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Every episode that has occurred that has caused commotion in the city has been ived a m ive admitted to my mistakes and said it would not happen p again and it has not happened again at the air canada centre. Of all things that we could start the show with. Good morning. Were in washington. It is thursday, november 14th. And with us onset, we have senior Political Editor sam stein. I cant stop laughing. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst Steve Rattner. White house correspondent for the Associated Press julia pace. And al hunt, met your producer last night at politico. Nice guy. We started the day in politics and proez prose, you had a sold out packed house. They not sam stein was going to be there. And there were a lot of republicans there. Youre drawing a republican crowd. This is politics and prose. Usually when i tell people, use my marxist joke, they all laugh. Last night, they stood up and applauded. So youre reaching out to a new Republican Party. It was amazing. There was even a republican who voted for obama who stood up proudly and said that. That doesnt happen so much. Used to say how Many Republicans, how Many Democrats. Like in 2009, shield say and how Many Republicans who voted for obama. And there would be like ten people applauding, be really proud of themselves for being transformative and having the courage to Cross Party Lines and make a difference. That doesnt happen so much anymore. There was one last night, though. Thats my neighborhood and one your year when my kids were young, Saddam Hussein and georg bush. Saddam got more candy. Honestly, i dont know how you do this. The night continued over at the may flower with politico, one of their cocktails. And i cannot believe they were in the balconies and you had a great audience. Do you know what they were asking, where is sam stein not here. It will never end. But there were a lot of good questions. And the most interesting thing, and i think the rope these crowds are so big is that the timing for the book is unbelievable. Rope these crowds are so big is that the timing for the book is unbelievable. It really is hitting a nerve. So well get to that more with the politico boys later. But a wonderful night. And congratulations. And thanks to everybody for coming out. Really it was a record crowd there. And made us feel really, really good considering sam stein couldnt go across the street. Hurt me right there. Rob Ford September nt me a telt. And it continues today. All right. Here we go. Would it be easier if i read this . No, i got it. There is a lot to cover here. A lot of incredible guests today by the way. So fearing their political futures are on the line, Congressional Democrats are giving the white house until tomorrow to fix the problems with obama care. Thats what members of the house are going to be voting on a bill to address the issues that concern the millions ever americans who have lost their plans because of the law. And today harry reid will be meeting with white house officials. This is following a very contentious meeting between House Democrats and Administration Officials yesterday and one proposal includes allowing americans to keep their current insurance plans regardless of the Affordable Care act up the end of 2015. That would help, but it appears more americans have lost their insurance than have signed up for it. With close to 850,000 applications completed, just over 106,000 people have actually selected insurance plans through federal or state run exchanges between october 1st and november 2nd. That includes over 79,000 enrolled through a state based exchange accounting for 75 of all the signups. More than 26,000 people are now getting their Health Care Coverage through the federal program, that breaks down to just 1 of the estimated 48 million americans without Health Insurance. California, a state run exchange, has the largest enrollment numbers at about 35,000 people. Florida which runs a federal program signed up just over 3500 people. And north dakota has the least amount of enrollees with exactly 42 accounts successfully created. Isnt that like half of north dakota . Congressional Budget Office expected 7 million officials to sign up for obama care in its first year. In september the white house said it expected over 3450,000 people to sign up during the programs first month. Doct doctor. And for president obama, there is no relief when it comes to public polling. 55 of americans feel the president was not being honest when it came to obama care. 50 believe the president knowingly lied when he said americans would keep their plans and 58 says they thought his apology was to political reasons. Al hunt, the president obviously facing so much problems incoming from the website, but do you suspect that this broken promise is that most americans think was a broken promise, is that the great challenge . Its a huge challenge. But they had mull kip he will challenges. They have to get things working so they can improve the numbers if they possibly can. The credibility of the program has suffered. The kret akd credibility of thet has suffered. What bothers a lot of democrats is did they learn anything from this. I think this was a complex problem to begin with. It wasnt going to go smoothly. It would have gone much better if it hasnt been the white house inso he rarity. Why didnt they do that . Because insolarity is the buy word of this administration. Steven rattner who it a fabulous job with the Automobile Industry could have run it. But they dont turn to outside people because they are so insul lar. Why is that . Its an interesting question. Wh greatest example is when you had james baker trying to beat Ronald Reagan in the primary and second reagan ended up winning and he turned to baker and said run high cmy campaign. In the beginning it looked like there was some with this at administration. It didnt work out very well. They are more insular than ever. It is a problem that just absolutely infuriates testimonitestimondemocrats. They dont listen to republicans that much. Will they listen to the House Democrats who are angry and giving they will an ultimatum . You guys either fix this fast or well go in our open direction and support these bills that will force to you keep your promise. And this will come to a head very quickly. Youll have a vote on friday on the upton bill in the house and a lot of the democrats are saying to the white house we want you to come up with another solution. Please give us Something Else, whether its administrative, legislative. And as of yet, we havent seen that from the white house. Youll have the Senate Meeting today. I think youll see a lot of push back from democrats in the senate, as well. It will be interesting. Push back to the white house. Push back to the white house. And again on a similar line from what were hearing from House Democrats which is give us another option. Were asking for you a fix. You tell us youre looking at it, but we havent seen anything yet. Or shall sort of assurance that this will be fixed. Steve and sam, latest snapshot of the 2016 race isnt looking good for Vice President biden of all people. Just 25 of people in a new quinnipiac poll say joe biden would make a good president. 54 say Hillary Clinton by comparison could ham the job. The poll also shows Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton neck and neck. And while clinton leads with women, christie with men. Independents go to christie by a margin of 16 points. Yesterday, this is interesting, senator rand paul took a shot at his possible 2016 opponent, new jersey governor Chris Christie, for federal spending on sandy and for including himself in poststorm tourism ads. You call him a moderate a couple of times. What do you base that on . Well, i think that his victory was in large form based on that he got a lot of we just lost if. You called him a moderate of a couple of times. What do you base that on . Well, i think that his victory was in large form based on that he got a lot of federal money for his state. The problem is that there were some of us who said, yeah, we do have federal Funds Available for disasters, but really we ought to spend it one year at a time and if we have to increase the budget for disasters, we have to take it from somewhere else. Unlimited spending is sort of you can call it moderate or even liberal to think that there is unlimited amount of money even for good cause. You have the governor running in 25 million bucks stronger than the storm, using that through a political campaign. Thats taxpayer money. It should be against the law for any politician to put their image on tv at taxpayer expense. Really we have a 9 approval rating, politicians do, because people are unhappy about taxpayer money being used. And particularly when its one thing if you want it put your image on tv and say im going to give a Million Dollars of my money. But youre getting somebody elses money. If youre doing that, should you take part of that money to promote how good you are at getting somebody elses money to come to new jersey. Okay. So, joe, with all due respect to your party, but we were talking about whether democrats will learn their lesson. Talk about not learning anything. Come on. Well see what happens. Rand paul obviously he said you shouldnt ever use taxpayer money to get your image in front of your constituents, which what that means is rand paul is probably the exception to the rule. He must be the only member in the house or the senate that doesnt do franking. Franking is where you send, you know, letters to your constituents that put your face in front of your constituents. With taxpayer money. Youre using taxpayer money to do what he said. But you im not happy about it, but such a time of opportunity given whats happening with health care. This is not the time to be out there criticizing your fellow republicans. Especially because this fix to obama care is not going to be simple. The upton bill julie referred o to, even what president clinton said is hard toi implement. If the president comes up with some solution that requires legislation, he happened it is to the senate, maybe they pass it. Hard to imagine the house passes it. And this is what the republicans should be doing purely political standpoint is they should be doing obama care, obama care, obama care, not shooting at each other. Obsessing at a race that is still three years away. If youre one of the key players in that, and it keeps going back to sandy, this is also very interesting when kentucky is hit with a Natural Disaster, well see whether rand paul asks for support for the good people of kentucky or just 1sits back and nothing. With the exception of tom coburn where he says he doesnt think the government has that big a role to play, i think to rand pauls credit, he was probably goaded into that by the question. It wasnt as if he just decided to jump in with the christie criticism. I think youre right, at this moment in time, republicans would be wise to basically just get out of the way. What were witnessing now is probably the lowest point politically for president obama, a continuous stream of bad news. And steve hit the nail on the head which is that even though there are these legislative suggestions for how to fix this law, they are exceptionally short term political fixes that would cause policy disruption five, ten years down the road. Ed it gut the exchanges. It would created a verse selection in the exchanges and could potentially derail health care. So president obama has to figure out what he can get done legislatively in a divided congress that wouldnt necessarily tinker too much with the law, but would at least give democrats a bit of space. I agree with all that except i would say its not five or ten years down the road. Its by next year. Most of these solutions would ba obama care, each piece rests on another piece. You pull one piece out, the whole thing could collapse. And there is the political problem that people are getting cancellation letters. That could be solved somewhat if people were able to go on to a website and say i can get this option and this tax credit. They cant do that right now. I talked to a private industry source last night, private industry, not government, who said he wasnt worried about the numbers. What hes worried about is the numbers in six months time. The question now is can they make to six months time. Im not sure if they can. Put this in perspective for us. We showed some poll numbers yesterday which were pretty stunning that barack obama is where george w. Bush was three months after katrina, the same Approval Ratings. Put it into perspective. What does this crisis remind you of . And of course were not saying there is any moral equivalence, but politically, obviously it impacts the impact of katrina. Iran contra. Where does it stand and what does the president do to turn it around . I think katrina may be the best analogy. What is remarkable is that each party seems intent on throwing the other a lifeline when theyre drowning. In early october, there was already some problems with obama care. So what do the republicans do . They had a shutdown and through a lifeline to the democrat. Then republicans at their lowest point ever and what has obama done, hes thrown a life long. Both parties are in trouble, but hes the president and this will be very hard to come back from. Well be asking a lot of questions to a big roster of guests this morning on how to fix this, if it can be fixed. Coming up on morning skroe omj senator joe manchin will be here. Governor mcdonnell will be here. Well talk to Claire Mccaskill. And later, a live interview with john kerry. Up next, well preview the brand new Political Company magazine. John harris joins us. A news piece describes the obama cabinet as a fun house mirror filled with communications breakdowns. Where is the hat, man . First here is it bill karins with a check on the forecast. Good morning to you. Its a cold morning as advertised. Pretty much everywhere east of the rocky, but the good news is were past the peak and now it war warms up from here lets take you into this morning. Temperatures as advertised again 30 in atlanta, it is chilly out there with that cold all the way down into florida. But this afternoon should be nice. Temperatures warm up in a hurry. Look at the 24 hour temperature change. All the warm air coming from the middle of the cup and headiount heading to the east. Youll be 50 in chicago, same for new york city, about 5 to 10 degrees warmer. D. C. At 57 this afternoon. Should an nice day after a cold start. Friday, we get warmer, some showers in florida. Much of the east coast by the way should have a gorgeous weekend. So after a cold chilly start, what a beautiful afternoon with perfectly blue skies in can t. C. Humans. Even when we cross our ts and dot our is, we still run into problems. Namely, other humans. 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Both are also suspected of sending suggestive emails to a female colleague. And for the first time, the United States is producing more crude oil than it imports. It hit a 24 year high while foreign imports at a 17 year low. Still the u. S. Imports about 35 of the petroleum it uses. Expect that number to keep groping. L. A. Times, photo messages service snap chat has allegedly turned down a 3 billion offer from facebook. They declined the offer because mull will tip he wiltiple inves interested. They believe facebook is trying to engaging younger losers. Id take it sight unseen. And the toronto star asking embattled mayor rob ford to step down. Yesterday the Council Voted to ask him to temporarily step down, though it has no actual authority. Ford declined. He admitted to using and purchasing drugs over the last two years. Counselor, it was not the reason i trank or did drugs was not because of stress. It was out of shear stupidity. Thats all it was. And a New York Times painting the New York Times writes a 1963 painting by andy warhol sold for more than 104 million last night. Thats the highest price ever paid for any warhol work. Its only been seen once in public. Second time in two days that a painting from the 60s sold for more than 100 million. Kansas city star, they say ignorance is bliss. And that may apply to the Mcdonalds Mcrib sandwich. A photo allegedly taken by an employee of a frozen mcrib went viral. Is there no shame . Mcdonalds says the pattie is formed in the shape of traditional ribs, they flash freeze the meat before subpoena sending it out to the restaurants. Yikes. That picture i mean, that hits me about the same way that time cover, is god dead. And there you go. Do you eat that . No. Its awful. Why would you eat it . It tastes g s delicious and good for you. Joining us, john harris and gladden thrush. They are launching the brand new Politico Magazine. Inside the magazine is glenns piece titled locked in the cabinet, a revealing look at president obamas cabinet. And this looks amazing. This is something to be excited about. What a story to start with. We are very proud of it. Pli politico trying to go deeper in addition to living in the moment. And thrush here has taken us deeper than anyone has ever taken us. Where is his hat . I dont know. Ive never seen him this way. I didnt realize he was bald. So lets talk about your look at the obama cabinet. Theres a description of a fun house mirror that has this idiosyncratic lurching management style. Explain. I think weve seen it pretty much played out over the last six weeks with the obama care rollout. But essentially the president started off in 2008 telling joe klein he wanted to have a team at the top bob gates, Hillary Clinton, tim geithner, he had that. But when you got below the headlines with that cabinet, they were systemically marginalized, people who didnt really necessarily have a lot of access to the president. And by and large as you drifted closer to the 2012 campaign, the management particularly from guys like David Plouffe really mandated a crackdown on more or less everything. People had to clear their schedules. And i think in the most one of the most telling problems that they had is that they clogged up a lot of the obama care regulations that were necessary to get the website going for months and months. So chaotic management style . Not so much chaotic management style. Its a her met particularly sealed management style in which you have a west wing and white house that functions i think fairly competent tently. Didnt necessarily seek output from the outside. That doesnt necessarily hold true just for people on the outside. It also holds true for these massive cabinet departments that control enormous amounts of the federal government. One thing that gets me, they have in this cabinet throughout the five years a lot of people who faced voters. I dont think any of the white house staff has ever faced a voter. Maybe an exception or two. And this is a political town and yet when it comes to politics, those people who actually have faced voters are excluded and those people who never faced voters are making all the decisions. Thats a disconnect. Absolutely. And one of the reasons i think by d biden had influence earlier on. You have incredible quotes from people. Its a surreal experience sitting with bob gates, Hillary Clinton and leon panetta. Like do i really blopg here. Thats arne duncan. But who is this . Explain this. Sometimes i feel like january either is touching me. Just to see if im still warm. That would be attorney general eric holder. Excuse me . Who i feel harris does that to me. Oh, my gosh. But anyway, when you have a situation like this where there is maybe a half step people who run the cup and theyre all in the west wing and all that because of their closes ness because of their closes nes to obama, you dont have talented people who want to stay in those situations. I think well see a real flight of talent at all levels throughout the federal government earlier than we see it in the second term. Because theyre so clexclude . Why stay. People are typically in government for the right reasons. They like to make a difference. And if youre not making a difference, youre being kind of systemically humiliated by the 35yearold white house aide, the most talented people wont stay in those circumstances. And it really is amazing that you do have all of these talented people that have won locations and understand politics, and then you have a bunch of young people that are making all the decisions excluding you simply because of their proximity to president obama. And im curious, glenn, if you found a difference between the way that people like Hillary Clinton and lee on that panetta were treated versus someone like a steven chu who didnt have the national profile. Exactly. Hillary and gates flew first class, every else was not even coach, i would say steerage at certain points of time. This is a trend you see in a lot of white houses. You heard a lot of similar complaints even in the Clinton White house, certainly the bush white house. If for no other reason than a lot of these guys dont have to face the congressional scrutiny. Was there a difference as to why hillary would fly first class . To a certain september, hillary always represented a political thread internally and there was always that 2016 time frame. The exit interview that i still cant figure out. I mean i can gates, we seem to forget back in 2008 2009 time frame, before they agreed on the afghanistan surge, there was a tremendous that was principally what voters were questioning obama on. And without gates during those two first years, obama would not have credibly ban abeen able toe up his but even hillary was cut out of a lot of policy matters. For all her political clout, a lot of for policy decisions were made in the white house. And i dont think she and her team necessarily objected to that. I think were starting to see now with the rather phrenetic kerry secretaryship a way different approach. Why wouldnt they object to that . Most secretaries of state, along with the secretary of defense and other key National Secure figures, theyre competing to get in on the action, to be on the forefront of major initiatives and moves, Foreign Policy moves. Why wouldnt you want to be in the middle of it all . Who was on the sunday shows . Not hillary. Who took the fau ofll after gad zi . You dont get involved, you dont get dirty so you can run later . I think thats a little reduct accou reductive, but there is some truth to it. At the time when people asked why hillary wasnt available for the benghazi sunday shows, we were told that she was tired from a foreign trip. I was told differently, that she had sort of a standing objection to doing those and really didnt want to be the face of do you think the items lasolf the west wing is Getting Better than previously or no change . I think mcdonough, obviously the jury is out and the obama care thing has distorted whatever view one would have. But mcdonough seems to have empowered hes guys more. Hes doing these cabinet coffees where you basically sits down get to know your cabinet. And let me ask you really quickly, how does the fun house that you talked about, how does this all feed into the Affordable Care act and the problems that they have, the insulated style you write about how they were people that saw problems coming and actually went to sebelius and said, hey, we need to bring in outside help and she said no thanks. And you said that thats indicative of the larger problem. I think there is an he estrangement, there is a sense of micro managing. But i think there was a sense that you kind of let everybody do what theyre doing until they get trouble. The paradox of the entire Obama Presidency is the guy who has presided over one of the largest expansions of the federal government doesnt necessarily have a tremendous interest in the way that it works. Doesnt like to get under the hood in the same way that bill clinton did. Politicos john harris, glenn thrush. Thank you. Were proud of it. Ahead, secretary of state john kerry will join us. 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You may remember wilson reportedly turned down a million bucks to shave his beard earlier in the year. Finally, what does it take to get people to see a Preseason College hoops game . How about free beer. Thats right, louisville Womens Basketball coach buying a beer for the first 2500 fans who attend tonights preseason game against ls uflt. He says its a sign of grat tite to loyal fans. Lucky for him,ss two buck beer night. It will come out of his own pocket, so thats 5,000 for free beer. Hope it was worth it. Brian, thank you. Joe is back on the road by the way today for his brand new book the right path, he heads to the university of chicagos institute of politics to sit down with david axelrod. Tomorrow well both be in connecticut. Check out out website for details. There is more ahead next week. We are definitely on book tour. Matt lewis joins us next for the must read opinion pages. How are you . Great. Well be right back. 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Unbelievable that guy. Hes like an octopus. You love him. I feel your pain who doesnt love bill. You should see the two of them together. It its disgusting. I love you, you have the best television show. I know, mr. President , and you look good. Youre so slim. I know my hair looks good. Oh, yours does, too. I know it does. Lets look in the mirror together. I impeached him, you know. Yeah, you did. That was my only defense after that. Talk about losing cred trying to sell a republican book. Might want to think about that. So funny about that guy, you go around, we give a lot of speeches and usually you ask questions have you you all met president fill in the blank. And there will be one or two people in the crowd, we had like 1200 people there, you have one or two people raise their hands. We found every time you ask how many people have met bill clinton, everybody raises their hands. Everybody. Its like a beach boys song. He gets around. He is a social machine. Time for the must read opinion pages. That was a great group last night by the way. They were really fun. An honor to be there. Wall street journal, conservative alternative to obama care. There has been fear among some republicans that proposing an alternative would give democrats a target and distract the public from the expected and now real failures of obama care. But the an sense of a credible alternative has been the gops greatest weakness and probably why polls show that even many who are skeptical and concerned about obama care to not support full repeal. Defenders of obama care are using the absence of republican alternative to suggest their law is the only answer to the grave problem of American Health care. And that without it, millions of americans would continue to lack access to coverage. Its time for republicans to take it away. Matt lewis, back when hillary had her Health Care Plan in 93, 94, republicans had three alternatives. We had an alternative to the clinton budget, we had an alternative to the crime control plan. Everybody had all these ideas. Isnt it time for republicans to come up with one big idea . I think absolutely. You dont necessarily have to dwchlt make a big target to have your plan attacked. But i certainly position republicans and conservatives need to come together on a framework. There are ideas being floated out there. For example, rather than having mandates, you could have some sort of tax incentives in the tax code that would incent advise getting insurance. If youre young and healthy, you dont have to sign up for the best plan, but you could be protected in case of the catastrophic disaster. So i think republicans need to have a conservative solution that they can agree on. And thats the hard part. People criticize Newt Gingrich all these years later, but newt when he decided it was time for republicans to take over congress, he had alternatives to everything. Like employer and individual mandates. Oh, my gosh. Where have i heard that . I think theyre right, but its tough. Sounds easy. What do you do about people with preexisting complains, how do they balance the insurance company. Steve rattner can probably address this better than i can. Its easy to and i you ought to have an alternative when you start to frame it and craft it its much more difficult. Where well start, well start by telling americans that if you like your Health Care Plan, you can keep your Health Care Plan. Im serious. Thats where you start. But again as i said earlier, the whole thing has to Work Together. And the way that many people who have preexisting conditions, many people whose insurance would go up for one reason or another, it will now go down because youll enroll a the lot of people who are healthy and young and who will pay a little more. Lot of people who are healthy and young and who will pay a little more. Am wasnt johe wasnt joking wh employer mandate was a republican idea. P lets not forget romney care. Very quickly, with the keep your plan thing, the oped talked about basically shifting away from the employer sponsored insurance which is more disruptive than what is happening in the obama care. But the bigger point is obama will be president until 2017, so any plan youre talking about wont happen until three more years. So it makes sense to work within the confines of the obama plan. I think first of all we have to go back read the book and he talks about the sense that we cant control everything. That the world is too complex. And really this is the fatal con seat, the idea that they can create this grand scheme where if you pull one they think out, the whole thing collapses. This is the danger that it will collapse under its open weight. So i do think conservatives need on have an alternative. And the truth is, yes, some of them did support the individual mandate, but i think its simplistic and accurate to say all conservatives supported it. Ill give the last board to anyone who says the fatal conceit of liberalism. Matt lewis, thank you so much. Thank you, matt. Appreciate you being here. Willie exams serious journalism with the help of a decidedly unserious journalist. Sfx oil gushing out of pipe. Sfx birds chirping. Dad dad katy perry is coming to town. Can we get tickets, tickets . Hmm, sure. How many . Well, theres hannah, maddie, jen, sara m. , sara b. , sa whoa, whoa. Hold on. under his breath here it comes. We cant forget about your older sister thank you, thank you, thank you seriously . What . I get 2x the thankyou points on each ticket. Can i come . Yep. The Citi Thankyou preferred card. Now earn 2x the points on entertainment and dining out, with no annual fee. To apply, go to citi. Com thankyoucards avo thesales event sis back. 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Good to have you on board. Bobs for jobs. We still talk about your campaign because it was such an example in so many ways. It really was. Obviously, bob, youve had a lot of problems, ethics complaints, people coming after you from all sides. Thats why on Election Night this poll surprised a lot of people in the media so much. It was your Approval Ratings versus president obamas Approval Ratings in the state of virginia. 52 for Bob Mcdonnell, only 41 disapproval rate aing. And polling six points better than president obama. Well get to the ethics challenges in a minute. But first, why are your Approval Ratings still so high . I think the rope is that were focused on trying to solve problems and get things done and bring republicans and democrats together in order to address Kitchen Table issues, whether its transportation or Pension System reform or education reform. Had four surpluseses s ies in. Just trying on get problems solved. A lot tougher in washington. What is the states Unemployment Rate . Down it 5. 8 . Lowest in the southeast. Created about 180,000 jobs. People are working together. If theyre working and have greater access to the american dream, they feel good about the state. So you were painted in 2009 as a right wing extremist. You went there, you stayed conservative. The reason why even last week mika and i were talking about how youre a role model id logically for conservatives, small Government Conservatives that figure out how to Work Together with the other side. We see scott walker doing it, we see Chris Christie doing it. What is the secret of doing that, how do you do it without people on your own side saying youre a traitor to the cause . You wrote about it in your book. You said principle conservatism along with clear eyed pragmatism. Politics is the art of the possible. Fight hard for your principles, but you have to have the right tone. I smile a lot. And being a happy warrior, it goes a long way. It does. And the Kitchen Table issues. What people want to know is what will you do for me and my family, give me greater access to a bright future. And the better you make your roads, your schools, your Pension System, your budget, your tax burden, the better that will be for people. And its been a great formula in virginia and were the number one state in the business number one state for business according to forbes magazine. That means more jobs. Thats something. So lets go with the ethics challenges that youve been facing. Obviously the latest is the ceos of this firm that you were working with and i guess the bottom line is it looked like quid pro quo, a lot of other things, expenses run up. What do you regret, what would you like to say . I said that i would do things a little differently now having the benefit of hindsight. Ive worked hard tirelessly for 37 years to serve the people of america and virginia. Im not perfect. Ive made some mistakes. I acknowledged those. We returned the gift, paid back loans. And get up every day and do the best job i can. Do you agree it looks like you abused the position . Absolutely not. I love the office. How would you characterize it . I followed the law. I accepted gifts, a lot of other governors have done the same think. But in retrospect, i understand it undermined the trust of the people in me and thats why i made the changes that i did and why i apologized and why well recommend Ethics Reform changes in the law. That would certainly clarify it. If you follow what the law of virginia has been in the past, and yet you still have all of these ethics charges filed against you and now you have the feds talking about wanting to come in, you do need to clarify. Those ethics laws need to be clarified. I think they do. We have some of the more lax laws in the country. We have pretty open finance laws, as well, where we dont have any limits on either gifts or financial contributions. We just have full disclosure. Were a sunshine state. And for the most part looking back through my open situation a own situation, some of the things wren have been inaccurate or onesided, but i dont want anyone else to go through this, so well have a series of reforms that we can recommend. I want to talk for you about Terry Mcauliffe. . Irish catholic man with five kids. Maybe that explains it. Joe manchin, just sitting here listening to Bob Mcdonnell about the state he took over, most prosperous state for business, didnt that make you miss being governor . Youre in a place right now where youre not the rewarded for action. Well, bob and i had a chance to Work Together because i was cycling out when bob was coming in. So we have one town in our state down in the middle of the streetses blue field virginia, blue field West Virginia. So its really quite a dynamic place and weve met there before trying to Work Together. And governors can do something. The tenth amendment is very clear. States have the rights to sovereignty. And i think that the experimental labs that we have there, we can show the federal government. I dont think our Founding Fathers ever, ever designed for this thing to be run out of washington. They designed for us to be able to do what we needed to do to show them that we are different, but were all one. And i think its done extremely well. And im probably the biggest defender of states rights. Being former governor, there are 11 former governors in the senate right now and we have a governor conference. And all of them miss being governors. Yes, we do. Well, what are you doing to help meet things forward . Youre constantly trying to pull republicans and democrats together. I think we have to find commonalty. What about with the Health Care Plan . First of all, are you somebody who has been vote to go repeal it for 40 shall times or do you want to go back i dont want anybody in West Virginia to have one catastrophe as far as Health Problem away from bankruptcy. Destroying their lives. I dont want a person that has had a preexisting condition not to be able to get it. Im willing to work through this and ive put some things on the table and i would hope constructively the white house will look at that. And ive said, listen, you had a rollout problem. Thats fine. We all have those problems. It should be a transitional year. You cant just keep putting it off. I said just dont put a crime or a fine to the bill this rear. Lets work through it, get the products right. There is a lot we can do if were working from a positive position. Is the president disconnected from the senate and from the house . Everybody has a different style. Is the president disconne disconnected . Come organization brothn, broth. I dont have that much if youre asking me when is the last time you met with him at the white house . The student loan bill. The one time i met you met with him one time time . But calls you how many times do you talk to him on the phone . Im sure hes very busy. Stop it. Enough. So Bob Mcdonnell, this is the thing that fascinates republican and democratic governors. We asked Chris Christie early on why the success. He goes its simple. Even when i was at war with the public unions, even when i was at war with democratic interest groups, i made sure that i met with the democratic leadership once a week, would have breakfast, wed sit and talk for a couple of hours and we became really good friends. And we worked through these tough issues. But that didnt seem to happen in washington. I dont understand, joe would have a better perspective, but i think there are so few days that people actually meet. In the General Assembly and legislature actually under one roof debating the bills, everybody is together, you listen. There youre rarely together in the same room. I think the relationships like tip oneill and Ronald Reagan had or Newt Gingrich and bill clinton, those kind of relationships are gone. I think it will take stateslike joe to rise up and say we have to do things for the common good. And joe is right, i think what will save america are two things. One, restoration of mr. Masons tenth amendment to realize that the power should reside in the states, not in washington. And secondly, a balanced budget amendment. Until money is managed in washington like its mappinged in peoples homes, we wont get our fiscal house in order. And in most of the states. 49 out of 50 balanced budgets. Im struck by something that the senator said because this is a senator who is a democrat who can talk to republicans and 067 plays the middle ground here. You say that you havent been to the white house since you were discussing the student loan bill. You indicated that you may not be getting weekly calls from the president. Does that frustrate you, do you feel like more would get done if he was reaching out to senators on a more regular basis . Bob told you how he governs. Were involved. In the executive branch, i had to work with him every day. And i enjoyed that. I really enjoyed finding out and i took constructive criticism very well. And i tell them, i says i dont have all the answers. Im not always right, but im not always wrong. And i dont have all the ideas. And what were trying to do is discuss this. I says i see the big picture. If im governor. The president sees the bigger picture. That i might not be privileged to. Id just like to be able to give him my thoughts. I want our president to do well. We all should. Whether republican, democrat, male or female, this is our cup and this is our president. And i would hope that he or should would look at the same input as trying to be helpful. Sometimes they insulate and draw back. You take 11 governors, we is been through the wars. We can bring an awful lot to that dialogue i believe. Is been through the wars. We can bring an awful lot to that dialogue i believe. Been through the wars. We can bring an awful lot to that dialogue i believe. And the governors in our caucus are very productive wanting to be involved. So i think there is a lot to be learned here. But yeah id never been against something unless i had a better idea. And then in terms of reviving the economy, i want to get your insight, forbes. Com named virginia the best state for business in 2013. Thank you for bringing that up again. And there were a couple of reasons why. What do you think the success, economic success, of your state, what do think you accomplished that youre most proud of . I think managing through a very tough fiscal time and the uncertainty in washington. Weve had four surpluses in a row totaling 2 billion. On a bipartisan basis, we got transportation accomplished, bill first time in 27 years. Fixed that in northern virginia, worst traffic in the country. 44 republicans, 43 democrats. I think my last thing im most pleased about is major education reform with 100,000 new degrees for our kids, tuition is only 4 this year as opposed to 10 . Major k12 reforms, more options for young people, more school choice. So i think listening to democrats and republicans in a split legislature, weve been able to move the ball forward and just solve the Kitchen Table issues. Back to your question, turn down the rhetoric, solve problem, share credit and smile a lot. So what aone of the big kitc table issues obviously health care. And youre still debating whether to accept the Medicaid Expansion in the state the of virginia. So here is the chance to have the federal government pay between 90 and 100 of the costs of medicaid for of the cost of obama care for some of your medicaid recipients. So why not accept that . Thats a way to id be shocked if they can keep that promise. The federal government is 17 trillion in debt, im not sure they can do it. Do you think they wouldnt write you the check . They might for a year or two and then times get of ittougher they have to balance the budget. But here is the real reason. What we said in virginia is were not opposed to it philosophically, but up we have dramatic reform in the medicaid system that has grown 1600 in 30 years from 5 to 21 of the total budget of virginia, up we have significant reforms and deal with dual eligibles and copays and other things and self help on your open health care, it wouldnt be responsible to do that. Its busting most budgets. You know that. And so water down the path of reform now. Weve made a lot of reforms and there may be a time when that happens. But were not there yet. And if i could say one thing. A lot of governors at the time this was going into effect, most of us were less than 50 coverage to the people who qualified. And they went right to 133. We had a hard time understanding. We said 100 would have been a lofty goal. So some of that, you know, there should be more waivers involved. So what works in virginia might not quite work in West Virginia, but we might be able to find models that work. And thats what were looking for, that flexibility. And the traffic in alexander is still pretty rough. We just passed the bill. It will take a while. People complain about construction, not congestion. It is kind of rough right now. But you took a lot of grief for that transportation bill p but ill tell you what, people that commute in traffic in northern virginia, it will mean the world to them. Let me finish by talking about ken coupuccinelli. There have been a thousand people blamed for his loss. We heard the ethics complaints, this will be a drag on ku cuccinel cuccinelli. Weve heard womens issues. Terry mcauliffe just beating about the head on abortion and several other issues. The cuccinelli camp seemed to be blaming ted cruz and the shutdown. Said that did more to destroy their momentum. What do you think was the bigge biggest drag on cuccinellis campaign . I thought the race was still a wh winnable race. Polls were showing 10 to 12 at the last. Maybe all of the above. I dont think you can put it on one thing. I do think that when that government shut down occurred, which was really not smart tactically on my party, i didnt think the president led, but i didnt think our team was smart in trying to defund obama care. Which was they evnever going to. That last five weeks of the campaign had solely been a referendum on obama care and all the problems with the implementation, e i think that might have tipped it in his favor. But the shutdown didnt accomplish anything. And where do we go from here, do you agree with bill clinton that the president should keep his promise and tell all americans if you like your Health Care Plan, keep your Health Care Plan . Weve all said things i think wed like to take back. I do that every day. And i think on this situation here, its pretty clear as many times as every station ive ever watched has played it, if you have it, you can keep it, if you like your doctor, you can keep it. And all were saying myself and mary landrieu, well work through this. They have more than a rollout problem. There is a product problem. We have to make sure the products are there. And the market will determine that product. Its a lofty goal to try to get Quality Health care for every american. And if we can do that and afford it, thats great. But we have to work through and ive also asked that no crime and no fine for the one year. It will be a transitional year. All these things have to be done and work through and i think people working but those are people who dont want the bill at all. I said tell me what youll replace it with. Give me something. And i havent seen that. Look at these guys, two of my favorites here. Smile for the camera. Theyre great. We used to be the same state 150 years ago. We didnt leave. He left. Pe stayed true to the union. Let me just say one thing. People have to lock in in the political arena. And thats what bob is doing, his numbers showed that. And Terry Mcauliffe will do a great job. Well see. We love terry. Well see. Hey, nick saban, your buddy, your brother. My brother. Tell him to stay in tuscaloosa until i tell him he can leave. P. Ill tell him. Joe manchin, Bob Mcdonnell, always good to see you. 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I fought for the bill. My committee helped write the bill. I watched many of my colleagues give up their seats for this bill because they thought it was the right thing to do and i still believe that. So you can imagine the frustration level that many of us have from this rollout. And i think what happened yesterday was an expression of that frustration and many of us feel that we told the American People if they like their insurance, they can keep it and we need to honor that. We understand the frustration. Do you feel it was received in a way that makes you feel hopeful, gives you confidence . Well, let me say this. On friday, there is a bill on the floor which isnt by any means a good bill in my opinion, but its a bill on the floor that says will you allow people that like their insurance to keep it. And the miles an hoamerican peo what they see. It will be some members of congress only chance to be on the record as to whether or not people should keep their insurance. What we said is if you dont give us Something Else before friday, i think youll see Many Democrats as a wave sending a message to the American People and the white house that we believe that needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed now. Robert gibbs, what would you do at this point . Is it a Communications Problem here or a functional problem . Its a policy problem, not a communication problem. Politics are always perfect. Only meetings i was ever in was a Communications Problem. Afghanistan, iraq im joking. Here is i think one of two things that probably has to happen today and its exactly what the congressman just said. Either the white house announces a legislative or administrative fix and i think thats probably hard or supports either probably comes out in support of Something Like the landrieu bill in the senate. Because one of those two things has to happen or exactly what the congress map said will transpire tomorrow. Huge numbers of democrats will come out in support of the upton bill even if they dont believe thats what solves the problem. Thats what people think will solve the problem. Therefore that will create a lot of momentum to do something in the sghat. So i think the white house has to come out and do the train has left the station. There is nothing they can do anymore. Are you talking about the latest polls on the president . No, im just saying on this issue. They might as welcome out and support plan trlandrieu, becaus too late. I think the message today is at this point we dont trust that you guys are going to have a magic fix. We want to what the congress manage just said, we want to be on the record. We want to we have to be on the record. They need to be on the record that they did this. Not that they sat there and we had a meeting and a stern talking to. No, no. They need a vote. White house has to get out of the way. Last week when you would talk to Administration Officials, they said were looking at an administrative fix. Suddenly yesterday, it was wedding who be hope to legislative or administrative. I think its just a matter of time. I told the white house said, members of congress arent judged by administrative fixes. Theyre judged by their voting records. And people want to be on the record that we made a commitment to the American People that they could keep their insurance if they like it and we want to fix that. Is there a logistical way that the promise can be kept without undermining the law overall . Everybody ive talked to says it undermines the law. The architect, professor who put the whole thing together, he said the landrieu bill is less bad than the upton bill, but essentially there are winners and losers. There were always going to be losers here. Young Healthy People were always going to be asked to pay more. Its just that nobody said it. And nobody was comfortable saying it very loud. But it was the only way this was going to work. How else do you bring down the cost for people with preexisting conditions . I still think the huge 98 of the problem is the website. 98 of the problem, because you better hope so. It is the portal by which people go in and change their policy, get a new policy. Thats what they have to fix. Weve lessened the window now by a month. If cbo estimates 7 Million People will sign up, were now 6. 8 i cant do the math. 6. 84 million not hard since there are only 100,000. Basically 6. 9 Million People with a month left. That will put tremendous strain on the website. The website is a giant mess to begin with and it has to be fixed. The good news for the administration is in the figures released yesterday, 846,000 people completed an application covering 1. 5 Million People. Right . They havent yet selected an insurance plan. The 106,000 have. So there is demand for this. There is curiosity, there is demand for health care. Thats not surprising. We had tens of millions without health care. The question now is there a vehicle, the website, for them to actually do this. And if they dont tigs that, thats the big problem. Dont you fear a narrative sets in about the website that impacts the policy . Maybe they go back to the website and its not working, so they never go back and finish. Yes, except remember there are pen alties at the back end. At the end of the day, you have to show by the end of march that you have proof of insurance. And i think in the end these numbers, its for the surprising that the numbers are 100,000 at this point. People have been told the websites not working properly. Three times as many sign ups in the state exchanges as in the federal exchange. But once the website starts to function as we intend to function, i agree with robert, i think a lot of this starts to go away. I hope so. Mike todoyle, thank you so much. 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When i was 12, my dad ran for congress and we campaigned together. We learned a lot about what it means to he were the vote one person at a time. Im running for the United States senate because its time for a new generation of leaders to step up to the plate. Ill fight hard, ill fight smart and ill get the job done. Im liz chain any and i cheney and i approve this message. Meanwhile polls show the wouldbe senator is in trouble. Mike enzi leads 69 to 17 . Ppro. Meanwhile polls show the wouldbe senator is in trouble. Mike enzi leads 69 to 17 . This. Meanwhile polls show the wouldbe senator is in trouble. Mike enzi leads 69 to 17 . Chuck, what do you make of that and what do you think about the race . Im always a little nervous. Wyoming polling is a very difficult state. You would think the smaller the state the easier it would be to poll. We would say just go get a cheyenne phone book. But it is actually a very hard state to poll. Id be very wary of Something Like that. I mean its clear that shes behind. Its obvious her biggest problem which is proving that shes from wyoming. There was a 25 year she shez wouldays way oweays in 30 seconds. Because that is the easiest way for enzi to go after her. Is Hillary Clinton from new york . Exactly right. And i remember when paul ryan ran for congress, he had the same issue. He was a staffer. He did an ad through the cemetery of his family to say five generations of ryans have lived here. Thats pretty creepy. But it was trying to give him look, people want to know your roots. I ultimately think if she wins or loses, it wont be because of shes a carpet bagger. Shes doing the generational thing which is smart. I dont know how 1450shell clinton, the democratic establishment of new york wanted clinton to run for that seat. Here she is running against the establishment. Remember new york has a huge democrat registration. Once Hillary Clinton became the nominee, it was almost certain shed be a u. S. Senator. This is trying to top ple a very popular republican. She always thought that enzi wasnt running again. Ple a very popular republican. She always thought that enzi wasnt running again. She tried to force the issue and the more she did, he said, no, im not done. But i think that now shes caught herself in a primary. She never thought she would have a primary. Up next, what really happened that day in dallas . Te Time Magazine is out with the 50th anniversary issue on the kennedy assassination featuring never before seen pictures. Well reveal the cover next. Yourturn night into day. Ng. Conquer the globe. Stop floods. Now she could use a hand, so she can keep living on her own. Comfort keepers can help you help her. Our professional caregivers are carefully chosen and highly trained to provide a variety of Inhome Services while truly engaging with your aging loved ones so they can stay happy at home. Comfort keepers. Keeping the comforts of home. Call Comfort Keepers now to learn more. 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Joining us now in new york, mappinging editor of Time Magazine, nancy gibbs, here to reveal this weeks issue of time. We looked at specifically why it is that even all this time later we still do not agree with what happened that day. Its a remarkable thing that after millions of documents and thousands of books and papers and committees that a majority of people including the secretary of state youre about to be talking to do not think that the official version of events is the accurate one. It is as though suspicion is now our reflex. And that is a remarkable thing to be true about one of the most important turning points in recent american history. Absolutely. A lot of questions. Never before seen photos. Moments from that day. And also raising a lot of questions still today. Nancy, its almost like you peel back ever since then everything is a Conspiracy Theory and it all started with kennedy. Right . This is sort of where we lost our innocence. Well, in a way conspiracy theories are been part of the american dna forever. But it did accelerate after kennedy where first it was the cubans because in the 60s kate those we those were the enemies. And then the American Military complex, and then the god father movies, it was the mob that huff done it. And now its lyndon johnson. There are so many theorieses. And the fact that there is more and more information. The more we analyze, the less certain we are. Nancy gibbs to robert gibbs. Hello, nancy. Will we ever know . I thought what was interesting about what you said is we know probably were less sure because of all the information that has come out. Will we ever 100 know the answer to this . I dont think so. And when the Warren Commission official report came out in 1964, two thirds of people did not accept it. By 2001, 81 of people did not think that the official report was true. So actually with more data and more facts and more evidence and we analyze the bullets and take apart the photographs and the fill and you still have fewer and fewer people thinking we had the actual answer. I dont think this case will ever be closed. So in the same vein, you alluded to secretary kerrys comments which i found remarkable weighing in on the kennedy assassination and disputing the Warren Commission report and then refusing to talk about it anymore when he was asked about it the following sunday on meet the press. So do you have any insight as to what is in his head and why that popped out and what he is thinking . You know, i think it all starts with the fact that many people always believe oswald was just the wrong villain, that a monstrous crime requires a monstrous cause. Even Jackie Kennedy at the time said her husband didnt even have the satisfaction of having been killed for civil rights. That instead it was this selly little communist. The idea that it was oswald just didnt sit well with people who thought surely it must be some bigger villain. But for secretary kerry and for many other people, the minute you start heading into the thickets of the conspiracies, you will get lost. There is no way out of that forest. So im not surprised that he at the present time want to get into any detail about who he thought the real culprit was. Nancy, thank you. The new cover of time is the moment that changed america. Nancy gibbs, thank you. Coming up as i said, well talk live to secretary of state john kerry. Also senator Claire Mccaskill will be here. And up next, a higher mission. Im very happy that im getting a new leg and surgery to make my bones be much better. I dont have to have pain in my leg anymore when im walking. Morning joe highlights an incredible organization, the tleb globe and he wial medical relie. Well show you some of the stories next. For anyone, anywhere. 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I volunteered to mentor the children and what i discovered was remarkable. He lot of both of his arms after being electrocuted by a power line in a refugee camp. How do you control them . I use my muscles. How does it make you feel . Its like real hands and when i go outside, it feels normal. Im just like normal. The shriners stateoftheart facility trains patients to adapt to real life situations and they are all free of charge. Sarah lot of a leg in the 2010 earthquake in haiti. She has been fitted for a new leg here. I am very happy that im getting a new leg and a surgery to make my bones be much better. I dont have to have pain in my leg anymore when im walking. One of the most valuable resources is a global family. Sometimes i get lonely and its really great to have kids around. From playing ping pong to making music, these kids have found a way to thrive. Achmed was minded and they forged a friendship through shared love of music. When the children return home, they spread the word about their american experience. I like america a lot. I want to be a doctor when i grow up for children. They are having a fundraiser tonight. The children are amazing. What you realize when you spend time with them and they just want to be children again. You can no matter where you are from or what happened, if you give time and you help organizations like this, they have a chance at that. How did amelia get involved with that . She always wanted to help people. She loves working with children. Actually we had a couple of different friends, 60 minutes did a great piece. Miles is involved with it and they inspired her to get involved. She was nervous at first. She was like how do i make them have fun. It was so easy. They want to be children again after everything they have been through. You are struck at how happy they look and relieved im sure to be out of the circumstances in those areas particularly. 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Every episode that occurred that caused commotion in the city has been because you indicated you have been drunk and failed to appreciate that perhaps there is a problem. I admitted to my mistakes and said it would not happen again and it never happened again at the air canada center. Good morning. Its 8 clng a. M. On the east coast and 5 00 on the west coast as you take a look at washington, d. C. Back with us we have sam stein, steve ratner, julie pace and al hunt. We started the day at politics and prose after we did the show yesterday. You had a sold out packed house. It was packed because they thought that sam stein was going to be there. Showing pictures. What was cool is there were a lot of republicans there. You were trying a republican crowd. You believe that now. This is politics and prose. Right . There was even usually when i tell people and use my marxist joke and said mika was raised in a marxist house, they laugh. Last night they stood up and applauded. You are reaching out to a new Republican Party that has been bussed in from somewhere. There was a republican who voted for obama who stood up proudly. How Many Republicans and democrats . They say how Many Republican who is voted for obama and there will be like ten people applauding and being really proud of themselves for being transformative and having the courage to Cross Party Lines and make a difference. That doesnt happen. No one wants to admit to it. In politics. Thats my neighborhood and year when my kids were young went as Saddam Hussein and george bush. There you go. The bully in washington. I dont know how you do this, but we kept going and the night continued at the may flower with a politico cocktail and i cannot believe they were in the balconies. You know what they were asking, why sam stein, the guy anyway. The right path. There were a lot of good questions and one of the most interesting thing and the reason these crowds are see big is the timing for the book is unbelievable. It really is hitting a nerve. We will get to that more with the political boys later and a wonderful night. Thank you so much for having us. Congratulations. Thanks for everybody for coming out. It was a record crowd there. It made us feel really, really good considering that sam stein could go across the street. We could talk more about this. There is so much bad news. Rob sent me a telegram. From the air canada center. All right. Here we go. When your political future is on the line, they give the white house until tomorrow to fix the problems with obama care. Thats when members of the house will be voting on a bill to address the issues that concern the millions of americans who lot of their Health Insurance because of the law. Today senator harry reid will be meeting with white house officials and fellow democrats to talk about how the party should move forward. This is following a very contentious meeting between House Democrats and Administration Officials yesterday. One proposal includes allowing americans to keep their current plans regardless of the Affordable Care act until the end of 2014. It appears more americans have lot of their insurance than have signed up for it. With close to 850,000 applications completed, 106,000 people selected insurance plans between october 1st and november 2nd. That includes over 79,000 enrolled in a statebased exchanging for 75 of all the sign ups. More than 26,000 people are getting coverage through the federal program that breaks down to just 1 of the estimated 48 million americans without Health Insurance. California, a staterun exchange has the largest enrollment. Florida that runs a federal program signed over 3500 people and north dakota has the least amount with exactly 42 accounts successfully created. Thats like half of north dakota. The Budget Office expected 7 million to sign up in the first year. They expected over 450,000 to sign up in the first month. For president obama, there is absolutely no rewhen it comes to public polling. According to fox news, 55 of americans feel the president was not being honest when it came to obama care. 50 said he knowingly lied when he said americans would be able to keep their plans and 58 thought his apology for breaking up was for political reasons. 38 said he was being sincere. The president obviously facing so many problems incoming from website. Do you suspect that this broken promise is that most americans think it was a great challenge . Its a huge challenge. They had multiple challenges and they had to get things working to improve the numbers if they can. The credibility and they suffered and i think what bothers a lot of democrats is did they learn anything from this . I think this is a complex problem to begin with or it wasnt going go smoothly. It would have been much better if they hadnt been for the white house. They picked somebody to run this two years ago and thats what the others did. How did they do that . How does it lineup with other decisions . This is the bye word and has become more so. Steven ratner who did a fabulous job with the automobiles could have run it. They dont turn to outside people because they are so insular. Why is that . I thought when barack obama was elected, this was a mark of secure people. Ronald reagan was a secure man. They turn to outside people. The greatest example is when reagan and james baker tried to beat Ronald Reagan in the primary and the second reagan ended up putting the primary, he turned to baker and said now run. He is the cold standard for chief of staff now. Thats what i thought it would be more of in the beginning. Steven ratner was an example. It Department Work out well. They circled and not just this issue, but even the people in their own administration. They obviously dont listen to republicans that much. The question is, are they going to listen to the House Democrats who came over and are angry and are giving them an ultimatum. You need to fix this fast or we will go in our own direction and support the bills that will force you to keep their promise. This will come to a head quickly. You will have a vote on friday on the upton bill and a lot of democrats are saying we want you to come up with another solution. Give us Something Else whether its administrative or legislative. We havent seen that from the white house. You will have the Senate Meeting and see a lot of push back from democrats as well. With respect to the white house. On a similar line than we hear from House Democrats. Give us another option. We are asking you for a fix. We havent seen anything yet. Some assurance that this will be fixed. The latest snapshot of the 2016 race is not looking good for Vice President biden. 25 of people in a new poll said joe biden would make a good president. 54 say Hillary Clinton could handle the job. It shows Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton neck and neck and while clinton leads with women and christie with men, independent guess to christie by a margin of 60 points. Yesterday senator rand paul took a shot at his possible 2016 opponent for federal spending on sandy and for including himself in post storm tourism ads. You have the governor running stronger than the storm using that through a political campaign. Thats taxpayer money. Federal taxpayer money. It should be against the law for a politician to put their image on tv at taxpayer expense. We have a 9 rating because people are unhappy about taxpayer money being used. Particularly when its one thing if you want to put your image on and say i will give a Million Dollars of my money, but you give somebody elses . With all due respect to your party, we were talking about whether democrats will learn their lesson. Talk about not learning anything. Come on. We will see what happens. Rand paul said you shouldnt use taxpayer money to use that. Rand paul is probably the exception to the rule. He must be the only member that doesnt do frankie. Thats where you send letters to your constituents and puts your face in front with taxpayer money to do what he said. This is such an opportunity and im not happy about it, but such an opportunity given what happened with health care. Especially because the fix to obama care is not simple. It more or less got obama care in terms of how the exchanges were. Even what president clinton said is even very hard to implement. I dont understand the legislative politics. If the president comes up with a solution that requires legislation and goes up to the hill, maybe they pass it. Hard to imagine the house passes it and this is what the republicans should be doing. Purely political. They should be doing obama care, obama care and not shooting at each other. Obsessing and three years away. If you are one of the key players and it keeps going back to sandy, it will be interesting when they are hit with a Natural Disaster and you see where they asked for support for the good people of kentucky or sits back and does nothing. With the exception of tom coburn who is consistent on the storm relief where he said he doesnt think the government has that big of a to play. I think to his credit, he is good to that and it wasnt as if he just decided to jump in with the christie criticism. You guys are right. At this moment in time, they would be rise to get out of the way. They are witnessing the lowest point politically for president obama. A continuous stream of bad news steve hit the nail on the head. There legislative suggestions for how to fix this law, they are shortterm political fixes that would cause policy disruption five or ten years down the road. It would create adverse selection in the exchanges and could derail health care. President obama has to figure out what he can get done legislatively that wouldnt necessarily tinker too much with them, but give them space. I agree with all of that, but its not five or ten years down the road. Its like next year. Most of these Solutions Obama care is very hated, but consider intricately constructed where each piece rests on another. You pull one piece out. The piece is that is out now is a website. People are getting cancellation letters. That could be solved if people were able to go on a website and say i can get this option or tax credit. I talked to a private insurance about this, private industry, not government who said he was not worried about the numbers and he is worried about the numbers in six monthss time. Im not sure if they can. Put this into perspective for us. We showed poll numbers yesterday which were stunning that barack obama is where george w. Bush was three months after katrina. The same Approval Ratings. Thats the poll. Put this into perspective. What does this crisis remind you of. We are not see saying more equivalent, but it impacts the impact of katrina and iran. Where does it stand and what is the president doing to turn it around . I think katrina may be the best analogy. What is remarkable is that each party seems intent on throwing the other a lifeline when they are drowning. In early october there was all right problems with obama care. They had to shut down and they threw a lifeline to the democrats. Then republicans at their lowest point ever, what has obama done now . Thrown a line and both parties are in trouble, but obama is the president. We will get a look at the new Politico Magazine with john harris and glen thrush. Just over a year after a prostitution scandal, new allegations of misconduct within the secret service like two agents have been pulled off the president s detail. You think opening up to smoking crack might be the low point. Well, apparently its not. Really . What do you do . Smoking crack . First, bill is here. Its great. We need the moment of four. He needs secret service protection. He needs a morning joe analysis. Lets go to bill now. Thank god we are in different cities. Bill . Good morning to you, mika. As far as today goes, a cold start and a beautiful sunrise. We hit the peak of this cold outbreak and now we want to warm it up and it should be a gorgeous afternoon. Lets start with a roll cloud in texas. This was filled as the cold air was coming in. Rare event. It doesnt happen that often. Its not attached to thunderstorms or anything. It happens occasionally on the leading front end of cold air. It looked beautiful. It rolls across the sky. As far as the cold front, it moved through and now its gone and the warm air beginnings to return. The 24hour temperature change is significant. In Oklahoma City and kansas city and chicago and detroit. We will be about ten degrees warmer including d. C. , richmond and through the ohio valley. A couple of clouds in the midwest and not too bad. We will continue to warm tup. Notice 60 in d. C. And almost 60 in new york city. Over the weekend, big storm in the middle of the country and Severe Weather and a lot of rain. Unfortunately for chicago and st. Louis. We will leave you with a shot of new york city on a beautiful morning. You are watching morning joe. Bl helicopthierhis hibuzzing, andk engine humming. Sfx birds chirping sfx birds chirping became big business overnight . Like, really big. Then expanded . 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He tried to go back to retrieve it and both are suspected of sending sexually explicit emails to a female agent. They came 18 months after a prostitution scandal in columbia. The washington times. For the first time in nearly two decades, the United States is producing more crude oil than it imports. Production hit a 24year high while foreign imports are at a 17year low. The petroleum they use keeps dropping. Photo messages service snap chat has allegedly turn said down a 3 billion offer from facebook. Reports say snap chat declined the offer because multiple investors are interested in the 2yearold company. They believe facebook is looking to engage younger users who are flocking to other sites. Someone offers me money, i take it. And the city council is asking the embattled mayor rob ford to step down. These people are simply not americans. Yesterday the Council Voted to ask him to temporarily step down though they have no authority. Ford declined repeatedly saying he is not addicted to alcohol or drugs and he admitted to using and purchasing drugs over the last two years. Counsellor, it was not the reason i drink or drugs was not out of stress. It was sheer stupidity. A New York Times painting. The 1963 painting by andy warhol sold for more than 104 million last night. Thats the highest price ever paid for any warhol work. Warhols silver car crash has only been seen once in public over the past 20 years. Its the second time in two days a participating from the 60s sold for more than 100 million. Kansas star star said ignorance is bliss. That may apply to the Mcdonalds Mcrib sandwich. A frozen taken of a frozen mcrib went viral. Sweet jesus. Is there no shame . Mcdonalds said the patty is formed in the shape of traditional ribs and they flash freeze the meat before sending it out to the restaurants. That picture, i mean that hits me about the same way that time cover, is god dead. Thats gross. There you go. You guys eat that . Do you eat that . Why would you . Because it tastes delicious. Not only that, its good for you. No. Yeah, it is. It has all the essential vitamins and nutrients. There is no reason to do that. Im being honest. Editor in chief john harris and senior staff writer glen thrush. They are launching the Politico Magazine. I need to see it. Inside is glens piece, locked in the cabinet, a revealing look at president obamas cabinet. This looks amazing. This is something to be excited about. What a story. Its something we are very proud of. Politico trying to go deeper in addition what we do well. Live in the moment. Thrush here has taken us deeper. Where is his hat . I dont know. I have never seen him this way. Lets talk about your look at the obama cabinet and the description of a fun house mirror that has an idiosinks rattic style. It played with the o bam care roll out. The president started off in 2008 saying he wanted to have a team of rifles and bob gates and hill row clinton had that. When you have got below the headlines with the cabinet, they were systematically marginalize and they didnt have a lot of access to the president and by and large as you drifted closer to the campaign, the management from guys like this really just mandated a crack down on more or less everything. People had to clear their schedules and i think in one of the most telling problems they had, they clogged up a lot of regulations necessary to get the website going for months and months. Its a chaotic management style . Its a sealed management style with a west wing and a white house that functions competently and emptily that doesnt seek out as much as al said. That doesnt just hold true for people on the outside trying to get their equities weighed, but holds true for the cabinets that control enormous amounts of the federal government. John harris and glen thrush. John kerry joins us for an exclusive interview and we will ask him about the criticism over u. S. Policy in iran. Up next, Clair Mccaskill has a proposal about sexual results in the military. One of her fellow democrats has a different idea. What she says about the competing plans. Bl hey, thats the last crescent oh, did you want it . Yeah. Well split it. [ female announcer ] made fresh, so light, buttery and flakey. Thats half. Thats not half guys, i have more. Thanks, mom. [ female announcer ] do you have enough pillsbury crescents . knochello . Hey, i notice your car is not in the driveway. Yeah. Its in the shop. Its going to cost me an arm and a leg. Thats hilarious. Sorry. You shoulda taken it to midas. Get some of that midas touch. They tell you what stuff needs fixing, and what stuff can wait. Next time im going to midas. Highfive arg i did not see that coming. Trust the midas touch. 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I think its probably more than a glitch. Democrats are getting upset. We have the store open and we locked the front door. Its really important that people get in the store because if they dont get in the store, the prices continue to go up for everyone who will shop later. How do we fix this and get around what has become the most popular political two by in a decade. That is obama care and the misinformation about obama care that is so prevalent out there. I think we can get it fixed, but i think we are going have to take some kind of repairative action to reassure people that we are trying to get it fixed. Robert gibbs . Good to see you. If the landrieu bill came to a vote today, where would you be and are you worried that that bill does a lot of harm as well as sort of fixing as mika said a messaging. There has to be something that allows a help to this situation. It may be that bill and it may be Something Else. What most people dont understand is the solution we are trying to craft for the independent market which are all those people out there in Small Businesses that dont have employer insurance that have been absolutely raked in the Insurance Market for decades is creating enough of a pool that it brings up the cost for everyone. If we delay, encouraging people to get in the pool, it has consequences for average americans who deserve that. Im getting worried. You are next, but i asked this question last night and i deflat deflated. Me. Are we going to get around this . Is this going to get behind us. Can anybody give us confidence . Im reassured when i read the roll out on medicare. It was a mess. We were a communist nation and we were all socialists and it was terrible. The doctors would leave the practice and im hopeful that we can the names being called. Its the launching of it. One thing is most people didnt have insurance. The whole point was to give them something they didnt have. Here we are trying to get people who have something and give them something lightly different. The front door is locked. Thats the website i assume you are talking about. The front door will get unlocked. We hope and believe that will happen. The question then is what happens in the store . What robert is alluding to is you say people who lose their existing policy, you can keep it for a year. Obama care is a web of things. You take one thread out and you dont know what happens in these pools. He is asking and im asking you, are you in favor of the bill and how does this thing get solved . I dont know if its going to pass and what will be the landry bill. We have to work at it to make it better. We are trying to do a free market. Everyone who said obama care is evil, we are trying for every action in the free market there is a reaction. We have to be careful how we do this so we dont have unintended consequenc consequences. You write bill clintons yawn rescue of obama care. Bill clinton can be great and terrible. He means well and cant resist mischief. After he appeared at the convention, barack obama added him to his cabinet as the secretary of explaining stuff. Did he hurt the case for obama care by saying that he should make good on his promise. It goes on and on. Is anyone going to help out at this point or is it so convoluted that we are holding on to hope at this point . I believe in the concept of this law. Im a believer, but as steve said, you pull the thread and the people who are locked out, the ones who have a plan they like, those people can never be made happy. The whole point of obama care is you are all in. They have crappy policies and they dont know it perhaps. They will be better off eventually. The fact that the store is locked, they cant find out there is something better. When you begin to toy with it, this is when you have problems. I think Congress Needs a vote for their own reelections to say listen, we want you and we want to carry out obamas promise to you so that you are not slammed in the election. Innocent bill clinton knows above all people and hes an expert and he is the secretary of explaining stuff, you may never be able to do this. The reason we are hearing these is they cant get in the store. The one thing i want to do is go on local help. Healthcare. Gov. When i. On local help. Healthcare. Gov and put in my zip code, up came 60 places in st. Louis where i could call and go for information. There is a lot of ways to window shop now. As people do that, americans are great shoppers. If they figure out that there alternatives to the crappy policies they have now that are affordable, some of this goes away. The question is how quickly and what are they . The only good individual policies are the ones that young Healthy People have. The Insurance Companies cherry pick you out. There is no doubt as long as the store is closed, this problem is greatly exacerbated because even those that are in individual policies that want to get in new know ones are almost always going to go through this internet portal and if it is largely closed, it exacerbates the problem. You have been doing so much incredible work on behalf of women in the military and dealing with the Sexual Assault crisis and talk about you and the tale of two plans. Where does it stand now . In the bill of historical forms. Some of those have been lot of because there is one issue that we disagree on. I will tell you the narrative that this is about vehicles versus commanders. Thats a false choice. Im on the victims side. I firmly believe that the reforms we are doing and things we add to the bill are going to be better for victims and that if we let the commanders off the hook, there such negative consequences for the culture of the military around this issue. I am handcuffed by hundreds of rape and sodomy cases i have personally handled and the victims that i have talked to and the women that are prosecuting these cases in the military. I will never let the commanders off the hook on this. They have got to get this right. Its much better today than years ago. It will be much better next year than now. Thank you. At the playbook cocktails. They asked me my favorite member of congress and i asked your name and the room erupted. I know hes back managing the Chris Christie campaign. Up next it was astounding the man crush. Im afraid they will run off together. We do need to talk football. He is not picking his favorite. I had a few picks and he had a few. You were on my list. Up next, like the world series matchup. We go from st. Louiss Clair Mccaskill to bostons john kerry. Secretary of state john kerry joins us for the morning joe exclusive in a moment. Mine was earned orbiting the moon in 1971. Afghanistan in 2009. On the u. S. S. 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I think whats critical is to focus first of all on the president s policy. The president s policy is that under no circumstances will iran get a Nuclear Weapon. That is a centerpiece of obama Foreign Policy. He made that pledge a number of times and that is the policy that we are pursuing. I was in the senate. I was chairman of the Foreign Relations committee at the time we passed the bill. I helped to pass it and believe in them. The reason we passed the sanctions was to be able to negotiate. The sanctions are working. We are now able to negotiate. What we are really asking the congress to do is give us the time to be able to negotiate and present a good deal that would be able to protect israel and protect our interest and the region and guarantee, i mean guarantee fail that iran will not be able to get a Nuclear Weapon. Its a simple proposition. I understand that simple math you are doing. Yesterday you told everyone, you told reporters and everybody that they need to calm down about the prospect of postponing new sanctions on iran. Some might ask why we would even be considering easing sanctions. In fact the core sanctions regime does not really get eased. 95 or more of the current sanctions will remain in place. Iran was bringing in about 110 billion or 120 billion a year in income from the oil revenues from banking and so forth. That has been knocked down to about 40 to 45 billion now because of the sanctions and that 45 billion is frozen in banks around the world. They cant access it. All we are talking about doing is a tiny portion of that would be released because you have to do something to make it worth wile for them to say yes, we are going to lock our program where it is today and actually roll it back. The president s plan on iran would actually expand the current break out time. If we dont negotiate and dont get this agreement, the exact opposite happens. The break out time contracts and the world becomes more dangerous. There is nothing to suggest that iran is going to up and say okay, we are going to do this because you have increased your sanctions in fact increasing sanctions would be viewed as a bad faith step by the United States and it will encourage them to hold them accountable for dealing with us at all because we dont operate in good faith. Then we are locked into the next whatever number of years of the standoff, but a standoff in this circumstance which becomes far more dangerous for israel and our ally and friend, far more dangerous for the region and may even push other countries to nuclearize and could result in the requirement that we have to rather than have it negotiated with a peaceful resolution and take military action to cure our goals. Robert gibbs. Mr. Secretary, you have a week before the next round of talks. You had this back and forth between some saying the french decided this wasnt a good deal. The United States did or even iran may have walked away. I am interested in how do you talk to and what do you say to Prime Minister netanyahu between now and the beginning of the talks next week that the path that you are pursuing is best for them and what do you say specifically around irans continued enrichment abilities or continued to build a Nuclear Reactor for plutonium enrichment . We are not going to let them do that first of all. We made it clear to friends up on the hill that each of those critical enrichment facilities are part of this agreement. None of them will be able to progress further if we get this first step. Thats how we begin to roll back the program and hold it where it is. Thats an essential component of this. I had several conversations with Prime Minister netanyahu this week and in fact literally just before coming here i hung up the phone with Prime Minister netanyahu. We are having a very friendly and civil conversation about this. I respect completely his deep concerns as a Prime Minister of israel should have. About the exteshl nature of this threat to israel. We understand that. Thats why president obama has made this Firm Commitment that iran will never get a Nuclear Weapon. What we disagree on is not the goal. We agree on the goal. We disagree on a tactic. We believe that you need to take this first step and you will not get iran to simply surrender and believe you are dealing in good faith after two years of negotiating you dont followthrough on whats on the table. But the Prime Minister netanyahu believes that you can increase the sanctions, put the pressure on even further and somehow thats going to force them to do what they havent been willing to do any time previously. We dont agree with that. I dont want to go into that. Whats important here is we stand with israel firmly. 100 . No distance between us about the danger of the program and the end game for us is exactly the same. Iran cannot have a Peaceful Nuclear program. That is in fact a deceptive program or program here to allow them break out. They have to be fail safe and clarity about the processes which will guarantee it is a peaceful program. Thats our mutual goal. Mr. Secretary. City of ratner has a case. You laid out your case very clearly and logically. Why are you having so much trouble with so many of your former colleagues including senator corker and the democrats and so forth . There a lot of reasons for that, steve. Im not going to enumerate all of them now except so to say every senator is entitled to be skeptical and to ask tough questions. They did and will and we will answer them. We will answer the questions and i will continue to talk to senators in the next days. I believe that what we are doing is and the president believes this very deeply. The best first step that will actually make israel safer, it will extend the break out time if we dont get this first step, not only will that break out time shrink, but iran may interpret the congressional reaction of wanting to increase sanctions as bad faith on our part and unwillingness to in fact negotiate and my drive the hard liners more into the commitment that they have to have the weapon. These are difficult judgments. You come to the table with our input and our information. I respect their positions, but we respectfully believe that the executive branch of government under the constitution deserves the right to negotiate and property them with something and this is not the moment to secondguess that process when two years have gone in to creating the trust and common understanding that has been building to bring us to this moment. We believe we ought to be able to get the first step and again i reiterate. Our goal is the same. No Nuclear Weapon capacity. 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