he said, it s a pleasure to have dr. haleprin here. i have often been accused of being an arrogant young man and so it s a pleasure for me to introduce one. that s the way he likes to start things off well, just a shot. just a shot off the bow. good recruitment tool. i m sure you felt so welcome. the warmth, you know. well, that was affection. right. and joe knows something about my father and the way he expresses affection. he called me stunningly superficial on tv. yes. let s talk about the president s trip to asia. what should we be looking at here? i think the white house motivation is mostly about china. i think they see an opportunity to move the burma out of the chinese orbit into an american orbit. of course, they re concerned about the human rights issue. and many people in the human rights community thought it was too soon for the president to go. secretary of state went, that
day boxer day. and of course boxer day? boxing day. hot turkey water. look at that guy. good morning, sir. you guys are on a roll. getting excited about thanksgiving, my friend? i m always excited. okay. you guys are bringing me down with this turkey story. we call it soup is what that water is that comes with turkey, right? turkey water, you can baste yourself in it. loves this time of year so much, he named a woman named after the season. haleprin, oh, my god, he s going to love you. good insider information. october vandehei. she s special. let s get down to business in the politico playbook. the dow had the best day in more than two months yesterday because of a little optimism about some resolution on this fiscal cliff. but you guys are pointing out that democrats are facing some challenges, but not from republicans, but from within their own party. yeah, i think a lot of the
i thought it really was a battle between joe biden s smile and paul ryan s smirk. take a look. i would like to begin with vice president biden. congressman, ryan? this concludes the vice presidential debate. oh, my gosh. welcome back to morning joe. as you take a look at washington. the sun about to rise. we ve got mike barnicle with us. mike, haleprin, john heilemann, jon meacham all with us in new york. and joining the table political editor and white house correspondent for the huffington post sam stein. also david gregory. and david, we ve been talking since the first hour and i m sure you know this because you
trailer. what s at the core of the argument here, vandehei? well, she s trying the movie to be negative. haleprin would know better than any of us. the truth is, is anybody s impression of sarah palin going to be changed by a movie? you either love her or hate her, and i don t think any work on behalf of her super pac is going to change any minds. but i think what she wants to do is get out in front of this, make clear that a lot of people in this movie that portray her quite negatively at different times during the campaign spoke quite positively of her, which is what we call politics. i ll say two things. one is, every theme raised in her trailer, the video they did, you ll see in great detail in game change the hbo film this saturday. for her supporters worried those elements of how well she did, how popular she was, the kind of crowd she built. you ll see a lot of that in the film. the other thing, it s not going to change anybody s minds. i was at a screening of the film i
full research pointing out that the writer maxed out to obama, all told, people involved with the film gave $120,000 to the obama campaign last time around. a great message for her supporters. and again, she wants to continue to be relevant. i think she s happy to be part of the mix and we ll wait to see, hopefully i m going to see the movie on thursday. and know everybody in washington is about as excited for this political movie as i ve seen this town excited for a movie in some time. haleprin, it better deliver. i have no doubt. it s really good. so i m not i have no anxiety about delivering do you think republicans will look upon it favorably? i do. rather than being a divisive thing, it s going to be more uniting than most things like this about sarah palin because it shows the entire story truthfully. the times when she struggled and times when she excelled. and done by the same director that did recount, which james