pittsburgh, central new york up into new england, not blockbuster amounts, maybe three to six inches or so, freezing rain mixed in there, too. the timing on that is saturday. thank you, bill. coming up on morning joe the speaker versus the tea party, john boehner s anger toward his fellow conservatives could impact republican strategy and when we come back here we have around the cooler jimmy kimmel finally reveals what this guy was actually signing at the mandela memorial this week. way would early will be right back. [ male announcer ] for every late night, every weekend worked, every idea sold. you deserve a cadillac, the fastest growing full-line luxury brand in the united states. including the all new 2014 cadillac cts, motor trend s 2014 car of the year. now during our season s best event, get the best offers of the season on our award winning products, like the 2014 ats and srx.
with somebody who is keeping americans in prison? critics of the castro regime say a friendly greeting with raul sends the wrong message. shaking this man s message is an overt endorsement of fidel. you can t to that. that s why fdr never shook hands with kevin hitler. pretty nice guy, by the way. now the fake sign language controversy from the mandela memorial made its way to the late night comics and jimmy kimmel brought in a real interpreter to figure out what the alleged signer was saying. let s watch this guy and tell us what he seems to be signing, if anything at all. with he applaud you and thank you for this. hello, welcome so far. well, cigarettes join, bringing in different to you, a circle.
gibberish within arm s length of president obama and many other leaders at the mandela memorial. it s thursday, december 12th, 12-12-2013. we will begin with a split on the budget. the deal hammered out by paul ryan has opened up a new front or frankly reopened up an old front in the ongoing civil war between the within establishment and conservative groups. yesterday started with the revenge of the establishment when john boehner did something we haven t seen him do before. he lashed out at the conservative interest groups opposing the deal. most major conservative groups had statements blasting this deal. the groups that came out and opposed it before they saw it. those groups. are you worried? they are using the members and the american people for their own goals. this is ridiculous.
to deliver that, when he can t get it done, has been nancy pelosi. i think we re going to see that pattern again. and i think probably with unemployment insurance, you know, in walking to one former aide, they said, well, generally what happens is, if you don t pass it, people go home, constituents scream. they come back. and then they re willing to pass something on unemployment insurance. now, that s horrible policy-making and horrible for the people who will, a few days after christmas, lose their unemployment benefits. but it sounds like that s where we are in terms of this level of dysfunction. msnbc s karen finney. i thought you were going to be here at 30 rock. it s enthusiast. you need to be here. okay. i m going to be there in time, i promise. all of you can watch karen s show each saturday and sunday 4:00 p.m. eastern. karen, great to see you. thank you. good to see you. so the line language interpreter who caused outrage after his performance at the mandela memoria
hours in the air with 150 other people, it is just common sense that we all keep our personal lives to ourselves and stay off the phone. but he s also being criticized by small governmento say he s pa legislative solution to what should be the airlines problem to solve. jon, back to you. jon: you know, we ve been flying airplanes for 110 years, and somehow we ve gotten by without cell phone conversation. i vote that we keep it up. reporter: i agree with you. i m there. jon: doug mckelway in washington. jenna: speaking of common sense, we re getting new information on a story we brought you yesterday, a south african cabinet minister is now saying the company which supplied the sign language interpreter at nelson mandela s memorial service is nowhere to be found. patti ann brown, do you know where he is? [laughter] reporter: i wish i did, jenna, but there are a lot of developments but not a lot of answers in this bizarre case. during tuesday s mandela memorial, a man on stage was