0 yeah. hi, cutie. how are you? >> i was better a couple of seconds ago. now i'm out of breath. >> "the new york times" reporter -- you'll be fine -- jeremy peters is with us. good to see you! >> hi, mika. how are you? >> i'm fine. i didn't take that last night, if you know what i'm talking about. and andrea mitchell is looking awesome. i haven't seen you in a long time. >> i missed you guys. >> i've missed you so much! >> i love getting up early. >> i know you do. i know you do. a lot to talk about, joe. would you like to tease the big headline today? do you know what tease means? >> no, i don't. >> it means you say coming up, we're going to talk about dot, dot, dot, then you stop and i do the lead story. go ahead. i'll give it to you. >> i defer to you today but i think we should be leaving this. yet another change. >> i don't really have much to add on that. >> thank you. let me tell you why we shouldn't be leading with it. >> why not? >> because you guys will go on forever and since we are going to do that, we are going to do a few other stories that is significant. >> the president unilaterally changed the law that he wasn't supposed to change unless he had congress' approval. >> that is a tease. can you now wait and then we will discuss it later? >> i'm going to get a couple of very interesting stories in. >> you're saying it's not even the second top story today? >> go ahead. >> you have to let me do the first top story. >> let's go. more subpoenas are going out in the george washington bridge scandal that continues to consume the new jersey governor's office. among them are the state republican party, the governor's office itself, and chris christie's re-election campaign but the committee is looking for want somebody who has no distraction. he raised a lot of money in january and, who knows, maybe everything is going to go swimmingly well. this is not exactly, you know, a guy that has focused 24 hours a day reelecting governors across the country. >> given the level of staffers we had read about the past three weeks, the high school memo he claimed he didn't see. i would i think it would behoove the governor to resign from the rga and concentrate on his immediate political future. >> that is my point. if he did not know this memo was going out, he does not need to focus on giving speeches across the country. >> anybody can pick this up anecdotally. the bully label has affixed itself to chris christie. rightly or wrongly, it has rightly affixed its to chris christie the past few weeks. you say people who have minimal interest in politics or in chris christie, they say he is a bully. you get that automatic response. the other thing his credibility on when he found out about the traffic. >> yeah. >> it's not hanging in there. most people you speak to during the course of the day, two elements of conversation link them all, traffic and weather. they all talk about how they got stuck in traffic on the way to work and is it going to snow. >> this helicopter story, it's a wild goose chase or it's really troubling. >> they do confirm that path was used to get between 9/11 -- the memorial between trenton and new york city and the statement they confirm there was a flight path that went over that general area. whether or not they flew close to the ft. lee side to hover over and look down. >> can those logs confirm that? that will be interesting. i'm trying to think -- >> the passengers were on board? we know that the "the wall street journal" ran with that picture that wildstein and the governor were together that day health coverage and full coverage by 2016. that doesn't mean the issue won't play a major role in campaigns throughout the year. rnc chair reins priebus said in a statement, elections matter. when it comes to his significant accomplishment obamacare each helped make it a reality. >> a unilateral change. politics do not like the fact it's a unilateral change. when you look at the language of the bill it shall be enforced by between and now we bump it back a year or so. it's good for the businesses exempted from it but what is the fallout on capitol hill? >> i question the political impact for republicans or democrats actually. i kind of lost track of how many different delays there have been now and i think if you read that of the law and they say if these things need to be delayed doesn't that suggest the law is bad for the economy? i think it would be great for both public policy and the politics to come out and explain why it is more than just to help mark pryer keep his job. why is waiting a year sensible if it's a good provision, let's get moving and be consistent. >> our debate has always been this is not good for the economy. these regulations are not good. it was an ill-conceived bill. i've asked people around the table have you talked to small business owners is this going to help their business. every time they delay this, why are you delaying this? if it's not bad for the economy why delay it another year and why did valerie have to talk to businesses on the first delay? because it's bad for the economy. >> some public policy argument bad there year and fine next year? >> if the economy grows. >> let's hear the president say it, not a blog post but hear the president, his signature come out and explain. the last time it happened we said the same thing. let's have some transparency to explain why isn't this pure politics? if it's not a good idea this year, why a good idea next year? there may be an answer but it should come from the president and not a blog post. a couple of other stories. one interesting here about hillary clinton as she eyes a possible 2016 run for president echoes of the past refuse to stay there. today, it's the private papers, the late diane blair, a political science professor at the university of arkansas who clinton called her closest friend. blair's notes reveal some of the clintons lightest and dark he's times. hillary was frustrated with the white house staff and washington, d.c. scene. dumb founded by people who look in the eye and lie to her. they discuss plans to overhaul health care and those plans tied into hillary's -- blair wrote hillary clinton is tired of all those whiny women and she needs pack wood on health care. packwood was accused of sexual misconduct and then the monica lewinsky affair. according to blair clinton dismissed her husband making a mistake. the first lady told blair the affair did not include sex, quote, within any real meaning. she said the president managed to try to manage the white house intern but things were quickly beyond control. rand paul has treaded into lewinsky territory lately with provocative comments and reince priebus is calling it fair game. >> i don't see how anybody gets a pass on anything especially in today's politics so i think we will have a truckload of opposition research on hillary clinton and some things may be old and some things might be new, but i think everything is at stake when you talk about the leader of the free world and who are going to give the keys to run the united states of america. so, you know, look. i think everything is at play. >> andrea, this is all very exciting. i feel like michael j. fox about getting into -- >> "back to the future"? >> we are going to debate monica lewinsky and what else? we are going to have a bush versus a clinton. so we can do the '98 thing, the '92 thing. >> just what i want to do. >> maybe we can relive the robert bourque trials too. does anybody thinks americans want to go back and relitigate this? trust me. i was there the first time we litigated this and americans didn't want to hear it then. this is just sheer insanity and as far as these papers go, i mean, come on. the lawyer in me says it's hearsay. who knows what hillary really said. >> let me just put a little context. these papers were donated to the library in fayetteville and have been available to the public four years. so the freebie can post selected clips and i talked to the professor who has the diane blair chair in fayetteville and in charge of all of these documents. nobody came and looked to them until recently as we get closer to the election. it looks like the first tromp of research and why do we want to go back there? as you say, i don't know the legality of hearsay. >> it's actually not hearsay. it was just sort of a misstatement on my part. >> that's what i was saying among us in talking about this yesterday when we were deciding what to do with it. diane blair, whom i knew, who mark there knew and the closest friend to hillary clinton was writing a very academic document as well. it's her take and some things are in quotation marks and we don't know how it was quickly noted, some are not. she stayed in the white house and they were the first overnight guests. bill clinton married the blair's and hillary was in the wedding party. she was hillary rodham and she wasn't married yet. they were the only women on campus in professor roles. this was a bond. this is a girlfriend bond and these are the kind of conversations and hillary, by the way, knew that these were going to be made public because she spoke. she did a video when they were donated to the library i. >> are you saying they are fair game, andrea? >> no, i'm not. i'm saying what we have seen so far we have taken out of context and we have read through more of it and there is a lot more about the stress her husband was going through and she blamed herself and a lot more on the lewinsky stuff than we read. >> it's sort of legally you wouldn't call this hearsay in court but, one woman writing notes about a friend. again, if this is the opposition research that republicans are going to have -- no, i'm just saying. how do you get people back to work, right? and i would much rather fight about the affordable care act and debate that and talk about why that is bad for business and we need to build a keystone pipeline. let's have fights on issues, but this stuff? mike, it's going to get eyes rolling awfully fast. >> if reince priebus thinks this is a critical issue, he ought to wrap it up. this is so over and people are not interesting. >> it's also kind of insulting. this should not define her. this is about somebody else who she was married to, do you know what i mean? ? >> sad news that nbc news has confirmed that shirley temple has passed away. made her motion debut picture. in 133 and in most of her films before she turned 12 and dazzled audience with her cheeks and hair. she was in "heidi" and she was among the most popular movie stars of her time and rivalling mae west and president franklin roosevelt reportedly said, quote, as long as our country has shirley temple, we will be all right. president nixon pointed her u.s. representative to the u.n. in 1969. she married twice and taking the name of her second husband charles black. an official says she passed away from natural causes in her home. >> everybody remembers this. take a look. ♪ i'm the good ship lollipop ♪ ♪ it's a sweet trip to a candy shop where bonbons play on the sunday beach of peppermint bay ♪ >> i used to sing that song. >> mike actually was the guy -- >> stop it. >> no, he actually choreographed this scene. it was sort of midway through his career at that point. coming up on "morning joe," senator claire mccaskill will be here. >> oh, claire! >> chuck todd is going to be here. "the new york times" indicate surnnike will also be here. >> first, bill karins. first, here is bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> bill, i don't like you. >> we will work it out. >> we are having trouble with the new run. national weather service in atlanta called this historic and catastrophic what they describe is occurring from atlanta to augusta and freezing rain and power outages. people were grabbing everything offer the grocery store shelves. a little bit rain and snow. mostly from birmingham north wards. atlanta will get sleet but it's a wednesday event for you really. here is how the whole storm plays out. wednesday p.m. the wintry mix then the storm up the coast. i-95 to the coast, snow and sleet but then once you get west of i-95, we are talking about a snowstorm. as far as the ice storm goes, major power outages expected up to three-quarters of an inch of ice. the snow side of the storm, the heaviest snow over virginia and mountains in north carolina and washington, d.c. looks to be a sweet spot too. possibility 4 to 8 in richmond. in the northeast talking about totals 4 to 8 for new york city and 4 to 8 for boston. d.c. a chance after foot of snow. one of the biggest snowstorms possible. this is wednesday night into all day thursday. biggest snowstorm in four years. you're watching "morning joe." 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