please join me in welcoming bob garfield and mark leibovich. [applause] >> a non-alcoholic. >> i'm not going to answer that question. hi, bob, hi, everyone. thanks for being here. should i start? i guess i will start. i'm the guy interviewing. >> i, thank you for being here. i have no idea how this is going to play. >> bob has written a book, actually a manifesto. it is called "american manifesto: saving democracy from villains, vandals, and ourselves". this is your thing. i want to start with something because it is the kind of thing that is usually a telltale sign the guy asking the question didn't read the book but i did read the book but the telltale sign, you ask about that but actually i am going to read it. in a vast american wasteland of homogenized regurgitated media there is alone heroic taco truck. bob garfield is that taco truck, very smart and very brave. alec baldwin. do you think he read this? >> how did you get him to read your book? >> a fully my mother were alive to hear me being compared to a food truck by end of the star. >>

robert gibbs, mark leibovich, thank you both for being on the show this morning. what an incredible news day. >>> still ahead, donald trump hosted "apprentice" more than a decade and knows how television works. probably won't be happy to hear how many people watched, in this case, didn't watch the state of the union address. bad ratings. >> really bad ratings. plummeted 20%. >> yeah. boring. >> and just like "the apprentice," ratings kept getting worse every single year. >> all right. and as we go to break, a peek at the latest issue of "time" magazine. the cover story looking at china's coronavirus, outbreak, and how it presents a new threat to chinese president xi jinping. talk about that and much more next on "morning joe." the following is a list of snow day closings due to inclement weather... all two-wheel drive cross-overs should close for the day. wannabe suvs should close for the day. regular four door sedans should close for the foreseeable future. all jeep 4x4 vehicles will remain open- despite the harsh weather conditions. ♪ i appreciate what makes eac

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also here with us in las vegas is "new york times" chief national correspondent mark leibovich. all of these are playing the expectation game right now. you're the person in charge of asking at least some of the questions tonight. what are you curious about? >> all the attention tonight, katy, is on the fact that mike bloomberg for the first time is going to be on stage. i think there's going to be a lot of energy focused on him. most people in america don't know a lot about bloomberg. >> other than the ads and the mythology he's creating for himself? >> right. and so it's going to be interesting to see which of the candidates really decide, besides we know bernie sanders is because he's in nevada, already attacking bloomberg even though bloomberg is not on the ballot here, in anticipation that he would be up there tonight. there's a lot in bloomberg's record that i think these candidates are going to go after. the other interesting point made in that interview, joe biden has to do something tonight. his campaign is falling. he needs to do well in the nevada caucus. if he doesn'

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chief national correspondent for the "new york times" magazine, mark leibovich is whip us and formerry to president obama. >> oh, wow. >> gibb-ee. the gibb star. gibby, gibby, gibby, gibby is here this morning. >> that's great. >> good to see you. >> that's great. >> willie -- very few people knew when he was running around the country campaigning for

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