the talented philip seymour hoffman, a lifetime of indelible roles cut short. >> you get it? >> no, you're not stupid, you're just in congress. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington, the groundhog saw his shadow and we're getting a reminder of what six more weeks of winter looks like. expected to bring up to 9 inches of snow in some areas of the northeast. most of the country is in for more winter weather this week with two more storms expected to close schools and business and cause travel nightmares. nbc's ron mott joins me from

laguardia, ron, it looks awful. some super bowl travelers are having a tough time getting home and you are stuck out there. thanks for being out there for us. >> reporter: it is unbelievable. >> tell us about the flight delays. >> reporter: 15 hours ago -- i was going to say what a difference a day makes and 15 hours or so we were at the super bowl last night. it was perfect weather for football and today we have this as these fans are trying to get out of town to parts west of here. and the denver bronco fans especially after what happened on that football field. they are still in a good move despite the fact a lot of travelers spent the bulk of the day in the new york city area as flights are delayed or canceled. at least 250 cancellations multiple delays on the board there inside and across the river in new jersey, newark is harder hit, more than 350 delays and i understand through my wife, it's just now starting to fall in the boston area. it's going to cascade into the

northeast. it's not a problem on the roadways. it's pretty wet snow so the traffic is beating it down to just water on the roadway. the evening rush hour in the tri-state area should be okay. it should be easily manageable for drivers here. the fact we don't have a lot of visibility in the skies and the fact they have the traffic management program in effect down to philadelphia, we'll have to see later in the afternoon in boston whether it affects flights there. needless to say folks traveling today via air, call the airline first because the delays at some point may affect your travel plans as well. a lot of football fans inside hoping to get out of here today, andrea. >> we have another storm coming in from the midwest, cincinnati, kentucky, other states already being affected. what can we look forward to or not look forward to? >> reporter: well, i think once we get a little bit of a break here today with this system, this is supposed to stop about 5:00 or so here in the new york area, taper off and it will be

dry. we'll start to see this other system make its way in here tomorrow. the northeast is going to be braced for the first three days of this week dealing with this kind of weather. this is the kind of snow you really don't want. it's clingy and we're expecting temperatures to drop well below freezing into the mid to low 20s tonight. so they want to try to clear the roads as much as possible for tomorrow morning it's -- we don't see a situation we saw in atlanta last week. >> ron mott, thank you so much. right now we still have the rain but not the snow yet but we're bracing. there's still a major political storm brewing in new jersey. where else, other governor chris christie. the latest came from david wildstein through his attorney claimed there is evidence refuting the denial that he didn't know about the bridge closing until after the fact. he have responded with a scathing memo ripping wildstein, his own appointee, dating back to high school years together. new jersey investigators were

mystified. >> what do we have here? >> that's the question. we don't really know what the evidence is. christie is already taking a hit. there were years and jeers heard at the super bowl event for the weekend. ron, what comes to mind, if he all of these problems back to the high school years when he was 16 years old, why was he a close aide and appoint him to the port authority? >> those are good questions, andrea, but you know how this goes, at this point it's every man and woman for themselves and that seems to be what's developing here. wildstein presumably is privy to some evidence, some evidence that he thinks will say that governor christie knew about the bridge closures before they happened. the members of the committee are asking where is this evidence? it's my understanding wild stein turned over several hundred pages of documents to the committee. from what i'm hearing, there's

nothing in that evidence that contradicts what governor christie said about not learning about the scheme until after it actually happens. so yes, the other thing that's happening today is subpoena day, if you will. there are 20 people entities supposed to respond to a subpoena request for thousands of pages of documents, texts and e-mails by 5:00 today. we understand from the committee investigating the matter that most of them not surprisingly have asked for extensions and will be granted extensions. it's unclear, not giving us a play by play but the bottom line is this will go on for many more weeks. that's the concern that i'm sure governor christie has. he's certainly trying to get back to business as usual and about an hour or so there's going to be a briefing by one of the aides about the next step in sandy relief aide, $1.4 billion, a briefing by phone. it's unclear whether we'll be able to ask questions and the questions that would be confined to this particular issue, not the questions about sandy aide

and hoboken as well. you have this daily drip, drip, if you will. over the weekend, super bowl weekend, the governor certainly didn't want to be dealing with all of this. it was a time when he had the national stage and in the spotlight and new jersey doesn't have a super bowl often, never had one before. it was a good moment for christie but didn't turn out that way when he was booed publicly. so we're waiting to see what more we can learn about the subpoena response. probably not much today but in the coming days, there will certainly be -- probably be leaks coming out and public releases that might fill in the so many unanswered questions about what governor christie knew when he knew it as well as top aids. >> a lot of questions indeed. thank you so much. coming up, more on that political storm in new jersey. and like the weather forecast, can't get any worse. yesterday two groundhogs saw their shadow predicting six more weeks of winter.

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from presidential contender to a governor fighting for reputation at home and his own future, the chris christie story gets curiouser. joining me now, chuck todd, nbc news political director and host of "the daily rundown" and chris cillizza and ruth marcus. chuck, let's talk about what happened over the weekend. there were a number of events first of all, wild stein memo

which suggests there is evidence but has not delivered that evidence. >> it's like -- he has evidence. >> he has clear evidence then claims there is evidence, there's no different than when joe mccarthy says -- >> we have to be very careful. >> careful. he claims to have evidence. >> he is a man looking for immunity or at least his lawyer suggested that when he took the fifth and looking for the port authority, his former employer to pay his legal bills. there's a lot going on here but then chris christie shoots back and doesn't exactly state what it was he was accused of. the contemporarious nature of his knowledge. >> on friday, the new york times did the response clearly written by staff. then the next day they had a response, little more lawyered up. then this response that went through this entire memo and decided to dredge up issues about wildstein in high school could only have been written by one person, chris christie

himself. he is -- somehow this got personal in some form or another and this is -- this was a moment to me that said, this guy is fighting for his political life in the state of new jersey. this is no longer about saving his reputation. >> chris cillizza, the question that came to my mind, why did you appoint him? >> i literally andrea, just wrote something, saying that if you knew all of these things, you are someone who knew david wild stein all the way back to high school. if he did sue over a local school board election or these other accusations in there, why would you have him be in the port authority. >> promised a political post in new jersey, az great job, a job you give to a pal. >> it is an appointment -- >> sitting on the bench. >> right. >> now, ruth, as far as i know you are the only person in this group who went to livingston

high school. >> indeed. >> congratulations. what a group, christie, allen krueger, david wildstein, ruth marcus. >> editor of the year book the year after -- >> who knew? >> i love, by the way, check it out, the "washington post" had a great story on high school chris christie and the baseball team and how he was replaced as the catcher but let that fight go and how they won. how he showed up when one of his old pals the pitcher, was pitching for a farm team and little humiliated and he showed up in the stands. i love that story. anyway, high school. >> please don't bring me back there. >> none of us want to relive high school i think. >> i don't want anybody dredging up what i did in my high school career. >> i want to also move on. this weekend and the super bowl, which wasn't super, except for the seahawks, but the fact that the president did this interview with bill o'reilly.

this is causing a big stir and we'll talk about the tweet fest afterwards. let's play a little bit of president obama and bill o'reilly. >> was it the biggest mistake of your presidency to tell the nation over and over if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance? >> bill, you've got a long list of my mistakes -- >> some people are saying is that the irs was used at a local level in cincinnati, maybe other places too -- >> absolutely wrong. >> how do you know that? we still don't know what happened there? >> we do. that's not what happened. folks have again, had multiple hearings on this. these types of things keep on surfaces because you and your tv station will promote them. >> you've got to love hillary clinton's tweet, it's so much more fun to watch fox when it's someone else being blitzed and sacked. hash tag, super bowl. who was she referring to? >> i don't know was she referring to the president,

peyton manning? i think she -- >> definitely the president and bill o'reilly. >> seemed to want to have fun there. taking a little shot at fox during the '08 campaign she never did. she was -- fox was -- she regularly went on at least greta and other things. i think at this point where the democratic party is today and the relationship with fox is in a much different place than in '07 and '08. >> cillizza, that interview was pretty edgy. >> you know what's interesting, president obama has done these sitdowns with him before. i think he knows what he's getting. i think he was quite ready as chuck pointed out and we just heard, quite ready, to give it back. i think -- i always think it's an interesting choice when he chooses fox news and bill o'reilly. he went in with sort of eyes

open. i think both sides did. bill o'reilly knew why he was picked and president knew what he would get from bill o'reilly. he did get the irs and bifgt mistake of your presidency by saying if you like your insurance you can keep it. >> you can't talk about the super bowl without talking about the ads. i'll talk about the game in a bit. >> was there a game? >> there were ads and the coca-cola ad that inspired so much twitter anger. take a look at this. ♪ america america god shed his grace on thee ♪ [ singing foreign language ]

♪ from sea to shining sea >> and what seemed to light up twitter, ruth, was the fact there were foreign voices singing -- or american voices singing foreign languages. and it's so strange. first of all, people were complaining this is america, english please. and ashame that people are upset by the coca-cola commercial, we're a melting pot. but more of the anger was about our national anthem, which is not. >> it should be. >> it should be. i'm sorry, it should be. let's say this. >> but the fact is, what's the deal? this is the melting pot. >> it is the melting pot. >> beautiful commercial. >> we are a nation of immigrants. immigrants who started out in another language and learn english. i was watching the commercial and thought it was beautiful and

got all misty over it. i actually was struck when i was looking at tweets today that some very strong conservative voices, including eric ericsson were saying, what's -- come on, folks, get with it, there's no problem here. i think that's a much better response. >> and the gay couple as well. it was quite a beautiful -- and the other -- there was so many commercials but the other one that was really striking, playing clint eastwood was bob dylan. >> detroit made cars and cars made america. making the best, making the finest takes conviction. ♪ >> i think you should -- that -- >> i loved it because you don't hear bob dylan talking that much very often. that was great. the one thing that's implied there and i took to twitter to say this and people misinterpreted it, is bob dylan

saying american beer is not good. do we want to leave it to germans to make our beer? we'll let the germans make -- i would like to protest that. i'm not saying -- there's some pretty good beer brewed here. >> just ask governor of colorado. >> are we going to let the foreign owned company say we're going to make american cars here? >> are you saying you're misinterpreted on twitter -- >> i'm shocked. it doesn't happen. >> could that girl in the cheerios ad be any cuter who got her puppy? >> how about the doritos ad. >> radio shack was my favorite ad but you weren't kids of the '80s me and cillizza, had to watch it again and my kids are sitting there going way is this funny? they don't understand. >> you think staten island congressman michael grimm was tough. check out "snl's" congresswoman.

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biggest blowout in the history of the super bowl like we saw last night. nobody expected the best offense to only put up eight points in a super bowl. maybe there are some like me who picked the seahawks, but nobody picked the seahawks like this in this kind of blowout last night. >> i was in fact afraid it was going to be a shutout. i was really really worried that they weren't going to score at all. what about the peyton manning legacy? he had just been honored the night before and great yardage but it was -- and it's hit completions were terrific so his stats are great from the game but they couldn't put anything together. >> this is the story with peyton manning. and this is the debate that all of us in the sports world are having on a constant basis is the legacy of peyton manning. he may be with five mvps the greatest regular season quarterback of all time. but there's a little caveat there when i say regular season, because in the postseason, he's

only 11-12, he has more playoff losses than anybody in history which means he gets the playoffs a lot. give him credit there from a quarterback perspective and 1-2 record in the super bowl. when you're elite and hall of famer like peyton manning, we judge you fair or not, based on how many super bowl s you win. when you only have one and you have a team that was super bowl or bust this year, this is going to be as difficult an off season at manning will ever have. he statistically had his second worst game of the season in the super bowl last night. you don't want to have your worst performance there. >> two interceptions. what about pete carroll, my california friends tell me he left the usc program in shambles. and he's a tough guy but he's obviously a great manager and great leader and put together this team, a young squad. what about pete carroll and the future of the seattle seahawks. >> tell your california friends what was usc football immediately prior to him getting

there. he revitalized the program. during that eight-year run or whatever it was, they had fun. those people you're talking to really enjoyed it during that time period. i think pete carroll is one of the most underrated coaches of this era. he won a college championship and pro championship, one of only three coaches in history to ever do that. he deserves a lot of credit today. >> and what about the -- just sort of the mvp and russell wilson, the undernoticed lesser noticed quarterback. >> i thought russell wilson was phenomenal. we always look at the quarterbacks, russell wilson versus peyton manning, going in, nobody picks russell wilson but he had the better game. he was the better quarterback. he's had the best start statistically for a quarterback in the history of football. he's had more wins through two years than anyone else and super bowl title to go along with it. he's a nice as a guy as you're

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admits to a u.s. failed policy in syria. they say in a closed door meeting on sunday, the secretary suggested a new approach needs to be taken, which could involve training and arming syrian rebels. jeffrey goldberg joins me now. jeff, this all took place at the weekend security conference where conference where perhaps the secretary of state -- also members of congress there and couple of democrats there. there's strong pushback. jay carney is saying, let me quote this from the briefing today. we have that from the briefing, let's go to it. >> i think stories you're referring to actually appear to be a reflection of what senators mccain and graham think of our syria policy, not what secretary kerry thinks. at no point during secretary kerry's meeting in munich with members did he raise a lethal assistance for opposition. he was describing a range of options that the administration

has always had at its disposal. >> there's no question that john kerry is always been much more muscular in his approach to syria, at least from before and certainly the run-up to the chemical weapons decision. he was the one who came out and gave the worst speech without being brought back into the national security deliberate race after the president changed his mind that labor day weekend. tell me what happened here. >> i think you're right. he's comfortable around his former colleagues from the senate but there were 15 members of congress in this room at this security conference. i think that he's reacting to some recent events, including the fact that the director of national intelligence just said last week in public testimony that all kid affiliated group in syria now poses a direct threat to the homeland. the story is shifting. the fact he's upset, kerry is upset with the slow rolling of

chemical weapons and russia's role and i talked to democratic congressman too in meeting and they say mccain and graham are reflecting accurately what kerry's concerns are. i think he's thinking that a bunch of stuff is piling up that's going to require a shift in strategy on the part of the white house. >> but that shift has not taken place yet and he has always played the loyal soldier as an advocate and negotiator in these sort of landmark talks he's been holding. >> as you point out, he was the one who went out in august and made a churchillian speech about the evil of the assad regem and president decides a day later to pull a rug out of that -- >> hours later. >> hours later and goes to the russians and russians engineer this chemical weapons operation, which is so far theoretical because most are still in syria. i think he is definitely within the framework of the administration, he is definitely

the person who believes that the u.s. should get more engaged and price for noninvolvement. we know from iraq obviously that there's a price for over involvement. but what he's worried about at this point is a price for under involvement and may very well be right. >> the reports out of israel that netanyahu and israelis are prepared to accept the kerry framework which the state department says is not a framework and not a kerry plan. do you want to advocate that? >> the framework that's not a framework? he's been working herculean fashion to get them to agree to the framework. the framework is not surprising, we've heard for 20 years what the perimeters of a deal need to be. he surprised a lot of people, including me by keep pushing at it. >> the big change here is also bringing in the big guns if you will to have a real security plan for the jordan river valley. >> the strategy of kerry, just so smart, to remover in this

case, remove one by one israeli objections to this sort of framework agreement. they say the security in the west bank is in the jordan river is the problem. i'm going to apply tremendous amount of intellectual fire power to figure out this part. what he's dyioing is creating conditions in which palestinian president abass can't say no. whether it leads to an agreement down the road but it moved further than people thought. the president is going to go to saudi arabia. >> little late. >> to try to reassure king abdullah and saudi leaders as well as others in the gulf very upset. kerry visited with them, they said no to a u.n. security council seat. the saudis are very upset about

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but that leaves us in a con undrum and some of that great conversation of the american people, real concerns about shrinking civil liberties and domestic surveillance and particularly the undue influence of money forces on politics is a conversation we should be having more in congress. can't just be on the sidelines. >> to that point, are you going to do something differently in the way you raise money? >> it's a grass roots campaign. that's absolutely for sure. obviously some of the -- when i talk about the overdo influence of corporate interest, they won't be sending me pac money. my average don't is 53, $54. >> what do you need to do as a independent, why do you think there is some running room, if you will, for an independent? >> i'm a lifelong democrat and everybody knows that. but if you look at the history

of the united states. this two party duopoly which c uusuk c we're extremely important, women sufferage didn't come from a major party and civil rights moment didn't come from a major party. they were people's movements that gotten acted by political parties and that's what's happening in this country. 60% of the american people are ready. i think this movement towards more independent and independent minded voices is an idea who's time has come. >> has does your background as a spiritual adviser, someone who appeared with oprah so often, how does that prepare you? >> for the last 30 years i've been up close and personal with people whose lives were in crisis and i learned from moving from crisis into opportunity. i think our country is in crisis. one of the things i see happening with our country that

is not workable in an individual's life and won'ting working in country's life either, just trying to tweak a few externals here and there. we need a deep national conversation and inquiry into who we are. do we even stand on the principles we say we stand on? how is our democrat doing? what are own character defects as a nation? like abraham lincoln said, it said an individual is as sick as it's secrets and so is a nation. we have the second highest poverty rate, seconds only to romania and highest mass incarceration rate in the world, 2.4 million people in prison compared to 300,000 in the 1970s. we're a higher incarceration rate than russia and china and iran. we have 1% of americans controlling 38 to 40% of our wealth. my qualifications is somebody who gets deep and has an honest conversation about what's going on knowing that's absolutely imperative of this crisis going to turn into opportunity.

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what story are we going to be talking about in the next 24? i know we'll talk about the weather in the next 24 hours, the snow not letting up in new york and north of there. apparently we're it's john kerry's job to tell the president what other people are saying. people are saying that the situation on the ground in syria is getting worse and we've always been examining options. there may be misinterpretation

but clearly they know that they have got to change course or consider other options to change course. >> you know andrea, look, the reality i would say there is politics infusing this town, but in an even numbered year when you have senate seats in places like louisiana, north carolina, alaska, montana, these are mot democratic strongholds. those are places where democrats have to find ways to hold at least some of those seats. my guess is harry reid will make that clear to the president. they also disagree ond trade, fast tracking of trade. harry reid said i don't think this is the time we should do it. there are a number of differences. the thing that i wonder about, andrea, this is a president who by and large has succeeded heavily on his own. taken a lot of criticism from tracks, particularly in the house, some in the senate, he is always doing what is good for barack obama and his brand as opposed to what's good for the

democratic party. he said he is committed to helping the party. are there policy things he can do to help mary landrieu, mark pryor in alaska. certainly critical of the president. >> and don't forget i know you don't forget but we should remember it was harry reid who first said to barack obama you could run for president. >> absolutely. >> harry reid was a father figure to him. this is not an adversarial relationship or didn't start that way. >> harry reid knows right now they need democrats hold the senate by six seats, there are four to five that you could easily see going to republicans, and a republican majority in the senate as well as the house is not just bad news for harry reid, but anything in terms of barack obama's agenda he would hope to accomplish in 2015 or 16, with the republican

controlled house which we expect and republican controlled senate which is at least a possibility. he should be invested in this because it's his future politically speaking as well. >> when i say the keystone pipeline, that report that came out after our program on friday, that state department report, basically said there is going to be a bad effect on climate change whether they build this pipeline or not. >> right. >> that tarsands oil is going to be extracted either way. that gives some political cover to the president and secretary kerry if they want to go the route of building the pipeline which would help begich, mary landrieu, but it goes very much against the legacy, the climate change legacy of not only barack obama but john kerry spent his whole life devoted to working on these environmental issues and all of his allies are against this. >> it's legacy versus pure politics, the reality of

keystone for mary landrieu or mark begich, jobs. that's sort of the bottom line. it equals jobs. while many have environmental concerns these folks would say look, jobs, the economy, helping grow the economy. so legacy versus another kind of legacy which is the house an senate control and what president obama did for the ballot races it's not an easy decision. >> to be continued. by the way, that report also says that only 50 permanent jobs. 50 permanent jobs. so this is going to be debated. we have to leave it there to be continued. thank you very much. that does it for us. tomorrow wendy sherman, a key point person on iran. follow the show online and on twitter. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what's next. >> great to see you. developing news, the first of three major winter storms bearing down on the i-95

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hi everyone. the "news nation" following developing news from the first of at least three major winter storms that will hit the country this week. impacting more than two dozen states. right now new york city and

philadelphia are getting slammed with heavy snow that will total 6 to 8 inches. travel in new york city's airports have slowed to a crawl. just as fans in town for the super bowl, are trying to make their way home. there are more than 1600 cancellations nationwide today. and over 2,000 delays. some as many as four hours long. those cancellations and delays expected to cascade around the country today into tomorrow. and that's when a second major storm will start making its way through a large part of the country, and if that's not bad enough, a third storm is expected to hit friday. we'll get more on that in a moment for you. first, developing now in a couple hours chris christie will be taking questions from people at his monthly radio show. but the big question will he