york when the president comes to visit new jersey and basically said the trip to new jersey will suffice. and he said last night, he didn t mean to diss him. the truth is, both these guys have a lot on their hands. i don t think that blmberg s thinking a lot about politics right now. i think he s thinking about people where the streets are flooded and people are dying. on either one, i think both of them are doing, what do you do for your state and city? i think the rest of us have a lot of fun trying to read the body language, the subtext. willie, bloomberg scalded the president in the atlantic interview. this is personal. i would say this is a pattern with mayor bloomberg, but i m with mika on chris christie. he s trying to do a job. what would you like him to say? decline the president s offers? he hasn t been that helpful. but he has. he s doing what he has to do to help the state. there are times when it s fine and it makes sense. do you all think it s political
new york times and the washington post and the enormous amount of detail that s in there. you can go in with great specificity find out what is going on and what is likely to happen downstream from here. and then you throw in the web. and the web. and the way that twitter, for a lot of people during the middle of the hurricane, being able to figure out what was going on in realtime, following their twitter feeds. and not just a screwing around way but a serious way. people take it seriously. they were paying attention to it, and they re connecting to one another. and it s a real meeting of social media, if you will, across the board. you know, mika, we were showing a picture of chris christie coming in. and there was a wonderful moment with him with that woman who was crying who obviously lost everything. that s what i was saying last hour about for those that would say this president or let s say governor christie, if they were doing things for political reasons.
princess leia. you know the expression of being in a star wars bar means? no. i remember sitting there thinking, what is going on? this is just unbelievably stupid. it could have been space balls you were watching. i just got up and walked out quietly. in awe of the people. the second one. when they bring yoda in. yoda, man. yoda. that is an untapped gift you have. could we please do politico? i was trying to explain to mika. all you have to do is just chop the sentence in half and start halfway through and you re yoda. you ve got to look back. it s going to be exciting. 2015. and it picks it up after return of the jedi. now we can resume where we were before the jar jar binks moment. the question, do you have carrie
boneheaded comment that supported fema is not the thing you should be doing when you re running deficits. it s clear they re trying to get a little protection to him. i think it s wrong. it s lame. there are better things we could be doing with our time than writing these things. harold, stay with us. still ahead what? what? it s wrong. i m not going to say anything. no, you re not. you yelled at me yesterday. mika, you re incorrigible. really? i m incorrigible. really? incorrigible, you are. david axelrod, tom brokaw all ahead on morning joe.
c con-edison says hopefully by the weekend. if you ever get down and depressed, consider the alternative. you could be having it with connecticut light and power. brooklyn never got touched. come across the bridge in brooklyn. we ve had power the whole time. you re welcome. when he says lit up in brooklyn, he really means it. i wasn t going to go there, tom, but i m glad you did. mika, let s turn to political news on that high note. we ve got polls to look at. six days to go. can you believe it s six days? when did this happen? until election day. the focus is obviously on the critical swing states. following from cbs news/ the new york times /quinnipiac shows the president up five points. in florida, just a single point separates the two candidates. the president had a nine-point lead in september.