good morning. happy 2011. welcome to american morning. the first of this new year. it s monday, january 3rd. i m jim acosta. we have a lot to talk about so let s get to. first a developing story out of the pentagon, we re waiting to get reaction this morning after a u.s. navy the u.s. navy has a series of videos that are out, now looking into it. it shows some behavior that is questionable aboard the uss enterprise. on these tapes it features sailors on camera in raunchy scenes with sexual content in some cases gay slurs. top officers allegedly knew about it but one of them as you can see was behind it. frigid winter weather storming into southern california. heavy snow forcing the shutdown of a major interstate. more snow is on the way. also president obama is returning to a new reality in washington this week.
my early time here in this city is so different than where i come from, because i live in a real world where people actually have to use their own money to pay for things. that s what bothers me. there s such a disconnect between this town and the rest of the world. this real world stuff is going to get old really fast. this is now your job. this is a serious business here. yes, i understand that. this is a serious business here, trying to figure how you solve problems. but this idea, like, the real world. this is very amusing. in your life, you have never done things on your own with your own skin in the game. ouch. happy new year. good morning, it is monday, january 3rd. welcome back to morning joe. welcome back, morning joe . where s the snow? yeah, it s been plowed. i mean, like that, just gone. a real quick reaction. a hint of sarcasm there. what happened, mike, with the snowstorm? you had bloomberg just gettiget getting pounded and then you had chris christie
ed to a military commander. the controversy and the navy s investigation. era ends. arnold schwarzenegger says good-bye to the california governor s mansion. a look back at his politics. and, tinseltown trend. hollywood s real-life financial drama. we had the lowest attendance summer in over a decade. it s monday, january 3rd. from abc news, this is world news now. i just saw a 3d movie this weekend and two tickets were $34. so i have to say that s insane. if imax and 3d is the trend, i can t afford it. no kidding. even hollywood, feeling the pinch. it s tough times out there. so even the escapism is kind of taking a hit.
there s such a disconnect. the real world stuff is getting old and fast. this is now your job. you have never done anything with your own skin in the game. ouch. happy new year. good morning. it is monday, january 3rd. welcome back to morning joe. welcome back, morning joe. it s been plowed like that. just gone. a real quick reaction. sarcasm there. welcome, sarcasm there. welcome everyone. good to be back. with us onset, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. is it really? is it really? i asked mike how his vacation was. he said it was grace v great, i sat on my as and did nothing for ten days. come on. you just wanted to say that word
and how colin firth lead a study into the differences between brains. john dean already examined the behavioral studies and now will look at the pictures of conservative brains if any. all the news and commentary now on countdown. if i only had a brain good evening from new york. happy new year. this is monday, january 3rd, 673 days until the 2012 presidential election and approximately three months until a showdown in congress that could tank the world economy in a way that would make 2008 look like a quick dance in the spring rain. tonight s fifth story, the game of chicken, accelerating this week toward the start wednesday of the 112th congress. on one side the global economy. on the other side social security for generations of americans yet to come. sometime around the end of winter, february, march, the u.s. debt will hit $14.3