michelle says 50 brown bag lunches to hand out to the homeless on christmas eve. the best good deeds are done with no one else knowing but you. >> that is 100% true but we we wanted to highlight a few of them. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ hey. wow. welcome to "morning joe." happy new year. snow in boston. they are going to get pounded, willie geist. pounded. paying for third sins. i'm not sure what they are. we'll pay for ours too down here. here's a shot of times square. it wasn't too bad getting in. the roads were pretty bad. i'm blaming this on bill de blasio. this is his katrina.

it took me longer to gotten blocks than under michael bloomberg. outrageous. he will fly in a plane overhead and look down. look at that. it's beautiful. t.j., we got the comcast commerce tree glistening. look at that. >> these are its final days. >> these are its final days before it's dragged off and turned into wood pulp. still inspiring kids to go out and spend money. it will be mulch. speaking of things being over. dynasty is over. alabama dynasty is over. >> they didn't show up last night did they? if that's the end of a dynasty, what a run. the predictions before this game, two analysts said one said 34-17. mark said 48-10 alabama.

nobody gave oklahoma a chance. give oklahoma credit they had a freshman quarterback in there. they played great. they rolled over alabama. >> they dominated them every part it. on the line. offensive line. alabama's offensive line just could not protect their quarterback. and, of course, i think you're right. i think they didn't show up. just like when they played four, five years ago, remember the utah game where they got slaughtered. someone has to teach these guys if you don't win the national championship you have to win other games. they had something to play for. they had pride to play for. it happen. what an incredible run for alabama. >> any given thursday. >> that's what the kids say. >> i'll say it was a fun game to watch. everyone was expecting a blow-out and it went back and

forth. it was exciting. >> great first half. >> there's your future right there. >> willie, three hours last night in norman, oklahoma. >> and new orleans. >> new orleans. >> i wish i could see how badly bill de blasio is hand technology snow outside. nfl, jim cramer. talk about brand problems. nfl has a prond problem. i heard brian shactman talking earlier. there are four playoff games, nfl biggest brand in sports anywhere. >> they are talking about how there was not enough notice for people. >> if you didn't hear what brian said earlier, three of the four playoff games are not sell outs. if they don't sell out by the end of the day it's black out this weekend. i'm telling you this is a brand, we've talked about it a little bit all year. this is a brand that's been

savaged. >> i think these counts are very strange. when we won three straight i put in for playoff tickets. green bay, what else is there? sorry, what else is there. >> that's the one that's shocking. >> why doesn't some rich person buy the tickets and give them away. >> they could. the bigger problem is the nfl is taking one hit after another. and i think you're starting to quietly see the impact of mothers on sons, on daughters, on families. this is a major crisis for the nfl. >> definitely part it. in green bay they have a waiting list, 100 years long to get tickets, to get season tickets so they shouldn't have a problem filling that stadium. >> can't you cancel some plans? >> i would. >> the playoffs? the playoffs. >> why don't we buy them. can we go online and buy them.

>> i stopped watching nfl a couple of years ago. >> really? >> i just don't. >> you're from collegeville. >> i am from collegeville but i always watched it. i'll tell you what -- i go back to what jim miklaszewski told me. this was at the end of landry's career. he walked and standing by tom landry and landry said this isn't how football was when i began. they are too fast, too big, they all get hurt. think about light years. the violence has advanced light years. they don't have, you know, a steroid policy, so to speak. they let these guys bulk up, run too fast. willie you say every collision is like a car accident. >> on field level it's scary. >> i've been there for concussions and practice where it takes your breath away how hard they hit each other.

>> these retired players one story after another. having an impact. at some point -- i saw some high school kids out prague and i guess they have a protective dome over the helmet itself. >> they talked to dr. oz who is one of my favorites. he made this bold statement, i am letting my son play football. it was like, wow, you're kidding me. because i know so many parents who would not. and would be horrified to hear a doctor thinks it's okay. they want lacrosse, they want soccer. ten years from now a school will be recruiting actively for lacrosse the way they recruit for football. >> i'm saying all this. i was the top consumer. i'm sure we all were. from the time i was 5 years old i played in football leagues. i played from 5 until 18 years old. spring practices. summer weights. everything. we were obsessed with football. obsessed with football.

obsessed with college football. watch it all the time. i can't do it. >> a good friend of mine lives in suburban new jersey and i said tell me what's going on in sports. does his kids play soccer. the very best athletes, you played football. are not always playing football. they were going to soccer or lacrosse. there are other things. it's not a given if you're a biggest, strongest, fastest you go into football. >> i'm watching baseball a lot more now again because of the violence and knowing what it's doing to these kids. i'll say, i don't want to see 23, 24-year-old kid speared in the head and have brain injury for the rest of his life. that's not fun. >> what's the protocol. some teams, guys have a concussion, the guy is back on the field next week. other teams, he's out for several weeks. i do not believe the brain

recovers on a sunday night game to a sunday morning game. i just don't think you can recover that fast. >> i don't think so. long term problem. if they want to save the league, save the brand they are going to have to test for hgh. they have to test for steroids. they have to test for all these things and put up with an nfl that's a little slower. >> as long as the ratings are good. >> extreme fighting too. ratings are good for truck polls. i'm talking about long term brand. this is a long term brand issue. you disagree? >> what's that? >> whether this is a serious -- >> yeah. absolutely. head injury thing. no question about it. >> they did a great job on that settlement. >> the other thing on the attendance, red zone, stuff like that. if it's negative ten and you can stay home and watch the game and

have the food and friends and bathroom right there that's clean and cheap, tv is so good now that weighing the two, you know what -- >> okay. what is going on? i was at the big game in philadelphia where there were four inches of snow detroit lyons were doing line dances to stay warm. >> i will say if i watched pro football i would have watched red zone. joey and all his friends do. all these fantasy football leagues. most fun they have all week. >> parking is cheaper. >> blizzard like conditions right now are sweeping across a 700 mile stretch of the country and it's only going to get worse for some of america's busiest and biggest cities. governors and mayors from the midwest to the east coast have declared states of emergency. wind gusts up to 35 miles per hour with temperatures dropping to 25 below.

schools are closed in philadelphia, boston and new york and to get more, let's go to bill karins. bill, how bad does it get this weekend? >> the weekend will get better. it will rain by sunday. the problem is getting rid of the snow we got last night. with these wind chills, some of the coldest we've seen in years. literally clearing the driveway and walk and car is difficult. let's talk about the snow. still dealing with it for another couple of hours. philadelphia you're done. areas like battle and d.c. you're done. new york city another two, three hours. another inch. the bulk of the snow has already fallen. the problem is getting rid of it. look at these wind chills, minus 4 in new york, minus 18 providence to new england. clearly, easily. the other issues is the winds are very strong. blizzard conditions on long island and from boston southward

to the cape that's where we have blowing and drifting of the snow and telling everyone to stay off the roads in those areas at least until 8:00 maybe until 9:00 or 10:00. much of the country is bitterly cold. we're not the only ones in new england. still very cold in areas like minneapolis. let's go to boston. richard lui is live there. richard, what can you tell us about the winds over the last couple of hours? >> reporter: you're talking about it getting cold. about 4 degrees last we checked here. in terms of winds it's the worst we've seen so far as you have been forecasting 20 to 25 miles per hour. the crews have been working all night. the snow is very light and fluffy and able to keep the roads clear which means that in about two hours the businesses will open and people can get to where they need to work and the great thing here, bill, is they are able to keep the streets clean. it's not sticking. that's working out so far.

just for fun i put out a bowl of water about an hour ago and it's hard as a rock. that's how cold it is. and windy. >> officially about 14 inches at logan airport. little spot north of there picked up 21 inches of snow. richard lui in downtown boston. thanks. joy, it will get worst before it gets better. on sunday, monday and tuesday, forecasting a historic cold outbreak across the middle of the country. >> i don't like how that sounds. >> minneapolis is expecting wind chills minus 45, minus 60. >> where is global warming when you need it? come on. >> australia just reported their warmest year they ever had. >> we're not in australia. doesn't do us a whole lot of good back here. come on. come on. global warming, let's get it moving. thanks so much, bill karins. willie, did you see that pile of snow there? >> yeah.

>> seriously. i mean look at that pile of snow. does bill de blasio really think this is a dress rehearsal? >> best part is that's boston. >> i know. i know. it's a good thing, though. it's a good thing. willie, what else is happening? what's happening in the economy? >> i'll say driving in and you saw this too, i checked every block down, they were all plowed. >> i cannot tell you how angry i was. >> they were. >> he's been critical of bloomberg. but it looks pretty clear right now. >> it looks pretty good. >> i'm keeping my eye on him. that's central park right now. good god. that's all i will say. good god. i miss bloomberg. >> let's talk to jim cramer about the economy. he has a great new book

ouout out, "get rich carefully." the street posted a negative start to the new year. global investors put their faith in the dollar believing the u.s. economy will outperform economies in other recovered countries around the world. other promising signs that the u.s. is in the right direction, home prices are up 14.8% since 2010. consumer spending up 2.5%. and when it comes to unemployment recent "wall street journal" survey finds forecasters be expect unemployment to drop to 6.5%. the current rate is at 7. jim this is a good time. take a step back. front page of the "journal" today say there are these signs of recovery. where are we? >> the advisory real. much more to do with pent up demand than anything else. the country was on hold for a huge, long period.

not enough homes built. not enough construction. where are the cranes? you go over major city not too many cranes. too tight credit. the things that create a recovery are happening. they should have happened earlier. >> what about jobs, though? unemployment number can be deceptive because people stop looking they get out of the workforce. 7% right now. what's the job market really like? >> there are jobs that are plentiful in industrial positions. people have misunderstood what causes a lot of jobs to occur and that's construction not home construction. home construction is important but office construction. new projects. that's where a lot of people get jobs. that's going to do well. aerospace. oil and gas even without the help of washington. democrat or republican doing amazingly. we have strong regions. we do not have finance doing well yet. that's where you need to see

some strength. >> why is there such a disconnect at the end of 2013 and beginning of 2014 between main street and wall street? why is wall street having record highs and main street still struggling? >> i think wall street in the end continues to reinvent itself rapidly. there will be a new product to be sold. few people are actually in it. a lot of people invested in a lot of companies that did very well because the federal reserve kept interest rates down. so companies that would have gone out of business otherwise that were invested by very rich people at wall street, private equity firms have come back public and that's a very big theme and making people a lot of money. main street is trying to create jobs. main street is hamstrung. main street is small business. small business doesn't do well in an environment where there's a lot of regulation and interest rates money is not free home to, only free to the big people. >> you're exactly right.

there was something said that was brilliant. we talk and analyze the economy and all the problems and what we need to do to fix it. it's very simple. if the economy gross at 2% we have these problems. if the economy gross at 3.5%, a lot of these problems take care of themselves. a lot has to do with growth. you believe the government has gotten in the way of our economy growing. >> yes. the government wants to do a lot of things that turn out the being a great for the biggest companies. the more regulation, the more companies can write the laws, be able to have the lawyers, accountants. i started six small businesses. my biggest costs are legal and accounting. i don't want to hire people if i can't figure out how i'll get in trouble with the government if i do. that should be your initial worry. i'm opening a restaurant right now. my first worry is the government. >> it's the government because

when you hire people you're actually as a small business owner that wants to grow the economy, wants to make money, hiring people carries with it a punitive price from the government with all these regulations. >> you hire expensive people to tell you if it's okay with what you're doing with hires. i have very expensive upfront costs from white collar people who tell me what the law is. i would like to just hire chef, cook, waitress, bartender. no. tell me what i'm going to do wrong before i get start sod i won't be shutdown. >> what do you mean specifically? what are some of the laws you're bumping your head into? >> i have to worry dwhabout hea care, minimum wage, health code. what do i have to do for my neighbors. there's another bar within 500 feet of mine. what do i have to do with the community board. how about 12:00.

11:00. now look these are all understandable things because they are neighborhood issues. the layers of government of everything i've done -- i own an inn, it's a bed and breakfast. if i call it an inn, trenton can shut me down. i have the biggest bill i have are the people who protect me from getting prosecuted. >> i asked this question several weeks ago from several people who were small business owners, in a also asked people, have you talked to anybody, and i'm not just picking on the affordable care act, did you talk to any small business owner in the past two years and they say the affordable care act will do anything but hurt their business. they say no. that's just one layer. but there's layer after layer after layer of regulation from the federal government, on state

government, local government. we're not talking about big wall street firms. we need regulations on big wall street firms. small business owners, so many of them say i can't afford to hire anybody else because look at all of these costs, look at this exposure. at some point people are going to figure out that they are is going to have to aggressively get in there and help small business owners lighten their regulatory load if they want this economy to grow. >> it's a mindset. look, i'm blessed. i have some capital. but between buying municipal bonds and starting a business. i don't have to call anybody to buy a municipal bond. other than a puerto rican bond. i'll buy a bond. okay. i want to open up a restaurant. year and a half later i'm almost there. nothing is involving the mexican food or the liquor i'm serving. >> george mcgovern, famously opened a restaurant after he got

out of the politics and shut down. he blamed in large part a lot of the regulations and red tape he had to deal with the government. and he said he wished he had done that before he ran for office because it would have changed his entire outlook on everything. >> nobody helps you. we had a driveway at our inn. somebody slipped because it was gravel. we paved it. then you got to take that pavement off. we didn't give you approval. someone slipped and hurt themselves. so what. i'm afraid of the government before i'm afraid of the insurance company. >> a lot of people are. i saw this fascinating poll. majority of americans supported same sex marriage, supported the legalization of marijuana and believe that the federal government was a fundamental risk to their freedoms. does that tell you -- a lot of us have been talking about this

libertarian streak that will run across all issues especially in the future. >> and young people who have a reason to be suspicious -- not talking about obamacare but going back to katrina, the iraq war, all these big institutions that have failed them and they watched that happen as they grow up. >> you think about it. 2000 the recount. 2001, of course 9/11. and the missed intel. 2002, enron, world come. 2003 iraq. wmds. 2005 katrina. 2006 complete meltdown in iraq. you can go on and on. an earth shattering scandal every year that has shaken the confidence in younger americans and, you know, this past year it's been the affordable care act and we'll see. the final chapter is yet to be written. >> maybe not our best century so

far. >> maybe not. let me tell you something, the last 86 years, we're going to kick ass. this is our american century. got off to a rough start. like the colt stumbling out of the gate. >> as we say in the scarborough household, it's not how you start, joe, it's how you finish. >> jim cramer thank you so much. the book is "get rich carefully." coming up we have david gregory and politico's maggie haberman and reverend al sharpton and chris van hollen. later, ethan hawke will be here to talk about his new role in "mcbeth."

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all right. let's take a look at some of the morning papers from our parade of papers. atlanta journal institution. banker accused of faking his own death. yesterday in court the banker was denied bond as a flight risk. authorities had feared he fled to south america but on tuesday he was picked up during a traffic stop in georgia and revealed his identity to police. >> they thought he was like in chile and he was in buford. >> price faces charges of embezzling $21 million in 2011.

>> this from the colorado springs gazette high demand for marijuana is causing sticker shock. some retailers is selling marijuana for as much as $400 an ounce. i say it that way despite the fact i have absolutely no idea how much marijuana should cost an ounce. >> intuitively that seems high. >> is that high? >> i honestly don't know. >> your friends. cramer. >> get heileman. >> it's big business. big business. >> listen. not including taxes it's like 400 bucks. compared to the $250 medical marijuana price users have been take since 2010. colorado doesn't regulate pricing for the state's newly legal pot market. >> they got the pot now complaining about the price. >> bringing in more revenue. >> how about the "usa today" the

stars of "duck dynasty," announcement of a new family business venture. they have teamed with connecticut based gun maker mosberg to produce a line of guns. it will include a line of camouflage weapons. the embattled patriarch phil robertson narrate as series of ads with his son. >> come home with us. let's go back to our roots. the blue wings are on the move. the grandpas sag has begun. brush your blinds. grab your gun. let's go kill some ducks, boys. mossberg built rugged. >> they will sell out on the first day. >> i need one of those day.

from the st"the star-ledger republican officials got a greeting from the governor. iowa state house member shared his card on facebook. many speculate christie is prepping for a 2016 presidential bid. his spokesman said iowa was not specifically targeted and the new jersey republican sent cards to a wide variety of republicans living in states like iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, nevada and florida. he didn't say that last part. >> across the section. a sampling. >> almost random. >> all four regions. >> they love christmas too. >> of course. what are we suggesting. this is a war on christmas, willie. all right. in honor of the kick-off of season four of the hit tv show

downtown abbey", "parade" has a story on the characters and costumes. >> i saw a guy die at the end of the second season and it made me die. >> shh. spoiler. >> it will pull at your heart strings. >> do you still like it? >> do i. >> i need to pick up on seasons three and four. >> very well produced. >> i loved the first two seasons. >> it's like "breaking bad" without the drugs. >> okay. >> and different accents. guess who is here? politico's editor-in-chief. i love the sweater. >> it's a snow day down here like up there. >> what was it like getting in? >> the side streets are

terrible. the main roads are just fine. >> de blasio. what's he doing, man? he's only been in office a couple of days, willie. side streets are terrible. look at that. >> that's central park. >> you can go for a jog. >> like a scene after -- what was that, the day after? >> the movie. >> yeah. >> day after tomorrow. >> it wouldn't happen under bloomberg. >> let's talk business. yesterday you and i talked about the top gubernatorial races to watch. let's move over to the senate and we want to begin in arkansas where the incumbent mark pryor going up against tom cotton. what to watch for there? >> you remember willie last. >> i'm mark pryor stayed two elections. this time he has a rough battle. he has been nationalized. in arkansas you need to present

yourself as an arkansas democrat. obama is so unpopular in this state. he now looks like a national democrat. so that's what this race will be about. who can nationalize the other person more effectively. >> those red state democrats fighting for their lives. in kentucky mitch mcconnell facing a primary and general election candidate at the same time. >> it's going to be most watched race in the country or among them in the senate. basically, we saw a few years ago harry reid fighting for his life now we'll see the minority leader doing the same thing. this battle is ideological, demographic, old man versus a younger woman and it's demographic, generational and ideological. mitch mcconnell is a wiley politician. it will come down who is the better candidate. no disparrist resources. >> mark does he hold on to that

seat? >> unless she turns out to be the best candidate of the cycle i think he'll probably win. his numbers are still bad. >> i don't see her -- there's no evidence thus far that she's going to be the best candidate of this cycle. >> no. one likely a national tide in her favor. a national tide it is likely to be against her. >> the democrats are running around talking about how popular the affordable care act or obamacare is in kentucky. it ain't that popular in an off year election. we'll see. maybe things will change in six to nine months. >> his numbers are still not good. he's still unpopular. >> but he's tough. he's a very tough campaigner. >> he's wiley. >> wiley is a good word too. i think if he gets past the primary he looks good in that general election race. i don't know the guy running against him. in 2004 he didn't support a democrat or a republican. >> couple more red staters,

senator haggen from north carolina is facing an uphill battle for re-election. >> recently in virginia terry mcauliffe did it to revive the obama coalition. that's the question in north carolina with kay haggen. a republican leading state. her victory, re-election would depend on reviving the obama coalition, young people, african-americans to overcome which will be a basic tilt towards the republicans in a mid-term election. >> as you say the affordable care act will be right in the middle of all these. john harris, politico. great sweater. good luck on the roads. >> i hope you guys shovel out. >> willie, breaking news from the tweet feed. the same ounce in new york city, $120. they are marking it up in

colorado. >> i would expect new york would be high end just based on regional pricing. >> you got to think about quality, i'm told and availability. >> supply and demand. >> paying to get it. >> supply and demand. i don't get it. i don't get the legalization thing. seriously. it makes you dumb. pot just makes you dumb. i hung around a lot of guys that smokd a lot of dumb. >> thank you for saying that. >> never once did i say hey man that looks like something i want to do. never smoked it. everybody that ever did just looked dumb as hell. and i'm sitting there okay wait a second i'm challenged enough as it is, why do i want to get a hammer and hit myself in the head and make my eyes for success even longer. >> the battle is, look. here's why you don't do it. because you want to try to do well in life and it's an impediment to doing well.

>> does drinking make you dumb? >> in large amounts. >> in large amounts yes. but i noticed over time because i played music from the time i was 13 i did notice guys would go out drinking on the weekends which i didn't do either in high school. go drinking on the weekends. by saturday afternoon or sunday if they didn't wrap their car around a tree -- i played with a lot of guys in bands and football teams that smoked pot all the time. i coached football after college. and i would walk out -- i would walk out, you know, with my players and see some guys walking like this. tap them on the head hey you know what i won't tell the sisters but if you come out again stoned my football practice i'm going to get you thrown in jail. >> at the risk of inflaming the twitter, if george bush were president and the state did this do you think his justice department would be more aggressive?

>> in 2004 maybe. not 2014. this is where the country is going. and so -- for me even when i was talking to my sons growing up and when i talked to my other two children it's not a moral imperative, i won't say smoke pot and you will have reefer madness. it makes you dumb. in a lot of states it's illegal. if you want to be dumb on a weekend here and there on your own but as far as my kids. >> i don't want to see it. i got to tell you, i try to figure out who is taking drugs. i had drug addicts on the payroll i had to fire. alcoholics we try to work with. >> we do that with t.j. but hr tells us because he smokes so much pot he's addicted. >> it's a protected class. >> come on, man. he smokes it all the time.

he goes up to the nbc gym, on treadmill. >> t.j. >> then in the shower after you smell it coming out of there. >> the french toast. >> oh, my lord it's unbelievable. coming up, this conversation gets better. i promise. we go "around the table" with our picks. the nfl's wild card weekend. sports is next. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. i just served my mother-in-law your chicken noodle soup but she loved it so much... i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little white lie now and then. but now she wants my recipe [ clears his throat ] [ softly ] she's right behind me isn't she? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup.

♪ friday before wild card weekend. a lot of football fans "around the table," including mr. cramer. i know you'll be at that game. >> yes i will. >> let's start with the chiefs and the colts. colts playing at home at indy. i still like the chiefs. >> colts can't stop the run. >> i love the chiefs, sentimental favorite for me going all the way back for some time. i'm pulling for them. man they have been stumbled into these playoffs. >> the colts are underrated. >> colts underrated, at home and the chiefs, playoffs are hard. chiefs just don't have as many players that have been there. >> colts are too inconsistent. i know it's at home. nice perfect environment. i'm going to go with the chiefs. >> cramer you have the chiefs as

well? >> yes. lutz has been getting it done. they have beaten everybody that has a winning record. >> willie, what's wrong with the chiefs really quickly? >> lately. well, they started hot. they were 8-0 to start the season. they played some good teams to be honest with you. they played a weak early schedule. smith is reborn, the quarterback, going to kansas city from san francisco. i still think they are one of the best four or five teams in the nfl. they have a good shot. let's do saints/eagles. i'll get to cramer in a second. i hate to see this. i see drew brees doing something nystatin cold weather and the snow, i got the saints. >> i'm pulling for the saints. love the saints. i think the eagles will win it. >> i would never bet against breeze in a game like this. >> we get cold weather and, again, new orleans can't stop the run. this will get 30 touches from mccoy.

not be able to stop mccoy if we get cold weather. >> outside. i don't see it. i love drew brees and the saints but i don't see teelhe eagles losing. >> went to the same high school as drew brees. at idolizes him. >> bengals and chargers. coin toss, bengals are playing at home. >> i picked the bengals because i used to love watch them playing in the snow against the steelers. >> i picked the bengals because kevin madden likes the bengals. >> shut down a.j. you'll get a big upset. san diego coming in hot. rivers is underrated. >> i love don's scheme out there. >> i was going to make a reference to '81 with kenny anderson. the chargers somehow scare me.

i still have visions of sean. >> bengals 8-0 at home. cold weather. >> i don't buy it. >> packers playing at home. it's going to be like negative 15 with the wind chill against the niners. i still think the packers are shaky. i'm going niners on the road. i know. >> rodgers -- >> this is a hard one. i wanted to go with the niners. i think the packers will do it. >> here's the problem with the niners. they do have a great team but rodgers is cinderella, you can't stop him. >> come on you guys picking up cold weather home teams how can you pick against the packers. >> can't. >> mike sabin. i'm not a huge sabin guy or a big harbaugh guy. he's an amazing coach, jim is, but --

>> he's crazy. >> i'm going for the packers. >> niners are peaking at a good time. >> they are an awesome team. first game of the season that's the best team in football. >> depends how that guy does. he had a great year last year. had sort of a rough second. >> but coming on very strong in the last four games. unstoppable. but lacy is the beast. >> the rookie. >> now on monday morning we'll hold ourselves accountable in no way whatsoever. we'll pretend we never made these picks. we'll see you monday. still ahead bloomberg "business week" josh green says a new era in health care has begun for republicans. we'll ask what he means by that next. we'll be back with more "morning we'll be back with more "morning joe".nut street

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♪ this is what it looks like hitting the road on the jersey turnpike. right outside of new york city, one of those live views. not a lot of people on the roads so that's the good thing. they have been plowed but still so cold the salt isn't working. still a coating of slush packed down. that's the case all the way from d.c. northward. we got more snow than expected around d.c., battle, annapolis area. some spots got three to five inches when we were thinking one to three. these are our snowfall totals. a lot of the big cities range between four to eight inches including new york, philly, providence and up to albany new york. boston 14 inches officially and we got our top number one on the list, boxford, mass, 24 inches. two feet of snow in the last 24 hours. it's still snowing. they could even get another inch or two more.

the storm will wind down. the roads are worse now. improving through the day. so cold don't expect a lot of melting. wind chill will be brutal all day long. right now it's in the negative numbers from philadelphia northward through new england even by about 4:00, 5:00 this afternoon maybe it will be slightly better. regardless of when you decide to shovel today you really just have to prepare yourself for the coldest conditions you've ever had to clear that driveway and car with. in boston, you know, still coming down. we still got about another maybe four, five hours of snow left and then start to improve your weather up there in beantown. what a storm this has been. don't need to do this any time soon in the northeast. this is what it looks like in a car driving in massachusetts. it's a slow go heading to work on this friday morning. we'll be right back.

coming up next reverend al sharpton will be with us and don't be a haber because maggie haberman joins us on set along with david gregory. she has on her twitter thing. it's good. also bloomberg "business week's" josh green. we'll ask him whether to amp up the price in colorado on pot.

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♪ > . whereby to "morning joe." a live shot of the mass turnpike. a mess there. and long island expressway looking pretty bad out there too. it's closed, willie geist. this crisis continues. de blasio blizzard of 2014.

de blasio we hardley knew you. central park. my goodness, why hasn't he plowed the whole thing. i'm trying the best we can. maggie has been enjoying it. how hard was it for to you get in? >> it was really hard. in fairness to the new mayor -- >> no fairness. bloomberg would have brought a chauf fed helicopter to pick you up and bring you here. you may have ended up in bermuda instead of here. >> golfing weather in bermuda. >> that's okay too. >> the snow is not melting in the streets. it's blowing in the streets. it's not de blasio's fault. >> more people are getting on trains because of de blasio. the rich are snowed in. because of de blasio. >> it's unbelievable.

i took my white gloves, willie, to get cleaned and they are going to tax that. you know, i always wear my white gloves when i come in. >> to touch the silver. >> exactly. you know what de blasio said about snow. god bring it, god can take it away. no, that was marion berry a decade ago. we'll stay with this theme as unfair as it is, as our welcome gift to the new mayor. i hear he's a great guy. he's a good guy. why can't he fix the snow? >> he is. you have to go to working class neighborhoods. >> it is true. it is true. my streets there were much clearer than they are in manhattan. not even a close call. >> i came about 50 blocks through manhattan and every street was plowed. i'll stay with the joke and theme because it's fun but every street was plowed beautifully. >> other than that he's not

doing well. >> other than that, seriously, this is a crisis of the fir order. >> crisis of confidence. >> takes me back to katrina. let's go to washington, d.c. and see if de blasio has cleared their streets down there. we have moderator of "meet the press" david gregory and also josh green. guys, very good to see you. washington is looking okay. >> joe, look at the snow that's accumulating on top of the buildings. who is responsible for that? lord. it's even more horrifying the snow accumulating on top of the sky scrapers. >> unbelievable, man. another reason to lose faith in the government. let's move on and talk some news. blizzard-like conditions are of course sweeping across a 700 mile stretch of the country. inches of snow are making travel all but impossible from cleveland to cape cod. already 1300 flights have been cancelled for today. crews are struggling to deice equipment.

even jfk airport is closed this morning at least until 8:30 a.m. now out of precaution, schools are closed in philadelphia, boston and new york city. a lot to cover here. let's go to nbc meteorologist bill karins. he's got the latest on the system. bill, what you got? >> this system continues to crank off the coast. winds 50 to 60 miles per hour in coastal sections of massachusetts and just off the new york shore line. let's talk about the radar. the snow sending now in many areas from philadelphia through new jersey. little bit left in new york city another inch. could get another one to three inch, coastal sections of rhode island and boston south down the cape. the real forecast problem is the wind chill. people trying to clean up from this storm. you haven't cleaned up from a storm with wind chills like this. these wind chill values are now around the negative 20 to negative 30 range from binghampton to albany to northern new england. central new england boston is at my new 18.

new york city minus 4. philly at 0. baltimore at 3. already another storm on the horizon. our long term forecast for sunday into monday shows that the next storm from st. louis through illinois, indiana, up to michigan the thing behind that another arctic blast. looks like historic arctic blast. for today's forecast travel problems the worst is in new england "early today." the airports will have a lot of trouble cleaning up because the winds will be blowing but as the afternoon progresses the winds will come down. hopefully the airports can get open. in the last couple of days thousands of flights have been cancelled and a lot more delayed because of this big historic storm. back to you. >> willie? >> 11 republican state attorneys general said president obama broke the law when he tinkered obamacare without going through congress. they say the president acted

illegally by changing the law to allow insurance companies to don't offer cancelled plans. a new study shows low-income people go to the emergency room more often than not list. it conflicts with predictions that expanding coverage would reduce costly trips to er. those given medicaid coverage made 40% more visits to the emergency room than those uninsured. republicans keeping up pressure on democrats as the 2014 mid-terms near. group for prosperity funded by the koch brothers is focusing on the theme of broken promises. >> i'm sheila salter. i was shocked when i got the notice that my health care policy was cancelled. kay haggen told us if you like your insurance plan and your doctors you can keep them. just wasn't true. now i have a temporary policy that cost me 20% more.

next year under obamacare my costs go up another $4,500. kay haggen, she just doesn't get it. >> tell kay hagan obamacare hurts north carolina. >> reverend sharpton obamacare will be used as a blunt instrument especially in these red state elections. looks like the beginning. >> you also have the counter commercials being out out by the obama team that have people talking about they had pre-existing conditions now they are insured. that they had all kinds of situations they couldn't work through. i think when you deal with the fact that now if you add the states that expanded medicaid, 6 million people have now been able to sign in and get health coverage, that they are going, to in the long run win this battle. yes the launch was very shaky. yes, there's going to be problems. but i think you can argue that he has been able to bring health

care to millions of americans that wouldn't have had it and in the long run that argument is going to prevail. >> we'll see. it will certainly prevail in some states. maggie, we'll see whether it prevails in north carolina with kay hagan and whether it prevails in louisiana with mary. it seems to me that they along with bill pryor in arkansas are the three people going to face the biggest challenge from these types of commercials. >> that's absolutely right. pryor is most concerned about. he's at the top of the list. hagan is not far below. >> mary is tough. every six years she gets into battles and every six years she figures out a way to win. >> that's the issue. you talked about who nationalizes this issue better the republicans or democrats. i would have sailed prior to tropical out that obamacare was basically baked into the cake in terms of how people viewed going into next year, viewed the democratic primary. i don't know how much that

changed things. i think reverend is right that if there are not more major problems, basically appears to be on the upswing by the end of the first quarter of this year i think the democrats will do better in fundraising, they will not have a terrible time. we'll see. it's a problem. >> david gregory there's no predicting right now because we don't know whether the obama administration is going to get all their ducks lined up in a row on the affordable care act and obamacare. right now certainly a great challenge forks especially democrats in more moderate conservative states. >> the president said the product is good. and the demand is there. so both those things are being tested. the demand is showing up. we've seen a surge in people signing up, enrolling for health care. there are people especially in these states if you think about it, i think there's people who look at this from the outside, maybe they have coverage through their employer and they don't

need it and they are making a determination about whether government should be involved in this. then there's people who actually need it so they will be judging their experience. or there might be people who don't need it who are having the experience of their employers changing their own health care coverage, maybe pushing them into exchanges or just providing less in the way of prescription drug benefits. all of that i think could ultimately be blamed on obamacare, rightly or wrongly as we see these shift, anything that happens in the health care field could ultimately be blamed on obamacare. >> unfortunately for the president, he is, willie, he's actually adopted the entire problem with the health care reform. you saw the sticker shock with insurance companies moving the rates up too high. president obama, democrats are going to take the blame for that. if they get kicked off of their policies he'll take the blame for that. i'm not saying he should. i'm saying it's kind of like a

rock. if you have a rock and break it you own it. that's the same thing with health care right now. the opposite side of that is if things go well -- if things go well then boy democrats will have a good 2014. >> that's what he's banking on that all these people who didn't have insurance before and now can get cheaper insurance or get covered that's the story. all this talk about the website and everything else will be a piece of the past and the larger story is about success. josh you're writing about this in bloomberg "business week" calling it a new health care era for republicans. you write on january 1st the moment arrived that conservatives had been dreading obamacare took effect. the fact is that even if republicans win the white house in both chambers of congress in 2016 they won't dare strip benefits from what by that point will probably be upward of 10 million people. best they can hope for is change through in a way that's more amenable to conservative ideals as fromm was counselling them to

do. what changed four on january 1st is that the repeal crowd became obsolete. the new coin of the realm for conservatives is coming up a viable seeming alternative to obamacare that allows for the fact that congress will never strip millions of people of their health insurance. >> why ted cruz and the rest of the crowd were adamant. once this law goes into effect and once people have benefits like not being discriminated against, keeping kids on their health plan until they are 26 years old, not being able to charge seniors more, once these benefits are bestowed, it's almost impossible to take them away. the gop strategy from the outset has been to try to kill obamacare outright. that's what they tried to do in 2009. they tried to stop it again in

2012 by defeating obama and have his signature achievement be tainted enough that republicans could still repeal it. now i think we've crossed a rubicon and that becomes impossible. so what i argue is that republicans now need to come up with a new strategy, if they really think obamacare is a travesty and if they want to do something about it instead of running attack ads. >> what would that be? they talked about repealing and replacing. those are unlikely to happen. what's the strategy? >> you have to come with a viable replacement plans that republicans coculd coalesce around. the other is accept the law is here and try to fix certain provisions that are especially offensive to conservative ideals. maybe something woe the employer mandate. maybe helping lower middle class people who don't quite qualify for subsidies. right now there isn't any sign

out there that many republicans are thinking along these lines and, in fact, the roll out problems and the political price that that's cost democrats i think has made republicans even more eager to kind of beat them over the head with it rather than come up with a viable alternative. maybe that works in 2014. but longer term i think it's a problem for republicans. >> there's no doubt, you meet something with nothing in off year elections you can run against the party that's running the white house and that can work. can't work in presidential elections. so they have to figure something out. you have another article about 1.4 million people who lost unemployment benefits and how it could get ugly. explain. >> basically what's happened -- what happened last saturday 1.3 million people were cut off from long term unemployment benefits because congress didn't renew an emergency program that's been in place since the great recession began. what i did in the piece was take a look at the example of north carolina where, in fact, those

benefits were cut off six months ago because i think that's sort of the harbinger of what we'll see nationally if congress doesn't restore those benefits next week when they come back into session. and it's really interesting. the effect has been two fold. on the one hand the unemployment rate has plummeted which on its face appears to be good news but in fact what happened most of those workers have not become employed, have not found jobs. instead they dropped out of the workforce and that's a serious economic problem that the country will have to think about. it's not just bad for those workers who are obviously going struggle but bad for all of us in the economy as a whole. >> reverend, we have a structural problem here. we have the lowest participation rate, people trying to get a job in 20, 30 years and speaks of bigger problems that this economy has been having in 40 years. this has been coming at us slowly for decades. >> is this a huge problem. once people stop looking for a

job, once they have kind of taken themselves out of this whole economic pursuit of trying to stabilize their families, the ramifications of that is ugly and i think that this is what's not been spoken to. yes we're seeing unemployment numbers going down but we're not counting people that stopped looking for jobs. you compound it with 1.3 million people now not getting benefits so it's really, really bad in the middle and bottom of the economy and i think we got to really start seriously dealing with it. >> david gregory, democrats over the weekend suggested that they were going to start hammering this -- the minimum wage. that that was going one of their big strategies for the new year instead of focusing on the 1.3 million. talk about that strategy. >> well because the president is coming up on his state of the union address. you think about his inaugural address which seems to me he only recently built on with that

speech on income in equality. you talk about de blasio, you talk about a new progressive era for democrats and the president is in a position to lead that and try to lead it on these issues like minimum wage, like restoring job benefits for those who have lost and i think the president will make a big push on that in the coming weeks. republicans at least house speaker's aides say we'll look at it if it can be fiscal responsible which can be defined a number of ways depending on your point of view. i think this becomes a debate about what's the real engine of recovery and we've been down this road before in 2009 with the stimulus which is how much government should be doing to keep priming the pump as we have the debate about the fed. 2014, as you say, is a year for the economy to really take off, to have growth take off, to have some real recovery. the president politically is counting on that plrl in an election year but even as he looks towards 2016 and helping the democratic party and helping

hillary clinton what's the economic legacy going to be of the obama administration. >> willie geist, finally before we go you predicted this. he's been called madison of our time. a lot of americans wish he would actually think about running for president in 2016. i don't know if he can do that but if he could it would change the landscape. >> ted cruz was born in canada. he could run for president. why not rob ford. >> 40 more years. >> the mayor -- >> great man. >> the mayor of toronto was stripped of most his responsibility. he's a figure head at this point. >> they wonder why candidates are slipping on every single marker. >> that matters little to mayor rob ford. he's filing to seek re-election. in the first line yesterday at city hall when registration began. in spite of admitting the use of crack and many drunken stupors, mayor ford has resisted calls to step aside and will seek

re-election. he made good on that promise yesterday. >> you lied to the public for six months. why should people trust you. >> let the people speak for themselves. jackson if you don't want to vote for me that's fine. as long as you vote. if you don't vote for me vote. i rather have you vote against me than not vote at all. i've been the best mayor this city has ever had. >> why does this reporter hate democracy. >> like the johnny appleseed. >> our mayor. good call ford. get some ideas. >> wow. >> he's running again, everybody. >> yes. >> four more years. >> i'm feeling good. david, thanks so much for being with us. who do you have coming thunder weekend on "meet the press." >> a little something different. we're talking obamacare with the head of the mayo and cleveland clinics. two top people in their field on what the effect will likely be

in 2014. >> josh green, as well, from your own personal experiences are those prices in colorado excessive? >> i don't know. i think the whole marijuana problem is overblown. if you look at public opinion majority, more americans support marijuana legalization than same sex marriage opini. times are changing and this is happening. >> you weren't a fan of david brooks' column this morning? >> no, no, no. you guys won't believe i went to marijuana growing school for an article a couple of years ago. the people who are doing this -- >> for an article. >> for an article. journalism is dying. i needed to learn a new trade. >> so, you were 17 when you went. >> i was not 17 when i went. i learned a lot of interesting stuff. i could probably teach you. >> all right. thank you so much. i get one of your super veggie

blenders or whatever for christmas. >> you did. good for you. i thought you were looking healthier this morning. >> you can get like raw steak. >> you're glowing. >> it liquifies it. >> good luck making it around the upper east side today. >> guy, it's unbelievable. i'm going down park avenue. i don't think he's going to clean up park avenue. >> i think he cleaned up park avenue. you'll discover that. >> park avenue brooklyn. >> exactly. all right. >> all right. al thank you so much for being with us. do you know who you have on your show tonight >> whatever issues come up we'll talk about the great issues of the day. >> you just move.

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zero calories and nothing artificial a more wholesome substitute for sweetener. the industry discovered its salvation would have to be postponed. stevia had a fatal flaw. it's taste. tell us more. why is this such a big issue and big story in the food business? >> they in the food business they call this the holy grail of beverages this idea you can have a zero calorie soda that no one had any health concerns about. so if you could come up with a replacement for as smpb pmaspe. that's in diet coke. that stuff is so bad four. i stopped drinking it. you get the sense you're drinking these chemicals.

that's what's driving it. >> where did you get that sense? >> i don't know. >> just the air. >> i got the sense. from the very beginning. the launches. there have been questions and health concerns and you just realize that you were drinking, about a decade in i started thinking drinking regular coke while more sugar injuries i'm taking less of a risk than putting all these chemicals in my body. >> sure. >> i got a feeling i'm not the only person thinking that. >> a lot of people are giving up soda all together and drinking bottled water or juices or energy drinks. so soda sales are just dropping. >> down 7% on zero and low calorie soda sales. >> diet is way down. soda is down every year. >> why is that? is that the fear? what's driving that. >> it's just the growing sense that soda is probably one of the, you know, main drivers of

the obesity epidemic. at least that's how it's often presented. >> but even zero and low calorie soda sales down 6.8% in the past year. that's serious. >> would you think with the fear of sugar people would be flocking to diet beverages. at the same time we have a sense sugar is bad for us, we have a sense these artificial sweet sweeteners are bad for us. there's a sense artificial sweeteners make you fat instead of helping you stay thin. >> the whole idea of diet coke and tab, my mom used to drink tab is that you are getting something better than the regular version. that it's healthier for you. at what point did it become public knowledge that maybe what's in diet drinks is worse for your than what you were drinking before? >> that's been going the whole time. i mean it's just -- what i suspect is a moral component to

this, can you have this delicious sweet drink and it's totally good for you. people on some level won't believe that. but there are in the '60s and '70s there were studies on saccharin and others and found out there was bladder canner in rats. it didn't apply to humans. so there's this long history of intoneations that they may lead to weight gain but that's not been demonstrated in human clinical trials. >> how substantial is the switch they have been saying to bottled water or juice. how significant of a shift it is. they said it's a huge drop-off here. is it going other industries. >> total number of beverages that people consume is about the same. but soda's share has shrunk. still something like 20% of all the beverages we consume. a huge portion of what americans

drink, but the number is going down. the beverage industry is aware of that. >> i'm concerned of my health. the good side of the ledger i got this e-mail from nigeria a couple of days ago, send him 5,000 bucks. i wrote him a check. he's going to send me back 50,000. >> he's going the invest you over there. >> doesn't matter what your health is. >> i'll get money. i'll get 50,000 from this guys. that's not a scam. >> no. good thinking. >> up write for our confused readers at home and thank you for your patience. you actually have written a story about those nigerian scams and you say they pre-date the internet, that they have been around for a long time. >> in a way they pre-date nigeria. there's something -- >> nigerian scams pre-date nigeria. >> in form they are very similar

called the spanish prisoner scam. that was going foon for centuri. we're now dealing with the nigerian version of that. >> what was the spanish prisoner scam? >> very similar. you get a letter that says i'm in prison, have all of this money hidden in belize and if you pay this amount of money to get me out of prison i will open up my secret compartment and share the money. >> i love that. people fell for it. >> yeah. >> what you see now, somebody in your contact can have their e-mail hacked so it will come from a friend's e-mail. >> julia reid lost all her luggage in zimbabwe. >> that's true. >> i can't believe this happened. i lost everything. float me 1,000 bucks.

whatever it is. millions is a tough float. but this is -- it's still going on and people are still falling for it. >> one of the big questions is why would you still get an e-mail from nigeria. how do people figure out in the last 25 years that you should probably should delete any e-mail from nigeria. there's a researcher at microsoft that has an idea that maybe that helps them because they can weed out anyone who is smart enough not to fall for a nigerian scam. so they are just focusing on the people who have no idea what's going on. >> wow. all right. thank you so much. delete those? >> yes. >> daniel thank you so much for being with us. his two pieces are in this weekend's issue of "new york times" magazine. coming up next weather channel jim cantore is watching the

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joe," everybody. i'm meteorologist jim cantore here in downtown boston. a stone's throw from boston harbor. it's 3 degrees right now with wind chills at 25 below. absolutely brutal. snow still coming down. we easily had over a foot of snow here, maybe 15, 16 inches when the new observation comes in. good news it's a light fluffy snow. piles up really well. can get these big piles. the problem is because it's so light and airy and fluffy, most people driving around today are just going to be thinking all right i can barely see the road and then comes a big gust and creates a big white out condition. if you get stuck it feels like 25 below. only 3 degrees. logan hoping to get operational about 12:30 this afternoon. that's plan right now tentatively. they shut down operation last night as of 8:30 because of these short breaking distances. you can't get it scraped

completely clean. as the planes come in, slam on the brakes there's a little skidding involved and that's the last thing they want them to do. nationwide 2,000 flights have been delayed or cancelled and we do expect like yesterday those numbers to go up. >> all right, jim, thank you so much. i want to slide down a snow bank. right? maggie is always on those things. >> they are sledding at fenway. >> they are doing sledding at fenway. >> always working? >> i learned that i can be on camera somewhere. >> that's awesome. >> we're tweeting about each other. >> are you? >> i'm tweeting about her jacket. she's tweeting about my cardigan. one favorable, one negative. >> that's sledding at fenway. >> 45 bucks and they provide the sled. >> is that true? >> yeah. >> what a great idea. >> 25 bucks. >> i would do anything at

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maggie look at that. it's like one of those batman movies. >> over before it barely begun. >> gotham under siege. you were down at city hall yesterday. and pretty interesting. you were all looking at each other saying something to each other. >> something. we were saying -- >> i want you to say on air what you said off air. it's fascinating. >> city hall regulars. >> city hall regulars and i were looking at each other we haven't adjusted to the fact there's a new dawn and a new mayor. he's our mayor. >> bloomberg is gone. >> bloomberg is out of here. he split the second the beat up on bloomberg inauguration ended and he left and out of town now. he's gone. some of his commissioners is here including the sanitation commissioner which is why the snow removal despite what we're saying here has not gone terribly. >> de blasio, his inability to

pick new staff he got bloomberg hold overs. if he acted quicker and replaced them he would have a bunch of less experienced people. >> it's a good idea to keep hold overs for a while. i actually support that. keep them in there for a while until you get your feet on the ground and figure out what you want to do and then make small changes. >> when bill clinton took over from george herbert walker bush the white house regular press corps had the same reaction. i could see it in their eyes. who is this guy. where is our republican president. >> that was a lot of yesterday. but, we were talking about this off camera. i think de blasio did well in his two press conferences. this was the first. >> his spanish is just as good as mayor bloomberg's. >> let's talk about that. the bloomberg inauguration for a second that you put in that

framework. barely been out of office for a couple of days and already facing a lot of criticism here not from city op-ed pages. bloomberg watched on wednesday as people like singer harry bellafonte, the city's public advocate criticizes policies like stop-and-frisk and growing income in equality under his tenure. de blasio responded and said the tenure was too harsh. >> i made clear my real respect for mayor bloomberg. it's no secret i had disagreements with him on policy. i honored with whole heart what he did for this city and on many i agree with him and continue his policies. i've done so more beforehand. i appreciated president clinton's warm comments about mayor bloomberg as well. i think everyone has spoke at the inauguration, spoke from the heart and talked about their own

understanding of our city and what we need to do to move our city forward. i was very comfortable with all that was done. >> i watched it. it was uncomfortable. >> very uncomfortable. it was remarkable. everybody said bloomberg sat stone-faced. he was being criticized repeatedly and de blasio did say i did defend him, bill clinton defended him. de blasio denied in any way denounced the tone of the speakers and we're still not clear how these speakers were vetted. whose speeches were vetted. whether there was a sign off from de blasio's people. it was a serious break. more than just a break. the tone was incredibly harsh so much times you had the "times" article today. >> what did the "times" say? >> it was ungracious. and the point was made correctly some of the facts this were putting out in these addresses were not actual facts. the incarceration rate went down

under mayor bloomberg. >> there's a place and time for everything. these people had plenty of time to criticize the mayor. he's a really wealthy guy who did this job for nothing for 12 years, imperfectly but the city is very strong and for people to come on this occasion and use the platform to criticize him is outrageous. >> in front of him. >> mayor de blasio yesterday was a little bit stronger but in the moment i think he should have called it and been more gracious to mayor bloomberg. >> good for him to make another overture to mayor bloomberg. >> afc suppoe -- i was a suppor mayor bloomberg. you look at where new york city s-for those of us walking around

new york city in 1990, 1991, 1992, you know what? bloomberg can sit there and get kicked around yesterday because his story is look what he and rudy giuliani did together over 20 years. excesses. please. you don't have to tell me. there were excesses. i know there were excesses. taken on the whole, the transformation of this city has been unlike anything i have ever seen in american government in my life. >> also hard to or easy to forget that -- you remember what the stiffs like and you remember what the stiffs like when bloomberg took over. smoke still from ground zero. people were terrified. he raised property taxes. >> by the way i was terrified that bloomberg was taking over rudy giuliani's position. i didn't think that guy had what it took. i used to make fun of him all the time. >> on this one area where we allow the criticism of mayor

bloomberg comes from nonwhite new yorkers. think about during the rudy giuliani era when things changed, the amount of racial tension in this city, the amount of hostility between between gr gets a lot of credit for it. we don't have anything like that, the tension between different racial and ethnic groups. that's a huge achievement in a city like that. >> a lot of people on the left may not like me. a lot of people on the right that couldn't stand mayor bloomberg and in part because he was in some areas bending over backwards to make sure there wasn't the edge to the giuliani administration. >> income and equality are important, but it's disrespectful for what he did. honestly not that classy of a move. he dedicated 12 years of his life and new york if you can come here, you can experience the difference.

it's an incredible place. >> income inequality increased sharply under barack obama. i doubt you will have speakers blaming barack obama for the massive increases in income inequality, but harry belafonte, if you are going to ask him to speak, you know what you are going to get. the things he said about colin powell and others, he's just -- we had him on the show and he's a sweet man. i loved interviewing him and loved his book. he's got some really hard edged political views. >> i don't think it's well for the holidays. >> anyway. listen. you want to celebrate. you want to celebrate somebody being sworn in, mayor deblasio. it ends up reflecting more poorly on him.

i hope he comes back and says nice things about bloomberg the next couple of things. still ahead, the host of mad money and restauranteur jim cramer. he's going to be talking about markets, legalized pot and why he is missed off at the government and what they are doing to his mexican restaurant. that's called the deep tease. welcome to professional tv. we'll be right back. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso.

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take a live look at new york city and cnbc's jim cramer. the blizzard-like conditions is sweeping across a 700 mile stretch of the country and it's only going to get worse for the busiest and biggest cities. governors and mayors of the midwest say wind gusts are up to 25 miles per hour. schools are closed in philadelphia, boston, and new york and to get more from it, let's go to bill right now. how bad does it get?

the worst of the winds and the snow is in portions of cape cod and it will improve. there is some improvement. near quincy, mass, there is a lot of snow. not many cars on the road. it helped that people stayed off the roads and this afternoon if you have to run errands, you have do so. how much snow? the big winter, 24 inches of snow and up to 14. from philadelphia and central park and up to to eight inches of fluffy snow. the snow is ending quickly. in massachusetts and connecticut and eastern new england will deal with snow for eighths -- a little bit longer.

11 in new york city. fairbanks, alaska is 11. much of new england is colder than central alaska. that's how unusual this is. the wind chills are worse. people are trying to plow and clear the driveway. you don't want to be outside for a long time. one of the people who was out there is richard louie. are the winds starting to die off? >> good question. since we last spoke about an hour and a half ago, the wind has gone down around 5 miles per hour. it's about 2 degrees and wind chill about 20 below. oscillating in the early digits, the low single digits. we are seeing information that we got in in terms of a snow record. 10.6 inches yesterday. that sets a record going back to 1908 when it was eight inches. despite all this snow and cold

weather and wind, i was able to grab one. this is the headline. they are worried about flooding on the shore. until 3:00 p.m., they have a flood warning about 150 miles up and down the coast. we are glad to see the winds die down. that's the key. folks will be getting out shortly. as i told you about an hour or hour and a half ago, the streets are very, very clear as you can probably hear. >> a lot of people stayed at home and they clear things out. thanks, richard louie in downtown boston. there is going to be significant cold air continuing across this nation for the next couple of days falling for chicago to kansas city to washington, d.c. up through new york and through new england. that will be with us throughout

this next week or two. live cameras on the roads and areas around the greater new york city area. they are asking people to stay off of them. trying to open back up after getting a lot of snow and wind overnight. as far as the next blast, we are expecting record temperatures in areas like chicago and minneapolis. wind chills as low as minus 45 to minus 60. that will be the big weather story in the days ahead. you see it here. and you have a great new book out. since 2008, they posted a

negative start. they put their faith in the u.s. economy and they will outperform in other countries around the world. other sign that is the u.s. is headed in the right direction. home prices up 14.8% in 2010. spending up 2 1/2%. when it comes to unemployment, forecasters expects it to drop 6.5% this year. the rate is at 7%, the lowest level in five years. this is a good time to take a step back. where are we? much more to do with pent up demand. not enough construction. geez. you go over every major city. the credit is getting loose.

the things that create a recovery are happening. they should have happened earlier. they are happening. >> the unemployment number is deceptive. what is the job market like? >> they are in industrial positions. i think people misunderstand what causes a lot of jobs. that's construction. not home construction. that's important, but it isors construction and new projects where a lot of people get jobs and will do well. aerospace, a tremendous driver of the economy. oil and gas without the help of washington. democrat or republican doing amazingly. storm regions and do not have finance doing well. >> why is there such a disconnect between main street and wall street. why is wall street having record

highs and main street struggling? >> in the end they continue to be able to reinvent themselves. a new product can be sold. few people are in it. a lot of people did well because the reserve kept interest rates down. they were invested in by rich people and they are small business. they don't do well in an environment where there is a lot of regulation. the money is not free to them. only the big people. i thought it was brilliant. we sit here and talk and analyze over and over again. all the problems and what we need to do to fix it. if the economy grows at 3.5%.

and so much has to do with growth. the government has gotten in the way of our economy growing. talk about it. >> the government wants to do a lot of things that turn out to be great for the biggest companies. the more regulation, the more they will be able to right the loss. i started six small businesses. the biggest costs are legal and accounting. that should be your initial worry. it's the government. >> it's the government because when you hire people because as a small business owner you want to grow the economy and make money hiring people with the price for the government.

it's what you are doing. up front cost from and the chef, cook, waitress and bartender. me what i will do wrong. >> what are the laws as you open the restaurant, you bump your head. >> i have to worry about what we have to do for health care. what do i have to do for department of buildings and health code? what do i have to do for my neighbors because there is another bar within 500 feet of mine? how about 12:00? 11:00. now look. these are all understandable things. i own an inn. it's called an inn.

it's a bed and breakfast. if we call it bed and breakfast, what are the federal taxes? i have the biggest billie have are the people who protect me from getting -- >> i asked this several weeks ago. >> have you talked to anybody and i'm not picking on the affordable care act, but any small business owner who said the affordable care act is going to do anything but hurt their business. the answer is no. now that's just one layer. there is layer after layer after layer after layer of regulation from the federal and state government and the local government on small businesses. we are not talking about wall street firms. there need to be regulations. we don't have the melt down we had. small business owners, so many of them say i can't afford to

hire anybody else. look at the costs and the exposure. at some point people will figure out they have to aggressively get in there and help small business owners and lighten the regulatory load. >> it's a mind set. i'm blessed and lucky i have capital. between buying bonds and smarting a business, i don't have to call anybody. okay, i will buy a bond. i have to go in. i want to open up a restaurant. a year and a half later, i'm almost there. >> you know george mcgovern, famously opened a restaurant after he got out of politics and shut down.

12 and for him to say he can that before he ran for office because it changed his outlook on everything. it was plain rough. then we paved it. >> this is fascinating. the majority of americans supported same-sex marriage and supported the legalization of marijuana and believe the federal government was a fundamental risk to their freedoms. does that tell you all issues moving into the future. >> not talking about obamacare,

but going all the way back to ka trippa and the iraq war and the institutions that failed them and they watched that happen. 2002. enron. world con. 2003 iraq and abu ghraib and the complete melt down in iraq. on and on. it's an earth-shattering scandal that shook the confidence and this past year it has been and the last 86 years, you are going to kick as. this is our american century.

got off to a rough start. it's like bolt stumbling out of the gate. >> it's not how you start, but how you finish. >> that's what grandpa told me. a look at the senate and house races. we should all have our eyes on this year. prices are a little higher than they bargained for. dude, we will tell you why it's a scam. it's a great american scam. it's not keeping the ducks down. we will show you what the dynasty family is selling that is drawing a lot of attention. more "morning joe" when we come back. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is the story of the little room over the pizza place at 315 chestnut street. the modest first floor bedroom in tallinn, estonia

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. >> let's take a look at the morning papers from the parade of papers. the former banker, we told you about this story accused of faking his own death. he was doing so without the knowledge of his own family. yesterday the banker was denied bond as a flight risk. he fled to south america, but on tuesday he was picked up in a traffic stop in georgia and revealed his identity to police. >> they thought he was like in buford or something. price faces wire fraud.

>> gazette and high demand for marijuana is causing sticker shock. some were reportedly selling marijuana forasmuch as $400 an ounce. i say it that way despite the fact that i have no idea how much marijuana should cost an ounce. >> that seems high. >> sorry that high? >> it's a big business. >> okay. >> listen, not including taxes it's like $400. that's compared to the $250 medical marijuana price users have been paying since 2010. they don't regulate pricing for the newly legal pot market. >> they have the pot and now they are explaining about the price. >> the stars are "duck dynasty"

in the headlines again. the robertsons teamed with mossburg to produce a line of guns. the line will produce a line of camouflage weapons. the embattled patriarch narrates a series of ads with his sons. >> come home with us. let's go back to our roots. the grand passage has begun. grab your gun. let's go kill some ducks, boys. moss berg. built rugged. >> i believe it will sell out in the first day. >> you see what it said on the side? >> eight family ducks. and so it is.

a holiday greeting for new jersey. they sent christmas cards to as many as five republicans. i way state shared his card on facebook. many speculate he is prepping if are a 2016 presidential bid. the spokesman said iowa was not targeted and added the new jersey republicans sent cards to a wide variety of republicans living in states like iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, nevada and florida. he didn't say that last one. >> a cross section. a sampling. almost random. >> all four regions. nevada, new hampshire, south carolina and iowa. >> they love christmas too. >> what are we suggesting? this is a war on christmas. all right. in honor of the kickoff of season four of down ton abby, they offer a tour of the beloved

character's customs and costumes. are you still watching this? is it still great? i wandered off after the second season. >> come back to the upstairs downstairs roots. >> a spoiler. >> come on. if you haven't seen that. it will pull your heart strings. i need to pick up on seasons three and four. >> i haven't seen it. i hear it's great though. i trust halpern. >> i loved the first two seasons. >> like breaking bad without the drugs and different accents. guess who is here. >> different everything. everything is different. >> politico's editor in chief. a lovely sweater. i like it. >> thank you. it's kind of a snow day like up there. >> what was it like getting in? how bad is it? >> the side streets are terrible.

>> god, deblasio! you! what's he doing. he only has been in office a couple of days. the side streets are terrible. look at that. >> you can go for a jog. >> what was that? the day after? >> the jake gyllenhaal movie? a sneaky good movie. >> with bloomberg. we are saying -- >> let's talk business. we talked about the top gubernatorial races here. let's move over to the senate and we want to begin in arkansas where mark pryor is going up against tom cotton. >> you remember mark pryor stated to elections. this time he has a really, really stiff battle and what happened is he has been nationalized in arkansas. obama is so unpopular in that state he now looks like a national democrat.

what he is trying to do is say this guy is no arkansas republican, he's a national republican associated with the extreme agenda. that's what this will be about. what can nationalize this person more effectively. >> fighting for their lives. mitch mcconnell is facing a primary and a general election candidate at the same time. >> this can be the most watched race in the country. basically we saw it a few years ago. harry reid fighting for his life. now we see the minority leader doing the same thing. this battle is ideological and demographic. old man versus a younger woman. it's demographic, generational and they both will be well-funded. it's going to come down to the better candidate. there is no disparity of resources. >> does he hold on to that seat? >> unless she turns out to be

the best candidate, he will probably win. the numbers are still bad. >> i don't see her. there is no evidence thus far that she will be the best candidate of the cycle. >> no and it's unlikely to be a tide in her favor. it's likely to be against her. >> the democrats are talking about how popular the affordable care act or obamacare is in kentucky. we will see. maybe things will change in the next six to nine months. >> he is still unpopular for a big leader. >> he's a very tough campaigner. >> he's wiley. >> that's a good word too. if he gets past the primary, he looks good in that general election race. i don't know about the guy running against him in 2004 that he didn't support a republican or a democrat. we will see. >> a couple more red staters. kay hagen from north carolina is

facing an uphill battle as well. >> she s. we saw that it's possible that terry mcauliffe did it to revive the obama coalition. a republican-leaning state even though it moved more to the center. her reelection would depend on reviving the coalition. young people and african-americans to overcome a basic tilt and that will be in the middle of all of this. great sweater. good luck on the roads. >> i hope you can shovel out. >> breaking news from the tweet. jose told us the same in new york city, $120. they are marking it up.

>> you have to think about quality, i'm cold. also availability. i don't get the legalization thing. seriously. it makes you dumb. pot just makes you dumb. i hung around a lot of guys that spoked a lot of pot. never once did i say hey, man. that looks like something i want to do. never smoked it because every that ever did just looked dumb as hell. i'm going wait a second. i'm challenged enough as it is. why do i want a hammer and hit myself in the head and mike my oughts for success even longer. >> the battle is, here's why you don't do it. you want to do well in life.

>> does drinking make you dumb? >> in large amounts, yeah, it makes you dumb. i noticed overtime and i played music. i did notice guys that would go out drinking on the weekends and they would go on the weekends and by saturday or sunday, i played with a lot of guys in vans and on football team that spoked pot all the time, a little known fact. i coached football and i would walk out and see guys walking like this. i'm not going to tell the sisters, but if you come out again stoned, my football practice, i'm going to get you thrown in jail. >> at the risk of inflaming twitters. would they be more aggressive? >> maybe in 2004, but not 2014. this is where the country is going.

for me, even when i was talking to my sons growing up, i talked to my other two children. i'm not going to say smoke pot. it just makes you dumb. in a lot of states it's just illegal. if you want to be dumb on the weekend, fine. as far as my kid -- >> i don't want to see it. i don't want to see it work. i had drug addicts on the payroll i had to fire and a lot of alcoholics i had to work with. >> ethan hawk in the green room to talk about his in mac beth when "morning joe" comes right back. bl [ male announcer ] the new new york is open.

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>> i'm perfect? >> actually, if i could change one thing about you, it would be for you to stop trying to change me. >> you are a very skilled leader. >> i know how you work.

>> you think? >> i know everything about you. let's go through here. >> i don't think you do actually. >> no? i know you better than i know anybody else on the planet. >> right now? this is great and i feel close to you. sometimes i don't know. i feel like you are breathing helium and i am breathing oxygen. >> see? >> the last installment as it's also known. here with us we have oscar nominated actor e van hawk who is currently starring in mac beth where he gees his head cutoff at the lincoln center theater. >> the decapitation happens around 10 time 50. >> you are forced to come here early in the morning. you have a lot of things going. let's talk about mac beth.

how do you breathe into that standard? >> the reason why people do them all the time is because they don't need new life breathed into them. >> how long have you been doing it? >> the nice thing as an actor, it's a limited engagement and it's a great opportunity. >> how long have you been doing it? >> january 12th. >> there still tickets? >> i think so. >> you haven't missed a show. what's the closest thing you came to missing one? >> the closest i came is

brilliant and historic and pan epic. did you know you would do three? >> this idea is so strange of making those movies, you could never have thought of it. to do a love affair over 18 years, to make that kind of movie, it only happened because when we did the first one, we got along so well. there is something unique about the chemistry and this director wanted us to write our own scenes and create our own characters. it's a novel thing to have happen. we kept doing it. >> i don't know. >> come back as grandparents. >> we like to joke. remember that movie about the 90-year-old couple? we will do one about that.

before cleveland. the first one was great. especially if anyone was traveling, it's like a dream to have that kind of adventure. >> especially if you have that. >> so many people are crossing back and forth. how much of a challenge is it to go from a theater? >> it's funny. people ask me that all the time. the generation before me that wasn't even a question. all actors did it. it's a common thing and so many get swept into and movies. we have a culture of make money as fast as you can. in england they have a culture of training young people and the theater is a lot harder. once you get used to acting and movies and television, there is little incentive to come to the stage. it's a, much more difficult.

b, pays less. those are the criteria. >> did you have to do extra work? did you have to tighten up the skill set? >> i always should tighten up the skill set. i don't need them to do that. the answer is yes. >> what are does that do for you? it's like getting the lead weights and do a film after this. i had to go to voices and speech classes working on -- you can't just show up and play these roles. there is a reason why they go to the world shakespeare. >> you did the "today" show with kathie lee and she seemed fine on the first run through.

>> this close. hod hoda. >> obviously we have all been 3 relationships and you go through long-term relationships that have their ups and downs. they have their heard breaks. >> you 150e78 to be 1350eki isp a particular pathos. anything you want to share some. >> no. you feel my pain. it does. it looks at the challenges of long-term relationships. >> it's not just a movie.

it's nine years in the making. but ever since before something finished, i had this feeling that something was left undone. the way that that second film ends, it's mysterious and strange. i wanted the opportunity to write about the first two are among the projection. it seemed like they needed an answer which is looking at what happens with love and action. you are with your true love and she gets mad at you. you have to deal with the daily nature of life. >> how much you change yourself. even in the best situation. >> your relationship to what you need for romantic love changes. you are not 18 anymore. is not about fantasy. it's about reality and certain things are beautiful and magic. certain things are hard.

could we write something romantic and optimistic with no lies? >> that's a hell of a challenge. >> that was what we wanted to deal with the movies. it's a funny thing because in shakespeare there is a lot of the plays, the romances all have to deal with young love and courtship. they are murderers, but the marriage is healthy. it's strange. it makes you think. >> you dial up the focus in those films. did you get to ad lib? >> there is a lot of dialogue in the films, but the way they are shot was seven-minute takes. 14 minutes and eight minute takes. they are not made in the

editing. we could improvise together. the way writers do. when we came to set, it was the most rehearsed i have been. because he knew. we wrapped it and then he's got the cut of the film. we made the movie. >> thank you so much. you can watch all three films before sunrise and sunset and before midnight at the lincoln center in new york starting today. i can't wait for that and i will catch shakespeare's mac beth. also at the lincoln center. you don't have to move around much. visit lct.org. coming up next, republicans have the pitching problem that

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>> i wanted to point out that general mills is producing the popular cereal cheerios without genetically modified organisms or gmos. as brian pointed out, yes, you are eating cheerios with genetically modified stuff in it. >> joe is eating smile. >> there you go. >> what's in here?

>> i grew up eating captain crunch and tricks and count chockula and i have a feeling there ain't nothing here that i haven't been eating for 50 years. >> it's the only cereal that is non-gmo. the assumption out there is that crunch berries are pure fruit. like fruity pebbles. >> they have seven. >> if you have captain runch with runch berries and a carrot, that's all you need for the day. >> that's it. forget that vitamix stuff. >> i wish the food could cancel

out bad foot. the carrot would be like don't worry. it's just me. it negates it. >> we were never allowed sugar cereal. if we were allowed, the box was done in a day. . >> stocks this morning, i will get my dog in here. i'm wearing jeans. the stocks fell and don't panic. all these extra taxes and you might see it ahead of february. we talked about how in the hell does anybody afford to live in new york city. the median price is $855,000. that is the median price. that will be skewed by the 100 millioners. an average on luxury apartments. a $55,000. in manhattan. we are talking about manhattan.

transaction volumes are near record high. it's not dissituating people. they could get $16 million. that would be the best. >> it's the hedge fund values and people buying up all this stuff. are all the bonuses back? >> the bonuses never went away. not to the level they were. >> there people. joe has the new cheerios working out for him. and the bonuses dried up and they gave them tops of stock. now the value of those are going up. >> also what's happening is you

don't get fired by hiring ibm. a few hedge funds were the biggest and they have been monsterous. california teacher's money can't go with an untested guy over here. you bet stupidly. places like bridge water is like 70 billion. the hedge funds, your viewers largely don't hear about it. they are massive and i guarantee those folks are getting the news. they made $100 million in profit and-about $10 million. >> what's the variable? >> i think the economy will be very, very good. my biggest fear has nothing to do with us. it's china. the average price of a beijing apartment is 100 times the average income. there is a lot of bad loans.

it's hard to know. i have been horribly wrong. >> i don't know if it's a bubble or not. define bubble. >> it's an economy fuelled by cheap lending and government spending. the government can do what it wants. they don't have the congressional fights like we do. >> i have been concerned about this. they have been spending hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure. everybody flies over to china. i can't wait to hear what they have to say about russia. they put on a great show. everybody says oh, the airports are laughing on infrastructure. they don't have the economy to support that. >> it's all low wage jobs too. >> we'll be right back.

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>> i learned there was something about marquis. >> i learned that nfl would be fantastic. i screwed up the difference between median and mean. >> go to your room. >> my mouth is too weak for captain crunch. >> if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." stick around. we have chuck's daily run down straight ahead. >> it's coming downright now. >> developing now, states of emergency across the northeast as the first major winter storm of the year brings snow, high winds and dangerously cold temperatures to more than