really angry and defend your man. and that s exactly what you did. you re the rodney king of morning television. i get no respect. i stir that drink. too soon? it is way too soon for a headache. what, to make rodney dangerfield jokes? rodney king jokes. oh, rodney king joke. yeah, it s way too soon. totally too soon. dangerfield. that s a horse of a different color. wow! rodney dangerfield is dead, right? yes. okay, it s too soon. too soon. still ahead on morning joe, transportation secretary ray lahood will be here. also, hardball s chris matthews. he s a movie buff. perfect day to have him on. economist dr. jeffrey sachs and legendary music producer clive davis. up next, yahoo! tells their employees if they can t work in the office, don t work at all. wow! so much for the new economy,
measures of vitality, enthusiasm, pleasure and self-esteem and lower on tension, depression and fatigue after they walked outside. and i just started running o outside again. yeah. it s true. it makes a big difference. i get distracted, mike, when i run outside. you know, you pass all those convenience stores. a lot of times i go in for a beer, a pack of cigarettes. i can run and smoke and drink at the same time. hardball s chris matthews. what about you? there s nothing more exciting than being out in central park. please come help me.
this week marks pope benedict s last as head of the catholic church. benedict gave his final sunday blessing to a crowd of 100,000 followers yesterday in st. peter s square, telling them he will continue to serve god. it was benedict s second-to-last public appearance as pope. he will make his final address on wednesday before stepping down from the papacy thursday evening. the first pope to do so in 600 years. but even in his final days as pope, benedict cannot escape the controversies that have consumed much of his tenure. this morning cardinal keith o brien, the head of the church in scotland, has announced he will be stepping down amid accusations of inappropriate and intimate behavior with current and former priests. chris matthews, a little bit of reaction from you. it s bad. it keeps going, huh? i grew up in the catholic church. me, too. we didn t see any of this.
we thought priests had given up on sex as part of the holy orders and gave up on money and sacrificed their lives. those were the priests we knew, we thought. now we see nothing but headlines of people who had no intention of doing that. they couldn t have. cover-up. and the cover-up and the attempt to make the church look good, and it has made it look terrible. chris matthews, thank you very much. it was great to have you on to talk politics and oscars. see you on hardball at 5:00 and 7:00 here on msnbc. coming up, the chairman of the homeland security committee, congressman mike mccaul who says immigration reform is impossible without border security. he s with us next. more morning joe when we come back. i have low testosterone. there, i said it.
national or it s 5 percentage points of gnp, of national income, compared to a much larger health system completely out of control. so what s got to be done? what has to be done is that we need a system approach where instead of just paying service by service, test by service, duplication, fraud, doctors that own their mri imaging and just put all their patients through it that in general, you get reimbursed for a coverage of a person over a year or two or three. and then you take care about their health, not about how many services you re providing or how many duplicate images you re doing on an mri machine. chris, we re not tackling the central problem that s going to cause the great problems over the next 20, 30 years actually, next 10 or 20 years. instead, we re focusing on discretionary spending. yeah. because everybody s afraid to touch entitlements and try to reform entitlements in a way