see, i told you. it s more than just words and the silly hair. first lady ma land i can t is 100% correct. i think it could happen this fast. everyone loves the new laws you tweeted. terrific. just terrific. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. let s take you now to washington where we are joined by syndicated columnist bob franken. good morning, bob. good morning. not that he got particularly great reviews for his saturday night live appearance he wasn t on there as much as i thought he would be in some of those skits. well, besides which it looks like he does better ad-libbing than reading off somebody else s script. well, ben carson, though, is taking a little heat about what he has written down and i need you to break it down for us. there are a lot of questions, did he lie about receiving a full scholarship to west point, what s this about westmoreland, what about the mere mids?
congressional lobbyists of the national rifle association? how many more americans have to die? and snl just released their promos for this weekend with host donald trump. hi, i m donald trump, and i ll be hosting saturday night live this week with musical guest sia. and to make things extra fun, donald has promised that for the whole show he is not going to brag or say he s the best at anything, right, donald? that s right, scily. and i m going to do the best job anyone s ever done not saying it. and you just said it. what can i say? i m the absolute best. what can i say? and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. let s welcome syndicated columnist bob franken. good morning, bob. thanks for being here. good morning. regarding the o malley applause, obviously what they did is took some of the applause that was for one of our appearances together and edited it in. exactly.
future s doc brown, aka christopher lloyd. the caption tell me future boy who is president of the united states in 2017? bernie sanders. bernie sanders, from vermont? then later on the show sanders was asked about his religion. well, i believe in, and with my spirituality is about, is that we re all in this together. that i think it is not a good thing to believe that as human beings we can turn our backs on the suffering of other people. that we should not sanders religion was something kimmel addressed moments before. bernie sanders will be america s first jewish president. hillary clinton would be america s first female president. and donald trump would be america s last president of neither sex. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. all right, 21 minutes past the hour. time to bring in syndicated columnist bob franken. good morning, bob. good morning. and before we get too excited about bernie sanders and back to the future i should point out that th
senator marco rubio is honoring back to the future day with a themeatic ad attacking hillary clinton and joe biden. and nbc stopped by a focus group and participants were asked to match 2016 candidates with cartoon characters. so, here are some of the interesting answers, donald trump, as ritchie rich. senator marco rubio, as linus from peanuts. and hillary clinton, as cruella de vil, the villain from 101 dalmatians. that s your morning dish of scrambled politics. 22 minutes past the hour, joining me now, jonathan allen, chief political correspondent for vox, which has a partnership with nbc universal. good morning, jonathan. good morning. i m going to try to avoid being a cartoon character. me, too. clearly it s a tough one. speaking of hillary clinton, she s gearing up for her testimony tomorrow on benghazi. but, new nbc news/ wall street journal polls show 44% of not satisfied with her response to the attack.
i will tell you this. you are much nicer than you seemed in the wire. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. 20 minutes past the hour. let s bring in political analyst and best-selling author ellis henican. good morning. good morning. we re all nicer than we seem in the wire. oh, yes. how are you? i m doing okay. the question is how is joe biden? is he going to be jumping into this race? we keep talking about it. now we re hearing what 48 hours? that was yesterday. so could it be any moment now? yes. yes. is he going to run? well, it feels very imminent. yeah? and i would say the signs in the last 15 minutes are more encouraging than they were 45 minutes ago. so, yeah you think so? i think he wants to. but has this delay and we understand why, you know, especially with the passing of his son, he wants to make sure that his heart is in this, but having it been delayed so long, does it kind of send a message to the american people that even i