thank you all. thank you all for being with us. if you're out holiday shopping get my new book "tipper and the gipper." see you monday night at 7:00 eastern for more "hardball." good morning, it's friday, november 29th. i hope everybody had a great thanksgiving. >> i'm stuffed. >> are you? >> i ate so much, i wore a sweater today. how rare is it for you guys to see me wear a sweater. i ate so much. >> yeah. suspended. i'm celebrating tonight. >> really? >> fantastic. >> we have sam stein in

washington, d.c. happy hanukkah to you. >> thank you. >> did you have a good thanksgiving, sam? >> yeah better hanukkah, first night, a lot of presents, latkas with the turkey. >> do you know what at that dreidle is? >> of course i do. i got mike barn cal here, chairman of donny deutsch, inc. >> and we're all a little bit loopy. >> turkey. >> makes you crazy. >> turducken. >> turkey wrapped with duck and chicken. >> throw a drum stick at one of the in-laws.

>> and the drinking. my brother-in-laws fry the turkeys with a fifth bush mill and they are done. >> sam, as we move forward, obviously a lot of water under the bridge. a very rough year for the president. and let's talk about what's going to be happening over the next month. because this has been -- it's been some would say disastrous year but he has things that will hold together. what can the president accomplish between now and december 31st? >> well, not much. there's not much time. he doesn't have much momentum behind his back. you hit the nail on his head. remember where we were and what we were talking about after the election. we were talking about the possibility of immigration, advancing health care, gains in the foreign policy, draw down on afghanistan. virtually little of that if any

has happened. the administration has been beset by scandals, set backs, misadministration of health care and healthercare.gov. what we've seen for the past couple of months is the administration jumping from crisis to crisis. the administration will focus on these budget talks in mid-december. make a push for more economic growth, less austerity. he has an ability to make moves. on the policy front he's limited. >> donny deutsch, we talk about the republican brand it's been battered. but it's more disperse. the president's numbers have collapsed. they are as low as bush's was after katrina. what in the world does he do 0 to turn it around not just this year but moving forward. >> his personal numbers have dropped. >> why is that?

>> american people feel they were misled. they will put up with a lot. they won't be told there's weapons of mass destruction and they are not. they won't be told you can keep their insurance and they can't. >> was that the worst part noirm. we see these approval ratings from cbs, 37%. brand wise -- >> it was that promise and obviously the disastrous launch. look, if you have a car line u-have seven or eight cars, the badge car that sets the tone for the entire line. health care was it. that was his badge. he put it all in black and it just -- it's not the website. it was the flaws in the legislation. >> that's right. >> his presidency as was w's defined by the iraq war and the failure. >> this was his signature. >> this was it. nothing he's going to do that will change that. >> sam says not much can happen. i tell you if they work on the foreign policy front, and they have some successes there, and

all the while somehow effectively get people signed up for that plan and fix some of the glitches, maybe. >> afc cynic earlier in the week, wow, what an interesting week to come forward with the whole -- >> you say you're cynic because the president has low approval ratings. >> i'm just saying it was interesting timing. all of a sudden the discussion left obama care. >> there's this culture of extensions that he's now defining him. you extend the deadlines on obama care, the iran deal is a six month extension. the budget deal is all about kicking the can down the road. we're pushing everything further down the road. nothing is getting done. >> while you push the can down the road i want to ask sam about this. sequestration really cut into a lot of things over the past month. it's going to be even more cutting as we proceed without any budget deal. so, sam, right now, you got 535 members of congress, house and

senate, they are home. they are talking to people who, many of whom have been damaged by sequestration. we don't fwakt a lot and it's hard to visualize on tv that relies on pictures but badly damaged a lot of people. what are the prospects for this kicking in and even cutting further and more deeply into people's lives? >> problems aspects are pretty strong. i talked to a medical researcher about this for one of my pieces and he called sequestration a cancerous tumor. it gets worse over time. a lot of agencies just basically pushed all the administrative cuts as far back as they could during the first year. they used emergency funds to prolong the pain. if this thing doesn't get reversed by early january the cuts get exceptionally worse. agencies have to start laying people off. they will have to do more furloughs. cutback on a lot of problems. the pain that's being felt is going to get worse. good news for people worried

about this each party recognizes the problem. each party wants to do something about it. they don't like the cuts to nih, they don't like cuts to research or head start. how do you pay for it? how do you get money to do sequestration relief. that's where the two parties are at odds. i found some occasion they found an agreement but the devil is in the details. can they get to an agreement or kick the can down the road? >> what do you think happens in the republican party given their traditional reliance on terms of defense strength, what happens if there are further cuts by sequestration into the defense budget at the same time that most political people in washington, a lot of people around the country are talk about the iranian -- >> right. >> what happens? >> good point. the republicans hate sequestration right now as the democrats do. we got this december 13th deadline coming up, mike, and i just wonder, i find it hard to

believe republicans will stumble that into that again. but is it not fascinating what brian just said talking about kicking the can down the road. kicking the can down the road on the budget deal. kicking the can down the road on one issue after another. this is a government of -- you know -- >> indecisiveness. >> they run crisis by crisis by crisis. >> that whole concept of leadership we talk quite a bit about. it will take a president -- only president that's kicked the can down the road when it comes to the budget issue and debt issue. you have to have a president not concerned about these other elements and wants to do something good for the country and we haven't seen that in a long, long time out of any president. >> what happens if we have yet another government shutdown or another crisis -- i just wonder. the approval rating in washington -- i mean has there ever been as much discussed with

washington as there is now? >> no. we just referenced president obama's poll numbers, you know, collapsing in terms of character, in terms of who he is. that has just brought him back to the pack sort of but still well ahead of the pack. he's still well ahead of the congress. >> republicans lowest approval ratings. >> they might as well keep doubling down and make sure nothing happens because they will gain from that. >> this is good news for the chris christies of the world. people want something different. every politician going forward is running as an outsider. no matter how inside you are, to the fact we have a 9% congressional approval rating, somebody who doesn't feel and look and talk like a traditional politician is going to be our next president. >> you say people will be looking for something different. i'm sure in the mindset that is there, but the big thing is it's going to be whatever people are confronted with in terms of

every day employment by their employer. can you get it done? that's what chris christie, that's what every politician will be asked running for whatever. can you get it done. >> do you know how many people said in the last month i'll never vote for another senator or congressman again for president because they don't think they have the wherewithal to lead. governors are now the hot thing. >> the last senator that was president was jfk. >> sam, i really do think, those senators that are talking about running in 2016, especially is republican senators have been damaged by the past two months of chaos on capitol hill. whether they were directly involved or not there's no way around it they have been damaged by that, they have been damaged by president obama's performance. i don't see americans trusting a senator like, brian said, again for a long, long time. >> absolutely. to mike's point. if you look at these opinion polls, even with all the

problems with obama care and all the talk about iran, the primary concern of almost every voter is the economy and job creation and what's remarkable is how little bit -- how little of the d.c. conversation is actually spent on the predominant american concern. we don't talk about legislation to spur job growth. what we end up talking about is partisan squabbles of legislation that passed. if you're part of the d.c. culture people will look at you skeptical. you're a governor that makes more sense for a voter. they want someone who has a proactive job creation group. >> you know, what sam was just talking about, one of the more interesting aspects of janet yellen's confirmation process during the hearings is the jobs programs with regard to the fed. they were barely mentioned. a lot of talk what will you do about the volcker rule. too big to fail. a jobs program, something that

this country does not have and is still lacking and as sam indicated the most critical element in people's minds was barely mentioned. >> very quickly, sam keeps nudging me. tell me the story of hanukkah very quickly for our fans. >> a little dreidle talk. >> i won't humiliate myself. >> they need 20 beers to get through the day. one beer left made it through the whole day. >> sam. be nice to sam. >> it's still hanukkah, guys. come on. >> looking forward to meet your parents. >> more jews on "morning joe." >> up next the big business of black friday. andrew ross sorkin joins us. >> ask and you shall receive. >> i have some questions about

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♪ it's all right what a cute thing. welcome back to "morning joe." joining us now andrew ross sorkin. in that picture with that hat on. >> that's so not cool. >> andrew, i dare you. put that hat on and try to get date. not going to happen. >> i'm happily married, thank you. if i tried the hat before that it wouldn't have worked. >> he's happily married he's not trying to get dates. unlike you. >> i'm not married. i can get dates. >> andrew, how was your thanksgiving? >> i'm full is what i'll tell you. day after. a little bit of -- turkey coma. >> we'll smack you out of it

tonight. looking forward to seeing you. andrew, where do we stand this black friday? obviously the past five years have been tough for retailers. i always have never done this before but i always every time i go into a retail store or a small business in my home town, how you doing? what's it looking like? it's so bizarre. over the past two or three years, i never know what answer i'm going to get because, you know, i'll ask them three months ago, four months ago, things are turning the corner. then i'll say how was last month? it's really bad we don't know why. the trends are all over the place, aren't they? >> this year is the tale of two cities. this is the haves and have notes. you've heard this story before. you'll see it on the high end retailer will do just fine. the low end retailer is struggling because they are having compress margin across the board. it's the same story that we've been suffering through for a long time, which is it is 1%/99%

issue. what you're seeing from the numbers you're hearing from retailers is that. the luxury guys will do just fine. walmart came out and said -- not that they will struggle but that there's so much margin depression. if you're a consumer margin is a good thing because you might be able to buy goods at cheaper prices. >> what about the wealth effect. new highs in the stock market and yet it's not having any impact with the regular person. is that basically the translation that nobody got back into the market at least not the people who needed to? >> nobody got back -- nobody got back into the market, you know, to the extent that you think all of this is induced by ben bernanke and san antonio -- soon to be janet yellen. this is not helping the jobs picture in an efficient way and if it's doing anything it's making the 1%, .01% for everybody else tougher. this policy that's going on from

the federal reserve only helps you if you already own asset, if you already own a home, if you already own, you know, stocks. then this is the greatest thing that ever happened. but if you don't, it's a challenge. >> andrew, donny, nice to have another jew on. >> don't, what's your obsession? >> happy hanukkah. >> what's the object swegs the pride? >> we can play dreidle. >> celebrate hanukkah. >> good lord. >> i would be wearing green if it was saint patrick's. >> two gentiles on this entire set. we're so outnumbered. i don't understand the obsession when they are like -- i think it's like janet dean, two girls for every boy. here there's five jews for every gentile. >> does anybody else beside donny know how to play dreidle. >> i was raised on dreidle in my

southern baptist church. >> you talk about the margin commission. the walmart is on the bottom and neiman of the world will be fine. ten years from now will there be a jc penney, a target. they just don't fit. >> i suspect they will struggle. there has to be somebody that is appealing to what might be described as the middle -- the middle market, the lower market. >> but you and i both know the middle is the place where you go to die. >> the question is, if you look at jc penney which was left for dead just a year ago, they are i don't want to say coming back but they are doing it and trying. every newspaper you have has a circular. they brought their prices down. best buy, a company if we talked a year ago i would tell you it's a browsing library for amazon. they have come back. i think there is some opportunity there, but i don't

think the big name -- you said sears. will sears be here in ten years, that's a challenge. but you have to talk about what happens online. >> andrew, a week ago harry reid invoked the nuclear option in the senate and all the focus was on president obama's judicial appointments. by invoke the nuclear option he has the distinct possibility of appointing several people to regulatory bodies some of them over financial stuff, so has that provided any ripple of nerves among wall street the fact someone can be 50, 51 votes. >> there's a lot of nerves on wall street. everybody talks about uncertainty constantly. obama care has created uncertainty. this has created uncertainty. what happens in january or february whether we get a budget or the debt ceiling, all of that is creating uncertainty. i'm not sure that uncertainty is

what we're seeing hitting the actual consumer. in fact i would argue to the extent people say obama care is creating uncertainty. if you feel that, i don't think most people at home are is going to actually feel that in their wallets and therefore not go out and buy stuff. we won't know about that until march or maybe later 2014. >> i'm talking about people appointed to regulatory bodies, tough on the volcker rules. >> the banks are frustrated. you saw what happened with jpmorgan. i can't tell eubanks aren't upset about it. and aren't freaking out and aren't anxious. but i think there is a little bit of a sense that this is a new world we're going to have to live in and, you know, we have to play through the bad weather. that's what i think is happening. >> i'm going to sam stein. you can jump in, sam but i'm looking here from "usa today" the obscure black friday deals. car wash, teeth whitening, pet

exams and closing costs for homes. >> i did three out of four. >> exactly. >> what? >> by the way, i still don't know how he does it but every black friday mike actually get as pet exam and a home loan closing while he's getting his teeth whiteneded and for the life of me -- >> okay. would any of you be caught dead parking at a mall trying to park and trying to walk in there and find stuff? it's silly. i'm not being elitist. >> for a pet exam. >> is this illegal? stand in line for two hours to be -- >> online shopping these days. >> that's cyber monday. >> hold in. what are you suggesting? people aren't going the malls any more? >> i can't hear because donny is coughing all over me. donny was asking if it's

really -- >> does it move things forward. >> businesses make money. because margins come down, it's incremental money. brian said it best. you'll find out, you know, in a month from now how much more money they made by offering these sales or not. sometimes it has been beneficial. sometimes it has not. over the past two or three years arguably actually the retailer has lost as a result of these sort of blockbuster , you know, big door busters. >> so if you're about to go take your screaming kids or nasty teen shopping, mine can be very nasty, girls, take them on a walk today. i'm serious. go for a walk. no matter what junk you buy that you think will make you happy. it doesn't make you happy. it doesn't. you'll fight in the car. you'll all be fighting over what you'll get. what you're not going to get. it's all junk. just go on a long family talk

today. >> andrew, the real challenge here -- >> what does she really think? >> the real challenge is i'm going all my shopping on amazon. a lot of people will do their shopping on amazon because what mika has talked about, up to two years ago i would rush to the mall, buy all of my stuff, as you know. on christmas eve. i'm serious. i do all my shopping a month out and do it on amazon. >> will you do it on black monday or today? >> i'll probably do it this weekend when i wake up like on saturday morning. >> at 3:00 a.m. >> i still wake up early on the weekends and seriously that's when i get all my christmas shopping done. i always wake up at 5:00 a.m. on the weekends. >> if you're a amazon prime subscriber the shipping is free. >> the great challenge, those to the brick-and-mortar, absolutely

devastating. >> i will say this. look, best buy is the best example of this. this was a company that people thought was left for dead by amazon. them thought you go to best buy, look at all the tvs you want to buy, go home and buy an amazon. in the past year what's best buy and a couple of other retailers have figured out, occasionally you may want the service. you may want to talk to people. if they get their pricing right so they are competitive with the online guys they can make it work. >> they put products in there that people don't like to do that with. big appliances. >> isn't it true that amazon now has a service provider aspect to their website as? >> they are adding that too. >> eventually you can get a pet exam online. >> greatest answer in the history of "morning joe," who me? i don't know. >> andrew ross sorkin, thank you. >> we love having you on. >> i'll see you tonight. say hello to joe kernen, the

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♪ it is a big weekend for both college and nfl. make a or break season for teams full of surprises. our resident expert is not sam stein. >> the nfl is one thing but i got to go to joe on this because i never thought that auburn would be where they are at 10-1 and i'm not sure that they can beat alabama but it's a different game than thought it would be. >> they can beat alabama and they can beat alabama because these games always surprise. when you have a team this good, having a chance to destroy alabama's season and they would

destroy alabama's season -- >> you really think they have a chance? >> do i. it's in auburn. identify seen alabama play auburn at jordan harris stadium. it's massive. 90,000 people screaming at the top much their lungs. these 18, 19, 20-year-old kids. it's at auburn and playing against a team that, you know, let's face it -- auburn has nothing to lose. kind of like the red sox. a team of destiny where we got one break after another. auburn, that georgia game. one break after another. >> i understand they have a chance to beat alabama. i would be stunned if they beat alabama. >> here's my frustration. how many games during a 12 game season do they play that it's even competitive. lsu.

>> ohio state. >> every week, 37 point spread. >> i want shows how good they are. not the teams they are beating. >> donny, alabama has over the past five, ten years had an extraordinarily tough schedule. extraordinarily tough schedule. the fact of the matter is, we used to have to sweat out games against tennessee. we used to have to sweat out games against lsu. there were always six teams that could beat us and, you know, i grew up an alabama fan and we went 6-6, 7-5, 8-4. i think it's a testament to how great nick sabin these games i worry we're losing will we win by 20 or 30. >> five freak out saturdays every year. he sucked all the best players away from these teams. i never saw a coach like sabin in college football. >> sam you said you would be

stunned if alabama lost because of what's happened in the nsc, each team has gotten stronger. ohio state on the other hand with their schedule, the collapse of the big ten they are basically playing high school. alabama is incredible. >> you have two leagues, but s.e.c. is head and shoulders above the other divisions. you have great teams like fsu and osu. that's the other competition. you never know how they fare against an alabama. >> i want to say to the nfl, cam newton i was not a believe in him at all until i watched him against the patriots. you can't say it's not just his arm, he beats you with his legs. he's so big. you can't even hurt him. he's prancing down the sideline and people don't really try to hit him any more. they've won seven in a row.

and they are actually a team that people are frightened of. >> monster defense. >> sam stein, a great quarterback. >> giants lost something like 38-0. not that close. i thought wow that's weird carolina is usually not that good but they have been unbelievable and cam newton is the primary reason. he can basically do everything at this point in time. he can run. if you need one yard he's the guy. he can throw the ball. their defense is insane. their defense is really good. i think they are a contender in the nfc. it will come down to seattle and new orleans and carolina. >> let's talk about kansas city and denver because the patriots had that come back game against denver and k.c. lost two in a row. patriots are one game behind these two guys. who loses the k.c./denver game

is looking at a wild card. i just don't know -- i'm a patriots fan. i'm thinking patriots can get the top seed if these guys struggle. >> one of the more interesting aspect of the kansas city year this year under andy reed. >> how about that? isn't that great? >> stunning. >> isn't that great for andy reed. i never liked the chiefs from a distance. but, man, i like them even more now because andy reed -- what a rough time but he's doing great. >> how has he done it? one of the principle reasons is his quarterback alex smith who was let go by the san francisco 49ers and now you have to wonder if san francisco given colin kaepernick's performance this year did they make the wrong choice? >> before we annoy kansas city they are not a winning team this year. they are coming off 2-14. great story. >> wait a minute, donny.

donny's girlfriend must be an nfl fan. where do you get that from. a guy that wears that many bracelets you don't watch football. >> let me explain -- >> i know. >> it's having both sides. the sensitive side and deep into football. >> you're watching football while he's getting his clothes fixed. his tailor comes in' measures him. and when he's getting his pedicures and waxing of the chest. >> never did waxing. >> donny please don't show us. >> and the spray tanning. >> no spray tanning. just bracelets. >> coming up next we got our conversation. >> this is journalism. if you can't be honest -- >> he has a special tool.

>> thank you very much for sharing that with us in public. >> he does but it's not for that. . >> come on, mika. >> up next award-winning -- you stumble into areas. you just shouldn't stumble into. josh besh coming up next on "morning joe". life with crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis is a daily game of "what if's". what if my abdominal pain and cramps end our night

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america. >> yes. >> we cook less at home than ever before in history. we need to change that. there are a lot of problems stemming from people not dining together at home. >> and cooking together. first of all socially for family it brings you together. it's something to do together. >> it's more than just nutrition. >> then the food itself. >> let's talk about around the table and why it's so important. i saw a study back 15 years ago, something like 92%, 93% of national merit scholars had one thing in common, their family got together and were "around the table" at least four nights a week. isn't that stunning? now we're all blown apart. we go to restaurants. i don't any more because i make us all sit "around the table." >> i don't want to discourage anybody from supporting their local chef. >> you're right. we've moved away from that. we got to move back to it. >> that's why i do these books. i want to encourage people back into the kitchen.

we got great cooking lessons. this is this just easy. >> who was the photographer in this book? >> lauri mcelroy. >> they are almost pornographic. >> that's food porn. >> let me ask you a journalistic questions. you haven't cooked from a recipe in years. it's a handful of this and that. how long did it take you to translate this stuff that you do by instinct into these slightly -- >> this is my third cookbook. in a get a little better with this after each one. what i did here is we went on location to these great places to cook with my mentors that i cooked with two decades ago from germany on down. along that trail i started

cooking and had somebody much wiser and smarter than me writing everything down. she recooked and retested the recipes later. >> sitting around the kitchen table as families eating dinner or lunch or whatever, how do you find in this world today, how could someone prepare these meals that are in this book? sneezy. figure this out. my wife and i have four boys. these crazy lives of running nine restaurants and baseball to football to rugby and the whole nine yards. the way we do it is really conventional. we have to think about when i come home from work, maybe read story to andrew before he goes bed. i might pop a chicken or two in the oven and leapt those roast while i'm doing other things so jennifer has at any time next day for a quick and easy dinner before the next -- before their next football game. it's just trying to make things happen. breakfast. i wake up at 5 lone 30 every

morning so i can have that time. have a big breakfast for the boys, that's our family meal. that's the only time i can make that fit. >> how did you become a cook? >> chef. >> i rather be a cook. i love making people happy. when i was 9 years old my father was hit by a drunk driver, paralyzed for life and shattered our family. when he came home from the hospital i would feed him. it brought smiles to his face. at that point i meant food meant happiness that's what i wanted to do. >> that's an incredible story. >> we all have stories like that that draw us out who we are and what we want to be. >> so this book was actually based out of a family experience too. you and your wife went to france and germany. you took notes. >> the day she was sworn into the louisiana state bar, we then pick up and moved to little black forest town and spent some time there so i could perfect my trade. she put everything on hold for me so that i could kind of go about this odyssey of learning.

>> he has eight restaurants in new orleans. you have a pro carrville policy. >> we love james and mary equally. any time he has a party at the house he says send some chefs over. >> this is incredible. i love the stories that go along with the recipes and the areas that you went to. that's all about the curiosity in each one much us and how much you can learn from dining out and bringing that inspiration home. >> the book is "cooking from the heart if i favorite lessons learned along the way" john besh so wonderful to meet you. we'll be back with much more "morning joe" in just a moment. as a business owner, i'm constantly putting out fires.

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>> in other news, the prime minister of sweden visited washington today and my typy little nipples went to france. >> check the fronter.

>> it's fine. >> evan, read the copy, please. the copy is good. just read it. >> the white house committee greeted the prime roast minister and i do the cha cha. >> wow. good voice exercise. that was a clip from the 2 thousand 3 blockbuster bruce almighty.

tom shade yack is the director of other comedies like ace ventura, pet detective and liar liar. he is the author of life's operating manual with the fear and truth's dialogues. >> their operating manuals are everything. life. now you provided a set. thank you. tell us about it. >> yeah, there is an operating manual for life and we have them for the computer and cell phones and one for life. it's nature. it's us. it's biology. if you look at that system, you can see how we ought to be functioning. >> explain that. >> we have structured society based on competition. all of nature and all of life thrives through competition. that pushes us to excellence, but it's not how life thrives.

that's why we have the society we have. >> what do we do in day to day lives? i will leave this book and how is my life going to change? >> everybody said society is bad and these problems are too big. society is a collection of our valley systems and if we begin to shift and change and cooperate more and love more, the simple principals that not just the founding fathers of this nation are positive, but moral leaders are positive if we embody those, the world changes. you talking universally or just the american culture? >> our culture is simply one representation, the zenith of the world's culture. the world is humming to one ideology. we are the zenith of that. >> every day is competitive. with world and life keeping

score. >> the nature of humans. it's a great concept, but we are naturally inclined to do the opposite. >> it's the opposite. darwin is highly misunderstood. it's not survival of the fittest, but survival of the kindest. sympathy is mankind's greatest trait, but he has been misunderstood that it's all about competition and he was not about that at all. it's how we went from a small band to what we are today which is seven billion. competition is from the word that means to strive with. when magic johnson and larry johnson strove with each other, they brought out the best in each other. competition is beautiful. we love to see who is the fastest, but say you are the fastest, you are the slowest and you don't. that's why the world is what it is today. a lot of people are losers and

the losers show up in our society as toxic cells. >> in practical terms, how do you operate in following this? >> in practical terms, i hope my life is buzzing as a cooperative cell so i don't stand in show business and say i'm the best and give me more. i say what do i need. how much do you need and not how much can i get. i come to a very different ideology. >> isn't it easier to say that when you made a lot of money? >> it is easier when you have the basic needs of life. the basic needs are what determine happiness. if you have them met you are happy, but if you are above that, it doesn't make you any happier. it is easier to say. it's not out there, it's in

them. we create a society starting with the revolution. the only revolution is the personal revolution. jesus and martin luther king and gandhi came to tell us. >> he set this interview up. >> ari set it up. >> you need this book, ari. you need this book bad. >> the book is life's operating manual. read this book. >> tom, thank you. i started part-time, now i'm a manager.n.

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hope you had a great thanksgiving. >> i'm stuffed. i ate so much. how weird is it for you guys to see me sweat. i ate so much. >> distended. i am celebrating tonight. >> fantastic. >> sam stein in washington, d.c.

on a thursday, happy hanukkah to you. >> thank you. >> did you have a good thanksgiving. >> yeah, but it was a better hanukkah. first night and lots of presents and ladkes with the turkey. >> do you know what a dreidel is? >> of course i do. >> the chairman of donny deutsch, host of way too early. ryan shackman. >> we are all just a little loopy. >> you eat that turkey -- >> it makes you sleep. >> i ate turducken. >> it's a duck wrapped in a chicken wrapped inside a turkey. >> and the family drama. >> i ate the drumstick at one of

the in-laws. >> also the massive aggressive fighting. >> my brothers are done. by 2:00, i stayed away for a couple of years. >>as we move forward, there is a lot of water under the grbridge. it's a rough year for the president. let's talk about what's happening over the next month. this has been some would say disastrous, but perhaps it will hold together. what are we looking at? what can the president accomplish between now and december 31st? >> not much. there is not much time and he doesn't have much momentum behind his back. remember where we were after the election? we were looking at the possibility of immigration reform and advancing health care and gains in the foreign policy.

virtually middle of that happened. it has been administration beset by scandals and set backs and administration of health care and i think what we have seen for the past couple of months is trying to jump from crisis to crisis. how do you breakthrough that crisis? i don't know. the administration will focus on budget talks and make a push for more economic growth and less austerity and the stuff with iran and afghanistan in the foreign policy has power left. ability to make moves. on the domestic front, he is limited. >> donny deutsch, the brand has been battered this year. we talked about the republican brand that has been battered as well. it's more dispursed. what in the world does he do to turn it around not only this year, but moving forward? >> the first time it dropped.

the american people are feeling misled. they will put up with a lot, but not being told there weapons of mass destruction and there not. they won't put up with being told you can keep your insurance and you can't. that was devastating. >> was that the worst part of the year for him? you see the 37%? >> it was both that promise and the disastrous launch. if you have a car line, seven or eight cars, a badge car that sets the tone for the line, health care was it. that was his badge. he put it all in black. it's not the website. it was the flaws in the legislation. his presidency defined by the iraq war and the failure, this is the signature. this is it. nothing he is going to do that will change that. >> sam says not much can happen. if they work on the foreign

policy front and they have successes and all the while effectively get people signed up for the plan and fix some of the glitches, maybe? >> i was a cynic earlier in the week and i said wow, what an interesting week. >> a senate because the president has low approval ratings? >> i'm just saying it was interesting timing. all of a sudden the discussion was there. >> there is this culture of extensions. you extend the dead lines on obama care. the budget deal is all about kicking the can down the road. we are pushing everything further down the road so there is nothing getting done. >> while you are pushing the can down the road, sequestration cut into a lot of things. it's going to be more cutting. sam, right now you have 535

members of congress. they are talking to people, many of whom have been damaged. it's hard to visualize on tv and realize on pictures. it is badly damaged a lot of people. what are the prospects for this kicking in. for one of my pieces, you called sequestration a cancerous tumor. it gets worse overtime. all the agencies push the cuts as far back as they could. they used emergency funds to prolong the pain. if this doesn't get reversed by early january, the cuts get exceptionally worse. agencies have to lay people off and they will have to do more furloughs and the pain being

felled felt felt is getting worse. each party likes to do something about it. they don't like the cuts to research or head start. the problem is how do you pay for it and get money to do sequestration? that's where the two are at odds. i have seen a few indications, but the devil is in the details. can they come to the agreement or kick the can down the road again. >> what do you think happens given their traditional reliance in terms of defense strength? what happens if there further cuts by sequestration at the same time that most political people in washington and a lot of people are talking about the iranians? it happens. >> the republicans haiti is questration as much as the democrats. we have this december 13th deadline coming up and i find it

hard to believe the republicans will stumble into that again. is it not fascinating what brian said talking about kicking the can down the road on the budget deal and on one issue after another. this is a government -- >> indecisiveness. >> it's run crisis by crisis by crisis. >> the whole concept of leadership. it's going to be take a president that kicks the can down the road. a president who is not concerned about the other elements and wants to do something good for the count r50e. we have not seen that in a long, long time. >> what happens if we had yet another government shut down or yet another crisis? i wonder. the approval rating in washington, has there ever been

as much discussed with washington as there is right now. >> we just referenced president obama's poll numbers collapsing in terms of character and in terms of who he is. that brought him back to the pack sort of and he is well ahead of the pack. he is well ahead of congress. >> what about the republicans in history? >> they may as well keep doubling down. they will gain from that. >> what's going happen, this is good news for the chris christies of the world. people are going to want something different. every politician going forward will run and no matter how inside you are, we have a 9% congressional approval rating. somebody who doesn't feel and look and talk like a politician will be our next president. >> people will be looking for something different and i'm sure that is there. but the big thing is it's going to be whatever people are

confronted with in terms of everyday employment. can you get it done. that's what chris christie and every politician will be asked. can you get it done? >> do you know how many people said i will never vote for a senator or congressman again for president. they don't think they have the wherewithal to lead in the right way. governors are the hot thing. >> for obama, the last senator who was president was jfk. >> i do think though that the senators that are talking about running in 2016 especially the republican senators have been damaged by the past two months of chaos on capitol hill. whether they were directly involved or not, i don't think there is any way around it. they have been damaged by president obama's performance. i don't see americans trusting the senator like brian said for a long, long time. >> absolutely. to mike's point, you look at the

opinion polls even with all the problems with obama care and iran, the primary concern with almost every voter is economy and job creation. what's remarkable is how little of the d.c. conversation is spent on the predominant american concern. we end up talking about the legislation that is passed. if you are part of the culture, people will look at you skeptically. if you are trying to make jobs in your own state, that makes sense. mike hits it on the head. that's the proactive job creation growth. >> still ahead, the big disconnect. critical lessons for raising kids in the digital age. how parents can plug in. plus, we will talk turkey. really? >> what a great tease. >> as in the "morning joe" turkey awards.

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>> is it fair to say that you were a winner online and loser in real life? >> yeah, definitely. that's sort of why i stayed on line all the time. whenever i'm laying in bed at night i would always think about how that day, i hadn't accomplished anything, about how i wasn't where i wanted to be in and i was miserable. >> part of a reporter by dr. nancy snyderman on internet addiction. author of the new book, the big disconnect, protecting family relationships in the digital age.

what do we do about this? these instruments that bring so much ease to our life. they bring so much complexity to our lives. you can't monitor in a family situation. it's impossible to monitor what your children are doing all the time. >> it's actually not impossible. i think one of the big disconnects is that we are so drawn in that you let them take over us and our authority as parents and forget that there ways that we can monitor especially when the children are little. >> you think it lets those parameters that settings sids up for success later? >> the minute you introduce anything to your family, you have to sit down and say this is our responsible use policy. you can watch this on the weekends, but not during the week. when you use this computer, here are the rules. be nice.

don't be mean. don't go anywhere we haven't said you can go. post that. it's about taking control. we all adapted so quickly, it's control of us. >> i want to get past the keeping computer in the living room type of discussion. i want to start with the age you begin. i have my ipad next to my table and the kids can am in and say can i play a game? what age? the first time you have any screen involved or when they are 10 and their friends are starting to face box? >> every time you give your child a new device or a new ap, you need to talk about appropriate use. it's an ongoing conversation in our lives. it's here to stay. >> kid's games are kid's games. other than overuse. >> i think when you have especially girls and in the last

12 years, the technology has leapfrogged and everything we thought it was going to be. i cannot underscore enough the bullying and the meanness and now with the fact that there aps that video and words can disappear in three seconds. the mean jabby pokes to kids all day long, it is epidemic. i don't know how you protect a child against being the recipient of that stuff. >> it is changing what education will mean in this country. we have to teach our children at 6, 7, 8 how to be a digital citizen. it is easy to be psychologically damaged and school now extends 24-7. you don't go home and leave school behind. you are doing nasty stuff that is nastier after school. kids have to talk about it. >> let's stick with the educational aspect. i thought about this and it concerns me.

i don't know that it concerns a lot of other people. i wonder the ease of these things. the constant use of these things and the constant viewing of these things. what does that do to curiosity and the powers of observation? do eye contact as a way to learn and establish relationships. >> the research is beginning to show things like curiosity and the capacity to work through boredom to a new idea seems to be diminishing for kids who are on screens a lot and the ability to pay attention for a long time without having a whistle or go to a new site. >> excuse me? >> it's really remarkably seeming to slow down with kids. it's like that joke when you see a baby hitting a book because it's not a laptop and moving. it's our ability to sustain

concentration that is so important. >> i think taking doing nothing into thinking nothing is being accomplished. that's when sometimes your brain is most fertile and when you unplug, you come up with original ideas. at least for two weeks, bill gates goes to a place where his meals are delivered and there is no internet connection and he sits and writes and reads. big thinkers think. you can't think when you are interacting. >> that brings you up a good question. what if you want to take the other approach with trying to severely limit the exposure and don't want to penalize them by not having the skills to interact with the electronic age. one of the implications if you shield them and shelter them from this for too long. >> the idea that children are being prevented from learning and important things in life because they are not allowed to play trashy entertainment and video games all day is not real.

kids are learning in school, but they need to learn for computers and technology what they are missing out on. they are learning from the ordinary play that is off screen. deep thinking and deep creativity. kids can adapt so quickly when parents think . this is false advertising and we don't know that it's not harmful for the developing brain. >> when you see tablet advertisements with babies mesmerized and flipping and doing things, do you think that is seductive advertising and untrue? >> there is a case being presented by the campaign for commercial-free childhood going after the organizations and companies that are saying does apple make your baby brilliant. it's not true.

2-year-olds don't learn how to read. we are giving a stimulant rather than teaching them to calm themselves down when they are upset. that's the first thing you teach your children. you hold the baby and calm down. what is this going to do to their minds. >> it's absolutely right. >> for every element of progress across history, we lot of something. airplanes and we lot of what birds do. writing letters disappeared. >> absolutely true. >> the book is the big disconnect. protecting family relationships in a digital age. >> thank you for having me. >> more "morning joe" in a moment. sfx: oil gushing out of

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>> i love it. joining us now, one of the world's most famous art and pop culture icons. he is out with a new book, the universe. peter max. this is a surprise for us, but this book is amazing. i love the way it is described. max details for the first time

the large and small breast strokes of his life's journey in his own words. >> doing so well. >> quite well. >> they sold so many books, i'm amazed. victor sorbel did the fore word for me. >> my word, look at that. you are kidding me. can you believe that? that is brilliant. >> i want to make a bid on that. >> that's amazing. >> you don't have that happen every day, do you? i am speechless. >> show me what's in the back. >> oh, my god. >> that's amazing. >> get out. >> can you believe this? >> a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

>> that's amazing. >> get out. >> i can't. i can't believe it. that is amazing. thank you so much. >> obviously for so long, it has been so iconic. >> you skim through this book, just skimming through the book, you see these images and these impressions and you can remember parts of your life based upon what you are looking at in the book. >> it's such an amazing book. >> i just opened up to one, mare lip monroe. it tells you so much about her and her and everything we know and things we don't know. it's all right there in a participating on a page. >> one day many years ago when i was an art student on 57th street from karn dee hall, i'm sitting on the big long steps

and we used to sit on the side and go out on the streets like a big break. one day i'm sitting there and looking up into 57th street and this elegant woman walks by with these wonderful long steps and high heels. as she comes by, she said hey, fellahs. i said that's marilyn monroe. she turned around and said i love your pants. i had paint all over my pants. >> yeah. i'm looking for one of my favorites here. go ahead. >> it's all right. donny, you have a favorite some. >> going through it. such parallels between you and andy warhol as far as chronicling a generation and understanding where pop culture intersects with art. i look at the images of gorbachev and marilyn monroe.

that's the thing. you guys are kind red souls there. >> he was a good budy and he passed away very young. that's right on the screen. the ship i just painted. >> bill clinton -- let me see it. look at those. >> over 100 times. you know why i painted 100? he was a good friend of mine before he was governor. when he was going to run for president after he was governor, he said to me i will run for president. i said bill, you are going to be the greatest president and he was one of them. >> i saw this eagles documentary like five times now, four hours with this amazing documentary, but one part we said maybe we did well because take it easy came out at a time when nobody was taking it easy. we had vietnam and watergate and

it made people feel good. you chronicled and this was a great thing. at such turbulent times and it uplifted your spirits. >> whatever hard times we may have had, this is still the greatest country in the world and there is nothing but joy in this country. every race in the world and we are all the same. unbelievable. >> steve jobs was right. we are crazy. this country is like you said from all these different -- in a great way. is there a moment that stands out above other moments where looking back you said man, now that is cool. i made it. >> i was participating a large painting and happened to do it

on the ed sullivan show. back then it was the biggest show in the world and i was on them and i painted something. then i was on again and again. i was on the ed sullivan show like seven or six times and he had like a one-hour special. luckily i came out in the age of med media. it was like 100 years ago. >> the book is the university of peter max. thank you. for the painting, i can't believe it. >> what a great honor. >> i will have to make another one for each one of you. >> we'll be right back with more "morning joe."

>> wow. you know how to cut to the core of me, baxter. you are so wise.

like a miniature buddha covered in hair. come again? you know i don't speak spanish. in english, please. huh? you pooped in the refrigerator and you ate the whole wheel of cheese? how did you do that? i'm not even mad. that's amazing. >> it's just sick. unbelievable. what if humans couldn't know what dogs are thinking? do you want to see it again? >> i will after that. >> you watch it on a loop. >> with a few clues -- >> he saves his life at the end. the professor of neuroeconomics. what do you do for a living? at emery university, dr. gregory

burns is the author of how dogs love us. neuroscientist and his adopted dog decode the canines. >> so doctor, help us out. i got two dogs and i'm looking at them. what are they thinking? how deep? >> i can tell you. >> do they love us as much as we love them? >> we can immediately tell who the dog people are by the fact that you asked me that question. that's all i wanted to know too. >> what do you find out? >> what is the dog thinking? are. >> depends on who the person is obviously. >> tell us what you learned. >> i had dogs all my life and i spent 20 years studying humans and i have exactly the same questions. i had dogs that i loved dearly and 15 years a pug named newton. when he passed away i actually had the same question. i wanted to know whether he

loved me and of the way i loved him. or was it just food? >> i have two dogs. with abby, it's just food. >> you say just food? >> looking at their brains and bypassing the constraints of behavior i678, mris can tell us about dogs's internal states. >> the whole idea was we really don't know what dogs are pging. everyone said they love their dogs and they love them back, but is it just food? we train dogs to go in an mri to see if we can figure out how their brains work as they interacted with us. it took several months and nobody thought we could do it because we have to hold absolutely still. if you had an mri, you know these are not pleasant things. really the whole idea was have a dog do an mri and scan their brains while they are doing something or interactioning with

their humans and measure the parts of the brain that respond to reward or other aspects of the interaction and we can see is it just food? >> what did you see? what did the tests reveal? >> we see first off it looks like human brains in many ways. when the dogs see things they like that includes food, but also including their human. we see activity in the reward part of their brain that is active in humans when humans see people they love. we are trying to get at this bit that it's more than hot dogs. it's more than food. >> how would you characterize it. one point shows it's like a small child or is that giving it too much brain power? too much credit? >> i don't think that's stretching it at all. one of the things you see immediately when you look at dog brains and compare them to humans, there is a lot in common. obviously they are small, they

are tiny brains, but parts of them that look exactly the same as humans. when you give the dogs things, it's really just the fact that we are giving them their human. the way it's set up, the dogs go in the scanner like this and their human comes from the other end and they're interacting, humans giving hand signals. >> how would you compare the size of the dog brain to the tea party brains? >> i held back on the joke. i didn't do that. the hatred just leaks out of you. >> i'm a dog person. i had dogs all of my life. you get that they're getting it. are they smarter and some dogs are just there and happy and others you see it in their ice. >> let me take it a step further. when i'm sad and if i'm lying in

bed, my dog comes on the bed and lays next to me. only when i'm really sad. >> i had an american bulldog and she was human. i interacted with her and felt she got me. >> she would still go to the tracks when you weren't there. the love is there, but food or other things can overwhelm that. >> what is it that i'm seeing with a dog like that? >> i have three dogs right now, all rescues. i love them dearly and in particular is a little bit harder to love than the other two. >> like kids. >> exactly like kids. you don't talk about a favorite dog or a favorite child. what we are beginning to see, we have scanned over 12 dogs in the project and it's like the citizens science project where people volunteer their dogs. there beginning to be differences. some dogs especially the labs we are seeing, the retrievers that were service dogs at one point

seem to have really strong responses to their human. strong responses when the human steps away. there differences between dogs. >> in closing, my dog cajun, the rescue. we will show you a picture. can you tell he's brilliant. can you tell? look into his eyes. >> that's a sweet dog. that dog is clearly bonded and we would love to have him in our project. >> you might find he is brilliant. genius, right? >> absolutely. >> the book is how dogs love us. dr. gregory burns, thank you so much. we'll be right back with much more "morning joe." engine humming.

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>>. >> it is the day after thanksgiving so it's time to talk about a different type of turkey, the type that mer yam webster defines as a stupid, foolish or inept person. >> don't make it personal.

>> we have a list and we all picked one. you can have two. >> yours is -- >> miley cyrus. >> why is that? >> i think she is really -- i feel badly for her. i think the people around her are turkeys that have taken advantage of her. >> she is making lots of money. >> i would challenge you that the road map for a child star whether you like her or not to become an adult star, you have to turn them on their head and become this -- maybe she is done. i wouldn't want it to be my child. it's the road map to success. >> the road map and think that performance -- that's fine. whatever that is. that's just bad art. the thing, all of that was depressing. >> he didn't take heat for it. an older man -- >> he should have known better.

the whole thing was disgusting and her team -- >> she is bigger than ever. mika keeps talking about it. >> she is the biggest pop star in the world right now. no doubt about it. my personal pick, i have two. my number one by far according to webster's definition is not stupid and foolish -- >> but inept? >> ted cruz. >> he couldn't stay away. given his bloated ego and what he did, the damage he did to his political party tops the list by far. >> let me say we are talking and going back to branding, we are talking about ted cruise and within the republican primary

process. >> that further diminishes the quality. >> but ted cruz is already like he's gone to the front of the class. >> actually -- >> among republicans, the republican base. >> the only flip size is the best of that. it forces their hand to move. you know where they need to be and he is the post of what, the pop star getting attention. sarah palin got a lot of attention. she was never going to get elected. >> ted is not sarah palin. you listen to sarah palin talk for more than two or three or four minutes and she's not in the same way as ted cruz. alan is not an idiot. he was one of the best students he had and he's a very, very intelligent guy politically. >> what is intelligent around a guy who actually thinks

defaulting the government and basically cutting this economy in half is intelligent? >> that has to do with his level of delusion and his ego which is massive. he is a very intelligent -- a smart guy. i don't deny that. >> he's a smart guy. by the way, i don't think i will make that mistake again. >> wait. i feel bad for my best friend. her husband looks like ted cruz. look. >> yeah. he does. wow. he could look like rob ford. it could be worse. >> he is iconic. i love that. >> he's a good-looking good. >> a-rod. >> listen, a-rod is my choice. don't dare put up rob ford. he's iconic. he's a great american hero. a-rod without a doubt is my turkey of the year. what a loser.

what a loser. in caps. >> there is that. >> there is a common theme with my guy not living from the states. a-rod is the same thing. i never get personal on the show, but there was not a more unlikable person this entire year. >> you know what's interesting? learning from your mistakes. they will not forgive everybody one time. he sits down and has this interview. he is still in the middle of -- >> i will draw a turkey thread between cruz, wiener and a-rod. they are all delusional and living in their world where they thought either it was not going to catch up and when he first started to run, i said no. these guys are a good politician. that's when you feel the most duped and it comes out again and you want to look at them and say

are you kidding? are you kidding? are. >> real momentum for the stretch. >> he would have been the mayor. >> being exposed for that. >> i want to go back to the opposite of turkey. >> he could have been mayor if he hasn't made the same mistake twice. the results are combustible as well. >> you think? >> he could have won this thing. >> i want to go back as the anti-turkey. >> great american. >> great canadian. >> so you are saying that's part of it? >> look at this. the great north american. here's what is great about this guy. this is a road map for politicians. by the way, he was ineffective in office and people can separate a guy getting a job done and he's great theater. any guy that -- this guy you can't not watch him.

he's real and i'm certainly not on the platform of crack smoking and the other strange things he has done, but he's my hero for the year. >> let's talk about mike. i know who your winner is. my winner is brian shackman. talk about why the red sox are your winner. >> my winner too. >> they epitomize what we would like to see happen to yourself. you are knocked down and you like to get up and you like to think there would be a reward. they gave us the ultimate reward. they got up and fought and played every day and you could relate to them. >> you believe they were there? i can't believe they were there. >> brian shackman, this is a weird thing. i'm the turkey of the year for leaving the seventh inning. that extraordinary day with detroit. when i did that, we said that's the season. i had to drive down to new york.

i left the stadium thinking i remembered him. i said you know, i'm happy. they gave us so much more. will i never thought this year was going to end this way. we would go out with such a wimper. then i'm driving home and going across western mass and boom. the home run. extraordinary. >> that game itself was extraordinary. to barnacle's point, we know they are pro athletes. we get paid back in the days when i was growing up. 25 players and 25 caps. they felt real that they liked each other. in a lot of ways it seems cheesy and that's why they were successful is because they have each other's backs. >> i would say i have two. the political spectrum, winner of the latest political cycle,

chris christie. can i make a prediction? yeah. the ecochamber, elizabeth warren. >> i don't agree. >> i'm not ask asking if you agree. do you have? >> i think my winner of the year, i have to give it to chris christie. he has so far, my only concern for me is peaking too early. he has been able to capture what people are looking for in a leader and a candidate. it's going to be interesting to watch. >> joe? >> i think i had to say chris christie. a guy who not only won big, but went to the republican governor's association and he had dinner the first night and you can tell from the center of gravity was pulling towards chris christie. this was a guy that really at least among republicans doesn't have a lot of enemies. certainly people on the internet

and certainly people on talk radio that don't like the guy, but this is my only thing if he keeps his head down and does a good job over the next year or year and a half i have to believe this guy will be the guy to beat in the republican nomination. >> that's all for us. >> is that it? okay. >> keep is right here on msnbc, everybody. bl

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