going to blow up, walk off the set. you never know when i m going to wake up and show up on this set. jack paar of morning television. have you ever seen any old clips of jack paar? of course i have. oh, yeah. oh, my god. and the idiots at nbc erased almost all of his shows. what do you mean? it was a tape. so you don t have full episodes of jack paar anymore. oh, the old kinescopes. yeah. he flirted with the bizarre sometimes in his little m monologues. i like that. he flirted with the bizarre. it s our new slogan. morning joe, flirting with bizarre. i think we re beyond flirting. very eloquent guy. he was just a great, great story teller. anyway where did that come from, just out of curiosity?
and the president actually made reference to that in his speech. he said there are many people here and elsewhere, many leaders who claim to be the inheritors of madiba but do not tolerate i did dissent in their own countries. so perhaps more important, listening to the words of president obama instead of honing in on this handshake. so christiane, she points out the context of this whole thing. john king, let s talk politics. we played the congresswoman s comments earlier today. we also heard from senator marco rubio. not directly criticizing him. saying, listen, he wished the president would have lingered with castro, talked a little m pressing him on human rights. what s your take? look, it comes with the territory. as christiane knows, the president was going through an international moment either way. either he shakes his hands and we re talking about it in this context or he snubs him and we re talking about it in that
kyra? but in the next half an hour, we should see the senate come into session and this deal could pass within maybe one or two minutes. it could be that short as both the senate and the house are expected to pass this legislation. this payroll tax extension deal using a procedural move that basically allows them to pass legislation without having to call all of the members back into town. so, according to both democratic and republican leadership aides on the senate side, they do expect that things are moving towards a passage on the senate side and then, of course, all eyes turn to the house where the house expected to follow up with a vote and at the top of the next hour and, according to a house republican leadership aide, leaders do expect that this bill will go through, which means that both the house and senate both chambers of congress will have passed this two-month exteng, but, again, we caution with this procedure it only requires one member to stand up in the cham