. >> uh huh, and we're going to remove david axelrod's mustache. >> i'm not going to cut my side. >> no. >> i'm going to let you cut yours. >> you know what? he's not going to grow it back, because it's kind of outdated. good morning, everyone, mika brzezkinski here with joe scarborough, and this is "way too early." thanks for being up with us this morning. >> we have a lot to talk about this friday, december 7th, a day which will live in ifnfainfamy, including a new request from speaker boehner that could actually bring both sides together on the fiscal cliff. >> good, lord, is that possible? also, president morsi sends in tanks to keep the peace as violent protests rage in cairo. we'll have a live report from the region. >> i'll tell you what, it is a mess in egypt, the parties starting to fight each other, meet the new pharaoh, same as the old pharaoh, unbelievable. >> we have full coverage on that coming up, but first, let's get the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. >>> the effort to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff is now a two-man operation. president obama an

i'm uncomfortable seeing david axelrod without the mustache.wrong but so right he raised so much money. >> he did a great job. >> we have a big show today. the unemployment rate may have ticked down last month, but will it prevent the country from falling off the fiscal cliff? new reports say president obama and john boehner are going mono mono with negotiations. ayman jabbers will join us with a live report. a tea party king maker and now jim demint says he can advances conservative causes effectively outside the senate while he makes a bunch of money at a think tank. brand old party problems with michael steele. and, frack baby frack? maybe. we'll get into the great energy debate with chris hayes when he joins me, joy reid, joan walsh and ben smith, all of that when "now" starts in a mere 180 seconds. stop! stop! stop! come back here! humans -- we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world. that's why liberty mutual insurance has your back with great ideas like our optional better car replacement. if your car is totaled,

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bush's brain, then david axelrod is barack obama's home or. >> his what?>> his home or. >> that's a pretty good line that i wrote there. he is a pretty good homer. >> what do you mean by that? >> what i mean by that is david axelrod is a really and creator of personal stories for politicians. so when barack obama ran in 2008, he didn't have a record to run on because he hadn't done anything. what he did have to run on was his personal story. the son of an african, a black african and a white middle american mother, a man who saw his identity and founded, who was raised by his saintly grandparents and so forth and so on. this was a story, an american story if you will, he could as homer was known for talking about taking a trip and during the trip, coming to some inner understanding of oneself. this was the story that david axelrod fashion for obama to run on. it's a brilliant story. the problem is in 2012 there is no such story. we have seen that story. we know that story. that's old. he can't run on that story again. and he doesn't have a record in his fi

there's david axelrod.hat mustache. >> oh, my gosh. >> i've never used one of these before. >> where's susan? >> like which side -- >> is there a doctor in the house? >> do you go like this? that's going to be interesting. >> i know. >> i'll practice a little bit. >> is there insurance on the set? >> ooh, that's sharp. all right. we're going to take off his mustache for charity. he's walking slow. >> that's a slow walk. look at that. he is not happy. >> i think this is going to be okay. what do you think? are you all right with it? >> i'm going to faint. >> all right. we'll also talk politics. we'll be right back. [ tylenol bottle ] nyquil what are you doing? [ nyquil bottle ] just reading your label. wait...you relieve nasal congestion? sure don't you? [ nyquil bottle ] dude! [ female announcer ] tylenol® cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion. nyquil® cold and flu doesn't. now's a good time to think about your options. are you looking for a plan that really meets your needs? and your budge

. >>> coming up, we'll talk to obama senior adviser david axelrod.ican congressman him heulskamp, "the washington post's" eugene robinson and geno auriemma. up next, mike allen with the top stories in the "politico playbook." >>> first here's bill karins with a check on the winter storm that's hitting the midwest. bill. >> good morning. yesterday was bad enough in the midwest with the blizzard conditions. now we're dealing with a wind storm and heavy rain through the big cities of the northeast and soon new england. it's a rough morning for the commute. winds just gusted to 43 at jfk airport. you can imagine at the airports especially from new york city, philadelphia and northwards will have the most significant delays and cancellations on this friday. thankfully it's just rain. we're not really dealing with igs ice or snow in new england. it's a different story in the great lakes. it's a winter wonderland anywhere in the state of michigan. it snowed hard last night, northern indiana and much of the state of ohio right now is seeing snow. careful dri

[laughter] >> david axelrod to night on his life in politics. at 10:45, growing up in the white house with susan ford bales and lynda robb. >> house speaker john boehner let the capitol christmas tree. this year's tree is from the colorado white national forest. >> good evening, everyone. and welcome to the 48th annual capitol christmas tree lighting ceremony. i am the architect of the capitol and i am honored to serve as your master of ceremonies tonight. for everyone's safety, we ask that you stay in your seat until the conclusion of the program. >> every year, i look forward to this event to officially kick off the holiday season here on capitol hill. and even though the weather doesn't feel like it's december 4, nothing says christmas like the playing of festive holiday carols. i would like to extend a special thank you to the united states air force band under the direction of peter foliard and created this great and festive holiday mood. let's give them a hand, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> and behind me stands the u.s. capitol's chr

tell me who david axelrod is that 20 years old, thinking about the world of politics here in chicago. how were you envisioning your future? >> first of all, i came to chicago for a couple of reasons. i had a homer and teacher in high school who said to the whole class -- draw, you get a map and draw a circle run the city of new york 600 miles and go to school out of that. because your parents will never surprise you with a visit if they have to take an airplane. [laughter] but the bigger reason was that i wanted to go to school in an urban area, and a place where the politics were rich. this was four years after the democratic convention, the last of the big city machines were still alive and politics were really vital. i came to the university of chicago probably ill-equipped to take advantage of everything the institution had to offer. and a little frustrated because there was no is to politics. there were no outlets. i used to joke -- forgive me if the dean is here or anybody else -- that was 40 years ago. i said i could not find anybody who wanted to talk about anything that happe

david axelrod, he did something today he hasn't done in decades. that, look at the mustache before, no mustache after. and guess what, he is ready to do something here in "the situation room." he is going to challenge a member of cnn's political team to do the same thing. initiated. neural speeds increasing to 4g lte. brain upgrading to a quad-core processor. predictive intelligence with google now complete. introducing droid dna by htc. it's not an upgrade to your phone. it's an upgrade to yourself. meet the 5-passenger ford c-max hybrid. when you're carrying a lot of weight, c-max has a nice little trait, you see, c-max helps you load your freight, with its foot-activated lift gate. but that's not all you'll see, cause c-max also beats prius v, with better mpg. say hi to the all-new 47 combined mpg c-max hybrid. bp has paid overthe people of bp twenty-threeitment to the gulf. billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. an

"hitman" led david axelrod to tweet, shouldn't we also quit marketing murder as a game? while the adults were asking questions, america's kids went on their daily shooting spree. it is virtual violence. in this case, playing one of the most popular, profitable and most violent games, "call of duty," a so called first person shooter, because the player t e takes on a killer's point of view. but is this just good fun or is an entire generation being trained and desensitized to the act of shooting people? thomas and steven are typical of many in their generation. good jobs by day, obsessed with "call of duty" when they get home. dr. chris ferguson has conducted a series of multi-year studies of 11 to 18-year-olds to find out what violent games do to them. his conclusion -- >> there's no evidence to suggest that exposure to violent video games is associated with violent criminal behavior. >> reporter: he has a name for the outcry over violent games that sometimes follows a mass shooting. he calls it moral panic. >> whenever a new form of media that comes out that particularl

you're like david axelrod. you are. david axelrod being -- secretary of the treasury. it's true. >> >> well -- >>. >> rose: but that's what you were you were the chief strategist for the campaign, >> >> yes, absolutely. >> rose: and you went back to chancellor of the exchequer and you said with the prime minister almost every important meeting in the foreign policy. >> well -- >> rose: then you add politics! in the end we have a parliamentary system. i'm an elected member of parliament. i'm not appointed. i'm an elected member of parliament in the us. system i'd be somethinlike the marity with -- that would be my equivalent position. of course i care about my party and its political fortunes but they are intimately tide up with our performance on the economy and i think i've demonstrated that i'm prepared to do some pretty politically difficult and unpopular things in order to get economics right. >> rose: we've been talking about the austerity -- >> yes. you know, the textbook way to get yourself reelected is to hand money out, not take money in. but i fundamtally bel

the gas xperts. >>> more politics now as david axelrod opens up about what went right and wrong duringtion. axle rod says a couple things surprised him during the race. the big one, romney's decision to pick congressman paul ryan as his running mate. axle rod also says that he was surprised the pro-romney super pacs waited so late to launch attack ads. the romney campaign should have done a better job defining their candidate instead of leaving a vacuum for the obama campaign to fill in, they filled it in pretty early. molly ball, national political reporter for "the atlantic." lynn sweet, chief for "chicago sun-times." you wrote about this and you also say that the obama campaign is engaging supporters about how to move forward. even conducting a post-election survey of sorts. what do you know? >> we know that more than one million of the supporters answered it and we already know that this big obama army is working on fiscal cliff matters where they're sgogoing to be, t are mobilized to help support the president's plan to get the tax breaks in first, but we're learning history, fina

david axelrod giving his take and john boehner giving his take. let's take a listen. >> you saying then for pr purposes -- >> the president and the speaker are very fluent in the basic numbers. they've been living with them for some time now. as i said, i don't think that there's a lot of mystery about this. the politics has to be traversed. they've got to get through the rocky shoels of grover norquist. >> well this isn't a progress report because there's no progress to report. the phone call was pleasant, but was just more of the same. >> what do we to make of that. the rocky shoals of norquist versus stalemate. >> i think this feels to me like the theater, feels like ka bookie theater, but the story of washington once in a while in these performance is somebody knifes somebody else. i think there's -- >> no disrespect to ka bookie but sometimes it's cloak and dagger. >> and there's this fear that maybes this will go off the rails. also i think been lots and lots of hype about -- i mean the metaphor of a cliff, the need to fill cable news hours

david axelrod, the man who ran president obama's re-election campaign -- >> more than three people in guns were prohibited. >> and it happens again and again. there was another shooting yesterday. three people killed, i think, in a hospital. we kill people in schools. we kill them in hospitals. we kill them in religious organizations. we kill them when they are young. we kill them when they are old. and we just have to stop this. >> david axelrod, the man who helped run president obama's re-election campaign tweeted this yesterday. check this out. he said, in nfl postgame, an ad for shoot 'em up video games. shouldn't we quit marketing murder as a game? that raised eyebrows after the football game from david axelrod. >> i'm hopeful, as i'm sure you are, it's going to be thoughtful dialogue. and at the end of the day, there will be change. it is sad to think this would have spurned it. >> there's been an enormous amount of talk. the discussion is raging all weekend. it will continue this week. but the question is, will there or when will there be action? >>> the newtown tragedy was fel

. >> that's right, our old friend and obama advisor david axelrod was so confident obama would win pennsylvaniamichigan and pennsylvania he bet his own moustache. obama won those states and he soon turned the bet with joe scarborough to raise money kind the stalash the stash. it's to earn money for epilepsy. thanks to joe and mika, they earned the money and here's joe today. >> i've been staring at it for 40 years, i was up all night to be honest. it's a little unsettling. >> here you can see side by side, before and after footage. what do you think? that's "hardball" for now. coming up next. your businessicity j.j. ra that's truly advanced, not need much explanation at all ? with the nokia lumia 822 on verizon, there's not much to learn because it's powered by windows... to let you do more than you ever imagined on your smartphone. exclusively with data sense-- a feature that makes the most of your plan. only on verizon. clusters of pustules, pimples. i had this shingle rash right next to my spine. the soreness was excruciating. it was impossible to even think about dancing. when you're dancin

. >> tuesday night at 8:00 david axelrod on his life in journalism and politics followed at 9:30 with all five of new hampshire's first all-women delegation. at 10:45, growing up in the white house with two women. that is tuesday evening on c-span. >> as president obama begins his second term in office what is the most important issue to consider in 2013? tell us. make a shord video about your message to the president. it is c-span's student video competition with the chance to win a grand prize of $5,000 and $50,000 in total prizes. go to studentcam.org. >> winston spendser churchill, defender of the realm. 1940 to 1965. host: paul reid, co-author with william manchester of the last lion, the third of a trilogy, if you could have dinner with winston chump -- churchill and ask him a series of questions what would they be? >> he didn't like strangers and didn't like the press and didn't give anything away. i would ask him about his religious beliefs or lack thereof. i found that fascinating. he read plato and airs as to thele and cyst -- cicero but he made himself into a classical man.

really close to him david axelrod really knew that he was significantly impacted by this.s really shaken by the entire event. very confident guy, but like any really confident person when they get knocked off their legs, they are up set. and they instituted sort of this buck up (program internally that included a visit with his former press secretary robert gibbs a drive around the driveway in a chevy volt. >> he complained ever never got to do. >> he nearly gave one of the grounds keepers a stroke. >> you always hear that this president doesn't pay attention to the critics he tunes out the washington chatter. guess what, his staff had to take away his ipad because he was looking so darn much at the reviews after denver. >> warner: which would only depress him and the staff. >> that's right. >> warner: we have to leave it there but it is really great reading. thank you both. >> thanks, margaret. >> on-line another kind of >> woodruff: online, another kind of year in review. we say good-bye to the six political ad characters we're happiest to see disappear from the airwaves

really close to him, david axelrod, really knew that he was significantly impacted by this.was really shaken by the entire event. very confident guy, but like any really confident person when they get knocked off their legs, they are up set. and they instituted sort of this buck up (program internally that included a visit with his former press secretary robert gibbs, a drive around the driveway in a chevy volt. >> he complained ever never got to do. >> he nearly gave one of the grounds keepers a stroke. >> you always hear that this president doesn't pay attention to the critics, he tunes out the washington chatter. guess what, his staff had to take away his ipad because he was looking so darn much at the reviews after denver. >> warner: which would only depress him and the staff. >> that's right. >> warner: we have to leave it there but it is really great reading. thank you both. >> thanks, margaret. >> on-line another kind of >> woodruff: online, another kind of year in review. we say good-bye to the six political ad characters we're happiest to see disappear from the airw

then david axelrod on his career in politics. later, a discussion by new hampshire is historic all female congressional delegation. >> on tomorrow morning's "washington journal," peter morici gives his economic forecast for the next year. and then the endgame on the war in afghanistan. and then jason pontin talks about his article "y cann'-- >> now looking at what living in the white house was like for two presidents. they talk about what it is like to be in the first family under secret service protection. from the chautauqua institution in new york, this is one hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> susan ford bales the is the daughter of president gerald ford and before. she lived in the white house during her high school years and served as official white house hostess following her mother's surgery from breast cancer. she was a member of the board of directors at the betty ford center and succeeded her mother as a share from 2005 to 2010. she and her mother helped launch national breast cancer awareness month and she has served

a new look for david axelrod. he is going to shave off his mustache.will bring that to you live. our exclusive interview about barbra streisand as she opens up about her new movie and whether she considers herself to be a diva. >> i am not sure i could follow that mustache. it was drawn on. >> 6:53. coming up, we'll look at your answers to our water cooler question of the day. question of the day. >> >> time to get to your answers to our water cooler question of the day. >> this morning we asked, are you spending more or less this holiday shopping season? >> we will post more answers on our website, wbaltv.com. here are some stories you'll find at 7:00 a.m. on wbal plus. chances are if you bought any major electronics, you have been asked to take out warranty protection. we'll tell you if it is worth it. >> those stories and delays traffic and weather updates. >> it is getting busy on 95. we're down to 10 miles per hour out of the white marsh area. there is an accident in timonium. the j.f.x. checking out ok at ruxton road. >> pretty chilly this mornin

our old friend and obama adviser david axelrod was so confident president obama would win pennsylvaniaan, and minnesota he bet his mustache. he soon turned the bet into a challenge with joe to raise money for epilepsy. he's championed the cause in support of his daughter. thanks to joe and mika, they met their goal of $1 million raised, and ax lived up with his pledge. here is "morning joe" today. >> i have been staring at it for 40 years, savannah. i'm very attached to it. i was up all night, to be honest with you. >> oh, good lord. >> it's a little unsettling. >> well, here you can see side by side before and after footage of ax. what do you think? coming up next, "your business" with j.j. ramberg. it's kind of like drinking a food that's a drink, or a drink that's a food, woooooh! [ male announcer ] taste it and describe the indescribable. could've had a v8.

. >> president barack the obamas strategic david axelrod had his trademark mustache shaved today on msnbc after the coast of morning joe helped raise $1 million for his epilepsy charity. axelrod, and his facial hair, appeared frequently on news shows and there he is with his shaved off-stashed and on the right, before it was shaved, a look at his beard for decades. he said that he would shave the moustache he won for 40 years on live tv if obama lost pennsylvania, minnesota or michigan in the november 6th election. obama 1 pennsylvania, minnesota, michigan and florida, but a xelro sayd he was still shave his mustache if his charity raise $1 million by the end of november. his daughter, lauren, has epilepsy, which is a brain disorder in which a person has repeated seizures over time. >> welcome back. the top stories we're following at this hour. a man is in critical condition this morning after falling from the upper deck of oakland coliseum. it happened during the first 30 minutes of last night's breakers game. the man fell about 36 onto the concrete below oakland police believe that the

david axelrod, senior advisor acknowledged that fact.e is of course is ignoring both the claim it should not be a mandate and david axelrod. he doesn't often do that. lori: thank you, sir. >> great to be with you. lori: great to have you. you can see lou as you know every day with melissa and me. of course at 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight. chief moody's economist, john lonski and deutsche bank. much on that topic and other things. melissa: as we do every 15 minutes, let's check on the markets. nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole, lots of cuts for pandora today. >> we were watching pandora yesterday late after the bell and came out with quarterly numbers and quickly the stock began to sell off. that has translated into today the action you are seeing. you will see down arrows right here. it has been down over 20% like it is right now. it is down $1.91 to 7.54. this is outlook giving well below the analyst expectations. they're seeing a loss in the fourth quarter. they're talking about full-year guid

. >> bill: for obama, you had david axelrod. >> jim messina the campaign manager. stephanie cutter. wn but he was in charge of the opinion research. jim marg ole is who made a lot of the commercials and jeremy byrd the director of organizing and teddy goff, the director of digital. >> bill: from the romney campaign? >> from the romney campaign, stuart stevens who was the top strategist. matt rhodes who was the campaign manager. rush reifer who was a business partner. neil newhouse, the pollster. matt moffett their digital director. dan who was their foreign policy advisor, beth meyers. >> bill: you have all of the major players there. what did you learn from the romney campaign? >> just so many nuggets came out of it. when we talked about what happened with clint eastwood, stuart says personally, die think it was a big deal. he goes up to clint eastwood beforehand saying you're going to be talking about the same little speech you gave at two fund-raisers, aren't you? and eastwood -- he looked at him and just said yep and then he goes out and does the empty chair thing. but while that

. >> senior obama advisor david axelrod blasted out e-mail to campaign supporters yesterday that linkedm to a video of the president eulogy from the new township victim at two places alongside the video box. visitors were encouraged to donate money. one asking for $5. >> bret: see how that gets reaction all over. james, thank you. republican governor rick snyder vetoed legislation to allow concealed weapons in churches, schools and daycare centers. he said the public venue need clear legal authority to been a the firearms. "if they see fit to do so." still ahead, imagine five days in syrian captivity. the foreign correspondent lived through it. lawmakers await benghazi review. [ whistle blows ] hi victor! mom? i know you got to go in a minute but this is a real quick me, that's perfect for two! campbell's chunky beef with country vegetables, poured over rice! [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. >> bret: checking international headlines now. in mexico, a new twist in the fight of marine veteran john hammer who has been in a mexican prison for four months on

lou: was named david axelrod who said see you later. it turns out mr. obama was paying attention.d henry, fox news chief white house correspondent. president obama nominating senator john kerry to be the next secretary of state, claiming his entire life has prepared him for this role to lead america's foreign policy. >> over these many years he has -arned the respect and confidence of leaders around the world. he will not need a lot of on-the-job training and has earned the respect and trust of senate colleagues, democrats and republicans. fair to say that few individuals know as many presidents and prime ministers or grass our foreign policies as firmly as john kerry, and this makes him a perfect choice to get american diplomacy in the years ahead. lou: and high praise for one of the people of this administration fromhis job was a natural, obviously coming after susan rice, ambassador rice was, well, withdrew her name from consideration. joining us n, former pentagon official, fox is security analyst, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations. what do you think of this appoint

i think nice goes to david axelrod, who ran president obama's campaignment you might at first think ie success, this is the second time. he shaved off the mustache to raise $1 million for epilepsy. his daughter suffers from epilepsy. david went out of his way to say this is an opportunity to turn what was a bitter campaign to something positiv positive. we are human beings to hang us out. >> one man on this panel with a mustache. >> $50 and a happy meal. >> for naughty, i pick wayne laperre of the nra. the press conference was appalling. remind they're come people, especially the people who sell guns in the country and represented by the nra are totally out of touch with a crisis in the country about the easy accessibility to fire arms. >> i want to ask for every person outraged by the number of weapons and the caliber of weapons, another guy says i deserve to protect my family. what do you want me to do call the police? >> yeah, call the police. i think everybody else has a right to public safety. the point that public safety is in danger. talk about putting an armed guard in every s

. >> senior obama adviser david axelrod blasted out an e-mail to campaign supporters on monday that clintono a video of the president's eulogy for the victims. two places alongside the box visitors were encouraged to donate money to all one explicitly asking for $5. in washington, james harrison. lou: joining me now, my next guest to says guns are not the real problem. kids are becoming so desensitized to violence and to death because of violent video games that we are injuring our young people. in some cases previously. the foremost experts on violence and media. lieutenant-colonel david rosen, former psychology professor at west point and author of, killing the psychological cost of learning to kill and war and in society it is good of you to be here, colonel. want to start with the idea that is now being discussed right now. there is some discussion. obviously a reflection which is, take away the guns, the reflexive answer which, it had to be simply a psychological problem, part of one young man. you see it as a much more broad and profound problem than even that. >> the first thing is,

. >> and david axelrod tonight, 8:0 p.m., -- 8:00 p.m. with -- on c-span. >> as president obama begins his second term in office, what is the most important issue he should consider? >> if you are in grades 6 through 12, made a short video. >> it is your chance to win a grand prize of $5,000. $50,000 in total prize is. for more information, go to student cam.corg -- .prg. first lady michelle obama and chefs how the demonstration at the white house dining room. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> are you excited? very nice. you are welcome. there you go. >> excellent. what would you like? green? there you go. you are doing a good job. >> wow. that is cute. >> what do you think? >> yeah, and you can put these on your tree, right? what do you think? you take a string and you thread it thru. have you threaded a needle before? then you tie it, and you may not at the end -- make a knot at the end. tied it like you are typing a share. -- tie it like you are tieing a

at least not according to david axelrod. >> you know, i think she sees her role much more as a privatee. she's done a wonderful job with her kids. she will find ways to make contributions, i'm sure, but the last thing i think she would do is run for public office. >> the white house is getting flooded with requests to legally recognize the baptist church as a hate group. we the people petition already has more than 288,000 signatures. the kansas based group is known for protesting funerals. still no response from the white house yet. congressman ed markey is hoping for a promotion. the -- senator, dem democrat, from massachusetts plans to run important the vacant senate seat. that is if john kerry is confirmed and elevated to the secretary of state. markey serve medical the house since 1976. >>> if divorce settlement of the former italian prime minister, reportedly is a whopper. he has to pay his second ex-wife $4 million a month. a month. yes. a month. >> that's crazy good that's crazy, yeah. italy. he does get to keep their home. the couple divorced because of his fondness for women,

. >>> it may take the obama campaign strategist david axelrod a little longer to get ready for work today>> many of his friends and colleagues may not recognize him when he's done. axelrod is shaving his famous mustache today. he vowed to slash his stache if he raised more than $1 million for epilepsy research. he did it. so he's putting his money for his mouth is, or at least where his upper lip is. we'll see how he looks. >> some think he may look completely different and some say just similar. >> we'll have to see. >>> the pictures that already have people speculating about apple's next big product. >>> breaking new

i love what you said about david axelrod and saying the guy wouldn't sell his religion. he couldn't sell the good work he did with relief society and looking out for members of his lds group. he couldn't do that without selling the philosophy of the religion? >> there were family and friends that wanted the campaign to emphasize things romney had done. that was who he really was, talk about that. and a at the convention there was an effort to have a moving video. the problem is this ran before the networks broadcast in primetime, the commercial networks. and then in primetime of course was clint eastwood. so the message that got out was not -- >> that was a hail mary, that clint eastwood. it could have been worked but didn't. >> some of the people close to romney were upset by that. talking about the dynamics of the race, the dynamics were of the ground work of obama. >> let's talk about the groundwork. my friend came to me after the election saying we won't believe what we did. she talked about how they have a systemic basis and she's a grown up person my age. she said

david axelrod is saying sayonara to his mustache.e promised to shave it if he raised more than $1 million for epilepsy research. he surpassed his goal. the facial hair will soon be no more. you're saying your dad had a beard. when he shaved, you didn't recognize him. >> he had a beard until i was 10 or 11 years old. he shaved it one day and i said, who is that? >> melissa mollet had a similar story about her dad. >> your facial hair, it's a big statement. >> okay. >> we'll see how he looks. coming up on 6:51. time to get a check of weather and traffic on the ones. >>> eun and richard, good morning to you. good morning to everybody. a little light rain first thing this morning. isn't going to add up to too much, but danella's been following slipperiness on the morning commute. be extra careful today. it's just liquid at this point in time. temperatures well above the freezing mark. not looking for wintry weather. no icing problems. any little bit of water on the roadways does make them slippery. 36 in hagerstown, winchester, all along

david axelrod going to get rid of his signature mustache here live on msnbc this coming friday.eps, for a good cause. made a bet with joe scarborough saying he would shave his upper lift if mitt romney won minnesota but axelrod said he would go through with it if they raised $1 million for his charity. and they did. president obama and mitt romney using the photo from their lunch house meeting as inspiration. here's a sample of that conversation. mitt romney, so, this is it, huh? the oval office? seems kind of small. president obama, we make the best of it. so, you really ordered up fireworks on election night, huh? governor romney, yeah, something like that. where did you even find all those people? it was like you had nasa labs cloning obama voters for the last four years. you can read the rest on "rolling stone's" website there. that is the only snippet we can put on the air. >>> rush limbaugh erupting over sandra fluke this time the women's rights activist is a contender for "time" magazine's person of the year. in february you might remember mr. limbaugh calling fluke calli

david axelrod tweeted out today, they were crushed on election day. now they're back, leading a lightning strike on the middle class in michigan. this is a classic case of billionaires manipulating democracy. organizations do their best to operate in the shadows, exerting pressure on lawmakers to do their bidding or be primaried. these right-to-work groups threatened michigan senate majority lead er randy richfiel. none of the republicans who voted for this measure today ran on the right-to-work platform. none of them campaigned on it. if these republicans had run on it, they would have never been elected in the first place. billionaires like the koch brothers are doing political payback. they're putting pressure on lawmakers behind closed doors. we need to shed more light on this, just like voter suppression efforts across the country that backfired. one of their objectives is to completely dismantle the infrastructure on the progressive side. the progressives need to be aware of this. of course, that's the unions. it's their infrastructure. they are

david axelrod from the obama side of things fired back saying he is an ego maniacal act. so we got both firing off. republicans psyched at thinking if they do go over the edge, that they can get over the edge of the specter of grover norquist. the shadow of that and that there will be a clean slately 2013. >> well, depends on what you mean by clean slate. i don't think republicans will ever move away from lower taxes, reduced spending. in fact, there's another poll out today that talks about people really supporting the idea of making cuts. not just raising taxes but making cuts to reduce spending. so i think the public wants cuts. the public wants to reduce out-of-control spending. republicans have said they will put tax money on the table. so there's a lot more agreement out there that people are being given credit for. probably have said we'll do tax revenue, as long as we have tax cuts. getting away from grover norquist, he's one man. the taxes i don't think we'll ever see republican party move away from. >> half the americans trust the president more in handling of n