trapped in the hall can loed themselves inside stores. Were in the bathroom. We didnt have time to lock the gate. Reporter some kept the 911 operators on the phone . Do you still hear shooting . I havent heard any but i dont hear any sirens. Please hurry. Reporter finally, for these women, help arrived. Okay, i hear a cop. All right. You wanna go talk to them . All right, sweetie, good luck. Reporter it took some six hours for police to find the gunmans body in a basement. He had shot and killed only himself. Miraculously, thousands escaped the ordeal unharmed. Ron allen, nbc news, new york. Natalie is here now with a widening bribery scandal thats rocked the u. S. Navy. It certainly has. This one, federal investigators say the scandal has reached high into the navys corp. The massive overbilling scheme provided prostitutes, cash and many other kick backs in exchange for information. Jim miklaszewski has the story. Reporter it is a high sea scandal that stretches from the u. S. To southeast asia. Three navy greatness. I do think eventually, i think its starting now. Ted cruz has come in, made a splash, established himself and he understands, ted cruz is not interested in having 20 of americans support him and 44 oppose him. Hes upside down in the polls. Hes a smart guy one of christives strengths, ted cruz, i dont here him talking about the real people. He brings the focus back to the real life of the real people in his state and not leaving anybody behind and were in the fight for every single new jerseyian. Thats how you win elections. You get the focus off of ideology and get the focus off fighting with the other side and bring it back to the people. I think christie does it brilliantly. Clinton still does it brilliantly. Its so fundamental, those because you either understand and know real people or you dont. So you cant you either live in the real world and you understand the fight of your neighbor whose husband lost his job, lost their Health Insurance and you get it and you want to try to help. You go after work and try help them. Or, you live in a world where you dont understand. An ideology world. People on the left do it. People on the right do it. One of Ronald Reagans greatest lines against jimmy carter, a recession is, when your neighbor loses their job. A depression is when you lose your job. Ronald reagan understood something that all of the president s that republican nominees that ran after him didnt, understood what it was like to have a dad unemployed, to move from town to town, to go to eureka college. I love these guys. I love all of them. We have Ronald Reagan who went to eureka. He was the son of the working class. After that you had a patrician in 88. Then bob dole. In 2000 another bush. 2004 another bush. 2008 you had a guy whose dad helped run a navy. Then a guy who ran a state and car company. Im not saying those type of people cant being a great president s but to your point you either get it and you understand people who hurt and you understand what its like to drive around with your dad for a year and a half when he cant find a job or you dont. I remember a guy he was so shocked, very conservative and i was even more conservative in college but i had this experience, you know. Middle class, whatever. I remember a kid saying in class, a fellow republican carl bernstein, hes on deck. I remember a kid, another republican saying oh, anybody that wants a job can get a job. I almost got up and punched the guy. Saying are you kidding me . I think thats the difference between the 47 republicans and the Chris Christie republicans. This is the most important lesson to take from this week. And the best political staffers in the world and you are at the top of that list cannot teach a politician you cant tell a politician to walk out and comfort a family where they dont have a job or Health Insurance, you cant tell a politician what to say to them. They either know what to say to that family or dont. When you come across one who gets it you know thats where you want to hit your star. You want to hitch your wagon to. Theres things in politics you can teach and thingsou cant teach. We have to remind some people in the Republican Party to get that point. Up next we have the Mccarthy Bell ready as you just heard. Seriously . The Mccarthy Bell. Nbc chuck todd also joins the conversation. They thought it was not here. Youre watching morning joe. There are seniors who have left hundreds of dollars of savings on the table by not choosing the right medicare d plan. No one could have left this much money here. 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We got to test our system. Test our systems out. Mccarthy erick cantor. Robert taft. Mr. Tafts grandson wrote the book how the Republican Party of today had become like the Republican Party of mccarthy. I rest my case. You said mccarthy. Bing. Robert taft. Lets talk about taft. With us from washington, we have nbc washington Political Correspondent and host of the daily run down chuck todd. Here at the table, a guy who is always fun to have on carl bernstein. Chuck, really quickly. Youre a dolphins fan too . Are you a dolphins fan . Not a big one. I really wasnt. My dad wasnt a big joe robbie fan. Its a big mess down there. It is. This team seems pretty divided. Sounds like Jonathan Martin ought to go to another team if he comes back. All right. So, go ahead, you want to read. The cry of the true republicans by john taft . Well go with that. This recent display of bomb throwing obstructionism by republicans in congress evokes another painful historically embarrassing chapter in the Republican Party, that of senator Joseph Mccarthy. Whose anticommunist crusade was allowed by republican elders to expand unchecked, unnecessarily and unfairly tarnishing the reputations of thousands of people with red scare accusations of communist affiliation. Theres more than a passing sim later between Joseph Mccarthy and ted cruz. The Republican Party survived mccarthyism because ultimately its excesses caused it to burn out and eventually party elders in the mold of my grandfather were table realign the party with its brand promise, the Republican Party is or should be at long last about decency. What a long way we have yet to go. Democratic party of segregation. Same thing. Great contribution of obama might be to help create a responsible Republican Party in the end. Hows that. By what were seeing now and the rejection of the tea party and the realization that you have to have a Mainstream Party and obama has made monkeys out of this wedge that is now on the defensive. Well, thats a good point. That another way of looking at it. So, what do you make . Its fascinating as bad as the Republican Party has acted over the past several months and their numbers have gone down, the president s numbers have gone down. Isnt it right now, yes, i mean weve been critical of some of the things that republicans have done. But right now its a pox on both their houses. It is a pox on the political class. Weve been without one branch of the government working. Congress is a dysfunctional institution. We cant have a successful United States of america until theres a restoration of three branches of government that work. Right now one doesnt work. Period. The executive branch isnt doing swimmingly well right now. If you look whats been happening to Kathy Sebelius max baucus came in, talked to us one on one. He was in new york. This was before he announced his retirement, said whats the next year look like. He said, it was off the record, he said it on the record the other day, said i hope Kathleen Sebelius is up to handling the roll out of aca because right now im very concerned. This was last year. Said i think next year is going to be really ugly. Max baucus called it and he was scared a year ago this was going to happen. How did the administration allow this to happen . They were getting warnings. Right. From capitol hill. Well, its a great question. Well spend years doing the kind of post mortem on this. It count have gone any worse. Its not like the white house wasnt focused on it. For months they were saying, all year, this entire year they have been saying the most important thing the only thing that matters is getting the health care, the aca more broad but the roll out particularly right. They didnt get it right. But part of it is i think part of its difficulty is the way it was passed. Because of the Dysfunctional Congress there was no chance and no one worked harder than senator baucus to find some republicans and make this a bipartisan Susan Collins and others trying and trying. The president ran out of patience with the process but trying to make it a bipartisan bill. Because every big social, you know, change like this, social security, medicare had always been passed with large bipartisan majority and the reason is both parties are invested in its success. You have the republicans not only invested in the success but invested in failure. Chuck, lets go beyond the website. Lets assume some day people can logon and get health care they are looking for, some day. Whats the next step for the conversation about obama care, the implementation of obama care. Does it get messier or start to clear up for the white house if they can get past the technical aspect . The next test is how many Healthy People under the age of 40 sign up. Remember, this entire system doesnt work if the young and healthy, the young invincibles dont do this. The actuary tables dont work for the insurance companies. One of the tradeoffs of passing a allow that says Health Insurance companies couldnt discriminate for preexisting conditions was part of the deal they were going get a whole bunch of young and Healthy People to defray some of the extra costs of insuring sicker people and not being able to discriminate on that front. So thats the next test. And the reason november 30th is so important is if you look at how massachusetts worked, that last month before the insurance kicked in, january 1, so were talking december 1 through december 15. That 15 day period. That has to be a period thats not just sick people signing up for this insurance. It has to be Healthy People. Chuck, lets talk about the day after the election, recriminations. Ken cuccinelli obviously upset for good reason. Not only republican Washington Republicans and the Government Shutdown but republicans in giving more money. Company have won that race. It was a lot closer than people thought. Also, just this back and forth, sort of the talk about small ball. People just sniping at Chris Christie. Its unbecoming. I dont know if ive ever seen anything like that. They are not celebrating his landslide. Right. Look, ill say it. Now that said, i mean Chris Christie, they have decided to be very aggressive about this president ial bid in a way that some might have advised them hey you dont need to do it like this. You dont need to embrace it. Theyve chosen to embrace it. They werent aggressive about this like the shutdown. That worked well for them. Let chuck finish. Im talking about christie. Hes not shying away from the talk. Hes not doing that phoney idea. He is sort of saying yes, okay, im flattered by the conversation. He sits up there for 90 minutes. Felt like bill clinton, john mccain rolled into one. He enjoys press conferences. He enjoys bantering back and forth with the press. So i think you do have, this is some of these conservatives going oh, my gosh hes going to get a head start, we got start take a pound of flesh out of him now lets not let him suddenly get into the open road and we never have a shot at him. Hes trying to be as honest as he can given the fact that everybody is pounding him with these questions. He looks like he could win that point and hes saying i dont know. You know why . He might. You know why . He doesnt know. Anything could happen between now and then. Thats as honest answer he can give. Im going to give new jersey. New jersey would be proud if he ran. These guys poking away at him and trying to bring him i dont know. Is it just me. Is it my point of view, carl . Lets go the facts. Probably the next important person in the Republican Party today is haley barber. Haley barber will come out in the next few months for Chris Christie. He sees Chris Christie as a winner. Maybe you heard it here first. Joe, do you think theres much question about that . John kasich will. So it goes back to what i was saying about the creation of a responsible modern Republican Party which they finally have a shot at after the craziness of the last year. They went off the leverage and finally the elders of the party said wait a minute if were going off the leverage with these folks, with the Tea Party Folks and back to erick cantor lets go back to some real republican roots and we have a chance of it in this country now. The idea of a responsible opposition on both sides would be one of the best things that could happen to this country in the last 40 years. What do you think . I think thats all well and good and true. The problem, those is that theres no fix for the congressional wing of the Republican Party. The republicans have been so successful in the last two censuses in redistricting, gerrymandering seats. Theres pressure on the members from those seats not compromise as opposed to reach across the aisle and be responsible. Youll have a national Republican Party thats trying to distance itself from a congressional Republican Party which cant change. Which is why the system will continue not to work until somehow, you know, maybe there will be some more redistricting but i dont see it happening. Carl bernstein, thank you so much. Always good to have you. Dee dee, thank you as well. Chuck todd well see you coming up on the daily rundown. Hes stale wake. Does he ever get off tv. Still ahead twitters ipo hours away but does the social network have a chance to reach the same amount of users as facebook . Well be right back. I started parttime, now im a manager. N. My employer matches my charitable giving. Really. I get bonuses even working parttime. Where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. Healthcare starting under 40 a month. I got education benefits. I work at walmart. Im a pharmacist. Sales associate. I manage produce. I work in logistics. Theres more to walmart than you think. Vo opportunity. Thats the real walmart. 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Well, i mean i think we all think of the civil war as a domestic conflict but theres always a series of tests that lincoln had in Foreign Policy. The biggest thing was trying to keep the european powers from intervening in the war but theres also a series of crises with france and spain and britain that if he handled badly could have erupted into war. So he had to prevent those from happening as well. Im sorry, go ahead. How did he do all that . How did a guy who never left this country, never spoke any languages, had no experience whatsoever in Foreign Policy, i guess that might remind us of some others, i dont know, how did he do all that . One thing he had was a strong and competent secretary of state, henry seward. Henry was more worldly than lincoln was, had traveled abroad quite a bit. Thats why theres not a book about lincolns Foreign Policy. If you put him at the center of Foreign Policy, lincoln didnt do everything. The things he did do were important. My goal in this book was to take a very episodic view of things and looked at things that lincoln did do in Foreign Policy without saying he did everything. Now is lincolns greatest challenge, i would guess, his greatest challenge is to stop the powers in europe from intervening on the side of the confederacy . Exactly it. How did he do it . Well, through a combination of prudence and patience and good judgment, but, youre right. This is the age of the great powers. Bismarck took power in 1862, became Prime Minister in prussia. Then ambassador in britain said he only had national interests. Napoleon iii who invaded mexico at the height of the civil war. People forget that. Napoleon marched troops in 1863 and conquered mexico city. Why wasnt it in their best interest to break up the union, to intervene and how did lincoln stop them from pursuing what people would consider in their best interest . Think what they realized is it wasnt in their best interest. There was a kind of gleefulness about watching the union disintegrate. The british Prime Minister liked to call the u. S. The disUnited States during this period. There were commercial ties between the United States and britain he realized didnt make sense to rupture and napoleon in france saw britain or saw the United States, a united United States a counter weight to britain. Britain was the historical enemy of france. A strong united United States was in frances interest as well. Part of that i think on lincolns part was real swrizing what the interests of the european powers really were and not messing things up along the way. Modern president s always become students of lincoln, and i wont what lessons you think our president , president obama draws on this part of president lincolns presidency. Lincoln was a master of patience and timing. And theres a lincoln biographer who compares his Decision Making to that serenity prayer that they teach in alcoholics anonymous. Lincoln was a master at knowing the difference of Things Company change in International Affairs and things he couldnt change. I think thats something to learn from. I think lincoln was naturally diplomatic. We kind of know that about him. He was a british journalist said european diplomats or professional diplomats tend to kind of shrug their shoulders or tell a white lie to get out of a difficult situation. Lincoln would tale story or a joke, crack everybody up and move on. I cant picture president obama telling a story and cracking everybody up and then moving on. His diplomatic style is more of the former. The book is lincoln and the world. Thank you so much. Very nice to meet you. Thank you for coming. This is fantastic. You probably know her as the mom from that 70s show. Now she has a new role as a famous sex therapist. How the actress is now becoming dr. Ruth. Next on morning joe. Avo the volkswagen sign then drive sales event is back. 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Its becoming dr. Ruth at the westside theater. Its a strange combination. The thing about it is everybody has their idea and no two people have the same idea. I do mine. She has seen you do it . I talk about her family and her family has been there. The first time it happened was scary. Did they give you notes and criticisms and critiques . Or do they love it . They are a great family. If you are going to do a oneperson show about someone who is alive, dr. Ruth is the one you want to do it about. She loves it. Why else would you do a oneperson show on dr. Ruth . What is it about her that makes this work . Is it a message or is it that she represented something more . Something dictated by the audience. Every show is different depending on who is coming in and watching. Some want to watch. Im lucky because she is really funny. Shes a really funny little person. The people who want to come and laugh, its a huge comedy. Some people that get very involved. She lot of her entire family, hitler took her family basically. There people that get very involved in that and want to stay in that. Then it becomes a different kind of show. Shes got so much that happened in her life that its never boring. Obviously when she talks about sex its never boring because she is explicit. Ask me anything. Im telling you right now ask me anything. Im scared. Whats the most common question you get about sex . I dont get the questions. Nicole, ask her something. About sex some. Steve . I didnt know. Did you know and this was in the play, only 30 of women have an orgasm during sex . Only 30 . And7 on the east coast and 4 54 on the west coast. Getting the kids ready for school. Thats the in fact sticks in my head because i didnt know that. What did you think i would ask you. Im 46. Would you ask me about menopause. You are too young for that. You are. Early 50s. You got time. What was it about the way dr. Ruth talked about sex that made people flock to her. She said in the play that yes, she was this little matronly woman with an accent. They thought she was like sig mund freud. She makes a point of a Lesson Learned with humor is a lesson remembered. She was really good at that. How did she get from a survivor of the holocaust to the 80s . What happened . She was like a survivor person and took every single opportunity that came her way. She got money from the German Government for not getting schooling from the nazis. She got this money and said im going to go to america. She took it and went to america and got a scholarship to the new school of social research. She took advantage of every single opportunity. If you have to give a sex tip to this group. Doctor god. In dr. Ruths voice, in five seconds or less. As dr. Ruth. Look at us. About what . Sex. You know i should have taken this segment off. I dont have any sex tips for you. Its very early in the morning. There you go. Dr. Ruth is now playing at new york citys westside theater. 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Once a day xarelto® means no regular blood monitoring no known dietary restrictions. For more information and savings options, call 1888xarelto or visit goxarelto. Com. I wouldnt be speculating about somebody who was not doing their job well. From doing my job well, thats good for the people here. I have never seen it as a distraction. I have said before, i dont see it as a burden either. You have to have a huge ego. Its such a burden for you to be speculating about being the leader of the free world. Stop. Im so burdened. Thats a huge ego. Thats complimentary and flattering and i have no problem with it. Its 8 00 on the east coast and 5 00 on the west coast. What a beautiful day. Beautiful. Im very cheerful. With us on set. You introduce and i ask. No, no. No, no, no. No, no. You can take all the time you want. I will jump straight to it. Chris christie is wallowing in this. No, hes not. You want your guy and did you this. I love that zoom in. Its like a 1972 cam in it. Chris christie represents all the hopes and dreams. Answer the question now. I love that political talk. Answer the question if you will. If you r7 managing Chris Christie, would you tell him to wallow in this. Hes not. I dont think manages Chris Christie. Anyone manages jim nichol. Thats what we like about him. I want to make sure its about a rise to prominence and a rise to Winning National elections. He should stop. You should stop. Shut up. Everyone is saying it for him. Heres the biggest sign that hes a big problem and you shut up. Look at the knives coming out in the Republican Party that are trying to compliment him in a backhanded way. Just wait. Hows the beard . Itchy. Starting to get itchy. Can i feel it . Later. I want to know what thats like. That doesnt look good. Not good first thing in the morning. Please dont go close. Im going to come over there and check it out. You let me do the news and shut up. Thats the third time you have told me to shut up. Im going to do that one too. Hes elegant, thank god. The rest of us you are elegant. We pride ourselves on being a civil television show. I dont want to say anything or i will be told to shut up. You wouldnt and nicole and willie wouldnt, but she told me to shut up three times. Nobody notices when i do it. They like it. Makes hermine meaner. I could have said nice outfit and people would go we could have a show where i hit you. We had those before and you get United States bruises and you get in trouble for it. If you would like that to happen, keep going down that road. It didnt take long. Hours after a landslide reelection, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie faced questions about running for president. What is he supposed to do . The republican remained coy about his plans. He is flattered by the talk and ignoring it. And so you would think that would make me better prepared to be president. I have a job to do. I got reelected to do a job. Im not worried about the other stuff and if the time comes and i decide i want to do something else, i will tell them i want to do something else. Strong upon wind combined with the loss has many questioning whether its time, but republicans who could challenge the primary apparently did not get the memo. What do you mean . After christies win, marco rubio said i think we need to understand that some of these races dont apply to future races. Every race is different. It has a difference of factors. Thats not congratulations. If you win by like 800 points in a state that barack obama won by 8 hundred points, you take a look at that. Absolutely. And you congratulate him and say hes a contender. You said that Chris Christie wasnt wallowing in it. Marco rubio, you say be gracious. Right . At least be as gracious as the democrats. I dont know when as a party we are going to wake up and realize that as long as the targets of our ire remain each other, we will be. If you think hes a contender, at least support him. It shows you are really threatened. There is more . The ones that are ruining the Republican Party. He is brash and outspoken. This is graceful. But, but i think we need more leaders in washington with the courage to stand for principal and obama care is not working. Huh . Wait. What happened . He doesnt stand on principal and had a death match. Hes great, but im threatened and i now feel like he is overshadowed. Thats a man thing. Its pitiful. How can they say that Chris Christie doesnt stand on principal. I forget which one it was, but somebody on radio said if Chris Christie wants to prove he is conservative, he has to call barack obama a liar. I know who that was. I dont. I dont want to know. That is our standard. It doesnt have to do with ideology. I heard that and thought why are we putting ourselves in our own party through litmus tests setting ourselves and each other up for failure. I dont think they are doing that. Why does Ronald Reagan call jimmy carter a liar . Never. By the way, you are exactly right. We should at least as republicans be as gracious to each other as democrats are. If im about to fire somebody i will give them a raise. When they get a raise, they scatter. But no, you embrace people that might be going again. You cant look small. Speaking of that, rand paul at a Senate Hearing launched an attack on super storm sandy recovering efforts. Look at this. The first two were good. This is a zinger. Criticizing governor christie who just won historic reelection in new jersey for appearing in ads entitled stronger than the storm to help tourism. People for running put their mug in the middle of a political campaign. 25 million was spent on ads with people running for political office. You think there might be a conflict of interest there. Thats a problem. People trying to do good and use taxpayer money wisely, they are offended. Thats offensive. Did he do that . I think he did. That was a hearing . Are. Yes. Who was he questioning . The secretary of they are all scared of him. Scared is not the word here. They are all scared of him. Thats not how there could be more. You want to be gracious. They need to be specific about why he doesnt stand on principal. How about holding off a couple of days. A huge win, congratulations are in order. President obama called. He got crab for that because the buddies were on the phone. Heres the thing. We have gone down the list. He is low tax and took on the teachers union. If you are conservative, these are things that he is against. Gay marriage and abortion. The things they point to is he is so so on Climate Change and believes its real and at least partially manmade and not tough enough on guns. If you are looking for a candidate who is a 100 pure, you will be looking for a long time. Returning to obama care in the gubernatorial race, they are worried about their future. They should be. For Different Reasons entirely. The president met with a group of 16 senators who are frustrated with the roll out of obama care. Its its troubled launch may come back to haunt them. Democrats believe Ken Cuccinelli was able to narrow the gap in virginia after focusing on obama care in the final weeks. Exit polling showed 53 of virginia voters were opposed to the Health Care Law and of those, 81 voted for cuccinelli and yesterday the president flew to texas where he was critical of the lawmakers for not opting in. One of the things that gets me frustrated although i understand it because im in politics, folks who are complaining about how the website is not working and why isnt obama fixing this and all of these people are uninsure and they leave a Million People without Health Insurance that they could fix. There is not a lot of logic. Okay. That was inspiring. What next . What . I think he is working on fixing the problem. Was that like the berlin speech where you swept your feet rhetorically . He has a really hard job and he was set up terribly and the roll out was terrible. I think they have people if they can do this and get people signed up, all this chatter will be forgotten. So steve ratner, i talked to two people from pensacola yesterday. One has two children with preexisting conditions. They cant get Health Insurance and they went online and signed up and got a great plan through blue cross of florida in about 30 minutes and said its the greatest thing ever and the two kids with preexisting conditions. Did you just say that . I heard from somebody else who got on and couldnt get past the second or third screen. One said this is the greatest thing ever and the other was a democrat who couldnt get on. The point is obviously if you start having a lot more americans with the first story and being able to tell that story around communities, then it will do more than any 30second ads. If they fail like they did in the second and since it doesnt matter what Barack Obama Says or does, it fails. Lets separate a couple of issues. The website is what it is. Disaster. Everybody agrees. That will get fixed. Thats the technological problem. We are not trying to put a man on mars, but we are trying to get a website to work. How many people are going to sign up . You need to have younger and healthier people in the pools. You can get insurance at a reasonable rate. It worked in massachusetts and its not going to look good in the early months here. Not great sign up rates and how is it going to unfold . I think the president unfortunately got himself a box that nobody was going to lose Health Insurance no matter what and the other is not everybody will be better off. Some people will pay more. Thats the nature of insurance. The journal today is an editorial about a woman who cant get Health Insurance and who is very, very sick. You will see those stories. It will be a dogfight. The website i think will be a memory by then. The question then is are people signed up and more people feel good than those who dont. We have another big story. Twitter will begin trading on the new york stock exchange. They listed the initial Public Offering at 26 a share. Its the Largest Technology ipo since facebook debuted last year. Should willie and i buy this stock . He asked me that before. I didnt want to answer off camera. I pretended like i did hear. Your turn to ask. Should i buy twitter stock . Lets talk about the price. 26 a share, higher than people expected . Sure because they go through a marketing process and there was a lot of demand for this. They kept raising the price up to 27. Its interesting to cam pair to two other ipos. Facebook and goggle. Lets start by looking at how long the companies have been in business. This gives you a base line. Google had been in business six years when it went public. Facebook 8 and twitter 7. Roughly the same age as the other two. Google had 3 billion and facebook had 5 billion and twitter had 640 million when it went public. Its a much smaller company. Google was making moan. Facebook was making a tiny bit of money and twitter is losing money. That gives you a little bit of background. What timelines look like. Facebook does that too. They dont do it well. 6 billion or 7 billion of ad revenue. Thats not bad. They have gotten better. Who is that . Facebook. They got better . They were doing poorly. Should i stop with shut up . The stock is up. We called it. All right, so when you translate that into whether or not to buy the stock, one thing you should look at is where is this going come as a multiple. It was a 7. 2 times revenues. Facebook was at 20 times revenues and twitter is at 28 times. This is coming at a much higher multiple than the other two. You can factor in that decision. I want to give you a last word of caution before you put all of the guys in. They dont always go up. Here is what happened to five recent ipos. Companies you all know. Six months after the ipo, google doubled. Up 60 . Facebook down 40 . Zynga down. Facebook has since recovered and up about 30 . Google and linked in is great, but zynga and groupon is still down there. You place your bets and see what happened. On wall street, what are the downfalls to investing in twitter and the upside . The downfall is that the stock is very, very expensive and it really is predicated on twitter continuing to grow at a really, really fast rate. If they slip a step as Facebook Like looked like they were going, the stock could collapse. The upside is a very fast growing and google today if you bought it at the ipo, its up about 12 times since the ipo. We will check in with politicos mike allen. They go to the mystery barge in San Francisco bay. What is going in there . Its a trash barge. Really . A driver goes berserk after a fender bender turns into a freeforall. They tracked down the stolen car. Can i say speaking of berserk or is he going to Say Something perverted . Heres bill with a check on the forecast. I like how you blame me. I have my mind in the gutter when its you guys that drag me there. Good morning. Rain is moving through the northeast and with it, airport delays. Its not horrible, but we are at one hour in newark and one hour at la guardia. Thats the low clouds. The green is the rain and that is tracking across philadelphia and up the east coast. Everyone needs that umbrella. When is it going to exit . D. C. Is ending philadelphia about 2 00. Steadier rains exiting about 6 00 or 7 00 and it will be gone and getting cooler through the days ahead. Temperatures are warm now, but cold front goes through and it gets chillier. There is a storm in the northwest too. Drive carefully from portland to seattle. You can see the temperatures are not bad. Texas to arizona. Washington, d. C. With showers and not all that bad. 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Times, swiss Forensic Experts say leader arafat might have been poisoned. They found traces 18 times higher than normal in his remains. He died in november of 2011 from what doctors believed was the flu, but no autopsy was performed. His symptoms of vomiting, nausea and abdominal pain are also signs of radiation poisoning. Paying 18 million for access to the phone records. They fly phone numbers of terrorists and in return receive call data from the phone company. These records include americans and the United States making international calls. Officials say the relationship between the cia and at t is completely voluntary. That has to be a real problem for at t. Yes. Chicago tribune blockbuster will close their remaining 300 stores. Really . We have to sell blockbuster stock. I am talking to steve about that. You can take that into the ground. Im keeping all my beta tapes too. The beta max is coming back. They werent able to find a way to get into the future and they will have to lay off 3,000 employees and end the blockbuster by mail service. They plan to focus on demand and streaming services moving forward. After weeks of speculation, google has broken the silence about the mystery floating barge in San Francisco. They are exploring using the site as a place where people can learn about new innovations and technology. The mystery barge was spotted in portland, maine and could rival apple stores in showcasing google products. Interesting. A video captures a stand off between a motorist and a cabdriver that plays like a real life version of grand theft auto. The driver is involved in a fender bender with a taxi. He gets out of the car and decides to try to escape. That leads to a collision with another taxi and another in a double collision into the original cab. This guy is not good. Thats five collisions. Police say it was a stolen car and the driver is in custody. Goodness gracious. I dont think he played grand theft auto. Senator ted kennedy who shared the same name as the newly elected mayor got a call. What happened . Say you are sitting in your living room. Its biden. Sitting with your wife on tuesday night. The phone rings and guess who it is. The Vice President congratulating you on becoming the next mayor. He said you son of a gun, marty. You did it. Problem, different matter w. Different marty walsh. Debbie wassermann did the same thing. She a former aide to the late senator ted kennedy. He is in political circles, but not the guy who became mayor. He gets it. They cant run websites and place them. Come on. I kid because i love. Thats the bidenest thing. You son of a gun. You know what, willie, there is only one mike allen. There is. We like you better up here, but we will take you either way. Lets talk about new york city mayor bloomberg. He said the victory in virginia is a big loss for the nra. How do you describe that . People in virginia had been saying is it a mistake for Michael Bloomberg and his mayors group to spend money in virginia talking about the guns issue . In fact signs are that it helped Terry Mcauliffe. Virginia is the headquarters of the National Rifle association. Ken cuccinelli had an a rating from the nra and they did not get Terry Mcauliffe. This shows in the back yard and the state that is hunterfriendly and gun friendly and someone can win. Also yesterday we learned what mayor bloombergs day job is going to be after he leaves the Mayors Office at the beginning of january. Our colleagues at capital new york part of a politico empire reported that the mayor will work at bloomberg and view the opinion part. He will be writing high profile pieces of his own and his new title after being mayor may be chairman of bloomberg view. Steve, you have known mike for a long time. He is going to focus on charitable stuff and foundation. What does his future look like . Its more than writing a few oped pieces. That may be a piece of the puzzle and there is a lot more to come. I wanted to show the pictures of the new york post. They had a meeting and you can see how they hit it off. Make sure you notice the clock. Can we zoom in . Up here. There we go. Look how much they love each other. But also notice there is a clock. There is a clock. Its not warm and fuzzy. More like a cold prickly. The political play. Up next, four friends who accidentally changed the world. Nick built on has the true story of twitter. How they created a multibillion business. Brian sullivan joins the table as well. Back in a moment. I started parttime, now im a manager. N. My employer matches my charitable giving. Really. I get bonuses even working parttime. Where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. Healthcare starting under 40 a month. I got education benefits. I work at walmart. Im a pharmacist. Sales associate. I manage produce. I work in logistics. 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Columnist for the New York Times, he is out with the new book hatching twitter. A true story of money, power, friend friendship, money, and betrayal. What are your thoughts today on twitter exploding . Can you believe they got from there to here . No way. This is a story of friendship and betrayal. The title says it. These were four founders from lowincome families and one of the founders came from clarks, nebraska. 262 people. He grew up on welfare essentially. These guys went to Silicon Valley in search of the modern day gold rush, the tech dream. They accidentally built this company. How did they find each other . It was all an accident. Noah is a big part of the story and got pushed out and made nothing while the others became billionaires. He lived in an apartment. Why did they push him out . This is the story and why i am surprised by the fact that we are going public with the company. They all puched each other out. Noah glass disappeared and jack dorsey got pushed out and even as i report in the book, dick was fired for a brief moment in time. Tumultuous personalities . Not this. He say lovely guy. This is laid back. Dick is actually a very, very competent ceo and made it into the company it is today. The thing i think is fascinating, this is not something that happened to twitter. Twitter is emblematic of this. This is what we call the creation myth in the valley. Its cutthroat. I love your story about jack dorsey. We have this idea that the Technology World is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. Out in the valley, everybody is hugging. Smoking weed. They may be, but they are just as aggressive and cutthroat as anybody in a bank. Look at facebook. Look at the stories of the people that got pushed out there. It was a successful hollywood movie what happened on facebook. Thats one of the interesting parts about what i found interesting. You look at Mark Zuckerberg and he escape and built facebook. These guys are very flawed human beings. One of the things that is fascinating is they were all kind of loanly and they had a connection to technology and wanted to use that connection and iter to them apart. As superficial as possible. Yeah. Whose big idea was it . Thats the story. Jack said this was his idea, but the book told the story as if it was multiple peoples idea. About 12 people in the room and the moment it was hatched was jack dorsey who came with the idea to share your status. They were in a car one night drunk in february of 2005 and they were talking about this thing and noah was going through a difficult time and he was getting divorce and his friends were having issues. He said if you built this thing you could feel less alone. 140 characters. Who had the idea to limit it . That was jack. First it was unlimit and then 140 and then 160. On Text Messages you only have 140 characters. Its one of the things, one of the problems that twitter will have. Its still doifl explain that idea. Facebook, im sorry. Its such a i cant use the expression that i usually use regarding pigs. I hate facebook because its sprawling and people come into your and you dont know what to do with it. People are on there to give you their grocery list. If i want to follow european football or music or mccartney and politics. You active on twitter . Yeah. Hes got a new book coming out. Joe has one. 80 of the people who are not on twitter and some people say thats huge growth potential, but it tooks in a language on twit theyre not everyone understands. Some people dont want to access it because its intimidating. Its pictures and you say what you want. The hash tag language and all this other stuff for people is like mars. You look at how people communicate today and how they are going to communicate years from now, its not how we communicate on facebook. Its twitter. At least facebook is the advertisers and thats part of the big model and it will be the same as macys. When this thing goes public, it will be worth the same as macys that has billions in sales and earnings. Its a big company. I loved this in a way. Desperate to connect. It ripped a friendship apart. Thats the thing i found fascinating. It speaks to the entire generation. People are thumbing at their devices. They are separating themselves from the people in front of them. The thing i found fascinating is the people that built twitter and this is what the story was about. In your opinion, does it have a longterm, viable the reason i gave those stats is it will be valley said as a top fortune 500 company. Do you believe it has a longterm future financially . Absolutely. I think one of the biggest challenges, financially its easy, but one of the biggest is user growth. Its difficult for people to understand the hash tags and things like that. I will show a picture of these guys. Who was the spiritual leader . Other than me. Im shy and i dont like to talk about this. The photo in the corner, that is actually jack doersa and noah glass who had that moment in the car. This is a great story in the book about the night that twitter hatch and they opened up for business. They debuted at a rave. Jack ended up in the hospital and its a really, really great story. They are essentially the beginning of it. The book is, hatching twitter. Nick, thank you so much. Brian sullivan, thank you so much. Stick around. Hit me up on twitter sometime. Thats quite already. Our new pick for the book club. Well be right back. 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. 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