Lebron james, last night, the big homecoming, against the new york homecoming against the New York Knicks after a few seasons away, a few titles in miami, comes home, throws the powder in the air, everybody is excited except they lose the New York Knicks. 9590. Lebron may be a little amped up, had 17 points amidst a bunch of shots. Eight turnovers. He was happy to get this one out of the way. I read on twitter he was 1 for 9 happen somebody said they neilded to get michael j. Fox delorean. College football, fsu went down 210 last night. Unbelievable. Jameson stole the game. Happy halloween, guys. Thank you so much. What your going to be. I dont know. I think this is scary enough. What about you. You have a similar pant thing going on. Oh, wow. Did you guys coordinate that . Plaid. I brought these in and mika went out and bought like 14 of them and so, you know, what am i supposed to do . What the heck. You know what, heres the best part of them. They are just as comfortable being slept in. Okay i dont sleep in mine. What your going to be for halloween, willie im not at lie better to disclose that. Suffice it to say im a little out of breath now after my rehearsal. Very exciting. Okay. I cant wait to see that. Oh, gosh, good luck. We almost didnt make it. We got abc news political
commentator and npr Senior Analyst cokie roberts. What an incredible day to have her on. Host and managing editor of tv one daily morning news show, roland martin. Lets start with the news. Lots to talk about. Actually, you know what . Did you get this facebook thing . Yeah. Youre upset about it. Yes, i am. I found out that this is i think theres some coverage on this, on the broader issue on buzz feed or something. But i just found out somebody was charging 15 to email us or me on facebook. Somebody sent mika a nasty email it was a nice guy who wanted his wifes cooking book to be talked about. I never got it so i never responded so then he reached out to the head of msnbc and i was
irate saying its bad enough i have to pay 15 to reach your anchors and they dont respond. Mika find out on facebook, facebook tells people well send an email to the person you want, but were going to charge you 15. Thats the receipt. Which of course you end up getting anyway. Its the biggest scam. In other words, if the person was protect like youre not getting emails you can break through that if you give us 15. No some sort of message thats direct. It goes to the facebook inbox which a lot of people dont i dont sit there staring at it every day, do you . I was going to say. Privacy stuff. We havent been on facebook since like 1967. No. After sergeant pepper i went on there to talk to some of my friends in san francisco. But for them to charge people 15 thinking that somehow mika is getting it or youre getting it is crazy. You ought to look into that. Now lets go to the news. Republicans are starting to open up leads in some of the key races that will decide which Party Controls the senate. In ken, Mitch Mcconnell has a fivepoint lead against Alison Lundergan grimes. In colorado, republican congressman cory gardner has a sevenpoint lead against senator udall. And in arkansas republican congressman tom cotton has a commanding 13 point lead against mark pryor. Senator kay hagan is hanging on. She has a fourpoint lead over thom tillis. Michele nunn and david perdue are tied. Theres a runoff in january. Cokie roberts, a lot to look
at. Identify been talking about no trends for quite some time. It does look like in a few of the races where republicans should win in red states. Yeah. Actually, all this week ive been looking at the numbers and thinking we might have a sweep but im very curious to see what happens this weekend. A bunch of races where i thought it would open up, like that, Kay Hagan Thom Tillis race its not. We have to get through the weekend and see if anything starts to break. But all of the National Polls are really breaking republican particularly among independents. Romand martin, the question though is turnout. A lot of races way too close to call. If the democrats have half the turnout operation they had in 2012 or 2008, actually will be very long night of vote counting. If this off year election is
like the last off year election and the electorate is older and whiter a big republican night. Th all about turn out. Absolutely all about turn out. Thats why democrats are pushing hard when it comes to early voting. They have been flooding the zone. Cornell belcher one of the top pollsters in the Democratic Party made it clear early in the year there was a 14 to 16point gap between obama voters in 12 in terms of whether they would vote in 2014. Many folks didnt even know about election. The other problem that the democrats as a result of how they structured this did not have strong operations in some of these states like for instance arkansas. You look at louisiana. So one of the reasons senator kay hagan is doing well in North Carolina is because the obama folks had a strong operation left in place so i think the democrats have got to go back and reexamine what howard dean talked about having a strong 50 state strategy. You cant focus on the
president ial election year. You have to build a National Party to have the infrastructure to drive people in these Midterm Elections. Of course republicans are claiming that they now have a ground game too. They said that in the last eight years. This time they say they really have a ground game and that they have mitt romneys super computer. I understand. They learned their lesson from mitt romney and barack obama and have identified a lot more voters they can get to. They feel they are doing pretty well in the early voting in iowa and thats a very peculiar race. That is a very peculiar race. What cokie is bringing up is 2016. A lot of republicans would love would like to win the senate. If they win the senate and lose again in 2016, then youre going to have a massive crisis. This is a real proving ground
this 2014 race for the very reasons that cokie was talking about. Have they learned their lessons from 2012 . Will their turn out operation be better. Will their technology be better . If not. If. There are a lot of groups that invested in a lot of money in turn out operations. Thats what republicans are going to be looking at at the rnc. Talking about 2016 they have to find a candidate first. Its unclear who shakes up. You start to look at these polls, colorado, arkansas where the republican margin is growing a little bit. It would be i think its fair to say a big disappointment for republicans if they dont take the senate. They have so much going for them. Good candidates. The president is unpopular. They are in the right states. Hes being fought in red states. If they dont win the senate you have to look at it as a big disappointment for republicans. Devastating. The money game. Youve been following this very closely for the new york
times. Where do we stand as we get to the end of this campaign. Its not going to be a campaign thats won and lost on the money. Everybody has the money they need. I think the republican side is ahead in spending. Not by so much. What strikes me about these polls, if cotton is that far ahead and gardner in colorado, really theres only one path for democrats to get to 50 and it involves both georgia and kansas. If you imagine that the party hopes are holding on to the senate would rest on those two states a year ago would have been crazy. Joe, remember when the congressman was on your show. Hes looking like a oracle when he made the point its not about money its about message. Democrats will reflect how they ran way from the president and had horrible messaging over the last year. I think youre right. Democrats have made such a
horrible mistake running against their president and running away from some of the thing that they actually could have campaigned on. Again, ill say it again, if youre a democrat and running you have to defend what youve done especially if theres things out there think about the state senator from ohio state university, how easy it was for her to have a message, stand by the president but not completely. Cokie, everybody talks about money. We all know at some point its a law of diminishing returns. You look at those two returns that republicans could be shocked. You look in georgia whats happened there. They spent a lot of money but its about a guy who was outsourcing and bragging about outsourcing. Kansas, a guy that forgot to even buy an apartment in kansas at the end of the day it comes down to the blocking and tackling. There is a National Message which is as john says obama bad. Thats the two words that is a problem for democrats. But in those races you see both democrats who have run in the case of kansas and an independent that ran good campaigns and republicans who ran terrible ones. Candidates do make a difference. Michele nunn in georgia understood the real message to take was the message of 2012 which was basically a populace message. Shes running against david perdue the way obama ran against mitt romney. Now, it was easier because of his background, but it was so much smarter than these campaigns that have been about war against women and all that stuff. It was a straight economic message to the people of georgia. Thats right. All right. Then theres this. New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie. Not backing down from criticism about this confrontation with a heckler at an event marking two years since super storm sandy. Heres a little portion to remind you of what happened. Yeah. Good. Theres been 23 months since then when all youve been doing is flapping your mouth and not doing anything. So listen you want to have the conversation later im happy to have it buddy. Until that time sit down and shut up i know, sometimes you have moments where youre a little overheated and you back off and apologize. Sometimes theres a question of whether its just those of us in the corridor who thinks this wont play. I will just tell you that if i and cokie im sure your father probably would have said the same thing, if somebody i were helping somebody on their campaign and they exploded like that on the campaign trail i would pull them into my office and say if you do that one more time not only will i not support you i will yank all of my money from you. Im not talking about Chris Christie, maybe it worked for
Chris Christie, maybe his millionaires and billionaires like seeing him doing it. I would say in a second you do that again im yanking all support from you. Except i think people are sick to death of these hecklers. And, they do go rally, some of them. If youre going to a rally youre going to a rally and presumably are there to either support somebody or hear something. I think the hecklers do get you irritated. Having somebody call it as they see it is, might be very beneficial to that politician. Then to cokies point, there you go. Chris christie tells kasie hunt he has no regrets and no plans to change his style. Take a look. You give it youre getting it back. Up get respect you get that back. If you dont get respect ill take you out on it. Thats the way it goes. I dont calculate these things politically. This is who i am. I think most people understand that. Someone stands up yelling and
screaming, its not just appropriate to do and i wont sit there. Would you encourage your kids into the behave like that towards other people. No. I wouldnt encourage my kids to go a public event and scream at a public official and treat a public official with disrespect and the audience with disrespect. If they didnt do that there would be no reason for anybody else to react like the way i reacted yesterday. Politics 101. You dont scream at people to shut up. Thats what i would tell somebody. I would say i have been surprised by just like i said a couple of days ago a lot of my liberal friends who supported quarantines an of course we see the poll the next day a lot of my liberal friends, i like him. Maybe hes the antipolitician. Guys say you cant do that thats not polite. I dont know. Maybe americans are so sick and
tired of blow dried politicians maybe they are cool with that. Thats been his appeal he wasnt like other politicians. Hes amped it up. Hes in warp speed. Like star trek. He shoots into space. He did. We sat here 24 hours ago and we were first reacting to this tape in a asked me what i thought. I said do you think for a second Chris Christie woke up this morning and had any regrets about that. You saw the answer. He done regret that. Thats his style. Take it or leave it. Theres a new poll out last week that shows his Approval Rating at 41 which is down from where its been historically. Is it wearing thin, i dont know. Maybe it will work in 2016. I have never seen that work in any president ial campaign. Its so magnified. Joe, weve talked about this before. Chris christie will not be president so its not a problem. The Republican Party is not going to nominate him. And thats where we are. But, you know, this kind of bullying business, i think its probably working in maine, for instance. That nursing maine may reelect the governor because, you know i understand what shes doing. Shes saying, you know, its the science and thats why i refuse to be quarantined it doesnt make any sense. Hes saying you get in that house girl and i think thats probably work forge him. Oh, my lord that guy is a character. Well talk about that later. Cokie is right. The nurse is playing right into his hands, science be damn. Thats how people feel. Certainly 80 . Undecided voters in New Hampshire are weighing their options after the final debate
between jean shaheen and scott brown. The latest poll shows senator shaheen with an eightpoint lead. They clashed on the governments response to ebola, obamacare and immigration. All of the talk after the debate was about this exchange, brown had with a panelist who was confused. What do you see going right in the economy and whats going wrong and please be specific. Youre absolutely right. Geography play as role. We have more opportunity in the south. Up north its more difficult. One of the biggest opportunities is tourism. One of our biggest opportunities is skiing. You were talking about the North Country. What do you see im talking about any place past concord the challenges of our state. Im referring to the challenges including the high Corporate Tax
rate, obamacare coming in after the election. We have the challenges of high electric costs. If you go to any business in any county in our state. Thats west of concord not north. What do you see going well and whats not. I answered the question the challenge is the same in every county in our state. I tell you what, mika, we saw him realtime last night scott brown is getting killed for not knowing geography in New Hampshire. What he did it wasnt scott brown that had it wrong. After the debate the panelist apologized to brown and said the candidate was right about the county running both north and west of concord. Campaign officials for shaheen and scott brown said the candidates will visit Sullivan County later today. Come on. Come on now. If youre going to be a panelist it looked like you were trying to embarrass scott brown. Hes a pro. He apologized afterwards. He apologized on twitter. The problem is this kind of mistakes lives on. People wont see the apology. What they will see is the clip over and over again. The mistake is understandable. If i were the candidate i would be angry. Still ahead on morning joe, actor and comedian wouldnt you tell him to sit down and shut up. No i wouldnt tell my children to act that way. I might do it. Actor and comedian, aasif mandvi will be here. And fbi took down one of the most successful poker players. And this is affecting our crash test dummies. Seriously. Well explain. Well be right back. Ameriprise asked people a simple question in retirement, will you outlive your money . Uhhh. No, that cant happen. Thats the thing, you dont know how long it has to last. 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. Well, knowing gives you confidence. Start building your confident retirement today. Time now to take a look at the morning papers. Well start with the boston globe. Boston is the remembering its longest serving mayor this morning. Thomas menino passed away thursday after a battle with cancer. The democrat took over city hall in 1993 and would stay there for the next two decades. Hes credited with helping bring Hitech Companies to boston and for overseeing the response to last years marathon bombing. He was in office when the 2004 red sox squad ended an 86 year dry spell to win the first of three recent world series. Tom menino was 71 years old. Mike barnacle had one of the last interviews with menino just two weeks ago. You can see it on our website. I saw him up at fenway. Such a good guy. Totally. A friend of the show. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and entire family. City of boston loved him but the country got see him during the Boston Marathon bombings. He was there. He had broken his leg. Still out front leading the effort. Great guy. The oregonian, the terminally ill that made the decision to end her life says she no longer intends to die this weekend. Brittany maynard released this emotional video yesterday announcing her plans. When people criticize me for not for not waiting longer or whatever they decided is best for me, it hurts because really i risk it every day. Every day that i wake up. And i do it because i still feel good enough. And i still have enough joy. And i still laugh and smile with my family and friends and it doesnt seem like the right time right now. But it will come because i feel myself getting sicker and its happening each week. Maynard was diagnosed with stage four malignant brain tumor in april. She moved to oregon that has a die with dignity law allowing doctor assisted suicide. She originally planned to die on november 1st. As you heard at the end of the video she will do it sometime down the road because she feels herself getting sicker. Atlanta journal constitution crash test dummies are getting a look as researchers trying to find different ways to save lives. They are getting bigger because were getting bigger. Studies show obese individuals are 78 more likely to die in a
car crash. Thats why i take the subway in an effort to cut down on that statistic some companies are making fat crash dummies that weigh in at 273 pounds with a bmi index of 35 which, by the way, coincidentally those are my two goals. By the end of the year i want to get down to 273. Did you tell your personal train center i told my personal trainer. Yes. A lot of pasta. A lot of pasta. Quite disturbing they have to make dummies bigger. I get a baker. Youre on to me. Did you see this Michael Jordan. Hes such a jerk. Michael jordan is such a jerk. Here he is. Michael jordan had some choice words about president obamas performance, not in office but on the golf course. The response was prompted by a question from his buddy amid rashad. He asked who he would pick in an ideal foursome. Never played with obama but i would. But no thats okay. I would take him out. Hes a hack. Do you really want to say that to the president of the United States. I didnt say he wasnt a great politician, i just said hes a [ bleep ] oh, my god. Michael. If you can find some clips of his, hall of fame acceptance speech. For no reason. Cant say on the air. We want to see that again. The thing that made him a great Basketball Player makes him different roland martin, we all grew up, i dont know about you but we had Michael Jordan posters all over the place. The best that ever was. Hes just kind of rough around the edges. No, no. Hes just as competitive off the court. Again to me, i went to his Birthday Party and he said whats your handicap. I said it was a ten. He said when you get it down a six you can play with us. I dont want to play with you. Thats who he is. Thats what makes Michael JordanMichael Jordan. My handicap is down to a seven. Ill be happy to take your money. I dont think you want to talk trash with Michael Jordan. When you talk trash you back it up. Did you realize roland of such a good golfer. Seven. Im ready to roll. I got golf clubs in three cities. I didnt know about that. Some people say their low
handicaps. I never played with him. Its all hollywood. They do it to suck up to him. Coming up an undercover sting to bring down one of the worlds richest gamblers. Now the fbi is under firehouse they closed the case. Up next a look at the must read opinion pages. Well be right back with much well be right back with much more morning joe. Synchrony Financial Partners with over two hundred thousand businesses,
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get fire adapted now at fireadapted. Org time now for the must read opinion pages. Wall street journal. This is the papers editorial. Hillary rodham warren. So we hear Hillary Clintons wall street admirers are concerned about her comments last week at a rally with senator Elizabeth Warren that businesses dont create jobs. They better get used to it. Clinton knows that minor league liberals like maryland goff Martin Omalley pose no political threat to her nomination but warren could. The wall streeters who think mr. Obama is an aberration and that
electing Hillary Clinton will one the country to the 1990s should think again if we know anything about the clintons it is that they will do whatever it takes to win. Cokie roberts, fair or unfair . Classic wall street journalism. Wait, wait, she might actually like us so we better find out a bogeyman that doesnt like us. Elizabeth warren. I think this is really putting up a straw man or woman. The paper itself putting up a straw man. Yes. Nick. This is a warning to all the wall street donor whose are going give money to Hillary Clinton who are republicans if she runs for president. The journal is saying guys, guys, dont buy it. That was an obvious gaffe. She cleaned it up a couple of days later. Im not sure she meant to say that. The clintons are the
problem for the clintons if hillary gets elected is not that shes going to be too tough on wall street. I think most people that followed her and followed her husbands career know they are going to be about as pro wall street as any democrat that could get elected president of the United States. All of their friends are on wall street. All of their friends have private jets. I mean these are people these are people they hang out with. The bigger challenge is getting out of a democratic primary if a progressive like Elizabeth Warren decided to run against her. Is hillary going to go she partnered with goldman sachs. Shes not going sharp left on Economic Issues with the friends that they have after she gets elected. Its not just the friends that they have. She was a senator from new york. You look at the records of senators from new york they dont tend to be antiwall street. But i think actually the bigger problem here was another gaffe
so to speak. Shes having trouble just getting her message out and sticking with it and being cokie, why is that . We are still stunned that she was as flat footed as she was on her book tour and you can say hillary is not a natural politician but if you say that you forget everything that happened after New Hampshire moving forward in 2008. She was an extraordinary candidate. And honestly being with her when she ran the first time for the senate in new york, it was brilliant. Now part of what her brilliance is that shes very, very smart and she does her homework. So she can, you know, wow people with her knowledge of detail. But shes really having a hard time since she left the state department in trying to Say Something and make it make sense and not have to go back a few days later and say oh, thats not exactly what i meant. I dont know whether shes being too controlled. I mean i think she should be much more of herself but i also think that shes having trouble finding the right voice and thats surprising to me. Let me read from the washington post. This is Charles Krauthammer. If this election really about nothing . Democrats might like to think so but its not. First like all u. S. Elections its about the economy. Here is a president who proclaims the reduction of inequality to be the great cause of his administration yet it has radically worsened in his six years. Second is the question of competence. The revulsion of government incompetence exacting a heavy toll on democratic candidates. After all they represent not just the party now in government but the party of government. The stage is set for a major republican victory. If they cannot pull it off under conditions so politically favorable perhaps they might
consider looking for another line of work. As usual i completely agree with Charles Krauthammer, willie. First if republicans cant win this year they can win. Its being fought in the red states. The president is fumbling all over the place. The other part i agree with him, this is about competence. Democrats have been hurt. You can see it in the polls when the president bumbled on isis, went golfing after the beheading. Jean shaheen quietly talking about losing six, seven points. The bumbling over ebola. You see the ebb and flow in democrats polls. This is an election about confidence. The irs, add to that list over the last six years and thats what a lot of the republican candidates in these races have based their campaigns on. Roland, the president himself said look my policies are on the ballot. That was a perceived gaffe and something a lot of democrats wish he didnt say. This is a lot about the last six
years in this country. Of course. He was absolutely right. Democrats didnt want him to say it. You know what . I get what charles is trying to say. What about this how about actually going to work. Doing some work. You got all these polls showing americans, 14 Approval Rating of congress. You know what they will do . They will send 97 back. Well have the same thing. We have folks repaying them for doing no work. How about that kind of competence. With Charles Krauthammer you find a lot of conservative commentators are saying the same thing as me. If you win an you win without a referendum telling people this is what were going to do, if its just about running against barack obama then you get elected without a mandate and you got two more years of mush. Before we go to break today is icitizen question. Do you believe the results of
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is necessary to enforce the quarantine. He says he was willing to let her go for walks, run and bicycle rides if she agreed not to come within three feet of others. The governor also said he was willing to lift the quarantine if kaci hickox agreed to sub to when a blood test. Cokie, thats i mean maine would seem to be a state i mean fairly open minded state here but youre right. Shes playing into the hands of a sometime volatile hes kind of kooky. Right now hes tied in the polls with the democrat and Elliot Cutler the independent has now said okay well maybe it wasnt such a great idea for me to run and you can support the democrat if you dont like me. So its a mess in that race anyway and i think that the governor is doing something that the people will completely
support. As i said before, i get her. Shes saying the science doesnt back this. But thats not where people are on this ebola thing. People are scared. With us now from pittsburgh republican representative of pennsylvania and chairman of the energy and commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, congressman tim murphy. The congressman is urging the president to mandate a 21 day quarantine to cokies point for all u. S. Citizens, residents returning from ebola hot zones in west africa. Good to have you on board, sir. Congressman, you heard the arguments against this. We saw a poll come out yesterday that said 80 of americans kind of where you are on this question. Why do you think this is a good idea despite the science that says its highly unlikely this disease will be transmitted to the public. Two things. What im referring to is people who had direct contact with ebola victims, ebola patients, some workers have not, some have. Second thing is highly unlikely
is the operative word here. Whats key is there are still some areas of lack of knowledge. We know that ebola is aggressive in trying to find new hosts. Luckily it has not spread farther in the United States because a lot of steps are taken with some isolation and some levels of quarantine. We dont have to do things and put people in a bubble or lock them up in the houses. But there are a number of steps that other organizations also have that have volunteers going over there that says stay out of public places, keep a distance from other people, continue to monitor yourself for symptoms, have someone else report the issues with regard to your temperature. In an abundance of caution. Those things will help us. Because whats key until we have a vaccine for this virus, or a cure for this virus containment particularly in africa are key. Roland martin is with us. Congressman youre saying
containment but its not as if we had some massive outbreak and so are you not furthering this whole hysteria by offering this suggestion . Well, look, im not a physician im a psychologist. I know some things that have added the worry and anxiety has been the conflicting information thats come from the administration, cdc and other folks. So people are saying wait first you told us dont travel and then you say travel then you say you cant travel again. Theres been some changes in the cdcs approaches to the protective gear people have. So theres been some of those things and thats adding concern and confusion here. What im saying is we can grow from this. We start off with abundance of caution and restrictions. You look further into this lets examine on a case by case basis. You cant use tissue of whether a person is totally symptom free at this point as the measure. Congressman tim murphy, thank
you very much for coming on the show this morning. Coming up, taking on the world of illegal sports betting. Did the fbi cross the line to get inside the hotel room of a wealthy high stakes poker player . That story is next. Well be right back. Really. Its not worth it. No worries. I got this. A 2. 7 gigahertz turbo processor. Kevlar fiber durability. Turbo charge for up to 8 hours of battery in just 15 minutes. Introducing droid turbo by motorola. Its the yoplait greek tasteoff and were asking this sports town which blueberry greek yogurt is their champion. A tastes better. Its yoplait i knew it do you want to see which one yoplait greek beat . Chobani. Hoorah yoplait greek wins again. Take the tasteoff for yourself. 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. The fbi is under a little scrutiny this morning for the methods it used to shut down an illegal world cup betting ring. Crazy story. Msnbc Pete Williams has it. Reporter after getting a tip that Illegal Betting was going on fbi agents wired themselves up with hidden cameras at Caesar Palace in las vegas in july to get a peek inside a complex of rooms for high rollers. Where a champion poker player was staying. One of the worlds richest gamblers had flown to the u. S. On his private jet after making bail in macau where he was accused of taking millions in from illegal sports betting. What happened next unfold in the setting of the vegas strip like something from the movie oceans
11. They suspected him and others in his entourage to take betts on the soccer world cup. But his lawyers said fbi agents cut off the Internet Service to the room then claim to be the repairmen summoned to fix it recording it all on this video obtained by nbc news. Wifi is down too. Both hard line and wifi. Reporter once inside the agents gallopsed at screens of computers in the rooms later claiming they saw evidence of Illegal Betting. After coming back with a search warrant the fbi arrested eight accused of taking betts on the world cup. Now the lawyer is asking to throw the case out saying the fbis ruse was illegal. If the fbi can do this. They can do it at your home. Reporter he said police cant trick their way into a house or hotel room unless they have something more solid than a tip that a crime success committed. Prosecutors in las vegas declined to comment. Their response is due in court in two weeks. But these stakes couldnt be higher. That was Pete Williams with a report. Remember what happened to us . Came back from macau. We did. Straight out of johnny depp, im carrying the two suitcases, johnny law dogs all over me. You should have seen how we got away with that. That great scene at the dog track where we were running out the back door. Seriously you guys can go on notorious. We had to jump 30 feet straight into a sewer. Whats coming up next, willie. A tease. Still ahead, we have the
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like a little kid. You cant do that. Thats scary. That will stay with them forever. Like the demon baby. Can you bring the demon baby along with the other thing. Welcome back to morning joe. One the demon baby and two Michael Jordans acceptance speech at the nba hall of fame. Which is worse. Okay. Cokie roberts still with us now. Joining us now national editor, amy walter joining the conversation. Good to have you on board. So much going on with the midterms. Can we start there. Republicans are starting to open up leads in some of the key races that will decide which Party Controls the senate. Lets start in kentucky where Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell has a fivepoint lead against Alison Lundergan grimes. In colorado cory gardner has a sevenpoint lead against senator udall. And in arkansas, republican congressman tom cotton has a commanding 13point lead against democratic senator mark pryor. But senator kay hagan appears to be hanging on in North Carolina. The democrat has a fourpoint lead over republican thom tillis. And democrat michele nunn over david perdue tied at 47 . A runoff in january if either candidate receives more than 50 . Cock injuries right now democrats have to look at three states. If you look at the New Hampshire poll it looks like jean shaheen may be pulling away. Most of us would expect that at the end. But right now North Carolina, georgia and kansas, certainly offer democrats their last best hope. And really just hear yourself say those words. Its unbelievable. Georgia, kansas, right . And part of whats going to confuse us, i think, is of course were talking New Hampshire, North Carolina, georgia. Were talking early states in terms of when the returns come in. And so if democrats start winning in those states it might throw us off for what happens as you move west. But, you know, as one much you said earlier and its true, if republicans dont win the senate this time, they should just pack up and go home. I mean they should have won it last time, the time before they had a very good shot. This time theyve gotten all the ko kooks out of the field. They have good candidates running in the right states. They have all the environment that should just do it for them. And probably will do it for them. But if not, its really it probably will but if not its really a problem for them. Probably will. Amy lets bring you in. Charles krauthammer said if they cant win this year, in all the red states, with republicans certainly believing and a lot of independents believing that the president has been governing in an ineffective and incompetent way, with all the advantages breaking their direction, if the gop cant pick a majority here, i agree with Charles Krauthammer, its time to just pack up and get into another line of work because 16 is going to be that much worse. 16 will be fought in blue states. Plus you got an expanded electorate for the president ial race. This is ill say it right here, this is a do or die election for the modern Republican Party. Well thats why i think iowa and colorado and New Hampshire, but iowa and colorado specifically are that important because these are the states that republicans have to win in 2016. These are the kind of voters that they need to appeal to. Now, look, youre right the
electorate will look different in 2016. Winning in those states in a midterm year with an unpopular year a lot easier than winning in 2016 with a wideopen president ial race. If cory gardner cant win in colorado given how much more successful hes been as a candidate, given the political environment youre right this no way they can win as a National Party. They cab red state party but not a National Party. If they win control of the senate by picking up red states thats not a great night either. A lot of Republican Leaders ive been talking to have said we cant just win red states. We got to expand this out. We got to make sure we win the governorship in michigan, in wisconsin. We got to win the senate race in iowa, in colorado. We got to expand the map. And yet here we are, again, talking about North Carolina, georgia. They are not going to win
louisiana out right most likely and then kansas. Yeah. Also all these candidates are under 50 . All of them. Its not the kind of election where somehow the country is shifting in one big direction and making a big choice because its almost like who do you hate less election, which is kind of hard. Heres the problem. They should have a better message. If this were a president ial year where you had an expanded electorate thats one thing if it were a 5050 election. This is an off year election. The electorate are older, whiter and look nothing like the electorate will look like in 2016. We still, cokie have too many races split right down the middle. Yeah. Absolutely right. People are not saying yeah republicans we really love you. And certainly the polls are showing that. You know, people dont like
either party. And so its really a negative, more against obama than against the way things are than anything else and i do think democrats are more associated with incumbency because they have the white house than the republicans are. But it is also, though, you know, interesting when you look at colorado and how far behind udall is and i do think some of that is that hes waged this war on Women Campaign that just has been relentless and really gotten him into trouble, but its also interesting that were not seeing that hispanic turn out there, at least so far, and thats what elected Michael Bennet his colleague in the senate a couple of years ago was the hispanic vote. And i think that that hasnt been anywhere near the emphasis you would expect in that campaign. So we want to go to colorado where kasie hunt is. Well start with new jersey
republican governor Chris Christie not backing down from criticism about a confrontation with a heckler at an event marking two years since superstorm sandy. Heres a small portion of that back and forth. Yep. Good. Theres been 23 months since then when all youve been doing is flapping your mouth and not doing anything. So listen you want to have the conversation later im happy to have it buddy. Until that time sit down and shut up. Joining us from colorado springs, msnbc Political Correspondent kasie hunt. You caught up with the governor yesterday and im sure he was very, very, you know, well apologetic, right . Reporter come completely apologetic and contrite. No. Governor christie was subdued on the campaign trail yesterday as opposed to his normal brass appearance. You didnt see a lot of brass
from governor christie when he was here campaigning in colorado. I did ask him about his confrontation with that heckler yesterday. You give it youre getting it back. If you give respect you get that back. If you dont get respect ill take you out on it. Thats the way it goes. I dont calculate these things politically. This is who i am and i think most people understand that. Someone stands up yelling and screaming, its just not appropriate to do and i wont sit there. Would you encourage your kids to behave like that towards other people. I would not encourage my kids to go to an event like that and scream at a public official and treat a public official with disrespect and treat the audience with disrespect. I would hope my kids didnt do that. If they didnt do that there would be no reason for anybody to retact way i reacted yesterday. Reporter as you saw there pretty defiant. My question was if were looking up to our political leaders is this the kind of behavior you want to see and is this the kind of behavior the electorate wants to see from a president ial
candidate. Thomas . Seems receptive to the conversation and ready for the type of tough questions that are going to be asked of him about that exchange after the Media Attention and headlines that it received. What else was he saying about whats taking him on the road, whats his forecast for the future because that might play in new jersey but how does it play on the road when hes taking his message outside of state lines . Reporter the people in the crowd were receptive. Several veiled references to christies brass style from others on the podium and he got some applause for that. I think theres especially among Republican Base voters a certain appetite that christie offers. The question is just whether or not that wears well in the long term. Because colorado is more a chill place. Of course. Look, his frustration with the hecklers is understandable but you have to have more tools
in your tool box for handling that. Seeing Hillary Clinton has handled some hecklers gracefully with humor. As much as its part of his appeal i cant believe the constant hard ranging style will play in these states that has a more genteel nature. Do you think they will send people out to set him up. Try to wind him up and go further. Thats who he is in terms of being aggressive and to the point. Kasie hunt, thank you very much. A panelist is now apologizing to scott brown after the final debate between senator jean shaheen and the republican and i want focuses on this exchange. What do you see going right in the economy in Sullivan County and whats going wrong and please be specific. Youre absolutely right. Geography play as role. Along the southern border we
have more jobs more opportunity. Infrastructure and other opportunities up north are difficult. One of the biggest opportunities is tourism and one of the biggest opportunities is ski areas and trails for snow mobiles. Were talking about Sullivan County. I think you were talking about the North Country. What do you see going well. Any place past concord actually and the challenges of our state so im referring to the challenges including the high Corporate Tax rate, obamacare coming in after the election. We also have the challenges of high electric costs. If you go to any business in any county in our state those are very real challenges. Sullivan county is west of concord not not. I mentioned the challenges are the same. After the debate that panelist apologized to brown and said the candidate was right about Sullivan County running north. How did he do that . I think he was trying to play a game of gotcha and he embarrassed himself. How did doe that a bad day. Weve had other people there arent a lot of counties to figure out. It isnt like iowa. Or new york. Or new york. I dont understand it. Anyhow im glad its cleared up. I feel bad for senator brown. I do too. But cokie we showed numbers here and im not so sure that political order is not trourng the universe in the latest poll it shows jean shaheen superby eight points. That may be an outlier. This is one of those races. If scott brown wins this race, democrats should just run for the highest ground possible. If he wins its katie by the door. If we see that early in the evening well see a sweep. This is why people hate the press. Is having that guy just sort of ask that same little question over and over again like that, and, you know, he was just trying to be so smart. And, of course, he turned out not to be. And i think brown handled it very well. He didnt get he didnt go the christie route. He didnt say not Sullivan County. He said with all due respect and all of that, and he didnt get flustered by it, which was the point. The point was to fluster him and to show him as a carpet bagger, and i think that is the biggest strike against him, but it ended up being a much bigger strike against the member of my trade than it was against the candidate. All right, amy, its punch list time here. Here we go. Come on, amy. As a candidate, this is like the last day of hard campaigning for me. I dont know what cokie, what
your mom and dad did but on friday it was baked in to the cake. I see people shaking it was. It was already baked in. I was horrified every halloween i was just scared to death because it was like, okay, i cant do much more here so i go out with the kids and sweat a lot. Joe, every election day of my childhood we went to the polls. We were still campaigning at the polls on election day. I was still campaigning up to the last second. I didnt think it made any difference. I was very scared. My going up to those voters and being an adorable 8yearold didnt make a difference. It must have. It must have. It made a difference. Look at the results. Results dont lie. Lets go state by state on some of the bigger states. New hampshire, whats the latest conventional wisdom on New Hampshire. Im with all you guys on this. I give shaheen the advantage here. What about in colorado . You know, in talking to both people on the ground and seeing what were seeing on the polls, i think udall is behind. I dont think its seven points. But i dont think he has enough time to catch up. Iowa . Golly, that is one where if you just look at the polls you say that one is too close to call. It hasnt moved in weeks. Its a onepoint race. Republicans feeling incredible confident there on the ground and suggest this is a much gigger margin. Democrats have been saying this for months they feel a little bit like wiley coyote where he goes over the edge. He stands, moves his leg and gravity takes hold and drops. Thats where we are with so many democrats. Holding in there. Iowa, i still think, that joni
ernst, gives her a little bit of an advantage. I actually feel, two of the states im more comfortable saying republicans will win are actually blue states and colorado and iowa. I dont feel that way about North Carolina. I just it seems like kay hagan has just continually scratched and clawed and fought and stayed ahead. Whats the wisdom on North Carolina . Thats a good indicator too both of the candidate quality, right. I think that hagan not only has she bean good candidate but tillis got a slow start, easy to paint him as somebody too extreme and that state is so much more polarized than iowa or colorado so there arent as many persuadable voters. You can push it on turn out. I want to be surprised on election night, honestly to see North Carolina go republican and then what well see yeah because its that close and to cokies point if you see earth
New Hampshire or colorado go. Lightning round is to become more lightning like, kansas. How is that going to go . Every republican thinks they will lose it. I dont hearde cnt ethic. Why not say orman. Much more fun for us covering it. I think rockets catches up. Is arkansas republican. I would say so. What about alaska, republican . It feels that way. Georgia . Runoff. Runoff. I think there are a couple of races we just dont know. Georgia, kansas, North Carolina as cokie and i were saying earlier. Those are the races to watch. Amy walter thank you very much. Still ahead on morning joe the very funny aasif mandvi joins us with his very latest personal project. Plus are they harmless childrens characters other
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so we have our Halloween Costumes and im a kitty. Joe is invisible. Yeah the invisible man. Hes the invisible man. I dont know what you have going there, thomas but i think it works for you. Okay. The wall street journal, are we really doing papers like this. A new Study Suggests the economy and housing costs may not be the reason Young Americans are living with their parents but rather they just love them so
much. No. Its student loans, young adults age 18 to 31 living with their parents rose 36 up from 31 in 2005. Student loan debt is responsible for 30 of this increase, experts suggest living at home is desirable because education related financial debt makes it harder to get additional credit. Thomas. We look Staten Island advance. Endorsing republican representative Michael Grimm in tuesdays congressional election. Still the paper made it clear the choice was not an easy one considering grimm is facing the 20 count federal indictment. The editorial said his challenger said little during the campaign aside from attacking grimm. They go on to say there are occasions elect tore rail races where both candidates are of high quality and high integrity. The 11th congress enamel district is nothing like that. To have the Staten Island congressman under indictment is
a black mark on this borough. Grimm was faced with a head scratcher during tuesdays debate. Look at this. Mr. Grimm, whats the last book you read . Wow, its bean while. I havent had time to read. I think it was a tom clancy book. These are not supposed to be stumpers. Huh . Ill move on the next paper, the express times. Heres a lesson in whatnot to do this halloween weekend. In pennsylvania last sunday a Lehigh University student in full costume as the yellow teletubby lala from the childrens show on bbc allegedly broke into a friends house and took some chinese food. He reportedly dumped the food into his man purse. Would that be his tummy, the pocket on his tummy. No. Tiki winky carried the purse not lal. The student has been charged with criminal mischief and criminal misconduct. I think its against the law to be teletubby. Lala stole his friends purse. Went into a dorm room and stole the chinese food. Were down the wire with four days until election day and no race is closer than the one for u. S. Senate in kansas. Well talk to kansas congressman about that razor type contest in a few minutes. But first tom brokaw joins us with his analysis on what this election means for the future of both political parties. Should i keep the ears for tom . Do you think he would like it . He might be disgusted. Its halloween. I think its okay. Your customers, our financing. Your aspirations, our analytics. Your goals, our technology. Introducing synchrony financial, bringing new meaning to the word partnership. Banking. Loyalty. Analytics. Synchrony financial. Enagage with us. There was no question she reminds you every day. But your erectile dysfunctionthat could be a question of blood flow. Cialis for daily use helps you be Ready Anytime the moment is right. You can be more confident in your ability to be ready. And the same cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. Tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines,
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east German Government that now for the First Time Since the wall was erected in 1961 people can move through freely. This crowd has gathered here tonight spontaneous from the east german side they have been bringing water canons on some of the he is less brants but doesnt make much difference. That was part of nbcs historic coverage of the fall of the berlin wall nearly 25 years ago. Joining us now the man with the legendary reporting on that and other groundbreaking events, tom brokaw. Tom thanks for being on this morning. Its a pleasure. Great event at the newseum last night. I was on stage with luke russert. I said in the introduction its a historic moment. Im being interviewed by luke russert who i first saw in a sonogram. His father brought to it me and said im going to have a son. Weve been very close ever is in. And luke did a fantastic job. We had a capacity audience. We talked a little bit on this broadcast about the fall of the berlin wall. Not just because nbc there was. It did change the world. Not in way we expected it to be changed. Obviously germany is the most powerful country in europe now. Angela merkel is widely regarded as the most powerful and visionary leader in europe. We walked from east germany into west germany that night. She was a lbt technician in east germany came to the west and now the chancellor of the country. The Nato Alliance began to fray around the edges and this is when we need it more to deal whats going on in the middle east and putin. Really a full discussion last night. And newseum is a treasure. We need ad repository for the good work of journalism and history of it and a place where journalists can go and talk about their craft and its working out very well. That changed the world. Heres the next question. As we move on to the election, the midterms next week will they change anything . Im sorry, repeat that again. Will the midterms next week change anything, what is this election decideding . We talked about changing the world with the fall of the berlin wall. We were just Like Washington to change a little bit. Will next weeks elections do anything to do that . You know, the thing is, joe, that i dont think we were so relieved when the wall went down that the soviet union was coming apart at the same time. China was changing. We took our eye off the ball. For a long time the last feeling in this country all right we won the cold war. But the world is a dynamic place. As dr. Kissinger said. We couldnt have anticipated somebody like putin coming along. We couldnt have anticipated whats going on in the middle east. And the Nato Alliance ought to be a much larger factor than it is in dealing with isis because theres no indication whatsoever
that this Jihadist Movement that we see raging across iraq and syria will be confined there. They have their eyes on the west. They are online talking about it. We had the attack on ottawa, the attack last summer in belgium. We need the alliance to be stronger in terms of how it deals with that. Nick. I think were in for two more years of the same. Two more years of gridlock. I think if republicans take the senate it gives them an ability to be a little more aggressive in forcing the president s hand. Weve seen Mitch Mcconnell says they will start to bundle their policy agenda into these omnibus spending bills and give the president the option of either shutting down government or acceding to their demands. It will be a lot like the last two years, guys. Tom, i remember several years ago we had asked whether the
current political state was as ugly as it was in 1968. Actually i asked you and pat buchanan who famously was calling during the chicago riots and calling nixon and reporting on it. I was shocked a couple of years ago you all said no politically things are much uglier today than they were then. Can you look at the Political Landscape today and compare it to how it was even 15, 20 years ago, how i mean are we just glorifying the good old days or have things got that much worse. I wouldnt call 1968 the good old days. That was a traumatic time in america. The antiwar protests were so strong. We were emerging from the civil rights movement. Still in the midst much it. Cunning king was assassinated. Bobby kennedy was assassinated. 60,000 people died in vietnam. Riots in chicago. George wallace running for president of the United States on a racist platform at that time. The country was in turmoil. Now its a different kind of turmoil. One of the things thats happened is that we have a world in which theres not a nation state relationship that we used to have. You got these kind of jihadist moments that are under way in the middle east. You have at the moment people not actively involved in politics as they were in 1968. The passion that Bobby Kennedy and Gene Mccarthy people and coalition as you know that Richard Nixon put together for the Republican Party to win just barely the election that fall but it was a real Seismic Shift in american politics, joe, in 68. No doubt about it. Tom brokaw, thank you so much. Sounds like it was an incredible event last night. Thanks for being on this this morning. Still ahead he describes himself
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support president obamas agenda or harry reid . You have to come together. Weve been counting on you kansas. Youre a republican state for goodness sake. Republican senator rand paul stumping for senator pat roberts but is kansas on the verge of voting out a republican governor and senator . Joining us now the guy you saw standing, there republican congressman from kansas. Congressman, unbelievable. Six months ago we were saying nobody would say that the republican governor and the republican senator were going to be in trouble. Today the republican governor and the republican senator are in trouble. Whats happened . Theres no doubt. Six months ago everybody said kansas politics its all over. Lets go elsewhere. We had reporters in from belgium and japan, the worlds eyes this past week. Whats the matter with kansas . Whats the matter now. You know, i think i was
out all last week, senator johnson was in, saw senator paul, a lot of folks coming into kansas making sure brownback gets across the line. Senator roberts had a tough primary. Yesterday his primary opponent endorsed him. I think there will be a coalesce. At the end of the day senator roberts political views are much more closely aligned its fascinating in the governors race Sam Brownback has caught flack even from republicans for tax cuts. I think this is a game changer that republicans, we have certainly since 1994 just always assumed you cut taxes you get rewarded for it politically. Sam brownback has paid dearly for tax cuts. Why is that . I think its going to be just fine. Sam did the right thing. Hes moving to us a competitive tax state. We were less competitive than nebraska and oklahoma and all the places around us. So i think voters too will see
that. Mike, you know its a problem. Come on. You got republicans saying that it is im not being difficult, we both know this is true. No, no. I think you captured it correctly. I spent a lot of time on candidate. In listened to voters. They want good value. They want to make sure Services Work the tradeoff between taxes and Good Services doesnt have to be made but you can do both. You can have a Smaller Government and still deliver those services. I think the governor has made that case in the last few weeks. The race very, very close. I spent a lot of time in kansas too. The lives for 12 hours just a few weeks ago. I got a feel on the ground immediately. Nick, so i understand the congressman, if i had the congressmans seat. That said sam down back cut taxes to make kansas more competitive but you now have a
debt, a deficit problem, education funding. You got a lot of republicans that moderate republicans actually that have problems with it, that if sam wins we forget about this race the next day. If sam doesnt win, this is a game changer. What were seeing in states like kansas and colorado which is controlled by the democrats what happens sometimes when one party gets control of the entire State Government and has no push back and goes, you know, aggressively on policy, and in this case if you open up revenues, support the worker Government Support schools and education, you know, there are voters, even republicans, even those who favor tax cuts who might say, you know what . We have to have enough known keep the doors open. Theres always been such a battle, thomas, in kansas between republicans, warring factions of the Republican Party. Its interesting to see and as weve been talking about this morning how red states can remain red and theres no
definitive polling thats showing that these margins of error arent in all play in a lot of these states, kansas being one of them. So congressman let me ask you because rand paul was out there on stump said the brand is in trouble overall the republican brand. Just recently this week didnt use the word suck to describe it. Do you think thats the perception of whats taking place in kansas and then also on a National Level . Do you agree with ran paul . I dont. I think its more complicated. I saw the sound bite. I didnt get the whole context. I think its more complicated. I came in 2010. I came in 2010 with cory gardner and 2012 tom cotton shows up. In two different states in arkansas and colorado these folks are now beating long time democrats for United States senate seat. This is something too six months ago i dont think anybody gave gardner a shot. Hes running a good campaign. When we as republicans do that and honest and become
trustworthy and communicate with the folks at the place they are the republican brand does just great. I think when we talk about ideology and we get off away from things that matter to our constituents i think thats when our party gets in trouble. Thank you so much. Thank you. Still ahead, from a Michael Jackson impersonator to get hired by jon stewart for the daily show, aasif mandvi is here with his story of an unlikely journey. Keep it right here. Ameriprise asked people a simple question in retirement, will you outlive your money . Uhhh. No, that cant happen. Thats the thing, you dont know how long it has to last. 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. Well, knowing gives you confidence. Start building your confident retirement today. Come from all walks of life. If you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga. Its a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. Along with diet and exercise, farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. With one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. And, although its not a weightloss or bloodpressure drug, farxiga may help you lose weight and may even lower Blood Pressure when used with certain diabetes medicines. Do not take if allergic to farxiga or its ingredients. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction include rash, swelling or difficulty breathing or swallowing. If you have any of these symptoms, stop taking farxiga and seek medical help right away. Do not take farxiga if you have severe kidney problems, are on dialysis, or have bladder cancer. Tell your doctor right away if you have blood or red color in your urine or pain while you urinate. Farxiga can cause serious side effects, including dehydration, genital yeast infections in women and men, low blood sugar,kidney problems, and increased bad cholesterol. Common side effects include urinary tract infections, changes in urination, and runny nose. Do the walk of life yeah, you do the walk of life need to lower your blood sugar . Ask your doctor about farxiga and visit our website to learn how you may be able to get every month free. Faster than dcon. What will we do with all of these dead mice . Tomcat presents dead mouse theatre. Hey, ulfrik hey, agnar whats up with you . Funny you ask. Im actually here to pillage your town. [ villagers screaming ] but we went to summer camp together. Summer camp is over. [ male announcer ] tomcat. [ cat meows ] [ male announcer ] engineered to kill. [ male announcer ] tomcat. 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
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melded. And i sounded like i was from brooklyn. Thought, hey, how you doing. People like, are you from now that we have the title straight what does it mean . No lands man. It is about the fact that its about dislocation identity, you know, stuff like that. Its about having lived in many different places on three different continents. How does it impact you . I think personally it impacts me in the sense that i you know, theres a global sort of consciousness that i feel like, you know, i have acquired over the years. Professionally, you know, specifically on the daily show i think ive been very fortunate to be able to speak into the zeet geist from inside and outside the culture at the same time. You said jon stewart and the daily show turned you into a terrorist. Yes, they do, they really did. Explain that. I became a terrorist of
economy. Boom, there you go. I have a story called the jihadist of irony. You know, i got to the daily show and suddenly i was able to speak on behalf of a sector of society that was underrepresented which was american muslims, you know, who didnt have the benefit of being patriotic and critical of america at the same time just like other americans did. We actually talked i actually become good friends with him and he was talking about just basic reports that he would do and his parents were just absolutely horrified by the hate mail that not only he got but what they got too. That somehow he had no right, despite the fact that he was a georgia kid, you know, to comment on things that some americans didnt want to hear about. Ive interviewed some crazy people over the years including a fair few islam phobes in my
years on the daily show. I interviewed a woman back during the days of the ground zero mosque controversy. I interviewed a woman in tennessee who claimed 1 in 5 muslims were terrorists. Which, by the way, i think theres a harvard study that backs that up, right . Wrong. I think so. I did the math because she told me to and it comes to Something Like 300 million, 300,000, 300 million, something ridiculous like that. She was appallled by that number. I said, that means 30 million terrorists. She said right. I said, well, i cant understand what is taking us so long, i mean, should be way ahead of this now. Its like if barack obama is this evil dictator, shouldnt he be able to i know, he should have been able to do this. I feel like his muslim connections, he didnt really use them that much. There are a lot of muslims that obviously yearn to come to this country. One of my one of the most ironic stories out of the gulf war, second gulf war, was after abu ghraib, one of the people treated horribly in abu ghraib saying he was going to torture the United States or you can just let me move to the United States and everythings cool. I thought for all our flaws this deal, i guess you figure, you know, either im going to turn into a terrorist or im going to turn into a capitalist. You know, and he opted for that. Thomas. When you look at what youve done to help break down stereotypes, how important is it to look at things with the perspective of humor . Because youve been able to educate so many more people. The daily show gets so many people watching. Certain reports go viral. So how do you think youve been able to help break down stereotypes through humor . I think satire is a really effective tool. Its been around for a long
time. The daily show didnt invent it. Often we get to say things in a way that the regular media in the way the regular media doesnt. Doesnt have the courage to say. Where you guys dont. Because were beholden to the laugh. And sometimes were able to tell a story in a way, you know, point out the bs. And the absurdity because youre driven i love how you say driven by the laugh. So youre always pushing to see the absurdity. I think thats when the daily show is the best. Theyre telling us to go and im just not going to do it because you say that your father came to this country because of one word. Yes, patriotic word. A word. That word was brunch. The beauty of my america, my father would say, is they have
so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. Breakfast and lunch. Put them together and you get brunch. Genius, right . Bloody americans, i love them. Their english is atrocious but they have a word for everything. Its true, yes. Its beautiful. Yes, he came to america and he came on a Reconnaissance Mission to see if he wanted to move here and somebody took him out to brunch and he was sold and he just thought 7. 95, you get all this food. A legal meal. We love your father. Which of course explains the pancakes on the cover of the i love the okay, in fact, i was so distracted by tweeting the book, which we got the tweet up. You need to retweet. The book is no lands man and you can read an excerpt from our website mojoe. Msnbc. Com. Just come back and hang out, im serious. Just come out for an hour or two. Come do an hour, why not. Just talk about things we know nothing about, its a lot of fun. Theyre still after me. 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. And youll see just how much it has to offer, especially if youre thinking of moving an old 401 k to a fidelity ira. It gives you a wide range of investment options. And the free help you need to make sure your investments fit your goals and what youre really investing for. Tap into the full power of your fidelity green line. Call today and well make it easy
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anything starts to break. But all of the National Polls are really breaking republican. Particularly among independents. Yeah, really are. Rollin martin, the question is turnout. A lot of races that are still way too close to call. If the democrats have half of the turnout operation they had in 2012 or 2008, it actually is going to be very, very long night of vote counting. If its if this offyear election is like the last offyear election and the electorate is older and whiter, its going to be a big republican night, right . Its all about turnout. Thats one of the reasons democrats have been pushing hard when it comes to early voting. Theyve been flooding the zone, if you will. Cornell blecher, one of the top pollsters in the Democratic Party, made it perfectly clear early in the year if there was a 14 to 16point gap between obama voters in 12 in terms of whether they would actually vote in 2014. Many folks didnt even know about the election. The other problem is the democrats as a result of how they structured this did not have strong operations in some of these states. For instance, arkansas. You look at louisiana. I think one of the reasons senator kay hagan is doing well in North Carolina was because the obama folks had a strong operation they left in place. So i think the democrats have got to go back and reexam what howard dean talked about, having a strong 50state strategy. You cant just focus on the president ial election year. You have to build a National Party to have the infrastructure to drive people in these Midterm Elections. Of course kay hagan but the republicans are claiming they now have a ground game too. Theyve been saying that for eight years. I know that. This time, they say they really have a ground game. Who could forget mitt romneys supercomputer . I understand, but they learned their lesson from mitt romney and from barack obama. Now have identified a lot more
voters they can get to. They feel like theyre doing well in early voting in iowa. That is a very peculiar race. Not just for 14 but 16. A lot of republicans really would love lets put it this way, they would like to win the senate. If they win the senate and lose again in 2016, then youre going to have a massive crisis. This is a real proving ground. For the reasons that cokie was talking about. Have they learned their lessons from 2012 . Will their turnout operation be better . Will their technology be better . If not, because, you know, there are a lot of groups that invested a lot of money in turnout operations. Thats what republicans are going to be looking at in the rnc. As weve been talking about this week, we start to look at
these polls, the republican margin is growing a little bit, it would be a big disappointment if they dont take the senate at this point. The president is very unpopular, theyre in the right state, so they cycle around its being fought in red states. If they dont win the senate at this point, its being looked at as a big disappointment for republicans. The money game, youve been following this very closely for the New York Times. Where do we stand as we get into this campaign . Who ends up raising the most money . Its not going to be a campaign thats won and lost on the money at this point. Everyone pretty much has the money they need. I think the republican side is ahead basically in spending. But not by so much that its a money game. What strike, me about these polls is, you know, if cotton is that far ahead and gardner in colorado, really, theres only one patch for democrats to get to 50 and it involves both georgia and kansas. If you imagine that the partys
hopes for holding on to the senate would rest on those two states a year ago, then you would have been crazy. Joe. Yeah . Remember when congressman jim clapper was on your guys show, hes looking like an orrical when he made the point its not about money, its messaging. Democrat, if they lose the senate, will reflect on how they ran away from the president and how they have horrible messaging over the last year. I agree. I think youre exactly right. Democrats have made such a horrible mistake running against their president and running away from some of the things that they actually could have campaigned on. Again, ill say it again, if youre going to take vienna, take vienna. If youre a democrat and running, youve got to defend what youve done. Especially if theres some things out there the state senator from the ohio state university, show we did this week, showed how easy it was for her to have a message, stand by the president but not completely agree with him. Everybody talks about money. We all know at some point its a
law of diminishing returns. Republicans could be shocked. You look at georgia. Whats happened there . Theyve spent a lot of money. Its all about the guy who talked about he was outsourcing, bragging about outsourcing. You look at kansas. You got a guy who forgot to even buy an apartment in kansas. At the end of the day, it comes down to blocking and tackling. I mean, there is a National Message which is, as john breaux says, obama bad. Thats the two words that are a problem for democrats. But in those raises, you see both democrats who have run in the case of kansas, an independent, who have run good campaigns, and republicans who have run terrible ones. So yes, the candidates do make a difference. Michelle nunn in georgia understood the real message to take was the message of 2012 which was a populist message. She ran against perdue the way obama ran against romney. It was easier because of his background, but it was so much smarter than these campaigns that have been about the war against women and all that stuff. It was just straight economic message for the people of georgia. Thats right. All right. Then theres this. New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie. Not backing down from criticism about this confrontation with a heckler at an event marking two years since super storm sandy. Heres just a little portion to remind you of what happened. Yep. Good. And theres been 23 months since then when all youve been doing is flapping your mouth and not doing anything. So listen, you want to have a conversation later, im happy to have it, buddy, but until that time, sit down and shut up. I know sometimes you have moments where youre a little overheated and then you back off and you apologize because, you know, sometimes we theres a question of whether its just those of us in the
corridor who thinks this wont play. I will just tell you that if i and cokie, im sure your father probably would have said the same thing, if somebody i were helping somebody on their campaign and they exploded like that on the campaign trail, id pull them into my office and say, if you do that one more time, not only will i not support you, i will yank all of my money from you and im not talking about Chris Christie. Maybe it works for Chris Christie. Maybe his millionaires and billionaires like seeing him doing it. I would say in a second, you do that again, im yanking all support from you. Except for i think people are sick to death of these hecklers. And, you know, they do go to rallies, some of them. I mean, if youre going to a rally, youre going to a rally and presumably there either to support somebody or to hear something. And so i think that, you know, the hecklers do get you irritated. Having Somebody Just call it as they see it is likely very
beneficial to that politician. Well then to cokies point, there you go. Chris christie tells kacie hunt he has no regrets and no plans to change his style. Take a look. You give it, youre getting it back. If you give respect, you get that back. If you dont give respect, then im going to take you out on it. Thats just the way it goes. I dont calculate these things politically. I think most people understand that. Someone stands up and is yelling and screaming, its just not appropriate to do and im not going to sit there and would you encourage your kids to behave like that towards other people . I would not encourage my kids to go to an event like that and scream at a public official and treat a public official with disrespect and treat the audience with disrespect. I would hope my kids wouldnt do that. If they didnt do that, then there would be no need for anybody else to react the way i reacted yesterday. Willie, so, you know, some of the same liberals. I just said what i said. Politics 101. You dont scream at people and tell them to shut up. I will say, i have been surprised, just like i said a couple days ago, a lot of my liberal friends who supported quarantines. And of course we see the poll the next day that said 80 of americans support quarantines. A lot of my liberal friends were like, youre not going to like him. Maybe that hes an antipolitician. I do like that. Saying, no, you cant do that, thats not polite, dont do that. I dont know, maybe americans are so sick and tired of blow dried politicians. Maybe theyre cool with that. Thats always been his appeal, right, that he wasnt like other yeah, but hes kind of amped that up. Hes gone into warp speed. Shoots into space. Just trying to we sat here 24 hours ago and we were first reacting to this tape and you asked me what i thought and said, do you think for a second Chris Christie woke up and had any regrets about that . I think you just saw the answer. He didnt regret that. Thats his style. There is a new poll out last week, a poll in new jersey that shows his Approval Rating at 41 which is down from where its been historically. Is it wearing thin . I dont know. Maybe it will work in 2016. I have never seen that work in any president ial campaign. Everything is so magnified. Right, a president ial campaign is completely different. Somebody aspiring to be the president of the United States has to behave in a different fashion. But, you know, joe weve talked about this before, Chris Christie is not going to be president so its not a problem. The republican oh. The Republican Party is not going to nominate him. Thats where we are. But, you know, this i think youre right. This kind of bullying business i think is probably working in maine for instance. That nurse in maine might elect him as governor. I understand shes saying its the science and thats why i refuse to be quarantined. It doesnt make any sense. Hes saying you get in that house girl and i think thats probably working for him. Exactly right, the nurse is playing right into his hands. Science be damned. You know thats how people feel. Certainly 80 . Undecided voters in New Hampshire are weighing their options between shaheen and brown. The latest poll shows senator shaheen with an eightpoint lead against the former republican senator from massachusetts. They clashed on the governments response to ebola, obamacare and immigration. All of the talk after the debate was about this exchange brown had with a panelist who was confused. What do you see going right in the economy in Sullivan County and whats going wrong and please be specific. Well, youre absolutely right, geography plays a roll along the southern border. We have more jobs. More opportunity. Infrastructure and other opportunities up north are difficu difficult. One of the biggest opportunities is tourism, ski areas and trails for snowmobiles. I support those efforts. Were talking about Sullivan County and i think you were talking about the North Country so what do you see as doing well in Sullivan County. Talking about any place past concord and the challenges of our state so im referring to the challenges including the high Corporate Tax rate, obamacare coming in after the election. We also have the challenges of high electric costs. If you go to any business in any county in our state, those are the very real challenges. Sullivan county is west of concord, not north of concord. What do you see going well and not going well there . With respect, ive answered the question. The challenge is the same in every county in our state. We saw in real time last night, scott brown was getting killed for apparently not knowing geography in New Hampshire. When he did. But mika, it wasnt scott brown that had it wrong. After the debate, the panelist apologized to brown and
said the candidate was right about Sullivan County running both north and west of concord. Campaign officials for both shaheen and brown said the candidates will visit Sullivan County later today. Wait, what . Really . Come on. If youre going to be a panelist, it looked like he was apparently trying to embarrass scott brown. No, hes a pro, he apologized afterward. He apologized on twitter, said it was his mistake. The problem is this kind of mistake lives on. People airport goirent going t apology. Plays into that narrative hes a carpetbagger. If i was the candidate, id be really, really angry. Its not just the candidates voters have to decide next week. From random drug testing for doctors from not one but two questions about wolf hunting. Well take a look at some of the interesting ballot issues. By the way in fairfield county, we have a lot of wolf hunting. Theres foxes. Id like to be able to use my
shotgun but they say only a bow. No, and no pistol. What Michael Jordan had to say about president obamas golf game. Why would he do that . Who does he think he is . Michael jordan, man. Michael jordan. Hes got the killer competitive gene. Anyone asks him anything, he goes right to that place. He is like the worst hall of fame awful, awful. In like the history of human kind. Dominated you and i dominated you and you and you. That was his hall of fame speech. I love him. I got posters all over my house. Not anymore. I used to. See. I dont know ive got a poster of this guy. Theres just no transition. Bill karins. Have you seen it . You fold it out. Im glad you put it up. The bikini weatherman of msnbc from 74 are you doing the Richard Simmons for halloween tonight, bill . No, still trying to decide
maybe behind rihanna or maybe i could go with like lindsay lohan. Were trying to decide for this year. As youre going out trick or tweeting, go with a warm costume for much of the country. Look at this map. 40 Million People under freeze warnings for tonight. The end of the growing season all the way down to northern mississippi and portions of alabama. Even dallas just to the north of you, down near the freezing mark. Frigid air. This is some of the coldest stuff weve seen this winter easily, this early winter season. It is 6 right now, windchill in bismark, 6, thats it. Chicago, windchill of 24. Kansas city, 25. And that cold air arrives further to the south. We have snow showers in milwaukee. Flurries in chicago. Let me give you that forecast for your halloween. We are going to see one spot with heavy snow. Thats the mountains of North Carolina. Thats late tonight. For all the other trick or treaters out there, youre fine, but very cold conditions in the middle of the country, especially after the sun sets and that wind is howling. As we go through the weekend, saturday in the northeast will not be pretty. Of course we have the new York City Marathon sunday morning. Winds could be gusting to 40 Miles Per Hour with windchills in the upper 20s. Ouch, stings. Youre watching morning joe. [ female announcer ] with five perfectly sweetened whole grains. You cant help but see the good. Whole grains. Synchrony Financial Partners with over two hundred thousand businesses, from fashion retailers to healthcare providers, from jewelers to Sporting Good stores, to help their customers get what they want and need. Banking. Loyalty. Analytics. Synchrony financial. Engage with us. Time now to take a look at the morning papers. Were going to start with the boston globe. Remembering its longest serving
mayor this morning. Thomas menino passed away thursday after a battle with cancer. The democrat took over city hall in 1993 and would stay there for the next two decades. He is crediting with helping bring hightech companies to boston and for overseeing the response to last years marathon bombing. He was also in office when the 2004 red sox squad ended an 86year dry spell to win the first of three recent world series. Tom menino was 71 years old. Mike barnicle had one of the last interviews with menino just two weeks ago. You can see it on our website, mojoe. Msnbc. We just saw him up at fenway. Such a good guy. Totally. Such a friend of the show. Certainly our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and entire family. The city of boston loved him but the country got to see him during the Boston Marathon
bombings. Remember, he was there and he had broken his leg, was still out front leading the efforts. Our condolences to their family. The oregon be. The terminally ill woman says she no longer intends to die this weekend. Brittany maynard released this emotional video yesterday announcing her plans. When people criticize me for not not, like, waiting longer or, you know, whatever theyve decided is best for me, it hurts because really i risk it every day that i wake up. And i do it because i still feel good enough and i still have enough joy and i still laugh and smile with my family and friends enough that it isnt it seem like the right time right now. But it will come because i feel myself getting sicker. Its happening each week. Maynard was diagnosed with stage four malignant brain tumor. They moved to oregon, allowing doctor assisted suicide. She originally planned to die on november 1. As you heard at the end of the video, she will do it some time down the road because she feels herself getting sicker. The Atlanta Journal constitution, crash test dummies are getting ago new look. Researchers try to find different ways to save life. In this case, theyre getting a whole lot bigger. Because were getting a whole lot bigger. Studies show obese individuals are 78 more likely to die in a car crash. Thats why i take the subway. In an effort to cut down on that statistic, some companies are now making fat crash dummies that weigh in at 273 pounds with a bmi index of 35. Which, by the way, coincidentally, willie, those
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policeman do it Football Players do it even people fighting few ini it we all do it but i dont do it i dont have to pee in a cup but you operated on my kid last week. I dont remember that. That was a proproposition 46 ad running in california calling on doctors to submit to random alcohol and drug tests. Just one question up for a vote in this years election. Were joined by domestic correspondent from the New York Times josh farrow. Josh, the minimum wage is one of the Big Questions. Yeah there are a few Big Questions that keep popping up nationally. Voting on increases in the
minimum wage, going anywhere from 8 to 9 an hour. Its more popular than polls would indicate. Two states vote on legalizing recreational marijuana. What are those states . We have viewers who want to know. Its oregon and alaska. If youre in Washington State already, you have legal marijuana, maybe you can get across the border. California is such a wreck of a state because they have referendumed themselves to death. Why is california sort of the case study how this can be run, how this can be taken overboard . California we think of as a blue state. California, they really like to vote for spending. They like to vote for restrictions on tax cuts. Theyve created the situation where theyve ordered the government to pay for all sorts of things and restricted the ability to do them. Thats really, that question is
not mostly about making doctors pee in a cup, its mostly about medical malpractice. Theyre currently capped. A lot of trial lawyer groups would like ton raise that. They figured it out it focused group well to subject doctors to drug tests. Theyre focusing the Campaign Around the drug test issue. Seem to be very popular on the ballot. Drugs and alcohol. Gambling. Eight states looking at different gambling. This is looking to expend whand this means for different states. My expectation is most of these gambling questions will pass. Thats whats happened generally over the past decade. This has been states looking for new revenue they can get in other ways than raising taxes. The problem is as everybody legalizes gambling, were finding the market is saturated. You open a casino in your state, it doesnt lead to more total
gambling, its just drawing away from other states. They say, we better open more casinos, and that argument has been getting out there that really this isnt the revenue stream we thought it was. But people have grown independent on it so they felt compelled to expand to cling what they can out of that gambling revenue base. So more of a vicious cycle than anything else . I think so. Its a very regressive way of financing the government. It comes disproportionately from people with lower incomes. People say great, its a way to pay for government without ra e raises but its really a way to have poor people pay for government. The question on any initiative, the banning of dogs hunting thats something people will vote on in maine. Bear hunting with dogs and also the baiting of bears. In michigan, there will be two ballot questions about banning wolf hunting. Neither of them will matter. For some religiason, very deterd
to avoid a public vote on this issue. Theyve passed a total of three laws authorizing a wolf hunt, each one to replace a through that could get repealed on referendum. Speaking of initiatives, the marijuana issue was an important one in colorado last time around with some saying it even helped democrats win in that state in 2012. Its not on their ballot this year but there are other big issues that play. Kacie hunt is in colorado with the latest. Are you ready to do democracy . Are you ready to get those ballots out . Are you ready for a new United States senator on november 4th . Reporter can republicans win in blue states . Next week, theyll get a trial run in colorado. Its been a decade since a republican won statewide office here. Congressman cory gardner is leading democratic senator mark udall and the republican is in a race closer than expected. Lets make colorado a red state again. Reporter its all a far cry
from 2010. That was a great year for republicans but not in colorado. Why should you vote for me . Because i do not wear high heels. Reporter ken buck, dan maze and tom tancredo were all conservative favorites and general election leaders. This time, the gop picked candidates who will strike a different tone. We will make sure we restore a government we cab be proud of, a government that once again can accomplish big ideas with bold beliefs and courageous plans. Reporter that hasnt stopped democrats from trying to make them seem as scary as possible. His opponent is an attractive guy, says, im not for that anymore, everythings all right. And im okay on letting women buy contraceptives. Hello, thats been legal for several decades. Heard on the radio, i swear to you, youre going to start out buying condoms this afternoon. Reporter here and across the country will take more than just a change in tone. Republicans have to prove their
ground game is forever. That they can appeal to hispanic voters and that they can see it through to the end. The Colorado Party and our candidates have made a big effort. I think theyre going to see significant improvements over the last two election cycles. I feel pretty good about it. So many ways in which colorados a bellwether and gives us an opportunity to be an example to the rest of the nation. Does it feel as if republicans have the momentum going into next week. Hey, mika, well, i will say, you know, republicans have the advantage in returns on early ballots. Some of the numbers suggest they do. I would say the feeling on the ground is probably the opposite. Weve been to a number of events. We saw jeb bush and Chris Christie. Those events drew reasonably small crowds. People were excited. But i wouldnt put the passion
at a very high level. Whereas the democrats seemed very engaged. Even small bus tour events were a little bigger. When im pressing republicans here to try to explain how it is that theyre going to do all the things that they need to do that theyre going to implement their ground game, turn out hispanic voters, their answers sound a lot like what i was hearing from the romney campaign. And we saw how that turned out. No doubt about it. What about early voting. I have republicans that have emailed me and say the early voting favors republicans. Any truth to that in colorado . Sure. Those returns you can already see that republicans have the edge. The concern privately among republicans is theyre going to rack up most of the vote in early voting and democrats will have the edge on election day so i think what you want to look at is where the margin sits once we get to monday, what those returns are. If the republicans edge is under anywhere from 4 to 6 points, that could spell trouble for them on election day. Kacie hunt, thank you. Josh barrel, thank you as well. Hey, josh, appreciate it. Come back. Still ahead, while president Lyndon Johnsons landslide victory against Barry Goldwater marked the beginning the reagan revolution. But first, the big move that walmart could be making to cash in this holiday season. Well be right back with business before the bell. Were in seattle to see which 100 calorie black cherry greek yogurt tastes best. Definitely that one. That ones delicious. Its yoplait what . I love yoplait the other one is chobani. Really. I like this one better. Yoplait wins again take the tasteoff for yourself. Everyone has questions about money. You know, i think about money kind of a lot. Moneys freedom. Moneys always on my mind. Credit cards. Mortgage. Debt. Its complicated. Its not easy. Im not a good budgeter. Unfortunately, im a spender. I would love to learn more about finances. So theres questions about the world that all of us have, especially about money and finance. The goal of khan academy and Better Money Habits and the partnership were doing with bank of america is to give people the tools they need to empower themselves. Thats why theres a listerine® product for every mouth. One to clean your whole mouth. One for those hard to reach places. One to protect kids mouths from cavities. Even one to freshen breath onthego. With over 100 years of innovation in oral care. Theres a listerine® product for every mouth in your house. For cleaner, healthier mouths go beyond brushing alone. Listerine®. Power to your mouth ™. Ring ring . Progresso its ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. Its our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. Apology accepted. Im watching you soup people. Make it progresso or make it yourself ladies and gentlemen, please
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years apart. What i wanted to do here was tell a story about 1,000 days in the mid60s where their lives overlap and you see them changing politics through the visions that they put forward to the country. So the book opens. Its a great opening. Where lbj wakes up, he has a huge landslide, he says, its the first time hes ever felt loveled by the american people. He calls pat brown the governor of california and starts giving him hell for not thinking he was going to win enough. Pat brown tries to tell him that for some bizarre reason, he lost Orange County and he was trying to figure it out. Johnson didnt want to hear anything about that. But you brilliantly talk about how even in the greatest victory were the seeds of their own destruction in Orange County. It was beyond even the political perception of Lyndon Johnson to see it. But there is this moment where johnson is basking in his victory and he speaks to brown and brown says, yeah, i dont really know whats going on in Orange County. Ive got, you know, the Orange County newspaper. Johnson just wants to go back to talking about how great his victory is. Just tell me how many counties i won. Obviously, Orange County was the launch of the reagan revolution. Where suddenly these people were showing up in shopping malls two years later going crazy for this blist actor named Ronald Reagan. Yeah, from nixon through reagan, california was a reliably republican state at the president ial level. Certainly took the country in a different direction. President reagan still heralded by republicans as kind of their president in the modern era. How would he do today . I think what we see in the story i tell here is a really deep pragmatism on reagans
part, particularly his own selfinterest, understanding where the middle of the country is, understanding the mood of the country changes, and he needs to be very perceptive to that. What would be different from what we see a lot in todays politicians is that sort of sensitivity to maintaining the connection with the american people. And not really sort of sticking necessarily to just whatever the talking points and principles are. Can i answer that question . Reagan would win and reagan would be presenting maagmatic. Just like when regular be was winning in 66 and 70 and 84. He won because he was pragmatic and conservative with a small c. He was not an ideologue. You go through in great detail here how actually there are a lot of similarities at certain points in lbjs presidency to the obama we see today. Its actually its quite striking if you look at whats basically the comparable moment
in the lbj presidency which is the fall of 1966, the democrats have held the white house for six years. And lbj at that period in time is struggling to communicate what his policy in vietnam is to the country. You have a sizable minority in the country that is saying hes not fighting hard enough. That he needs to take the, you know, pull out all the stops. Another minority says he shouldnt be fighting at all. What no one believes is the strategy lbj is articulating is not going to work. Hes presiding in a country where theres sort of a loss of faith and institutions, similar to what we see today. The energys all gone out of his presidency. Hes listless and removed. So even though we think of him as the great extra verdict who loves the process, in that particular moment, hes not. We could talk for a long time about this. The book is landslide. Lbj and Ronald Reagan at the dawn of the new america. Thank you so much. Congratulations on the book. 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I learned geography is hard in New Hampshire, even if you are from New Hampshire. From New Hampshire, exactly. Of course weve learned of course about the passing of the mayor, great guy, a great mayor. Certainly will be missed. And our thoughts and prayers are with him, his family and all of his loved ones and the people of boston. If its way too early it is morning joe. But stick around, the daily rundown is straight ahead. Happy halloween. Boo. Good morning. Developing this hour, an arraignment for the man who eluded authorities in the pennsylvania woods for weeks after he was accused of killing two state troopers. The ebola quarantine quarrel in maine rides on with state officials showing no signs of backing off. And what have the president s point men been doing so far . And christie has something new to say about telling a heckler to sit down and shut up. And the latest from colorado and his very busy finish for 2014. Good morning and happy halloween from washington. 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