0 how low is it. according to a recent poll more of this country believes obama care has been repealed than have been able to sign up for obama care. [ laughter ] the whole point of websites is to design them so it is nearly impossible to not sign up for something. every time i go to amazon i ll mistakenly sign up for six seasons of night court. are you sure you want to leave this page? yes. oops, it turns out i ordered something. good morning, everyone, it s tuesday, october 22nd. welcome to morning joe. with us on set we have former communications director for president george w. bush nicole wallace. msnbc contributor mike barnacle. thought you were is going to colombia? i am. and in washington, pulitzer prize winning columnist and whitman songs. the president was pitching. giving out the 800 number. you hear what happened. he gives out 2800 number. stop it. they called 2800 number. they can t get through. people who get through you get through the first layer w
with you. this also this doesn t just happen in isolation. this happens after we find out what the irs has been doing, the irs scandal over the past year. this happens after all of the nsa revelations where there s a new nsa revelation every week. this happens after we find out there s a bungle justice department attempt to basically, you know, to act in a way that s disturbing to the associated press, to james rossen, to other reporters. this hasn t been the federal government s bright shining year. even if we take all the parties out of it, all the players out of it, americans are sitting back thinking federal government, they are just a bungling group of bureaucrats. yeah. that was the message wasn t it during the 2012 campaign. the federal government has grown. it hasn t done a good job. and barack obama has become the embodiment of the federal government. the republicans perhaps can
0 he can t doing anything unless he figures how to get some of these republicans working with him. where are we going to go? yeah. look at the big agenda items. everybody says we need a grand bargain on budget going forward for economic growth, for deficit reduction, whatever your big priority is. in fact, how will we get a grand bargain when we can t agree to keep the government open or lift the debt ceiling. these irreconcilable differences between the president and house republicans to me suggests that there s not going to be a big agreement on big issues, and that we ll probably be lucky in the immediate term get a little agreement on little issues that doesn t do a lot of harm. gene, chauls krault hammer has a different viewpoint. mitch mcconnell said another shutdown is not an option. mcconnell said one of my favorite sayings is an old kentucky saying, there s no education in the second kick of a mule. the first kick of the mule was in 1995. the second one was the last 16
doing our oversight. reporter: others defend defd the phone record program as an n important imp well the latest revelation comes as the justice department is has already been defendingeng itself over the monitoring ofrif phone records of the associated press and fox news reporter james rossen. holder said that the justice department in those cases is looking to catch government go officials who catch informationn not journalist who rodoing thein their job. we have heard about verizon, do we know about at&t, sprint, what about the other guys. just three minutes ago the washington post posted a story saying that the nsa has had had access to nine internet companies, some of these programs, even predates the patriot act, but as you heard, senator you did not hear hear senator graham say, many on on capitol hill have been aware ofo some of these programs, not allt of them have been. be as these come out over the nexte couple of days, you can expect x to hear more s
0 him cry! we got some others. we have some others. meatloaf and gary busey. mary had mika because she would be fun while she s drinking. hue hugh hefner and jesus is also on the list. good stuff. appreciate it. morning joe starts right now. time magazine just published president obama s prom photos and there he is. he s with a friend and their date. i would say the girls in kenya are very good looking. obama is 17 years old here. notice, he is the only one not holding champagne. that s called plausible deniability. the girl on the right side of the screen is his date, her name is megan hughes and here is another photo. the other two are of his friends kelly and greg. he seems so happy back then. like he was allowed to eat junk food or something. looks like he took two women to the prom and greg is crashing the threesome, right? kelly is the one who gave the photos to time. she also gave them a copy what the president wrote in her high school yearbook. kelly so nice getti