The nfl now is reportedly focusing on a patriots locker room attendant. Already half dozen people have come forward and, well, make of this what you will. My name is Donald Odonnell mcdonald. Just off the beach. Youre welcome. Im from rossland dale massachusetts. I am the locker room guy. Take a good look, america. Im the locker room guy. I deflated those balls myself. I did it. Tom brady had nothing to do with this because he was too busy being awesome. If you dont want to believe me, theres nothing i can do to change your mind. Im turning myself . I took a little bit of air out of most of them 11 out of 12 of them. Who are you going to believe, tom brady, the greatest man of all of humanity or a bunch of twooet [ bleep ] on twitter. I acted alone. Do you know why you acted alone . Because nobody wants to act with you, because you suck . Matt damon. I think that was matt damon. I think it was. I think it was ben affleck. Good morning. Its january 30th. Today withes onset the danny deutsche. And the managing editor of bloomberg politics. You have a tie on today. Donny was informed not to have a tie on. I cant afford to have a tie on. A good governor. Is also here. He has a tie. Look at that. And the chairman of the Democratic National committee. He eats nothing but free bagels therefore he has enough money for a tie. You have this thing going on. Is there what happens when you go you know what is this . Explain. I over the holidays i just stopped shaving. Okay. Thats all you got in a month . No then its this then it
got unruly and it was like, well, if youre going to keep that thing, trim it. So i sort of like you know. If youre going to have a beard, grow a beard. If youre not, dont. She basically said man up. Man up. Talking of manning up. Washington daily, matt lewis is with us without a beard. Associate editor with the Washington Post. And the mustache. No tie. Pure stache genes. Joe, mika and willie are in phoenix getting ready for the big game. Tonight will be the first ever prime time edition of morning joe. Love that idea. Live from the side of the super bowl in phoenix. They will be joined by renowned Sports Reporters, former players, and will feature an interview with katy perry who will be headlining the halftime show. My daughter is excited about that. Dont miss the special morning joe at night tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Thats going to be great. Prime time. Barnicle is going to be there, too. I dont know why his picture is not there. Theyre trying to get viewers. Really . Its called marketing. Thats why im advertise for barnicle. Barnicle will be there and he knows his sports. Super bowl weekend is here as phoenix prepares to host the nations biggest sporting event of the year. The city expects more than a Million People over the weekend and the feds will play a major role in security. Theres been a blackhawk helicopter and giant xray machine pulled from the border to help guard this game. Something else being closely guarded, yeah, of course the super bowl footballs, especially after deflategate. The nfl says it will quote, take custody of the footballs today. Not children. Footballs. And will hand them over to officials two hours before kickoff. Were reviewing our protocol in terms of chain of custody. The officials do have the footballs up until about ten minutes prior to kickoff. And then theyre brought out to the field. So were reviewing that
protocol. So a lot of reassuring words there about the footballs in case you were worried. Donny had this problem once recently when he went into custody of this balls. Learning more about katy perry perrys halftime show. Lenny kravitz will be a guest and Missy Elliott will be the surprise guest. It was clear shes been following the news herself in the runup to this big game. I dont think im so much of an expert on the game of football but i think i can assure everyone in here that nothing in my performance will be deflated. Youre a single girl, is there somebody you have your eye on this weekend . Im just here so i dont get fined. That was a close perry quoting seahawks running back marshawn inch will andlynch. Hes kind of a jerk, to tell you the truth. Your salary gets paid by fans. Hes just a jerk. Does sound like he was a little bit dissing the friends fans. A little . The media. Media day. You pay so much money, turn up and do a press conference. He took questions from the press conference. Ask me why im here today. Why are you here today . Im just here so i dont get fined. Im just here so i dont get fined. It was a joke. I got it. Seriously. He said it 29 times. I just i just hes just a jerk. Have you seen him play . Hes a good player. Lets hear he broke his silence to slam reporters for not leaving him alone. Im here prepare for a game and yall want to ask me all of these questions, which is understandable. I could get down with that. But i told yall, im not about to say nothing. So for the remainder of my whats that three minutes, because im here, im available for yall, im here. Im available for yall, i done
talked. All of my requirements are fulfilled. So now for this next three minutes ill be looking at yall the way yall be looking at me. Thank you. I just think thats disrespectful to the media and, by the way, for a guy who doesnt want attention by doing what hes doing he gets tons of attention. And he added, did you notice the cap which is not officially a licensed nfl product. Its still unclear whether the league will now discipline him for that too. I hope youve been watching all of this. He has a great charity, a foundation that he can i like sports and i really dont like the hoopla and the leadup to it. I dont like any of it until the kickoff. Are you watching the game . Of course. Is it true the fine for not showing up for media day is 500,000 500,000 . I think they make him show up. I dont think its that much. Well look it up. Will he get fined for the hat, too . Oh, yeah. 20,000, 25,000, Something Likethat. He has a great charity. Marshawn lynch does foundation. Use that time to talk about your foundation, drum up more support like he did for the skittles press conference he gachl gave that was goofy and funny and they put it in front of the walking repeat of skittles but he made a lot of cash for his foundation. Quickly, picks, picks, picks. I got to go with the seahawks. Hawks. Seahawks. I hate the patriots but i think its patriots. Seahawks. Okay. Whoa. You heard it first. Lets give get the washington pick. Seahawks i think seahawks. Matt . Go with the cheaters im going with the patriots. With fully inflated balls, presumably. You know anybody who is mad at Marshawn Lynch, by the way, should try to tackle him, okay . Thats not an easy thing to do. We can take him out physically, that doesnt mean he has an excuse to not answer questions. Politics. Lindsey graham has said dont count him out in the run to 2016. Now hes showing that hes more serious than many people have thought. Hes forming a committee called security through strength that could inject Foreign Policy into a race thats shaping up to be predominantly about the middle class and the economy. Hes also been ahead of the curve with strategists in his home state of South Carolina where the third early primary of the cycle will of course take place. Meanwhile, in the water start up for the potential run, jeb bush grabbed a romney Senior Adviser who could help him make gains in iowa. If bush goes all in david kochel will reportedly serve as his campaign manager. Most recently he consulted for senator joni ernst of iowa. And the Associated Press reports some former romney donors are starting to lineup behind jeb as well, thats got to hurt saying things they liked about romney they see in jeb and that they took romney at his word when he said he would not run again. Romney himself is expected to hold a Conference Call with backers today. Then theres senator rand paul who is taking an aggressive a poach to social media mocking would be competitors in names like this one. Yesterday he released what he calls a secret tape of a, quote, phone call between jeb and hillary. Well, its true. Im thinking about run for president. Well, jeb, so am i. I just wanted to call and give you a heads up in hopes we could work something out. What do you mean jeb, its clearly my turn. Bush clinton, bush. Now clinton. Well, hillary, there hasnt been a Republican White House without a bush since 1977 and were ready to be back. Let me shoot straight with you, jeb. Bill and i are dead broke. We need a place to stay. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is calling me home. Maybe we can work something out. We both agree on so many issues. Bigger government, common core and amnesty for Illegal Immigrants. Well, weve both got problems. Youve got problems with grass roots and ive got all of those damn conservatives. Whats say we make a deal. Sorry, hillary, i have to go. Mitt keeps calling. Matt lewis grinning away there in washington. Okay. I thought the hillary impersonation obviously much better than the jeb. Yeah. They got to find a good jeb, you know . I dont know how you do him. Its easier to do bush in this. Jeb is tougher to do. I think its funny. You know who knows how long at some point we have to talk you know, rand has to have sub substance substance. I thought it was clever at this point in the race. It does illustrate a point about jeb bush being cozy the bushes getting cozy with the clintons. And frankly, on some issues like common core and immigration
reform not being terribly far apart. John, obviously in 30 years weve only had one race that hasnt had a bush or clinton. Clearly Hillary Clinton weve seen her for many years. Jeb bush has the familiar name yet he himself has been absent from public eye for ten years. Is there a distinction . Yeah. The biggest distinction is that he is someone who has been out of public life for a long time. To the extent he was in public life, florida, not a National Figure. Shes been an omnipresent National Figure in our political life since 1992 or before 1992. The peoples sense of her is fully formed. Generally in the country. And then theres the fact in the two parties, very different situation. She is now she widely favored by Many Democrats enthusiastic about her. She will have some problems. We talked about them various issues she has to overcome. Shes got a glide path to being the nominee. Hes got a fierce hotly
contested, m situation. Theyre in different situations and different situations in how well the country knows help. Donny, youre a brand guy. If jeb gets the nomination and its bush clinton does he then negate all the questions that might be surrounding her about go hawking back to the past if. No i think theres a tremendous distinction. Hillary and i have said this often and i like hillary, i just think theres such a fatigue there. The problem she also has is whenever she comes out of the gate its post carnation. The media is ready to pounce. Its been too easy for you. Jeb, when you come on we lean in. We havent seen him. I want to hear what he has to say. Even though the names are familiar i think she much much much more in a position of being the one ho seems tired and totally opposite side. Of course you do. Well, i take it not just for political reasons but also because the analysis is my analysis is this and this is why
i supported her early. I think the country is really worried. Nothing has been done in washington that is essentially a capital, a failed entity. And i think people are going to want somebody who is steady and predictable and who they know and that is only Hillary Clinton. I also think ill milwaukee my first prediction, electoral prediction of this season. I dont think the jeb bush wins iowa. If he ones he will get the nomination but hes going to get beat up a lot in the Republican Party. The big question is what is the message of a Hillary Clinton and i think that is yet to be defined. Let me ask you, gene it seems as if the run for the white house is like getting in greek life on american campuses. Youre a legacy pledge. Youre a legacy pledge its going to be a lot easier for you. Weve got a bush, a clinton. We can throw rand paul into the mix because of his dad. Mitt romneys father was in politics. Why cant we get some fresh names in the batch that are legitimate that have a good
chance to do something for this country from the white house . You know thats a very good question. I get asked that question a lot. Travel to give a speech or Something Like that and people you know just regular americans just ask why dont we get a why all bushes and all clintons and nobody else. And romney back in. So its a very good question. Im not sure i have an answer. I do have a question for donny, which is just on a pure brand level like coke versus pepsi, just the name and the association, which is more toxic, do you think . Whose name hurts him or her more clinton or bush . I think if you just thats a great question. If you just take the name just as words, if you will i think bush right now because were still eight years away from w. We know kind of how that ended. The name itself. But then you put the visual on and we have a visual medium. You look at television and you
lean in, when you see those two faces, hillary, i just think its been too many years. I want to change the channel. Jeb, hey, wait a second this jeb guy i heard about him kind of heard good things about him. Havent seen him. Havent listened to him. We just see names, its bush. Dont you think both have big onuses around their necks because if we hear bush were automatically going to go to people bringing up the photos of abu ghraib that radicalized them about iraq or get into benghazi because of Hillary Clinton. Matt, you can talk about this because it seems as if mitt romney was the only strength he has coming out of his run is what he was saying about Foreign Policy. Health care social issues the economy. He wasnt as authentic as he needed to be but on Foreign Policy it resonates that he did well on in his campaign. Yeah he was right about a lot of things geopolitical things about russia actually being a geopolitical foe. Mitt romney deserves credit for having been right and mocked frankly during the 2012 president ial election despite the fact that he was right about a lot of things. Look, i think this larger discussion, this lashlger erlarger debate is actually happening within the conservative movement. I think theres a huge a huge problem where conservatives dont want another bush. And where they you look to people like scott walker who no one had heard of a few years ago, didnt not even a college graduate. Someone like marco rubio, the son of immigrants did not go to an ivy league school. So i think that there are conservatives out there who dont have these legacy names, who didnt go to yale or harvard. I wouldnt be surprised to see one of them emerge and become the nominee. I think matt i was going to ask matt this question. I think the two candidates right now who are getting altitude and
who knows how this will turn out to be but at the moment theyre getting altitude all of a sudden after the last weekend in iowa and the retreat in california with the Koch Brothers or marco rubio or scott walker for the reason that new names, new faces. People who look like the future. One a governor who has proven tested conservative, won elections, three elections. In wisconsin and marco rubio who is maybe one of the most gifted communicators in the party. They will have a tough fight against the financial prowess if mitt romney runs, jeb bush runs. I think there is a substantial part of the Republican Party that is looking around for a nonlegacy. Which is why the field is still so broad. I remember interviewing jeb bush and he said Say Something odd about the gene pool of america. 300 plus Million People and we come up with people from the same family. Jeb bush is theks next thing you know we will look like england. Wasnt there a reason a couple hundred years ago we had a disagreement overdo mess tick rule . Like it or not, jeb bush is our next president. Still ahead here on morning joe, Actor Kevin Costner is going to be here and beth stern joins us. Plus, its mikas daughters birthday today and we have a big surprise coming up in just a bit. Then its been 30 years since comedian eddie murphy appeared on saturday night live. Is that about to change . 30 years. First, heres bill karins and the check of the forecast. Bill, are we going to have a nice weekend . Yes . No. No . No. That was the bottom line. Its going to be snowing or bitterly cold in the northeast. Take your pick. Lets get into the forecast because were in the midst of the worst of our winter were weather. Storms. Two storms on the map. One is the snow this morning. A lot of School Delays in new england about one to two inches in numerous location . You can get to your destination, just be careful. The other storm is going to be the one thats going to move across the country over the weekend and bring in some snow. Theres a look at the radar. Not too bad. Snow in maine. Maine will get the worst of this storm as we go throughout tonight into tomorrow morning. The storm cranks up. Portland northwards is the heavy snow. Everyone else can deal with a little bit. Sunday we start to watch the snow. Iowa illinois, indiana. By the time we get to sunday the storm is a little bit off the coast into monday but i still think we have a chance of getting three to six inches somewhere between philly new york cape cod. Well have to watch that. That timing will be monday morning at this time. A little slippery morning commute or you to deal with as you start your workweek after the super bowl, which, by the way, forecast looks great for sunday. Leave you a shot of new york city where the windchills saturday morning will be negative five. Keep that in mind for your saturday plans. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. How