We are doing our entire living room in stainless steel. Very good. Good morning, everybody. Tuesday, october 7th. Look at that times square. Its buzzing or still is. With us on set, we have associate professor from Columbia School of university, along with willie, joe and me. Yeah. Whats up . We need to talk about what well wear, before we wear it. This is like just get it out of the way. A holiday party. Ive got to change. Its still october. Whats going on . Halloween i dont like this. This is not going to work. This is not going to work. Im sorry. Can you do im going to change. Hold on. Ill be right back. You read the news. Ill be right back. No, please dont change. I like that sweater. It doesnt look like it will walk away. It doesnt look dirty. Im going to get another garanimals going on. Thats the first time he actually wore a different sweater. All right. Well, okay. Hes gone. Lets do the news, shall we . Willie, dorian . I cant believe it. I like the holiday look. I thought he looked good. You know . Just trying to mix it up a little bit. Okay. If you believe the latest polling, allison lunder gram
grimes has a real chance at unseating the Top Republican in the senate. According to a new kentucky bluegrass poll, grimes leads senator Mitch Mcconnell 46 to 44 . A month ago, mcconnell was up by eight points in the nbc news maris poll. Thats not the only race by the way where democrats are showing strength. So were seeing this in a couple of other key places. North carolina, kay hagen, has a fourpoint lead on tom tillis. Still pretty close, but still leading him. The race in kansas already starting to look out of reach for incumbent pat roberts. Hes down by 10 to independent greg orman. In colorado, mark udall has a threepoint edge on cory gardiner. Thats close to a tossup. Gardiner was leading by as much
as eight points. And Jeanne Shaheen is now leading over scott brown by seven. And in iowa where Joannie Ernst was leading by six, she is tied with democratic bruce braley. I dont know. You think the president is such a hindrance as sort of the narrative has been, dorian. Yet, we are seeing something, potentially happening here. If you believe these polls. Right, you know, we havent seen the clintons in action yet, by the way. Well, were going to talk about them. Good point. So thatll make a difference. But this its hard to disentangle is this an antiincumbency wave or potential wave or is this something that the democrats are doing in terms of their Campaign Strategy that republicans arent . Grimes, thats particularly remarkable. It started to slip away and then you saw mcconnell get some distance. So shes closed that gap now with a month left to go. As you say, that whole campaign for Mitch Mcconnell has been about pairing her with president obama. Yeah. Now, here she is tied. I find that to be extremely interesting to watch. In alaska, mark begich has been losing ground. And tom cotton has a slight edge. And louisiana senator Mary Landrieu is down by six points to republican bill cassidy. There were seeing a fight there for senator landrieus life. The comeback kid though, as you mentioned is looking to help democrats in his home state. Former president bill clinton returned to arkansas to headline rallies for democratic senator mark pryor. And Gubernatorial Campaign mark ross his former driver. He urged them to reject the
republican efforts to make the elections about president obama. Thank you. You cannot afford to do what their opponents want. They want you to make it a protest vote. All three of these races theyre saying you may like these guys, but you know what you have to do. You have to vote against the president. I promise your last shot. Its a pretty good scam, isnt it . I may wander and groan, but i may never be far from home. Youre in my heart and youll always be arkansas, you run deep in me. Vote your heart. Dont vote for what they tell you you have to be against. Vote for what you know you should be for. Vote for mark pryor. Vote for mike ross. Vote for pat hayes. Vote for the legacy and youll be happy a month from now. Thank you and god bless you. Boy, hes something isnt he . Willie geist yes you are. Could he be any happier . Getting to please dont do the face
scratching. Dont do it. And how about Mitch Mcconnell, huh . Hes down. Yes. I mentioned that at the top of the show when you walked away. [ laughter ] that was great. We were chatting about that. I was excited about your reaction and you left. You just left. Im going to do that. Let me try that. Me too. Why . I thought we looked good. Because i didnt want to hear Andy Williams holiday song in my ear. We were talking before the show as we were coordinating our sweaters yeah. If you look whats happening with mcconnell and we were out asking what were the polls going to look like after the beheadings . After barack obama went out golfing. After the beheading. Specifically. And now were starting to see, like a big turn around in kentucky. You look in North Carolina, big turn around, republicans were sure a month ago this is a wave election. It may still be a wave election. You just dont see the evidence of it out there. In fact, democrats are doing so
much better now than they should be doing. And republicans now are going to lose kansas . What do you make of kentucky though . I dont see it as sort of related to isis. Do you . I mean, is that whats happening here . Well, this is all democrats were hurt a month ago by Barack Obamas seeming obliviousness to what was going on with isis and the jv comments and the golfing after. But i think youre starting to see the races go back to sort of their set point. And the set point is, lets just say it, a lot of kentucky people cant relate to Mitch Mcconnell. They may not agree with grimes on a lot of issues. She and other candidates have run a smart campaign, distancing themselves from the president ,
right . So as the president as the former president bill clinton said in arkansas yesterday this is not a vote for barack obama. This is a vote for mark pryor or lundergren grimes. This should have republicans worried for 2016, by the way. Because they have a lot more seats to defend in 2016. On clintons comments, they were interesting too. As dorian points out, he said this is two more years of president obama. Dont worry, its only two more years, but these guys are applying for sixyear jobs. Right. Dont make this about president obama. Maybe if you want to read a few things into that, there could be somebody else hes very, very good. If you talked to any republican strategist six months ago, a year ago, listen, a month before the election to an independent candidate. And there wont be a democrat in the race, youre losing North Carolina, youre going to in some polls youre going to be losing louisiana. Arkansas is going to be split
down the middle. I can tell you as a republican were screwed. Iowa is tied. Iowa is tied. By the way, im sorry, the democrat out in iowa is a clown. I mean, democrats say quietly that guy is a clown. Hes illfit for candidacy. He goes to texas trial lawyers, hey, the last thing we want is somebody from iowa dumb farm base is what hes saying running committees. Joannie ernst against the candidate . Clearly, iowa voters are thinking Something Else now. I dont know. I think if you look at the trend, its all decidedly against the republicans right now. There are exceptions but go to scott walker, a guy i like very much. Who was, you know, the great hope for a lot of conservatives like myself, he may not even win this year. Well, hes being investigated
for corruption scandal. Go a state over to michigan, one tough nerd. You know, the governor of michigan. A year ago, everything looked great. Now, hes on the run. This is and heres the thing. This is what republicans need to understand. I have been saying you have to stand for something. You just cant be against president obama and if the republicans cant win, and Reince Priebus will say this, if the republicans cant win in 2014 when everything is breaking their way, when they are fighting on in red states, then in 16 all the senate fights will be in blue states, plus the president ial race is going to be especially ugly. Yeah. Let me get one other headline in here. Officials are confirming the first case of ebola to be contracted outside of west africa. A nurse in spain is in stable condition at a hospital this morning after testing positive
for the deadly virus. Officials say she cared for two spanish priests who both died from ebola. Meanwhile, the parents of freelance nbc cameraman ashoka mukpo said hes in good spirits after arriving in omaha for treatment. Meanwhile, dr. Nancy snyderman and her team arrived in the United States last night on a charter flight and were checked by a Health Official upon arrival. All are feeling well, in good health. Theyre deemed low risk, but will be staying home and monitoring their temperature for the remainder of the 21day period recommended by health authorities. And in dallas, the man being treated for the ebola virus remains in critical condition. We have learned Thomas Eric Duncan is being given an experimental drug that was approved by the fda. President obama says his administration is working on increased screening for ebola at airports here in the u. S. And overseas. It comes as a new Pew Research Poll finds nearly 60 of americans have either a great or
fair amount of confidence the government could prevent an Ebola Outbreak in the United States. But theres a sharp divide among parties. 69 of democrats share that confidence. While 51 of republicans have little or no confidence in the u. S. Government in terms of how it could stop an outbreak. I think screening is going to be difficult. I dont know how theyll do it, because its not just about cutting off flights if they go a step further. Flights coming in from all sorts of Different Countries and flights going back. Willie, what do you make of the poll, the republicans they dont trust it looks like its about president obama. Its just a blind referendum. Its kind of strange that that that became a political question. I think its a lot of things. Obamacare, irs. A lot of things that have kind of made us think i agree. I think democrats feel the same way about government. If you asked them how is george
w. Bush handling the outbreak youd see that flip. This is political. Its strange. About ebola . And i guess at the local level versus the federal level especially since president obamas been in office. So thats not unusual. Its just the broad trends. But it is strange around ebola. Its not an explicitly political question. And the bigger question of whether people are losing faith in institutions we talked about for some time. Anyway, we have a big show today. Did you see Chris Matthews is dropping by to say hello . I cant wait. I cant wait. You two be nice now. All right. Still ahead this hour, why you may look like a member of the courts militia if you stop at h m if you shop at h m. Have you ever shopped there . I was there yesterday for the sweater. The kids love it. I cant believe you changed in the middle of the show. And plus an update, the bubble man. He is safe on land. But what about the bubble . Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Whats wrong with that . Its ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. Its our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. Apology accepted. Im watching you soup people. Make it progresso or make it yourself [ male announcer ] when you see everyone in america almost every day, you notice a few things. Like the fact that youre pretty attached to these. Ok, really attached. And thats alright. Because well text you when your package is on the way. Were even expanding sunday package delivery. Yes, sunday. At the u. S. Postal service, our priority is. Was. And always will be. You. Holy cow. Like a cashew . Okay. Wow. First time i heard that expression. Well, so we have were reading stories from local no, time to look at the morning papers that you care about. The los angeles times, pope francis has called a meeting of 200 cardinals and bishops in rome to consider controversial issues for the church. Including divorce, contraception and sexuality. No topic is off limits and the holy father has encouraged attendees to speak openly and freely. Theyll discuss the survey of catholics worldwide which many feel that the church is out of touch with their needs. New york times t Waldorf Astoria Hotel will be sold to a
chinese Insurance Company of course it will. For nearly 2 billion. One of the highest prices paid in a hotel sale. The Landmark Hotel which has hosted social gatherings will undergo a big renovation. The Company Plans to return the 47story building to the original art deco style. H m has come under fire for a khaki jumpsuit which many say resembles the uniforms worn by the female kurdish militia. I think its fetching. What the heck is this story . So far reaction would you wear that . I kind of like that, mika. I dont think i could pull it off. But if you could, would you wear that . Sure. The one on the right, with the gun and the hat. I could do that. The reaction has been mixed with some saying it celebrates the
females who are currently fighting the Islamic State in syria, but others say it is insensitive. What . H m spokesman i know the designer was not thinking kurdish militia. Come on. Move it on. Im not reading it, its stupid. Thats stupid. Anyone who would argue with that has no life. And i read the delaware news journal every morning. Then you already read this story. The police have arrested the mother of a 4yearold after the kid showed up to her day care with a backpack full of heroin. What . Not good. The little girl was caught handing oh, my gosh. Handing out packages of drugs. No to her classmates, thinking it was candy. The mother has been charged with endangering the health what . Heroin . What do you send them to
school with . Coke. Diet coke. He loves it. He gets him buzzing around. Mmhmm. Little jack. Dont say that. Not right. Just joking. Just joking. The telegraph stop it, willie. This is important. I dont know what that means. Michael bloomberg was given an honorary knighthood by the queen of england. The British Embassy said he was granted the honor due to his entrepreneurial and philanthropic endeavors. Dont call him sir mike. Bloomberg will not use the word sir because hes not a british citizen. Thank you for clarifying that, mika. Okay. Go to new orleans. A collision between a train and a big rig has left two rail workers injured. Thank think no one was injured. A truck was stuck on the track and here it comes. Oh, no, not good. The train cut the trailer in half. The driver of the truck escaped unharmed. I with wish we could show that in slow motion. The trains conductor and engineer suffered minor injuries. Residents have been evacuated due to concerns over a gas spill. My goodness. Incredible. All right. Coming up next, voters are still hungry for gun laws despite it getting little to no interest on the campaign trail. And joe biden defended by the Editorial Board thats standing up for the Vice President ahead. Dont go away. We may have another outfit change. No, no fashion changes. Nothing. Well be right back. Stop [ hoof beats ]
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