>> mika brzezinski day. group of people out in los angeles and burbank. we really appreciate it. you woke up at obscene hours and put up with us. also, jim leech in orange county, running us from 6:00 to 9:00 on the west coast in orange county. and coming to l.a. some time soon. have a great weekend. be safe if you're out there traveling on the east coast. a lot of snow. stay inside. and i've got to say it because i'm from northwest florida, go, saints. if it's way too early, mika, what time is it? >> it's "morning joe." but now it's time for "the daily rundown." have a great weekend, everyone. >>> numbers just in. the unemployment rate has dropped, but there's more than meets the eye behind those figures and it's not good news. >>> and the head of toyota says, i'm sorry, but is another recall on the way? >>> good morning, it's february 5th, 2010. i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm chuck todd. let's get to the rundown. we start with the big numbers from the labor department. the unemployment rate has dropped t

so the next night i would say, now here is mika brzezinski with news you need to know and at the end she would say-- now back to-- >> scarborough country. >> i figured out she was making fun of me and after five months we never met and never talked to me and after five months after don imus decided he is going to comment on women's basketball, would you like to tryout the morning show? they kept trying to push these women on me that were more girls than brains. i said no, this is going to be a different show about foreign policy. we are going to talk politics. we are going to doh for three hours and there will be no-till the prompting. this will be where america's lead is. i said with the bob woodward's are going to come and the white house officials. i need a grownup sitting next to me who can also give it back to me, and they said, that does not exist. so i go up to, i go up to msnbc and dicey meet the across the newsroom and i am like, okay. i am going to get even with her and i'm going to let her know i may be from the university of alabama but i'm not dumb. [laughter] well, not

. >> mika brzezinski. >>> fattah joe scarborough where you currently reading? >> let's see, and actually reading harold evans, buy paper chase which is a remarkable -- you talk about when the newspapers or in their heyday, carroll cracked spy cases and discovered he had a remarkable career in the times of london and it's a great book and i am reading a couple of other books by william faulkner i go through line by line every few years and another by british historian alistair horne which is a great history of paris. it is about his enjoyable history book as i have ever read secure but cannot earlier this year. when is your next one? >> i don't know. we got in the top ten for two or three weeks and that was great but it's kind of tough fighting political books and this environment unless you want to write a polemic and that's not really my style, so i don't know. the best part of writing the book was the book tour because we would go out and have these great crowds. would the democratic and republican and was like having town hall meetings all over the country a