Begins this morning. Hes on vacation right now. He arrived just a few hours ago in his birth state of hawaii, where he and the rest of the first family will get r r until next year, until 2015. Before skipping town obama had one piece of business at the white house. His final News Conference of 25 f 2014. Obama took questions for an hour. On the sony sieger attack, and blamed the company for the release of the interview. Well have more on that. The president defended his decision to restore diplomatic relationship with cuba. What i know, deep in my bones, is if youve done the same thing for 50 year, and nothing has changed, you should try Something Different if you want a different outcome. And on his prospects of getting anything accomplished with republicans now in charge of both houses of congress, he said this. Im being absolutely sincere saying i want to work with this new congress to get things done, to make those investments to make sure the government is working better and smar
King. And just what exactly is wrong with kids these days. It just seemed beneath the office to be talking to the youtubers. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york im chris hayes. Tomorrow it begins. The Iowa Caucuses starts tomorrow in des moines, iowa. That is the kick off to it. Its the iowa freedom summit. A sold out gathering of about 1200 conservative activists where all of the undeclared candidates are scheduled to speak. The event is cohosted by conservative nonprofit Citizens United. Yes, Whose Supreme Court case ushered in an area of spending. And also by steven king. A man who just three days ago referred to an immigrant activist sitting in Michelle Obamas box at the speech as a deportable. I should sit with alido. To. That is just art of what king has become known for. In 2012 he compared immigration to dog breeding. You go in and look at a little of pups and you watch how they play and run around. You want a good bird dog and the one that will be aggressive. P
Joe Biden got in a few zingers at his rival Donald Trump, but he devoted a large part of his remarks to the serious threat to democracy. "Donald has had a few tough days lately. You might call it stormy weather," Biden quipped, referencing Trump's current hush money trial.
there aren t a ton of issues that you face. yeah. okay, so still, tom, thank you so much for being on the show this morning. still ahead, live here from alabama, the polls open in less than an hour. steve kornaki joins us to break down the race. plus we ll reveal the lie of the year, and the president is tweeting this morning. he s not tweeting about today s special election, though. really? but about the russia investigation. and fake news. also former u.s. attorney joyce vance joins us. this special edition of morning joe live in alabama is back in a moment. this is not a cloud. this is a tomato tracked from farm to table on a blockchain, helping keep shoppers safe. this is a financial transaction secure from hacks and threats others can t see. this is a skyscraper whose elevators use iot data
of relief aid, and, of course, members of congress are going to give him that relief aid to try to seem like they re not as dysfunctional as the republican congress has been over the past nine months. yeah. he s offered money of his own, $1 million. they re going to need more. katrina they asked for something and got pledges i think of $60 billion. this is going to run into the billions. normally the kind of things republicans might be worried about, but with the pictures out of harvey, you seem to be getting unity saying they want to get this funded. it is 7:00 on the east coast. with us we have national correspondent for msnbc, steve kornaki, heidi prizbella, jake sherman, and eugene robinsonen,