service to the state of alabama, and thank you, ricky matthews, for what you re doing it help in the aftermath of this oil spill. thank you. and up next, live coverage, who will be the first to bring up the expense accounts? rand how will michael steele respond? plus arkansas has its alfred hitchcock moment. you re watching andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. .and? it helped balance her colon. oh, now that s the best part. i love your work. [ female announcer ] phillips colon health. you struggle to control your blood sugar. you exercise and eat right, but your blood sugar may still be high, and you need extra help. ask your doctor about onglyza, a once daily medicine used with diet and exercise to control high blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. adding onglyza to your current oral medicine may help reduce after meal blood sugar spikes
water. it s a great point. you hear people talking. you find out what s going on. the best way to do it. let me ask you, we ve got roadmap to resilience talking about surviving the bp spill. let s talk about ken feinberg and the bp payout. what s gone wrong there? the biggest thing i think ken has a problem with right now is that he is differentiating between what an individual claim may be and what a corporation s claim may be. the last time i was here i told you that he was doing better, but he still had a long way to go. he still does. we have so many businesses, and that s the reason. ricky matthews, the publisher of the mobile paper came up with this. he did it for haley back during katrina. skid him to do something like that. 2010 is over, but you understand what the challenges for pensacola are going to be.
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 first thing in the morning. jon meacham, of course, did the same thing down in tennessee. co-host of need to know. chewing on a corn cobb pipe. i spoke with meacham. there were people with guns walking in his hard. very hard to make calls because you have to get on top of the general store. we were actually talking to m
he ll be met with a new gang in washington. the new sheriff on the beat, incoming oversight chairman darrell issa, who reportedly has drawn of a long checklist. trying to check him will be elijah cummings, now joining us from baltimore. welcome, congressman. good to see you. good to be with you. thanks for joining us. right off the bad you face darrell issa s reported wish list for investigation. take a look. he s talking about going after wall street regulation, job four closures crisis, fanny/freddie, the fda recalls, corruption in afghanistan, wick i leaks disclosures, he wants to bring in tom donnellen and that would create a problem. how will you pick your battles? first of all, i am concerned that the committee operates like it s supposed to. my friend mr. issa has already come to conclusions where he said just yesterday on national tv that the obama administration is corrupt. i tell you, it s kind of hard for folks to be in judgment of any administration when the