So, you know, they are seeing him as a good ally in this fight. Also, you know, echoing the message we heard from joe biden in that Rare Oval Office address. You know, i think those lines of communication remain open, but i think this is something that Mitch Mcconnell just believes in a similar fashion to joe biden, and theyre happy to have someone from the other party be a spokesperson and advocate for this significant aid package. All right. Well see what happens in the capitol today. White house reporter for the Washington Post, tyler pager, thank you, as always. Thanks to all of you for getting up Way Too Early on this tuesday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Welcome to morning joe. It is 6 00 on the east coast, oz yau take a live look at washington, d. C. It is tuesday, october 24th. This morning, for the first time, were hearing from a hostage freed by hamas. Well play for you comments from one of the elderly women released yesterday by the Terrorist Group. Meanwhile, the e
than just playing politics with them. let me just ask ben a question. who do you blame for the budget cuts we re in? 38%, republicans. 33%, the president. 19%, both. more blame republicans, but let me show you what it was two weeks ago. it surged. it was nearly half of people. 49% of republicans. that s dropped to 38 and people who blame them both has surged. that s not good for a president. well, look. workers are being furloughed, services are being cut. i think americans are seeing the impact of the sequester and they re not going to blame an individual or party. they re going to blame all of washington for that. but the president has a trump card, which is that the american people agree we should reduce the deficit in a balanced way with a mix of revenue and spending cuts, and they re going to be calling their members of congress and pressing them for action and even if the
all right. so how did you do it? michael, magician never reveals his i sunk it. i sunk the yacht. at least i sunk it. i blew it up and i don t see it anywhere. nana was on that yacht. what? you killed nana. simple. if it s not your yacht don t make it disappear. you will get caught. that s it for us. thank you for watching erin burnett out front starts now. outfront next. an old-fashioned filibuster in washington, d.c. rand paul talks and talks and talks for hours. we re in hour eight. he s still talking. we ll tell you why. plus, a worker at animal sanctuary attacked and killed by one of the big cats and the east coast bracing for a huge, early spring snowstorm. we ll tell you how much inches coming. let s go outfront.
add up to millions of dollars in lost productivity for taxpayers. reporter: first came snow-pocalips and perhaps the worst storm d.c. has ever seen in march. snow-quester. up to a foot of snow. the nation s capital in the crosshairs. reporter: only it didn t turn out that way. storm that was supposed to cripple washington stay off the streets. krp instead just made it limp a little with a lot of cold, with wet rain. i saw the snow and i was thinking it was a lot worse than it really was. reporter: nonetheless, dozens of flights cancel. federal offices threw up the shutters. from the education department to the irs to the fbi. congress met but postponed a hearing on homeland security. the white house even called off the daily press briefing. hard to tell if reporters enjoyed the break or not. it s also hard to say how much all this costs. well over 2 million federal employees nationwide with the biggest concentration in d.c., so millions of dollars were
nothing today. and now our fourth story breaking outfront. breaking bread with president obama. at this hour, the president is wining and dining senate republicans at the jefferson hotel in washington. they arrived about an hour ago. the white house said it s part of an effort to break the gridlock with republicans. one of the dinner guests, lindsay graham, says it s about time. the fact there is a lot of interest in a dinner between the president and a handful of republican senators is a pretty good statement about where we re at as a nation. i m not blaming anybody because it takes both parties to get $16 trillion in debt. this is going to take both parties to get out. some interesting polling causing some to say is this the president on his knees to the republicans? outfront tonight, former campaign spokesman for the president and terry holt, former press secretary for the bush cheney campaign. all right. let me start with you, terry. this outreach comes five days after the