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>> i think we should take a note from joe and be optimistic. >> fair enough. >> optimistic, joe. >> all right. if it's way too early, joe what time is it? >> well, it's time for "morning joe" and time for sunshine and happiness and optimism. but stick around because now we've got peter alexander and "the daily rundown." the lowest unemployment rate since july 2000. as the economy adds 214,000 jobs. more on the numbers straight ahead. also this morn, the identity of the navy s.e.a.l. who killed osama bin laden revealed, or is it? competing claims cause a stir inside the military. and president obama gepts set to host congressional leaders to talk about the road ahead. is there any reason for hope now? a very good morning from washington. i'm kristen welker. it is a very busy friday, november 7th, 2014.
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this is "the daily rundown." we begin with october's job report. another strong sewing for the u.s. economy. 214,000 jobs were added last month. the unemployment rate ticked down to the lowest its been in two years. september was revised up as well to a total of 256,000. there were job gains across the board. business services up 37,000. retail up 27,000. and health care added 25,000 jobs. hampton, break it all down for us. what do you make of these numbers? what are the headlines? >> the main headline is that tickdown to 5.8% unemployment.
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beyond the other revisions and headline numbers you mentioned, there were a total of 683,000 additional folks who got jobs in october. that's the highest monthly increase since november of 2013. the so-called youth six or total unemployment rate is now down. those two numbers in particular say if you add it up, there's foundation in place for stronger growth in the months ahead. year to date, our averages for jobs over the last three months, 224,000. year to date, the economy's created 2.2 million new jobs. the one downer for main street, there's still no sign of wage
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growth. wage growth is like a tenth of a percent in a month or 2% year over year. however, those who watch the fed and a lot of wall street folks like that because it means there's no underlying reason to be concerned about inflation going forward which keeps the federal reserve on the sideline as far as raising interest rates. >> hampton, very quickly, with this strong report, we've had a series of strong reports now. are more average people going to start to feel the strength of the economy? >> you have to hope so. i'm not really dodging your question because among other things we've got, for instance, major employers. walmart, macy's, u.p.s., saying they're going to be hiring tens of thousands of people in anticipation of the boost in the economy over the holiday season. as we all know, the hidden tax cut or not so hidden tax cut, those falling gasoline prices are putting a lot more money in people's pockets to go out and spend. consumer demand creates more job
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opportunities as well. because consumer consumption is 70% of the economy. >> hampton pierson, thank you. we appreciate it. we want to turn now to some developing news out of ukraine. a military spokesman there says an armored column of 32 tanks and more than 2 dozen trucks have crossed the border from russia into ukraine. technically, there's been a cease-fire in place there for more than two months. but hundreds have been killed in sporadic fighting since then. despite those reports, the russian government said today it's still committed to the peace process in that part of the world. nbc's jim maceda is live in london with the very latest. >> the report which is just coming out today, though it happened yesterday, is from that ukrainian defense ministry spokesman andre lieuchenko. according to him, the russians are using a column of heavy armor which includes artillery
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systems as well as those tanks you mentioned and they're trying to rearm and resupply pro-russian rebels in that ugantz area of eastern ukraine. that's one of two parts, breakaway parts of ukraine that make up the new russia. the breakaway nation now that voted for its own leaders earlier this week in an election that the rest of the world has rejected. now, lieuchenko also said five more ukrainian soldiers were killed in ongoing fighting as well. despite that extremely fragile cease-fire. so far, however, we've seen no confirmation of any movement of such a large russian force into ukraine. again, something that happened 24 hours ago. putin announced even back in september when he first -- when they first launched that cease-fire that he was pulling his troops back from the border to their bases.
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that has been verified. most of the russian bases there are well within an hour or two drive of the border. is it remains tense there just by definition. if this is true, there have been a number of reports like this coming from kiev which haven't panned out but if it's true it will certainly put more strain on a very already very fragile cease-fire. even though both sides blame the other for breaking the cease-fire, both sides continue to fight. it is a low level fight. just today there were two more funerals for two young boys who were playing in a residential area that hadn't been hit before near that donetsk airport. they were both killed by pro-russian shelling. back to you. >> jim maceda, thank you for
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following all of those fast moving developments for us. appreciate it. turning now to washington. president obama will have lunch with leaders from both parties today at the white house. his first meeting with the republican lawmakers since the gop won control of the senate on tuesday. even though they'll break bread together, it's hard to see them breaking any major new ground. >> you're an american voter. why should you have confidence that anything's going to be different now? >> well, i think that time will tell. doesn't mean that there are going to be daily renditions of kumbaya sung on pennsylvania avenue but i do think we can be a little more optimistic that where common ground exists, that democrats and republicans can move together on it. >> certainly no coupkumbaya mom yet. speaker boehner's tone was not conciliatory. he warned the president not to take executive action on immigration. take a listen.
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>> when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself. >> boehner is poised to be in charge of the largest republican majority in the house since herbe herbert hoover was president. yesterday, he vowed to bring a vote to the floor to repeal the president's signature piece of legislation. >> the house i'm sure at some point next year will move to repeal obamacare. >> would you go to -- >> joining me now, likely to be named new chairman of the senate's chief government oversight panel. thank you for joining me, senator, i appreciate it. >> you said, quote, there's no sense in rolling out things we won't agree on as the first
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thing. as a good faith effort, shouldn't the republicans drop this repeal effort? >> what president obama ought to drop is his -- >> we'll get to immigration. but on health care -- >> kristen, let's not -- >> -- sign into law -- >> i come from the business world. the way i start my negotiation is i figured out everything we agreed on first. both sides ought to concentrate on the areas of agreement. that will start a process i think would be helpful in healing. we'll develop relationships. we'll develop a level of trust. when we come to areas of disagreements, it's easier to find common ground. let's start by things we agree on. >> so you're essentially saying you don't want to see this repeal effort off the bat just
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to be clear? >> no, what the speaker's saying is we should be showing the american public where we differ. republicans are united in really disliking and, you know, we all campaigned against the health care law. it's going to do a great deal of damage to our health care system. there's nothing wrong in bringing those votes up. president obama doesn't have to sign it. there's nothing wrong with us showing the american people where we stand on that issue. on the other hand, president obama and immigration, he's got the executive authority to do something and that will poison the well and that will take effect and that would be i think very unfortunate if he decided to do that. >> let's talk about immigration. why not get an immigration bill passed so that president obama doesn't have to take unilateral action on immigration? if you look at the polls, a majority of american people say they want immigration reform. >> i think the american people first want us to secure the border which is the first step
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in any comprehensive approach to immigration. there are plenty of things on immigration we can agree on. we should all be in agreement that we need to secure our border. not only to solve the immigration problem but as a public health and safety issue. also, a national security issue. so let's do that. there's agreement in terms of high skilled visa programs. let's do that. we should eliminate incentives for illegal immigration. so there are areas of agreement. let's concentrate on those things. democrats are holding our border security hostage. i come from wisconsin. there's a lot of immigrants there. i've never had an immigrant ask me for citizenship. let's start securing the border. >> let me move on to your plans for the future. you have said about your plans for investigations in the committee's next chair.
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you said, quote, you're not interested in show trials but in defining problems. slightly different tone than we're hearing from your counterpart darrell issa who's issuing subpoenas against the administration. based on what you've said, does that mean you're not planning to bring up any of those subpoenas again? >> the homeland security governor affairs committee has pretty broad jurisdictions. homeland security. a lot of serious issues. securing our borders, cyber security. i want to work with the secretary. i think he's a good appointment, serious man. we want to make sure he's successful at keeping america safe. that is the oversight. that is the investigation part of that. we'll have to maintain and carry out our responsibilities there as well. as a business guy, i don't like duplication of effort. the house is already there.
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but i'm not going to certainly absolve myself of the responsibility or the committee of its responsibility. it's a very serious part of our responsibility. >> is there any investigation that is imminent? can you give us specifics about what you mean? >> first, i want to use the committee. government affairs is involved in things like regulatory reform. democratic senators have businesses come into their office as well saying this regulation is killing businesses in their states. so let's find those areas of common ground. go ahead. >> i want to get you on foreign policy because we are running out of time. reports yesterday that president obama secretly wrote a letter to
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iran's supreme leader urging him to work with the u.s. to fight isis. what do you make of that letter? does it help or hurt? >> further dem mocratization of this president's weakness in foreign policy. i think he pretty well blew those negotiations when he relaxed sanctions and basically agreed to allow iran to continue to enrich uranium. he's put himself in a very bad position from negotiation standpoint. and then syria in iraq blew up. and, you know, this is showing the failure of his foreign policy. his leading from behind. the strategy is simply not working. >> senator, quickly, based on those reports, the president did stress that any cooperation would be contingent on getting a deal done on iran's nuclear program. why not try to enlist iran's help if it helps to defeat isis? >> again, i'm concerned about
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that deal that he's doing with iran that basically leaves in place their ability to enrich uranium and weaponize, you know, have a nuclear weapons program because that's the only reason they would be enriching uranium. i think this is a dangerous spot we're in because of the weakness of this administration. >> all right, senator, thank you so much for your time. with republicans now set to run both the house and senate, how much will president obama be able to stick to his agenda? chuck todd is here. first, a look at today's planner. the president holds a cabinet meeting in the morning and as we've now noted meets with congressional leaders at the white house this afternoon for lunch. no word yet on what will be served at that launch. we'll have details when we get it. you know how fast you were going? about 55. where you headed at such an appropriate speed? across the country to enhance the nation's most reliable 4g lte network.
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i think what we're focused on is making sure that washington works for the american people. the president said he also understands that he as president has a unique responsibility i think were the words he used. a unique responsibility to make sure it does. >> that was white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough speaking to our own andrea mitchell on thursday. it signals president obama plans to keep pursuing his own agenda as best he can even when faced with the most powerful republican congress in decades. the one and only chuck todd, nbc news political director, joins me now. let's start with lunch. what do you expect to come out of this lunch? anything significant? >> first, they do have business to do. they have business to do to finish -- congress has a lot of work to do before the end of the year. congress has some specific asks on ebola funding as well as
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isis. so there is like actual work to do. they've got to make a decision on the spending bills. are they going to do just enough to let the new congress deal with this? or basically pass and keep the government funded for most of next year or at least a good chunk of it. it's funny, the republican leadership simply would like to clear the decks. the question is will the rank and file allow that. that's going to be one mild sticking point. look, what i'm shocked at, we're going to have 15 of the 16 leaders, top four in each of the different caucuses. i think only skalis isn't there because he's not in washington yet. that's a big meeting. usually the bigger the meeting, the less gets done. >> let's talk about some of the rhetoric we've heard because president obama saying he's going to move to act unilaterally on immigration. you have republicans saying we're still going to try to repeal obamacare. to some extent, does the timing of that matter?
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in other word, do they need to get some other things, taxes done, infrastructure. >> i think they both have their own base political issues to deal with on those. the republican leadership has to do something on health care to sort of appease their base a little bit. i think there are some specific real things they think they can pass and chip away at the law. the medical device tax you've heard. the question is how antagonistic do they get. the more antagonistic it gets, the more likely they can end up owning some gridlock. the republicans are talking, basically saying to the president, if you try anything, you're going to poison the well. the white house could easily say if you try anything on health care, it will poison the well. i think republicans have to talk a big game publicly because some of their base has campaigned so hard on immigration.
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i think the question is can they a agree to table it all? or do they start to deal with their bases? >> do you think they're going to table it -- >> i think something here on immigration. i feel like he has to. i just would say we don't know what the scope of this is going to be yet. i think that's something that has to be known before we know how much of a red flag this is in front of republicans. >> you've talked a lot about the president's tone at that press conference. he did not call it a shellacking. >> he didn't own it. >> why? strategically, was that a smart decision? >> i understand personally why he didn't own it. here's the guy -- benched. the democratic party, he's the starting quarterback, and they didn't use him. >> is that a mistake for democrats? >> i think when you look back at it, you say, do you think mark pryor would have lost by 21 instead of 18 if president obama had been there? that sort of thing. you cannot sit here and say it was successful and that it worked. i think the president's
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frustration is he was -- he is the symbol of this midterm. and he didn't get a chance to defend himself. so i think that's why he doesn't feel as if it's like own ago defeat that he didn't get a chance to participate in the game, right. he didn't get a chance. make no mistake, this election was about him. i think that's what frustrates the white house. they know it was about him. they feel as if they never got a chance to put up their own defense. instead, what senate democrats did. i think that relationship is pretty bad. >> just following up on that, we are seeing, what was striking, these public comments of frustration made on the part of senate democrats. the president's got to bring them along too. >> this is where they're talking past each other a little bit. senate democrats and the president. i think the president feels as if he capitulated to senate democrats all year long. he gave them the state of the union they wanted to hear.
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he gave them -- they came and said, hey, will you do this immigration action. then they came back, oh, wait, wait, mark pryor's going to lose if you do that. thinking, i gave them everything they wanted and it didn't work and now they're blaming me. now, granted, we look at some of the things that popped up and how they handled, you know, symbolically -- blew some big media moments. there's no doubt. they blew some way also they publicly reacted on some things. but i think they believe, hey, we did everything you asked and now you're throwing us under the bus. i think this time the president feels he's in the going to capitulate to harry reid as much as he did previously. >> you have a big guest. >> we have a lot going on. >> we got a lot going on. some of the new faces also that got elected, including one of the lone democratic bright spots, gwen flagraham.
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with rulings from four other federal appeals courts and increases the chances that the supreme court will end up deciding the issue. joining me now is nbc's justice correspondent pete williams. thanks for being here. break this all down. what happened yesterday? >> it's interesting, you listen to the reaction of advocates of same sex marriage and it was not the wailing and nashing of teeth you'd expect. they believe it greatly increases what they were looking for anyway, the odds of getting this before the u.s. supreme court. now we do have a difference. that is the main reason the u.s. supreme court decides to hear a case. did does increase the odds the court will take up this issue. >> take it up this year? >> it's possible. it would be tight but it could still be argued late in the term. on an issue this momentous, do they want it argued late in the
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term? they've done that before. so it can be done this term. >> take us inside the thinking of the court, if you will. they showed last month that they're not really in a hurry to take up this issue, right? why. explain that. and how it fits into this latest development. >> we don't know because they didn't say. when they declined to take up the cases that were presented to them over the summer, they simply said in a one-line order no. they don't explain they decisions when they don't take a case. however, it seems quite likely that the reason is twofold. one is, there was no circuit splits. the court ordinarily doesn't take these cases. they view their job as harmonizing the law. if all the courts are going in one direction, no need for them to step in. secondly, i think many of them feel what's the hurry. the states are doing this anyway. what do we need to step in for. and perhaps those who favor same-sex marriage thought the longer we wait, the more states have it the more , the more momn their side. that's speculation but it seems
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likely. >> pete williams, thank you. >> you spent more time with chuck and i'm bitter. >> hey, listen. >> you like him better. >> you can hang out here all morning. pete williams, thank you, happy friday. >> have a good trip. >> all right, thanks, pete. there are new claims about the final moments before bin laden's death. a former s.e.a.l. is speaking out about how he fired the final shots. tigers, both of you. tigers? don't be modest. i see how you've been investing. setting long term goals. diversifying. dip! you got our attention. we did? of course. you're type e* well, i have been researching retirement strategies. well that's what type e*s do. welcome home. taking control of your retirement? e*trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. are you type e*? wow! [ narrator ] on a mission to get richard to his campbell's chunky soup.
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by another s.e.a.l. two years ago. the issue of putting more muscle behind u.s. efforts to fight isis is sure to company up during the president's meetings today. american air power isn't just focused on isis. this week, the u.s. turned its attention back to the khorasan group. that's a band of terrorists we first heard about in september. five air strikes went after the target, including one that hit an suv in northwest syria. a target, a master bomb maker from france, was killed in that attack. nbc's chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski joins us. we haven't heard about khorasan for a while. why the renewed focus now? >> it is interesting for the fact that all the attention has been put on u.s. and coalition efforts, air strikes against isis, both in iraq and syria. but if you look at isis, it really does not pose any immediate threat to the u.s., europe, anywhere but in iraq and syria. the bigger threat, by far, the
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biggest terrorist threat currently facing the united states and european allies is the khorasan group. because they are the only group, according to our own evan coleman who knows these terrorists inside out, they are the only group currently whose only intent is to attack targets in the united states and europe. so as far as that goes, when u.s. -- when a u.s. reaper drone fired a hellfire missile while -- there's no confirmation this 24-year-old french bomb maker was killed, u.s. officials are confident he was taken out. this french -- this young frenchman, 24-year-old who was converted to islam and radicalized, is said by some to have actually created the chemical that can be washed into somebody's clothing, an explosive chemical, that cannot be detected but can still be detonated.
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if that is indeed the case, that is a very disconcerting development to counterterrorism experts. >> jim, obviously, that has been one of the big concerns, these converts, these western converts. what do pentagon officials say about that? obviously, they're tracking them quite closely. >> they talk a lot about loners. the lone wolves who are inspired to take some kind of individual action. but this is not a lone wolf. this is somebody who was engrained in that khorasan, which is a loosely knit group including al qaeda. some of the top leaders of al qaeda before osama bin laden was killed have gathered there in syria to continue their assault against europe and the united states. >> and i want to ask you about this other topic we've been following, this back and forth over the bin laden raid. this person who's come out, this navy s.e.a.l., and said he was the person who fired the shot to kill bin laden.
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the pentagon clearly not pleased that this has been sort of a public airing and also these conflicting accounts. what are you hearing about that? >> for the naval s.e.a.l.s, the entire special operations community. this situation has really turned ugly. both these men have violated the long-standing code of silence. s.e.a.l.s are known as the silent service. the quiet professionals. they just don't talk about what they do or take credit for what they do. and here you have two of them openly boasting about their role in taking down bin laden. one could argue, look, there is a freedom of speech issue here. but, you know, they did sign nondisclosure agreements not to talk about the efforts. now, robert o'neil, while he now claims publicly that he fired the first shots that killed bin laden, he has yet to actually discuss any details. so it appears that he hasn't violated any laws, rules or
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regulations. but the other gentleman, matt bisonette, who's written now two books about the raid, there are still some questions about whether he violated any laws. the department of justice is looking into it. even if they find a violation, officials here acknowledge that it would be pretty difficult to bring criminal charges against him. after all, he did put his own life on the line to kill america's number one enemy, bin laden. it would be a tricky political thing to work through. >> well, certainly complicate and fascinating. thank you. coming up, nasa's about to test launch a spacecraft that could take us further than we've ever gone before. why space experts are calling this a really big deal. we're live from the launch pad. first, the white house soup of the day. they're serving up raging cajun gumbo. sounds good.
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turning into washington now and today's white house lunch. the incoming majority leader, once that's official, senator mitch mcconnell, tells us he's met one on one with the president just once or twice over the last six years. so will the two be able to forge any real partnership and accomplish what voters tell us they're looking for, which is results of course. joining me now, "the washington pos post"'s paul cane and politico's herman arajuko. what can come out of this 15 lawmakers expected to attend? >> 15 lawmakers, biden, obama, a lot people. i think this is a good symbolic start where obama's trying to bring in everybody, say, let's try to get along. i don't think you're going to look at any real hard and fast deals coming out of this. this is more symbolic. if you're really going to get
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down with what sort of legislation we're going to get first, it will be a much smaller group. >> that smaller things they might focus on, things like corporate tax reform, infrastructure, is there any hope for those things that can get done do you think? >> in the next congress, probably, you're looking at trade deals. seems to be the most likely thing they can get done because of the senate. there seep seems to be enough . you do have some democrats on board with that. even the outgoing majority leader harry reid is not supportive of that. some of the things you mentioned, tax reform, it's going to be incredibly difficult to do that. even though both the president and mcconnell expressed interest in that. it's complicated with all the things in there, as well as the sticking point about whether or not to raise revenue as part of a tax overhaul, both sides are on opposite sides of that. i'm skeptical than can get done in congress. probably smaller-type deals
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potentially. >> the other thing complicating this is both sides are digging in on these old battles. president obama saying he's going to move forward with passing immigration reform unilaterally. republicans saying they're going to repeal the president's health care law. want to let you listen to what senator mccain had to say yesterday, and then i'll get you reaction. >> i literally am pleading with the president of the united states not to act. give it a chance. we have a new congress, we have a new mandate. lea let's let the house of representatives decide if they want to move forward on immigration or not. it will be a devastating blow if he acting unilaterally with executive order. >> paul, coudo you expect the president to act in the near future? do you think republicans are going to do anything to try to pass something in congress? >> every indication that we've gotten so far is that he still wants to go through with some sort of executive order. i think what you're looking at now, the question is how big. the scope of it. does it apply up to 5 million of
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the 11 million. congress is kind of hemmed in now. the only way they would be able to block it is through the spending bills. they're likely to get something in the lame duck that's going to get you all the way into next year, through next september of the fiscal year on spending. so that fight might play out next year on trying to limit him. >> i was just going to add, that will be the interesting thing. the timing of the white house. there's executive action. >> it could mean everything. >> right, should they wait after congress adjourns for the year, or do it right before the spending legislation runs out? if they do that, maybe republicans use that as let me raj to block whatever the president decides to do, so it will be interesting to see exactly when the white house moves forward. >> for the people who have been paying close attention this week, leader mcconnell has shifted what he's saying about health care. initially, the day after he won re-election, he said he's not going to repeal health care.
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then he said he is in an op-ed with house speaker boehner. what is the reality? do you expect this up for a vote? >> mcconnell knows full well he'll never get a repeal through. they don't have the votes to override that veto. and they certainly don't have 60 votes in the senate to do that. they do have what's called budget reconciliation process, in which they can circumvent a filibuster in the senate. but even doing that, i'm very -- they would still need to get the president's signature on that and he wouldn't be able to override that. maybe he can go after some peace meal things like medical device tax repeal. but the large -- but getting the central aspect of the law or repealing it is not going to happen. >> the white house is close to supporting the medical device tax when it came up last time. i want to get both you reactions to something paul wrote. hairy reid's chef of staff told
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you the president's approval rating is barely 40%, what else more is there to say? i'm sorry, it doesn't mean that the message was bad but sometimes the messenger isn't good. we're seeing this almost unprecedented airing of the democrat's dirty laundry right now. that was costa's report, i apologize. >> bob costa and phil rucker, both my co-workers. what was shocking about that for washington was, oh, my god, that was on the record, you know, you never see that in washington on the record. >> right. >> there's just been a couple years here of sort of a real lack of trust between both ends of pennsylvania avenue. and this election result pierced it and just there are people now that are sort of -- it's the circular firing squad. they're trying to assign blame for why they lost so many seats. >> just quickly, because we're almost out of time, 2016 what are the implications? mcconnell all but said he would, you know, support rand paul if he were to run for president. how does that weigh into any
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progress moving forward? >> i think mcconnell needs to show they can govern. i think that's what they were concerned about after the republicans took the house. you know, had all these messy fiscal fights. they kididn't win the white hou in 2012. mcconnell wants to show republicans can be trusted with governing. i think that can help them take back the white house in 2016. >> great conversation. thanks so much for being in studio. great to see you. >> trivia time now. we asked you who is the only u.s. tv anchor to broadcast live from the fall of the berlin wall? of course we all know the answer here at msnbc. the answer is of course nbc's tom brokaw. we want to give a big shoutout to msnbc's chris matthews who covered it as a print journalist but tom brokaw was the only network anchor to be there live on the scene when history unfolded before the eyes of the world. and there is that historic footage. just incredible. congratulations to today's winner, ellie wallace. congratulations, ellie, and happy friday. we'll be right back, everyone.
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and welcome back to the daily rundown. we're getting an upclose look at nasa's big mission. we have an exclusive look at the space rocket. what a fantastic site. what is the latest? >> kristen, it is nearly unprecedented to go live from a launch pad. that's a delta 4 heavy the most powerful rocket on earth. nasa what is going to be happening here is, quote, absolutely the biggest thing the agency is going to do this year. here is a look what it's going to launch. the craft which could someday take us mars. we got the exclusive first look inside the facility at kennedy space center where it's being housed. next week it will be rolled out to prepare for the first
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unmanned test flight december 4th. it will dest the riskiest parts of the program like the launcher board system which includes an engine that may have caused the engine explosion. there are no common elements. it's set to go higher to get the high speed reentry needed to test the brand new largest ever heat shield. listen. i think that's the key part and the hardest part to test on the ground. we can test pieces and model on a computer. actually putting it in flight and seeing how the aerodynamics work is part of the plan. it's a key part of the test. >> this is the largest space program for lock heed bar contain. nasa has spent well over $5 billion. there are many different things
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about it. >> everything inside is totally different. the technology has changed so much the way that you build things has changed so much. there's not that much heritage. >> now if everything goes according to plan it will be the first unmasked test. and by 2021 nasa and lock heed hope to put astronauts on board. you heard the overhead communication. that's how they communication. you can't have rf or cell phone communications or computers near a rocket. >> wow! fantastic report. i think it's safe to say you got the coolest assignment today. >> i did! i did! >> thank you so much for breaking it down for us. we appreciate it! what a great way to end on a friday morning. that's it for this edition "the daily rundown." coming up next on jose d diaz-bala diaz-bala
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paralyzed veterans of america and unitedhealth group. good morning everyone. i'm alex whit in for jose diaz-balart. in a little over two hours a critical meeting between president obama and congressional learn leaders at issue. can they make a step toward breaking gridlock. part of an eventful day. the president is getting a daily briefing before holding a meeting with the cabinet in a lunch more like a summit with seven democratic leaders soon-to-be the minority in both houses and seven gop leaders who will soon be running the hill including, of course, speaker john boehner who had a stark warning for the president yesterday. >> just to get along with him.
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the fact my job is listen to my members and american people and make their priorities our priorities. chris januasing got a very different answer from the president's chief of staff. >> is there one thing they'll see that is different given the message they sent on tuesday. >> washington working better. if this president has his way. that's what he's going to do. they're going to do it any number of ways. >> joining me now from where the action is taking place nbc's chris jansing. to be a fly on the wall in that lunch. what are the expectations? officially it's about talking about legislative priorities both for the lame duck session over the next two months. and what do they do when the balance of power shifts when there's a new leadership in this senate. i think the question really is how much have we heard over the last couple of days which sounded a lot like
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