. >> cameraman lee roush begins recording an interview with assistant fire chief jim mitchell. >> jimll, j-i-m m-i-t-c-h-e-l-l. >> okay. assistant chief? >> assistant chief. >> have you guys been busy? has it been mostly calls like these? >> haven't been too bad today. yesterday was a different story. and last night, but today's been pretty uneventful. >> but it won't be uneventful for long. >> in this situation we had some ice on the line. the bigger problem was that snow and ice had collected on the limb. >> the firemen and news crew have no idea the tree limb above the power line is about to break. >> i was, you know, doing this shooting where you're looking through the viewfinder with your right eye and my left eye, i'm looking around, see what's going on. i see the tree branch move a little bit. i kind of looked over at it, and that's when everything let go. >> they're standing only a few feet away from live power lines charged with nearly 10,000 volts of electricity. >> the power lines. more today is medical emergencies, people are out shoveling their walks. >> the electrical ex

. >> mad money's jim cramer and andrea mitchell.ea of sequestration. a top official warned him in an e-mail that he would regret writing a story that said the proposal -- >> i'm sorry. where do these people come from? is burt lance running the white house? >> at lot of they talk to the press and not afraid. >> is burt lance running the white house? somebody is threatening bob wood ward? >> the conclave. want me to keep going? >> the white house threatened bob wood ward and said he would regret writing the story. go ahead. just go ahead. that's fascinating. >> for writing a story that talked about the automatic spending cuts and where it originated from and that would be from within the president's inner circle. >> it makes me uncomfortable to have the white housing reporters you will regret doing something you believe in and even though we don't look at it that way, you do. i think if barack obama knew that was part of the communication strategy, let's hope it's not a strategy, but a tactic. we don't go around trying to say to repor

i'm proud of jim and very impressed with that team. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchellin washington. right next door to baltimore, remember? as a new leader takes over at the state department today, president obama is in minnesota at this hour trying to build pressure on congress to support his gun proposals. will he be able to overcome deep-rooted opposition? joining us for our daily fix, chuck todd, msnbc news chief, political director, and host of "the daily rundown" and "new york times" chief washington correspondent david sang ar. first to you, chuck, on guns. the president in minnesota. the white house making a very big push. the question as to why they had to react to the conspiracy they'rists who questioned his -- the white house comment about his skeet shooting at camp david zoosh well, they've always been what i would call overly reactive to they call it the beast, feeding the beast, and they mean sort of social media, the sort of advocacy media, when it's talk radio, whatever you want to call it, and this was just mother one of those instances where they felt

jim will bring us more on that in a few moments. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. if you ever wondered just why comprehensive immigration reform is such a heavy lift for lawmakers, just ask john mccain. he got an earful at a town hall meeting in arizona last night. >> why didn't the army go down there and stop them? because the only thing that stops them, i'm afraid to say and it's too damn bad, but is a gun. that's all that will stop them. >> the border's 2,000 miles long, sir. i don't know how much troops and army people you think would have been required. i don't know how many you think will be required, but i'll give you expert information that shows you probably maybe you're talking about 2 million soldiers. you want to round up 11 million people and send them back to their country? you're not going to do that. they are not going to do that, though. they are people who have been here illegally for 50 years or 40 years. and then telling them to become guest workers? no, you can't do that. why can't you do that? because we're a judeo christian nation. >> you're