do you know what was it about me how gorbachev the 1st until haass president of the soviet union. made your father call his firstborn after him i do actually my dad was. a bit traumatise from the relationship north america had with russia during the cold war and when the soviet union fell which was. to a large part of which i have there was a huge relief in north america from. the end of the war so to dad mikhail gorbachev represented somebody who. may have like saved north america from russia i don't claim to know better but having listened to a lot of your dad's lectures i think he holds may have seen gorbachev as somebody who rages enough to break with the mold and speak up against the prevailing orthodoxy reach i hope something that we can discuss today but before we do i have to ask you how is your dad doing right now dad's doing well given the circumstances he had a terrible last month and he nearly died several times. better than i've seen him in at least 6 months so i'm happy to be here anyway. i don't think there are many people who don't know who jordan peterson is at le

do you know what was it about me how gorbachev the 1st until haass president of the soviet union. made your father call his firstborn after him i do actually my dad was. a bit traumatized from the relationship north america had with russia during the cold war and when the soviet union fell which was. to a large part and i have there was a huge relief in north america from. the end of the war basically so to dad mikhail gorbachev represented somebody who. may have like saved north america from russia i don't claim to know better but having listened to a lot of your dad's lectures i think he holds may have seen gorbachev as somebody who rageous enough to break with the mold and speak up against the prevailing orthodoxy reach i hope something that we can discuss today but before we do i have to ask you how is your dad doing right now dad's doing well given the circumstances he had a terrible last month and he nearly died several times. better than i've seen him in at least 6 months so i'm happy to be here anyway. i don't think there are many people who don't know who jordan peterson

looking on is 62 and they need to get to it in other words haass the hearts asa letter slitter before they can form the next government there are other individual independent votes there but very few of those are on the left of the spectrum most of them are localist or even kind of leaning towards the free market rights were big money so we're not we have a non-germane here. it will be just as we ask you about about shin fein though in northern ireland and in the republic of ireland now i mean we've we've got shin fein as this this impressive political force both sides of the border now on the entire island i mean what does what does that mean and what does it mean for those who want to unify the i well it certainly brings the agent a little bit further up if they can engineer their way to go either in this stage of negotiations or perhaps just may come to such that the numbers don't work i think then getting into government on their own or with with light parties after an election then i think things begin to change rather ironically particularly if the ifs if they manage to engineer

lebanon's parliament is meeting to take a vote of confidence on the new cabinet of a prime minister haass and protesters are out there today and they've been out there for months calling for a political overhaul they're rejecting the new government and they say it's an extension of corrupt political parties that have been demonstrated they have been demonstrating against rather since october we'll keep an eye on this throughout the day and the us the new hampshire primary has officially started in the small town of dixville notch this tradition goes back about 60 years the town's residents are the 1st to cast ballots and with the votes cast so early they are among the 1st to declare results for tuesday's election so michael bloomberg was victorious he received 3 votes and bernie sanders each received one. i said the headlines keep it on al-jazeera and side story as that next. it's the worst invasion of discipline because sort of quarter of a century across east africa and south asia the food supplies and livelihoods of millions so under threat the situation's been declared a national emer

beirut ali larijani said iran stood ready to help lebanon struggling economy the new prime minister haass and d.s. has promised to come up with a plan to ease the financial crisis in lebanon but protesters are still too now saying it's leadership they heard a report from beirut. ali larijani is the 1st foreign official to visit lebanon since a new government took office last week iran's parliament speaker came with a message of support from iran's leadership and his visit also seems to be a message to the international community as well lebanon is caught in the crossfire between the united states and iran and it is allies of the islamic republic who control lebanon's cabinet. lebanon managed to overcome a sensitive and difficult phase when it formed the new government we hope the new government will be able to succeed and we are ready to cooperate with it and give it our full backing but iran's growing influence in the cabinet through its local ally hezbollah seems to be hurting lebanon's ability to secure much needed funds from both the international community and the arab world prime mi

we don't know where this is headed richard haass. we have to be careful saying the risk is low, he did his job, the scientists did theirs. the president didn't want people to go out and talk about how serious, might hurt the markets and hence hurt his potential for re-election t re-election. that's obviously there. >> we don't know what the risk is. the numbers of those that have the disease are probably far larger than publicly known, in part because lots of people are asymptomatic. the good news from that, the fatality rate is probably lower than the published rate. i think he made one important move. establishing one person in charge of this. you need a whole of government effort. one person senior to the cabinet ho coordinate the cabinet and link the foreign and domestic aspects of that. appointing the vice president was the right thing to do. but it was a sobering press conference in the sense while the president was leaning towards the, let's not overreact, the danger is actually underreaction. what dr. fauci said sobering. at

pu arms. >> richard haass, thank you so much.rs and joe biden lead the field in a new poll from battleground virginia that crossed just moments ago goi. b but the report is anything but solid with the super tuesday primary now just two week away. we'll dig into the numbers next. plus we'll talk to former senior adviser to president obama who says that democrats need to stop banging their heads against the wall about what went wrong in 2016. and focus instead on what happened in 2012. the last year a challenger took on an incumbent. we'll be right back. oh, hi, samantha. you look more like a heather. do you ever get that? it's nice to finally meet you in person. you're pete nocchio? oh, the pic? that was actually a professional headshot. i'm sure that's it, yeah. i, uh, i think i've lost a few pounds recently too. i'm actually doing a juice cleanse. wait! you don't... (glass breaking) (gasp) ah! oh...! with geico, the savings keep on going. just like this sequel. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. every year,

. >> joining us now is ambassador richard haass, president of the counsel on foreign relations and author of a fourth coming book, we look forward to t great to have you on this morning. >> thank you, jim. >> let me begin with your assessment of the seriousness of this from your perch there at the council on foreign relations, your past in government, you're in touch with a lot of folks around the world. how serious is this in your view and are governments around the world including here in the u.s., do they have a handle on this? >> it is the right question. and it is obviously serious economically. china will have considerable negative economic growth for first quarter. i think it is a question of when and not if the world recovers. it could be late this year, early next. but one uncertainty there is whether there is subsequent waves of this virus. that's often the history of influenza-like outbreaks. this is the initial wave. but we have to see what happens with subsequent waves. i think there is questions about what implications this could have for political leadership. and in china,

joining us now to talk about the big picture here, and a lot more, is ambassador richard haass, presidentf the council on foreign relations. good to have you, sir. i won't ask you to get into the nitty-gritty, but i want to talk big picture about a justice department so linked to the president and how emboldened the president feels post acquittal with the highest approval rating he has enjoyed of his presidency. >> there is two angles here. one is there is already a breakdown in the normal relations between the executive branch and congress. so one can imagine if the president wants to be re-elected, refusals to testify, and so forth. a real breakdown in the constitutional assumption of working together and then what you suggest as well is the use of executive power for what you might call unintended or political purposes. and any president has enormous power, enormous capacity, whether it is the irs, the justice department, who you decide to do antitrust against and so forth. i think there is potentially a real concern about the degree to which political factors enter into what not to be

, but i'm not sure really doing much for the people of venezuela. >> zanny minton, bet os, richard haassk you for going around the world with us. >>> still ahead, mitt romney tells one 6 our next guests his vote to remove the president was the most difficult decision he's ever had to make. "the atlantic" editor joins us with more from the republican. >>> and plus pete buttigieg and bernie sanders locked in a virtual tie in iowa. buttigieg has a slight edge, but with 3% of the vote still unreported it is too close to call. it's too close to call him the winner, but we shall see. "morning joe" is back in just a moment. this is my body of proof. proof i can fight moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. proof i can fight psoriatic arthritis... ...with humira. proof of less joint pain... ...and clearer skin in psa. humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blo

>> and you look at egypt today and we don't talk about it much but you talk to people like richard haass you that underlying the stability of the military dictatorship that runs egypt today, it's still one of the most unstable volatile countries in the middle east. what happened with hosni mubarak, arrested and deposed, the beginning, the colonels, of unrest in the middle east in egypt right there and it continues. morsey took over for about a year, and -- >> muslim brotherhood. >> muslim brotherhood, and for several reasons. first of all, one, he never garined the trust of the military leaders, but also extraordinary incompetence led to him being pushedals asigh foe s -- aside for cece. no doubt, ceci is running egypt much like mubarak ran egypt and there is underlying tension there as there is throughout large swaths of the middle east. >> mubarak, no way around it, he was a fierce and feared dictator, but he was our dictator. >> that was the attitude among presidents. again, he was a partner at least for peace with the israelis in his efforts to stop, again, in every president, democr