mike barnicle was also kind.the end of the debate, after 90 minutes dick cheney didn't turn to john edwards and say by the way, give me the car keys, too. >> that's good. >> well, i don't think you will enjoy this segment as much. the book -- i haven't read the whole thing yet, but it's uniquely without regret, mr. vice president. i would like to ask you about one specific example that i know of that pertains to your life as vice president and it has to do with a young man named john hart. there's no reason for you to know him. he was 20 years of age when he was killed in iraq. one of the reasons he died other than being shot to death was the vehicle he was in, an unarmored humvee was ill equipped to fight that portion of the war. at that period of time, more than 12,000 humvees where down there. how is it and what would you say to his parents today? how is it that young men are sent to war without the proper equipment with the united states of america? how did that happen? any regrets over that? >> certainly wis

with us onset, mike barnicle. we also have the president of the council on foreign relations and birthday boy -- >> oh, exciting for me. >> wasn't it your birthday recently? >> july. >> somebody in my town was buying you a birthday present. >> birthday boy. not by a day, not by a week, but a season. >> why was someone buying you a piece of art? >> because i'm a deserving person. >> richard hath, personal friend of mine. anyway. >> interesting. >> you know, mika, a lot of time. you also got off month, off season. >> well, happy birthday, belated. >> thank you. have a nice thanksgiving. >> yeah. exactly. >> happy new year. >> that's really weird. >> no, it's really sad. >> it's interesting. >> a lot of times the u.n. comes together, nothing happens. they sit around and talk and seems like divisions are really more pronounced than when the week started. >> well -- >> that's not happening this week. >> no. >> last night, i sense something happening in the air that hasn't happened. i don't think it's happened. i think

with us onset mike barnicle, also from "new york" magazine john heilemann, also harold ford jr. you know, i thought to myself, john heilemann, a fiscal conservative, never voted for a tax increase in my life, but michele bauchmann, she super sizes me. you should not have to pay any of your money to the government. who knew? who knew that for all of those years the government's were paying taxes that you could have bake sales? >> who knew that michele bauchmann could get to the more libertarian right of ron paul. she didn't realize. no government, nothing, let's just shut the whole thing down. i don't know what she wants to be president of. >> we had this fox debate last night. and i've got to say, mitt romney's looking pretty darn good. >> yeah. >> he is looking pretty darn good. i never thought i'd say that. >> he is looking very good. and on the other side, you've got governor rick "stop me before i debate again" perry. the contrast is startling. for mitt romney, it was a huge night. each debate is a bigger and bigger night for romney, i think. >> t.j., i want you to get a sho

we have mike barnicle. we have msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, harold ford, jr. in los angeles, senior political analyst mark halperin. >> this is what i love about america so much. >> tell me. >> you know, in times of trouble -- >> yes, yes. >> feeling loved. >> yes. >> in times of trouble, it's when americans reach out. i had so many people come up and ask, joe, are we going to be okay. i say yeah. you know why i know we're going to be okay? you cannot measure what america has, my friends. you can't measure the number at look at the gross domestic problem. you can't look at inflation. don't go to chicago and look at the xhod ties. what makes america great is right here. one of our own, one of our own is having a difficult time. >> yes, he is. >> praise jesus, he's come through again, america. let's go to his desk, willie geist. americans when you were broke back americans reached out and americans are once again coming through with the can do spirit. >> to those, joe, who say the su

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i agree with you and mike barnicle. i wish you were here.playing crappy teams down the line. teamwith nothing on the line who get up for games like this. what happens in the air to a team that -- also atlanta braves. same thing. up by eight games. it takes over their psyche. it is a mental game as much as physical. it's stunning. >> it is tentative too. that's what carl crawford was on that last play. crawford last year when he was playing great outfield and swinging a great ball would have ve for that ball and made that catch. he did it against the yankees a couple times. he didn't look right out there. >> it's interesting compared to television and this show is great it keeps rocking. you come and you kind of have a swag wither about you. versus if you were coming on -- >> donny, you've got a swagger at funerals. seriously. >> that's part of success. versus doing a show not knowing if you're getting canceled. playing the way you're supposed to. playing to win. >> and pat buchanan, you've seen it with sports teams time and time again. the s

welcome back to "morning joe," and back with us on set, mike barnicle, mike halperin and richard haass11. >> and, of course, new yorkers waking up this morning to this headline of the news about a 9/11 terror threat. we're going to talk about that a little more, but obviously most of america looking at this headline this morning. the president delivered a speech last night. some say he was combative. others say he was just as forceful asneeded to be. let me ask you, mark halperin, was he too hot? was he too cold? or was the president just like that coal bowl of porridge, just right. >> i don't see how it leads to big, quick action on the part of congress. >> what about you, richard haass? >> even if it did lead to quick action on the part of congress it would probably not lead to a manger change in the american economic picture. the package put forward was larger than people anticipated but given the scale of the problem i don't think enough even if it were enacted to make a major dent. >> we have the president in a difficult position. >> very. >> his base wants him to be combative. it

mike barnicle is here.e have the editor and chief of news week magazine, tina brown bringing elegance to the table. >> your kids may not start because your school is flooded out, again? >> would you please stop. i can't talk about it. i turn into a monster. >> mika is going to run for the mayor of her town. >> they built a school and who would have guessed this -- >> on a swamp. >> on a drainage thing. >> well, it happens. what are you going to do. >> what are you going to do as mayor, stop the rain? >> put the kids in school. i have a choice for you guys. we are not going to talk about my school. we are going to talk about the presidential debate or hear a preview of the president's jobs speech. we have inside information as to what is going to be in that. your choice, "morning joe." >> it's a catch 22. what do you want to hear first? >> the president's jobs. >> there you go. >> mike chooses the speech that no one will hear. >> everyone will hear it. it's going to be bold and turn a pak for this country. >

joining the table mike barnicle. bout the red sox. >> no, i don't want to. >> i know. it's painful. >> i think they're going to be okay. right, mike? >> here we go, mike. we've got some of the best players in baseball. i look at the lineup yesterday. look at a guy at third base. did you see the whole game? >> yeah. >> so villas two throws from third base. i guarantee you, you and i were making with great regularity when we were 12 years old. >> he's not a third baseman. >> you can't throw the ball from third to first? >> hit a home run. >> which almost got back to three runs by throwing -- no, seriously. one of the biggest payrolls in baseball -- >> it's depressing. >> and you can't get a third baseman throw from first to third. >> here's throw one. it's not really that hard. and he does it again later in the game. you know, i'm worried that gonzalez is going to pull something going after the base. >> why are you doing this? >> it's just absolutely sickening. >> and then you get carl crawford on the bempbl. conor jack

with us onset we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. host of of cnbc's "mad money," jim cramer is here. great to have you on. >> great to be here. >> hi, willie. >> who's in worse shape, jim cramer? boston red sox or the u.s. economy? >> i'll tell ya, one's collapsing so badly that i have to tell you. i don't know what to do. there's no jobs there for the rotation, there's nobody doing anything in the infield, not a lot of fielding. yeah. u.s. economy. >> really? >> yankees. yankees lost last night. >> blew a shot to go up five games. >> but the yankees have got it, right? >> because what? because what? because the texas rangers and c.j. wilson and losing the first round? >> this is where it starts. red sox fans when they see they're going to lose, they start trashing the yankees. >> is there going to be a world series? will there be a world series? >> i don't know. >> halladay last night -- they're untouchable. >> the phillies are untouchable. we may actually be embarrassed, willie, here, and we're embarrassed so few times. that when w

we have mike barnicle and steve rattner. >> financier. >> exactly. >> tell me, about this obamaplan.to you? >> i think it's relatively simple. what obama is saying is that he's a progressive and that he is going to make policies that are progressive. this proposal, this combination of proposals is really designed to do two things. one, it's designed to deal with the jobless rate in the short term. it's designed to deal with the deficit in the long term but it's very progressive. there is no question that the wealthy are being asked to take the burden of the revenue increases to help bring the budget deficit together. >> define wealthy. that number moves around in washington, d.c. what is wealthy as defined by this president and the tax increases? >> principally, it's over $250,000 a year in income. what's interesting about this proposal is that it rolls back the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest, those over $250,000, and it also provides all kinds of limitations on deductions and other tax increases on those same people. what's an interesting contrast, after he left the administration