i'm mark halperin. cardinal peter turkson is one of hope francis's closest advisers and amanda were likely to hear more about. you will be charged with issues facing margaret's, the poor and all of those in need. what thate expert of the encyclical of capitalism. he spoke friday morning in rome. here is the conversation. charlie: i had the great pleasure of introducing to you -- i said to him, cardinal turkson, what can i call you? he said how will that peter. i will not use peter, i would use cardinal turkson.

i'm mark halperin of bloomberg politics.ardinal peter turkson is one of pope francis's closest advisers and a man you are likely to hear more about. he will be running the new vatican office, charged with issues facing migrants, the poor and all of those in need. he is also the expert on laudato si, the pope's encyclical on the ++++++++++++++++dangers of capitalism in an era of climate change and global poverty. he spoke friday morning at the fortune/time global forum in rome. here is the conversation. charlie: i have the great pleasure of introducing to you -- i said to him, cardinal turkson, what do i call you? he said how about peter? i will not use peter, i will use cardinal turkson. he is at the forefront of the ideas we have been discussing this morning in the few minutes we have gotten started as we have laid out the imperative of this conference.

mark halperin, is that your last name? halperin? i didn't confuse your last name? okay. good.o, mark, i want to pick up on what hallie said. his people are going to stay with him no matter what. we found that. by the way, these arguments that people are going to leave him if he picks mitt romney should we list the things that donald trump did over the course of a year and a half campaign and his people stayed with him. they're going to leave him? they're not. they're going to stick with him. it seems to me the problem is on the other side where he's going to be able to give the democrats great 30-second ads showing an anti-goldman sachs clip and then showing a goldman sachs employee and his administration. he's wide open for that line of attack. at this point, does that matter politically? >> in the short-term, no. his poll numbers are a little bit better and any incoming president wants a honeymoon period with leverage from the country. the most important thing that happened yesterday that's not gotten much attention is mike pence meeting with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. m

and mark halperin.sity of michigan school of public policy, and former democratic -- >> herald ford. >> and joining the conversation, editor of the weekly standard -- >> i don't have to sing. >> you are not the grinch that stole christmas, are you? >> i like the grinch. don't you like the grinch? >> no. i am looking for things to fight with him about. >> and casey hunt is with us. >> the election is over, and i just want to know what are we going to fight with bill about? >> that's what i am wondering. >> bill, what do you have on the menu for us to get into an uncomfortable fight about? >> we are not fighting about anything, joe. i am on my way to trump tower with my top secret meeting. >> we will think of something, joe. >> over the next four years, we will probably disagree on a few things. >> do you want me to read from the- >> that's promising. >> one lesson of 2016 is that it's time to worry about liberty again. for, to say the least, neither of this year's presidential candidates made liberty a t

john: i mark halperin. >> i'm donald trump. mark: this is mark halperin. john: i'm john heilemann. >> with all respect do. mark: "with all due respect" to chipotle -- two lisa kudrow west.two kanye mark: chris christie. john: yes! with all due respect to hillary clinton. mark: hillary clinton. john: hillary clinton. john: trump. mark: trump. john: trump. john: thanks, guys. we'll take it from here. these are their stories. >> am i supposed to stay something? mark: will take it from here. parts sappy and semi-sober. most things, even the good ones, are ephemeral. we conclude what has been a very memorable, very sleep-deprived, roughly two years of this program, "with all due respect." we have a special show planned with special guests. i the words of taylor swift, am dying to see how this one ends. let's start with news in our final check-in on donald trump's admin building efforts. last night in cincinnati, the retiredt-elect let slip general james mattis as attorney general. atannounced a february forum the white house will include ofhtness of the -- tita

i have been shocked, mark halperin.y surprised. you know, we thought that donald trump could be very erratic in the selections he made. we yojoked in the summer he wou be naming a lot of his golf course managers to run agencies. actually, he is appointing the most consistently idealogically conservative, rigid cabinet that i can think of in my lifetime other than ronald reagan. and there is an idealogical consistency there that really does suggest that mike pence is having a heavy hand in this. and you know, you heard people say listen to what donald trump says. but watch what mike pence does. i'm not saying mike pence is this or that. >> puppet master. >> because he's not. donald trump makes these decisions. but donald trump was not this idealogically rigid in the campaign. every single pick that comes out, all the never trumpers are like, yay. jeb bush, he's not just putting out a selection that jeb bush is saying this is great. i guess i'm so surprised this is so traditionally right-wing republican, that every one of

mark halperin, we have seen this go from having frantic reports a couple mondays ago that john bolton about to be selected to one day later having frantic reports that rudy guiliani was going to be selected, and then there were reports that mitt romney was just a smoke screen and i, for one, think it's a good idea for your most important selection you open it up and even have people like bob gates come in to advise you. >> yeah, a lot of this gap in time has led a lot of people to weigh in, and some of the candidates or perspective candidates after sitting back and not mounting a campaign, you have people to call, and a lot of data going to trump tower about who the best selection would be, and as i understand it, the president-elect and vice president-elect are shifting through that, and now thinking about more concretely how will they work with general flynn and how will they work with mattis. >> and we talked about it yesterday, talking about a mattis and bob gates combination is a grand slam, and everybody yesterday was saying it was like man actual and merice, and the fact that w

managing editor of bloomberg politics mark halperin. msnbc analyst and professor at the university of michigan public school of policy harold ford jr. >> secretary of what? secretary in waiting. >> we didn't make it. >> did that happen? >> i'm disappointed. >> as you saw, we have the president on the council of foreign relations richard haass. >> we have cabinet members in waiting. >> author of the forthcoming book, "a word in disarray." >> what's remarkable is i gave this to my kids this summer. jack. summer reading. what's remarkable is it was written post-brexit and predicted everything that is happening right now pretty remarkably. it is a world in disarray. >> also with us from outside boston, columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," david ignatius joins us this morning. great morning to have everybody on here. >> david, we're sorry we were -- we wanted to get you on because we thought there might be something to talk about in the foreign policy realm. instead we're just going to talk football. >> it's nice to be h

it's going to take a little bit longer. >> mark halperin?rump? >> what's not acceptable is what we see in front of us every day is families being torn apart, young children being killed and nobody doing anything about it that could. so he will make those decisions. he has discussed some of that publicly in the debates and elsewise on programs like this. he'll confer with his new team. it's not up to me to make policy for him. he's respectful of the fact that for the next 30 some days we have a commander in chief and president of the united states already and so there's no point in really talking about new policy as we're being respectful and differential to the current occupant. >> how big of a problem is russia as we talk about syria targeted bombing of women, children, hospitals, does he understand that? does he understand that as everybody talks about this relationship with vladimir putin and russia that has to be at the forefront of our concerns about what russia is doing? >> he does understand that, joe. he also is aware that what he ha

mark halperin, at the end of the day, we did nothing.nd kill women and children and do nothing? in 2012 and then 2013, weapons of mass destruction being used against civilians and do nothing. a holocaust let loose. and we did nothing. >> the legacy is what it is. i think there will be regrets but president obama would bring in people who would have the point of view of john mccain and lindsey graham and go through in a rationale way say here's why what they're proposing is a bad idea. he didn't want another american quagmire in the country in another region and he saw the downside as greater than the upside but the cumulative effect of those decisions to reject inkrei incremental steps is to have a legacy of mass genocide and handing off a horrible situation. >> i'm one who thinks that the president's essential argument during much of that period which is, yeah, we could give weapons to rebels, but which rebels, right? what happens to those heavy rebels? i think that's a good argument actually. then you're talking about no fly zone which

john: i'm mark halperin. >> i'm donald trump. mark: this is mark halperin.mann. >> with all respect do. mark: "with all due respect" to chipotle -- to lisa kudrow john: to kanye west. mark: chris christie. john: yes! with all due respect to hillary

mark: i'm mark halperin. john: i'm john heilemann. with all due respect to all those people floating the idea of chris christie being the new rnc chairman, we have five works for you. >> sit down and shut up. ♪ john: on the show tonight, trump's transition team, and one lean, mean howard dean. but first, it's been 23 days since donald trump became the first -- making the president-elect -- became the president-elect of the united states area and we have not seen him much until today, when he held his first public event. trump is kicking off his victory this week,ou tour but the first event took place this afternoon and indianapolis, where he basked in the glow of the deal with the carrier air-conditioning company to keep a thousand jobs for moving to mexico next year. in the speech, there was no shortage of self-aggrandizement, but is demeanor was calm, measured, and is tone was optimistic. -- he's tone was often -- his tone was optimistic. mr. trump: i want to let the companies know that we are going to do great things for businesses

not there yet. >> managing editor of bloomberg politics mark halperin here.eran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. "the new york times" reporter jeremy peters. and in washington, columnist and associated editor of "the washington post." >> we can do legendary for him too. >> all right. i know it's funny that open for "saturday night live." >> that was funny. >> very funny. >> can i do a little debriefing with david ignatius for a second off the top of the show. >> talk about the phone calls you had over the weekend. >> i don't really want to. david doesn't want to talk about that. a couple names have risen, beat reporter jeremy peters has been talking about them, but a couple names. one, david mccormick as general mattis' number two. what can you tell me about david mccormick? >> an intelligent person. he works for a big hedge fund called bridgewater. he's been top flight in running one of the largest and most successful. he has a defense background. i'm told that he's a favorite of bob gates and one of the things that i'm hearing over the last fe

ambassador, mark halperin here.in or change his behavior? if not, what would? >> well, you know, these people that are expelled are technically diplomats. i don't know exactly who they are, but i suspect that they're

"morning joe" with mark halperin starts right now. ♪

. >> you know, mark halperin, i always talk about how presidents aren't all created equally.ome are better at things than others. barack obama on a big stage with a teleprompter delivering prepared remarks is just as good as anybody ever. george w. bush was awful in certain things. east room press conferences but get him in an office one-on-one and he wassed as good as anybod. this is his strong suit. he absolutely loves it. and last night was an audience that was just custom built for him. >> he feeds off of it. we need three copies. one for the smithsonian, one for the time capsule and this is what the next four years are going to be like. >> this is just the beginning. >> never a speech like that during the transition in my career. >> that's what i was wondering when i looked at it last night. who does this? donald does. >> donald does. he breaks the rules. again, this is what he's most comfortable at. most people that campaign don't love campaigning the way he loved campaigning. teddy white asked richard nixon one time, when you reach out shaking people's hands, do you ev

john: i mark halperin. >> i'm donald trump. mark: this is mark halperin.n. >> with all respect do. mark: "with all due respect" to chipotle -- two lisa kudrow west.two kanye mark: chris christie. john: yes!

. >> i'm mark halperin. >> and i'm john heilemann. and with all due respect to those people who are floating the idea of chris christie being the new rnc chairman, we have five words for you. >> sit down and shut up! >>> we like that. on the show tonight, trump's transition team, a capitol hill love scene, and one lean, mean, howard dean. but first, it's been 23 days since donald trump became the next president of these united states. and while we've heard plenty from trump thanks to yes old twitter machine, we haven't seen him very much. until today, when he held his first public event since his uncharacteristically gracious and subdued election night speech. trump is kicking off his victory lap thank you tour this evening, but that first event took place this afternoon in indianapolis, where he basked in the glow of the deal he and mike pence have struck from the carrier air-conditioning company from moving to mexico next year. there was no shortage of self-aggrandizement and trumpian tangents, but his demeanor was calm, measured an

i'm mark halperin.kson is one of hope francis's closest advisers and amanda were likely to hear more about. you will be charged with issues facing margaret's, the poor and all of those in need. what thate expert of the encyclical of capitalism. he spoke friday morning in rome. here is the conversation. charlie:

. ♪ mark: i'm mark halperin. john: i'm john heilemann.respect to all those people floating the idea of chris christie being the new rnc chairman, we have five works for you. >> sit down and shut up. ♪ john: on the show tonight, trump's transition team, and one lean, mean howard dean. but first, it's been 23 days since donald trump became th

i'm mark halperin. cardinal peter turkson is one of hope francis's closest advisers and amanda were likely to hear more about. you will be charged with issues facing margaret's, the poor and all of those in need. what thate expert of the encyclical of capitalism. he spoke friday morning in rome. here is the conversation. charlie: i had the great pleasure of introducing to you -- i said to him, cardinal turkson, what can i call you? he said how will that peter. i will not use peter, i would use cardinal turkson. he is at the forefront of the ideas we have been discussing this morning in the few minutes we have gotten started as we have laid out the imperative of this conference. he has some familiarity with the united states. he went to school there. he went back to ghana, became an archbishop and then a cardinal, first nominated by pope john paul ii. pope benedict brought them here to the vatican and pope francis has given him this new response ability. here is what hope francis said handed this respons

bloomberg news government editor tony halperin joins us from the moscow euro. was injured in this central bank decision, because i did interview them earlier this year. when we got the last sign in september, it was very much a question of moderately tight policy, a hawkish hold, if you like. have we seen a shift here, and is it because of inflation actually falling faster towards the target than previously expected? tony: not really. she's very much projecting a message of steady as it goes, really. trying to convince markets of the bank of russia's very serious about reaching it inflation targets. unprecedented pledge in september to have no further rate cuts this year. she's made good on her word there. and she indicated that there's limited room in the first half of 2017 for further integrate cuts. the objective being to convince markets and analysts that the bank of russia will reach the 4% inflation target by the end of next year. she's very much trying to project an image of certainty and steadfastness. she doesn't want any surprises, she was to convince

. >> i'm mark halperin. >> and i'm john heilemann.ll due respect to those people who are floating the idea of chris christie being the new rnc chairman, we have five words for you. >> sit down and shut up!

set is msnbc political correspondent, kasie hunt, the managing editor of bloomberg politics, mike halperinl analyst, another big night at the garden with fish for robert costa, msnbc anchor and political correspondent, steve kornacki, and in washington, senior political editor and white house correspondent for the "huffington post," senior -- >> senior. >> good morning, everybody. we've got real big news everybody. a quick

i'm mark halperin of "bloomberg politics." cardinal peter turkson is one of pope francis' closest advisors. he will be running the new vatican office charging issues of migrants, the poor and those in need. he's also in charge of the dangers of capitalism in an era of climate change and global poverty. he spoke with charlie in rome friday morning. >> rose: i have the great pleasure of introducing to you. i said to him, cardinal turkson, what do i call you? he said, how about peter? i won't use peter. i will use cardinal turkson. he is at the forefront of the ideas we have been discussing this morning as we've got upstarted as we have laid out the imperative of this conference. he has some familiarity with the united states, having been to school there. he went back to ghana, became an archbishop, then cardinal first nominated by pope john paul ii, then pope benedict brought him to the vatican, and pope francis has given him this new responsibility. here is what pope francis said to him when he handed over this responsibility w

. ♪ mark: i'm mark halperin. john: i'm john heilemann.he idea of chris christie being the new rnc chairman, we have five works for you. >> sit down and shut up. ♪ john: on the show tonight, trump's transition team, and one lean, mean howard dean. but first, it's been 23 days since donald trump became the first -- making the president-elect --

i'm mark halperin of bloomberg politics.pe francis's closest advisers and a man you are likely to hear more about. he will be running the new vatican office, charged with issues facing migrants, the poor and all of those in need. he is also the expert on laudato si, the pope's encyclical on the ++++++++++++++++dangers of capitalism in an era of climate change and global poverty. he spoke friday morning at the fortune/time global forum in rome. here is the conversation. ch