and a lot of them are women. daniel goldman, thank you very, very much. still ahead on morning joe, president trump announces a deal with china. but his own administration admits it s not quite a done deal. the latest on the costly trade battle and is he getting played? straight ahead. but first, here is bill karins with a check on the forecast. good morning, mika. everybody is talking about this winter storm for next weekend. the storm is now off the coast of california. so we have a long way to go to get this across the country. everywhere east of the rockies, it s cold, it s chilly. so let s fast forward to saturday morning. the storm makes its way over texas. the blue is snow, north texas, oklahoma, could have snow in the ozarks. we may get know into areas of tennessee and kentucky as we go into saturday and sunday. and it s not until sunday afternoon that we finally get this mess to the east coast. rain south of about the north
saturn sky and nearly 140 million vehicles are now under recall. good news in the battle over childhood obesity in boston globe. obesity rates dropped from 14% to 8%. it s not all good news, though. one out three adults still dangerously overweight in the u.s. nearly one third of americans under the age 20 are obese. joe? and houston chronicle, george w. bush is getting his own art exhibit. it will feature more than two dozen never-before-seen paintings. bush started painting since he left the white house and has painted everything from family portraits to landscapes and, m mika, a lot of former leaders
kill story. do you know the show d.c. housewives ? i ve never seen it. the deer she split with the farmer, it wasn t a farmer. it was d.c. housewife mary s father and she gave them a check that bounced. you re talking in shorthand. mrs. brzezinski fed road kit to pamela harriman and pamela harriman spit it out. mika. governor jindal is feeling more pressure about the bill that would deny services to gay and lesbian customers by
your pay political advertising, you re using wedge issues on social issues. i m with you on economic and i think it s a clear contrast but i think social issues quietly are still sort of the underbelly and will be the issues that decide these races. and republicans have to be careful on that issue. they weren t careful in arizona, mika. but i think what s fascinating again is bobby comes on and there s no doubt half of our viewers disagree with what bobby and i say, to the core of their existence they think we re wrong. the other half probably agree with us. and i think you ve got you and i disagree on these issues, but that s what politics should be about. that s what debate should be about. i think we could have a great debate on what republicans and democrats stand for. as chuck said on economic issues
reporter/journalist today. i think what s so fascinating about this, mika is the fact she s sitting there talking about the drawing power of a guy who was president, what, 12 years ago, however long ago. it s unbelievable. and yet the sitting president is not welcome in her state. stop it. based on no, i m just she was asked by a reporter a couple of weeks ago about having barack obama come into kentucky and she said, oh, we don t need to have i don t need somebody else to come vouch for me. she said it to casey. and i think casey was goading her into saying it. that s what i think. this does actually show a problem that the obama administration has, not only we ve been talking about arkansas, north carolina i ve