Everybody. Did you know its president s day . Oh, my what . The kids are home. Yes, they are. With us onset, msnbc and Time Magazine senior political analysis mark halprin and john heilman. Hi, willie. Hi, is this holiday casual . Shoutout to millard filmore. He wore that to the second state of the union. Thats fantastic. Your favorite president is . Can you say it . Kind of a big g. W. Guy. What . George washington. Oh. Number one. What about you, john . Growing up, who was your hero . I liked lincoln. I was a fan of Teddy Roosevelt the man. I dont know if hes the best president who ever lived, but the man. You liked the mustache a lot. Among other things. Minka . I might go with calvin coolidge. I was a big harry truman and Ronald Reagan fan. One started the cold war, one ended it. I thought harry truman was to fascinating because he was so unpopular when he left office. Everything he did from 45 to 50 shaped our world. And a regular guy. My mom, for them, it was all fdr, fdr fdr was
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kids could play. on the month anniversary of the sandy hook slaughter. the commercial going after the president s kids. wayne lapierre did more to damage the nra than any democrat or liberal could ever do. he totally did. i can t imagine anybody who would look at his performance and say, well, that was produ productive for the nra. it just wasn t. he hurt himself and his organization. again, i saw david kaine last week on, i think, anderson. did a very good job. very rational explanation. there is a debate there. there s a real debate over universal background checks. there s a real debate over all these issues, but the nra hasn t had it because wayne lapierre has been so extreme. all right. chuck todd, thank you very much. bob woodward, thank you so much as well. coming up, tens of thousands gather on washington s national mall to call on president obama to reject the keystone pipeline oil deal, but will this
0 no, you can t have those. you re supposed to have your greek yogurt. i m trying to make a point with a visual aid. this is like defense spending. done. gone. before the day has even started, you ve just give those to me. i m not homer simpson. what do you make of what woodward said? the president s in charge. he s got to figure out a way to stop the sequester. i think the symbolism of the last couple weeks haven t been great. he s not really out there leading a new path towards figuring out how to avoid something he says is a bad idea and promised as a candidate wouldn t happen. okay. john, joe s mouth is full. what do you think? i m hap think the sequester be a bad thing. everyone says that. who s going to take the blame? who should? if it ends up going into effect, i think they re all going to take a lot of blame and they should. it s fair enough to say, if bob s reporting is right, that the idea originated in the white house. but it did get agreed to by congres
that i can go around the university and talk to students. to go to the university of baghdad and has an english and had english language students talking about how the would like to have more distance learning opportunities with american universities, i have seen a few memoranda of understanding with american universities and they have not been implemented and i plan to be in touch with those universities to get them moving. these are not just for signing ceremonies. these are to get something done. the education system for iraq has a proud history and that needs to be revitalized. that is a good fit for with the u.s. can do and the key thing to what we are to win on the strategic framework agreement. iraq already has the largest program in the region but we have to do more. a lot of this will be possible when we get security. security. i m with al-jazeera. mr. ambassador, you did mention to coalitions have recently agreed on a code of conduct with the election. despite t