host of msnbc's "morning joe," former republican congressman from florida, joe scarborough, mayor of newark, new jersey, democrat cory booker. republican strategist and co-founder of no labels and former adviser to senator john mccain, mark mckinnon and nbc news chief foreign affairs mccain, mark mckinnon and nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> eight republicans join with democrats to end the ban on gays and lesbians in the military. fell short of the 60 needed to overcome republican opposition, the fate of the new start treaty, nuclear arms treaty with russia, which will continue to be debated today in a rare sunday session. i sat down late friday with the president's point man in dealing with congress, the vice president of the united states, joe biden. >> welcome back to "meet the press." >> good to be back. >> good to have you here. it's an important time. end of the week saw you and the president closing a very important deal. this compromise over an extension of the bush era tax cuts, a bill signing at

it's just offensive. >> joe scarborough is not the only republican thinking that way. are you getting quiet nods that think what senators kyl and demint have said is out of line? >> i have gotten quiet nods on people from both sides of the aisle that know what i learned during this tough campaign. people back in the states want us working together to actually solve problems. i think the tax cut deal is a good example of that going forward. if we did more of that rather than less, i think congress might actually start to see their approval ratings some place other than the basement. but i think complaining about having to work over christmas is 234 not going to contribute to that. >> tipping points in our politics are sometimes hard to disstern and sometimes come over what seems like very minor things. i've been wondering since i've heard this language thrown around, is this a tipping point for republicans in what has become the overuse of religion, not just in campaigning -- it's one thing to hear it in campaigning. you hear a lot of it in campaigning. but actually usi

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and david brooks once was good now sucks, and msnbc morning host joe scarborough who may or may not beartoon. but the r and db -- r&b rapper 8 con recorded a song. i apologize in advance for the mess. >> so i guess no label strategy is to unite everyone through the universal hatred of akon. what a joke. am i being too mean about this? there is something mean about media types artificially creating an event. this isn't like a grassroots thing. it is a bunch of rich guys sitting around wanting more influence or something. >> because grassroots campaign come out of ideas. getting things done is not an idea. let's be smarter. >> if i care about something, screw you, you weird people. i will kill all of you. i didn't mean that. >> but you proved them wrong. >> jesse, once akon records a song for you, your movement is over, right? or is it just beginning? >> i guess, i don't know. i don't even know who akon is. >> i know who he is. i just -- i think it is a revolutionary concept what they are doing here. i happened to find a quote on the internet. the tierney in the party, a their invented f

to my left, joe scarborough. [applause] serving as a member of the u.s. congress -- is this the young republicans club? >> there are three of them out there. >> not here, not today. it is not about labels. he was a member of the judiciary committee and the armed services committee. he was also part of a smolt -- a small group of republican congressmen that invested some surprising amount of power given their youth and lack of years in congress. he is 2004 book -- his 2004 book predicted the collapse of the republican majority. his recent book predicted that democratic policies and massive spending would not revive the economy. today, a joke is co-host of a show that time magazine called the revolutionary morning. i want to start the panel. david, we will start with you because you have been around a lot is, obviously. [laughter] >> your day will come. >> i am already there. you worked forresidents of both sides of the aisle. is hyper ptisanship worse than ever? >> it is about 15 on a scale of one to 10. it is far worse than it was. i have reached an age -

with msnbc's joe scarborough and former presidential adviser david gergen, and former senators evan bayh and joe manchin, this is about an hour. >> let's bring out our panel, shall we? >> say something. >> good morning, everybody. >> are you right here? >> there should be four of them. there they are. good morning, everyone. it's still morning, 6:00 in the evening for you. but otherwise it is morning. our topic is hyper partisanship in -- our first panelist is david gergen. the director for the center for public leadership at harvard's kennedy school of government. he began his career in public service in the nixon white house back in 1971. as staff assistant on the speech writing team, becoming director two years later. is that not right? >> shorten it. >> he went to become director in the ford and reagan administrations, also serving in the clinton administration and adviser to the 1980 george h. w. bush campaign. >> you left out grover cleveland. >> good lord. we will go back there. and former senator evan bayh. during his tenure, he has written legislation calling on congress to full

. >> joe scarborough, that is not funny what are you -- >> what's that?alking -- >> the thing about signing the bull to the kid -- what are you laughing about on that? >> just reading ziggy cartoons. >> thinking about decision points, george w. bush. >> so how do we -- >> mickey was really fun, okay? let's just get that on the table, including some of that stuff. >> how do you, as a fan, and how does america square this? hero but dark hero? >> people ask me all the time is he still your guy and i say, you know, now actually he is a guy, which is an okay thing to be. he's guy. he is back in some sort of human proportion where you can see the flaws and yet still be astonished at what he was able to do physiologically. >> more astonished. >> yeah, more astonished. >> actually drunk when he hits the home run. >> more astonished when you find out he tore his acl, mcl, cartilage his rookie year and played on it the next 17 years. >> amazing. >> did he come to new york as an alcoholic? was that in his make up? was he was an oklahoma kid trying to adapt to new yo

joe scarborough was on a panel that i was on as was evan bayh, the senator from indiana just outgoingw senator joe manchin. >> he was there, as well? so is it the goal to try to organize in the sense of endorsing candidates, raising money for candidates? doing sort of what the tea party movement has done? >> in some similar ways. it's not going to become a party. but it is going to try -- a thousand people sign up from 50 states. and the notion is that the organizers will go out and raise money and help to support candidates who are essentially putting the country first as many said there. and i can't tell you whether it was a uniform view across the board including people from the clinton administration, included republicans, republican consultants like mark mckinnen who was a big organizer and others who sort of feel that our politics is broken and that the way to restore it is to make sure we have a vibrant middle. and those that are willing to cross the aisle in a brave way, especially say on the deficit is coming up. instead of being punished as they are being now that they be su

my world this morning, i woke up and they were talking about joe scarborough and winning the class warfare issue. on this channel i see everyone talking about trade issues, which is a lose lose for america. i do not know where i can turn as a voter to find someone that represents me except f the green party. i have followed their principles for years. i voted for them one time. it looks like it is the only way out. democrats and republicans said across the table and smile at each other -- like where are they going to go? >> there will be -- guest: there will be a tremendous amount of of people in this country over the next 15 years. we are going to phase in electoral politics unlike anythinge have ever seen in our lives. it always seemed like there was more at the table to share. multi-party democracies provide opportunities for issues like immigration and environmental issues to get more of a voice. unfortunately we have a dominant two-party system right now. we do have some folks in the house, taking over in january. lamar smith, chairman of the judiciary committee, working on e immigrat

to my left, joe scarborough. [applause] serving as a member of the u.s. congress -- is this the young republicans club? >> there are three of them out there. >> not here, not today. it is not about labels. he was a member of the judiciary committee and the armed services committee. he was also part of a smolt -- a small group of republican congressmen that invested some surprising amount of power given their youth and lack of years in congress. he is 2004 book -- his 2004 book predicted the collapse of the republican majority. his recent book predicted that democratic policies and massive spending would not revive the economy. today, a joke is co-host of a show that time magazine called the revolutionary morning. i want to start the panel. david, we will start with you because you have been around a lot is, obviously. [laughter] >> your day will come. >> i am already there. you worked for presidents of both sides of the aisle. is hyper partisanship worse than ever? >> it is about 15 on a scale of one to 10. it is far worse than it was. i have reached an a

as was mentioned earlier by joe scarborough, in terms of the funding of campaigns, or outside money was political parties and the candidates themselves. this is become a huge problem in america. i had the pleasure of introducing something called the disclose act last year. [applause] it got me in a lot of political trouble. it was the case called the citizens united case which said that corporations and labour unions and nonprofits could contribute more directly to advocacy for candidates in this country. so five of us said, fine, and we introduced this legislation. and basically it said, if you are going to make these kinds of contributions, you need to disclose who your chief executive officer is and who you're 10 largest contributors are. politicians do that any out. political parties do that. we felt they should do it. -- politicians do that anyhow. it passed narrowly. there were two republicans that voted for it. it went to the senate, where it was never taken up. that is a huge problem in america. money in politics is a tremendous issue right now. i think it needs to be addressed.

my world this morning, i woke up and they were talking about joe scarborough and winning the class warfareon this channel i see everyone talking about trade issues, which is a lose lose for america. i do not know where i can turn as a voter to find someone that represents me except for the green party. i have followed their principles for years. i voted for them one time. it looks like it is the only way out. democrats and republicans said across the table and smile at each other -- like where are they going to go? >> there will be -- guest: there will be a tremendous amount of of people in this country over the next 15 years. we are going to phase in electoral politics unlike anything we have ever seen in our lives. it always seemed like there was more at the table to share. multi-party democracies provide opportunities for issues like immigration and environmental issues to get more of a voice. unfortunately we have a dominant two-party system right now. we do have some folks in the house, taking over in january. lamar smith, chairman of the judiciary committee, working on the immigratio

to my left, joe scarborough. [applause] serving as a member of the u.s. congress -- is this the young republicans club? >> there are three of them out there. >> not here, not today. it is not about labels. he was a member of the judiciary committee and the armed services committee. he was also part of a smolt -- a small group of republican congressmen that invested some surprising amount of power given their youth and lack of years in congress. he is 2004 book -- his 2004 book predicted the collapse of the republican majority. his recent book predicted that democratic policies and massive spending would not revive the economy. today, a joke is co-host of a show that time magazine called the revolutionary morning. i want to start the panel. david, we will start with you because you have been around a lot is, obviously. [laughter] >> your day will come. >> i am already there. you worked for presidents of both sides of the aisle. is hyper partisanship worse than ever? >> it is about 15 on a scale of one to 10. it is far worse than it was. i have reached an a

joe." >> guess what today is as we listen to nat king cole. >> what is today? >> suzanne scarborough's 21st birthday. >> do you want to sing happy birthday to susan? >> we'll let nat do the honors. happy birthday, baby. >> yay, happy birthday. >> i love nat king cole. >> i do, too. >> just great. do you know who else i like? >> maybe chuck can sing happy birthday to susan. >> my wife's birthday today. could you sing happy birthday today? you're wearing the purple tie. >> we've got to worry about the quarter hour ratings. we don't want to be chasing folks away. not fair. not fair. >> okay. you can at least say happy birthday. >> happy birthday. susan, i don't know how you do it. >> suzanne doesn't know how she does it either. >> she clearly is a saint. >> clearly is a saint. in this case you're exactly right. >> has to be. there's no other explanation. >> none at all. none at all. let's talk about, we've got this tax cut agreement out there. let's also talk about the polls. what was your big take-away from the big nbc news/"wall street journal" poll? >> if you look at it and look at thi

joe scarborough. ent you're giving to joe. and joe will get an e-mail from unicef, saying this is the present you got this year. >> i guess, willie, we can both this year just defer for another year our mink-lined sinks. >> you could. >> call 1-800-4-kids. >> trying to get 46,000 desks. >> as a start. but there is really an unlimited problem there. and, you know, what we don't know is -- i mean, i was a public school teacher for a while. and you're counting on everything in the room working for you, not against you. >> yeah. >> and in most classrooms, everything is working against you. and the place to begin is to just get these kids off the floor. >> and you've already had a remarkable outpouring. >> incredible. at 10:00 last night, the website was briefly overwhelmed. and it's just been fantastic. and -- but it's -- there's nothing better you can do with $48. you send $24, you get one kid off the floor. >> i love it. >> address is on the screen right there. lastworddesks.msnbc.com. if you want the to

as was mentioned earlier by joe scarborough, in terms of the funding of campaigns, or outside money was supporting campaigns then through the two political parties and the candidates themselves. this is become a huge problem in america. i had the pleasure of introducing something called the disclose act last year. [applause] it got me in a lot of political trouble. it was the case called the citizens united case which said that corporations and labour unions and nonprofits could contribute more directly to advocacy for candidates in this country. so five of us said, fine, and we introduced this legislation. and basically it said, if you are going to make these kinds of contributions, you need to disclose who your chief executive officer is and who you're 10 largest contributors are. politicians do that any out. political parties do that. we felt they should do it. -- politicians do that anyhow. it passed narrowly. there were two republicans that voted for it. it went to the senate, where it was never taken up. that is a huge problem in america. money in politics is a tremendous issue ri

the future of advertising is that joe scarborough says, he likes steely dan and fleeces, and it's likeast that has -- and a steely dan album. before, you could never target people the way you can target them now. >> i feel much better now. steely dan-approve ed fleece. let's talk about the other finalists and hopefully we'll find some more positive characters. >> oh, who's number two? the tea party. talk about that. >> again, it was another huge change election. i think the change spirit in america is still very strong. one of the things that the tea party, zuckerberg, and assange all have in common is a kind of distrust or mistrust of authority. a decentralizing of power. that pervades their success this past year. so the tea party, i don't know what would happen to it, but they were a huge force this past year. >>> and they're actually a force right now. the tea party is actually standing up and objecting to the republican establishment's deal on these tax cuts with the president. saying, you know, we promised to balance a budget. and this is going in the opposite direction. julian a

as was mentioned earlier by joe scarborough, in terms of the funding of campaigns, or outside money wasporting campaigns then through the two political parties and the candidates themselves. this is become a huge problem in america. i had the pleasure of introducing something called the disclose act last year. [applause] it got me in a lot of political trouble. it was the case called the citizens united case which said that corporations and labour unions and nonprofits could contribute more directly to advocacy for candidates in this country. so five of us said, fine, and we introduced this legislation. and basically it said, if you are going to make these kinds of contributions, you need to disclose who your chief executive officer is and who you're 10 largest contributors are. politicians do that any out. political parties do that. we felt they should do it. -- politicians do that anyhow. it passed narrowly. there were two republicans that voted for it. it went to the senate, where it was never taken up. that is a huge problem in america. money in politics is a tremendous issue right

my world this morning, i woke up and they were talking about joe scarborough and winning the class warfare issue. on this channel i see everyone talking about trade issues, which is a lose lose for america. i do not know where i can turn as a voter to find someone that represents me except for the green party. i have followed their principles for years. i voted for them one time. it looks like it is the only way out. democrats and republicans said across the table and smile at each other -- like where are they going to go? >> there will be -- guest: there will be a tremendous amount of of people in this country over the next 15 years. we are going to phase in electoral politics unlike anything we have ever seen in our lives. it always seemed like there was more at the table to share. multi-party democracies provide opportunities for issues like immigration and environmental issues to get more of a voice. unfortunately we have a dominant two-party system right now. we do have some folks in the house, taking over in january. lamar smith, chairman of the judiciary committee, working on the im