. >> i'm mika brzezinski. we had a poll to determine the most influential americans of 21st century so far. we have the results and will reveal them here on the show. >> later, we are going to bring out "morning joe's" willie geist and mike barnicle. they are going to give their two cents. that's going to be fine. some of you may be saying, isn't it a little premature to be doing a poll about the 21st century since we are only ten years into it. we say, lean forward. that's what we are going to do. we are going to find out who these influential americans in the 21st century are right now. >> willie, mike, joe, and i made our own personal picks of who we thought would be the ten most influential americans of the 21st century. we are going to show you how we did at the end of the show. we should point out, there are different things to different people. we asked some journalists, actors, and comedians to chime in on a variety of topics, and we're going to show you what they say throughout the show. but the first

>> well, happy new year's eve, mika, and we do. line for today will be will vice president biden swoop on to fantasy island and turn it into reality island? and there was some sign that that's going to happen. republicans are embracing the new involvement of vice president biden as an excuse to do things they haven't been willing to do before. so, the way "politico" is describing it is vice president biden is playing good cop to harry reid's bad cop. i'm told by republican aides that leader mcconnell and vice president biden talked by phone until midnight. their aides talked until longer. and what republicans are saying, we needed a dance partner, and vice president biden gives us one. so, we're moving through the stages of grief here. i think we're to acceptance, maybe reality will come next. >> eamon, greg sergeant writes this in "the washington post." i'd love for you to respond or add on to it. this isn't a normal negotiation, he says. "in threatening to hold the debt ceiling hostage next year, republicans are not making a conv

. >> so clearly, it's mika brzezinski. >> really?> when i left, they're still clapping. >> really? >> renaissance woman. >> is it the alcohol? >> i think it's more of the slaves, actually. >> the what? >> nothing. i didn't say anything. >> gotcha. >> you missed that. >> i did. >> the you're the jeffersonian. >> the art of power. the art of navigating power. >> with that, let's go to the most jeffersonian figure for the news. >> all right. we begin this morning with new urgency in the fiscal cliff negotiations with now just 21 days to reach a deal. that's three weeks. today president obama returns to campaign mode, taking his fiscal cliff message to detroit. yesterday the president and speaker boehner met privately at the white house. their first face-to-face meeting since they agreed last week to clear everyone else out of the negotiating room. neither side revealed anything about the meeting that was part of the agreement. only saying that the lines of communication remain open. but yesterday another influential republican, senator

mika and i are going to raise $1 million. >> yep.going to raise $1 million. and after you get $1 million for epilepsy research and cure, you're going to cut your mustache off here on "morning joe." deal? >> oh, wow. say good-bye. this is going to be weird. >> it is going to be a little strange. >> how do you think i feel? >> david axelrod is with us. i asked him if there was anything i could do for him right now. he said, "do you have a xanax?" >> aww. we did it. >> here with david axelrod along with donny deutsch and mark mckinnon still with us. so let's talk really quickly about the people that have stepped forward. of course, president obama gave a very generous contribution, as did his close personal friend, donald trump. >> yes. >> donald trump. >> who actually was one of the first to step up. >> he was. >> contributed in a big way. mark cuban contributed in a real way. our good friend yusef. >> what is this? this is incredible. >> senator cole. a founding member. >> yes. he was one of our early supporters. great guy. great frie

mika? >> let's go back to syria. you've been following that situation since it began last year. assad's grip obviously slipping, but what about the potential of the use of chemical weapons on his own people? >> reporter: well, there's two major problems here for the u.s. and the international community. one, if he does use chemical weapons, the kind of destruction that would already inflict on the people of syria, how they would be treated, but there is also growing concerns that he may not necessarily use them as his official line coming out of damascus says, but more importantly, what happens if these weapons fall into rogue elements within some of the rebel movement once he does fall, once the regime does fall and they're no longer able to secure these stockpiles? according to a western intelligence estimate, it's going to take about 70,000 troops to try and preserve these weapons from falling into the wrong hands, and everyone knows when regimes fall in the arab world, there's a tremend

. >> hello, mika. >> yeah. good thing you're awake.ional affairs editor for "new york" magazine and msnbc political analyst, john heilemann. >> hi! >> yeah. hi. and from cnbc headquarters, co-host of cnbc's "squawk box," andrew ross sorkin. >> do i need to make a joke about school being out? >> that's so yesterday. we're tired of that, actually. >> you like kind of grown. >> he went from being a little kid to adorable. >> he's a grizzled old vet. the grey hair is coming in. >> and from washington, nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent, host of "andrea mitchell reports", the lovely andrea mitchell. >> happy holidays. >> and "washington post" columnist, jonathan capehart. thank you all so much for being with us. and why don't we just start really quickly with the story of the year, mika. and that, of course, barack obama wins, the republicans lose. and in a way that perhaps is more telling than just what one election result might suggest. >> well, i think it certainly does. and it gives him a certain platform and credibility that perha

>> good morning, mika. we have trouble out there especially at the airports.stmas and new york city is pretty much the worst of it. winds are howling up to oo mi50s per hour, pouring rain. this will last probably another two or three hours and then the weather will dramatically improve even in new york city this afternoon. the airports are a mess. ranging between two to three-hour delays at the new york city airports, newark to philadelphia. so far so good boston logan but what is in new york will soon be heading up toward you. so the heavy rains moving through, winds in new york city right now between 40 and 50 miles per hour. very heavy rain moving up into massachusetts currently. we have to watch some of the flooding too. areas of snow on the ground in new england are going to get drenched with heavy rain today. that could cause minor flooding. also snow through much of michigan, indiana, and ohio. even the high elevations of west virginia. it is not a pretty morning in chicago, either, with windy, cold conditions. this is your snowfall map over the next 48

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. >> hello, mika. >> yeah, good thing you're awake. national affairs editor for new york magazine and msnbc political analyst john heilemann. >> yeah, hi. and from cnbc headquarters, co-host of cnbc's "squawk box" andrew ross-sorkin. >> do i need to make a joke about school being out? >> we're kind of tired of that. >> you've grown up. you went from being a little kid to an old man. >> he's a grizzled old vet. >> the gray hair is coming in. >> there's no in between. and from washington nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" the lovely andrea mitchell. and "washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor jonathan capehart. thank you so much for being with us. why don't we just start really quickly with this story of the mere, mika, and that, of course, barack obama wins, the republicans lose, in a way that perhaps is more telling than just what one election result might suggest. >> well, i think it certainly does and it gives him a certain platform and credibility that perhaps he didn't have befor

. >> mika and i sat down with the president at the site of the cgi meeting on the same day that both president obama and mitt romney were set to speak there. >> how would you characterize how he's been handling the collective problems that we're seeing percolating across the middle east? >> well, i think that first of all, i think they've done pretty well in a very chaotic situation. the arab spring was always going to have ups and downs or bumps in the road or whatever you want to call it. in libya, the tragic situation of the lost of our ambassador and the other americans, it's worth pointing out a couple of things. first of all, most of the libyan people who were aware of what's going on like the united states, they like the fact that we aggressively supported them and their desire to replace the gadhafi regime and decades of control and repression and a move to a more democratic system. the president of libya has asked to meet with me. we're going to have a nice visit. i think tomorrow. there were libyans who lost their lives in that attack, trying to protect americans. and that

and he was out of belgrade when i was born. >> did your father know mika's uncle, grand uncle, i guess who was president of czechoslovakia? >> definitely. he worked for them, and he felt very strongly -- czechoslovakia was a very interesting place in the interwar period. it was the only functioning democracy. it was created in a large part because of woodrow wilson's policies is and the constitution was modeled on the american one, except one big thing, it had an equal rights amendment in it, even then. and basically, there was a desire by people like my father, who was in his early 30s, to try to make sure that czechoslovakia stayed democratic. so he then left, he was able to get out. >> and in '39, you all fled to london? >> we all fled to london where the government in exile was. and they created this government in exile. my father broadcast over bbc, altering the war to the resistance movement. and i lived through the blitz. >> so your family stayed in london. >> well, we were in london all through blitz, and finally moved out to the countryside, in '43, '44. and we stayed in engla

i learned mika protestses too much.ne direction. >> i learned that any day where we have staff sergeant sal giunta to talk is great. >> we're raised up. >> and i'll reiterate

i mean, mika's wearing shorts, right?he's got his jammies on. >> i think the seriousness of what's going on is matched by my outfit. >> so you're wearing pajama pants with bozos all over them, right? >> more or less. >> so let me just ask you a question. it's sort of big picture. this was set up over two years. everybody put this deadline in place to force washington to confront the nation's debt. this was a big deal, this deadline. and we're going to come out of it with either nothing and go over the fiscal cliff, or some small piddly kick the can down the road, i'm so tired of that statement, little mini push it off thing. what are we doing here? >> it's an excellent question. and i think the next 16 1/2 hours, honestly, mika, will define whether or not the republican party is remotely serious about playing a significant or important role in governing this country. i mean, we do not have to be at this point. what the president has put on the table and the compromises he's made to get a deal both in 2011 and in the last

oh, mika!s a problem. >> hostility. >> pass me that trash can right now. >> i just dumped on them. you can't have them anymore, and they're gross. i'm sorry. >> you look like you're in severe pain. >> all those doughnuts should be eradicated off the face of the shirt. >> shut up. stop it. stop it. >> feeding them into your growing belly like winnie the pooh. >> hold on. i see one on the floor that survived. >> what's wrong with you? you're not going to eat that. >> go ahead. good morning. it's thursday, december 13th. with us on set -- >> don't talk with your mouth full. >> former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst, steve rattner. >> hold on. let me wash it down with some goo. >> i mean, you all are fit. what? why can't you follow suit? >> it hurts so good. we've got msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman and all-around good guy, harold ford jr. >> when would you ever eat a munchkin? >> i'm at peace here. president of the council o

we have a good show coming up today, mika?the one-on-one noexations are going well. "getting more serious." the fight about it all continues. how about right to work. thousands of people are expected to converge on the michigan state capital in lancing today, as part of a controversial union battle that is about to unfold. >> that is going if be fascinating. >> are we going to be serious? >> yes, yes. when in doubt, serious. >> asking you about pot or growing the economy? growing weed or the economy? >> republican lawmakers are trying to push through this. >> michigan is a heavily unionized state, why would it be going right to work? enormous downward pressure on american wages coming from companies all over the world that can make things cheaper here than else where. our wages are competitive in lot of ways. do you want fewer jobs at higher wages or more jobs at lower wages? what you see in this is a decision that we want more jobs. >> you look at the trend lines for michigan, detroit. i think that's a pretty easy. i mean, un

fab mika and witty joe, no. that's guy million-dollar smile. he gets me out the door every morning. >> you're fired. take it. >> "morning joe" starts right now. >>> it took us three months to establish trust. these guys don't trust each other. they don't even trust each other in their own party. you've got leaders who, people behind them with a shif hoping they can get their job the next go 'round. poor old durbin has people over his back because he voted for this package. and the republicans, boehner's got to go to work and come back, and now there's 70 of them left, the tea party guys. these are guys who went to congress not to limit government but to stop it. so what are you going to do? we've got five democrats, five republicans who range from dick durbin of illinois, great progressive democrat, and coburn of oklahoma, a progressive conservative, and five dems, five republicans, one independent, that's a super majority. and for god's sake, the reason we were so successful is we effectively pissed off everybody in america. >> congratulations

bill. >> rainy morning, mika. yesterday, fog problems, baltimore's airport was shut down last night. have to make up a lot of flights this morning. the rain will be moving out. if you're traveling in northern new england, that's the only place we have snow and other places green, rainy in providence. and "new york times" and philadelphand -- new york city and philadelphia, you're clearing it out. it will be a very mild afternoon. this is one of the last warm days we will see for a while and by this weekend, it will be cold in many areas of the east. as far as the rest of the country, significant snowstorms in colorado headi ing for the plains and iowa could get nailed by a significant snowstorm tomorrow and thursday morning. for today's forecast, the midwest, you're okay for travel today. tomorrow, that storm begins to slide your way. i mentioned that cold air. look at chicago. those are highs friday and saturday, after the storm goes by a significant chunk of cold air will invade much of the country. if you're on

and that's exactly, mika, what she did. >> so brian williams asked her about this, and here's a little bit more of her explanation of how this happened. oh, we're standing by because -- what? you guys don't have the sound bite? okay. >> i guess so. >> so let's roll it. >> i've done sunday shows many times in the past. secretary clinton had originally been asked by most of the networks to go on. she had had an incredibly grueling week dealing with the protests around the middle east and north africa that had enveloped our embassy. she had to deal with the loss of our four colleagues in benghazi and the state department, greet the families and the bodies, and she declined to do it. it wasn't what i had planned for that weekend originally, but i don't regret doing that, brian. i think when you're a diplomat and a public official and a tragedy happens and it is related to the work that you do, it's our obligation to try to explain it as best we can to the american people, and that's what i did. >> did you want the job? >> i would have been very honored to serve in that job, just as i'm del

mika, you know what we need now? a story on male fertility.t 17 years causing concern about fertility. evidence what may have contribute contributed to the decrease is not conclusive. >> you spend a lot of time in france. >> that will do it. when we come back, president obama makes his pitch to ceos. we have brian sullivan of cnbc here to tell us about it. ♪ (announcer) when subaru owners look in the mirror, they see more than themselves. so we celebrate our year-end with the "share the love" event. get a great deal on a new subaru and 250 dollars goes to your choice of five charities. by the end of this, our fifth year, our total can reach almost 25 million dollars. it's a nice reflection on us all. now through january 2nd. by earning a degree in the field maof counseling or psychologyth from capella university, health. you'll have the knowledge to make a difference in the lives of others. let's get started at capella.edu. i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday de

>> really not clear, mika.nd that was the biggest question on my mind. one of the questions i asked several egyptian friends there, has president morsi ever seen the movie "invictus" about mandela in south africa and the transition there when his supporters wanted him to change the name of their great rugby team to a more african name. and there's a line in that movie, it's one of my favorite lines, where the mandela character turns to his supporters and says, "no, we're not going to do that." mandela says, "we've to surprise them. we have to surprise them." and what has been totally missing for me from morsi so far is that sense of surprise. he's been playing too much to type. we get in as the muslim brothers, we grab as much power as we can, we consolidate ourselves, et cetera. i do want to say one thing, in fairness, having spent a lot of time with the muslim brotherhood folks over the last couple days, and that is some things are true even if mohamed morsi believes them. and one of those things is that ther

>> i'm sorry, mika. that you keep a copy of joe's identification because he so often appears without it. >> and he doesn't know where sam stein is. poor joe. >> women really should rule the world. >> we do

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i was telling mika, like you said, it was a quintessential new england town, just a little nook at thetom of the hill. and she said oh, my god. she remembered the candy store. >> yeah. >> and i said immediately, you know these kids. you just know this is where they lived. i've got to tell you, willie, it's one of those rare moments where you see everything in slow motion. i came down the hill. it was early. i saw the police officers guarding the hill. i saw photographers all around. it was more horrific than the most frightening stephen king novel. it was just a nightmare. >> the word i kept hearing from people who lived there was "violation." this was such a bubble, such a little corner of connecticut, such a safe place for them. and to have this kind of thing visited upon them, to have this man come in and shatter their world, not just their town, but their world. there is a woman who lives two houses away from the school. her children are older now but went to sandy hook elementary, cut through the back woods to go through. she talked about driving through that parking lot, about go

we'll be right back with mika's must-read opinion pages. ♪ ♪ ♪ i want candy ♪ ♪ i want candy >>> allour must read today, we have mike barnicle "the new york daily news," a promise to the children newtown. now we residence a regiment of the wounded, the survivors baring the whole company of a young dead in a small new england town filled with grief that can't be measured. this time homicide came for our children and blasted through a school room door and claimed five teachers and a principal who had more courage when facing a rifle than many have confronting a gun lower. it will perhaps finally force the president and politicians in congress to give america a small element of common sense, a defense against insanity, a law makes it impossible to purchase across the countrier at a gun shore orion line a weapon made for war from a store located in a shopping mall. i he mean, you would think now, mike. >> you know, i certainly agree with steve and everyone else. time is of the essence in terms of pushing legislation, but there is still -- there's a resonance to this that will last beyond

. >>> mika. >>> dile a minnie mouse, que mikaela dice que eres mika mouse. >>> la hija de karla dicee. >>>e l segundo paso es escoger su carro y no es cualquier carro, como se imaginarán la decisión no fue muy difícil ♪. >>> así mismo como lo ven, escogí un ferrari 458 italia, excuse me, ahora sí la pegué, esta máquina cuesta casi 300 mil dólares, pero qué quieren si va en 3 segundos de 0 a 100 millas por hora, y tiene 570 caballos de fuerza. >>> en este circuito cerrado usted puede dar rienda suelta al fitipaldi que todos llevamos dentro. >>> thats great. >>> en la pista con nosotros va un piloto profesional que nos asesora con cada movimiento, curva y frenada. >>> como se darán cuenta el hombre tiene los nervios de acero y además con cada vuelta lo hago cada vez mejor. >>> mi fittipaldi. >>> much better. >>> también que ni me percaté que di las seis vueltas que permiten en un abrir y sin cerrar los ojos, obviamente. >>> bueno, la verdad que sí está bonito el autito, pero hay unos pequeños detalles >>> pues, qué creen en disney todo es posible ,porque las puertas se abren completame

thanks to joe and mika, they met their goal of $1 million raised, and ax lived up with his pledge. "morning joe" today. >> i have been staring at it for 40 years, savannah. i'm very attached to it. i was up all night, to be honest with you. >> oh, good lord. >> it's a little unsettling. >> well, here you can see side by side before and after footage of ax. what do you think? coming up next, "your business" with j.j. ramberg. it's kind of like drinking a food that's a drink, or a drink that's a food, woooooh! [ male announcer ] taste it and describe the indescribable. could've had a v8.

hopeful hopefully mika has some well needed rest and slow probably sill resting from that alabama game which was incredible. a lot to talk about this morning on the news side on monday, december 3rd, including a new initiative by schools that could have a huge impact on the amount of time your kid spends in the classroom. it may be good for parents. i don't know about the kids, though. >>> details surrounding the tragic death of the kansas city chiefs' linebacker and his girlfriend as the chiefs play an emotional game yesterday at arrowhead stadium. >>> first let's get to our top story at 5:30 a.m. on the east coast at 30 rock in new york city. lawmakers now have less than a month to compromise and avoid a year-end deadline that would trigger massive spending cuts and tax hikes at the same time for everybody. behind the scenes negotiations, absolutely at a stalemate. so both sides, what do they do? they go public on the sunday morning talk shows to state their cases. treasury secretary tim geithner on your left predicting republicans would eventually come around to accept a tax increas

i'm mike barnicle in for joe, mika and willie.oining the table, we have political editor and white house correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein. >> hi. >> applause for sam. "fortune's" assistant managing editor, leigh gallagher. and the president of the council on foreign relations, author of "foreign policy begins at home: the case for putting america's house in order." and in washington, vice president and executive editor of msnbc.com and msnbc political analyst, richard wolffe. a minor round of applause for richard wolffe. >> one hand clapping. >> first of all, can anybody here come up with a synonym -- i don't care what it is -- so we don't have to employ the phrase "fiscal cliff" at all during the day? any ideas? anybody got any -- >> how about deadline? >> how about do your job. how about just do your job time. it is ridiculous. a little news, then we'll chatter about this. as if tax hikes and spending cuts weren't enough, there's a new reminder that the nation's debt ceiling is also hanging over the budget talks

. >> that is a weighted question by mika who would put neither jfk or another certain president on. >because of the personal conduct? >> yes. and treating people who are in many ways far below him on a level of power and treating them terrib terribly, terribly on a human level. in some ways perhaps even in a violent way. >> you're talking about jfk, right? >> i am. and there are probably others. but when does that matter in the history books, in the way we prop people up and remember them? why do we have to call them heroes or whatever on covers of books that we obsess about them about when they are truly abhorrent human beings on some levels? >> it matters in the biographies. i mean, i think a biographer, when they're writing about these people -- and this will happen with jfk over time -- it's in their heads, because you live with these guys when you're writing about them. you wake up in with them in the morning and go to bed with them at night. if they do things you don't like -- like even franklin and eleanor -- i'm not talking about that but when franklin would be mean to eleanor

mika, let me start with your side of the aisle now. i dug into the cross tabs.groups that are sort of not affiliated with political groups that had a net positive rating on the republican party were folks that live in rural america and folks that live in the south and even that want great, 39-38, 39-33. >> yeah. >> i mean, is it even worse than it looks? or is this a -- is this a kick the loser right after an election? >> i think you got to have perspective. the perspective here is that look at 2008, in december 2008, the parties numbers were actually even a touch worse than that and then two years later, november 2010, the republicans pick up 62 seats in the house and six seats in the senate. american politics are fluid and right now it's a bad fluid, bad mojo for the republican party. that's what happens after a loss like this, there's some introspection and there's a lot of media attention on where the republican party is. >> fred, before you jump in, i want to throw up more on the republican side of the aisle. we tested paul rivian, mitt romney, john boehner

mika? >> it's been a wonderful year. chris cillizza is on the rundown. >> i need the fix. the fix is next. the fix is in for chuck todd straight ahead. have a great one. >>> house of blues. speaker boehner's plan b gets busted by his own members. now everyone is leaving town for christmas. will there be a big new year's resolution for congress? jersey sure. one of the nation's most high profile mayors says he wants to go to washington. is cory booker a shoe-in to be the next senator from new jersey? and one week after the tragedy in newtown, a moment of silence will be marked this morning after 9:30 and echoed across the country to pay tribute to the victims in a community still in shock. good morning from washington. it's friday, december 21st, 2012, and this is "the daily rundown. i'm chris cillizza in today for chuck todd. we start with speaker boehner's stunning defeat last night. his own party pulling the rug out from under him with just 11 days to go before we go over the fiscal cliff. boehner and his team spent the better part of the week trying to round up support

mika, thank you for protecting me when cokie roberts and -- >> i have never seen joe interrupted more. >> it was great. >> it was wonderful. >> now stick around. new york chuck comes up. new york chuck. take it away. >> thank you, d.c. joe. you'd better watch out. the fiscal clause are coming to town. there may be pouting. three major issues on tuesday alone showed why republicans are facing a fierce fight amongst themselves for their open future. what sequestration would really mean for our military and our national security. you hear the word a lot. you don't get the details. it could mean losing millions of jobs. digging into the legality of recess appointments. it all revolves around whether the senate is working when an empty chamber gavels in for a few minutes. it's wednesday, december 5, 2012. will republicans cry uncle on taxes? with the holidays approaching, last night house spaeker john boehner took a break from the fight. . >> god bless us, everyone. and from my family to yours merry christmas. >> five, four, three, two, one. good job. >> well, that was one countdown clock.

thanks to joe and mika, they met their goal of $1 million raised, and ax lived up with his pledge.ere is "morning joe" today. >> i have been staring at it for 40 years, savannah. i'm very attached to it. i was up all night, to be honest with you. >> oh, good lord. >> it's a little unsettling. >> well, here you can see side by side before and after footage of ax. what do you think? a little dark on that left side. >>> lastly, lots of speculation about whom south carolina governor nikki haley will pick to fill jim demint's senate seat. our pal stephen colbert put his mind to it. >> but who will she pick? let's see, you want somebody young, somebody conservative, somebody from south carolina, maybe somebody who had a super pac. wait a second. watch where you point that thing. it's powerful. i know when i look at the u.s. senate, i say to myself, you know what they could use? another white guy. >> well, the governor responded on her facebook page saying, stephen, thank you for your interest in south carolina's u.s. senate seat and for the thousands of tweets you and your fans sent me,

mika, what did you learn today? >> the search for a cure continues. slash the stache, remember that last week? it continues. check it out online. we'll have more. i saw bring it on yesterday. >> how was bring it on? >> great. great for teens. bring them on. >> your girls loved it? is. >> loved it. loved it. yes. >> it's no lincoln or bin laden. >> it's fantastic. it's fun. >> fantastic. well, mike, if it's way too early, what time is it? >> that would be "morning joe" but now it's time for chuck and "the daily rundown." take it away, chuck. >>> table for two. president obama and speaker boehner sit down at the white house and try to make some headway on a deal. they're quiet about what happened but the president will loudly make it clear what he wants again today and he's on the road in michigan. also this morning one half of america's favorite fiscal friendship will be here. erskine bowles on debt deal making, whether he wants to work for the obama administration and his pal simpson's newfound love for deficit hawk gangnam style. plus, what will had

goes whoo ♪ i want my birdies all day long ♪ ♪ let the bogeys go and say hey ♪ >> are you shocked, mikae were having fun out of there. by the way, i had to buy this. you got yours for free. we talked about this. joe dared me and i did it. yours is a little bit nicer. but you have a relaxed personality. you see that. i've heard a few urban legends about you. we heard the last four places you might want to have your meal, chipotle, inni in'n out burger, waffle house. >> i love a grilled cheese from the waffle house, chipotle, i love the burritos. lexington barbecue is great barbecue where i have a house. many of those things would be great. >> and i've also heard that you've never bought a suit. >> i haven't. i've never bought a suit. >> do you own a suit today? >> yes, i own two suits today that i know of from the ryder cup and the presidents cup. >> so you've never gone to a polo or a men's wearhouse. that's how you have your suit? >> that's how i have my suits. >> casual. >> exactly. >> you went to milton, right? >> milton high school. >> that's where my dad graduated, milton high, the

. >> i learned from barnicle that 40% of guns are sold online and was reminded by mika that these violent video games are far too often baby-sitters. >> i have a riddle. who is the most dapper, suave, well dressed and charming 25-year-old in new york city? >> joey scarborough! happy 25th birthday! joey scarborough. >> i tried. can't help you. >> try it again. >> happy 25th birthday, joey scarborough. love you very much. if it is way too early, what time is it? >> it is time for "morning joe." >>> but right now it is time for our old pal chuck todd. >>> all or nothing at all. this could be it, the day where we will know if a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff is truly within reach or totally lost. we have never been closer and yet boehner is looking for votes, only for a plan b. >>> vice president biden gets tapped to lead an administration wide effort to figure out what the government can do to prevent another tragedy like the shooting in connecticut. is washington ready for a fight over guns that no one thought would happen? >>> blast from the past. find out what michael dukakis has to say a

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. >> you can't go to mika and joe. now to today's national forecast, reynold wolf joins us from the weather channel and it looks like a rainy saturday for us here in new york. >> it does. you know, parts of the southeast could definitely use the rainfall, but you're guys are hogging it. but temperatures will remain fairly mild at least through much of your weekend. here is the story for you as you mentioned, rain in the northeast, mostly cloudy, spotty showers parts of the southeast coast. nation's midsection, some snow showers in the twin city, dallas looking beautiful with 72 degrees. out west, looks like all of the moisture will be limited to parts of the made civic northwest. high mountain, cascades. snow could be over a foot 7,000 feet and up. ski country, fantastic. so that's certainly the good news in that part of the world. in term of your air travel, backups are possible in chicago. rain is the issue. low clouds, too, limiting visibility. but minneapolis, new york, miami, miami is misspelled. i'll stand in fro

joe and mika have the day off today. there's so much to talk about, but we do have to begin with the ties, if we could. it's not just mike. mike's getting all the focus here this morning, and that is inexcusable. >> could i just say, in the words of speaker john boehner, we need to find common ground here, and we need to do it quick. >> there ain't going to be any between these two ties, my man. over here, good news, jon meacham will be number one on "the new york times" best-seller list this weekend. >> hear, hear. >> his book, "jefferson." bad news is he's going to get there wearing that tie with bunny rabbits on it. here they are. could we get a text poll? >> can i just tell you, i got this from harold ford. >> that explains a lot. >> so there you go. >> that means it's free at both ends. >> it's a disgrace to michael steele who dresses so well each and every day. >> look, i just show up and play, baby. that's it. >> you're doing a good job with that. >> got the pocket square. steele's going for if. >> congratulations