>> rose said i'm addicted to two soap operas. there, i said it. and steve says oreos and eggnog. and nate says i'm addicted to tweet i tweeting brian shactman. >> "morning joe" starts right now. >> i was hoping they would have a little sampler pack or something. >> we had a bunch of people. we wanted to be history and pioneers. >> i think it's tremendously huge just like prohibition back in the day. >> i would like to go down to my basement, listen to music and have a good time and not bother anybody. >> my plans to pick up a quarter bag, smoke some weed, watch a

stupid video. >> they have better things they can focus their time and money on like the real drugs. weed never killed anybody. alcohol does way more damage than weed. >> more people voted for the legalization of pot than president obama in colorado. obama got a lot of votes but pot beat them. >> colorado is the reason why we couldn't book john heileman this morning. good morning. it's thursday, january 1st. happy new year. i can't believe we're back here. with us on set, steve rattner. i loved your piece in the "times." msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman and new dad to georgia. is she beautiful.

oh, she's perfect. harold. >> she's mine. >> okay. that's good too. >> today is my wife's birthday too. so happy birthday, sweetheart. >> happy birthday. what a beautiful baby. >> in washington, former white house press secretary and msnbc contributor robert gibbs. good to see you. i like your outfit. >> thank you. >> anything but that awful thing you once wore. >> terrible about the razor shortage in d.c. over the holidays. >> willie, you still got yours. >> wait a minute. what are you doing, giby? >> i'm looking on the screen. you still have yours? >> it's all the same. >> your growing a beard? >> yeah. >> i got lazy during the holidays. >> hey, let me give you a suggestion. it's time to go back to work and be a little less lazy.

>> i'm going to write that down with your suggestion about my orange shirt. >> don't wear the orange shirt with that beard. >> got it right here. >> willie, why aren't you in colorado this morning. >> that's not my bag, if you will. >> i was not there. but i did unplug. i went all wireless. not wireless, completely -- >> cut off. cordless. >> yes. it was like detox. it was hard. very hard. i did do one thing before i left. >> yes. >> for christmas i helped friends of "morning joe" get him a kitty. joe got a kitty for christmas. >> he got a kitty? >> yes. look. joe got a kitty. a rescue kitty. >> did he want one? >> no. his kids a called it oreo but

everyone else is to call him a colonel. he has two dogs and a cat and i'm working on him getting chickens next. isn't that kitty cute? found in a shelter. left on the side of the road. adorable little kitty and i'm going to get another rescue dog for the new year. rescue an animal. we have a big storm on the way and we're into it. two days into the new year, blizzard-like conditions already forecast for a huge section of the country. right now nearly 40 million people are under winter storm warnings, 950 flights were cancelled yesterday. nearly as many have already been cancelled for today. let's go right to nbc meteorologist bill karins who probably didn't have much of a vacation. >> no. not much of one. this storm is different than most. not only is it snow but very cold with the snow. we already had a couple of inches in new england where i'm sure we'll have school delays. some schools are back in

session, some aren't because of the way the holidays fell. traveling i-90 between buffalo, syracuse and albany area is one of the worst drives out there. also right now the snow is coming down north of the mass pike from boston to pan chester. one of the areas that will get heavier snow. i-70 across indiana and ohio not a fun drive. how much snow will we end up with? this area of purple, areas of new england, this is a foot plus, especially in the mountainous areas and especially eastern new england. boston could end up with 12 to 18. i upped your snowfall totals. definitely blizzard-like conditions if not blizzard conditions this time tomorrow morning. new york city itself probably around five, six inches. on long island you could get 10 to 12 inches of snow. further east you are the worst. philadelphia will get some snow. big city forecast, providence eight to 12, new york city four

to six. d.c. and battle will see some snow but not the blockbuster amounts. bigger deal tore you is the snow. in chicago 750 flights were cancelled yesterday. detroit, indianapolis, st. louis, snow ending this morning. lexington, kentucky and nashville coating this afternoon. there's about 110 million people see winter weather today, tonight twoerm. the temperatures will get you. if you're going to get the snow, shovel as it's falling. don't wait until friday. way too cold. do it today and tonight because tomorrow the wind chill value tanks. it's 0 in kansas city with wind chills in negative numbers. to show you how cold. 7 in hartford. worse friday night into saturday morning where we could see temperatures, some of the coldest readings we had in decades.

mika out there in the shovel later on tonight. >> i will be. i actually shovel as i go with the house and try to keep it clear but the thing is quite seriously because it will be so cold this will make much more slippery conditions. >> the treatments don't work as well with the salt and whatever else they are spring out there. >> bill karins we'll be talking to you throughout the morning. in other news today marks the first full day of the bill de blasio era in new york city. the new mayor of new york city was sworn into office by former president bill clinton. he spoke about a fresh start to new york city, bringing a progressive message to the democratic party. >> we recognize government's first duties, our city's government first responsibilities to keep our neighborhoods safe, to keep our streets clean, ensure that those who live here and those who visit can get where they need to

go in every borough. but we know that our mission reaches deeper. we're called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. our march towards a fairer, more just, more progressive place. our march to keep the promise of new york alive for the next generation. it begins today. >> de blasio's election and the popularity of senator elizabeth warren hints avenue direction for the democratic party. suggesting how progressive ideals may play a larger role in the next presidential election and with his wife in the stands, president clinton embraced the progressive shift. >> i strongly endorse bill de

blasio's core campaign commitment that we have to have a city of shared opportunities, shared prosperity, shared responsibilities. we are interdependent. look around. we can't get around from each other. we have to define the terms of our dependence. this inequality problem bedevils the entire country and i can tell you from my work in much of the world. but it is not just a moral outrage, it is a horrible constraint on economic growth and on giving people the security we need to tackle problems like climate change. we cannot go forward if we don't do it together. >> all right, hillary clinton tweeted out this photo and the text said so pleased and proud to see mayor bill de blasio sworn in today. >> steve rattner let's talk

about mayor de blasio. obviously you're a friend and supporter of mayor bloomberg. he had universal pre-k. tale of two cities. beyond the tax hike and universal pre-k what can we expect mayor de blasio to get through to shrink this problem of inequality knowing a tax hike is to be cleared by albany. he has to get governor cuomo on board. >> separate the tax hike which would pay pre-k, which would make sense to me. i think everybody thinks that's an important thing. there's a lot of or stuff he can and will do whether it's things like living wage, minimum wage. requiring contractors to do business with city, for example, to pay a living wage which changes the economics of what gets built.

requiring employers in properties that have city subsidies to pay a living wage. change the economics. put a big emphasis on public housing which involves, obviously, costs and redirection. you're going to see a major tilt. what bothers me quite frankly and i appreciate you identifying me as a personal business friend of the mayor's is the fact that they went through that whole ceremony yesterday with not only not a nice word about the mayor but some really harsh words about the mayor and left it for bill clinton at the very end to finally give the mayor what i think was his due. so de blasio has very deliberately set up this tale of two cities and we'll see how it works. there's two other things i would like to say quickly. one, as mika said, a larger theme within the democratic party. which way the party goes. i don't think it was a coincidence that the clintons were both at this inauguration. this will be a very interesting discussion within the party over the next several years.

the last thing, a different point, running a city like new york is not just about philosophy or policies, it's all about nitty gritty day-to-day administration and we'll find out in the next two days with the snowstorm how good a job mr. de blasio does. the public ad voluntary indicates office has 20 employees, the city has something like 300,000 employees. this is a big step up an he has to show he has the administrative skills as will as the philosophical approach. >> i wish there was more appreciation for mayor bloomberg. hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money. >> 650 million. >> he worked on issues that were ahead of his time, that in the future we'll look back as oh, my gosh he was right the whole time along especially on health and on trying to make the city a better place to live in. and safer, whether you agree

with the approach or not. i didn't. but at the same time i appreciated his efforts. i thought he was a groundbreaking leader. and because of de blasio's questionable lack of experience in certain areas, and the uphill battle he'll have with albany, i just think new start is not the right word but it's fine. it was his day. and i love the idea of universal pre-k. former adviser to president obama, david axelrod weighed in cloin's role on de blasio's inauguration tweeting it may reassure the left in regards to 2016 but doesn't it also signal to the elite that de blasio's agenda is not radical. robert gibbs what do you make of concerns of his agenda being too radical. >> we have to start remembering bill de blasio got almost 75% of the vote in new york. it's a significant and solid mandate to ensure that equal

opportunity is spread throughout new york, and look new york is a great example. last year you look at what the stock market did over the course of the year. a huge jump in the stock market. people talking about economic health as being the health of the stock market when, in fact, you know, we know that for a lot of hard-working middle and working class families that the economic benefits that we see in the stock market have not been spread as evenly as you go down the economic ladder. so i think he has a significant mandate to take on many of those challenges. i absolutely agree with steve, though, we're going to get an opportunity very early on with this snowstorm to understand that just as you are seeking to do something about economic inequality and equal opportunity, new yorkers expect the streets to be plowed sufficiently and efficiently and we'll get an opportunity to see that within the next 24 hours.

>> the party went through an evolution -- first of all, i think some who are concerned about de blasio particularly call him the elite or whatever, some of it is misplaced. if you look at who he chose as police chief and as his deputy mayor to help run day-to-day operation in the city, who he looked to choose as school chancellor, his lead lawyer for the city. they come from mainstream thinking in the democratic party. yesterday there was some rhetoric and so forth at the inauguration that may raise some concerns but i've been a part of inaugurals but that's what happens. you get a little ahead of yourself. no doubt he'll be tested right away. i hope we come forward with concrete ideas. when bill clinton was elected -- these are some of the ideas.

minimum wage hike, doing it in a way in which you don't penalize small restaurants, but you help head of households. finding ways even as mayor of a city to encourage and incent the city. i can appreciate people for worthy ideas. but you have to grow the job base if you want the city to grow and for that matter any city to grow. i would agree there's some comfort elites can say bill clinton and hillary clinton was there. but i want to hear the mayor going forward talk about a progressive agenda but a fair agenda and growth agenda. >> looking at new york city as a microcosm of the rest of the country in terms of some of the issues it faces i do think his grand idea of addressing economic inequality is the

question of our generation. how and legislating is a big unknown. lot of grand ideas laid out on the first day. how they will get accomplished, we'll look at some of the challenges in steve's charts later. in other news democrats are wasting no time making unemployment benefits a top priority this year. hillary clinton's last tweet of 2013 called on congress to restore jobless benefits for millions of americans saying ten years ago i was proud to begin working on bipartisan efforts to save unemployment insurance. let's do it again quickly in this new year. majority leader mary reid said the senate will vote on a three month extension of unemployment benefits on monday. he can't guarantee the house would follow the senate tease lead calling the lower chamber a quote black hole of legislation. benefits for 1.3 million people expire this past saturday. that dropped the number of european employed americans receiving benefits through federal programs to 25%.

it is the lowest level since the department of labor began keeping records in 1946. >> this is just appalling. no excuse for this. this is a $25 billion item for 2014. they just got done doing a budget deal where they could have found another $25 billion. these are people long term unemployed. as some republicans have suggested not kicking them off unemployment will lead them to get a job. there aren't jobs for these people. and the idea that they could not find another $25 billion in a $4 trillion budget to extend this -- >> steve some republicans feel that they are doing americans a favor. >> i tried to address that by saying they are not. these people cannot find jobs. if you look at the way unemployment has come down, it's come down with people who only have been out of work for a short time getting jobs first. >> robert gibbs, is this going to get through the house?

>> i don't know if it will get through the house but i'll say this. this will be an extremely hard vote for republicans to vote no on. look, i remember having these fights way back even in the early '90s in watching the republicans under george h.w. bush repeatedly rebuff democratic efforts to increase unemployment insurance and i want creates a huge sticky problem for republicans who are trying to convince people that they care about folks like them. that's why you show up in polls and the republicans do very poorly when it comes to caring about problems like i have. i think this will simply highlight that going into the new year. add on to that increasing the minimum wage and a bunch of republicans voting against that. i think you see an economic narrative that's not going to look good come november for republicans. >> look, this is two things. one democrats should not have agreed to this.

i don't think democrats should have agreed to this from the outset. they should have found the 25 billion during negotiation between paul ryan and patty murray. if republicans do not support an extension of this i think gibbs is being kind in terms of his appraisal of how they will be perceived by the public. >> the argument you hear against this is the same one you hear about welfare you are enabling these people. you need to create incentives. >> $300 a week we're talking about. >> so, here are the problems within all this. a couple of layers to it. steve, little confused here when you look at different economic indicators that feed into this argument. several suggesting the united states is beginning the year in a state of firm recovery, in the third quarter alone economic growth surged to 4.1%. up 2.8% from the same period in

2012. unemployment dropped 7.0% to its lowest level in five years. the economy also saw an increase in jobs added per month. and long term unemployment declined. the number of housing starts also increased last year as well as the number of u.s. auto sales and these numbers are always so misleading in some ways because you look at the reality that many are facing and, you know, all of us have anecdotal evidence around us that people can't find jobs and there are people who are out for good. >> sure there are people out for good. it's a tale, a mixed tale. you can't put this into a neat box and summarize the 2013 economy. for example the 4.1% number is inflated because it includes more inventory building by stores than normal. will come down. we're running at roughly a 2.8% growth rate or something like that. i think the essential -- if you want to boil this down,

essentially a picture of an economy that is clearly in recovery mode, continues to grow slowly, growing a bit faster, adding a few more jobs, up to a little over 200,000 jobs per month on average. >> how long would that take? >> i'll tell you. at the current rate of job increase of 200,000 jobs a month we won't get back to the same level of 2007 until december of 2018 which is five years from now. >> there were kids in high school in '07 who graduated from college, out for a few years, unable to find -- don't remember that economy. >> we'll talk more about this. i know you have charts for us. coming up on "morning joe," talk show host, hugh hewitt and nancy gibbs. up next they spent a week trapped in the ice at the end of the world.

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time now to take a look at the morning papers. from our parade of. terrifies minneapolis star tribune a 100-year-old apartment building exploded yesterday in minneapolis injuring 14 people and sending a tower of smoke and flames 20 feet into the air. as many as four people are unaccounted for in subzero temperatures several people jumped from the third floor as the building began to fall apart around them. crews still have not been able to enter the building because it's not clear how safe the structure is. still no word on what caused the explosion.

the houston chronicle former first lady barbara bush remains hospitalized this morning in houston, texas. she was admitted monday for a e resp ira tory issue. rescue efforts are under way for the ship stuck in layers of ice since christmas eve off the coast of antarctica. a ship arrived today to begin the long awaited rescue mission. 22 of the 52 scientists and tourists have been evacuated. three different ships have tried unsuccessfully since saturday to reach the stranded vessel. "chicago tribune" during 2013, chicago saw its fewest homicides since 1965. chicago reporting 415 murders last year. that's down 18% from 2012. overall crime was down 16%.

a level not seen since 1972. but the reductions have come at a price. the city tripled it's overtime budget for police. orlan"orlando sentinel," a florida judge ruled a controversial won the law requiring welfare applicants to submit to drug testing is unconstitutional. governor rick scott vows to rephilly law as his law is his signature piece of legislation. >> "denver post," colorado is the first state in the nation to allow the purchase of marijuana for recreational use. yesterday was greed wednesday. some worry about effect on crime and health. supporters say the law is a major step forward. they say marijuana has less serious side effects than other drugs including alcohol. it's projected to bring in $67 million in sales tax revenue this year. much of what they say will go to building schools. "usa today," 4.6 million

snap chat user names and phone numbers were leaked on an online database on tuesday. snap chat was warned about a hole in its security system months ago. the hackers said they wanted to put pressure on the app to get the issue fixed. only the first eight digits of users phone numbers were posted and the site is currently shut down. the official blowing and social network sites for skype were also hacked. a post on the company's blog read hacked by syrian electronic army stop spying. >> can't see any of the pictures, right? >> i don't know. my daughter snap chatted me over vacation and i didn't like it. not good. >> how about the detroit free price fiat agreed to purchase the remaining stock of chrysler for $4.35 billion. this gives the all the automaker

total ownership and pave the way for fiat and chrysler to merge. it says one other thing. spring of 2009, value of chrysler stock $0. today based on this deal, close to $10 billion. >> you were there. >> the lives at the beginning. this is a really great story for america, for jobs, for what you can do when government play as positive role. >> absolutely. >> here, here. >> let's look at politico. with us, the politico editor-in-chief mr. john harris. happy new year to you, sir. we have a lot to look forward to in 2014. let's stop with the top governor race and we begin in the state of florida, governor rick scott taking on republican turned democrat charlie crist. >> this is a race looked at not just in florida but nationally as direction of where the country is headed as we, you know, really look ahead to 2016.

also really it's going to shine a light on the war within the republican party because remember charlie crist a democrat used to be an establishment republican and then left the party, was thrown out however you want to look at it. he's trying to come back against rick scott who is a formidable opponent in some ways because he has a ton of money but vulnerable. so, anyway florida is really going to be, i think, ground zero not just in 2016 but in 2014. >> what's the public sentiment towards charlie crist in the state of florida? he was a republican who was an independent, by the way and then a democrat. how are people feeling about him these days? >> well there's a lot of people who always liked charlie crist personally and then when he started to do this ideological tap dance it hurt his reputation nationally among political elites and left him without a home in florida. a big part of his challenge is

to introduce himself, re-introduce himself as somebody who has been principled and consistent rather than opportunistic which usually a kind of a death stamp in any context in any party if you're seen as without principle, without back bone, without any kind of core convictions. >> another fascinating race in the state of texas. the republican a.g. facing wendy davis who shot to national fame during her filibuster against abortion restrictions in the state of texas. what do we look for here? >> well that would be a real sign of the times if wendy davis who, of course did as you say shot to national celebrity because of the abortion issue if she were to wage a competitive race. that would tell you something big about the direction of texas. at the state level this is a heavily republican state for a good while. and so although wendy davis,

well-known nationally, abbott has the stronger position. if she makes a race of this, it will be an interesting development. >> abbott has $20 million in the bank. another great race we'll be watching is the state of wisconsin, governor scott walker is taking on mary burke former executive of the trek biking company. everyone across the country knows scott walker his fight against the unions. what about mary burke? >> we don't know a lot about her. people watching this race not so much but because of her but because of scott walk who are has made, hasn't made a bigamistry of it if he comes off commanding win clearly is planning a presidential race in 2016. the race is going to be about him not her. remember he looked very vulnerable during that recall effort shortly after he was elected but he won it and since then he's really been shoring up his support. i think he'll be a tough incumbent to beat even though

this is a very, very narrowly divided state in wisconsin. >> the list of fascinating races go on. >> republicans month hold 30 of seats. >> john harris with a look inside the politico playbook. thanks so much. coming, it's bowl season in college football. we'll look back at yesterday's action. michigan state number four against number five stanford. good finish to this one. sports is next. ♪ [ male announcer ] even more impressive than the research this man has at his disposal is how he puts it to work for his clients. morning. morning. thanks for meeting so early. come on in.

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harold, i'm impressed. he changes diapers. >> of course he does. >> i don't believe it. i'm going to need proof. >> give emily a little break. let's do some football. here's what he was doing. rose bowl, fifth ranked stanford against michigan. tied at 17-17. 25 yard touchdown. play of the game.

less than two minutes to play michigan state hangs on to a four-point lead. stanford on fourth and one, look at the spartan fly over the pile. stuffs the run stops stanford on fourth down. michigan state wins the rose bowl 24-20. after the game the spartans tried to congratulate head coach. he side steps it. michigan state beats stanford and wins the rose bowl. >> michigan state has been a stepping stone for a long time. he's going to be sticking around. >> michigan state playing without their number one defensive player and played great for the big ten. >> fun game. kid who made the play -- great season. fiesta bowl number 15 central florida, taking on sixth rank baylor. second quarter ucf with a one-point lead.

blake throws the wide receiver screen and it's off to treeses. -- to the races. storm johnson ran for three more. central florida outlast baylor. 52-42, central florida gets the win. watch for that kid in the nfl draft. nebraska number 23 georgia in the gator bowl. nebraska up five. a mishandled snap sends the cornhuskers back. this looks like it will be a safety for georgia. but the ball is marked down inside the one yard line so keep the ball on the next play tommy armstrong let's one loose to a wide-open receiver, 99 yards is the touchdown. they go for giving up the safety to scoring the long one. nebraska beats georgia. iowa's with a pick and return. but wait. what does he do.

oh, don't -- >> oh, my gosh. he dropped the bowl. designee didn't do that. no he didn't do that. >> half a step. >> you hate to see that. come on. lsu hangs on to win this game. >> i think the kid was across the line. he got chipped. he got robbed. >> the pre-season consensus number one college football prospect may have lost a little value but clowney made the announcement yesterday he will be one of the top picks if not the top pick despite some doubters another possible top pick louisville quarterback bridgewater will enter the nfl draft. he may be the top quarterback in his class and number one overall pick. reports have it that former

bears head coach heading to tampa. the deal is for our years pep led the bears to super bowl and three playoff appearances over nine years in chicago. good for him and tampa. nhl winter classic how cool is this game? >> these things sometimes don't translate to tv with the wind and snow. 105,000 people in michigan. >> at harold ford's big house in ann arbor, michigan. perfect weather. freezing cold. snowing. red wings and maple leaf, wind chill of minus one. playing outside. how great is this? snow accumulation led to a bunch of stoppages so they could sweep it off. nice rebound. this one came down to a shootout. toronto had a chance to seal it for the leafs. that's your game winner. leafs beat detroit at the big house. what a cool spectacle. >> it was getting snowy. back-checking against the wind

is something these guys never had to deal with in their enliar life. >> brilliant event by the nhl. >> we criticize them a lot but it's the one great thing they do every year. >> to the nba, the fourth pick in last year's draft pick finished from the dotted line. >> does that mean he has less of a leap than you do? >> i have seen willie make the dunks. >> i'll go over a chair too. look at that. come on cody. clippers rip the bobcats. the big one saturday, in birmingham, alabama where the vanderbilt comes against the cougars. >> monday 8:30 i'm loving underdogs in pasadena after michigan state. >> you going out to pasadena.

>> yes, sir. tomorrow morning. sunny and 80. ethan will be there. >> oh, my gosh, no more beautiful place for a football game. coming up next steve rattner's best charts of 2013. i dare you to miss that. we'll be right back with more we'll be right back with more "morning joe."lenol®.

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♪ ♪ if you want it here it is come and get it ♪ live look at washington, d.c. let's hope 2014 is the one when washington works. welcome back to "morning joe." it's 47 past the hour. it's still dark out. it's snowy. it's going to get worse. we'll check on the weather soon. you know they have casey casum's countdown. we have rattner's best charts of

the year. let's count it down. steve rattner, winners and losers. >> let's start with winners and losers for the year. we alluded to it earlier on. if you compare what happened in the stock market which was up 32% for the year to what happened with incomes and jobs which were up 1.5% each for the year you sort of get a quick picture of what's going on out there. it was simply another year where the rich got richer. increase in stock prices was the biggest since 1997. it was huge. corporate profits did not go up as much at 3.9% but still went up a lot more than jobs and incomes did. and housing prices actually were also quite strong although housing prices remain 20% below their peak. you're looking at a picture where the stock market is 35% above its peak, house cigarette 20% below its peak, incomes are up only about 3.9% since 2007.

and so very much a tale of two cities that continue -- >> explain for people. what do you make of profits up less than 4%. stocks up that big. how do you reconcile that for viewers? >> that's simply a case where people got more bullish, as we were talking about, more bullish on the economy, more bullish on the market. as you know, harold, what we call the earnings multiple has expanded. people are willing to pay more. some has to do with ben bernanke and the feds. but there's clearly a raging bull market going on. we talked on the show about twitter which is now trading something at 80 times its revenues and has no profits. >> is that a bubble in the biggest way? >> it's not a bubble in the biggest way. we had bigger bubls. i'm not in the stock market predicting business but we should be nervous. i want made a lot of people very rich this year. let's go back and talk about the defining issues of the fall of last year.

one being the budget deal that went on. it led to the budget shutdown, toledo the murray-ryan deal. just to remind everybody what actually happened. the deal that was done increased spending by $65 billion over the next year. restored part of the sequester cuts. came up with $85 billion of offsets in the outyears. when you look at this chart when it shows what happens to mandatory spending like social security, medicare and other entitlement programs and you look at what is happening to discretionary spending because of the sequester, where it moves from this line to this line, moves down from 124%, 24% increase over the next ten years, all the ryan-murray budget deal did after all the wrangling, all the shutdowns, all the fighting all it did was smooth out this tiny little piece of the sequester. >> thank you so much. >> cutbacks. that was it.

so all the rest of this, all these same issues of discretionary spending not going up by much, mandatory spending going up a lot remain in place. >> let's get to the last chart, a little bit of time left. after a decade of obamacare you look at what it looks like. >> again remind people on obamacare. the website was a mess. the president didn't do himself favors with the way he handled it. let's remember what obamacare will do. obamacare if it works and i believe it jocko willink take down the number of uninsured people by 25 million over the next ten years from 56 million to 31 million. it is going to do that without having much effect at all, it will have some effect but not a meaningful effect on 80% of people who get their health care through their employer. and then the people that have been getting these cancelations that have been so much in the news, they are part of this 15 million here in the non-exchange marketplace will move over to the exchanges, many of them,

which are going to provide more competition, ideally eventually lower prices for most of them, not all, there will be some losers and this cross section here these are the people who will get subsidies from the government to help them buy health care and these are the people who will see, who will benefit from the medicaid expansion. the real point of obamacare is to move so many people out of the uninsured roles, on to the insured roles and provide more competition and transparency for those in the individual marketplace. i think it will work. >> in the long term. nothing seizy. i'm glad to hear that. still ahead on "morning joe" he joins jimmy fallon as one of the new faces of comedy. we'll unveil the new issue. up next why a missing banker once assumed dead is now in police custody. we'll tell you how authorities tracked him down when we come back. ♪ should not all those presents make the cut ♪

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he was picked up on a roy in the traffic stop in coastal georgia for having tinted windows that were too dark. he was accused by the fbi of moving $21 million into accounts to hide other thefts or trading losses. this is the last video thought to have existed of him. surveillance footage from key west, florida in june of 2012 about to get on the a ferryboat with weights that differs usually use. he left a note for friends and planned on killing himself by jumping off a boat. a judge declared him dead but the fbi believed the former minister was still alive all along. when he was finally caught tuesday he told the arresting deputy quote, sit down i'm going to make you famous. >> all right. >> he's due in court this morning. very much alive and very much in trouble. >> okay. coming up next. bill karins is tracking the big winter storm heading our way

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♪ it's a beautiful morning in new york city. not. welcome back to "morning joe." harold ford jr. still with us along with robert gibbs in washington. and joining the table cnbc's

brian sullivan. happy new year. at the top of the hour, how is everybody doing? >> great. >> you're good? did anybody do anything interesting, brian? >> first off happy new year, mika. i can't think of a better way to start the new year than spending two hours with you. >> is that sarcasm? >> i had a great time. took the family on vacation. i do feel guilty because we talk about consumer spending. i blew it. we agreed almost no gift this year. the trip was the vacation. i did not help stimulate the economy. >> that's kind of nice. that's a good message. >> saved money on wrapping paper. protecting the trees. >> gibbiy? >> my big vacation is coming up on friday, going out the pasadena looking forward to 80 degree l. >> nothing going on in harold ford jr.'s life. >> we had a baby. there she is.

her mom is healthy. happy birthday to my wife i won't reveal her age. happy birthday sweetheart. >> georgia eats every two hours. she doesn't sleep through the night. >> she sleeps at most two hours and 20 minutes. my wife has been unbelievable. great christmas. >> can't have a better gift. >> by no means. >> willie worked. >> i was here but all my family is in this area. >> was santa good is now >> not to me in particular but he was good to my children. >> santa was good to joe. you know what he got? i helped his friends get it. a kitty. you know what i insisted when i heard he wanted a cat. it be a rescue. this is a rescue cat that was found at the side of the highway. isn't it cute? it was the skimpiest mangled little thing when he first got it but now he's bigger. he named it the colonel but his kids call it oreo.

>> i can see the headline now famous television host in hospital with scratches with feral cat. designee likes it. it's tiny. >> i'm going to eat a pigeon. >> it's cute. i insisted it was a rescue. you all should get rescue animals. i'll get another rescue dog for my daughter for her birthday. you have two rescue? >> yeah. >> i want to see them. you have rescue animals. wait a minute. >> i found one eating spaghetti out of a trash can in queens after 9/11. 14 years old. >> makes me like you. >> were you eating spaghetti out of the trash can? >> i could have been. rescue dogs are so thankful. >> they are so great. i'm getting another one. i got to get the right one. >> brian, you made three great picks last year, bold picks and

you were right about all three and you deserve a little credit for that. tell us the three. gold, nikkei. >> i said the nikkei would be the best performing stock market in the world last year. gold would be a bust. and sometimes a blind squirrel finds a nut. thank you. >> rescue thing was good but that is so cheesy. what's the deal there? we got to help him. all right. we do need to cover the weather before we get to the news because we're two days into the new year and we're looking at blizzard-like conditions. already forecast for a huge section of the country. right now nearly 40 million people are under winter storm warnings. 950 flights cancelled yesterday. nearly as many have already been cancelled for today. let's go to nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill? >> as you said so many millions of people will be affected by

this storm. two pieces of advice as it snows shovel. you don't want to be out in the dangerous wind chills. second point is 24 hours from right now people do not don't on the roads in eastern portions of new england from boston to providence, southern new england and likely out there on long island and maybe even areas in new jersey from new york city down to atlantic city. that's kind of the highlighted portions of this forecast. already seeing snow out there, covering the ground, a couple of inch, three to four in indianapolis spreading in to ohio. light coating of snow one to three from buffalo to albany, syracuse. north of i-90. most of the steadier snows. as far as snow totals boston looking 12 to 18, new york city somewhere around half a foot. pittsburgh three to five. specifically the timing of it, the worst in new england will be as we go throughout the night tonight into tomorrow morning all the snow ending by 10:00 a.m. but it will be blowing all over the place and that's the bigger concern, wind chills about minus ten at this time

tomorrow with all that blowing and drifting of the snow making for a very dangerous travel conditions. back to you. >> bill karins thank you very much. today marks the first full day of the bill de blasio era in new york city. the new mayor was sworn into office yesterday by former president bill clinton. de blasio spoke about a fresh start for new york city bringing a progressive message to the democratic party. >> we recognize government's first duties. our city government's first responsibilities. to keep our neighborhoods safe. to keep our streets clean. ensure that those who live here and those who visit can get where they need to go in every borough. but we know that our mission reaches deeper. we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the

city we love. our march towards a fairer, more just, more progressive place. our march to keep the promise of new york alive for the next generation. it begins today. >> and some say de blasio's election along with the popularity of say senator elizabeth warren just to think of one, don't you roll your eyes brian sullivan. did you just roll your eyes? >> no, i did not. i was looking at pictures of my rescue dog. >> are you sure? mark my words elizabeth warren will emerge. you all think i'm crazy, really. >> she has a lot of people behind her. >> she has a message. >> thank you. i'll finish. hinting at a new direction for the democratic party, suggesting how progressive ideals may play a larger role in the next presidential election. and president clinton embraced

the progressive shift. >> i strongly endorse bill de blasio's core campaign commitment that we have to have a city of shared opportunities, shared prosperity, shared responsibilities. we are interdependent. look around. we can't get away from each other. we have to define the terms of our dependence. this inequality problem bedevils the entire country and i can tell you from my work, much of the world. but it is not just a moral outrage, it is a horrible constraint on economic growth and on giving people the security we need to tackle problems like climate change. we cannot go forward if we don't do it together. >> all right, brian. put it to the side for a second

it took until bill clinton the end to acknowledge the existence even of mayor bloomberg who was sitting right there in the last 12 years of service he gave to the city. put that to the side. let's talk about new york city as a laboratory for this fight against inequality. it was a theme for bill de blasio. he's in office now. now as a practical matter what can he do to attack inequality. >> it's good question and something that has to be done and define our nation not just new york but define our nation for years if not decades to come, how do you raise wages. steven rattner made the point in the previous hour we saw the stock market go like this and i'm the first one to admit the stock market shot this the economy. it's great the stock market is up if you have a 401(k), a pension but it's not the overall economy. there are only certain things governments can do about wages if you want to mandate a higher federal wage or state minimum wage. there's one way you can do it. you can pick and choose the studies you want. when you look at new york city,

mika, my wife and i and our daughter live outside of the city and we thought about moving in and she has a good career and i have a good career. you look at the prices here. i don't understand how people do it. it's basically 500,000 per bedroom. that's bare minimum. schools if you're lucky enough to get in them. people say de blasio will be bad. i don't think so. one thing that de blasio said about a year and a half ago in a speech at nyu is that we need more building, more construction, we need more affordable housing. okay. listen to what he said. we need more building. that's jobs. we need more construction. that's jobs. i have friends in wall street that are panicking about de blasio. >> what's the panic. >> they are rich. there's a fear that their taxes are going to go up to a point where they can't sustain a life in new york city any more. listen, anybody can live anywhere they want to it's a question how you want to live. >> isn't he only at this point proposing a tax for universal

pre-k all day pre-k. >> the great divide is there's differences between income taxes and wealth taxes. warren buffett says he pays less taxes than his secretary. you take a partnership dispersement in the form of stock. income tax is what people are afraid of. i worked for mike's company for 12 years. fair disclosure. the city is on good footing now. i honestly -- i mean this sincerely i don't know how people live here. stupidly expensive. >> i agree. i had high hopes for de blasio. identify been at dinners where people who are fairly successful in new york city, they go oh, my god, that's going to be scary. i don't understand what

necessarily they are afraid of with him except for perhaps the change in policing but then he put brenton in place. >> lowest murder rate in the history of new york city. we're on good footing. if you have a safe city you'll have a more likelihood of a prosperous city and i think the word willie used was excellent, the laboratory. what happens here -- listen, chicago. you know, i know it's early. chicago has had a lot of problems. my wife is from chicago. the murder rate is out of control. we'll see what happens here and if maybe it will translator to cities. last thing i'll say and i said this for years, we need -- americans need to be cognizant of what they buy because it's hard to have wage gains if companies have no pricing power. if we're just obsessed with buying the lowest cost good all time and you say i have to because i have no income. there's your downward spiral of the economy. we need to be smart about what

we buy that's all. >> robert, have democrats anding fromives put too many eggs in the de blasio/elizabeth warren basket. we're moving in this direction, getting more progressive, more liberal. is that true a and b, is that a good thing for the democratic party? >> look, i think we always watch these things as if one election is a movement that will sweep either the nation or the party. i said this earlier. i think what mayor de blasio campaigned on and what he wants to do, he has a significant mandate to do having gotten almost 75% of the vote and, you know, i think there is going to be a push inside of the party and i think across the country as everybody has talked about to do something about income in equalie inequality. when we talk about building sorry the pre-k idea is an investment in human capital

because we'll not create jobs and will not have a growth agenda unless or until we have employees that are trained to be able to do the hi-tech, high wage jobs that we all want to bring either to new york or to the rest of the country, and, you know, we know what happens if you're in the third grade and not reading at third grade level by the time you get out of high school you have no shot. we understand if people don't start out with a good education, creating high quality jobs and dealing with the high cost of living it's just never going to happen. so i think -- i applaud what mayor de blasio is doing and i think many people are excited because they see that hope of opportunity coming to them. >> let me throw something out there in terms of elizabeth warren and the impact of her message and the job she's doing. in the next version of double down or game change if not before, i predict you will hear stories about her getting a

talking toby top level officials from another potential democratic front-runner because she was too much of a threat. >> you say it already happened or will happen. >> yeah. >> the best politicians and the best political campaigns and the best people manage in politics are those who are able to help everyone to grow. when you can construct the message and president obama did this very well almost six years ago now and again a year and a half ago, if you show if we make investment, raise tax, make cuts, everyone will grow. people buy into what you do. i have confidence mayor de blasio understands that. sometimes it's rhetoric. sometimes those around him the rhetoric may be excessive. he recognizes new york will not grow if you pit one segment against the other. if we raise taxes to get pre-kfor every kid or build new subway lines or airports or housing people will buy into it.

if we want to cut entitlement spending to invest in education, to invest in small business tax cuts to help stimulate economic growth the country will buy into that. politicians have to be careful not to pit one group against another. when we understand we're growing together it's a win. to those that is wealthy in this city, anybody believing de blasio is creating a bigger class war, i will remind them they won that war. we have to stimulate growth. >> on that note and by the way i want to join the pre-k movement to push for that. working on it. may not be allowed. we'll see. the new year actually this -- i know you want to chime in about it. democrats are wasting no time making unemployment benefits a top priority this year. hillary clinton's last tweet of 2013 called on congress to restore jobless benefits for millions of americans saying ten years ago i was proud to begin

working on bipartisan efforts to save unemployment insurance. let's go it again quickly in this new year. majority leader harry reid said the senate will vote on a three month extension of unemployment benefits on monday. reid said he can't guarantee the house would follow the senate's lead calling the lower chamber a black hole of legislation. benefits for 1.3 million people expired this past saturday. that dropped the number of unemployed americans receiving benefits through federal programs to just 25%. it is the lowest level since the department of labor began keeping records in 1946. but take this unemployment insurance argument against the backdrop, brian sullivan, of several economic indicators that suggests the country and this is the argument, is beginning the year in a state of firm recovery. yeah. i know. >> it is. >> i'm with you. go ahead. take it. in the third quarter alone look

at economic growth. >> that's a good number. >> surged 4.1%. up from 2.8%. unemployment dropped 7.%. that's a good number. >> going tringt direction. >> economy saw an increase in jobs added per month and long term unemployment declined. number of housing starts increased last year as well as number of u.s. auto sales. is there an argument to be made? >> i'll take it in a different direction having traveled around this country extensively for work and personal. we have a jobs crisis in this country but we also have a labor mobility crisis. i want to figure out if congress could figure out how to solve that. when i twoend midland, texas, places that benefitted from the oil gas boom, mcdonald's is paying $17, $20 tan hour. truck drivers making $200,000 a year. vw opened up a big plant in

chattanooga, tennessee. if you're an unemployed worker in michigan you want to go to tennessee but sitting on a mortgage that's under water and can't sell your house. your options are this. destroy your credit to walk away from your mortgage to get a job in tennessee or stikt out in michigan and hope the job comes to you. my job lost his job in 1985. we went bust. we moved from san diego to rural virginia. we had nothing. and my dad's unemployment benefits ran out and we basically -- we moved back to where he had grown up and literally started over. we were able to move because my mother cashed out her pension from at&t in one lump sum. we need to help people go to where the jobs are. there's 3 million open jobs in this country. the problem is unemployment rate is high and we're in ohio. youngstown which i go to every year. it's terrible. there's no jobs.

nothing there. but there are jobs elsewhere but you can't get there. and we got to figure out how to help people get there. >> i saw your series on cnbc. matt lewis was on your show. and, matt talked about idea about relocation grants perhaps should be part of a broader conversation. >> sounds like a good idea. >> these are the ideas. unfortunately washington is so bogged down in left, right and crazy versus crazier they don't get to dealing with these kinds of concrete ideas that could help people find employment and good paying employment. i'm a big fan of the energy renaissance. biggest one the jobs are good paying jobs. >> they pay incredibly well. i was in williston. i was at the hotel freshly built on a dirt road. because they built the hotel before they got the road in. kid drives up in an old beater.

he's 19 years old. got in his car from savannah, georgia and notified williston. he just arrived. i saw the georgia tags and we started talking and he said i'm here for a job. >> how old is he. >> 19. >> how do you take your family existing across the country, help them move, not prevent them from going under water and ruining their credit. >> we rent ad three bathhouse for seven years after we notified virginia for nothing. nobody cares. >> no, actually that's an incredible story. >> listen, people say you work for cnbc. wear nice suits. must be some silver spoons. my some more a high school dropout who got her ged at 28 years old. i had two grades growing up. a and whipped. no whipping. verbal whipping. >> oh, my lord. actually, we can go into my family but then they would call

d.c. up. robert gibbs, is this going to get through the house? >> i think unemployment insurance is going to be something that will be hard to get through congress. it shouldn't be. i think it was just mentioned and we talked about it really for more than an hour. you know, you have seen the people that have lost their jobs in this economy tend not to be the 19-year-olds that are driving across the country. they tend to be older workers who are unemployed for longer periods of time and the longer they are unemployed the harder it is to find a job and the jobs that they are finding don't pay nearly what they were. >> that's it. >> when they had the job before. so, this is a -- harold talked about washington not working. this is a perfect example. these are long term unemployed that need the help and they need the assistance. it's not a huge amount of money and money that want gets immediately pumped back into the economy because if you don't have a job you're spending your money on food, you're spending

your money on rent because you need to survive and this is a very short sighted decision by congress if they decide not to extend for the long term unemployed unemployment insurance. >> harold, to your point, i'm not saying don't extend them, try something new. maybe the moving grants or something different. right? >> i like that. >> something else. >> it's a complicated economy and the older workers getting kicked out. that's almost in some ways more complicated because there's no way back in. i have a friend who has a book coming out next week, "reset." our age. the kind of guy you thought would be okay. always went to dinner the family and they are going to be okay forever. how do i get there. and out. completely out of the economy. pushed out. laid off. and he wrote a book about his struggle to get back in.

and it's about thinking completely outside of the box. and dealing with the psychological problems, the family problems, the depression that comes with being unemployed after having been employed -- it's more than that. >> i watched it. >> it's a gut wrenching experience for the entire family. we're going to be having him on. but that story is the one that is being repeated again and again and again in this country and it's not a simple fix. it's not move here get a job. they got to reinvent themselves. >> up have to write a thank you note my father. to be fair my dad is a great guy. unemployed for almost a year and a half. you watch what it does to your psyche. >> you're the result of that hard work so he should be so proud. >> what a shame. >> your rolling your eyes at me, mika? >> i'm looking right at you and i thought that story was amazing. robert gibbs thank you very much. brian sullivan will be back with

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♪ welcome back to "morning joe." 29 past the hour here with us now the host of the hugh hewitt show and professor at chapman university law school hugh hewitt, author of "happiest life." i love it. what a great book to start 2014 with. >> a great story to lead into it. i'm still talking to brian

listening to his story going from san diego to virginia, and the happiest life is full of stories like that. i've been interviewing people for 25 years. i've been on talk radio for 25 years. it turn out the most interesting aspect of almost every guest, prime minister, president, is the back story on their life, usually their parents, their teachers, their colleagues, people that gave them a break along the way. i'll guarantee of all the people watching this morning, you had bob on, bob is always interesting and steve on the economics earlier i was watching they will remember the brian story and an encouragement to them. >> i don't disagree. i think learning the back story of the person you're interviewing often kind of takes away any preconceived notions you might have about their ideology, about their points of view on different policies. you sort of understand them more. >> i was watching the de blasio swearing in yesterday in the second row was tony shore. we're old friends. we'll be your first deputy mayor. his back story, his dad was a

crusading progressive journalist. fantastically smart guy. new york made some big changes in the next couple of years and tony and the mayor will be part of that. they will do it with the best of hearts. but it's going wild ride around here for the next couple of years. >> let's go through your happiness guide. first of all, what was your inspiration to write this book. is there something in your background? >> 2012 was so grim for republicans. i'm a big romney guy. i wrote a biography about him in 2007. i wrote his campaign book. and so i was pretty bummed as most republicans were. when i sat down to write a book. i'm going to do something different with 10,000 interviews and if you start adding up the number you've done whether julie andrews or dick van dike, there's always good stories to tell. i began to make a chart of what

genuinely makes people fun to talk to and it turns out that there is a set of characteristics that make people happy no matter their station in life. in fact, ufc in the makeup chair this morning with danielle, the makeup artist talking about her daughter ava. she's very upbeat, got a lot of energy and the very first thing that makes people happy generally, poor, rich, in between is that they bring energy to getting up in the morning and throughout the entire day. other six characteristics are like that. >> let's go through your happiness guide. encouragement. energy. enthusiasm. empathy. good humor. graciousness and gratitude. the guide is to what draw from these different? >> it's to point out examples from primarily people i worked with and interviewed as to how they display that and gratitude, for example, you almost always find someone who i'm sure, the

congressman had someone give him a start. that's going to be a common denominator of everybody who is perky, not a big fan of perky. content. generally happy. >> i see you as myrthful and content. >> so not to jump in front of steve you take your seven gifts. how do these apply and what advice do you give. this show focuses a lot on the political culture. how would politicians at every level take from these seven lessons -- i know we may differ a lot in philosophy. what could they take from this to make washington more functional >> the best thing i can tell you on the back of the blurb is from jonathan altar. jonathan is wrong about everything. but he's a terrific historian. he wrote a great book on obama.

and an fdr book. jonathan comes on my show. we'll spend an hour at a time just throwing hammers at each other about ideas not about people. he's a wonderful mayor. i think that my closest friend in the world is a guy who was president clinton's deputy chief of staff. he's wrong about everything and he's still my closest friend. d.c. i lived there during the reagan years and been in california ever since. much more personal. this has to do with youth and twitter and just the edginess of it. joe is a very wonderful guy. joe comes on my show and we go round and round a few times but not with any evil intent. so a lowering of the personal vendetta side even as people remain completely committed to very desperate set of ideas. >> not everybody has these seven qualities necessarily. not everybody can replicate

brian's amazing story of how he got to be here. in fact, he talked in the last segment about how difficult it is now if you have a house and mortgage and all that. what's the role of government in helping people get to -- become happy? in providing things that will allow home to have these seven qualities and a story like brian's. >> he mentioned warren, ohio. i grew up in ohio. catholic education. warren is flouric. flourishing because of fracking. government can get out of the way sometimes and allow the market to come in as it has in north dakota, in midland, texas, northeastern, ohio and allow the technologies to advance the job curve. it was a grim place to group. >> what about places where they don't have that? >> that's a great question and we can go back to -- i've been serving on something called the children and family's commission. we spend all of our money on

children 0 to 5 trying to figure out how to make them healthy. pre-school is not my opinion an answer. a great deal of intervention, the in home environment on how they eat, how they exercise. facilities. we built a swimming home in santa ana which has the highest conend transition of obese kids in southern california because they have no facilities. i think different approaches all of which involve investment. investment needs be smart not just spring money on the street and hopes it ends the inequality problem. >> before we go, am i wrong about everything? >> no you're not wrong. >> we meet in the middle. he evolves. he will too some day. don't worry. it will be okay. we got the secrets here.

okay. >> happy whether or not we win lowers. >> the book is "the happiest life." hugh hewitt thank you so much. coming up hundreds of new laws have taken effect with the usualering in of the new year. we'll tell you some of that may be coming to a town near you. that's next. don't go away. we'll be right back.

♪ 40 past the hour. a new year welcomes in a host of new laws as many as 40,000 of them in states throughout the country. nbc's pete williams takes us through a few on the list. >> reporter: starting in illinois, police must get a court order before they can launch drones to spy from the sky. it's the latest response to the rapid development of tiny aircraft that carry cameras, a prospect that worries civil libertarians. >> the drone can be up there marking your movement include urge movement in your own backyard. >> reporter: in california children must choose whether to play on boys are a girls teams or which bathroom to use. supporters say it will cut down

on discrimination and bullying. >> this is not people looking to get a thrill by going into. >> translator: gender bathroom. these are people who truly feel they have belonged in the opposite bathroom all along. >> reporter: after enduring long lines during the last election florida pass ad new law offering early voting. connecticut is the latest state to offer online registration. last phase of graduate ban on incandescent light bulbs. once existing stock is sold they will disappear from store shelves. in oregon a violation for adults to smoke in a car if anyone under 18 is along. rolling down the window won't make it legal. illinois makes it against the law to flick cigarette butts out the window with a stiff fine for repeat offenders. >> i don't litter. i throw my cigarettes out in a

trash can. >> reporter: and texans will pay more to toast the new year with a 8.25% sales tax. >> the smoke, does anyone here smoke? >> no. >> i don't get it. i'm sorry. up next "time" magazine's predictions for the new year including a look at a fresh new face and late night comedy. we're back in just a moment. [ children yelling ]

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[ laughter ] so charismatic, so charming. you would have loved him. what happened to you. when you were sworn in you looked like the guy from the old spice commercials now you look like gossett sr. i've never seen this before but maybe you should start smoking again. >> no. do not smoke. that was seth myers at the white house correspondent's dinner 2011 and "time" magazine features the new edition of the late night landscape on the cover of their new issue which looks at the year ahead and "time" managing editor nancy gibbs joins us now. seth myers on the cover. >> he has jimmy fallon bringing thing "tonight show" back here and seth myers taking over late night. all the nbc funny. >> late night is coming back.

is that possible? did it go away. >> i don't know it went away but between people watching it real-time and the rest of us who get up early in the morning watching it recorded it's obviously and sharing it, i think late night is a very, very powerful medium. >> i'm so excited about jimmy fallon. i think he's cool. do you agree, brian sullivan. >> never met him. >> but he's cool. >> can you introduce me? >> i just like the show is all i meant. i like what he does. all right. so you're looking ahead to the next year in "time" magazine? >> we're looking ahead to everything from politics to policy and state of the economy to health and food and sports and the weather. this is looking like it could be another el nino year. as we wait for another blizzard to hit us that's something else to look forward to down the line. >> you have a run up on janet yellen. >> of all the people to watch,

you could argue that a labor economist coming in when we have to figure out how to unwind the most unconventional monetary policy in history without damaging a fragile recovery she has her hands full. >> any branding expert probably would never ever, steve rattner, predicted that your brand would be charts and it would sell but it does. everyone talks to me about your charts. >> i think some might have predicted it might have been my -- i'm not a late night comedian so that leaves me with charts. but the fact that they would sell is a different matter. >> it's amazing. you also take a look at afghanistan. is the end in sight? is the answer no because it's always no. >> depends on what you mean by the end. end of our involvement as we bring troops home by the end of this year yes. but how many troops remain and their volley an open question. we've seen what has happened before when you have a major shift in afghanistan and disaster follows so i think

people are very worried what happens in that country and whether anyone here will care at this point. there was a time where we can't withdraw because the result for the afghan people will be too terrible. i'm not sure hearing that. >> want to get two more in. china. a double risk. >> they had this and they can't continue indefinitely. how that leadership manages to transition to an economy. >> the average income in china is 4,000 u.s. dollars a year. hundreds live on less than $1,000 a year. i have been nervous about china for years and i have been proven wrong. i don't know where the growth is coming from. >> there is a problem with the state and local debt. >> 200 times gdp.

200%. >> it's more like 67%, but whatever. more debt than anyone would like there to be, but what you see in china, i just think there is this will to win, this drive, this desire to get into the middle class and beyond. >> there never has been a nation that has low wages and strong economic growth. we got into this with the income and equality. you choose to be high wage or a low cost producer. that's what i figure china will do. >> babies in 2014. i will read one line here. they will likely be the most technologically dependent generation well. we talked about unplugging. it was so hard to unplug over vacation. our brains are wired to go back to the iphone or texting. my biggest worry is how i get my kids to get on board with not

being so dependent. >> my daughter who is a college freshmen changed each other's passwords for exams so they couldn't get on. you would return people's passwords to them when the exams were over. that was the only way to guarantee. >> what do you think of the ipad. the baby stares at the ipad all day. >> the brain is being rewired from generation to generation. all add. >> the first ones. >> 2014, the year ahead. i love it. thank you very much. still ahead, living with anxiety. atlantic editor tells his story about the most common form of mental illness in america. we'll be right back. ♪

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anybody. >> my plans are to watch a quarterback and watch stupid movies and play video games. >> all the heroin and all the other drugs, leave the weed smokers aloan. alcohol does way more damage than weed. >> obama got lots of votes in colorado, but pot beat him. >> and colorado would be the reason we could not book john heilman this morning. happy new year. welcome to "morning joe," 2014. i can't believe we are back here. with us on set, former treasury official and "morning joe" analyst steve ratner. i loved your picture in the times. political analyst and visiting

professor at nyu and congressman and new dad to georgia. is she beautiful. she is perfect. >> and she's mine. >> she's okay? that's good too. >> today is my wife's birthday too so happy birthday, tweet heart. >> happy birthday. former white house press secretary and msnbc contributor robert gibbs. i like your outfit. >> thank you. per per anything but that awful thing you once wore. >> it's terrible about the razor shortage in d.c. >> you still got yours. >> wait a minute. what are you doing, gibby? >> do i inspire you? >> i'm looking on the screen and you have yours? >> it's all the same. >> you growing a beard? >> i got lazy during the holidays.

>> hey, let me give you a suggestion. it's time to go back to work and be less lazy. >> i am going to write that down with your suggestion about my orange shirt. >> don't wear the orange shirt with that beard. willie, why aren't you in colorado this morning? >> that's not my bag. >> i'm back. i was not there. i did unplug. i went all wireless. not wireless, but completely cutoff. yes. it was a little bit like detox. it was hard. very hard. but i did do one thing before i left. for christmas i helped friends of "morning joe." get him a kitty. joe got a kitty for christmas. look. joe got a rescue kitty. >> did he want one? >> no, but he got one and his

kids named it oreo. he said everyone else needs to call it the colonel. when i met him he had non malls and now he has two dogs and a cat and he gets chickens next. found in a shelter. >> we would like to speak to him. >> it was left on the side of the road and it's an, doerable kitty. i will get a rescue dog for the new year. rescue an animal. it's worth it. we have a big storm coming. two days into the new year, blizzard-like conditions on a huge section of the country. 40 million people. 950 flights were canceled yesterday. nearly as many have been canceled for today. let's go to bill who probably didn't have much of a vacation. >> a lot of people are trying to get home from their vacations and some schools are close and some will be closed.

i imagine a few will probably close or delay because of the snow. let me show you the latest. in the northeast, light snow and very cold air. very fluffy. almost like styrofoam coming down. temperatures with light snow. you don't see it that often. is it too cold to snow? that's not the case. it will be a light fluffy snow through new england. it's snowing for a good 24-hours in boston. back in ohio valley, you can see there. very fine and light snow. the worst in boston will be from midnight tonight until about noon tomorrow. you will be told to stay off the roads. as far as other areas, a lot of snow is over within chicago. we will see an additional two to three and a storm total of up to 10 to 12. you have about four inches on the ground. in ohio it's snowing with about two to four on the ground.

in pittsburgh the worst is in the afternoon today. new england will be hit the hardest. some locations over a foot and mountainous areas. philadelphia and new york city, i have you somewhere in the change of about to five in philadelphia. to in new york. out on eastern long island and a possibility of 8 to 12 there. the thing that really will be the problem is not so much the snowfall totals. you can deal with this. it's the blowing and the drifting and the wind chill tomorrow. take a look at the temperatures going through tonight. the values are not bad. as we go through the night and the storm moves off the coast, it pulls down all of the cold air from the north. these values are wind chills we have not seen in a couple of years. minus 11 in hartford. 6 to 12 inches of snow on the ground and you have to half it in wind chills like that. friday is a brutal day. this time tomorrow, very dangerous travel especially

eastern areas down into new york city. it won't get better until we get to friday and especially over the weekend. >> bill, we will be talking to you in the morning on this major storm. today marks the first full day of the bill deblazio era in new york city. the new mayor was sworn in by former president clinton. deblazio spoke about a fresh start, bringing a progressive message to the democratic party. >> we recognize the government's first duties. our city government's first responsibilities. to keep our neighborhood safe. to keep our streets clean and ensure those who live here and those who visit can get where they need to go. we know that our mission reaches deeper. we are called to put an end to

economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. our march towards a fairer, more just and progressive place. our march to keep the promise of new york alive for the next generation. it begins today. >> deblazio's election and the popularity of senator elizabeth warren and hints of a new direction for the democratic party. suggesting how ideals may play a larger role in the next presidential election. with his wife in the stands, president clinton embraced the progressive shift. >> i strongly endorse bill deblazio's core campaign commitment. that we have to have a city of shared opportunities, shared

prosperity, shared responsibilities. we are interdependent. look around. we can't get away, but we have to define the terms of our defendants. this inequality bedevils the entire country and much of the world. it is not just a moral outrage. it is a horrible constraint on economic growth and giving people the security we need to tackle problems like climate change. we cannot go forward if we don't do it together. >> hillary clinton also tweeted out this photo and so pleased that are proud to see the mayor sworn in today. >> let's talk about the mayor. obviously you are a friend and supporter of mayor bloomberg.

was universal pre-k paid by a tax on those who make more than $500,000. the tale of two cities. beyond the tax hike and universal pre-k, what else can we reasonably expect the mayor to get through to shrink this problem of inequality knowing that a hike has to be cleared by albany. he has to get the governor on board. >> separate the tax hike that was something that to me makes sense. i'm happy to pay the tax. everybody thinks that's important thing. a lot of stuff he can and will do. the living or minimum wage and requiring contractors to do business with the city and pay a living wage that changes the economics of what gets built. requiring them to pay and change the economics. that will put a big emphasis on public housing that involves a

cost and a redirection. you are going to see a major tilt. the bottom and i appreciate you identifying me as a personal business friend of the mayor's is that they went through thor is moan we not only not a nice word, but really harrd words and they left it for bill clinton at the end to give the mayor what i think was due. deblasio has set up the tale of two cities and we will see how it works. two other things i would like to say. this is obviously as mika said and how it's going to end, a larger theme in the democratic party. i don't think it was a coincidence that the clintons were at the inauguration. this is going to be an interesting discussion. the last thing was on a different point. running a city like new york is not just about philosophy or policies, but the nitty-gritty day to day administration.

we will find out with the snowstorm how good of a job he does at that. he has never run an organization and the advocate's office has employees. the city has 300,000 employees. this is a big step up and he will have to show he has the skills as well as the philosophical approach. >> i wish there was more appreciation for what he brought to the table. not only does this guy shell out millions of his own money, hundreds of million of dollars. >> 650 is the number they quoted. >> he works on issues ahead of his time. in the future we will look at oh, my gosh, he was right. especially on health and trying to make the city a better place to live in. and safer. whether you agree with the approach or not. i didn't, but at the same time i appreciated his efforts. i thought he was a groundbreaking leader.

because of his questionable lack of experience in certain areas and the uphill battle he will have with albany, i think new start is not the right word. it's fine. it was his day. i love the idea of universal pre-k. former adviser to president obama weighed in on clinton's role on the inauguration. it may reassure the left in regards to 2016, did you doesn't it signal to elite that his agenda is not radical. robert gibbs, what do you make of the concerns about his agenda being too radical? >> i think we have to start by remembering bill deblazio has 75% of the vote in new york. it's a significant and solid mandate to ensure that equal opportunity is spread throughout new york. new york is a great example. last year you look at what the stock market did over the course

of the year. a huge jump in the stock market. people talk about economic health being the health of the stock market when in fact we know for a lot of hardworking and working class families that the economic benefits we see in the stock market have not been spread as evenly as you go down the ladder. he has a significant mandate to take on many of the challenges. i agree with steve though. we are going to get an opportunity very early on with this snowstorm to understand that just as you are seeking to do something about economic inequality and equal opportunity, new yorkers expect the streets to be plowed sufficiently and efficiently and we will get an opportunity to see that in the next 24 hours. >> the party went through -- i think some who are concerned about deblasio and calling the

elite or whatever, some of it is misplaced. if you look at whom he chose at police chief and his deputy mayor to run day to day operations in the city and the school chancellor up to this point and his lead lawyer for the city, these are people who come from mainstream thinking in a democratic party. i think yesterday there was rhetoric and so forth at the inauguration that made race a concern. that's just what happens. you get a little ahead of yourself. no doubt he will be tested right away. i hope we come forward with concrete ideas. when bill clinton was elected. to make sure they got work and worked at a certain income level. they got a tax credit for working. we can upgrade the inside. doing it in a way that they don't penalize them, but help those who were head of households. finding ways in which they can

encourage and incent the federal government to provide more money for infrastructure. the way to grow the econ he is to grow the number of years. i can appreciate taxing people for the right things and i'm happy to pay whatever i am asked are but you have to grow the job base. any city to grow. i'm hopeful after watching yesterday and watching the clintons, i would agree that there is comfort they can take with hillary clinton, but talk about a fair and a growth agenda. at the end of the day that's how we go. >> looking at new york city as a microco microcosm, i think his grand idea of addressing economic inequalities and the issues of our generation. the question of how and legislating at the same time. in other news, democrats are wasting no time making unemployment a top priority this year. hillary clinton's last tweet of

2013 called on congress to restore jobless benefits for millions of americans saying ten years ago i was proud to begin working on bipartisan efforts to save unemployment insurance. let's do it again quickly in this new year. harry reid said the senate will vote on a three-month extension of benefits on monday. said he can't guarantee the house would follow the senate's lead calling it a black hole of legislation. benefits for 1.3 million people expired this past saturday. that dropped the number of unemployed americans to federal programs to 25%. that is the lowest level since the department of labor began keeping records in 1946. >> this is just appalling. no excuse for this. this is a $25 billion item for 2014. they get done doing a deal where they could have found at least $25 billion.

they are long-term unemployed. as some suggest, it's not like kicking them off unemployment is going to lead them to get a job. the idea that they could not find another $25 billion in a $4 tril yon budget is really -- >> some republicans feel they are doing americans a favor. >> i tried to address that by saying they are not. they cannot find jobs. if you look at the way unemployment came down, people have only been out of work for a short time. the long-term numbers have barely moved. >> is this going to get to the house? the black hole of legislation? >> this is going to be a hard vote for republicans to vote no on. i remember having these fights back in the early 90s and watching the republicans under george h.w. bush repeatedly

rebuff and it creates a huge sticky problem for republican who is are trying to convince people that they care about folks like them. you show up in polls and republicans do very poorly when it comes to caring about problems like i have. this will simply highlight that going into the new year. on to that increasing the minimum wage and a bunch of republicans voting against that. you see an economic narrative that is not going to look good come november for republicans. >> this is two things. one, democrats should not have agreed to this. they should have found the 25 billion during the negotiation between patty murray and paul ryan even if it meant cuting for somewhere else. i can appreciate what the republicans are saying, but if they don't support an extension, gibbs is being kind in terms of his appraisal in how they will

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time to take a look at the morning papers from the parade of papers. the star tribune, a 100-year-old apartment building exploded yesterday in minneapolis, injuring at least 14 people and sending a tower of smoke and flame 20 feet into the air. as many as four people are unaccounted for in subzero temperatures. people jumped from the third floor as the building began to fall apart around them. crews have not been able to enter the building because it's not sure how safe the building is. >> barbara bush remains hospitalized admitted monday for a respiratory issue. mrs. bush is in good spirits and has been visited by her husband,

the former president george h.w. bush and other family members. we wish her the best. >> rescue efforts are under way for the ship that has been stuck in layers of ice since christmas eve off the coast of antarctica. a ship began the mission today. 52 scientists and tourists are aboard and have been evacuated. ships have tried unsuccessfully since saturday to reach the stranded vessel. >> chicago tribune. in 2013, they saw the fewest homicides since 1965. chicago reporting 415 murders last year, down 18% from 2012. crime was down 16%, a level not seen since 1972. the reductions have come at a price. the city tripled the overtime budget for police in 2013, spending almost $100 million. >> a federal judge ruled a

controversial 2011 law requiring applicants to be submitted to drug testing is unconstituti unconstitutional. the law is s signature piece. >> colorado is the first state in the country to allow the purchase of marijuana for recreational use. thousands waited to buy pot on what they call green wednesday. some worry about the effect on crime and health. supporters say it's a major step forward. marijuana has substantially less serious side effects than other drugs including alcohol and projected to bring in $67 million in sales tax revenue, much of which they said will go to building schools. >> 4.6 million snap chat user names and phone numbers were leaked on an online database on tuesday. they were warned about a hole in the system months ago and they said they wanted to put pressure to get the issue fixed.

only the first eight digits of user phone numbers were posted and the site is currently shut down. the official blog and social network sites for skype were hacked. a post read hacked by electronic army stop spying. >> they can't see the pictures. >> i don't know. my daughter snap chatted me over vacation and i didn't like it. not good. >> fiat reached an agreement to research the remaining stocks from the united auto workers union for $4.35 billion to give the auto maker total ownership. the agreement ends months of negotiations and helps chrysler avoid an ipo. that paves the way for them to merge. >> it says one other thing. the value of chrysler is zero. the value is close to $10

billion. >> wow. >> you were there. the whole team deserves that. this is a great story for america for jobs. what you can do when government plays a positive role. >> absolutely. >> look at politico now. mr. john harris, good morning. we have a lot to look forward to. let's start with the top governor's races. rick scott taking on republican turned democrat charlie crist. >> this is a race that will be looked at not just in florida, but nationally as a direction of where the country is headed as we look ahead to 2016. it's going to shine a light on the war republican the republican party. remember the democrat used to be an establishment republican and then left the party and was thrown out however you want to look at it. he is trying to come back

against rick scott who is a formidable opponent because he has a ton of money, but vulnerable. approval ratings that have been low throughout his term. florida is going to be i think ground zero not just in 2016, but 2014. >> what's the public sentiment towards charlie crist. he was an independent by the way and a democrat. how are people feeling about him these days? >> a lot of people liked him personally and when he started to do this tap dance, it hurt his reputation nationally among politico elites and left him without home in florida. a big part of his challenge is to reintroduce himself as somebody who is principaled and consistent. that's usually kind of a death snap in any context and party as

you see without backbone and without any core convictions. >> another fascinating race and a lot of people will be watching the state of texas. greg abbott facing state senator wendy davis who shot to national fame in her filibuster against abortion restrictions in the state of texas. what do we look for? >> that would be a sign of the times if wendy davis who did a shot to national celebrity because of the abortion issue. that would really tell you something big about the direction of texas. that would be national implications as well. this has been a heavily republican state for a good while. wendy davis we know abbott has the stronger position currently. if he makes a race of this, this will be interesting. >> now something like $20 million in the bank. another great race we will be watching is the state of wisconsin. scott walker is taking on mary

burke, an executive of the trek biking company. everyone across the country knows scott walker and his fight against the unions. what about mary burke? >> we don't know a lot about her. a lot of people are watching the race not because of her, but because of scott walker who hasn't made a mystery of it. if he comes off a commanding win, he is clearly planning a presidential race in 2016. the race will be about him, not her. remember he looked very vulnerable in the recall effort shortly after he was elected and he won it. he has been shoring up his support. i think it will be a tough incumbent to beat even though this is a narrowly divided state. >> it will be fascinating. fish began, illinois, ohio and colorado. a list of races. >> republicans hold 30 of these seats. the one place in the republican party where they have been in

the ascendancy in recent years. despite the ideological and demographic problems. >> john harris, up next, the most common form of mental illness in america. we have his personal story of living with anxiety. that's next when "morning joe" comes right back.

>> i can relate completely. did you see that picture? that's my life. editor of the atlantic magazine, scott is the author of my age of anxiety, fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind. he adapted it and described in detail the impact of his anxiety disorder. he writes my wedding was accompanied by sweating so torrential it soaked through my clothes and my shakes so severe that i had to lean on my bride at the altar so as no the to collapse. i abandoned dates, walked out of exams and had break downs during job interviews, plane flights, train trips and car rides. simply walking down the streets. i have been stricken by a sense

of dread and been be sed by nausea, vertigo and shaking and other physical symptoms. in these instances, i have been convinced that death or something somehow worse was imminent. i think everyone can relate to this cover story. it's a really good for a number of reasons. did you think you would have a model filling in for you? are. >> i never did. if there were to be one, it would be that one cowering in fear. >> you say i tried therapy, drugs and booze and here what helps. i top the get to what helps. full dizzy closure. you are not the only one here who suffered from anxiety. earth of you? >> at times, sure. absolutely. >> a severe lack of patience. >> that's different, shackman. anxiety is a real fear of the

unknown that grips you and causes panic attacks and makes you incapable of sleeping. it muddles your mind. does it not? >> it's worse for people who are most severely debilitated. as anxious as i have been and severe as the problems that i had, people have the far, far worse than i have who haven't left their house for years and can't perform in public and basically it cirque um scribed their lives and makes their lives -- >> you are here. >> you are sweating bullets and are you anxious? >> one of the signature characteristics of people who have certain anxiety disorder is they are able to project an appearance of placid, calm, unflapability. >> you are really not okay? >> auto the moment i'm okay, but people say you seen unflappable.

sometimes in moments of high stress, i'm so used to being flapped internally, that ex-termly i do okay. like others i medicate. >> you said none of these things work for you. people who you don't even think about trying. what do you do? what is your program? >> none of it worked in that i'm not cured. in the article as i say, i think that since the age of 2, i have been a twitchy, anxious bundle of phobias. to aing is, people have this on the severe end have this hard wired into themselves and it's hard to. >> it's their basic existence. >> it's a temperamental trait. things have worked for me as coping mechanisms and tools. i tried everything from deep

breathing exercises to meditation to yoga to behavioral therapy to psycho dynamic talk therapy. drugs do work for some people some of the time. >> medications you tried. lots of medication. -- prozac, zoloft, paxil, wellbutrin. lexa pro. st. john's worth, valium, lib ri um, @van, xanax. >> i'm a living repository of the psycho pharmocology trends of the last 40 years. >> what are has worked? you are here as a functioning person. you say you are on medication. what did you find that made a positive difference? >> as i say, there things that

enable me to cope with the anxiety at the most severe. i talk about this in the article. accepting that this is the essence of who i am and yet that rather than -- i would love at some point to be completely cured and i continue to do various measures to try to do that, but really what i talk about in the piece is coming to terms with the fact that anxiety is kind of hard wired into me and there things that are may be positive traits as well. >> i have a tremendous amount of respect for you being here. it's not not to watch you and see how you react to being on television to talk about this stuff. with all of the things you are suffering from, you shook my hand and you are talking, but the question i have is, is there a safe place of thought where you feel at peace and this

doesn't haunt you? i'm not saying meditation or what have you, but what comforts you. >> as people who suffer from acute anxiety will tell you, it wacks and wanes over the course of a day. over the course of a situational anxiety and what's going on in your or developmental issues. to be truly anxiety-free, i would be curled up under the covers watching soothing tv shows, but that's not practical if you want to be productive. >> the other way to look at it because i have some of these issues. i take at van and you said it's bad to take over a long period of time. way to look at it is you suffer from anxiety. the other way is that you are anxious. you are an anxious person and there benefits. are there not -- i have found that there. there lots of drawbacks.

we can talk about those forever. but there benefits. >> absolutely. charles darwin and what clinical anxiety is, the impulse gone a wry. the fight or flight which is what you do if you are chased by a saber tooth tiger or under fire. in the state of nature, if you are being attacked, that's the fight or flight response. that is very much an adaptive response because it enhances your odds of survival. when you are worrying about suspicious-looking letter that your girlfriend or boyfriend got from their ex-or when you are worried about what your boss thinks of you, you end up marinating in the stew of stress hormones that is not constructively. if there were no such thing as anxiety, we would all die. we would be extinct. we would do stupid things and end up winning darwin awards for

extinguishing ourselves for lack of anxiety. there was a study that is cited in 1908 by a couple of harvard psychologists that talk about the bell curve. if over here is not very anxious and here is severely anxious, if you are here, you won't be able to perform because you are so severe. over here you don't have the activation, you will also not thrive. you want to be at the optimum point on the curve. you want to be a little bit anxious and engaged. >> i still want to imagine what the melt downs during job interviews look like, but we have to read the article. >> they are rather embarrassing. >> oh, gosh. fear, hope, dread and the search for peace of mind. it's also the cover story for the latest issue of atlantic

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. >> business before the bell with brian squared, brian sullivan. they announced the latest job numbers. >> 3939,000, 5,000 less than expected, although it was revised up by 3,000. the bottom line, b 1 is a mad number. the question we talked about earlier, whether or not these will be extended by congress. we will see, but either way the stock features are down we have not had a down first day of trading in the stock market any year since 2008.

>> he said that -- >> i'm going to disagree with you before you talk. the feeling coming out of the gate can dictate the whole year. >> it's so arbitrary. >> he takes baths and money. he knows. >> i take baths and money too. it's just lira. you have a problem. >> we will talk about jobs and the unemployment situation. when it comes to the stock market, everybody will talk about the average joe and are they going to get in and get burned? >> what's going to happen? there is no euphoria and if they are tempted, i don't know. >> they have an extraordinary ability to get in at the exact moment. some cabdriver said he is out there buying apple or twitter stock. it's time to go. >> they are not doing that. i want to be on the record. i have been optimistic for a

couple of years and the stock market has been not too much. 5% gain. i don't expect big things. to your point and won't mention the names, there company that is the market cap is not greater in the investable opportunity. if they had every customer in the world signed up for the service or software, they couldn't have the revenue. there things to be nervous about. >> if you would like to guarantee me 5%, i will happily take that. >> i will with mika's backing. >> what do you think of these whipper snappers? >> i am older than you are. >> you are the baby. >> how old are you? >> that's not an appropriate question to ask a gentlemen. >> i'm 47. how old are you? >> i'm 42. >> i'm older than you. >> you are 42 also? you promise? >> a lot older than you, mika.

>> isn't shackman a handsome guy for 42? >> 46 and still on tv. >> doing great.

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. >> okay. i learned something very interesting as we take a live look at boston where the storm has already started. brian shactman, what did you learn? >> i like the concept of conquering your fears and for scott to come here, it was a way to confront the things he fierce most. >> amazing. >> brian has an amazing personal story and we should remember in today's america it's hard for people to do what your family managed to do. >> i learned that -- thank you, by the way. 33% of men aspire to have intercourse on an airplane. the mile high club article. i just aspire to be able to go to the bathroom on an airplane. >> we all talked about it.

>> well the me you what's strange about this. you can talk about having sex on a plane and going to the bathroom, but all three of you were uncomfortable with your weight and age. >> a buck 90, 42. >> 61 and 165. >> 240. >> 242, 42 years old. >> 138, 46. >> it's all muscle, mick a. you have to wrap up the show. good luck with that. >> what did we learn today? spanx for men. >> bracing for a blizzard. more than 100 million americans in two dozen states are under a winter storm warning as we speak. the first major storm of the new year promises ice, snow, and a big travel mess. a populous push for