there s pressure on the members from those seats not compromise as opposed to reach across the aisle and be responsible. you ll have a national republican party that s trying to distance itself from a congressional republican party which can t change. which is why the system will continue not to work until somehow, you know, maybe there will be some more redistricting but i don t see it happening. carl bernstein, thank you so much. always good to have you. dee dee, thank you as well. chuck todd we ll see you coming up on the daily rundown. he s stale wake. does he ever get off tv. still ahead twitter s ipo hours away but does the social network have a chance to reach the same amount of users as facebook? we ll be right back.
google had been in business six years when it public. facebook eight. twitter seven. here s the big difference. google had $3 billion. facebook had $5 billion and twitter has $640 million of revenue when it s going public. much smaller company. same is true as of profits. google was making money. facebook was making a tiny bit of money. twitter is losing money. so that gives you a little bit of the background. is there a chance to sell ads on twitter. they will sell ads. tougher for facebook. that s because you cut in specifically to your interest, people can see what your timelines look like. facebook does that too. they don t do it well. they do it to the tune of six or seven billion ad revenue. they ve gotten better.
really? the thing we got to do nicole, you might want to be here for this one. anyhow, also more on today s big twitter ipo, the author of a brand new book. up next the top stories in the politico playbook. speaking of dr. ruth. don t go there with him. the sex therapy session is what time? what do do i? here s bill karins with a check on the forecast. good morning, everyone. today we have a little bit of light main heading through the northeast and mid-atlantic. not too significant to cause too many delays but washington, d.c., philly, new york, boston and our friend in the pacific northwest have a pretty good
a very tasteful way. this is taking today show bonding experience to a whole new level. what are we going to do to top that off? don t ask. the olympic torch has traveled to a place it has never been before wechlt are talking about space. back on the ground, will so shi be ready in 91 days. there are concerns about everything from terrorism to the weather and the president of the so s sochi organizing committee is here the site of twitter, the site has changed the world. should you stop tweeting long enough to buy? carl quintanilla is over in the orange room a very big day. twitter is going public. they priced at $26 a share. with all those problems facebook went through when they went public last year, can the company with the little blue bird make some green? #ipo. today s opening bell kicks off one of wall street s most
now facebook has since recovered and is up about 30%. google has done great. linked in has done great. zynga and groupon is still sitting down there. on wall street, what are the potential down falls to investing in twitter and what s the big upside for twitter? the downfall is the stock is very expensive and is predicated on twitter continuing to grow at a fast rate and if they slip a step as facebook looked like they were doing which is why that stock plummeted, then the stock could collapse. the upside is that as joe said it s a very fast growing service. it s got 650 million revenue. and, you know, google today, if you bought google at its ipo it s up 12 times since its ipo. sounds like a buy to me. it sounds like a buy. it s bet. take the money you were going to put on the horses willie.