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we'll have an assessment from joe scarborough of msnbc's "morning joe" and michael scherer of "time" magazine. >> for a week or two after newtown more americans were against banning assault weapons than were for banning assault weapons. now a month later you actually have that becoming a 64/40 issues. the numbers haven't looked like this in decades. they didn't look like this after kohl bib. they didn't look like this even after the '94 bill was passed. i think there's some great opportunities politically now and the only question is whether my republican party, especially in the house of representatives, is going to recognize the political reality before them and realize that newtown changed everything. >> rose: we continue this evening with a look ahead at the world of technology and a conversation with roger mcnamee of elevation partners. >> i think the search engine was the result of a mistake that won't be made again. so we'll always have search engines, but every app on apple's operating system is effectively a search engine of one kind or another. if you go into yelp it's beca

joe scarborough is here from msnbc's "morning joe." adviser to obama 2012, david axelrod.eign correspondent richard engel is here, safe and sound in studio. richard, it's great to see you in person this morning. "new york times" best-selling author of "team of rivals" doris kearns goodwin. in between awards shows she's joined us. and nbc news special correspondent tom brokaw. welcome to all of you. tom, that's where we tee it up. the president, as he begins a second term, very difficult climate in washington and very real expectations. >> yes. and i was looking at those top three priorities for the american people. and they all fit into his single most difficult task, it seems to me, both conceptually and specifically. in the next couple of years, he only has a couple of years, these are second terms and not four-year terms. you're running right up to the mid term election. there's a desperate need for the country going forward to do something about tax reforms and entitlements sitting under the umbrella of fixing the economy and creating near jobs and stopping spending. t

joining me now, joe scarborough, host of msnbc's "morning joe." in looking what the president has done and the nra did to tee it up, where are the sides and what do you think of that web video? >> well, the sides right now are circling each other, trying to figure out who has the advantage. of course, the president, joe biden, who put a lot of these policy recommendations together, the white house team understands that they are facing an uphill battle on the hill when you're talking about banning assault weapons, but they understand something else. that is not only did newtown change everything, but wayne lapierre's reaction to newtown changed everything. the nra's extreme response to newtown changed everything. the nra is separating themselves from the overwhelming majority of their members, who actually support a lot of common sense measures that the president's talking about passing, that joe biden's talking about passing. so you look at the fact, andrea, that right after newtown, the majority of americans still opposed banning certain assault

what's with joe scarborough and the fleeces. why not wear a leisure suit? i have a big head.rborough, it's almost like he is a brainiac, the superman character with the big head. like mega mind. >> oh, wow. >> huge melon. put a little hat on top. >> joe will tell you he's full of brains. >> full of something. >> we love you, joe. no worries. more of our conversation at 12:00 noon when al talks about the valuable advice he got from willard scott before he took over broadcasting the weather for today, and he gives us his perspective on global warming. >>> president obama making full use of social media especially twitter, the white house has sent more than 3,000 tweets last year, and that's first among world leaders in the twitter universe. the latest tweets, the year in photos. the president and first lady embracing after news of his re-election. and this, president's remarks to the nation and this photo of president obama, elbow bumping a couple of government workers after speaking about the fiscal cliff negotiations. plenty more photos from 2012. that's for sure. [ female an

my colleague joe scarborough has a hell of a show. he made it himself. uilt this place like mo green. it's all yours on the "morning joe." i appreciate you coming back and working a double shift tonight. your sense of your party that you grew up with and won office down in florida, how does he fit in 2013 politics looking forward to 2016? >> i think he fits really well. like henry loose, the founder of time magazine, was a believer of the great history. i'm in faimp of the man of politics. in a way that baldwin couldn't. only margaret thatcher could have done what margaret thatcher did. and turning to reagan. instead of connolly who was able to do what he did. and bill clinton in 1992. took a democrat party who lost five out of the last six elections and turned that party around. right now the republican party is absent strong leadership. that's why we've seen the party go in the direction it's going. you know, i think it's fascinating that the past year and a half, past two years has even made me long for the days of george w. bush. because you remember

. >>> joe scarborough and meeka bruzinsky go at it on the air. >>> joe scarborough and meeka bruginikai are good friends. mika pushed back against joe's argument and things heated up from there. >> i am afraid to use the word because it will not be good for you. okay. because you're being chauvinistic right now and you need to stop. >> am i really? >> i'm sorry. this is not funny. >> no, it's not funny. you're calling the wrong guy a chauvinist. seriously, hold on -- you want to call me a chauvinist. right here. >> stop, let me help you. >> no, let me help you. do you really knowing me and seeing me work around here for five years you want to call me a chauvinist on television? >> gail shister was that riveting television or hard to watch? >> i don't know about you, but my thighs are quivering. this drives me crazy. joe scarborough talks when he inhales. i have never seen anybody this side of chris matthews who interrupts as much as he does and mika sit there since the beginning like a school girl and makes faces and doesn't fight back. when she says i have a word for you and you're no

joining me now, joe scarborough, the host of msnbc's "morning joe" and a former congressman. michael scherer joins us from washington. he wrote this week's "time" magazine cover story called "the gun fighters: can a billionaire, a vice president and a shooting survivor stop the violence?" i'm pleased to have him on this program as well. let me go to you first, michael. tell me what the president said and what do you think is politically possible? >> i think actually the most remarkable part of today's event was thee xwrat ricks surrounding the announcement. it's very different than the events you saw on the first term. you had the president on stage with students, young kids who wrote him letters about guns and he was pulling at heart strings all through the speech making clear this was not something he was going to get done inside washington but that would only happen with the american people coming together and demanding it. he knows and the white house know that the most controversial parts of his proposal: banning certain gun magazines, reinstituting the assault weapons b

crazy never wins by joe scarborough in "politico."ndard, it is in short supply and using the standard my father used, it's not hard to pick out the pretenders in this year's field. guys like my dad do not gamble on candidates like michele bachmann or newt gingrich and guys like my dad tune out politicians who compare opponents to joseph stalin or adolph hitler and guys like my dad don't cozy up to texas governors who brag about seceding from the union or call social security unconstitutional. >> the nominee wasn't willing to stand up to crazy. early on, there were so many time, he could have just turned, mike barnicle, to michele bachmann, who said something outrageous and go, wait a second. i'm a conservative. are you kidding me? or to herman cain or when sarah palin was running around calling barack obama a socialist, bordering on a communist and all these other things that were going on. crazy never wins but we learned another thing. you better stand up to crazy if you want to win in bucks county, pennsylvania, if you want to win i

. >> i don't want to give up on anyone, but after newtown, it was joe scarborough that pointed out he tried to get on a number of republicans on the show and wanted to wait until the nra had responded. joe, again, a friend of many conservatives in washington and i have not seen a laundry list saying it is time to we look at xyz. there is a push back. i want to play what president obama said regarding what lois pointed on. this movement from the people that we may see. >> ask your member of congress if they support universal background checks to keep guns out of the wrong hands. ask them if they support renewing a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines f. they say no, ask them why not. ask them what's more important. doing whatever it takes to get an a grade from the gun lobby that funds their campaigns or giving parents some peace of mind when they drop their child off for first grade. >> you have the president saying ask some of the members of congress. today we have a laundry list of representatives who would say no as the president posed a ban on assault weapons. no to

thank you joe scarborough.nd his rating, it's always been an independent. >>> up next, how does bill clinton see his relationship with hillary? there is a fascinating tease. big bill speaks out on hillary. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ female announcer ] going to sleep may be easy, but when you wake up in the middle of the night it can be frustrating. it's hard to turn off and go back to sleep. intermezzo is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of the night when you can't get back to sleep. it's an effective sleep medicine you don't take before bedtime. take it in bed only when you need it and have at least four hours left for sleep. do not take intermezzo if you have had an allergic reaction to drugs containing zolpidem, such as ambien. allergic reactions such as shortness of breath or swelling of your tongue or throat may occur and may be fatal. intermezzo should not be taken if you have taken another sleep medicine at bedtime or in the middle

. >> reporter: joe scarborough of "morning joe" had an a-rating from the nra when he was in congress. >> the more the nra speaks out after the slaughter of these 20 first graders, the worse they make it for their side. >> reporter: so far, a majority of the house still has a-ratings for their votes from the gun lobby. >> it has clout, because it had members in every state and almost every congressional district and because it's built up a reputation of effectiveness. >> reporter: the question now is whether that will change after the massacre at sandy hook elementary. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> there is breaking news in the air tonight. and it's bad news for boeing. after a slew of problems, the faa has ordered all the new 787 dreamliners grounded for the time being. tom costello covers aviation for us. he's in our washington newsroom tonight with this still-developing story. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. this action essentially ground all 787s around the world, because other governments generally follow the faa's lead. the faa's emergency air-worthiness d

thank you joe scarborough.nd his rating, it's always been an independent. >>> up next, how does bill clinton see his relationship with hillary? there is a fascinating tease. big bill speaks out on hillary. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> president obama's inaugural at a dry cleaner, we replaced people with a machine. what? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello? ally bank. your money needs an ally. >>> president obama's inaugural parade will feature eight floats including a hawaii float to honor his birthplace, an illinois float to honor the first lady's home state and a kenyan float just to mess with republicans. why not? it's a parade. everyone loves a parade. >>> back to "hardball." bill clinton answers a question about hillary clinton's health and her plans for the future and thoughts about what lies ahead for their relationship. >> she's always been very, very healthy. and she has v

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familiar faces on msnbc were in rare form starting with joe scarborough who tweeted, why can't washingtonput together a deal that cults spent? this deal fails on most counts. it's a distressing failure of leadership. "morning joe" regular steve ratner tweeted, the only thing worse than this deal would have been no deal, or maybe not, he added. ezra kline wrote, obama isn't making it easier for res to vote for this deal but probably thinks if the rs kill it they get all the fiscal cliff blame. >>> now deals on secretary of state hillary clinton and the blood clot that has her hospitalized. the clot is located in a vein in the space between her brain and skull near her right ear. it did not cause a stroke or neurological damage. doctors say clinton should make a full recovery and she is making excellent progress. the blood clot is related to the concussion clinton suffered earlier this month. it was discovered during a follow-up exam sunday. >>> from amazing fireworks displays to ancient traditions to our favorite polar plunges. folks around the world marked the beginning of 2013 in their o

you know, you have john boehner speaker of the house saying it's the senate's job and joe scarborough talks about how the nra being on the fringe now and the republicans are up against it in terms of an identity in their party. is this sort of the president using leverage to make the republicans look bad or what's the motivation? >> no. i think you take the president at his word. it was his worse day in office. it was a gut wrenching moment for the entire country. he believes this is the time to push these additional gun measures. dmoes politics of this are tough. listen 30 years your don't touch gun control. that is sort of, a bedrock principle of politics among democrats and republicans. what he's trying to do is change 20 years of politics. it doesn't happen in two months. it might be the beginning of a debate that over time might change the trajectory of gun politics. doubtful. but a lot of conservative democrats in the last 20 years that weighed in on guns have paid a political consequence for that partly because of the nra and partly because of other gun groups and a lot of peop

former florida republican congressman, joe scarborough said . . . interesting. is he right?k the republicans may be blowing their majority by appearing too extreme on this? >> well, no. they are blowing their majority for being callused bigoted tools. that's how they are blowing their majority. >> jennifer: all right. >> i don't think it is over gun control. >> jennifer: although the polling on gun control is pretty amazing. but the national journal is reporting that the republican national campaign committee has -- obviously there is a whole confab that is happening with the gop right now where they are trying to figure out what their agenda is going forward. they have pinpointed seven house members in 2014 and you are actually not on their list -- at least yet. >> winning by 25 makes the point. and i'm talking about 25%. >> jennifer: it was a beautiful thing. so because you have been so clear and so strong, and proudly progressive, what advice do you have for your new colleagues to keep their seats? >> i think you have to vote in the best interest of the common man. the gr

and joe scarborough joins us, and david axelrod, and chuck todd here to talk about the numbers in a newt's coming up on "meet the press." >>> and shortly after "meet the press," president obama will be sworn in at a private ceremony at the white house. and earlier today vice president joe biden took his oath. sotomayor swore in the vp. >>> and the families travelled to church for services set to start in a few minutes. and today's services is celebrating president obama's second inauguration as well as the martin luther king jr. holiday and the 175th anniversary of the church. as crowds make their way into downtown tomorrow morning, we will keep you up-to-date, we start early tomorrow, on capitol hill at 4:00 a.m., and you can see the special coverage of the private swearing in ceremony is coming up here after "meet the press." >>> and it's a very exciting time. i know the weather, there are some things that cannot be so promising. >> it could be a lot worse. it could be a lot colder, if it was on tuesday it would have been a lot worse, and it couldn't be as bad as reagan's second inaug

joe scarborough. >> this weekend i went on grudge, and on top of it is a story of survivalist that arebout sussession you have another radio show host who's name isn't worth mentioning, who is talking about how the federal government is coming in and taking weapons -- there is a call to arms. and they are going even more extreme right than they were four years ago. i thought i would never say it, but if this party continues on this trajectory we're going to get wiped out in 2016 -- >> oh, my god! >> stephanie: i'm guessing he is not going to be able to play in the republican games either. >> he is no republican. paranoia and firearms there's a good mix. >> stephanie: all right. speaking of what joe scarborough was talking about, we'll tell you about glen beck's $2 million retreat he is building. >> is this going to compete with the citadel. >> stephanie: apparently. >> it is going to be like dollywood. >> stephanie: in the meantime kids, go to meeting, is becoming a bit of a religion for me. >> is it? >> stephanie: yeah when somebody says let's do -- and suggests some sub stand -- i'm

i ask you, joe scarborough, how are you feeling at 6:43 in the morning about the game? >> nervous. >> nervous? no. >> i'll be nervous until, you know, scared to death that notre dame wins until after we win and then i'll be scared to death about next year. but listen, i think what i would do, if i did such things, but i don't, is i would -- you know, i'd say alabama's going to win, but take notre dame in the points. >> alabama by, like, six or four or something. >> i think five. >> i think this one could be -- i hope it's not. i think it could be a very close game. >> it's going to be fun either way. you've got arguably the two greatest programs in college football. >> it is going to be fun either way whether we win big or small. whether we cover or not will be great. whether we hit the over/under or the daily double or turkey trifecta. >> "mika's must-read opinion pages" are next. [ heart beating, monitor beeping ] woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ heart rate increa

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>> you made a good point there our own joe scarborough put in very stark terms what the gop is facing if it doesn't get its act together. let's all take a listen to that. >> the men and women being sworn in today start behind the 8 ball. they are already on their way to making nancy pelosi the next speaker of the house. they better, just like i said with romney in september, they better turn this ship around quickly or we're gonna have a democratic monopoly in washington, d.c. >> any confidence that they can turn around this democratic ship? i mean, the ship would be -- >> you mean the republicans can turn it around? >> yeah. republicans are going to have to find a way forward. they have been leaderless a very long time as we have seen this last week, they are deeply divided, not only between the chief party forces and the establishment forces, but the senate and the house republicans. so they are really going to have to make a commitment to the what they are going to get reelected on in 2014 are they going to be productive, forge deals? always going gonna say no, or do some of it som

>> i got a pronunciation from joe scarborough. apparently, twitter is not as it's spelled. twitter. bitter. >> twitter. >> joseph. >> twitter. >> and i learned no labels. getting together today. it's very important. >> mark mckinnon's doing a great thing. >> time for "morning joe," but right now, time for chuck todd and "the daily rundown." >>> one month after the tragedy at sandy hook, vice president p prepares to curb gun violence, but does it have a chance of getting through congress? we'll talk to one of the top democrats in the house. south carolina's jim clyburn. colin powell had tough talk for the gop. he claims he's still a republican, but that the outlook for his party is grim without serious change. and if president clinton makes a surprise appearance at the golden globes, the big winner in hollywood last night was politics. we'll tell you why. good morning from washington. it's monday, january 14th, 2013. this is "the daily rundown." to my first reads of the morning. today marks the one-month anniversary of the newtown shooting. a month ago, there was a sense that this tr