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A lot of backbiting there every times you have a new cal chur, things happen. I learned off book out called obsessed this may and somebody else will have a book out next may and going to lift a lot of material. Stop it. Way too early, what time is it, Mike Barnicle . Time for morning joe. But right now, its time for our old pal, chuck todd. Chuck . Mike barnicle, was that a tuckedin shirt . Paul ryan rolls out the latest version of his budget thats liberals love to hate and conservatives cant get enough of as ryan again refines the politics of his own pitch, is he ready to move into the role of a negotiator . Meantime, president obama sets out to Court Capitol hill. His first stop is a meeting with Senate Democrats, a group thats already getting aggressive about potential challengers from the other side of the hill in 2014. Also this morning, if its tuesday, somebodys voting somebody and that somewhere is the vatican. Its conclave time. Catholic cardinals are officially Getting Started on picking the next pope. We are going to go live there in a few minutes. Good morning, today tuesdayer, march 12, 2013. Now chuck todd and the daily rundow rundown. Thanks to chuck slaney, the guitar player. We will get sitar player am so the point. The first time in three years, house budget chairman paul ryan will unveil a budge threat morning that will kick offer a debate over spending and Budget Priorities here in washington. Each time he has done this, ryan has tried to get the poll takes little better for himself. Two years ago, ryans budget didnt include a traditional fee for Service Medicare plan as an option, he was attacked. Last year, he did it. Last year, his budget didnt balance until about 2040. Conservatives werent happy. This year it balances in ten years. Ryan offers this preview in todays wall street journal. The most important question isnt how we balance the budget, its why a budget saturday means to an end and the end isnt a neat and tiedny spreadsheet. Its the well being of all americans by giving fam stability and protecting them from tax hikes, our budget will promote a healthier economy. Heres the how in ryans budget that balances in ten years by the year 2023. He claims savings of 4. 6 trillion over the next decade. But he couldnt have gotten to the balanced budget without two things that president obama did to, well, adjust the baseline, as they call it in budget jargon, tax increases part of the end of the year fiscal cliff deal and that medicare savings after cuts to providers in the president S Health Care plan, the Affordable Care act. That last fact has already infuriated liberals who remember the months ryan and mitt romney spent attacking the president on just those specific medicare cuts. 716 funneled out of medicare by president obama. Obama care takes 716 billion. Changing the program forever. The romney ryan plan will restore medicare funding and protect and strengthen the program for the next generation. Well, they are not restoring those cuts. Ryan and House Republicans are matching forward as if the 2012 election didnt happen. His budget is a lot like his last two and doesnt seem to offer much room for compromise it tries to repeat Affordable Care act. It transz sitions medicare to a voucher or support program by 2024. Ryan does eliminate tax loopholes and deductions but does not use those revenues to pay down the debt. Instead, consolidating the tax coated into two tax brackets, 10 and 25 . His budget pushes approval of the keystone pipeline, raises the question as Senate Democrats prepare their own budget and president obama continues his Charm Offensive is ripe capable of cutting a deal, is this budget intended to start the covering . Perhaps not. Perhaps this is just for base republicans. Ryan himself voted against simpson boles, hasnt reached across the other side when it comes to budget negotiation, not been one of those players, instead, in charge of staking out the House Republican position. There any incentive for him to change this approach for now . Well, today, tomorrow now, Senate Democrats will release their budget for the first time in four years. The president begins three days of trips to the hill at 1 30 today when he meet wet Senate Democratic caucus. If this was supposed to be a week of kumbaya, think again, democrats without a barrage of attacks hitting ryan and folks 2014 Republican Senate candidates on his budget plan and republicans are firing back. Both parties seem more enthusiastic about attacking each others budget than running on their own, by the way. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee is going after sitting House Republicans who are potential Senate Candidates in 2014, who voted for ryans past budgets, who think of people or people like arkansass tom cotton cast a vote the first time this year. The committee will say in a release this morning that these members are forcing seniors to pay more out of their pockets for health care, drastically cut funding for jobcreating Infrastructure Projects and making college more expensive by slashing pell grants and financial aid. The top two republicans in the senate both up for reelection, much more more whiched about challenges from the right than the middle, republican leader Mitch Mcconnell and republican whip john cornyn. Want to make an example of a losing candidate, denny reberg, tried to argue that ryan can be a drag even in red states. Democratic congressional Campaign Committee is urging voters 50 and older to call out paul ryan. The nrcc fund raising off the budget rollout, offering first this dinner with ryan and republicans are going after 19 freshman House Democrats they feel are vulnerable on the idea that there isnt a balanced budget in congress saying this, the time has come for members to speak out against their partys disastrous economic proposals. And the titular head of the party, rnc chairman Reince Priebus is comparing the president to a used car salesman. We hold used car salesmen to Higher Standards i think than we hold this president this is sort of our lemon law and obama care or obama promised that people would be able to keep their doctors, they cant. Thats false. He promised that the costs of health care would go down. Its false. We need a lemon law. Top capitol hill source tell us there will be some friction and skepticism on liberals on just what the president is up to on a grand bargain when it comes to the budget. Yesterday, spokesman jay carney did try to lower expectation. Mistaking the meetings for budget negotiation, he is meeting with, i guess, folksily 535 lawmakers. So, i wouldnt expect that they are gonna trade paper on numbers. So, how much does all this impact the chance of a grand bargain . Theres all of this back and forth and back and forth where the politics of this gets jind up. Every other time ryans come out with a budget plan, the white house has kicked things into campaign gear, are they going to do that again this time . Interesting to see what the president base is the ryan budget today. Compare that to what he had dont first two times rhine put out a budget. Keep an eye on what call a sideshow developing in the talking point wars between the two parties, the battle to own the word balance. Balanced budget versus balanced approach. Democrats have used balanced approach as a buzz phrase to signal that republicans are uncompromising. Republicans hope to use the idea of a balanced budget to show that democrats arent serious about the debt. It is tuesday, there is an election somewhere. It is a unique election, the 115 cardinal elect hours to will choose the next pope started their day early this morning as they prepared for the start of the conclave. One by one, they added to vaticans hotel where they will stay for the duration of this process. They are getting sequestered, essentially. The cardinal attended a morning mass at st. Parties basilica to pray for guidance. [ chanting ] the mass included all the cardinals, only those younger than 80 will be included in the conclave. Those electors will file into the sistine chap until a few hours, then shut themselves in. At least one vote is expected before the cardinals call it a night. Our own Chris Jansing is following all of this for us from the vatican. She has been there a couple of times, there was for the last conclave. I cant believe its only been eight years between the last conclave and this one. So chris, whats the mood, is it a lot of anticipation in the air, a lot of nervousness . What is it . Reporter i think both those things. Certainly anticipation. People cant stop talking about it everywhere you go, whether its a roman who wants to weigh in or the thousands of members of the media. I think theres a little bit of anxiety. The members of the college of cardinals have been here for a couple of weeks now and over the weekend, a number of them were already expressing they wanted to get this thing going already. But if there was one overwhelming feeling, i think, chuck it has to be surprise because when i was here a couple weeks ago from pen to Pope Benedict stepped down to now, the ground has shifted under our fee. Talking about the possibility, for example, of an african cardinal becoming pope. And now, when you look at those who are really getting a lot of buzz, i mean, we are stunned to find out from whoever we talked to in the international media, doing a restaurant, a local italian restauranteur, they are talking about americans. So i guess when youre talking about the potential of a Cardinal Omalley or Cardinal Dolan that would certainly shake things up. We also got a little indication this morning, chuck, from a couple of cardinals how long they think this thing could go, because the last one only went 24 hours when Pope Benedict xvi was elected. And the cardinal from chile said i dont think it will be over quickly. The cardinal from south africa breeze ducts four to five days but your prediction, frankly, as good as any. Chuck . I was going to say chris, when it came to the selection of Cardinal Joseph ratzinger eight years ago, his name was out there before the conclave began but nobody was predicting the universal basically how quickly he was able to wrap up the election as he did. Every chance that we may see white smoke before we know it . Reporter i dont think we will see it today. I said if we see it today, i will fall off this balcony. Having said that down the know what the dynamics are going to be inside this radio. But i think the betting money here is certainly on no sooner than friday. They are already talking about having installation mass on tuesday, which would be the feast of st. Joseph. If you look at the last nine conclaves, if history is any guide, they go just a little more than three days, but i think whats really different, and you know this, chuck, from the last time, is that it had been decades of a papacy and so a lot of these cardinal also known each other for a long time this time, more than half of them, this is their first conclave. So, there is a sense that no one has risen to the top yet and at the same time, a lot of them are still getting a little bit of a feel for each other, chuck. The rules got changed, twothirds versus simple majority anyway. Thats right i 77 of the 115. Who will be there right after we are done here. We will hand it to you right there in the vatican. Thanks very much. From the board room to capitol hill, what can two former Business Leaders Teach Congress about broker a budget deal . In our meet the freshman series, as it continues, we got a pair, next, mary lan Democrat John delaney and montana republican, steve days. And the top job is up for grabs in the city of angels but why is no one paying atenning . We are taking a deep dive into l. A. s muted mayoral melee. First, a look ahead at todays politics planner, so you know what is going on, all the action up on capitol hill today you know my heart burns for you. Im up next, but now im singing the heartburn blues. Hold on, prilosec isnt for fast relief. Cue up alkaseltzer. It stops heartburn fast. Oh what a relief it is only hertz gives you a carfirmation. Hey, this is challenger. Ill be waiting for you in stall 5. It confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. Its just another way youll be traveling at the speed of hertz. As you know, lawmakers spend a lot of time talking about what Business Leaders want out of washington. Today, we are going to meet two new members of congress who have some firsthand knowledge, congressman john delaney is the only member of the house who has let a publicly traded company. In fact, he has led two. The democrat from marylands sixth district grew up in a blue collar household as a son of a union electrics. He started his First Company at age 30 and later sold it for nearly half a billion dollars. His Second Venture is an Investment Company that lend to small and midsized businesses. Congressman steve dane started out as an executive for Procter Gamble before turning back to the family Construction Business in bozeman, montana a few years later, the republican joined a local Software Company that eventually became one of the states largest commercial employers, now they have both joined the world of politics, happy to welcome both freshmen to the for the first time, john delaney, one of the four president s of the democratic freshman class and montana republican steve danes. Congressmen, thank you both for coming on and for agreeing to come on together, we like to have a little bipartisan back and forth here. Congressman danes, let me start with you on the ryan budget. And i do this because in montana, republican circles, it was a little bit unclear where some republicans stood. As you new york the man at the top of your ticket after mitt romney was denny reberg, the person you replaced in congress. Where did you stand on the ryan budget during your campaign . I support the ryan plan and ended up winning by 11 points in montan 1 2. I have two 94yearold grandmothers who depend on medicare every day. My folks are on medicare, very, very important that we promised our seniors that we werent going to take away these important benefits, safety net but importantly, im father of four kids and we needed to have a serious adult conversation, how to reform these systems in a responsible manner. I campaign on the fact that i have had to balance budgets for 28 years in the private sector, like families is to balance budget, businesses have to balance budgets, i think its important that the federal government balances its budget. In fact, in the state of montana, we have a balanced budget, but washington, d. C. Doesnt. Do you wish the democrats had a plan that was thought that did have a target for when there is a balanced budget, not necessarily ten years but a target date . The white house is not saying there is going to be a target date on their budget. Listen, i do think there should be a target date. The tenyear window is to some extent artificial because most the pressures on our budget come in years 11 through 20. One of the issues i have with the ryan budget, aside from some policy differences which i would consider to be substantial, is the underlying assumptions that he makes are just flawed. If youre in the private sector and you came to the table with a set of assumptions in the kind of context that his assumptions are in, people would either laugh at you whats a specific assumption . Unemployment. I havent looked hits new proposal today, in his past budgets, he has assumed that unemployment went down to a level we have never seen in this country. You can make budgets look terrific if you assume completely unrealistic assumptions. And again, in the private sector, would you never be able to get away with that, assumes unemployment goes down to levels never been at, assumes tax revenues go up, doesnt indicate how that happens but generally speaking reducing taxes and assumes Government Spending gets down to levels we have never seen even for defense by itself. What sal legitimate target date for a balanced budget before i go back to congressman danes . We have to do three things to change the trajectory. We need comprehensive entitlement reform. Im in favor of a buffet rule and we do need to be trimming expenses but have to do this in the context of realistic assumptions. Congressman daines there is one of the criticisms i from the left on the ryan budget, it doesnt really it pretends the 2012 election didnt happen s it too unrealistic, should you be proposing a budge pet, for instance that calls for the repeal of the president S Health Care plan when the guy just got reelected, affirmed by the Supreme Court, it is not going any where should you put out a more realistic budget . Montan thanks want to see a balanced budget. Its expected in their homes in their businesses, they want to see it here in washington. You look at the issues with medicare and so forth. Remember the president did not carry seniors, mitt romney carried seniors 56 to 44. Seniors understand the issues here needs to be reform sod their children and granted children have the safety net. Just come back two very different visions here today, going to be presented, a republican vision coming out of the house will balance the budget net ten years, a budget we are waiting for from the senate that has no date when it will be balanced. That specific question of whether the ryan budget should reflect more political reality when it comes to for instance, health care. The political rally is the obama care unfolds here, more and more americans not liking the consequence of this policy. Wayne gretzky said state to where the puck is going not where its at. As this unfolds, you will see the Climate Change plight clown obama care as well. But again, we got to come back to the basics here that americans want to see a balanced budgets, responsible budget and thats what is going to be revealed today by paul ryan and the budget team. All right. Congressman delaney, what does a grand bargain look like . What are some things that you think your party is going to have to come to grips with, if they want to get some taxes out of republicans, what do you think that your party is going to have to agree to . I think we will have to lead on entitlement reform. What does that mean . A specific plan . I think what we should do is several things. First thing, we should means test. Second thing we should raise the cap on social security. Thirdly, we should increase retirement age, maybe not for those people who do manual labor but everyone else and fourth, change the way we calculate the cost of living adjustment. A long way from where the president s. If you look at the numbers, actually engage in a serious analysis with the budget, the issue i have with congressman ryans budget, it is not serious, based on assumptions just not realistic, it is not legitimate, intellectually or financially kind of integrity document, full. I think what we have to do is, first, do those things i said on entitlement. The president is not there but i think where democrats need to go when we layer in additional revenues for things like the buffet rule and then leak at spending for both discretionary and defense, i think we can start coming one the right trajectory for our budget and have a date that it balances in the future. The American People do want the budget to balance but they also want their representatives to be honest with them, the assumptions embedded in the budget. Right now the congressman congressman ryans budget doesnt have honest assumptions. Congressman danes, a grand bargain, what are some things you think your party is going to have to come to grips with if you are going to get the entitlement reform, for instance that a lot of republicans like too see . The good news, hearing from john today and me as well, as two freshmen, we want to sit down at the table and have a serious discussion about reforms in these important systems. Lets remember, we have not seen a budget come from the democrats on the senate side for nearly four years, since the ipad was invented is the last time we saw a budget for the senate. Finally going to have numbers we can sit down at the table, look at responsible, meaningful reforms and come up with a bipartisan solution here that will preserve the system for current seniors and save it for the next generation. Could you be open to tax increases, if thats what it takes . You know exrevenues to the federal government and fiscal 2014 are going to be an alltime record level at 3 trillion. The cbo report came out just this last week, so, theres enough revenue, wither back to percentages of gdp of revenue 40year historical norms much the issue is on the spending side, not about taking more dollars out of hardworking americans pockets, its about finding ways to reduce spending, become more efficient, innovations in washington just like we do in the private sector. I got to leave it there one thing very quick. It is not you get the last word. Not legitimate to say revenues are alltime record levels, talking about revenues in an absolute context. As a percentage of our economy, they are actually at alltime low level he is. And thats all that matters. Again thats what i am talking about when i say the representatives need to be honest with the American People, the drive others of our budget. Im going to leave it there. Congressman danger i gave you the first word, congressman delaney, the last word. Having a great discussion, i want to continue it but the demands of television. I got to pay for this. Free Market Television here. Anyway, thank you both. Up next, Charlie Crist cars come back and is another romney about to enter the political stratosphere . Plus, not so fast mayor bloomberg, the big gulp gets a big victory in new yorks supersized soda fight. Why should we really care if we dont live in new york . We pretend to. Todays first trivia question, who was the First American to cast a vote for pope . The first person to tweet the correct answer to chuck todd on the daily rundown will get a shoutout. More coming up on the daily rundown. Blast of cold feels nice. Why dont you use bengay zero degrees . Its the one you store in the freezer. Same medicated pain reliever used by physical therapists. Thats chilly [ male announcer ] bengay zero degrees. Freeze and move on. I worked a patrol unit for 17 years in the city of baltimore. 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Arent paying a lot of attention. Today, a deep dive into the for the is top job in california. The runoff set may 21st after city councilman Eric Garcetti and wendy gruel finished one two last week but each failed to reach 50 of the vote. Gruel could would be the first female mayor, garcetti, the first jewish latino mayor. We are going to have difficult times, we may not always agree but we with dough agree as business and labor has im person that can lead the city of los angeles. When i become mayor, the first thing i will think about is the city of l. A. , the Services Never anyone else. The vast majority of people that didnt listen. The last weeks turnout so was low, the l. A. Times called it an embarrassment. Less than 16 cast balance lot, perhaps up to 20 when all the absentees counted. 293,000 out of citys 1. 8 million voters showed up to the polls, 90,000 more votes yet to be processed. The candidate with the most votes, garcetti, managed under 94 , 5 of l. A. s rebel jirsd voters. Thats less than show up for a rose bowl. All this in a race that was the most expensive in citys history, 19 million, roughly 65 a vote. The last time constituent had an election without an incumbent was in 2001, turnout that year, 34 , twice as high as it was last week. So, what happened . Some blame election fatigue, some blame lackluster candidates, speculation that the 59degree weather was too chilly, kept people at home in l. A. No matter what the two candidates have a lot of voters left to win photographer they can get them to the polls. So, with me now, get to show this race, one of the two candidates in the runoff, Eric Garcetti, councilman garcetti, thanks for coming on. You bet. Great to be with you, chuck. So, answer me that basic question, why isnt the city of los angeles that interested in this election . Look if washington politics is the corvette, local government is the pickup truck. It might be as sexy, the daughter take off the lot but smug need a lot. There is no question that there was exhaustion, comes so quickly after the november elections, i think a lot of people, we came to their door or called them said, wait, theres another election just a few moments later. So, breaking through is a responsibility of the candidates, also of the coverage we get. I think we probably just werent on msnbc enough and we will change it around. Eric, the other thing hurricane the other critique out there is frankly neither you more wendy gruel said a lot, this has not been a campaign filled with big ideas not a campaign, little differences between the two of you what is your big idea that is going to, in eight years, people will look back and say, boy, mayor garcetti this is what he said and transformed the city of los angeles this way . Two aspects to being mayor. First and foremost, you have to do the small thing, their call returned, problems fixed, the job in their city. The bigger ideas i have talked about the camp and the bold visions we have to bring to los angeles is how do we build a Great American city, how do we get new manufacturing here in los angeles . How do we become a global gateway in a city that speaks 200 languages and has 144 countries of origin . How do we get computer coding in all of our schools and our city, so we can have young men and women grow up, instead of a factory job, start an Internet Company here in los angeles and rethink our transportation option notice car capital of the world, a blame, place increasingly people want to have bicycles, walk place vand a great Public Transit system. These are cuttingedge things t the. You asked a lot of questions, let me ask to you answer one of them house, do you bring back manufacturing . Sure . People dont realize los angeles is the manufacturing capital of the United States but increasingly lowend manufacturing house, do we get 3d printers and those things part of the new way things are being constructed here in los angeles . How do we use the university of southern california, ucla, cal tech, three Amazing Research institutions to get that sort of innovation from the classroom to the board room and how do we make sure that we have the education at the High School Level so that science, technology, engineering, math and Art Education is part of what we teach so kids are lined up to you do that. Elections are choices so why are you a better potential mayor than wendy greuel . Im not running on anybody elses weaknesses, im running on my strengths. I represent the heart of the city, neighborhoods like hollywood and surrounding areas ten years ago down on their luck, vacant store fronts, high crime, drug dealers, prostitution on them. We have turned them around dramatically. They have gotten National Attention and they show what kind of urban renewal can look like. Second, as City Council President , i have been acting mayor over three dozen times in times of crisis, ready to hit the ground running. Then third, i bring a global vision. I used to Teach International relations. I, myself, have a mix of different back grounds and los angeles success and americas success is going to be reaching out to latino, asian immigrants, looking at the diversity of our population and positioning l. A. To take advantage of that Global Economy from latin america and asia, it will make all of america prosper. Youre trying to replace a twoterm mayor, antonio villaraigosa. What has he done well and what do you think he needs to do . What do you want to do better than he did . May ya rhea rag goes sa done a beautiful job of queue cueing up transportation, building new transit lines, getting people out of their cars and onto trains and buses, done a very good job looking up education and shake up the status quo. I want to be an implementer, somebody who brings some of these visions and make sure that they get done so that every school has a good education opportunity. We look at the funding of those schools that we dig deep into making sure that each neighborhood in los angeles is connected to a pathway to jobs and cuttingedge industries, not a criticism of what he has done, he has laid the table out nicely, i want to take it forward and make l. A. A Great American city again. Why do you think he hasnt been able to implement . Oh, i think that so much of it was 30, 4 years of neglect here. We havent built schools for 30 years, half the kids in my district couldnt attend School Inside their own neighborhood and we wonder why gang membership was high and why they felt disconnected from where they lived a long time of neg letting, he cued it up nicely, time to get the job done. Eric garcetti, councilman in l. A. , one of two candidates out for mayor. We have an invitation out for your opponent and we hope to have her on. Will the mayor make an endorsement or stay neutral in this race . We will get a chance to ask him right after this, this was total coincidence that he just happens to be in d. C. Today. He is in our gag approximately. That is next. First, white house soup of the day some of you noticed we forgot it yesterday. Todays is more interest, it is minestrone chicken sausage. Its minestrone. You know its just the great leftover is the day. Dont forget to check out the website. That grandma was the one . When her sister dumped me. 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I will tell you y i love my town. I was born and raise there had. My grand pa came there 100 years ago. A lot of great things happening there. I want to support whoever the next mayor is and i dont want anything to get in the way of that could i endorse but right now, i dont think its likely. Let me ask you this, why are neither candidate sparking enthusiasm in this race . Why is there such a low turnout, why is there such low interest . Historically, l. A. s had a low turnout. Sure. In our mayoral born and raised in miami, a lot of other things to do, too, but this is ridiculous. When i ran, it was 36 . Which would be double. Right. Okay. And i am concerned about that. I think theres a lot of naysaying going on in our town. I mean, were safer as you heard, safer than any time since 1952, aid 40 drop in violent crime. We have doubled the number of successful schools. We went from the most overcrowded school district, 227 schools on yearround calendar. Apathy . To three. A little bit of apathy, a lot of naysaying, particularly from some sources. Fair enough. Fair enough. Michael steele, let me ask you this, there was one republican in the race. What happened to all the republicans . Thats why theres apathy. 15 years ago, 15 years ago, republicans started making inroads in some of these big city races, Richard Riordan and Rudy Giuliani elected the same year and republicans making active then disappeared. Yesterday, Reince Priebus showed up in brooklyn. But the republicans loss of any connectivity to the inner city says lot, doesnt it . That is exactly right. I believe, you look at the situation in los angeles, particularly given the new rules on elections, where its supposedly nonpartisan and the top two vote getters. That means republicans, at least for the short term they have an opportunity. If you have a balanced situation, you have got eight, you know, democrats and two republicans, how do you think thats gonna turn out going into a general election . The two republicans had better be some real, you know, stars. But thats your point. The fact is we dont have the individuals groomed through the city like the mayors who come through this process and identified in a very positive way on behalf of the city that can it is interesting, Reince Priebus is putting out the big rnc autopsy and one of the things they are talking about is, well, maybe we will start funding city candidates. And this was in his q and a response to brooklyn. It is a farm understanding that where has that been the last couple generations . Michael still is champing at the bit. Technology, you look around now and say, oh, look we should be doing this and coming a little late to the party around i am sure michael will have a hang in there, buddy. I can feel him getting fired up. Yes, look at this race and where are the contenders and why should we have what seems to be a fairly boring places. Hey, very quickly, what do you think of the soda ban . Do you think cities should do things like this . I have a lot of respect for Michael Bloomberg, for taking on this issue. Would you have done it . Not that wouldnt be my approach, necessarily, but i think it is important for us to educate people about the fact that obesity and child diabetes is a very significant challenge for us across the nation. And weve got to do something about it. Stick around. I want to talk a little straightup politics after this. Trivia time. We asked who was the First American to cast a vote for pope. The answer, Cardinal James gibbons of baltimore. He voted in the 1903 conclave. That was the firstever american to have a cardinal vote there. Congratulations to todays winner, katelyn mcnamara. Email us your trivia question if youve got one at dailyrundown msnbc. Com and well be right back. 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Michael steele, laura bush borrowing a little tough talk there from her motherinlaw. That sounded almost like barbara bush. Frightened is a tough word. I think its an accurate word. And it speaks very true to what happened and how women felt about the messaging in our party and what we were saying to them. So, yeah, bravo, laura. You know, rachel, its interesting not to see more republicans havent jumped on this issue about, you know, republicans have talked about their inability to talk to is hispanics, because theyve turned them off on tone. The same thing with a lot of suburban woman. Specifically older women who were turned off on tone. And i think that was in part because there was an easy policy pivot to discuss after the election. This issue of immigration, which of all the issues in washington, sounds like one where there might be some coming together between the parties. Theres not that same sort of unifying issue on the womens vote and an obviously way to turn and speak to womens issues, although youll notice how quickly the violence against women act suddenly passed after the election. Its a good point on immigration. Like republicans try to solve their hispanic problem before their womens problem. Its not just tone, though, its platform and immigration is one of it, particularly the south deportation of 11 million people. Nobodys ever done that. But where i would disagree, theyve not only frightened people, they said something to the effect that it was just a few of them. Its a whole bunch of them. And im one of the folk s that say, by the way, its not just broken on the right, where i think its more broken, its broken on the left too. And i hope were going to talk about entitlements and sequestration, by the way. Anyway, shameless plugs. Do you have a plug for me . Plug . Plug something. The dodgers, theyll be the champions this year. Were shamelessly plugging politico crow this morning, bringing follows our politics. I like the idea of selling subscriptions. I would plug cardinal lanny davis new book, crisis tales is out now. Thats it for this edition. Coming up next, Chris Jansing, she is at the vatican. Byebye. Im meteorologist bill karins. Trying to time the rain for you in new england to be a period of heavy rain, lasting about six hours in most locations. By noon today, beginning to end end in the washington, d. C. Area, but the heaviest rain during the Daylight Hours will be from philadelphia to new jersey to new york city, up through new england. And then later this evening, that will all head through boston. Some airport delays are definitely expected with the heavy rain today. [ male announcer ] this is george. The day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain