good morning, it is monday november 10th, welcome to "morning joe." with us onset we have mike barnacle barnacle, bright and early. very chipper. >> very chipper. >> msnbc contributor and associate professor at columbia school darian warren and jeremy peters. >> what are the jets doing winning? beating the steelers who i heard are supposed to be good. >> steelers were on a roll. look out. j-e-t-s. >> michael vick did he have a good game? >> okay game. >> he didn't fumbgle the ball 12 times. first we'll do the good and then we'll do the bad and ugly.

president bush 43 -- actually over here. there you go awesome. this book that he's writing is really a love letter to his dad, apparently, and i didn't realize the but 41 thought seriously about not running for re-election. >> first time i heard that. >> isn't that crazy? very nice. here's the ugly. this is "the washington post." if they wanted to grab people's attention, on monday morning they have done it with a story on the n-word which they say -- get this is used 500,000 times a day as slang. as slang on twitter. 500,000 times a day. hundreds of thousands times a day than my word of choice dude

or bro and naacp -- this is fascinating to me -- naacp had the mock funeral in 2007 and now they basically said it's just -- this is a youth culture thing. that it is it's so prevalent in youth culture which is shocking to me. >> there's no way they can ban the word but the 500,000 is enormous but remember we don't know how many times people say it not on social media a day. >> oh, my gosh. >> so it's a small, small indication of how often the word is used. >> it's absolutely unbelievable. >> that article has a great history of the word. >> great history of the word. >> has anybody else noticed -- i'll just hold this up "the washington post" over the past three to six months has become a really vital, vital newspaper. i don't know whose in charge so i'm not kissing up to anybody.

>> the editor much "the washington post" former editor of the "boston globe" is on this. this paper is now mandatory reading. >> it really is now -- i always would go to the "times" and "wall street journal" and politico and sometimes "the washington post." i always go to "the washington post" first now and i haven't said that in like in decades. >> in a long time. >> pretty crazy. >> all right let's start this morning with that dangerous storm and frigid temperatures moving into a big part of the country. >> wait. are we going to get cold? oh willie let's go to florida. >> it starts now and ends -- >> you can feel it. >> ends memorial day. >> can we go to boca. >> naples. >> people under winter storm warnings right now. an outbreak of freezing weather isn't far behind. bill karins just do it.

>> that's the problem. we get cold in november usually we warm up. once it gets cold no signs of it warming up any time soon. so this is here to stay. it's cold today in the northern plains. rest of the country is gorgeous. problem weather is up in minneapolis. dealing with a foot of snow by this time tomorrow morning. watch the cold as it slowly moves across the country. first it heads south. notice the high temperature on wednesday in kansas city and chicago, low 30s. the last warm day for the east coast will be wednesday and then the east coast will get cold. we mentioned the 7 million people understand winter storm warnings that goes from montana all the way through northern wisconsin and northern michigan and these are the people digging out from the possibility of a large area of six to 12 inches and up to a foot of snow. wind chills have tanked in these areas. that's where it will snow. you'll get a foot of snow. to give you and idea it's not how cold it is it's how long it will last. minneapolis is now below 32

degrees. they won't go above 32 degrees for at least a week straight. whatever ice and snow is out there is here to stay. even through about the end of this week there's no signs of this cold air exiting. >> bill thank you. >> all right. >> president obama is in beijing for the first time since 2009. he's pushing a u.s. supported trade agreement at an economic summit and he'll meet with china's president on wednesday. he's also scheduled to visit myanmar and australia. the week long trip comes as democrats struggle to make sense of last week's mid-term losses. >> also want to ask you about what happened on tuesday. >> we got beat. the buck stops right here at my desk. so, whenever as the head of the party it doesn't do well i've got to take responsibility for it. the message that i took from this election and we've seen this in a number of elections, successive elections, is people

want to see this city work. and they feel as if it's not working. and, you know they know one person in washington and that's the president of the united states. so i've got to make this city work better for them. >> what do you think? >> well i thought he was pretty good. he was very very honest about what happened. >> what do you think, mike? >> he looked disgusted the day after. >> you know he's carrying such baggage. obviously he got his lunch handed to him on tuesday. he's going to china. the chinese know what's going on. they are going to give him nothing because they perceive him to be as weak as the voters perceived him to be here on tuesday. >> what do you think, willie. >> when he says it's time to make washington work that's obviously the first time he said that. i'm not blaming him for saying

it. it's what we want to hear. but i don't think anybody in america after six years think suddenly things will work in washington. we hope it will. but it's is starting to ring hollow for people who have watched what happened. >> you got to talk to each other. of course the president is recivilitying calls from republicans to wait on immigration reform and the president said he's given house speaker john boehner plenty of time to act and he'll do it by himself by the end of the year. take a look. >> i told him at the time john if you don't do it i got legal authority to make improvements on the system. so, john i'm going to give you some time but if you can't get it done before the end of the year i'm going to have to take the steps that i can to improve the system. >> your saying here their time has run out? >> what i'm saying to them -- actually their time hasn't run out. i'll do what i can do through executive action.

it's not going to be everything that needs to get done. and it will take time to put that in place. and in the interim, the minute they pass a bill that addresses the problems with immigration reform i will sign it and it sue super supers earn des whatever action i take. >> if there's one political combustible issue that could really poison the well as john boehner said the other day it's immigration reform. we have seen time and time again nothing raises the passions on both the left and the right like immigration reform. >> i under they are saying that. let me play devil's advocate. what the hell are the republicans going to do? you don't like what he did, pass a law. you don't pass a law, you

know -- >> it will be something new. >> if i'm the president of the united states and i really wanted to do this i would sign it. i would give to it the republicans and say okay now you guys, i don't have to fight with you any more. you guys fight among yourselves because jeremy this really is -- this is an intramural battle. it would allow mitch mcconnell and john boehner to say come up with a deal or the president will find it. it seems like a pretty good strategic move on the president's part. >> the problem as has been for the last four years for republicans, though is going to the controlling, the tea party wing of the party. which is very very opposed to doing anything on immigration. >> the tea party does nothing now. you say the tea party. if what you define as the tea party does nothing now then nothing guess done. if the president signs an

executive order they not acting them blocking an immigration bill actually allows the president of the united states to have his executive order be the law of the land right? so them dragging their feet actually works against them and allows the president to have his way. doesn't that change the dynamics? >> well you know when you lay it out like that it sounds like it makes perfect sense but as is often the case in congress common sense does not apply, logic does not apply and i think what you're hearing republicans talk about doing is finding a way in the budget bill to hold this whole process, uphold the budget process up through an amendment that would defund whatever the president does on immigration and then that opens up a huge can of worms that could mostly clear up this entire process and i think that's what republicans are worried about another legislative crisis like that.

>> i want to make sure i get this right. i think if i'm not mistaken let's say, i sign an executive order. there's the order. it's joe's law. now if congress does nothing, it remains joe's law. right? so if you're a tea party guy, i'm not doing anything on immigration, then you're making sure joe's law remains the law. there's forces action by republicans one way or another and democrats. >> you have to ask yourself the question i don't know you think about this. you're an academic. figure this out. >> be smart for us. >> we've heard the inside take on it. here's my perception. he's the president of the united states. why the president of the united states doesn't say, okay we've waited years for anything something to be done on immigration so now here is a version of joe's law, barack obama's law. here it is.

executive action. now, you republicans go slice and dice yourselves up in the house and senate and figure it out. that's the law. >> i think we'll see that. there's a historical point here. every single president since eisenhower over the last 60 years have taken executive action on immigration. that's the historical point. second this is smart politics if the president signs an executive order on immigration. frankly the latino and asian-american vote is up for grabs in the future and both of these groups are looking for which party will represent them in fixing the immigration system. there's a huge latino vote out there that's up for grabs by both parties. if the president moves first on this question i think latino voters who are angry at the democrats and the president -- >> i was going to say. you know what? caroline kennedy doesn't get

profiles in courage on immigration. so now he's found religion. he's going to move forward and do it. if he moves forward and does it then the republicans are forced to act. and they have the political incentive to do it. for all the reasons i said a year and a half ago. now you are going to have mitch mcconnell and john boehner look at people that want to get in the way and say really? do you want hillary clinton to be president for eight years. we can stop short of amnesty, we can stop short of citizenship, but we have to do something. and i don't think there's going to be much patience at all for people who want to play to their home district and help lose the presidency for republicans for eight more years. >> certainly an opportunity for them to think. howard dean the former democratic governor of vermont and dnc chair says president obama is not the sole person responsible for the party's losses last week.

he said democratic candidates lost because they failed to articulate a clear message to voters. >> the republican message was we're not obama no substance whatsoever. what was the democrats message. we're really not either. you cannot win if you are afraid. it felt like it. where the hell is the democratic party. got to stand for something if you want to win. >> "the washington post" points out that one clear lesson from the mid-terms that democrats made the koch brothers a top target -- >> in many cases they lost the races and the "post" article on that is brutal to harry reid. he just blew so much money. but here's my only argument with what howard dean said about democrats losing because they didn't stand for anything didn't stop the republicans.

the republicans, they are the castrating pigs. >> it was about washington. >> it was about washington. it was about making things work. i like joni ernst. i'm just saying there wasn't a whole lot of substance on the republican side. they were against barack obama. >> no substance on the republican side but the democrats argument for months and months ago starting with harry reid on the floor of the senate that david and charles koch are bad people. and you should vote against them. and it didn't work. >> did we not say from the beginning what a stupid idea. we could have saved harry reid hundreds of millions of dollars if they ran on real issues instead of we'll pick on these two guys. >> especially when their issues win at the ballot box, minimum wage. the issue wins. >> can i ask why didn't -- i

talked about this too nonstop. why didn't the democrats talk about, use all of that money to talk about how republicans are blocking minimum wage. why republicans were blocking this reform. why republicans were blocking that reform. why republicans didn't want the little jenni, the 6-year-old to have health care united states because of pre-existing conditions. why they didn't want ne'er do wellsons playing x-box all day to have health insurance. it's just so easy. think of all the money harry reid burned. by the way, tom styer should be angry about all the pollution caused by burning that money. why didn't they use issues like minimum wage and other issues jeremy. >> that's how they started out. remember at the beginning of the campaign season this was democrats message and it sounded

like it was going be very populace focusing on minimum wage and college affordability and then it got lost in koch piece sagging stuff and war on women. i will say where the koch brothers line of attack was effective, even though it was a distraction to their overall message was that it depressed the republican donor base. if you talk to a lot of republican fundraisers, a lot of republican groups what they said by going out there and demonizing charles and david koch what harry reid did is he scared republicans into giving money because they didn't want to find themselves the subject of the same brutal attacks. >> it didn't work. rich donors gave more than before. you know why not have a populace message. it was stupid. harry reid -- if democrats allow harry reid to continue to run the senate --

>> they should have done the elizabeth warren strategy. >> yes. >> of a strong populace message, talk about the middle class, talk about what's happening to working class americans. >> republicans should too. that's the message. now, of course you know to do it a little different way than elizabeth warren would do it. >> how would she do it that's wrong. >> the tanks and going up to rich people's houses and throwing them out in the street like they did in batman. i'm against that. >> you can't find anything wrong. >> speak being of which, ann hathaway this new movie that she's in. >> "interstellar." >> why do people hate ann hathaway. i think she's great. >> she's a great actress. >> i think she's amazing. >> maybe because of her first movie like my daughter watched 80,000 times. >> i saw it.

>> "princess diaries." she was great in that. she was great in "batman." she's great in this. >> still ahead on "morning joe" we'll talk to independent senator angus king on republican efforts to pull him across the aisle. plus why today is a big day in the va's major overhaul. long time sports columnist dan shaunnessy.

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>> mika was on there. group text. got to be careful of that right. we started talking about her and we forgot mika forgot -- mika always hits reply all. and so she told us she's come to new york and -- >> stupid. >> should come to new york and, apparently, apparently they have a sale at barney's. >> is that right? >> yes. >> time now to take a look at the morning papers. >> i'll get a better jacket. that baby blue doesn't work. >> are we ready? >> stop hitting reply all. >> okay.

>> she had a katy statement. let's do the papers. >> the "chicago tribune," two remaining american prisoners held by north korea are back on u.s. soil. >> look at that graphic. >> look at these pictures. a plane carrying kenneth bae and matthew todd miller landed in washington state late saturday after north korean leader kim jong-un ordered their release. miller who was tried on espionage charges and bae arrested in 2012. they were freed by u.s. director james clapper who brought a letter from barack obama. >> let's go back to the graphic. we complain that bill doesn't give us a lot of money for this show. we get nothing. look at that. released. do you know how much that cost? our graphics are incredible.

they are the most two dimensional graphics. i love it. >> all right. "the times-picayune," mary landrieu getting out a new attack ad against her opponent. >> i'm mary landrieu and i approved this message. >> on may 31st bill cassidy gave a speech that was nearly intoin intoin incoherent. but his message is clear. we lose mary landrieu's clout. for this? >> thank you. whoa! >> was he drunk? can i just ask that question. can i see that again. do you think he was on

medication. i never had a speech like that. no dallas the dallas speech was -- >> it was bad. >> oh, my god. >> it's unbelievable. >> you did a book signing. >> so i go there and i give this speech. >> they give you a little place to do pictures. people get in line to take pictures and sign the book. >> he has to go to the bathroom. >> i do the jokes that always work. they just stared at me. >> i've been there. >> i knew seven seconds in -- no. seriously. when i give speeches people laugh they joke we hug, great. this place, swear to god i get out and i take off my shirt -- we still talk about it like five years later. >> i've been in those rooms. >> like 3,000 people there. >> you tell the first couple of

johannesburg, south africa and they don't laugh and you go i got 20 minutes. >> 15 minutes in i started quoting bible verses i was so scared. holy cow. i got to go the bathroom. i'll be right back. it was awful. >> this is the greatest video. this will cheer you up. look at this. it's the cutest thing you've ever seen. the "daily mail." not the most news worthy headline. who can resist a dog playing with a baby. i put my babies in these. so much fun. but look at the dog. he's helping her jump. he's going after the shadow. >> baby likes it. >> i can watch that for five hours. >> mika loves that and yet she walked out of "wedding crashers." >> stupid movie. let's go to mike allen.

>> that's where we part ways. >> mr. mike allen has a look at the playbook. mike, good morning. the politico site as a new look. >> i don't like change. >> what am i looking at. >> total makeover. first totally new politico.com since we launched in january of '07. elegant new site that our executive editor put together. has four cover stories that rotates so it knows what you saw the last time you came to the site and something very cool there's a little clock up in the corner. you cluck it and it gives you chronologically everything posted on politico since the last time you checked it out. >> one of the stories up on the site, you guys are talking about some rising stars within the democratic party being considered as the next chairman of the democratic congressional

campaign committee. who are they and why are we talking about them. >> you want a thankless job how would you like to take over the house democratic campaign operation. leader pelosi will reward someone with that fantastic job. she's thinking go with someone who will bring back energy star power. so these looking at congressman castro of texas. whose brother is the hud secretary. congressman joe kennedy of massachusetts, grandson of rfk. this is her choice of rahm emanuel. >> that's a pretty new site. >> it is. >> coming up next tina brown will be here for the must read opinion pages the one issue she says is the most partisan for players in washington that they can agree on. >> we'll be right back with much "morning joe."

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okay. it's time for the must read opinion pages. we have the founder of tina brown live media, tina brown with us. you have a piece in the daily

beast. i'm going start and i want to hear about your time in maximum security in pennsylvania as well. that's a tease, tina in prison. okay. so elizabeth warren writes this in "the washington post." it's time to work on america's agenda. for all talk of change in washington where one party is taking over from another one thing has not changed the stock market and gross domestic product keep going up while families get squeezed hard by an economy that's not working for them. before leaders and the president get encouraged bypassing new laws we should look who the laws will serve. there's no shortage of work congress can do but the agenda shouldn't be drawn up by corpate lobbyists and lawyers. >> listen there's no doubt even

with a democratic president the rich get richer, the poor get poorer minimum wage is stuck where minimum wage is stuck at for years. wages have been going down since 1973. consistently since 1973. this is not a republican problem or a democratic problem, both parties have failed america haven't they. >> both parties. >> over decades. >> over decades. frankly that you just said all of that that's a huge shift for republicans. several republicans on the campaign trail talking about income inequality wage stagnation and came out in favor of the minimum wage. there's a huge shift among republicans. democrats didn't talk about this like elizabeth warren did on the campaign trail as much as they should have. >> i just don't understand why. >> they don't want to talk about because they have to say under obama it hasn't improved they are supposed to be banging the drum about a better economy. but it's not better for people because the jobs have disappeared and they are working

part time. many are working three, four jobs. >> mika let me ask you, what do the koch brothers cory booker and george soros, newt gingrich the aclu and grover norquist agree on? >> they agree on criminal justice reform. of all the bipartisan issues that you think could actually get traction this is the one that's moving. the right on crime movement is getting traction as tea party and liberals discover something they can agree on. we have turned into the inkar incarceration capital of the world. >> the koch brothers who of course everybody is talking about, there was some news item they spent millions and millions and millions of dollars and one of their big issues is to get indigents competent counsel and george soros, of course on the

other side of the ledger you know, believes the same thing. >> the reason it has become a crisis with americans in prison all of those unparented kids is having an enormous impact on breaking up families. we're depriving people of jobs. when you have a conviction you don't get that job. it's really become the most amazing crisis. i went to see a maximum security prison in pennsylvania two weeks ago. we're doing this afternoon a criminal justice summit. it was such a sobering experience. so sobering because you saw life in there. life means life in pennsylvania. they are in there for life as part of a felony conviction that is about driving a get away car. they are in there for life. it's unbelievable. people have been in there for 46 years. >> interesting to see if rand paul runs for president you'll have a republican on the campaign trail talking about

crime and punishment in a way we haven't seen republican candidates talk about sentencing reform introduced a bill with senator leahy to give judges more leeway in reducing mandatory sentencing for small drug crimes possession of marijuana and things like that. it's a republican and democratic issue. >> only republicans can talk about it like that. since the willie horton debacle it's political poison. >> thank you for shedding light. the american justice summit will be streaming live today on vicenews.com starting at 1:00 p.m. up next. the republicans picked up policemen of seats last tuesday but weren't able to lure maine's independent senator across party lines. >> he's independent. >> senator angus king explains his decision to stick with the democrats. "morning joe" will be back in a moment.

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call or come in today for a free one-on-one review. the independent senator from maine and member of the select committee on intelligence senator angus king who announced he'll continue to caucus with the department party after entertaining the idea of switching. but he's here to talk about his governor. >> what happened? >> i think it was a combination. he ran a very good campaign. i think the ebola thing at the end probably helped him. the democrat was really running as not the governor he didn't have an affirmative message that was a problem for the democrats. all those things came together. but i think people like feisty

big personalities. you know you know as a candidate everybody thinks we vote on issues and, you know, all this stuff. it's do you like the person. and do you have the -- do they trust you and think you're being straight with them. barbara bush ran a great campaign at the end. she looked in the camera and said yeah the governor is blunt like me. it was a killer. i think it gave him three or four percent right there. >> that's a great ad. let me ask you a question. why do you have to choose. not just you. oh so-and-so is an independent they will pick the democrats. why do you have to pick a side? why can you say i'm going to be with republicans when i want to be with republicans and be with democrats -- >> in effect that's what you do. you have to choose because that's how you get your committee assignments. that's how the senate works.

i did research on can i just put my chair in the middle of the aisle. wayne morse tried that about 40 years ago and it didn't work. but people misunderstand. caucusing isn't joining a party it's who you have lunch with on tuesdays and who gives you your committee assignments. then you vote how you want. >> we heard a lot of good people that are republicans, a lot of good democratic senators here who, you know, they got in their corners. why can't somebody like you be at the center of bringing both sides together because we have a lot of people that say, you know, we have three caucus lunches and only talk to democrats, we only talk to republicans. that's just stupid. you know that better than anybody else that both sides -- that's how they do it in maine, both sides have to talk. >> that's the biggest problem. there's a group and i'm a part of it. there's a group of ten or 12 both sides who are sick of this. let's have joint caucuses every

two or three weeks where we sit down and talk to each other. now everybody goes to their opposite corners. >> do you think that will change? mitch mcconnell -- >> he's making all the right noises. >> we've been tough on mitch mcconnell. the day after, though the victory, when we could have gloated he seemed to be really humble and struck the right tone. >> i talked to republicans privately. they say he's telling them privately he's going to top senate up, have amendments have votes. now one of the tests will be do we have -- look at that expression. he's looking doubtful. one of the early tests will be are we able to move nominations or is that going to get squashed during the lame duck. if he says look we got 45 ambassadors that haven't been approved most of them are career foreign service. come on let's get them going. >> i think this loretta lynch

thing is going to get moving. >> senator, let me ask you about the climate in washington ascribed by mitch mcconnell and other republicans which is that they put bills forward and they sat on harry reid's desk for months and months and months. so they put a lot of blame why hasn't anything got done in washington they say it's democratic leadership. can you describe the climate in the senate is that the way it is? >> not now. there's no question there was a strategy going up to the elections to protect vulnerable democrats from difficult votes. everybody knows that. didn't work. in retrospect maybe it would have been better let them vote let things happen let the president take the heat and veto some bills instead of the senate be the stopper. on the other hand immigration is a major piece of legislation that's sitting on john boehner's desk. it works both ways. i'm hoping -- i think there's a

possibility, joe, that we're going to have enough sort of moderates, if you will i don't like to use that word nobody wants to be labelled a moderate but centrist where we could have a significant influence by having enough votes sort of going both ways. the deal still is you have to have bipartisan support to get anything done. you still need 60 votes. >> jeremy peters? >> good morning, senator. i want to ask you about the generational -- over here. i want to ask you about the generational leadership issue that i think the democratic party has right now. you guys are going to come back to washington on thursday. you're going toby most accounts elect the same democratic leadership that's in place now. you look forward to 2016 the democratic party appears to be on track to nominate hillary clinton. if you're a voter looking at the democratic party right now, is it really logical to think people want to support it if it looks like the same old party? >> i think you're on to

something and i think -- i can say this as an independent. i think one of the subtext issues of this election of that the democratic party has become the party of government itself. and if people don't like the government the party that represents the government is going to have a hard time and i think that's going a difficulty for someone like hillary clinton who has tremendous experience and background but she's going to have a hard time saying oh, i'm a new person. >> there's some challenges there. >> yeah no question. >> senator angus king thank you so much. great having you on the show. we love maine. coming up remember when the nfl was facing a crisis? it seems that not many do. why renowned sports columnist dan shaughnessy says it's silly for any of us to think the league was threatened and joins us ahead on "morning joe".

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♪ with us now from boston veteran sports columnist for the "boston globe," dan shaughnessy. willie -- >> look at the hair. >> oh, my goodness that's shock. >> mika wants to talk about the hair. >> my eyes hurt. >> dan wrote a column last week pretty interesting reads in part remember when roger goodell was going to be fired or forced to step down. two months ago it was raining domestic violence and nfl was the nixon white house and everybody was taking a long hard look at our appetite for professional football. no more. the nfl steam roller is grinding ahead, crushing everything in

its path. we love our football. and how silly to think that it was ever threatened. we love what you wrote. roger goodell was looking around the room of the executives let's lay low. once the games start we'll be fine. >> time tested strategy for them, keep rolling out the games, stand back hire a few women, have an independent investigator who once struck a tv deal for the league have him go to work put on pink ribbons now and then psas, the ratings are better than ever people are playing fantasy football and the eagles are playing tonight on monday night football. >> i assume you would be like shocked, shocked i tell you if bob muller came back with his report and said roger goodell knew everything beforehand even before the two game suspension. >> i would be shocked. bad thing is if goodell had seen the tape and moved forward.

i think this will come down on morray rice's team than the commissioner. i'm not there. mike, what takes so long with this investigation. it doesn't have to be the warren commission here. how long does it take to interview a if you people who work in the offices there in new york. the whole thing, again mr. mueller is a man of high integrity but his law firm negotiated the last billion dollar deal with the nfl. >> it may not hurt the nfl in the immediate term but is there a cumulative effect with the head injuries and domestic violence stuff. do you think over time this sort of erodes away support for nfl. >> maybe over 100 years or something like that. not in our time. we saw this with boxes and horse racing. this is dvr proof. people have to watch the game and see the commercials because they want to watch it in real-time. anheuser-busch made a little threat. nothing but crickets for them for two months.

the advertisers want this product. the fan want the product. the head injuries is a very serious issue. lawyers are going to go to work on that. parents in towns like lincoln and newton will not be having their kids play football as much but it won't matter in fort myers, florida, brownsville, texas, western pennsylvania and where the nfl is drawing its pool of players. >> flipg the channels yesterday and watching pieces of the games is the inherent glorification of the violence the tough hits. >> can i just say, mike seriously, i am not avoiding an nfl game as any sort of like protest, i just don't watch it. because the violence has gotten so excessive i just can't watch the speed and the violence. i see these guys that have shot their girlfriend shot themselves, have committed

suicide. i can't watch it because it seriously is. like watching one car accidents after another. >> that's exactly -- >> by the way, i grew up like everybody else. i started playing football when i was 5. when i was 6 my parents put me in a football league. i coached football. i've been obsessed with the sport. i can watch it on sundays any more. >> i was flipping through the channels -- >> by the way watching college football all day. >> we won't get into texas and an arbor. to joe's point there was a kick-off. the collision between two 6'4" guys weighing 300 pounds running like two second 100 yard dash there's no drug policy we all know that but the collision was so violent that the tv network, i believe it was cbs, could have been fox, but i believe it was cbs showed it three or four times. >> absolutely. this is our modern day

gladiators. this is what people want. i haven't heard people talking like joe, unfortunately. people are not shying away from that because of that. if you stand down fwild it's as barbaric as you can imagine. it's not -- it's inhuman what's going on. it's barbaric and hunger for it grows and grows as fantasy football and betting and television ratings continue. >> dan, we got to go. but what drugs are you allowed to take? what does the nfl -- i'm serious. can you take hgh? what drugs does the nfl still allow you to take so you can be 280 pounds and run a four three 40. >> when you do this in the training room you can do anything. i don't know what's legal but you have to be jacked up. >> do they have hgh screening. do they screen for other drugs?

>> no marijuana. >> that would slow them down a little bit. >> thank you very much. good to have you. crazy hair. still ahead on "morning joe," the new yorkers david remnick joins the table. we'll be right back.

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york" the david remnick. >> i watched college football all saturday. it's not quite as violent. they aren't quite at gladiatoral. that utah game. 14-0. >> look at this. >> beautiful pass. >> the speakers were thinking it was a done deal. >> the announcers were. he spikes the ball. here's the problem. he spikes the ball on the 1 yard line. you just don't want to do that. than guy that runs a 5-8-40 hobbles down the field. come on dude. >> yebs holocausted. >> oregon ends up winning. a couple of extraordinary games. you were talking about the texas a&m. kids don't do this at home. in fact don't drop the ball hand it to the ref.

>> hold on to it. >> not to make too much of it. they were 14-0. they may have beaten oregon. >> made all the difference. auburn texas a&m, >> two fumbles within the last two minutes. auburn loses the game. followed by the overtime alabama/lsu game. part of the magic, the difference in the viewer's mind my mind is the crowd is so much healthier at a college football game pi don't mean physically healthier with obamacare i meant just mentally they are so into the game. >> let's face it i remember emmett smith talking about heisman trophy winner. he goes and plays at the pros. he played at the top level in the sec and said there's nothing that ever prepares you for the first hit in the nfl. willie you've talked about it same force as a car accident? >> yeah. dan shaughnessy just talked about it. if you've ever been on field

level for an nfl game and you can see it coming a safety is coming up from 12 yards deep and here comes running back it's like anticipating a car crash when they hit each other at those speeds you go oh, my god that has to have some lasting impact. >> i used to cover this. you sat up in the press box. it's completely divorced from reality. it is the ultimate tv sport and that's what creates the disconnect that you're feeling. it's an exquisite beautiful game to watch but the reality college or pro, even high school hits are pretty terrible. >> getting tougher. >> kids are suffering not sprained ankles but broken backs and broken necks. >> it's out of control. on that happy news. >> something has to change. all right. president obama is in beijing for the first time since 2009 he's pushing a u.s. supported

trade agreement at an economic summit. he'll meet with china's president on wednesday. he's scheduled to visit myanmar and australia. democrats are struggling to make sense of last week's losses. >> also want to ask you about what happened on tuesday. >> we got beat. >> yeah. >> the buck stops right here at my desk and so whenever as the head of the party it doesn't do well i've got to take responsibility for it. the message that i took from this election and we've seen this in a number of elections, successive elections, is people want to see this city work. and they feel as if it's not working. and, you know they know one person in washington and that's the president of the united states. so i've got to make this city work better for them. >> david, i could ask you about the crisis in liberalism but two

years ago we were talking about the crisis in conservatism two years before that we were talking about the crisis in liberalism literally before that we were talking about the crisis in conservatism. if we take a step back and we see that the pendulum has shifted from 2004 karl rove's majority to 2006 nancy pelosi is speaker of the house, 2008 barack obama new era of liberalism, 2010 the rise of the tea party, to 2012 consolidation of the obama era, the 2014 now the end of the democratic party. it's all getting old and maybe at some point they step back and go these political parties they just don't work for americans any more. >> well there's also -- there's a crisis of politics just in general. i mean karl rove you're right were talking about the absolute permanence of republican presidents back in '04. when obama was elected in '08 the electoral map was going to

be revolutionized because of the changing demographics. i found this race not only because of the side i tend to offer lost so devastatingly but the overall discussion was -- the south carolina conversation when you can't say who you voted for for president that was one of the saddest things i've seen. it was all across the country. the race in staten island looked like it elevated thing. >> stop it. >> by the way, staten island -- >> i watched that debate. >> their endorsements. >> better than the honeymoon. >> it was unbelievable. it was terrible. >> when we talk about inevitability and it will happen, no doubt about it. hillary clinton waking up and get rid of that word inevitability as fast as humanly possible. you know maybe some of the candidates that are popping up

are not the ones that are going to throw her off her horse, but everything is in flux. it's a really pathetic scene. >> it is. >> former president george w. bush is speaking out as proehe promotes his new book on his father. he was quickly to weigh in on the question many political pundits were asking and that is will his brother jeb run for president in 2016? >> it's a lot of speculation about him. i occasionally fuel the speculation by saying that it hope he runs. i think he would be a very good president i think it's 50-50. he and i are very close. on the other hand he's not here knocking on my door agonizing about the decision. i would give it a toss up. i know this about jeb. he's not afraid to succeed. in other words i think he knows he can do the job. nor is he afraid to fail.

>> yeah. >> keeps him in play. >> keep him in play. >> tries to offset what barbara bush said she didn't want to see her son run, she didn't want to see a third bush. quite logically we shouldn't be a country of dynasties. this just keeps it in play. >> there would be just a reflex response of bush versus clinton. >> it's like central america in the 19th-century. >> it gives voice to the feeling that a lot of people there's a permanent political class in this country at the top in washington and that class infixed permanently is so far removed from our daily lives. we talked about this last week. i can't recall a time when the distance between how people feel government is towards them has

been so wide. they feel government doesn't work for them. doesn't know them. they read the papers every day. they see corporate profits. they see the stock market soar last tuesday and wednesday because of republican victories. their take home pay has been diminished year after year after year for a decade. >> that was the issue last week that the democratic party's inability to make that an issue for them. the democratic party's inability to say anything more than just minimum wage which is getting nowhere fast as well. to make nothing broader of this feeling that you're talking about was a great failure. >> all right. we're us now from capitol hill republican congressman from oklahoma our friend representative tom cole. good to have you on board this morning. >> great to be with you. >> okay. so are republicans going to have changes on the way or are we going see more confrontation and efforts to repeal obamacare and just stop everthing?

>> probably a mixture of both but frankly we need to get some things done. no question about that. i look at the election as obviously very much repudiation of the president and i think the democrats in the senate -- but if we follow the same strategy that's not take on tough issues not move things through, not compromise then we'll see the same results in two years that the democrats saw. i think it's pretty imperative on us to get something done. >> do you think we'll see movement on immigration? >> i think we probably will. i think speaker boehner wants to do something on that. a lot of it depends whether or not democrats want a solution or they want to use it as a weapon in the next election. look, they had complete control of congress for four years, two different presidents that would have signed any bill they brought up and they didn't bring up a bill. with all due respect to the president he promised in '08 he would have a bill on the floor in 100 days. he never did. it's a tough issue. but it's something we need to deal with. we need to get the economy i

think first and foremost moving again. >> tom, you're obviously, you're a smart guy who understands politics we think better than most on capitol hill. i was just talking about "the cycle"s, you can go back to 1994 republicans and democrats two years later then republicans two years -- it's gone on and on. what does the republican party do to avoid just being a part of "the cycle" that we've seen over the past decade where one party gets power for two years, gets kicked out, the other party gets power to two years gets kicked out? >> i think first of all it produces, really you know from '94 to 2006 we had relative stability. we did change presidential power, but frankly it was a good run for republicans. i think it was a good run because for most of that time -- look they balanced the budget we had job creation they got things done. people actually like divided government for about six years

between bill clinton and a republican congress. it's imperative for us to get there again and that means, again, moving -- the lame duck to me is the first sign can we pass a spending bill so we don't risk the government shut down. can we pass the tax extenders so we have certainty in the tax code. can we sit down and begin work hopefully pass but begin work on syrian authorization so we don't have presidents able to go to war any place any time they want based on things that were passed before most members were in congress. those are things we can do now. we need an aggressive and productive agenda early on next year. >> make barnacle. >> congressman, what's your sense, what would happen within the republican caucus this year's republican caucus -- >> can you hear us? >> all right thank you down there. >> i was going to ask him what his sense would be what would

happen within the republican caucus if president obama comes back from china and signs an executive order basically saying dreamers stay for the next 12 months on immigration. and no more deportation other than felony arrests for the next 12 months. put a time limit on it. what happens? >> i think the president would find himself in a pretty good position and republicans would be in a difficult position if the dreamers kids part did like you said dreamers stay and what republicans want and what business wants is for people with hi-tech visas to stay. if he put something in there if you get an mba we staple your green card to the back of your diploma. i don't think the republicans would overturn that because there are cross currents. david, sometimes it's simplifyied that democrats are for

immigration reform. that's not always true. those in the afl-cio don't want it. the chamber of commerce and business want immigration. >> there are issues that unfortunately are black and white after this go around. you know the u.n. has just issue ad report saying that the results of global warming are so catastrophic for every single one of us economically and the way our children and grandchildren live their lives. we've now switched from barbara boxer heading the committee that has to do global warming to senator imhoff who thinks global warming is a hoax. i don't know what senator imhoff will do. >> where do you think the disconnect came? in 2004 ln-2005 everybody was talking about climate change. >> making fun of al gore. >> the adulation he received for

a couple of years was high. climate change went up pretty high. now it's one of the lowest ranked issues. >> it causes the kind of problem that's so hard to get your head around because time is involved. it's not something that you pass a law and it gets solved. health care is incredibly complicated and next to climate change that's a cinch. this requires are international cooperation which eludes us entirely. the president is in china now. the chinese are going through this historical development and at the same time they are poisoning the earth and to get them to stop it is enormously difficult. >> let's talk about your article really quickly. you talk about your travels to israel and the west bank. what did you find? >> well the center of the article, the article is called "the one state reality." the two state solution if anything on the back burner at best. >> why is that?

>> yet another collapse in negotiations among the palestinians and the israelis and the united states. there's a real uptick in tolerance, in racism and anxiety all around. the big hero, the unlikely hero on the israeli side of this is is the extremely conservative president of the country who is a one state guy, right-wing one state guy who believes in annexing the west bank. but at the same time he's for civil rights and democratic rights for the palestinians. that's the stay of play is so different than a lot of americans imagine. >> david remnick thank you so much. latest issue of the "new york" is out now. still ahead on "morning joe," 1,000 people the head of va may need be fired in the wake of the agency scandal. but why even getting rid of those poor performers involves major government bureaucracy? plus if you're looking forward

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♪ let's take a look at the morning papers. >> i love nart. this is my favorite part of the show. >> "the washington post," hundreds of thousands gathered at the brandenburg gate last night to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. the celebration featured music, fireworks and the release of thousands of balloons where the wall once stood. for 28 years the nine mile wall divided east and west berlin and its fall marked the beginning of the end of the cold war. >> do you remember where you were 25 years ago? >> you know what i was doing? i was watching tom brokaw in front of that wall. he was the first anchor there. i remember watching him. where were you? >> turkish prison. >> again. >> i spent most of '74 through '9 in turkish prison. >> what did do you? >> the question is what didn't i do.

>> they tried to let him out. >> they have a little tv in there? >> of course. if you're there long enough you become buddies with the guards you give them something, they give you something. >> that prison economy. >> the "los angeles times" 80% of voters in catalonia favor declaring independence from spain. officials say 2 million people half of eligible voters voted in the country's northeastern region. they have sought autonomy from the region. >> the albany times union, a police officer in new york state has been suspended without pay as officials investigate a video that allegedly shows him slapping a young man. the video was recorded by a second person after the officer noticed they had a rifle in the back seat of their vehicle. the owner of the car refuses to let the police search it which sparks a verbal and then a physical confrontation.

>> let me see your [ bleep ] >> why? >> step out of the car. >> up can't do that. >> [ bleep ] >> the smack is not seen on camera. it can be heard. >> he hid a rifle in his back seat and the guy wouldn't let him into the car? >> don't you need a -- >> the guys were not in the car we're being told. they were outside the car. the officer saw the gun in the car. >> that seems -- >> all right. >> tough. >> i don't know. >> we need more information on that. >> before we turn this show into "cops." let's lay off the police. >> i want to hear some led zeppelin. >> from uk "daily mail" led zeppelin reunion tour is unlikely. the lead singer robert plant turned down richard branson's

offer by ripping up the $800 million contract. >> that's just a negotiating employ. >> two others signed the deal to perform 35 shows in london berlin and new jersey. plant asked for 48 hours to make up his mind before giving a dramatic no. >> come on. $800 million. think of all the kids you can help with $800 million. >> okay. still ahead on "morning joe" thenew head of the va will announce a major overhaul of the department. we'll talk to the founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america paul b. ieckhoff and what those changes will be. bloomberg "business week" is take a look at the future.

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. how many employees do you think should be fired? based on what you know. >> the report we've passed up to the senate committee and house committee has about 35 names on it. i got another report that has over 1,000. >> if 1,000 people need to go, give me a sense of what are some of the things they did? >> we're talking about people who violated our values. >> and those values are what? >> integrity. it's advocacy. it's respect. it's excellence. these are the things that we try to do for our veterans. >> veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald is expected to

announce a major overhaul of the va health care system the biggest reorganization in the history of the department. here with us now ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, paul bieckhoff. >> your hopeful? will we turn a page? >> i hope so. >> can this guy do it? >> he's the right kind of guy but can't do it alone. he brought the right attitude brought right focus. >> what's the right attitude? >> everything needs to be changed. we need to rip this apart and rebuild it. we need tot cal candor and need to fire people. fbi investigations are still going on in about a hundred places. he was candid about the fact he needs help. they need 2,000 new employees. specifically 2,500 mental health care workers. we've been saying that for years. >> how bad did it get teva? -- at the va. what's the underbelly of the va? >> six people may have died on

secret waiting lists. employees cooked the books. >> how did they do that. >> they had one set of books where they said here's how long people are waiting where it said 14 days. they were on secret lists. pembroke the law. the trust of the va was startered. i saw veterans who said i don't want to go to va. i can't trust them. first thing you have to do is stop the bleeding. he's going to need congress and president. >> is he getting help from the white house? >> not enough. the president needs to lean in some more. the president should visit va hospitals and get in there to support bob mcdonald. >> what about congress? >> congress needs to step up. we need them to in the lame duck pass the clay hunt suicide prevention act. that's one thing they can do to help our community. >> paul we talked about this

but it's repulsive these men and women who stepped up what 99.9% of didn't do when planes hit buildings, do the job, come home and we forget about them. we need to change that. what does under this new va head what is an ideal va system. pretend the old one didn't exist. >> barnacle was saying it has to be like an apple store. simple. they have 12 websites. he's trying to create one integrated porthole. one customer service rep. he's even started to call veterans customers instead of just vets who are walking in. that's an important message. he's making it accessible and technology is to be key focus. it has to work. doesn't have to be fantastic. doesn't have to be an apple store. >> how does he fire people. how do you fire government employees. >> it's hard. i spoke to him on the phone last week and he was explaining to me how tough it is.

he has 1,000 people that may be fired but he has to take them before a judge and make a case and that's hard. we want to see accountability. people should be fired. you have to send a message there's a new sheriff in town and bad apples have been cleaned out. we want to send message veterans aren't just broken. all week it's veterans day. we want to show people vets are rising. if you want to tell a positive story, a story of a veteran in your family use #vetsrising. >> i love it. jeremy peters has a question for you. >> i wonder with the republican take over in the senate now that presumably you'll be able to get things through congress somewhat easier, if there's one area that you zeroed in on that you would like to see congress address immediately in the next year when republicans take control. >> well before the republicans even take control we want to see the clay hunt act pushed through. after that we need oversight.

we need to continue to find out how bad are the problems and support bob mcdonald. i hope we see stuff moving through congress. there will be a new chair. we'll see who it is. i think we got to have a good start. we have to come out one january and show vets we have their back. >> what's the backlog looking like now? >> it's still over 200,000. they are chipping away at it but not fast enough. the other issue is that was a problem before the scandal happened. >> you talk about the suicide issue and need for mother-in-law health workers and 2,500 seems like barely scratching the surface when you look what's happening out there and the numbers each day of veterans who are falling off the cliff, really. >> it's really a huge public health challenge. we've lost too many of our friends, most of our members are in their late 20s and all week part of what we're doing we're

hosting vets around the country. we had san francisco and l.a. ug concert with hbo and starbucks in d.c. it's free tomorrow night over 500,000 people on the mall. come on out and be connected to the community and even thursday night willie will host our annual heroes gala. tickets are still available. >> willie loves to talk to people so go right on up to him. >> it's about connecting our vets bringing them into the community. and if the vacant help them nonprofits and others will do that. >> vets are rising. >> swoeb tweeting watching this number of deaths in the united states caused by ebola in 2014 one. number of u.s. military veteran deaths caused by suicide in 2014 6,622. >> the data is 22 a day it averages out. that movie that those two guys

did, we'll have to put that back up. they are going around the country trying to let people know about the mental health challenges these guys are facing men and women and their families. >> we've all got to get together. one team one fight focused on these things that are important to everybody and today's marine corps birthday another reminder how important this is. a big shout out to marines over there and folks overseas. i got a tweet from a marine in okinawa. this is a good week for us to show we love them and we're committed to them every day not just veterans day. >> veterans rising. >> vets rising. >> vets rising. >> check out project v2. >> the va can do a lot of aggravate things but needs the help of others. paul is a great leader. it needs private help as well from volunteers. >> thank you so much. come back any time.

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♪ we may have the editor of the bloomberg "business week." "the year ahead 2015." >> the u.s. as a whole is emerging as the most growth in 2015. north dakota is crazy busy with shail oil production. seattle is swamped with boeing orders. in silicon valley apple is selling tons of iphones. new york city has more jobs than ever as tech companies such as google lead the way. it's a welcome turn about for the u.s. which until recently

was the planet's -- >> we have a lot of good things going on. what the boom in oil and gas production in the u.s. is a huge benefit to all kinds of americans, really to the world, though. because it's brought down oil prices. if you're sitting in saudi arabia or iran or venezuela or some place you're not so happy about it. for the u.s. it's a great thing. >> also lowers the cost of manufacturing in america, creates more jobs more opportunities. >> and the obvious thing is lower price at the gas pump. and more money to spend on other things. but this issue has just a lot of other stuff in it and i wrote the introstory. it's a big fat issue. i'll give you and example of something that appealed to be. low end mobile the average selling price of cell phones and tab leapts is going down becoming more and more

affordable. people don't feel like they have to pay top, top dollar to get a cool iphone or -- >> what impact does that have on us? >> look any time prices go down you can step up to buy the nicer model or you can spend your money on other things. >> yeah. >> okay. so if you're looking at this as a guide book to surviving or prospering in 2015 what actual like tangible ideas do you have for people or are we all moving to north dakota? >> right. >> that's a good start. >> that's a good start. we all won't fit there. you know the wage issue remains a problem. joe started off by saying you know, not everybody benefits in this and that is certainly true. we saw in the elections last week several states like south dakota passed higher minimum wages. that's another change for 2015. i think overall what we're

seeing is trade, trade is going to be a big thing in 2015. >> peter, you said before you sat down you came here with a lot of good news in this piece. so i'm on page 78 you have what obama won't get done in 2015. immigration reform medicaid expansion, raising the minimum wage, universal pre-k, closing guantanamo. everybody would like to see things happen on each of those four. >> a lot of good things happening. i never mentioned washington, d.c. yeah. the good things that will be happening in america will happen outside of washington, d.c. i'll give you another one i'm happy about. you know ebola is front and center. 2015 is the year we'll start seeing some of those experimental vaccines coming in maybe some of those cures. it takes a while sometimes to rev up and start making the changes that need to be made but they do happen and 2015 is going to be the year we start to see

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i mean you were the modern day clark kent there. >> photo shop baby. >> mika wanted us to throw in this important sport story. >> is it utah and -- >> we're going to do football. >> sunday night football. get you caught up to speed with the packers and the bears at lambeau field. if you are a chicago fan, thanks to aaron rodgers, he connected for six touchdowns in the first half. tying the nfl record. scored halftime, get this 42-0. by the third quarter, chicago's jay cutler finally connects with

marshal. but chicago -- yep, he makes it. chicago really has no chance. packers win it 55-14. the bears have now lost five of the last six games. >> oh gosh. >> we take you now to new orleans and the saints hosting the san francisco 49ers. colin kaepernick looking for a receiver. finally, he finds and connects with michael crabtree. look at this look at this. 51-yard pass. that sets up the 49ers for a game-tying field goal. five seconds remain in the game. when the saints quarterback drew brees throws a bomb to jimmy graham. >> does he make it? >> well he makes it but flags are thrown. >> oh you're kidding. oh, man. >> so the flags go. offense interference. that call keeps it is game tied. overtime now. brees gets sacked. fumbled the ball. san francisco picks it up. phil dawson goes on to kick the game-winning field goal. the niners win this 27-24.

>> drew brees one of great guys. he's is up a good guy. >> his size, it's incredible. >> the jets coming off an eight-game losing streak. michael vick looking strong early. hail mary to t.j. graham. gets up 10-0. we get to the second quarter. the jets deflected pass by ben roethlisberger intercepted at the basically 2 yard line. he'll throw another interception in the third. the pittsburgh team never gains momentum here. they're going to lose it 20-13. >> boy, i mean big ben, isn't having a great season this year. i never saw this one coming. nobody did. >> all-time record two weeks ago. >> he's been amazing. >> the steelers loss. the browns are atop the afc

north for the first time since 1984. all of these teams are looking at playoff contention. so we want to look at the state champ running picks. >> that's me. while you guys were watching all this. >> what were you doing, mika? >> i drove something like seven hours to canton new york to watch the -- >> by the way, five minutes from montreal. like, why you would have a state championship meet -- >> it was so far up north. >> i told mika you are about 100 miles north of toronto. >> i thought i'd bring them sandwiches, the girls, they're so cute. >> that's nice. >> i thought, okay i'll bring it to their hotel. their hotel was two hours north of mine. and i still went. there's coach mitchell. coach sopp. the team that came in second. heart break in canton but we had a wonderful time. >> second in the state. >> they're like the yankees. they're not used to losing. >> they actually win the state every year don't they. >> there was some crying.

so second place ain't good enough. >> why was it up there though? >> you know i asked that question. >> that was so stupid. >> -- about every five minutes. >> it was like a seven-hour drive. it's on the canadian border. >> after working all week you jumped in the car for seven hours? >> i did. it was really fun. they did a great job. the coaches are amazing. these girls will be back next year. >> big hollywood news. >> the news that broke over the weekend. >> congratulations, by the way. >> ben affleck spilling the beans on his buddy matt damon. rumors that damon will reprise his role as the cia assassin that jason borne character. the subject of affleck's batman physique came up. that's when he let the secret about matt out of the bag. >> he's going to be doing a bourne movie next fall when i've just completely lost any semblance of physical fitness. >> he's going to weigh the same but he's going to have --

>> pear shaped. how does the -- kind of what i'm going -- >> you coming back for another borne bourne? >> yes next year in 2016 when the movie will come out. >> very calm confirmation. he's coming back. jason bourne. finally, hbo's john oliver wrapping up his freshman year last night. a bit of a crossover episode with some of our favorites in late night. take a look. >> i'd like to talk about salmon. cat food for people. tuna's understudy that you hope never has to go on and that stupid fish that doesn't know how rivers work. salmon famously have to fight their way upstream to spawn. thanks to hydroelectric dams that's become incredibly difficult. as we found out recently america is on it. >> we're going to introduce you to a pretty sweet piece of technology known as the camp

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good morning. it is monday november 10th. welcome to "morning joe." we've got mike barnacle. bright and early. chipper. >> very chipper. >> hi everybody! >> oh my lord. associate professor of columbia school of associate affairs. and on capitol hill, jeremy peters. >> the jets won. what are the jets doing winning? >> beating the steelers. >> what are they doing beating the steelers who i heard were supposed to be good. >> steelers were on a role but look out. >> michael vick did he have a good game? >> he had an okay game. >> he didn't fumble the ball 12

times. a couple things. first of all, we'll do the good then we'll do the bad and ugly. president bush -- >> yeah. >> 43 actually right over here there you go awesome. this book that he's writing is really a love letter to his dad apparently. and i didn't realize it but 41 thought seriously about not running for re-election. >> first time i'd heard that. >> yeah isn't that crazy? >> and very nice. this is "washington post." if they wanted to grab people's attention. >> indeed. >> on monday morning, they have done it with a story on the "n" word which they say, get this is used 500,000 times a day as slang. as slang on twitter. 500,000 times a day. hundreds of thousands of times a

day more than my word of choice dude. or bro. naacp doing -- this is fascinating to me. they had the mock funeral in 2007. now they're basically saying it's just -- this is a youth culture thing. that it is -- it's so prevalent in youth culture. which shocking to me. because i'm that young. >> there's no way to ban the word but the 500,000 is -- is enormous. remember, we don't know how many times people say it not on social media a day. >> oh my god. >> it's a small, small indication of how often the word is used. >> it's just absolutely unbelievable. >> that article has a great history of the word. >> has anybody else noticed -- i'll just hold this a second. "the washington post" over the past 3 to 6 months has become a

really vital, vital newspaper. i don't know who's in charge -- >> marty baron, the editor of "the washington post," formerly the editor of "the boston globe," he is on this. mandatory reading. >> it is unbelievable. you know, it really is now the -- i always would go to "the times" and "the wall street journal" and politico. sometimes "washington post." going to "the washington post" first now and i haven't said that like in decades. >> a long time. >> let's start this morning with that dangerous storm. 7 million people -- >> wait wait wait what are we going to get cold here? willie let's go to florida. >> it starts now and it ends -- memorial day. >> can we do this show in boca? can we go to boca? >> naples. all right.

a winter storm warning and an outbreak of freezing weather isn't far behind. bill karins. just do it. >> that's the problem with this. we get cold in november usually we warm up. once it gets cold there's no signs of it warming up. so this is going to be here to stay. let's talk about the forecast today. it's cold today in the northern plains. the rest of the country is gorgeous. all the problem weather is up around the minneapolis area. you're boggoing to be dealing with a foot of snow by tomorrow morning. watch the cold as it moves across the country. notice the high temperature on wednesday in kansas city and chicago, low 30s. and then the east coast will get cold. we mentioned the 70 million people under winter storm warnings from montana through northern wisconsin and northern michigan. these are the people digging out from the possibility of a large area. windchills have tanked in these areas too. this is where it's going to

snow. you're going to get a foot of snow. just to give you an idea it's not how cold it is it's how long it's going to last. minneapolis is now below 32 degrees. they're not going to go above 32 degrees for at least a week straight. so whatever ice and snow is out there is here to stay. as i mentioned, even through about the end of this week there's no signs of this cold air exiting. >> all right, bill thank you. president obama is in beijing for the first time since '09. pushing a u.s. supported trade agreement at an economic summit. he'll visit myanmar and australia. as democrats struggle to make sense of last week's midterm losses. >> also want to ask you about what happened on tuesday. the buck stops right here at my desk. and so whenever as the head of the party it doesn't do well i've got to take responsibility

for it. the message that i took from this election and we've seen this in a number of elections, successive elections, is people want to see this city work. and they feel as if it's not working. they know one person in washington and that's the president of the united states. so i've got to make this city work better for them. >> what do you think? >> well i thought it was pretty good. he was very, very honest about what happened. >> what do you think, mike? >> he looked disgusted the day after. >> you know he's carrying such baggage. i mean obviously. they got their lunch handed to them on tuesday. when he does that interview, he's on the eve of going to china. the chinese know what's going on. they're going to give himming in because they perceive him to be as weak as the voters perceived him to be in the united states. >> when he says it's time to

make washington -- first time he said that. i'm not blaming him. i don't think anybody in america after six years listening to that goes okay suddenly things are going to work in washington. it's starting to ring a little holoe hollow for people. >> the president resisting calls from republicans to wait on immigration reform. the president says he's given house speaker john boehner plenty of time to act. he's going to do it himself by the end of the year. take a look. >> i told him at the time, if you don't do it i've got legal authority to make improvements on the system. if you can't get it done before the end of the year i'm going to have to take the steps that i can to improve the system. >> so are you saying here today their time has run out?

>> what i'm saying to them -- actually, their time hasn't run out. i'm going to do what i can do through executive action. it's not going to be everything that need, to get done. and it will take time to put that in place. and in the interim, the minute they pass a bill that addresses the problems with immigration reform, i will sign it and it supersedes whatever actions i take and i'm encouraging them to do so. >> the last point is an important point. you don't like the executive order he signs, pass a bill. it overrides the executive order. >> that's right. i think if there is one politically combustible issue that could really poison the well, as john boehner said the other day, it is immigration reform. we have seen time and time again nothing raises the passions on both the left and the right like immigration reform. >> i understand they're saying it. let me play devil's advocate as

a republican. what the hell are republicaning ings going to do? pass a law. if i'm the president of the united states and i really wanted to do this i would sign it. i would give it to the republicans and say, okay now you guys. i don't have to fight with you anymore. you guys fight among yourselves. because jeremy this really is -- this is an intermural battle is it not, republicans versus republicans? >> it is yes. >> allow boehner and mcconnell to say, guys you either come up with a deal -- which they both want -- or else the president's going to define the outlines of it. it seeps like a good move on the president's part. >> the problem, as has been for the last four years for republicans, is going to be controlling, you know, the tea party wing of the party which is very very close to doing anything on immigration. >> here's the difference jeremy. the tea party does nothing now.

you say the tea party. if what you define as the tea party does nothing now, than nothing gets done. if the president signs an executive order, then not acting, them blocking an immigration bill actually allows the president of the united states to have his executive order be the law of the land right? so them dragging their feet actually works against them and allows the president to have his way. doesn't that change his dynamics? >> when you lay it out like that, it sounds like perfect sense. as is often the case in congress logic does not often apply. you're actually hearing republicans doing is finding a way in the budget bill to hold this whole process up. withhold the budget process up -- >> right. >> through an amendment that would defund waver the president

does on immigration. it could really muck up this process. that's what republicans are worried about, another legislative crisis like that. >> i want to make sure i get this right. if i'm not mistaken let's say i sign an executive order. now, if congress does nothing, it remains joe's law, right? if you're a tea party -- like i'm not doing anything on immigration, and you're making sure joe's law remains the law, there's forces action by republicans one way or another. >> you have to ask yourself a question. you think about this. you're an amcademic. we've heard from jeremy. his inside take. we've heard about joe's law. here's my perception. he is the president of the united states. why the president of the united states doesn't say, okay we've

waited years for anything something, to be done on immigration. so now here is a version of joe's law. barack obama's law. here it is. executive action. now, you republicans go slice and dice yourself up in the house and senate and figure it out but that's the law. >> i think we're going to see that. there's an historical point here. every single president since eisenhower in the last 60 years. that's the historical point. this is smart politic, if the president signs an executive order on immigration because frankly the latino and the asian-american vote is up for grabs in the future. both of these groups are looking to see which party is going to represent them in terms of fixing the i grags system. there's huge latino vote up for grabs. i think latino voters who are angry by the way -- >> i was going to say, the

president -- caroline kennedy doesn't get to reward presidents in profile this year. so now he's found religion. he's going to move forward and do it. if he moves forward and does it the republicans are forced to act. for all the reasons i said a year and a half ago, i knew they weren't going to. you have mcconnell and boehner look at people that really want to get in the way and go really. do you want hillary clinton to be president for eight years? we can stop short of amnesty. we can stop short of citizenship. but we have to do something. and i don't think there's going to be much patience at all for people who want to play to their home district. >> it's certainly an opportunity for them to think.

howard dean dnc chair, says president obama is not the sole person responsible for the party's losses last week. dean says democratic candidates lost because they failed to articulate a clear message to voters. >> the republican message was we're not obama. no substance. what was the democrat's message? we're really not either. you cannot win if you are afraid -- >> is that -- >> it felt like it. where the hell is the democratic party? you got to stand for something if you want to win. >> well "the washington post" points out that one clear lesson from the midterm is the democrats would made the koch brothers a top target failed to gain traction on the issue and -- >> in many cases they lost their races. "the post" article on that is just absolutely brutal to harry reid. he just blew blew so much money of a lot of really rich democratic donors doing it.

here would be my only argument with what howard dean said about democrats losing because they didn't stand for anything. didn't stop the republicans. what are the republicans? they're for casstrating pigs. >> they're against washington. >> that was about washington. it was about make things work. i know i liked johnny ernst, i'm just saying there wasn't a lot of substance on the republican side. >> no there was no substance on the republican side. the democrats argument from months and months ago starting with harry reid on the senate was that david and charles koch are bad people and you should vote against them and it didn't work. >> did we not say from the very beginning what a stupid -- we could have saved harry reid hundreds of millions of dollars if they would have ran on real issues instead going, oh we're going to pick on these two guys. >> especially when there's issues when at the ballot box

minimum wage. >> can i ask, why didn't -- and i talked about this too nonstop. why didn't the democrats talk about -- use all of that money to talk about how republicans were blocking minimum wage? why republicans were blocking this reform. why republicans were blocking that reform. why republicans didn't want little jenny, the 6-year-old to have health care insurance because of pre-existing conditions. why they didn't want our ne'er-do-well 24-year-old sons playing xbox on the couch all day to still have health care insurance -- >> minimum wage start there, seriously. >> think of all the money harry reid burned. by the way, tom stier should be very angry, all the pollution caused by the burning of that money. >> well actually -- >> why didn't they use issues

like minimum wage and other issues? >>cy was going to say, that's how they started out. at the beginning the campaign season this was democrats message. it sounded like it was going to be very populist and it became drowned out on this war on women and this koch messaging stuff. i will say where the koch brothers line of attack was effective, even though it was a distraction to their overall message, was that it depressed the republican donor base. if you talk to a lot of republican fund-raisers what they said is by going out there and demonizing charles and david koch, what reid did was he scared a lot of wealthy republicans into giving him money. they didn't want to find themselves the subject of those same brutal attacks. >> it didn't work. they weren't scared. the rich donors gave more than before. i just -- you know why not have

a populist message. if they allowed reid to continue to run the senate -- >> you're saying they should have done the elizabeth warren strategy? >> yes. >> of a strong populist message that -- >> of course. >> president obama makes his pick for the next u.s. attorney general. >> was it loretta lynn? >> loretta lynch. >> i love loretta lynn. i was hoping for tammy wynette. i didn't even know she went to law school. i got to say, it came across my phone. she and patsy cline. >> it's a confirmation. >> just bring your guitar. i'll vote for you. >> an exclusive interview with a chairman of the judiciary committee. >> plus green porno actress isabella rossellini is starring in a new project and it's safe to say you've never seen anything like it.

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plan to me say is that we may actually see fewer troops over time because now we're seeing coalition members starting to partner with us on the training and assist effort. >> meanwhile, there are growing questions this morning over the state of the islamic state's leader. iraqi officials say he was wounded in an american air strike near mosul. the pentagon confirms it did launch a series of air strikes there but says there's no information that al baghdadi or other isis leaders are injured or dead. >> they don't know because they don't have good intel on the ground so they're not really sure. a lot of complaints are coming from the pentagon and the retired military leaders say the becoming runs are just insignificant. just any impact with i suspect, a ramping up of those bombing runs and a more aggressive stance. >> business before the bell with cnbc's brian sullivan.

>> good morning. things are looking pretty good. futures indicating we may continue to rise. although not a big pop expected today. lower gas prices have got to be helping. the national average for gasoline is 2.92. that is skewed by some places that are paying higher parts in alaska california, still in the high threes. gas prices really coming down. that's going to put a lot of money. $40 billion in extra annualized spending. guys that is good news. lower gas prices are pretty much a benefit to anybody except for the oil companies. >> okay. and general motors in the news. >> this is a big story. this is not a big story for gm. the ignition switch recall story from last year. "the wall street journal" reporting over the weekend that gm again, one source but

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so first people viewed it as a joke. i sort of help it is a joke. now reporting that pepsi may be tasting -- taste testing a doritos flavored mountain dew. >> that's pretty incredible. >> i just threw up not a little a lot in my mouth. thank you for bringing -- >> that's my goal everyday. if i can do that i've done my job. >> you do your job well. >> what do you think, thomas? >> come to an open house on a saturday it's even better. >> it sounds pretty repulsive. >> a bag of doritos and a mountain dew don't you already have, isn't that the point -- it's already good together. why mess with two good things? >> president obama says she battles monsters and terrorists but is still a charming people person. senate judiciary chairman pat leahy weighs in on loretta lynch's historic nomination to

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i can change color to camouflage myself and hide in nature. my mate is a cannibal. she has eat be many husbands already but that doesn't scare me. my sexual drive is the strongest. >> oh my goodness. okay. that was a clip from the sundance channel web series green porno starring isabella rosellini. isabella now toweruring the u.s. with her one-woman show. >> mika wants to do something for "cbs sunday morning" about the mating rituals of lobsters

and it was bizarre. your entire show is the strategies. >> everybody does it a little bit like us but they don't. it's quite shocking. >> what are some of the most unusual ways? >> for example, you didn't finish the clip with the preying mantis. the female devours the male while he's making love to her. and he would continue to make love to her even without his head. >> oh. >> and the theory the scientific theory is that a surplus of food of protein, will help the female have healthier babies. >> what happens to the male? >> he dies. >> oh, my god. >> i dated somebody like that in college. that was really -- >> no believe me you act shocked. men know that story and it scares the hell out of us. >> they die inside.

>> what are we looking at here? >> those are cuddle fish. cuddle fish they have harems. so there is one dominate cuddle fish that controls the females. but younger cuddle fish -- now you have dna tests so we can really make sure who is the father of the babies. until now, we believed it was always the strongest guy. sometimes there are the so-called sneaky males. >> oh we know them too. >> and the cuddle fish the younger male since it can change the color in the shape of their body they become female. so they penetrate the herm and make love to the female. >> spiders, spiders. >> anything goes with spiders. >> what do you mean? >> there are many many different spiders.

the majority of spiders, the female, is very big. she also is very aggressive. so she often eats her husband. so the male have different strategies. there is one that uses a present. he goes there with a fly and gives it to her and while she's eating it he takes advantage of that moment to make love to her. >> oh, oh. >> how does this happen -- >> someone says isabella i have a great show. i want to make you a preying mantis or a spieder. >> no i wrote the show. >> how do you take this to people and say, i want to dress up like a preying mantis and it's called green porno. >> it was thanks to sundance. robert redford has financed independent films. and that's what he did. when the web started, he said let's make a short film for the web. i didn't know six years ago this was going to develop into a monologue. just yesterday celebrated having an oscar to his career as

a playwrighter. so, you know, the whole thing grew much bigger. >> let's show another example. this is squid sex. >> i've heard it's the best. >> fried calamari my favorite. if i were a calamari i would be a squid. and everyone would want to eat me. my luminescent effects and changing shape, i can communicate, i can say, be careful. i can say i love you with my whole three hearts. i would give the most passionate 20-arm embrace. 20. 18. 2 are not arms if you know what i mean.

>> oh no. >> they're called arms. >> do you know which is which? >> it looks slightly different than the other arms. incredibly, the male slides with his arm, a capsule full of sperm, and the female keeps it inside her. she has a special organ called the spermal taker. and she would keep it there any she is ready to get pregnant. it isn't like us. nine months later, we have babies. no. some animals can conserve their sperm and use it -- >> when they want to access it. >> like i'll think about it. >> i don't know what they do that but this is one reason why there's an abundance of food. the temperature of water, when the ideal condition becomes, then they're ready for motherhood. >> the ideal conditions. >> this has been so much fun. you've turned like 14 different colors.

>> no i'm just thinking about the kids that are sitting at home. >> this is a great learning tool. >> mom trying to explain. >> yeah but if you're 5 or 6. >> this is biology. we study that in school. sometimes they sound so complicated. like when they say off spring i always say babies. >> i went to parochial school. we didn't study this stuff. >> but it exists. god created it. so what about that? >> there you go. >> you can go to the show but you have to sit in the back. >> this is great. >> and you're touring. >> i'm touring in united states. i'm touring during weekends. i'm going to philadelphia pittsburgh. i just came from washington. because during the week i'm finishing my master degree on animal behavior at hunter college. >> oh, my god, you are amazing. >> how exciting. well, it has to be fun. >> it is so much fun to go to school when you are an adult. you know when i went to school when i was a child, sometime it was hard. now instead it's just a

pleasure. >> the audience reacts to this show -- >> they react exactly like i want them to react which is to laugh and then say, oh i didn't know that. >> isabella rosellini, thank you so much. >> it's great to have you here. >> thank you so much for coming. >> good luck with the show. still ahead, the chairman of senate judiciary committee, senator pat leahy joins the conversation. they challenge us. they take us to worlds full of heroes and titans. for respawn, building the best interactive entertainment begins with the cloud. this is "titanfall," the first multi-player game built and run on microsoft azure. empowering gamers around the world to interact in ways they never thought possible. this cloud turns data into excitement. this is the microsoft cloud.

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pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than loretta. throughout her 30-year career she has distinguished herself as tough, as fair an independent lawyer who has twice headed one of the most prominent u.s. attorney's offices in the country. loretta might be the only lawyer in america who battles mobsters and drug lords and terrorists and still has the reputation for being a charming people person. >> now know joe, you got her name wrong. >> it's not loretta lynn. she sounds impressive. >> president obama over the weekend nominating loretta lynch, the u.s. attorney from eastern new york, to be the nation's next attorney general.

joining us now from washington we have the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, senator leahy of vermont. good to see you, sir. >> hey, senator, great to have you here. does peace break out. does this nominee get through without a bloodbath we've grown accustomed to having? >> i think most people would agree this nominee is extremely well qualified. the vast majority of republicans and democrats will vote for her. she's su pushperbly qualified. this is somebody who doesn't go out and give great speeches about how we should go after terrorists. instead, she just goes after them. convicts them. we need somebody like that as top law enforcement officer in this country. >> senator, what do you think the prospects are for reducing the backlog of nominees that are

sitting for federal judgeships in the next six or seven weeks before the end of this session? good, not good? >> well i hope it would be good. we've got not only nine judges, these are probably over 200 to 150 nominees of different branches. people that normally have just done a voice vote. that's the way we did when they were the republican president and democrat president. i think we ought to get back to that. do things the way we always have. if you've got somebody who is controversial, of course have a debate, have a vote. 95% of the names that are pending there are noncontroversy. in fact, probably went through the various committees with every republican and every democrat voting for them.

>> thomas. >> senator, let me ask you about what we learned over the weekend and the president going ahead to send 1,500 additional troops into iraq to help in noncombat roles, to help the iraqi forces there battle back isis and its expansion. what do you think the forecast is for how we continue to proceed and what your comfort level is with american forces continuing to pour into that area and us not being in a declared state of war? >> well, had urged back in september when we recessed for the elections. i said and others did too, we ought to stay in session. and debate this. and then let the president know what the congress would back. unfortunately, there are many in the congress who would like to be able to say the president's doing things wrong but they don't want to vote on what they would say would be right. we are going to have to have a vote on this. we know what a terrible mistake the first iraq war was.

cost us close to $3 trillion. thousands of lives. to go after weapons of mass destruction which never existed in the first place. if we're going to go into this how many other places we're going to. we should have a full debate on it. >> senator pat leahy, thank you so much. thanks for being on the show this morning. up next what if anything did we learn today. >> i learned, like -- >> doritos and mountain dew marry. >> a lot of women eat their mates. that kind of creeped out. i'm meteorologist bill karins. the cold is the word of the week. we're watching a snowstorm today

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>> it's "morning joe." but stick around it is time for peter alexander. he's got "daily rundown." we'll see you tomorrow. thanks for watching, guys. president obama kicking off a week-long trip to asia and australia. he's tried to pivot to asia before with little luck. this time some good news right at the start with north korea releasing two american prisoners after a visit from the nation's top spy. also happening right now, the first big snow of the season starting to blast millions of americans across the plains and the midwest. the latest on what is expected to be significant travel delays. and bush 43 talking about his book on bush 41. kicking the door even wider to the idea of a bush 45. assessing what the country thinks about another bush