Have a question you find your way to the microphone so everybody on the film can hear you and the store but jean would very much appreciate being able to hear you. Finally, at the end before you come up to get your books signed, our staff would ask you to fold up the chairs you are seat in and lean them against something it looked likes it will not topple over. This must be a crowd of truly hard core president ial history enthusiasm or you are looking for a distraction from the president ial election happening before us. It is a pleasure to introduce Jean Edward Smith who has proven to be a very dish distinguished biography of president s. He has written about eisenhower, grant, and John Marshall and clay. All of this while holding down a day job at several professors with the longest being the university of toronto for 35 years and a dozen years at marshall university. And he has been at princeton, columbia, and in virginia and a couple others. Jean is critical of our 43rd president a
Offer but it is willing to move that money around. A bart spokesperson updated us on this situation about a half hour ago. The main thing is that weve got framework established within the last, best, final offer. Were discussing the makeup of the last and best and final offer. Were back now. Well stay as long as it takes tonight to reach an agreement. After extending the strike deadline 24 hours to raft last night at midnight, unions delayed calling a strike again and continued negotiating. At this point its unclear if workers will stay on the job paflt midnight tonight meaning another day of uncertainty, which doesnt sit well with riders. Its stressful. The i work a lot. So very no idea what is going to happen. Im just here, hanging out on coaches for a couple day clz is unfortunate. And were going to stay on top of developments as you can see there is one technician waiting at the podium if and when someone comes out to speak. Weve been monitoring talks around the clock well have an
Official telling nbc news about 476,000 insurance applications have been filed through the obama care website. That figure is the number of people who have stopped on the site, not though purchased plans. Meantime, president obama expected to address problems with the website at a Health Care Event at the white house tomorrow. Treasury secretary jack lew talked about the glitches on meet the press. I think theres no one more frustrated than the president at the difficulty in the website. There are people working 24 hours a day, around the clock. Hhs has said its going to be putting out information on a monthly basis. Hhs has got plans to fix this, and it has to fix it. It has to be done right. Well, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and senator ted cruz rallied crowds at separate events on saturday. Cruz was the featured speaker at gatherings in austin and san antonio. Clinton spoke at rally. The whole country is watching this election. Watching to see whether the voters of vir
That is my stage name. Dont tell anybody about that. I know where you sit and i know what your desk looks like so be very careful. I moved desk. I know. Youre down the hall, my friend. Moving up in the world like the jeffersons. A hostage drama could have serious implications for the war on terror is raising serious questions how far countries will go to get their people home. Right now the deadline passed for an ultimatum laid down by isis to the government of jordan. Release a convicted terrorist on death row, seen on the right or they will kill a jordanian pilot whose plane went down in syria last month. This as jordans government says it is willing to mca trade. Meantime the white house says jordan and our allies should not negotiate with terrorists but when asked about the release of five taliban detainees for Army Sergeant bo bergdahl, the Deputy White House press secretary told abcs jonathan karl, that is not the same thing. I would also point out the taliban is an armed insurge
Prosecuted, its disgraceful. Five people around her have been given immunity to include her former chief of staff. When you have given immunity, that means youve probably committed a crime. Lets put those clips into perspective. Michael flynn could still get locked. Roger stone is pleading the fifth and a longtime trump executive was granted immunity. Were going to get to that and the fury on capitol hill over the white houses whitewashing of a journalists murder. The administration gave one story. The cia gave another. And its being described as the difference between darkness and sunshine. Welcome to morning joe, everyone. Its wednesday, december 5th. With us, we have msnbc contributor mike barnacle. Yeah. Married to number eight in global finance, by the way, well get to that. Columnist and associate of the Washington Post, David Ignatius. Formerer u. S. Attorney for the Northern District of alabama advance along with joe, willie and me. David, your name was dropped in some document