Lebron james, last night, the big homecoming, against the new york homecoming against the New York Knicks after a few seasons away, a few titles in miami, comes home, throws the powder in the air, everybody is excited except they lose the New York Knicks. 9590. Lebron may be a little amped up, had 17 points amidst a bunch of shots. Eight turnovers. He was happy to get this one out of the way. I read on twitter he was 1 for 9 happen somebody said they neilded to get michael j. Fox delorean. College football, fsu went down 210 last night. Unbelievable. Jameson stole the game. Happy halloween, guys. Thank you so much. What your going to be. I dont know. I think this is scary enough. What about you. You have a similar pant thing going on. Oh, wow. Did you guys coordinate that . Plaid. I brought these in and mika went out and bought like 14 of them and so, you know, what am i supposed to do . What the heck. You know what, heres the best part of them. They are just as comfortable being slept in. Okay i dont sleep in mine. What your going to be for halloween, willie im not at lie better to disclose that. Suffice it to say im a little out of breath now after my rehearsal. Very exciting. Okay. I cant wait to see that. Oh, gosh, good luck. We almost didnt make it. We got abc news political
commentator and npr Senior Analyst cokie roberts. What an incredible day to have her on. Host and managing editor of tv one daily morning news show, roland martin. Lets start with the news. Lots to talk about. Actually, you know what . Did you get this facebook thing . Yeah. Youre upset about it. Yes, i am. I found out that this is i think theres some coverage on this, on the broader issue on buzz feed or something. But i just found out somebody was charging 15 to email us or me on facebook. Somebody sent mika a nasty email it was a nice guy who wanted his wifes cooking book to be talked about. I never got it so i never responded so then he reached out to the head of msnbc and i was
irate saying its bad enough i have to pay 15 to reach your anchors and they dont respond. Mika find out on facebook, facebook tells people well send an email to the person you want, but were going to charge you 15. Thats the receipt. Which of course you end up getting anyway. Its the biggest scam. In other words, if the person was protect like youre not getting emails you can break through that if you give us 15. No some sort of message thats direct. It goes to the facebook inbox which a lot of people dont i dont sit there staring at it every day, do you . I was going to say. Privacy stuff. We havent been on facebook since like 1967. No. After sergeant pepper i went on there to talk to some of my friends in san francisco. But for them to charge people 15 thinking that somehow mika is getting it or youre getting it is crazy. You ought to look into that. Now lets go to the news. Republicans are starting to open up leads in some of the key races that will decide which Party Controls the senate. In ken, Mitch Mcconnell has a fivepoint lead against Alison Lundergan grimes. In colorado, republican congressman cory gardner has a sevenpoint lead against senator udall. And in arkansas republican congressman tom cotton has a commanding 13 point lead against mark pryor. Senator kay hagan is hanging on. She has a fourpoint lead over thom tillis. Michele nunn and david perdue are tied. Theres a runoff in january. Cokie roberts, a lot to look
at. Identify been talking about no trends for quite some time. It does look like in a few of the races where republicans should win in red states. Yeah. Actually, all this week ive been looking at the numbers and thinking we might have a sweep but im very curious to see what happens this weekend. A bunch of races where i thought it would open up, like that, Kay Hagan Thom Tillis race its not. We have to get through the weekend and see if anything starts to break. But all of the National Polls are really breaking republican particularly among independents. Romand martin, the question though is turnout. A lot of races way too close to call. If the democrats have half the turnout operation they had in 2012 or 2008, actually will be very long night of vote counting. If this off year election is
like the last off year election and the electorate is older and whiter a big republican night. Th all about turn out. Absolutely all about turn out. Thats why democrats are pushing hard when it comes to early voting. They have been flooding the zone. Cornell belcher one of the top pollsters in the Democratic Party made it clear early in the year there was a 14 to 16point gap between obama voters in 12 in terms of whether they would vote in 2014. Many folks didnt even know about election. The other problem that the democrats as a result of how they structured this did not have strong operations in some of these states like for instance arkansas. You look at louisiana. So one of the reasons senator kay hagan is doing well in North Carolina is because the obama folks had a strong operation left in place so i think the democrats have got to go back and reexamine what howard dean talked about having a strong 50 state strategy. You cant focus on the
president ial election year. You have to build a National Party to have the infrastructure to drive people in these Midterm Elections. Of course republicans are claiming that they now have a ground game too. They said that in the last eight years. This time they say they really have a ground game and that they have mitt romneys super computer. I understand. They learned their lesson from mitt romney and barack obama and have identified a lot more voters they can get to. They feel they are doing pretty well in the early voting in iowa and thats a very peculiar race. That is a very peculiar race. What cokie is bringing up is 2016. A lot of republicans would love would like to win the senate. If they win the senate and lose again in 2016, then youre going to have a massive crisis. This is a real proving ground
this 2014 race for the very reasons that cokie was talking about. Have they learned their lessons from 2012 . Will their turn out operation be better. Will their technology be better . If not. If. There are a lot of groups that invested in a lot of money in turn out operations. Thats what republicans are going to be looking at at the rnc. Talking about 2016 they have to find a candidate first. Its unclear who shakes up. You start to look at these polls, colorado, arkansas where the republican margin is growing a little bit. It would be i think its fair to say a big disappointment for republicans if they dont take the senate. They have so much going for them. Good candidates. The president is unpopular. They are in the right states. Hes being fought in red states. If they dont win the senate you have to look at it as a big disappointment for republicans. Devastating. The money game. Youve been following this very closely for the new york
times. Where do we stand as we get to the end of this campaign. Its not going to be a campaign thats won and lost on the money. Everybody has the money they need. I think the republican side is ahead in spending. Not by so much. What strikes me about these polls, if cotton is that far ahead and gardner in colorado, really theres only one path for democrats to get to 50 and it involves both georgia and kansas. If you imagine that the party hopes are holding on to the senate would rest on those two states a year ago would have been crazy. Joe, remember when the congressman was on your show. Hes looking like a oracle when he made the point its not about money its about message. Democrats will reflect how they ran way from the president and had horrible messaging over the last year. I think youre right. Democrats have made such a
horrible mistake running against their president and running away from some of the thing that they actually could have campaigned on. Again, ill say it again, if youre a democrat and running you have to defend what youve done especially if theres things out there think about the state senator from ohio state university, how easy it was for her to have a message, stand by the president but not completely. Cokie, everybody talks about money. We all know at some point its a law of diminishing returns. You look at those two returns that republicans could be shocked. You look in georgia whats happened there. They spent a lot of money but its about a guy who was outsourcing and bragging about outsourcing. Kansas, a guy that forgot to even buy an apartment in kansas at the end of the day it comes down to the blocking and tackling. There is a National Message which is as john says obama bad. Thats the two words that is a problem for democrats. But in those races you see both democrats who have run in the case of kansas and an independent that ran good campaigns and republicans who ran terrible ones. Candidates do make a difference. Michele nunn in georgia understood the real message to take was the message of 2012 which was basically a populace message. Shes running against david perdue the way obama ran against mitt romney. Now, it was easier because of his background, but it was so much smarter than these campaigns that have been about war against women and all that stuff. It was a straight economic message to the people of georgia. Thats right. All right. Then theres this. New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie. Not backing down from criticism about this confrontation with a heckler at an event marking two years since super storm sandy. Heres a little portion to remind you of what happened. Yeah. Good. Theres been 23 months since then when all youve been doing is flapping your mouth and not doing anything. So listen you want to have the conversation later im happy to have it buddy. Until that time sit down and shut up i know, sometimes you have moments where youre a little overheated and you back off and apologize. Sometimes theres a question of whether its just those of us in the corridor who thinks this wont play. I will just tell you that if i and cokie im sure your father probably would have said the same thing, if somebody i were helping somebody on their campaign and they exploded like that on the campaign trail i would pull them into my office and say if you do that one more time not only will i not support you i will yank all of my money from you. Im not talking about Chris Christie, maybe it worked forChris Christie, maybe his millionaires and billionaires like seeing him doing it. I would say in a second you do that again im yanking all support from you. Except i think people are sick to death of these hecklers. And, they do go rally, some of them. If youre going to a rally youre going to a rally and presumably are there to either support somebody or hear something. I think the hecklers do get you irritated. Having somebody call it as they see it is, might be very beneficial to that politician. Then to cokies point, there you go. Chris christie tells kasie hunt he has no regrets and no plans to change his style. Take a look. You give it youre getting it back. Up get respect you get that back. If you dont get respect ill take you out on it. Thats the way it goes. I dont calculate these things politically. This is who i am. I think most people understand that. Someone stands up yelling and
screaming, its not just appropriate to do and i wont sit there. Would you encourage your kids into the behave like that towards other people. No. I wouldnt encourage my kids to go a public event and scream at a public official and treat a public official with disrespect and the audience with disrespect. If they didnt do that there would be no reason for anybody else to react like the way i reacted yesterday. Politics 101. You dont scream at people to shut up. Thats what i would tell somebody. I would say i have been surprised by just like i said a couple of days ago a lot of my liberal friends who supported quarantines an of course we see the poll the next day a lot of my liberal friends, i like him. Maybe hes the antipolitician. Guys say you cant do that thats not polite. I dont know. Maybe americans are so sick and
tired of blow dried politicians maybe they are cool with that. Thats been his appeal he wasnt like other politicians. Hes amped it up. Hes in warp speed. Like star trek. He shoots into space. He did. We sat here 24 hours ago and we were first reacting to this tape in a asked me what i thought. I said do you think for a second Chris Christie woke up this morning and had any regrets about that. You saw the answer. He done regret that. Thats his style. Take it or leave it. Theres a new poll out last week that shows his Approval Rating at 41 which is down from where its been historically. Is it wearing thin, i dont know. Maybe it will work in 2016. I have never seen that work in any president ial campaign. Its so magnified. Joe, weve talked about this before. Chris christie will not be president so its not a problem. The Republican Party is not going to nominate him. And thats where we are. But, you know, this kind of bullying business, i think its probably working in maine, for instance. That nursing maine may reelect the governor because, you know i understand what shes doing. Shes saying, you know, its the science and thats why i refuse to be quarantined it doesnt make any sense. Hes saying you get in that house girl and i think thats probably work forge him. Oh, my lord that guy is a character. Well talk about that later. Cokie is right. The nurse is playing right into his hands, science be damn. Thats how people feel. Certainly 80 . Undecided voters in New Hampshire are weighing their options after the final debate
between jean shaheen and scott brown. The latest poll shows senator shaheen with an eightpoint lead. They clashed on the governments response to ebola, obamacare and immigration. All of the talk after the debate was about this exchange, brown had with a panelist who was confused. What do you see going right in the economy and whats going wrong and please be specific. Youre absolutely right. Geography play as role. We have more opportunity in the south. Up north its more difficult. One of the biggest opportunities is tourism. One of our biggest opportunities is skiing. You were talking about the North Country. What do you see im talking about any place past concord the challenges of our state. Im referring to the challenges including the high Corporate Taxrate, obamacare coming in after the election. We have the challenges of high electric costs. If you go to any business in any county in our state. Thats west of concord not north. What do you see going well and whats not. I answered the question the challenge is the same in every county in our state. I tell you what, mika, we saw him realtime last night scott brown is getting killed for not knowing geography in New Hampshire. What he did it wasnt scott brown that had it wrong. After the debate the panelist apologized to brown and said the candidate was right about the county running both north and west of concord. Campaign officials for shaheen and scott brown said the candidates will visit Sullivan County later today. Come on. Come on now. If youre going to be a panelist it looked like you were trying to embarrass scott brown. Hes a pro. He apologized afterwards. He apologized on twitter. The problem is this kind of mistakes lives on. People wont see the apology. What they will see is the clip over and over again. The mistake is understandable. If i were the candidate i would be angry. Still ahead on morning joe, actor and comedian wouldnt you tell him to sit down and shut up. No i wouldnt tell my children to act that way. I might do it. Actor and comedian, aasif mandvi will be here. And fbi took down one of the most successful poker players. And this is affecting our crash test dummies. Seriously. Well explain. Well be right back. Ameriprise asked people a simple question in retirement, will you outlive your money . Uhhh. No, that cant happen. Thats the thing, you dont know how long it has to last. Everyone has retirement questions. So ameriprise created the exclusive. Confident retirement approach. Now you and your ameripise advisor can get the real answers you need. Well, knowing gives you confidence. Start building your confident retirement today. Time now to take a look at the morning papers. Well start with the boston globe. Boston is the remembering its longest serving mayor this morning. Thomas menino passed away thursday after a battle with cancer. The democrat took over city hall in 1993 and would stay there for the next two decades. Hes credited with helping bring Hitech Companies to boston and for overseeing the response to last years marathon bombing. He was in office when the 2004 red sox squad ended an 86 year dry spell to win the first of three recent world series. Tom menino was 71 years old. Mike barnacle had one of the last interviews with menino just two weeks ago. You can see it on our website. I saw him up at fenway. Such a good guy. Totally. A friend of the show. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and entire family. City of boston loved him but the country got see him during the Boston Marathon bombings. He was there. He had broken his leg. Still out front leading the effort. Great guy. The oregonian, the terminally ill that made the decision to end her life says she no longer intends to die this weekend. Brittany maynard released this emotional video yesterday announcing her plans. When people criticize me for not for not waiting longer or whatever they decided is best for me, it hurts because really i risk it every day. Every day that i wake up. And i do it because i still feel good enough. And i still have enough joy. And i still laugh and smile with my family and friends and it doesnt seem like the right time right now. But it will come because i feel myself getting sicker and its happening each week. Maynard was diagnosed with stage four malignant brain tumor in april. She moved to oregon that has a die with dignity law allowing doctor assisted suicide. She originally planned to die on november 1st. As you heard at the end of the video she will do it sometime down the road because she feels herself getting sicker. Atlanta journal constitution crash test dummies are getting a look as re