and they don t feel it represents america, so they d rather not come at the moment. lee, what does he say about airbnb. those guys are scrappy, ready for a fight with the hotels. what does sorenson say? i wrote a whole book about airbnb and spent a lot of time asking this question. it s a delicate dance because they, on the one hand, nobody wants to say they re fighting on the surface, the ceos, they all met each other. it s a pretty vicious fight. the regulatory front, hotel industry pushing back on airbnb in cities like new york, but at the same time all the hotel companies recognize that airbnb has touched a cord and there s something the consumer is responding to big time.
some people like to be trampled. i thit s really horrible to leave your thanksgiving dinner to go wait in line. always been weird to me. me, too. the presents pile up so much. this week i m cutting back dramatically. no presents. you get a rock. give my kid radishes, maybe some beats. a chicken s egg. check my facebook live. please don t. lee gallagher, you interviewed the marriott ceo arnie sorenson. he said the united states is going to use two to three million international tourists because of the trump administration policies. i heard somebody last week saying just coming in new york city, that new york city is getting pounded in tourism. i asked arnie sorenson, a wide ranging conversation about many things, including their attempt to target the millennial generation. i said how is new york doing because new york is an important market for hotels. he said it s doing okay in terms
. can you imagine bush? he spent $59 million and he s at 3. you know what, see this woman in the front row? very attractive woman. you would been at seven and not have spent that. it s true. see this woman in the front row. god, it keeps getting better. good morning. it s wednesday, december 30th. welcome to morning joe. i m nicole wallace alongside. unbelievable. they let us back on. they must not have cable where they re staying. nbc news senior white house correspondent chris jansing is also here thank goodness. also casey hunt president and ceo of the national urban league and former mayor of new orleans. great matt louis. we have a lot of ground to cover this morning. the on going game when it comes to fighting terrorist and inreceiver gents ft reports this morning that the taliban now hold more territory in afghanistan than any year since 2001. plus when police commissioners fight. those comments were outrageous. my cops work hard, very hard to reduce gun viol
i ve worked every holiday of the past 20 years. jack ass on saturday, it s columbus day, by the anniversary of the actual landing in america or is it his birthday? i said look over there. very good question, jack. now i realize it s your son. okay. not bad jack. jack that runs accounting. landing in bahamas at the lovely resort. new york times reporter jeremy peter son. i think he s regretting it at this point. we ll get to the news this morning. president obama is acknowledging mistakes he made. did you know about hillary s private e-mail server? no. do you think it posed a national security problem? i don t think so. it s a state she acknowledged. as a general proposition when we re in these offices we have to be more sensitive and stay as far away from a line when possible when it comes to how we land l informs and our own personal data. she s made a mistake and acknowledged it. i think the way it s been jemed up is in part because of politics. i think sh
is over. letterman is retiring. you re just kidding right? thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the late show. i wand to tell you one thing. i ll be honest with you, it s beginning to look like i m not dwoog going to get the tonight show. i want to thank my own family my wife regina and my son, harry. seriously, just thank you for being my family. i love you both and really nothing else matters, does it. the people who watch this show there is nothing i can do to ever repay you. thank you for everything. you ve given me everything. and thank you again. all right. that s pretty much all i got. the only thing i have left to do for the last time on a television program, thank you and good night. that s nice. wow. welcome to morning joe. of course david letterman retiring. and willie geist, there are no words. you always talk about paul hk cart any mccartney, paul mccartney. the other guy is letterman. he s been everything. he s been here. like carson