not like they didn t have any high powered people. she s fabulous. hoping to get her on the show. with all due respect to miss svanbea sandberg, robert gibbs did work next to the chief and might want to be closer to the boss man. mitch daniels has been mentioned by many insiders for a long time as a 2012 candidate but you all reporting he hasn t seemed that engaged. what are you saying? funny, as the buzz has heated up, mitch daniels has seemed to cool down, ever since his friend, haley barbour, the mississippi governor decided he wasn t going to run, among republican operative, that looked like a sign there would be an opening for mitch daniels, that haley barbour might endorse him after the indiana
moving moment at the ground zero memorial. his first visit, right? first time the president this president that s right. uh-huh. yeah. up next, a politico exclusive. why robert gibbs will not be joining forces with facebook. we ll bring in rob lowe on this set. i actually worked with him a long time ago, i don t think he remembers. no, no, no. i ll ask him. film director and screenwriter, nora efron and doris kearns good win and stephen carter. first, bill karins. getting chilly. a jacket, need it. temperatures hovering in the 40s in most cases. some of the suburbs are in 30s and pittsburgh, 35. the rain from yesterday now moved to northern new england from albany to boston, portland and areas of new hampshire and
a notebook that once belonged to george washington, a recipe for homemade beer. i knew i liked him. the new book now belongs to the new york public library, this month, teaming up with a brewery to recreate a small batch. that might just brew up interest in bookstores. i like it. perhaps his finest achievement. with us now, another man who has his own brew, chief political correspondent, mike allen. actually moonshine. is that what it is? mike allen, how you doing, man? good time. fantastic, thank you. you guys, as you do every morning, have exclusive reporting. today, on robert gibbs and his future, the former white house press secretary. what do you have? a few weeks ago, it leaked robert gibbs was in negotiations for a big job at facebook, probably in california. robert gibbs will not be taking
that job. a friend of ours says it blew up, was the way they put it. when we first heard about this job from the obama side, we heard that robert gibbs was negotiating to be mark zuckerberg s guy, be right there at the top with the founder. but nen when sorkin, of morning joe reported how many layers down from mark zuckerberg gibbs would actually be, it was pretty clear from everybody in washington that was unlikely to happen. he reported to the president of the united states before this, if he were to be at facebook, that s not going to happen. almost daily spottings of robert gibbs around town in d.c. that would have been a good move for gibbs. i guess we don t know what the position is exactly. can t wait to join facebook. there are a lot of high power people, sheryl sandberg. love her.