16 years ago, fresh out of college, a 22yearold intern in the white house, and more than averagely romantic, i fell in love with my boss. In a 22yearold sort of way. It happens. But my boss was the president of the United States. That probably happens less often. And at that time it was my everything. That, i guess you could say, was e nice part. Ubble part for me, the nasty part was that it
became public. Public with a vengeance. Overnight i went from a completely private figure to a completely public humiliated one. I was patient zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the internet. Good morning. It is tuesday, october 21st. With us on set here in washington we have New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and columnist for bloomberg view, al hunt along with willie up in new york. So we have a lot of news. Tons of political news to get to. But i just we might as well throw you that softball and let you go. What . About monica. I thought it was compelling. I thought it was too. I think she has a real platform. Shes the very first person whose name exploded on the internet and whose life has been defined by one thing, by one thing. And ruined, quite frankly. As a 22yearold girl. If anyone wants to think something badly about her right now or Say Something they might want to think about whether any of their daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts would have found themselves perhaps in a similar situation at 22 years old. More importantly if anybody has son or daughter who is at least 22 or 23 you just might want to be quiet. If your son or daughter hasnt done something at least as bad i was asking somebody this earlier and he raised both hands look she was taken advantage of by somebody who preyed upon her and what she has done since then is for the most part keep fairly quiet, move on with her life. Now shes moving on a platform
with something extremely serious, Cyber Bullying. I have two teenagers. I see whats going on out there. It makes look what happened in the white house childs play. Al, her life was ruined. Shes 22 years old. Taken advantage of by her boss. For people who say Monica Lewinsky should go away youll fight 15 rounds with your arms behind your back youll get punched for 15 rounz. Shes carried herself with dignity. I just had a 25yearold daughter so i want to recuse myself. I have a 26 and 23yearold boy and im saying we all understand. I mean wouldnt it be horrible to have your children judged by what they did for the rest of their lives at 22. One was dumbest things. Its very unfair. Shes entitled to a life. I dont know much about her
since her fame. Which something. Because a lot of people cashed in. Also the issue itself, i know well get on to news. Teenagers face a very different, you know, composition of life than woe even come close to understanding. Everything is out there. Everything they do is out there. They dont understand until theyve done it how it flies around on the internet. She does. Well talk a lot more about this. President obama has cast i had vote in this years midterms. Did you see what happened when he cast his vote. While he campaigned did they ask for i. D. Designee campaigned for the governor of illinois he has largely stayed away from states where democrats are locked in tough races but may not be helping members of his own party who are trying to distance themselves from the white house. Heres what the president said earlier this month and then in an radio interview yesterday with the reverend al sharpton. Im not on the ballot this fall. Michele is pretty happy about that. [ laughter ] but make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them. A lot of the states that are contested this time are states that i didnt win. And so some of the candidates there, it is difficult for them to have me in the state because the republicans will use that to try to fan republican turnout. The bottom line is these are all folks that vote with me. They have supported my agenda in congress. They are on the right side of minimum wage, they are on the right side of fair pay, they are on the right side of rebuilding our infrastructure, they are on the right side of Early Childhood education. So this isnt about my feelings being hurt. These are folks who are strong allies and supporters of me and
i tell them, i said, you know what, you do what you need to do to win. I will be responsible for making sure that our voters turn out. Al, its like the ant that comes after you when youre like 6 or 7 and tries to hug you. Come on. I mean hes saying they are with me, they are with me. Must drive him crazy. Ive been in georgia and North Carolina have you ever seen a president doesnt get it. Youre not wanted here right now. Well talk to you the day after the election. Ive seen a few. Ive been to North Carolina and georgia in the last couple of weeks and if a democratic candidate down there talked about minimum wage, pay equity and a number of issues they do fine. If they talk about obamas pay equity or minimum wage they run away from it. How it is looking in georgia . Thats fascinating race. You have jimmy carters grandson. There will be a runoff in both. December and january i would not be surprised at all if michele nunn finishes ahead of david perdue. Willie, we have an awful lot of polls out today. And we can start with u. S. Candidate michele nunn that we were just talking about from georgia. Shes among democrats who are steering clear of the president. Shes in a close race. Heres part of her campaign ad thats running in georgia. Have you seen this picture . Its the one david perdue has used to try to attack me in this campaign. What he doesnt tell you is that it was taken at an event honoring president bush who i worked for as ceo of his points of light foundation. Nunn actually used another ad with the former president s image earlier this year because hes endorsed her republican opponent. She was asked to stop using his
image. Democrats in tough battles are stayling alive in the latest poll. Alison Lundergan Grimes who saw money dry up is down just one point in this latest poll to Mitch Mcconnell. Thats the blue grass poll in kentucky. Up in New Hampshire senator jean shaheen is hanging on to a threepoint lead over republican scott brown. Public policy polling ppp has senator kay hagan has up three over tom tillis in North Carolina. Again a tie. A new monmouth poll of kansas shows independent greg orman dead locked with pat roberts there in kansas. Thats something. All of these polls, you know, we see a way for the democrats and a way for the republicans and now everybody say the republicans are starting to look good. Boy, these polls in New Hampshire, in North Carolina, in kansas, and my gosh kentucky now. I mean it looks like it looks
like youre having a tightening here and all of those polls, every one of those polls can be seen as very bad news for republicans a month ago. Thats right. The way this race has seesawed back and forth from democrats to republicans i won be stupid enough to make any predictions. Come on. I think kansas and south dakota are much harder for the democrats than the conventional wisdom would suggest. Structurally and demographically theres a reason republicans have carried these states and democrats will privately tell you they are not as bullish about those two states. About kansas . Its pat roberts and youve been around that long and youre still tied or trailing in polls. Its not out of reach. But its tough. The way one senator, democratic senator described to it me was 2006 tennessee when harold ford looked like he was up and going to win and he didnt. Tennessee is a red state. He was running against a strong candidate which no one would accuse pat roberts of being. What about kentucky . That blue grass poll has always shown grimes doing ber. Theres two near i was the. Both sides playing to the vote. Republicans think theres momentum with isis and ebola, dysfunctional washington and a small tide. The democrats think this is so close its going to come down a grand game where they have the edge. And i think up to ten races that we arent certain who will win. So this could this really could we could wake up the morning after and have the democrats firmly in charge or having a huge republican sweep. Or joe we could wake up not knowing at all and having four or five states still uncertain including georgia which has a runoff on january 6th the day after the new senate comes back. Thats fascinating. In alaska there are still hundreds of precincts where they count ballots by hand. If orman or pressler win let
the bidding begin. Well show this later because we have to move on. We have a guest coming up on another story. The president was voting yesterday. He voting next to this nice lady. And her boyfriend comes up to the president and goes dont touch my girlfriend. Orchestrate my gosh. The president had a conversation with thread. Well show it. To barack obama . Yes. Wrong democratic president to say that to. So moving on now. My girlfriend. Right. Exactly. Wow. Good point. I get it now. The Washington Post is digging into a government talk about jimmy carter. Shows taxpayers she would out 775 million to cover the salaries of thousands of federal workers who were sent home from the job but still collected their paychecks. The report says some of those employees were still being paid more than a year after they were put on administrative leave. The practice was intended to be used quote in rare circumstances and only when the employee is considered a threat. But records show 57,000 employees were off the job for at least a month over a three year span. Not only did they collect their paychecks they built up their pensions and climbed the pay scale ladder while their cases crawled through the bureaucratic process. This sounds like the rubber room in new york city except in this case, three quarters of a billion dollars. Every time we have somebody coming on saying oh, they cut 3 billion in ebola research, i mean think about what he can do with three quarters of a billion dollars at the National Institutes of health. This is insane. Its an awful lot of money. Well talk to the Washington Post reporter in a second. When you look at how wide the reasons are from conflicts to the boss, to breaking lawyers in fact, theres this wide berth of
reasons that are given and thats a big chunk of change. I have conflicts with my boss sometimes. Can i sit out and get paid. You often do so it works out well. Here with us now the Washington Post reporter. So 57,000 threats or what examples are workers of these workers being paid on paid administrative leave. Are they all problems . I would say its a mix of some people are exonerated after very lengthy investigations and some eventually are fired or forced to, forced to retire or they get worn down by the process they leave the government. These are people who for some reason are accused of some form of misconduct. Sometimes its an easy thing where theres security clearance is up for renewal and the government finds that they havent paid a visa bill. Well, you know, government
bureaucracies work very slowly so they get sent home. Sometimes they are very high level employees who maybe are accused of stealing. Sometimes they are whistle blowers as i found in my story with a biologist for the u. S. Fish and Wildlife Service out in oklahoma who raised a fuse when a Utility Company wanted to lay utility tine in the path of an endangered beetle, and her bosses succumbed to pressure from the company and she kept raising a fuse and she was sent home on administrative leave. Oh, my god. Thats an expensive beetle. Incredible story. Thats insane. That is insane, close to a billion dollars. Al, im being a politician. Around up 775. Its unbelievable. It really is. Terrific story. You dont believe me about the president. No, i dont. I think youre making this up. Dan, do we have the tape of the president voting with this guy. We do. The guy said stay away from my girlfriend. Hes barack obama. Who would be worried. Willie, im sorry. First of all, come on mike is pretty smart to do that. I mean but i like mike. Im sorry. The president is the king of cool right there. Cant get much better than that. Didnt even look up from his voting. How about mike coming in real hot with the president of the United States. My gosh. Thats so funny. The girl said the last time he went out in public in d. C. I was excited i thought you were going to be beyonce instead. This is cute. He handled it beautifully. It was magnificent. Willie the best part hes looking down and hes voting dont touch my girlfriend and he goes i wasnt planning on it. All right. Still ahead on morning joe
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the morning papers at 21 past the hour. The New York Times fashion, community is mourning the loss of an acclaimed designer this morning. Oscar de la renta passed away after complications from cancer. Born in the dominican republic, de la renta lived in spain and france before making his way to the United States where he began his own label. Known for its glamorous evening gowns, the designer dressed four first ladies, hollywoods top movie stars, Television Actresses and singers. Oscar de la renta was 82 years. What a remarkable life. Willie . Usa today news out of south africa olympic runner Oscar Pistorius as been sentenced to five years in prison for the killing of his girlfriend. His legal team expects him to spend 10 months behind bars with the remaining time one house arrest. The Washington Post, a new study says sodas can take years
off your life. According to research in the american journal of health, sugary drinks can accelerate your bodys ageing process. Scientists who conducted a study says it happens at a chromosomal level making it hard for cells to regenerate and causing the body to age more rapidly. Research shows drinking one 20 ounce soda drink daily is linked to four and a half years of additional ageing and ofeffects similar to smoking. When we were reading this story, i was telling al my poor grandma who died at 93 showed the effects of ageing the last year of her life drinking that sugar shocked tea and al said she might have made it to 94. Maybe not sweet tea. Thats a pretty shocking study. Im not shocked. I think its more the chemicals,
isnt it . People that are drinking the fake sugar and everything like that. We called it saccharin back in the 70s. Joe, you also point out about churchill. He was an alcoholic. Willie. The Hollywood Reporter lesley jones has been named the newest cast member on saturday night live. Currently a writer on the show has made some appear janes since joining snl earlier this year. She was a finalist for the cast position which eventually was offered to another. She will make her debut this saturday when jim carey hosts the big show. From nbc for new york Video Shows Police chasing a runaway carriage horse. This is de blasios new york. Why done he love animals. A spokesperson for the carriage industry says the horse escaped from its stable on
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dome your door special delivery. Hes the only person energetic to hand deliver it every morning. The first must read to willie because im going to make sure theres no smirk on your face. Okay. Willie go. This is actually something we were talking about yesterday. Gene writing in the Washington Post, Elizabeth Warren makes a powerful case. Gene writes in part senator Elizabeth Warren says shes not running for president. At this rate she may have to. Her weekend swing through colorado, minnesota and iowa to rally the faithful displayed something no other potential contender for the 2016 president ial nomination including hick, seems able to deliver a message. Shes not running for president apparently because everyone assumes the nomination is clintons. But everyone was making that same assumption eight years ago and we know what happened. If the choice is between inspiration and inevitability, warren may be forced to change
her plans. No one has a message thats break through. Not just a message for a message sake. A message that shakes up the political and financial order. The republican message in this election is my opponent once shook hands with barack obama. Right. The democratic message is my opponent is going to, you know, excise your ovaries. Exactly. Nor, no. Its that bad. Elizabeth warren is out there saying substantive stuff about the way our Financial System works, in her stump speech which is fairly polished the system is rigged. Her entire personal story matches her message. Listen, i dont know how deep her message is. I dont know how deep she can go in a lot of issues. I do know, though, al that just having her out there would
actually cause a debate in the democratic party. We saw how bad Hillary Clinton was on a book tour. I cant imagine how bad she would be in a general election without the challenge throughout the primaries. I was the first one praising her in 2008 saying how incredible she was down the stretch against barack obama. She will get a primary challenge and she needs one. Jim webb probably . Jim webb is a real possibility. I doubt warren will. What i find fascinating about warren everybody tries to put everything left right. A lot of these Democratic Senate candidates are running to the right because obama has moved the country far too left. If you look at mark pryor and other conservative democrats on social security, on medicare, on wall street, they are running to the left of obama. They are much closer to Elizabeth Warren. Which i think is really, really interesting. Fascinating. Mike you have a scoop for us this morning on the real reason why president obama picked ron klain as the ebola czar. We were just talking about it before. A lot of us on set here curious why he didnt go for a bigger pick. He has bigger things in mind for ron klain. Hes been on the short list every time hes had to look for another Senior Adviser for another chief of staff, so were told that the plan is for ron klain to do the ebola job for a few months and then when john podesta, the president s counselor moves on to the Hillary Campaign there may be space. When he moves on ron klain would move into that position as the president s counselor. Some fits all the obama criteria, the comfort food criteria, people they know, people who are good in their system. And hes the no drama pick. Ron lane doesnt leak. He doesnt yell. And he can see around corner and people in the west wing know right now they need someone who can do that. Jeremy, you think republicans are taking a cheap shot at the president here. Why . I wouldnt put it that
strongly. But i do think that if you look at every criticism republicans have made of the way this president has handled ebola has handled isis they have made recommendations, appoint a czar. Go in and arm the rebels. Once he does that they dont give him credit. What im saying is i think they need to be careful about how far they go with their attacks before they start looking disingenuous, attacking just for the sake of hammering him. I believe it was a missed opportunity, ron klain. I didnt run out of the house with my hair on fire. I didnt think this is the end, this is the end. I shrugged my shoulders like oh, why did they do that again . Why didnt they think big . Why didnt they get alan malawi or colin powell. You had another interesting name. David petraeus. Ron chain is an extraordinarily talented guy. He would being a great in that
biodesta job. This is a really skilled guy. There are two elements. One a domestic scare which is unjustified. Who can reassure people more David Petraeus or ron klain. Secondly an international cataclysm in west africa. I have a lot of respect for ron klain. Thats an interesting argument. In the International Aspect of this, one question i keep hearing people ask is how are we going to ensure the safety of the 4,000 or more u. S. Personnel, u. S. Military personnel going over. I think one thing the president might have tried to do is appoint somebody who could give that assurance, say okay this guy can make sure these guys are protected. Who better than petraeus. I agree. Would he have done it . I dont know. This is his path to redemption
and for those people who dont like drama in the white house this is not like sending more troops to the afghanistan. Hes going to ask for ten c130s and the white house says we want eight. Joe, i think the point we have to make, this is a Global Crisis and you need someone to deal with the Global Crisis. We have the doctors. We have the experts. You say theres a funny crisis in america. I dont think its a phoney crisis. As the days move forward maybe a week from now were going to see that the crisis dissipates here. Americans are going to stop paying attention to it. This is a crisis that even if its not happening here, this explosion is going on in west africa and its going to affect the entire world. Better keep our eyes on this. You dont want phoney reactions or grandstanding to this real crisis. Theres not going to be an epidemic in america. No. Not an epidemic in america but if it becomes its an example. A pandemic in west africa then the whole world is i think the term of art is screwed. I want to go back to what Kent Brantley said three or four weeks ago that got me called dr. Scarborough for quoting him. Oh, my lord. Axelrod called me dr. Scarborough. Kent brantley, who he still doesnt know how he got infected and nurses dont know how they got infected, he said were fools if we think that an ocean somehow isolates us from whats going on in west africa. We have to aggressively go after this in west africa even if it stops being front page news here. All right. Thank you did scarborough. Youve called me much worse. Still ahead on morning joe. Any way you can get me aboard
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lurking deep off the waters in your country. Probably theres a russian sub, and a minisub rather than the big conventional ones. There was a naval exercise earlier in the week where swedish, dutch and polish participated. The russia sub nusnuck in there. Would you say that the distrust is about the same or less in sweden. Its about the same and increasing. Over the last two years or so, sweden has had a pretty hard line on russia especially after the ukraine crisis but also georgia. And swedens now former foreign minister ran a pretty hard line on this issue. Is there what do they think is happening . What is the worry . What is the concern . Why are they launching these military exercises to find whatever this sub is or whatever it is . The worry is its an incursion on swedish territorial waters and every country must look after and claim its own waters, of course. The larger worry is this is just one point in a larger pattern of an increasingly assertive russia in the northern baltic region. What will they do if they find it. Will they scene down death charges. Thats what theyve done. In the 1980s they ran a number of submarine exercises and weapons were used against suspected russians, soviet submarines then. You may shoot across the bow or general area to show we know you are here and please leave. Thats a possibility. Weve obviously this year, Vladimir Putin since the olympics has been front page of the papers more than anybody
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gut. As if a stranger walked up to you on the street and punched you hard and sharp in the gut. For me, that was every day in 1998. There was a rotation of worsening name calling and descriptions of me. I would go online, read in a paper, or see on tv people referring to me as tramp, slut, whore, tart, floozy even spy. The New York Times called me the portly pepper pot. I was shattered. That was Monica Lewinsky yesterday at the forbes 30 under 30 summit, 16 years after her ordeal with president clinton what impact has she had on politics and the press and what impact is she having now as shes speaking out now about Cyber Bullying. Joining me is frances sellers and from new york the former editorinchief of parade magazine maggie murphy. Frances this is a platform that no one could speak more clearly and with incredible experience and also quite frankly elegance in the face of whats been something completely shaped and owned her life than Monica Lewinsky. I think she spoke with amazing composure and owning her name. At the beginning of the talk she said she would go out and say im Monica Lewinsky and having
to live with that name. Its ry, very hard with whats happened is in then. Here she was taking control of the message and the media by going on twitter. Very interesting decision. Using to talk about now that our teenagers face but i dont think we understand how bad it is out there unless you have them and go online which i have as a parent. Weve known about bullying. Weve raised middle school girls. But there was a time when the bullying stopped at 3 00 and people went home and there was a space in the evening. I think it was very painful. I dont think one can diminish what happened in the old days but its very different when these kids go home and alone with their computers and see whats going on in their own houses. Whats so interesting about this, she was crushed like a bug immediately from the get go. And by women and feminists. Which was so shocking. Every day of her life has been defined, willie geist, by
what happened then and yet the clintons continue to thrive. Maggie murphy and i were just talking about the same thing, maggie with 16 years distance and perspective on this scandal, what do you think when you see Monica Lewinsky. Bill clinton walks in a room, he gets stand ovation, couple hundred thousand dollars for a speech. She to her credit has laid very low for the last ten or 15 years. How do you feel about Monica Lewinsky today . Everyone who watches the speech theres an emotional release to her. Shes very charming in the speech. She delivers it really well. Shes very honest. The reality is everybody else attached to this was redeemed. Clinton was redeemed. Hillary clinton went on to an incredibly successful career. Maybe even a bigger one. You know, we remember linda tripp thanks to John Goodmans profile haver on saturday night life. Shes never owned her role in this. Thats what shes trying to do now and frame the fact that she was bullied by the media. That said shes got to do something. You can only deliver that speech once. Shes got to figure out what the next step is and what defines her for the rest of her life. In the vanity fair piece she talks about trying to find jobs, trying to reconnect. She went to the London School of business. I think she really now needs to move beyond it. Im not sure about that, maggie. Im not sure i agree with you at all. Lets play it out here. Dont you think that in this day and age theres nobody who could help people who are victims of Cyber Bullying or reputation abuse which is what happened to her. Shes chosen a course thats very prominent. I dont want to hear the speech again i want to hear more from her as to how she recovered, how shes survived, how shes made it through all these years. Theres a notion of resilience. We teach our kids resilience. How can you be resilient. Heres someone showing it took 16 years but shes showing a sense of resilience. Dont you want to hear more . I do. She has to now take to it some other place other than, you know, basically i was the person who was bullied in i was the first person, i was patient zero. The is now what . She talks in the vanity fair piece and in this speech about reaching out to tyler clementes parents, he was the boy that jumped off the George Washington bridge. She now trying to figure that out. You got to then put, is it a platform. Look, the reality is that this happened today she would get hash tag on twitter, so the question is does she belong on the view. Shes got to figure out other than that, i agree with you mika she needs to own it. I do think, though, shes shown an extraordinary amount of grace over the past 20 years. And its so funny how i look at this as a 51yearold guy with a 26yearold, 23yearold anybody that has a child what is she 22 or 23. Seriously. If anybody has a child or children that hasnt done Something Like worse or bad please raise your hand. Just hold your breath. She covered that very well in the speech. I made a mistake. I had an affair with my boss and my happened to be the president. If anybody elses children get in trouble at 22 or 23, they quietly can recover and then at 24, 25 they are back. The whole world doesnt know about it. But the question my question is the question that maggie asked, so where does she go from
here . Does she use this, excellent speech. Does she use this platform to aid other victims . Yeah thats what shes suggesting. Ill tell you, joe, they dont recover. These days when somebody who is 22, 30 or 47 when they do or Say Something that causes a stir it doesnt go away and thats her point. She survived it. She was one of the very first to literally have her name whipped around the world, reverberate for years. Because its been caught up with public figures. It happens to all sorts of people. I was thinking about tabloid journalism going back outing to people who arent used to being public figures, who arent used to be sitting in front of cameras and how hard it is to cope with that. One thing, al, theres some people when she came up before and said this should go away. I said before thats like telling somebody you go and box for 15 rounds but for eight
rounds you tie your hands behind your back and well beat the hell out of you and then after eight rounds go away. She has a right to come out and just come out and talk even though shes not carrying a burning cross. She has a right to come out. Theres a lot of people that acted, lets just say with less grace than Monica Lewinsky. What does this mean going ahead for hillary. She was 22 when this happened. She can live another 60 years. What is she supposed to do, hibernate change her name. The way she did it was so impressive. What she does. Shes not going to tabloids. Shes not selling her story. Shes dealing with a subject thats relevant to what happened to her. Absolutely. Thank you both for being on. Maggie great to see you. Coming up at the top of the hour reassuring news for democrats in two key senate races. 14 days away to election day. Whats going on. Kentucky plus during these critical times for the Obama Administration one man faces the tough questions every day, White House Press secretary josh earnest will join us on set. Do you think hes still talking to me . I hope so. The architect of the gop takeover of the house of representatives is in big trouble down in alabama. Well have that story when we come back. Introducing the Kohler Touchless toilet. receptionist Gunderman Group is growing. Getting in a groove. Growth is gratifying. Goal is to grow. Gotta get greater growth. I just talked to ups. They got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. Like smart pick ups. Theyll only show up when you print a label and its automatic. We save time and money. Time . Money . Time and money. Awesome. Awesome awesome awesome awesome
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less predictable the closer we get in. It really is. Lets take a look what we have. Michele nunn is among the democrats steering clear of president obama with two weeks to go until election today. Heres part of her campaign ad running in georgia. Have you seen this picture . Its the one david perdue has used to try to attack me in this campaign. What he doesnt tell you is that it was taken at an event honoring president bush who i worked for as ceo of his points of light foundation. Nunn used another ad with the former president s image earlier this year and because hes endorsed her republican opponent the bush team asked her to stop saying shes repeatedly disregarded his wishes. Democrats in tough battles are staying alive. Alison Lundergan Grimes who saw money dry up is down just one point to republican senator Mitch Mcconnell. Well take these one by one. Really quickly because al you
said something last hour im not aware of. Al you said that this poll has been kinder to grimes . It has been. So do you think this is an outlier. Im not sure. All the other polls ive seen and im sure josh will show mitch with a six or eventpoint advanta advantage. This race is tough. Theres going to be a tough race to the end. Are your skeptical of that onepoint margin . Im skeptical at the end of the day she will win this race. I would say al is largely right. A lot of those other polls, though, are what are generally seen as lower quality polls. Theres a few out in the last couple of days that have shown him at 50 and her in the mid40s. Having said that, this is definitely the most favorable poll for her but its a blue grass poll, its put together by survey usa. So, you know, theres a little
of each. I would say theres at that reason why the National Democrats pulled out of this race, but, you know, legitimate poll onepoint back its hard to say its over. I would say in nate silvers reign of pollsters, survey usa does quite well. Its very interesting. A lot of people say this poll like for instance i heard people for three election cycles oh, thats an automated poll. I would take ppps record over the past three election cycles over survey usa. Mitch mcconnell, that race is still going on. Up in New Hampshire, senator jean shaheen is hanging on to a three point lead over republican scott brown according to a suffolk poll president 4946. What do you think about that . Ive always thought that
shaheen would pull this out. And she consistently has this three point edge, twopoint edge, i think shes going to make it through. Theres a huge gender gap in that race. The biggest in the country. Scott brown turns a lot of women off rubs them off in the wrong way. He comes off to cocky and arrogant. Before we came on you were talking about how the gender gap has largely disappeared for a lot of democrats who are really underperforming among women. Its not nearly as sizable and advantageous as it once was. Colorado is a prime example of that. Mark udall is on the defensive about making his race so much about Birth Control and reproductive rights. He used to have a double digit gender gap. Now that shrunk to about nine points. And cory gardner his republican opponent has a 20 point lead
with men. Theres evidence some of this of course the denver post mocked him. Its republicans. And the denver post. And the denver post actually endorsing cory gardner because hes overplayed his hand. About gender gap, i believe that that one point Mitch Mcconnell edge in that blue grass poll is from women and in fact hes a point ahead with women and tied. Speaking of women, bloomberg has a really fascinating story out this morning that the republicans, talking about candidates and outside groups are really disproportionately targeting women Democratic Candidates with antiterror ads. Isis and ebola. Two dozen ads have run against kay hagan and alison Lundergan Grimes of antiterrorists. Only 200 against bruce braley
and mark pryor. Are your going to be weak on terror. Speak of women and Public Policy polling, which i talked about before, they have senator kay hagan up three points over tom tillis in North Carolina. With kasie hunt down there. Josh, this is just one of those races, again, there may be huge republican wave and republicans may pick up eight, nine who knows. This is just one of those races where kay hagan has stubborn ll one, two, three, four points ahead. Remember we had gallup polls where mitt romney was up by 11 points. Another media poll came out in ohio and damn it mitt romney cant get within four of ohio. If he cant get within four of ohio im saying this three weeks out this is going to be tough. I see the same thing in North Carolina. Theres so much money spent in
this race and yet kay hagan still two, three, four points ahead in most polls. As weve gotten more polls in the last couple of weeks, theres been one poll that showed until lus ahead, maybe one tied. You look at them all and as you said its not a big lead but really consistent. As you say, if it does turn out which i dont expect to be really kind of a blowout and you have, you know, republicans winning, you know, eight, nine seats its because someone like kay hagan goes down. But the polls just dont show. That would be a big surprise. You know what, that margin is more impressive than it looks because theres a libertarian candidate a pizza delivery guy who is getting five and six percent. The undecided is really josh correct me if im wrong the undecided is only 5 . Really small. Im always skeptical when people in manhattan or new york where ive lived for the
majority of my life now, but when people in manhattan and new york go oh, this candidate will lose because a legislature went too far to the right and they are way to conservative, i will say in this race, having a state senator that was in North Carolina when North Carolina went very conservative, im talking about the assembly, went very, very conservative after 2010, did a lot of things that moved further right than a purple state like North Carolina, i do think that is a real drag on him and i do think that is making a lot of moderate republicans, a lot of conservative democrats who always vote republican in president ial elections going, you know what . That legislature, that governor went too far right. I dont know if i want him. The africanamerican vote too to a much greater extent. Its not just the lurc thompb
the right the legislature has looked extremely dysfunctional. Its come down to a question in that race who do the voters dislike. Remember congress this dysfunctional congress. So, you got, you know, you got to really, really active and experienced democratic ground game in North Carolina. So the question smika, whats the matter with kansas . I cant figure it out. One poll shows roberts down by ten. Most of them show its dead locked. Monmouth poll of kansas shows independent greg orman dead locked with incumbent republican pat roberts. There you go 4646. Josh, the question is are you going to have kansas at the end of the day go out, do what kansasians do and vote republican or is this something where the independent can really pull off the big upset . Until a week or so ago, roberts couldnt get up above the 30s, really, right . Even when it was down a two person race. As much as kansas is so republican, you know, how do you make up 15 points in a couple of week. Yet he does seem the last couple of polls seems hes tied it. At the end of the day, its a republican state, very nationalized campaign. Whether the democrats like it or not its very focused on senate control. Im shocked two weeks ago i didnt think it was possible, frankly. Now it seems like its doable for roberts. Again such a republican state. You feel like that kind of muscle memory will come back at the last minute. Yeah. Its funny you say that. I love that phrase, that political muscle memory because thats what i always tell candidates all the time, every time a new republican candidate comes. Im going to run and get 75 of the africanamerican vote because im different than every other white republican voter. I hear it all the time. I say and i say, theres a muscle memory. Theres a branding problem. You got it, brother. But kansas, though, theres a muscle memory and also for pat roberts. You know i just saw pat roberts, so funny you talk about the charisma. Somebody was asking for a wool subsidy and insulted pat roberts and pat roberts said the gentleman and the sheep he rode into washington, d. C. On can take that argument straight back to wherever. And i just kind of chuckled. Hes very understated, hes very soft spoken but i just wonder at the end of the day if they dont go, okay we scared good old pat maybe he can at least get a condo in dodge city. You know what im saying . Its that muscle memory that josh is talking about. Its not like this guy is a jerk. Hes sort of grumpy, sort of quiet sort of . Hes very midwest, though. Hes not the type of guy that people are going go with pitch forks to the polls and say we got to get pat roberts out that son of a bitch. Republicans brought their agame too. They fired the former campaign staff. They have their top people running this. Thats one more structural problem that democrats have in this race. Josh marshal thank you so much. Great to have you on the show. Great having you. Are we going talk about the president s evolution. Its so good. We will. The president has evolved. Hes evolved so fast, in fact i have vertigo because in 2008 he said marriage was between a man and a woman and then in 2012 he finally moved to where i was and said it should be a state issue. But now hes saying its a
constitutionally god given right and i think its so good when people he just did. All right. Isnt that fascinating . And he did it all in what two election cycles. I feel everything he has to say fascinating. Youre so smart youre like a doctor. All right. Still ahead new york style basketball when the knicks were actually fun to watch. Actor and director joins us later this hour with his new project espn played this 3030 film. Is there a link between traumatic head injuries and domestic violence. What a new study could mean for the nfl. Plus, being paid to be punished, why thousands of federal workers are still on the clock despite being told to stay away from their jobs. Well be right back. You want to be the best investor you can be. You want to cut through the noise of an overwhelming amount of analysis. [ all talking ] you want the insights that will help you decide which ideas to execute and which to leave behind. You want your trades executed in one second or less, guaranteed, and routed with institutionalquality technology. Look no further. Open an account and find more of the expertise you need to be a better investor. When laquinta. Com sends him a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes . I think the numbers speak for themselves. Im sold a selling machine ready for you alert, only at lq. Com. How did edward jones get so big . Let me just put this away. Could you teach our kids that trick . [ male announcer ] by not acting that way. Its how edward jones makes sense of investing. Its how edward jones im just looking over the company bills. Up . Is that what we pay for internet . Yup. Dsl is about 90 bucks a month. Thats funny, for that price with comcast business, i think you get like 50 megabits. Wow thats fast. Personally, i prefer a slow internet. There is something about the sweet meditative glow of a loading website. Dont listen to the naysayer. Switch to comcast Business Today and get 50 megabits per second for 89. 95. Comcast business. Built for business. Okay. Time now to take a look at the morning papers. The New York Daily News a study out of Boston University says there may be a link between brain injuries and domestic violence. Scientists found legs on the an terrifio temporal lobe of many retired football players, the brain responsible for selfcontrol and emotion. Damage to that area may cause concussion victims to lose control and have a shorter fuse. Doctors say that many players who develop the brain disease cte become more assaulting, overreactive. Look at the helmet. This is a fix. This is a fix that can to be done. You talk to rugby players. Yeah, how do you guys do that . Doesnt it barb your head in. They go no, we dont use our heads as weapons. Chuck ive seen High School Teams now that players will actually have like rubber on the outside of their helmets. They can make helmets, they are thinking about making helmets the problem is the concussion, the injury happens when the brain hits the skull. So theres a limit to what you can do with the helmet. Theres a radical argument that says no helmets might mean fewer concussions. Because you dont go with the head. I know its a weird i totally agree. Thats rugby argument. Thats the rugby argument. No helmets who lead to fewer concussions. Because people would change the way they play. Or at a minimum no facemasks. They got to try something radical because this is going to get worse not better. Parents are going to say, you
know what . I had this conversation with so many parents. How we grew up. I grew up on football. I started playing football when i was 5. Its the most Important Team building thing i ever learned as a kid. Football. Its weird. You cant describe it because its the one sport where if you dont do your job, ten other people its an Incredible Team builder. By the way, ive been knocking the nfl, ive been talking about football. Chuck, seriously, i coached it for a couple of years in florida. And i need to be careful about what im saying here. Im going say it. I remember in 11th grade when it was 101 degrees and the humidity of 98 and we were doing two a days and the coaches back then were crazy as hell works get a little bit of water, some kids actually died in northwest florida about one a year would die. I remember at one point going if i can get through this, i find
it hard to believe that anything i ever do will be more physically grueling. You know here i am 30 years later, nothing has come close to that. And you built this team im talking about you know, you built this camaraderie and football is a character building in this. I dont want it to go away. But its not worth it. F equals ma. Bigger, they are faster, the collisions are its all coming together. When i said that i knew i wasnt going to go off to war, obviously. No. But im just saying for those of us who know were going to stay stateside theres few things you can do in high school that brings bring you together. Mika is going kill us. But the changing of the game into a passing game has made it where its sped up the game where it was dully three yards and a cloud of dust it was safer. This is a good conversation. I thought you were going tell the story no. No. I won tell the story. That was my shining moment. I got to say, i was good as a high school coach. I kept it together. Man when i was a Little League coach. Your son. And my son. You whats worse coaching your son being a sideline dad and second guessing. I might have done that with my kids. Joey will tell you that when i coached him i did the opposite because i always hated the dads that would, you know, put their sons out there. Their son was the quarterback or the pitcher. Magically that halls happened. It worked the opposite. I was so tough on swroey at one point his friends came up to me and go
please dont tell the story. I wont say what i said to them. They said coach scarborough you can be a little nicer to your son. Joey, i would be tough to him. We would get in the car he would look straight ahead and we drive off and he says i understand why youre doing it but believe me, dad, nobody thinks youre showing me favoritism. It went the other way. Its better the other way. Good for them. Alabama state House Speaker has been arrested on 23 counts of felony corruption. The grand jury indictment accuses the republican of using his office to benefit his own business and soliciting help from some of the states biggest names including the former governor. He was one of the republican architects of the 2010 election cycle ousting democrats from control of the state house for the first time in more than 130 years. He called the investigation a witchhunt. First time, chuck, that
republicans have been in alabama, controlled alabama. Same thing has happened in south carolina. Is there a one party state where you dont have problems like this . We have a one party state that dominates everything, somebody profits off of that. Theres something about the more competitive the state is less corruption there is. I can show you my phone sheen you the indicted felons in my contact list. Voters are inured to this. What i heard from steve israel and he said whats not working against Michael Grimm the republican from Staten Island is people just dont, they shrug when they hear it. Its so common in new york politics. Politicians is Michael Grimm going to win yes. Incredible. Thats a fight between mob families. Whoa i dont know. I dont know what happens on Staten Island. What you guys do on Staten Island is cool with me. I dont want to know. Im kidding. Okay. Its whats described to me just like this personal war between two warring families that it really has nothing to do with politics. We disassociate ourselves with anything chuck todd says. Mobster or not mobster, i dont know. Wow this is a guy that has a reporter right . This is the guy, this guy that said this is a real problem. Voters have built in this they just assume all politicians are a little bit corrupt. Thats the problem right now. Theres they are all a little bit corrupt. And the question is which one of
them gets enough of the job done. Have you ever had the tomato sauce . Yes. Obviously good. Michael cordeleone says hello. President obama has another change of heart on the issue of same sex marriage. The president says he believes the constitution allows gays and lesbian couples to be married. Now of course when he first ran for president in 2008 then senator barack obama believed marriage should be between a man and a woman before his first run for president. Saying i am not in favor of gay marriage. Wait a second. Six months before the 2012 president ial election president obama announced he was in favor of same sex marriage but believed it should be worked out on the local level. Then came joe biden. Josh said he was for it. They get really angry. The white house got really angry. Joe biden was ostracized. Now its a constitutionally protect the heavens opened up and sunshine shined through and now barack obama is a true believer. Thats fascinating. When you talk to gay activists who work with the white house one of the complaints you hear most often is the president does not seem to have many gay friends. Course we know having gay friends and relatives is one of the things that most quickly changes your mind on these issues. How does he not have any gay friends . I mean he does seem by all dots be a very insular person. Surrounded himself with the same group of people for a very long time. I dont think it included many gay people. The element of the president might be listening to the federal judiciary which seems to be fairly unanimous on this point, actually, federal judges believe listening to what the Supreme Court said earlier in fact there is a constitutional
right. Hes probably who hes hanging out with. Chuck, weve been showing some polls, the races. How do you see things breaking out . North carolina is still tight. Kentucky, the blue grass poll, do you believe the blue grass poll . Is it a one point race . They have been consistently the best poll for grimes. Every other poll has had it a little wider, mcconnell lead. They are out there on a limb. Eat they are right and everybody else is wrong on this on that front. So well see. This feels this entire election cycle feels more like 06 than 10. Remember in 06 the results felt like a wave but every race was close. Virginia was close. Montana was close. These were close races. Mccaskill won. But it was close. These were close races. All of these races, 2010 were blowouts in some form or another particularly on the house front. Republicans could win their seven, eight, nine and win a
bunch of 5149s. Thats what this feels like, a very closely fought individual campaign. Do you see any trends. Very slowly moving towards the republicans. The question is democrats much more prepared than 2010. Its a category 3 hurricane. And theyve got a bunch of protections built in. And thats sort of like will their seawall hold. Chuck todd, thank you very much. All right, chuck. I think you made another ad, just saying. Stop. Still ahead. Ill never come on the show again. We love it. Will this woman, a libertarian candidate in georgia derail democratic hopes of keeping the senate . Plus, one recent headline says that big labor is bailing on democrats, the president of the aflcio might disagree and he joins us next. Get to the terminal across town. Are all the green lights you . No. Its called grid iq. The 4 51 is leaving at 4 51. They cut the power. Itll fix itself. Powers back on. Quick thinking traffic lights and self correcting power grids make the world predictable. Thrillingly predictable. Twhat do i do . You need to catch the 4 10 huh . The Equipment Tracking system will get you to the loading dock. There should be a truck leaving now. I got it. Now jump off the bridge. What . In 3. 2. 1. Are you kidding me . Go. Right on time. Right now, over 20,000 trains are running reliably. We call that predictable. Thrillingly predictable. Into one youll never forget. Earn points for every flight and every hotel. Expedia plus rewards. Here with us now the president of the aflcio richard trumka. Always good to see you. You have been all over the place. Like a grateful dead tour. You should have a tshirt with the cities youve been to. Lets start i would think for a lot of your members, for them, wisconsin is ground zero still. You got a close governors race up there with scott walker. Do you think you win that race . I do. Its not been tough for us to get volunteers in wisconsin. Because this guy is not only just antiworker governor in wisconsin he is like the poster child for that across the country. Were working hard there. We have a lot of people out on phone banks and were getting a great response and i think ultimately all of these races, by the way are close but we win that one. I said in 2010 i think it was i predicted harry reid would win because the unions were so strong in nevada and they had a ground game. What is one race youll suspect well say that the morning after in a tight race where unions will make a big difference other than wisconsin and scott walker lose theres. Whats another race michigan, maine, both of
those. We heard in michigan that governor snider is doing better than expected. Do you think you can win in michigan . I do. Our ground game is picking up. The last couple of weeks weve seen a swing in that direction. More volunteers. Better response at the doors. Better response on the phones. So i think all of these races maine as well . Tell bus the candidates. All of these race, by the way will come down to turn out and i think our ground game and our ability to turn out voters will make the difference. Hats more important to the member of a union for you. Winning a governors race or winning a senators race. It all depends. They are both important to us. Thats why this time we focused on about 13 states, 14 states with senators, governors and on down the ballot, the state legislature. The mess in d. C. Where you cant get anything done because of Mitch Mcconnells obstruction style politic, were looking at
states. I would say harry reid, you say Mitch Mcconnell. Agree to disagree. What about florida. And charlie crist, rick scott, how do you see that . That race is dead even and, again, it will come down to turn out. Again, im sort of optimistic about that one. I think we end up winning because i think its a, you know cyst is a good candidate. He works hard. Been good for workers. Plus hes got the fan. Richard trumka thank you so much. Great to have you on the show. Happy travels. Good luck to you. Have you back after the election. And you can say you were right, you were wrong. I like toby held accountable. We would never do that. Still ahead knicks fans are longing for the days of willis reed after 41 years without an nba title. Well take a look back to when Madison Square garden was an
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years has felt, i always come back to that word. Shame. My own personal shame. Shame that befell my family and shame that befell my country. Our country. Frankly, i came close to disintegrating. No, its not too strong a word. I wish it were. But it isnt. Today i think of myself has someone who, who the hell knows how survived. But having survived myself, what i want to do now is help other victims of the shame game survive too. I want to put my suffering to good use and give purpose to my past. So that was Monica Lewinsky. You said that was incredible off camera. I really think it is. Let me tell you something. To show you exactly why what shes talking about is so important and so completely relevant to, especially, young people today, gene you got im sitting there and moments after we talked about this show earlier i got, you know, a text from somebody trolling saying the thing that happened to Monica Lewinsky should happen to all home wreckers. Theres this anger out there against her for 22yearold girl. By the way, you say 22yearold girl. If you got a 26yearold and 23yearold boy, you got i have a 31. I have a 24yearold. Theres no doubt by the way my son now at 26, you know what . Youthful indiscretion thing hes passing that by. A 22yearold girl. Any parent our age would say girl. 22yearold girl thats swept up something in that by the most powerful guy of the United States, taken advantage of in a way that nobody should be taken advantage of and in that situation, to get through that and then andrea to stand up like that, i dont know. Im pretty darn im pretty darn impressed. To think what she has been through evolved and now to come out publicly. Of course the timing politically awkward to say the least for the clintons. Bill clinton is right now the most Popular Democratic surrogate on the campaign, bar none. Polling where candidates want him to be. The demand for him right now. And he is for him this had completely faded away in terms
of the political and the Public Perception and now shes out there with a new campaign and one as you point out that is badly needed in this country. Absolutely. She has a unique voice. This need for sympathy and sense of empathy on the internet where it doesnt exist, what you just said, andrea, it highlights exactly what shes talking about. Bill clinton is the most popular man on earth. You could argue in the scenario that they were they were in the house he was responsible and shes paying the price. Still being ridiculed. Still being bullied on the internet. Still coming out quite frankly with elow consequence and discipline and a little bit of restraint even. A lot of people who have handled this differently, perhaps cashed in differently. Yet shes got something to share in terms of being able to help people survive something that is gutty. Jeremy. I wonder how Hillary Clinton
responds to this. Theres no doubt she will be asked about it. They to a very good job of keeping her away from impromptu interactions with the press where these things can come up. She will be asked. Does anybody here have any idea how she responds. I think she ignores it. Its likely she wont be asked about it any time soon because shes not very much exposed to interviews. Shes always in fairly controlled situations. So i think the clintons ignore it and say thats the past, thats what she did in living history in her book. Thats where most americans are anyway. Most americans do see this as the past. This is more of a personal thing for Monica Lewinsky. For those of us who lived and worked through that whole episode, i think, well never forget the name Monica Lewinsky. And i think its interesting and good that we now have a moment to kind of reflect on how crazy
that was and the impact it had on the individuals involved. I was just thinking, just very quickly she opened her talk in philadelphia to these millennials by saying, my name is Monica Lewinsky. Then she paused and she said something to the effect of and people have been asking me why i didnt change that name. And someone to me last night why didnt she change her name . Why should she change her name . Thats her identity. Im sorry. Why wouldnt bill clinton change his name . Because hes im just saying, if youre going to ask that of the by the way, thats not a jab at bill clinton, thats a jab at everybody writing nasty texts and tweets to gene or asking that question why wouldnt you ask bill clinton to change his name. Why would you ask a 22yearold intern to change her name. I dont get this. I still quite dont get this. I think her platform is much needed. Its fascinating. Why didnt she change her name. Well be right back. When salesman alan ames books his room at laquinta. Com, he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. So he knows exactly when he can check in and power up before his big meeting. And when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens . I think the numbers speak for themselves. Im sold hes a selling machine put it there. And there, and there, and there. La quinta inns suites is ready for you, so youll be ready for business. The ready for you alert, only a laquinta. Com la quinta ameriprise asked people a simple question in retirement, will you have enough money to live life on your terms . I sure hope so. With healthcare costs, who knows. Umm. Everyone has retirement questions. So ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. Now you and your ameripise advisor. Can get the real answers you need. Start building your confident retirement today. Theres confidence. Then theres trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. Our expertise, technology, and high quality parts means your peace of mind. Its no wonder last year we sold over three million tires. And during the big tire event, get up to 140 in mailin rebates on four select tires. Means keeping seven billion ctransactions flowing. G, and when weather hits, its data mayhem. But airlines running hp endtoend solutions are always calm during a storm. So if your business deals with the unexpected, hp big data and Cloud Solutions make sure you always know whats coming and are ready for it. Make it matter. A single ember that escapes from a wildfire can travel more than a mile. That single ember can ignite and destroy your home or even your community you cant control where that ember will land only what happens when it does get fire adapted now at fireadapted. Org just had an announcement from the press row that willis just received 200 cc of cortisone. I had my camera in the training room. I took pictures of him getting a
shot. He had a needle about that long that went up into his muscle. Were about three minutes away from the introduction of the starting lineups and you figure hes not playing. Hes not out there. About two minutes later, out cops the captain. Turn around and heres willis coming out. From oh my god. Here comes willis. Here he comes right now. 610. The most valuable player of the nba. The place erupted. 19,500 plus. I mean, i can still hear it. That was part of the new espn 30 for 30 documentary when the garden was eden. Here with us now, the narrator and director of this great film, michael rappaport. Im a knicks fan like you. I grew up in jersey. Its been 41 years since they won a title. Can you believe its been that
long . I cant believe it. It was crazy. When Patrick Ewing came it was 20 years. Now its 41 years. Its tough. Its tough. But well get it. Well get it soon. I just dont want to get to a situation like the cubs or the red sox where its like, i just dont want to be i dont want to die without seeing them win a title. This is new york. This is a basketball city. People talk about it being the mecca of basketball. Even though its been 41 years. It really goes back to this team aulg these teams. Why were they so special . The characters. The personalities. The fact that they won in new york, it changed basketball. Before those knicks won the nba was dominated by the Boston Celtics and the only people that cared about that were people in boston. God bless their souls. But when the knicks won in new york in front of the madison avenue madmen and with the drama
of willis reid and the personalities and the bill bradley and the frazier, the nba, the players became stars, unlike the league had ever seen before, and thats a fact. And that was the beginning of it becoming an entertainment league. Before that it was like a mom and pop league. It was like a niche sort of. They didnt sell out. The knicks would get kicked out of the garden when the circus came to town. Is that right . Yeah. The circus sold more tickets than the new york knicks. Thats what it was. As you point out in the film, its such an interesting mix of guys. Yeah. You have pearl, you have clyde. This huge personality at the time. Then you have guys like phil jackson, a role player. Dave, same thing. And here comes bill bradley, who takes two years after college to become a road scholar before he goes to the nba. He was the original great white hope. It was like a beatle coming to the knicks. His first game, people were
cheering in the layup line. People were cheering hen he tied his shoes. The anticipation and expectations were overwhelming. A good looking, Ivy League White guy. He of course found his way. Hes beloved. The characters and the personalities. I mean, bill bradley, at the time he was playing for the knicks. He wrote an article saying some day this guy might run for president , and he did. And we have to talk about the moment when he came into this segment. We didnt know if he was going to come out. That moment has become shorthanded culture for playing hurt or six. N nice willis reid. Why was that so special . It was an iconic moment in sports are and an iconic new york moment. Its been duplicated in films. The moment has been shown in commercials that have nothing to do with sforts. Its like a rocky moment. You couldnt hascripted it. He won the mvp. He scored four points in the game. The drama there was so real. Its one of the most iconic moments in sports. Its been told over and over. Like i still i watched that scene in the editing room 400 times. I still get goose bumps watching it and ive seen it so much. But its a special moment. Its very genuine. Hes a genuine, toic, old school tough guy, willis reid, but a swede guy. It was a real pleasure to get to talk to all of those guys. Must have been a thrill. Real quick, phil jackson is now back with the team. Are we going to break this cycle pretty soon . The phil jackson cant get us to where we need to get to. Im going to become a new Orleans Pelicans fan. I think phil is going to lead the knicks with us where we need
to be. I think hes competitive. He didnt need to take the job for money. His legacy is intact no matter what happens. We have to be patient. But i think were going to improve. More patient, mike. I dont know how much i got. I know, i know. I cant believe i told you to this be patient. Congratulations. The film is incredible. It premiers tonight on espn, 9 00 eastern. It is fantastic. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Still ahead, mr. President , dont touch my girlfriend. Not something you expect to hear in the voting booth. The president s cold response to one bold voter in chicago. Straight ahead. [ male announcer ] youre watching one of the biggest Financial Services companies in the country at work. Hey. Thanks for coming over. Hey. [ male announcer ] how did it come to be . Yours . Ah. Not anymore. Its a very short story. Come on in. [ male announcer ] by meeting you more than halfway. Its how edward jones makes sense of investing. [ male announcer ] by meeting you more than halfway. Transferred money from his before larry instantly bank of america savings account to his merrill edge retirement account. Before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling winter an underserved season. And before he quit his friends leafraking business for not offering a 401k. Larry knew the importance of preparing for retirement. Thats why when the time came he counted on merrill edge to streamline his investing and help him plan for the road ahead. Thats the power of streamlined connections. Thats merrill edge and bank of america. I tell them aveeno®. Because Beautiful Skin goes with everything. [ female announcer ] aveeno® daily moisturizing lotion has active naturals® oat
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the golden bubble part for me. The nice part, the nasty part was that it became public. Public with a vengeance. Overnight i went from being a completely private figure, to a publicly humiliated one. I was patient zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the internet. Good morning. It is tuesday, october 21st. With us onset in washington, we have New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and columnist for bloomberg, al hunt, along with willie up in new york and joe and me here in washington. We have a ton of political news to get to. Its heating up. But, you know, we may as well
throw you the softball and let you go. What . Monica. I thought it was really compelling. I thought it was, too. I thought she had a real platform. Shes the first person whose name exploded on the internet and life has been defined by one thing. By one thing, and ruined quite frankly. As a 22yearold girl. If anyone wants to think something badly or Say Something, they may want to think fi any of their daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts, would have found themselves perhaps in a similar situation at 22 years old. If anybody has a son or daughter at least 22 or 23, you may want to be quiet. If they have not done something at least as bad i was asking somebody this earlier. And he raised both hands and said she was taken advantage of by somebody who preyed upon her. And what she has done since then
is for the most part keep fairly quiet, move on with her life, and now shes making a platform on something extremely serious, Cyber Bullying. I have two teenagers. I see what goes on throughout. It makes what happened in the white house like childs play. Her life was ruined. Sheefs 22 years old. She was taken advantage of by her boss. For people who say she should go away. Well, youre going to fight for 15 rounds with your arms behind your back. You dont just go away. I think shes carried herself with dignity. Itch a just turned 25yearold daughter so i want to recuse myself from the situation. And i have a 26 and 23yearold boy. Im saying, we all understand. I mean. Wouldnt it be horrible to have your children judged by whey they did for the rest of their
lives at 22. Its very unfair. Shes entitled to a life. I she, youre right. I dont know much about her since her fame or anything. Which is something. A lot of people cash in in many ways. Also the issue itself. I know well get to news. But tarnls face a very different, you know, composition of life than we would come close to understanding. Everything they do is out there. They dont understand until theyve done it how it flies around on the internet. She does. Were going to talk more about this. Lets go to news. President obama has cast his vote in this years midterm. Well, he campaigned its hysterical. He campaigned for governor of illinois. He largely stays away from states where democrats are locked in tough races. He may not be helping meps of his own party trying to distance hems from the white house. Heres what the president said earlier this month and then in a radio interview yesterday. Im not on the ballot this fall. Michelle is pretty happy about that. But make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot. Every simg l one of them. A lot of the states that are contested this time are states that i didnt win. And so some of the candidates there, you know, it is difficult for them to have many e in the state because the republicans will use that to try to fan rk turnout. The bottom line is, though, these are all folks who vote with me, they have supported my agenda in congress. They are on the right side of minimum wage. Theyre on the right side of rebuilding our infrastructure. Theyre on the right side of Early Childhood education. Sop this isnt about my feelings being hurt. These are folk who is are strong supporters and allies of me. And i tell them, you do what you need to win. I will be responsible for making sure that our voters turn out. Its like the aunt that comes after you and tries to hug you, and the kids push him away. Come on. Give me. Hes saying theyre with me, theyre with me. Theyre with me. Ive been in georgia and North Carolina. Isnt that crazy . You ever see the president doesnt get it . Youre not wanted here right now. Well talk to you day after election. Ive seen a if you have. Ive been in North Carolina and georgia and if a democratic candidate is talking about minimum wage, pay ek kwity, a number of issues, they do fine. If they talk about obamas pay equity or minimum wage, they run
away from it. How is it looking in georgia . You have jimmy carters grandson. I think a runoff in both races. And e will not yes. December and january. I will not be surprised if Michelle Nunn finishes ahead of purdue. And willie, we have a an awful lot of polls out today. And we can start with u. S. Candidate michelle nu in, n we were just talking about in georgia. Shes among democrats steering clear of the president , but shes in a close race. But heres part of her campaign ad running in georgia. Zblf have you seen this picture . Its the one david perdue has used to try to attack me in this campaign. What he doesnt tell you is it was taken at an event honoring president bush, who i worked for as ceo of his points of light foundation. Nunn used another ad with the former president s image because hes endorsed her republican
opponent, h. W. Bushs camp asked her team to stop using his image, saying shes repeatedly disregarded his wish. Democrats in tough battles are staying alive in the latest wave of polls. Alis Alison Grimes is down in the blue gross poll in kentucky. Thats a statistic call tie according to the one poll. Up in New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen is staying on top. Kay hagan is up three over republican tom tillis in North Carolina. Thats a statistic call tie. And a new poll from kansas shows infeint gred orman is deadlocked with incumbent republican pat roberts in kansas. You guys. All of these polls. Away for the democrats. Away for the republicans. Now everyone is saying the
republicans are looking good. Boy, these polls. In New Hampshire, North Carolina, kentucky now. It looked like youre having a tightening here. Every one of those polls will be seen as bad news for republicans a month ago. Thats exactly right. And the way this race has seesawed back and forth, im not going to be stupid enough to make my predictions about what happens on election night. Can you believe it . I will say i think kansas and south dakota are much harder for the democrats thean conventional wisdom will suggest. Why is that . Theres a reason the republicans carry these states for long and democrats will tell you theyre not as bullish. About kansas . About kansas. But if youre roberts and bng around that long and still tied or trailing in polls . Its not out of reach. But its tough. The way one democratic senator
described it to me was 2006 in tennessee when ford looked like he up with up and he didnt. He was running against a strong candidate, those. What about kentucky . That bluegrass poll always shows grimes doing better than other polls. I think theres two narratives. The republicans think theres momentum with isis and ebola. And theres going to be a small tie. Not a big one. The democrats think its so close its going to come to ap ground game where they have the edge. There are up to ten races we are not certain who will win. This really could. We could wake up the morning after and have the democrats firmly in charge or having a huge republican sweep. Or we could wake up not knowing at all and having at least four or five states still uncertain. Including georgia, which has a runoff on january 6th. The day after the the new senate
comes back. In alaska, dl are still hundreds of precincts where they count ballots by hand. And if orman or presler should win, let the bidding begin. So well show this later because we need to move on. We have a guest coming up on another story. The president was voting yesterday. M and he was voting next to this nice lady. And her boyfriend comes up to the president and goes, dont touch my girlfriend. Gosh. What are you talking about . And the president had a conversation with the lady about it. That was barack obama . Yes. Exactly. Thats the wrong democratic president said to say that too. Thats dont touch my boyfriend . Exactly. I get it now. Washington post i wasnt talking about jimmy carter. Taxpayers shelled out 775 million to kor the salaries of thousands of federal workers
sent home from a job but still collecting paychecks. Some of the employees were still being paid more than a year after they were put on administrative leave. The practice was intended to be used in rare circumstances. And only when the employee is considered a threat. But records show 57,000 employees were off the job for at least a month over a threeyear span. Ch not only did they collect paychecks, but they climbeded the pay scale ladder while their cases crawled through the bureaucratic process. This sounds like the rubber rooms in new york city. Except in this case, three quarters of a billion dollars. Every time we have somebody coming on saying, oh, they cut 3 million in ebola research, i mean, think about what he can do with three quarters of a billion dollars at the National Institutes of health. Its an awful lot of money. But when you look at how wide
the reasons are. From conflicts with a boss to breaking laws. Theres a wide birth of reasons that are given. Thats a big chunk of change. I have conflicts with my boss. Can i sit out and get paid . You often do. Here us us now, Washington Post reporter 57,000 threats . What are examples of these workers being on paid administrative lives . Are they all problems . I would say its a mix of some people are exonerated after lengthy investigations. Some are eventually fired or forced to retire or they get so worn down by the process, that they leave the government. But these are people who for some reason are accused of some form of misconduct. Times its an easy thing where
security clearance is up for renewal and the government finds they havent paid a visa bill. Well, you know, government bureaucracies work very slowly. So they get sent home. Sometimes theyre highlevel employees accused of stealing. Sometimes theyre whistle blowers. As i found in my story for a biologist with the fish and Child Life Service in oklahoma who raised a fus when a you the illty company wanted to lay utility line in the path of an endangered beatle. And her bosses succumbed to punish from the company. And she kept raising a fuss, and she was sent home. Oh my goshed. Incredible story, lisa . Thats insane. That is insane. Close to a billion dollars. Im being a politician here. I round up. But isnt that thats unbelievable. It really is. Its a terrific story. Still dont believe me about the president . I think we have it. Do we have the tape of the president voting with this guy and his girlfriend. Stay away from my girlfriend . Hes barack obama. Who would be worried. Theres an example of a brother just embarrassing you for no reason. Just for no reason whatsoever. And now youll be going back home and talking to your friends about that. Whats his name . Mike. Frabl mike. I was just fortified. Fortunately the president was nice about it. So it was already. Thank you so much. Mike seems like a decent guy. Im sorry. First of all. Come on. Mike is pretty smart to do that. I mean. Just because were here talking about it. But im sorry. The president is the king of cool right there, baby. Gl didnt even look up from his voting. He handled that really well. How about mike . Coming in real hot with the president of the United States. Last time he went out in public in d. C. , oh, i was exciteded. I thought you were going to be beyonce instead. This is cute. That is funny. He did handle it beautifully. It was magnificent. And the best part, hes looking down and voting, dont
touch my girlfriend. He goes, i wasnt planning on it. Still ahead on morning joe. The morning after the election well be looking to georgia to find out who controls the senate. And will a Third Party Candidate affect it all . And josh b earnest joins us in set on washington. But first bill karins with a check on the forecast. Our favorite. Lets get that right. Good morning, everyone. A noreaster is coming. Its not to scary. Some only bring rain and a little bit of wind. And new england, especially tonight in maine, and then tomorrow will be the real deal. From new york northward. So travel is okay now. Its cloudy. A lot of showers are out there. Cape cod will get hit with rain. The real deal will be tomorrow with the storm system. And forecast forecast the forecast, we shouldnt see anything too bad. We will watch heavier rains developing. Today we couldnt see a shower or storm in d. C. Theyll be widespread out there. Were not going to see a ton of rain now the northwest. Were watching rain, showers and we call this like a rain train. This is the jet stream coming straight into the pacific. That will lead to a lot of heavy rain in oregon and washington state. Four to eight inches in the mown tass. The totals are pretty high. Two to four inches possible. So as far as the forecast goes for your tuesday. Dallas is beautiful. Kansas city looks great, too. A world series starts tonight. You couldnt ask for a better forecast. San francisco should be fine, too. We leave you with a beautiful shot in washington, d. C. Sun is shining. A gloomier forecast form. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Woman this is not exactly what i expected. Captain obvious this is a creepy room. Man oh hey, captain obvious. Captain obvious you should have used hotels. Com. Their genuine guest reviews are written by guests who have genuinely stayed there. Instead of people who lie on the internet. Captain heres a review, its worse in person. Its a fresh approach on education superintendent of public instruction Tom Torlaksons blueprint for great schools. Torlaksons blueprint outlines how investing in our schools will reduce class sizes, bring back music and art, and provide a wellrounded education. And torlaksons plan calls for more parental involvement. Spending decisions about our education dollars should be made by parents and teachers, not by politicians. Tell Tom Torlakson to keep fighting for a plan that invests in our public schools. Here with us now. White House Press Secretary josh earnest on the set. You look so sweet and nice. How is the job . The job is fun. It is an honor. Dont lie. Im not lying. I dont have the podium in front of me. Its fine. It is a genuine thrill. It really is. It doesnt mean its easy. But its a good time. So what dgd im not
interviewing you for the job he already has it. What bgt do you have that prepares you for that . How does somebody deal with having the press shoot questions at them nonstop . Some people obviously great. Curry. Obviously great. Some others, not so good. What skill sets . I think some of it is temperament. And not getting angry when someone asks you an unfair question is part of it. Unfair question . Imagine that. It happens rarely. You have to be prepared when it happens. Not taking it personally. The other thing is this, when they show the clip on your show. You never show the clip of somebody asking the question. You show the answer. Understanding thats is the dynamic in place is part of the job. If you can walk in and keep your cool and understand that is what will happen. Lets ask some unfair questions. Lets do it. Politico has an idea as to why ron klain was appointed ebola czar or whatever. Why was he chosen . And the criticism he is receiving, hes too political. Hes a strategist. Hes an insider. And he certainly doesnt have Emergency Response experience. A lot of people are piling on, especially republicans, that he may not be the right choice for the job. The fact of the matter is, the response has been much broader than just medicine. This is not a million response. This is a wlol government approach were dealing with here. So we have a lot of doctors and scientists and medical experts we can deploy to deal with the problem. Right now at the Nebraska Medical Center in omaha and emery in atlanta. We have doctors treating boesht la patients. Their doing that successfully. Some have recovered. Theyre doing that without expose cig kangt risks to the president. What happened the cdc . We read that the president was angry with the response and angry with the cdc. What happened . How did the World Health Organization . How did the texas homt, how did everybody get it so wrong . Well, there was shosht comings in the response. There was not enough instruction clearly communicated with the Health Care Workers. I sad in a couple of meetings. The president was asking very direct, pointed questions to members of his team. And he still has confidence with the head of the cdc . The does. And if you look at the response, just last night the cdc has strengthened guidance to share with Health Care Workers to make sure more hospitals and medical facilities are ready to treat an ebola patient. At least to isolate them and treat them. My unfair question is about isis. And its no secret that the president was reluctant, especially to get involved in the syrian civil war. There we are. Has the president accepteded that this is where we have to be . Is he still reluctant to try to determine the outcome in zir what . If hes not, how does he hope to accomplish anything in syria . Hes determined to make sure isis is not operating in a safe haven in syria. Thats the Core National security interest that we have na that region of the world. And thats something that the the president is determined to do. So who runs syria is not a core interest . Its a different interest. Its different than making sure this extreme it organization that is reaming havoc in the middle east. That has attacked our interests in the middle east and may have designs on attacking the homeland, thats something we
need to take care of. Other extremist groups are operating in syria that do have designs. We have taken strikes against them. But we have learned the lesson if you allow extremist organizations or other individuals trying to do harm to the United States to establish a safe haven,that poses a National Security alarm. Josh, during the summer the president was fairly open with the press. Maybe that had something to do with the new Communications Team at the white house. Im not sure. Fairly regular press conferences. He hadnt really, since he got burned, when he said theres no strategy in syria. My colleague at the New York Times white house says since september 5th has he given a full on q a with reporters. When will we see him again . I will an tils pate the president will typically do q a educations when hes traveling. The president was just in the oval office on thursday where he did a meeting to talk about the ebola response. He took a question from the pool
who asked him about appointing a czar. One question is standard . No, its an example of the president having a regular interchange. He was on the radio with al sharpon the. Why dont we go through . And one of the things he said is hes talking about democrats. He said these are folks who supported my agenda in congress. Theyre on the right side of minimum wage. Theyre on the right side of Early Childhood education. But he says theyre with him. And yet, a lot of peoplery that the president could hurt the democrats in the midterms. G again, the question goes back to the first point here. The question the reverend asked him, a lot of listeners are supporters of yours. Why should they take theyre support from you and transfer that to other candidates. The president said hes looking for partners in congress who are
supportive. Who make sure that women get equal pay for work. Were investing in Early Childhood education. Were investing in a infrastructure thats good for the economy in the short term and good for the policy in the long term. They dont support them because the president supports them. They support them because theyre the right thing to do. The president is pleased to have partners in Congress Working with him to make progress. Heres the other thing, the democrats are going to be counting on hispanics l, africanamericans, young people. Young women in particular to turn out mid elections. The president got them to turn out in 2008 and 2012. Wait. Wait. What did the white house learn from 2010 that its going to apply to 2014 so you get more of a turnout in 14 . Its up to the individual candidates. Were not dictating what the
president no, but as far as the ground operation, the get out the vote operation that you were so good in 08 and 12. In 2012 we applied a lot of from 2012. A lot of people have written about facebook and the efforts we did to engage voters that way. All the matly were trying to share the Lessons Learned with campaigns. Giving them access to people strongly supportive of our campaign in 08 and 2012. And they will benefit from that. What changes have there been at the white house following lapses of security that we saw weeks ago . Is the door locked now . No, sa i mean, seriously . What has changed . Well, that is one of the reforms the secret service pus in place right away. You know, were pleased to have in place a new acting director of the secret service. Theres an ongoing review being run by my colleagues just across the street here who are looking at what broader changes need to be put in place to ensure the security of the white house. We expect that report in a couple of weeks. They have set up an independent panel for the internal review that theyre doing to make sure theyre taking a good hard look at what sort of measures need to be put in place. They will also consider whether or not there are broader reviews and theyll have input on who the next director of the secret service will be. You know me. I do. Im a simple country lawyer. I dont understand a lot of things. You were doing so well. So in 2008 the president said marge is between a man and a woman. Oh. This guy is evolving faster than a republicanappointed u. S. Supreme Court Justice streaking to the far left. In 2008 the president says marriage is between a man and a woman. In 2012 he says it should be left to the states, which is my position, but now the president is evolved. Now he says its a constitutionally protected right under the equal protection clause. This guy actually taught constitutional law at the university of chicago. Shouldnt he have figured that out like 20 years ago instead of right now . What is the president s position, and how can you e vo that much over eight years if this is your line of work . Well, the thing is, joe. I think that the president s views on this issue are not different than views a lot of people across the country felt. People came in with hard, preconceived notions about what they felt like the definition of
marriage should be. And over the years the president has been challenged. What has caused the evolution . Society. Culture. And talking to friends of hiss or members of his staff who talk about their experience. As individual who is have gay friends or they are gay themselves. But the equal protection clause has been there for some time. Im going to interject as i did earlier that there are a lot of federal judges across the the country who have had the same evolution. And in fact. Their evolution is in part based on the recent Supreme Court ruling that was was not intended to be a broad constitutional ruling. But is unanimously seen as such. I must say im stunned that
its unanimous. They read that decision. They believe Justice Kennedy said here it is. T zblch thank you for coming by. Come to d. C. More often. I make no faces. That was really bad. Both of you. Anyhow. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming in. Its really nice to see you. Still ahead the walter white Action Figure comes with a gun, and a toy bag of crystal meth . One mom doesnt want toys r us to sell them . What does walter white have to say . More morning joe coming up. Transit fares as in the 37 billion transit fares we help collect each year. No . Oh, right. Youre thinking of the 1. 6 million daily Customer Care interactions xerox handles. Or the 900 Million Health insurance claims we process. So, its no surprise to you that companies depend on todays xerox for services that simplify how work gets done. Which is. Pretty much what weve always stood for. With xerox, youre ready for real business. Joining us at the table the editor in chief of roll call. Theyre taking a closer look at the Georgia Senate race and why they could spoil things for Michelle Nunn. Why would a libertarian take from a democrat instead of a republican . Well, this is a state that is not a strong, strong, strong republican state anymore. Mitt romney won by 53 of the vote in 2012. In 2008 the Obama Campaign was spending money to target there. Its changing nations. But this could have enough democratic changes that you see a shift. Michelle nunns campaign is trying to get per past 50 . So theyre taking advantage of sunday voting. Talking to black voters at churches. Registering black voters. This is a margin of error race. Waiting so much to for control. Interestingly, rand paul has been going out to tap out the libertarian support for her. Im asking what role outsourcing has been playing in this campaign . Obviously, that seems to have damaged purdue, the allegations he has outsourced this business. He said he was proud of the way he began his business, which included outsourcing. Its dollar to 2012 with the way
they went off mitt romney and his talk about the way he runs his businesses. Theyre using the same playbook with a Million Dollars worth of ads. It is damaging. Thomas roberts in new york has a question. Thomas . Good morning. I wanted to ask you, though, when it comes to Michelle Nunn and the talk of how youre saying she is trying to get out there and register more people, especially black voters at churches, nunn cant get away from president obama fast enough and is trying to align herself by showing pictures with george h. W. Bush. The former president is not happy about that. How the uz that contradiction match up as we lead up to election day . Well, she did unlike alison Lundergan Grimes, she did acknowledge she voted for him. They are walking a fine line. They want to attract and ignite young voters. Shes also got her father campaigning for her. Michelle obama has been campaigning for her. So shes less of running for obama. So is the feeling if she doesnt get to 50 that its probable republicans. If the senate is on the line, everybody is paying to attention to this, its not that expensive to advertise in georgia. Youll have a flood of money. Thank you so much. We could be waiting for georgia. We could be waiting for louisiana. What other states . Oh, god. Waiting for alaska. Coming up, everything you need to know about the day on wall street. Business before the bell is next. Everything . Everything. And the story behind the walter white Action Figure. Okay, toy crystal meth. You dont do that. No. Not at toys r us. [ male announcer ] this man has an Accomplished Research and Analytical Group at his disposal. But even more impressive is how he puts it to work for his clients. Morning. Morning. Thanks for meeting so early. Oh, its not a big deal at all. Come on in. [ male announcer ] its how edward jones makes sense of investing. Makes sense of investing. Its been that way since the day you met. 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Its all ground noise. The signal is apple had a massive earnings corner. Tell us about it. The only negative, ipad sells yesterday. Fewer people realize they needed tablet. M unconfirmed reports. I have not confirmed the report and doubt that i will. Apple had a huge quarter. Mika promised i would go through everything in 30 seconds. The European Central bank may do an easing program to help rescue stagnant economies. Nobody is buying electric ford. They are cutting the price of the electric ford focus. The ceo of a huge oil company, killed last night. His plane taking off in moscow, hit a snowplow, guys, crossing the runway, and he was killed when the plane went down, and the snowplow operator has been confirmed to be completely intoxicated and was not supposed to be on the runway. Oh my god. Who was intoxicated . The pilot. No, no. The guy on the snowplow. The runway vehicle. The snowplow operator was completely intoxicated. Oh my gosh. That is a horrible story. Okay, better news. 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We produce 70 billion in output a year, as mentioned, we are the Third Largest export in the world. We received 2 billion in new
investment to build new factories in the yeets. Thats great news. Were always hearing jobs left america. Were talking about the textile industry going on. Theres a fight in congress involving this. Right. With most things again, when both parties agree this is something we should do. Somehow its in congress. Can you tell us the hope for getting this through . Yeah, its interesting. You have preelection rhetoric. And after the election, we have reality for a short window. About three or four weeks theyll try to get down to business and take care of a few things. Where trade fits on the broader agenda, because there are many unresolved issues in congress. Who knows . Both parties and the white house
are serious to clear away for this agreement to be final. 12k3w4r is there going to be an agreement that the United States and japan are at lager heads as usual over agriculture exports. And that doesnt seem to be getting better. If you dont have u. S. With japan, you done get it. Absolutely. This would encase 28 trillion in global economy. But it also comes down to other issues. Japan and agriculture at the top of the list. Thank you so much. Good luck. Thank you. And that does it for us. The daily rundown after a quick break. Hi, im meteorologist bill karins. Rain is moving through new england and here to stay. We are going to watch showers turn to heavy rain today. Ch also the Pacific Northwest will be rainy on this tuesday. And south florida needs a little bit of rain. Many other areas of the country looking for great weather. The northeast is not one of them. Tuesdays light rain will turn to heavy rain on wednesday. Apology accepted. Im watching you soup people. Make it progresso or make it yourself receptionist Gunderman Group is growing. Getting in a groove. Growth is gratifying. Goal is to grow. Gotta get greater growth. I just talked to ups. They got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. Like smart pick ups. Theyll only show up when you print a label and its automatic. We save time and money. Time . Money . Time and money. Awesome. Awesome
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