turn them against us. to hurt us down the road. thank you. thank you. wow! what the hell was that? on foreign policy, it appears that all that s left for the presidential race is one model. i mean, at least we still get our choice of color, but it s the same model! severe agreement. top of the hour, good morning, everyone. it s 6:00 on the east coast, wednesday, october 24th. welcome to morning joe. a little tired, barnicle? yes. you look tired. with us on set, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. and in washington, not looking tired at all, bbc world news anchor katty kay. why is it say washington? we re damn tired. i tell you what. why don t you take over, joe. it s almost like she s here. out of star trek. yeah. can i just say, though is he in chicago or is he here? we have mark halperin, of course, right here, right across the table. you know, if a lot of people out there are wondering why mika s thrown off this morning, all you need to do, w
reporter: in the first state of the union address of his second term the state of our union is strong. reporter: president obama made a direct challenge to congress. let s get this done. reporter: as he laid out his vision for the country, the president repeatedly called on democrats and republicans to act. the american people don t expect government to solve every problem. but they do expect us to put the nation s interests before party. reporter: it all came on the same day speaker john boehner called the president out for not having the courage or guts to make tough choices on the budget. the president used the power of the podium to push back. some in congress have proposed preventing only the defense cuts. by making even bigger cuts to things like education and job training. medicare and social security benefits. that idea is even worse. reporter: as is typical of most state of the union addresses, the president covered lots of ground. our first p
allow funding for obamacare, a vote for cloture is a vote for obamacare. good morning. say what you will. we have been critical of him for this strategy but when you lay down the gauntlet you have to respect it. a vote for cloture is a vote for obamacare. you don t have to agree all the time. voted against it all the time. wait, look what happened. i m sorry. i don t understand. what? he vote d for it. but he said a vote for cloture was a vote for obamacare. the vote was 100-0. could someone have miscounted? got confused? he wanted to vote for his own bill. that was his bill. i thought he didn t like green egg s and ham. he voted for it. it s thursday, september 26 he ended up supporting a vote on the bill he supported before but tried to fake filibuster. i it s so hard. we have different score cards going on. maybe it s because i uh went to lesser ivies. not yale or princeton. number one team in the country. that s where i went. alabama.
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here s our little storm system that came through a little earlier today. notice the clearing skies. earlier this morning the storm brought about an half inch to an inch, some areas along 1 1/2 inches. out towards portions of delaware picking up 4 to 6 inches. we barely missed out, but this storm is out of here, and in behind it very windy conditions and cold conditions. take a look at the current wind gusts. 32 in leesburg, 30 in manassas, 30 back towards martins burg. very windy conditions, with cold air, and you talk windchills. look at these windchills right now, 16 in washington, 16 in frederick. 9 in winchester, 19 in culpepper. w50e6g9 a couple chances of snow. i ll talk more about that later. anne arundel cow executive john leopold has resigned effective immediately. it come at least day after being suspended from his high-profile job when a judge found him guilty. he ll be sentenced march 14th. leopold found guilty earlier this week. and for yew members of his staff