mike allen also green. st. paddy's day. >> mike o'allen. >> and david ignatius, what happened? is a green sort of sweater. i tried. >> deep green. whatever. thanks a lot, david. it's really good to have you on the show. god knows my dad will wear a brown suit today just to bother me. mike allen, thank you. >>> florida gators survived kentucky to win a number one seed in this year's ncaa tournament. a complete preview of march madness is next. with at&t's new pricing for families you get 4 lines on at&t's network... including unlimited talk unlimited text ...and 10 gigs of data to share. 10 gigs? 10 gigs. all for $160 dollars a month. you know, i think our family really needed this. it's really gonna bring us closer together. yep. yep. yep. yep. yep. yep. introducing our best-ever family pricing for instance, a family of four gets 10 gigs of data with unlimited talk and text for 160 dollars a month. only from at&t. maestro of project management. baron of the build-out. you need a permit... to be this awesome. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose an

mike allen has that in the morning "playbook."t this morning. >> it's mid-january, willie, snow in the mid-atlantic, snow across the heartland, and the snow in the worst in mid-atlantic and around washington, d.c. look at the airport delays. not showing any. why? almost all of the flights were cancelled. over 2,000 flights were cancelled, pre-emptively before the storm arrived. that's why we're not seeing horrible delays. the same in richmond where the snow is moving. temperatures are plenty cold enough now. it's 25 in d.c. the temperatures in richmond are falling. you're going from sleet to snow shortly. the snow totals, it's not earth shattering, not even close to the biggest storms this winter. but somewhere around 6 inches in d.c. when we're said and done. it's almost done in philadelphia, probably right around 3 inches. no more snow in new york. richmond, you get yours during the day. the cold is just horrible. people in the middle of the country, the sleet yesterday, still on the roads, it's horrible. be careful traveling. a

mike allen, i know we have to go. >> mike, that's fascinating. a guy running the intel committee.ng on there? >> joe, this is a quiz. he's announced his next profession. it will be, what? >> what? >> talk radio. cumulus announced he'll do a show for them on westwood one after he leaves congress at the end of this year. so he's youngish, just remarried, going to make some money and -- >> is it mr. rogers? what's the show called? >> it is now. mr. rogers' neighborhood? the latest in a string of very serious-minded legislators who are deciding that they've had it with congress. this is -- there's been a wave of retirements this year. and he's just the latest. >> it's becoming, al, more -- it's becoming less fulfilling to be a senator or a congressman. >> impactful. >> less impactful. you would never have heard ten years ago somebody as a united states senator saying, you know what, i'm quitting to run a think tank, like jim demint did. >> or a radio show. >> or i'm quitting -- >> to do a radio talk show. >> yes. >> i would just say mike ronalders was supposed to be an interview with

they love mike allen.are saying right now, i'm going to hear when i pick up jack at school, they love the birthday shout-outs! >> with us now the chief white house correspondent for politico, the man himself, mr. mike allen at a look that playbook. mike, good morning. >> good morning. and happy birthday to al gore. >> there you go. >> jack and his friends, today, they are going to go, happy birthday to al gore. i don't know how they do it. as art linkletter used to say, you're a huge fan. kids say the darnedest things. >> happy birthday, vice president gore. >>> let's talk a little politico here, mike. scott brown has decided to run for u.s. senate in new hampshire and going up against the democrat there who has a plan on how to make sure brown's campaign is not successful. what is her approach to going after scott brown? >> she is already going after him really tough. this is going to be one of the nastiest senate races in the run. scott brown not officially announced. he is exploring. but senator shea he

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now let's go to mike allen.will let the science speak for itself. >> we haven't recovered from it. >> okay. >>> mike allen is here with the morning playbook. why don't you save me from myself, mike. one of your lead stories this morning on politico. the pureporting by "the guardia and "the washington post." >> welcome home, mika. this is a juicy debate that is going to play out between now and april 14th when columbia awards the pulitzer prizes. do they go ahead and endorse the reporting by colleagues at the "the washington post" and "the guardian" about edward snowden? clearly the biggest story of the year and you could argue the biggest journalistic story of the decade and president obama and people in the government say these revelations have been very harmful. the justice department almost certainly is going to try to prosecute edward snowden and he is thinking of some sort of plea bargain to bring him home. or pick the government over the journalist and ignore what is clearly the biggest story of the year?

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. >> with us now the chief white house correspondent for politico, mike allen. at the playbook. mike, good morning. >> good morning, willie. happy friday! >> happy friday. the weekend officially begins with that. let's get to the rnc possible sites for 2016. las vegas is one of the favorites among, i guess, eight finalists of the cities but you guys are reporting that a democratic group is threatening to track every move republicans make at that convention if, in fact, it's held in vegas. >> that's right, willie. when the republican national committee announcesed five finalists. nevada is a swing state. the governor there is a republican and a big criteria for them picking the cities. brian sandoval a big rising star. the casino owner would bankroll a lot of the convention and would take away a lot of the money problems. but as we have talked around, aides, lawmakers are worried about late night bad behavior. that had always been the big asterisk next to las vegas. now american bridge, the democratic group headed by brad woodhouse founded by david brock says if r

joining us now, chief white house correspondent for politico, mike allen. to uc berkley for a discussion about the nsa and privacy concerns. a preview? >> yeah, well, that's right, mika. and berkeley could be a tough crowd for rand paul, but he's taking a smart subject. he's taking on the nsa. but, mika, we have an exclusive he's going beyond that. we have a look at his rashes. and he's going to go beyond the nsa. he's going to attack for the first time the u.s. intelligence more broadly, specifically he's going to name the cia. he's going to say that senators have a fear of an intelligence community that rand paul will say is drunk with power, unrepentant and unincleared to relinquish power. rand paul will say he's worried and not sure who is in charge of the government. mika, making very strong, very wide charges about the strength of the intelligence community, something that might play quite well in berkeley. >> well, we'll see what happens during that speech and hear more what he has to say. thomas, quick question? >> no, i wanted to update us on louisi

. >> let's go to mike allen, the chief white house correspondent at politico. he has a look at the playbook. >> alex burns, new story out this morning on politico.com, breaking down the political operations behind the scenes of the 2016 republican hopefuls, who already has the ball rolling to the least prepared. let's start with the most prepared raspberry wepublicans n for president in 2016. this is what mike halpern called the invisible candidates, behind the scenes. marco rubio and bobby jindal. marco rubio has been investing in data analytics and he's already spending to support other republicans. we talked on the show about how his reclaim america has spent for tom cotton in arkansas running for senate and for senator kelly ayotte in new hampshire. bobby jindal already been to new york city this year four times to raise money. >> now you have semi prepared on your list. what do you mean and who is in that category? >> semi prepared is people who are gearing up but haven't built as much of a structure as marco rubio has. these are probably the most visible

senior advisor president obama sat down for an interview yesterday with political correspondent mike allen at the top explained the administrations new sanctions over russia's intervention in ukraine. he also spoke about the white house communication habits, including the reliance on twitter and what the president likes to read. this is about 50 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome politico's chief white house correspondent mike allen. [applause] >> good morning and welcome to the playbook breakfast. thank you for bearing with us as we rescheduled the time and place because of the ice. i think my political colleagues and the white house are making this new gig available and for you all for coming. want to thank c-span for caring as lives. welcome to c-span viewers. welcome to our live streaming viewers. we would love to take your questions as we go, tweet us at #playbookbreakfast. we've got the twitter machine up your and i will take your questions. like to thank bank of america for the continued partnership in making these conversations available. we've had a great year alread

c-span2, senior white house adviser dan keifer will sit down househe chief white correspondent mike allen for live coverage starting at 8:10. the house foreign affairs committee will meet to look at the recent events in ukraine and u.s. foreign policy options in the region. live coverage begins at 9:00 eastern. >> coming up this hour, we will talk with a former health care advisor in the obama administration about implementing the health care law . his book is reinventing american health care. discussing the president's 2013 budget or postal. join the conversation on facebook and twitter. host: good morning, everyone, and welcome to the "washington journal." up on capitol hill, the house is expected to vote on that aid package to ukraine. the house foreign affairs committee will begin snoring a resolution condemning the violation of the ukrainian sovereignty and call for sanctions on russia. live coverage on c-span three at 9 a.m. this morning. we will also be covering the ways and means committee with treasury secretary jacob lew testifying about the 2015 budget blueprint.

>> coming up on "morning joe," we'll check in with politico's mike allen, plus behind-the-scenes scoopave you seen it, willie? >> yes, amazing. >> don't you think this could be his best? >> it's right -- >> amazing. >> a visual spectacular. [ overlapping speakers ] >> no. >> you're right. tannenbaum is amazing. ru rushmore is amazing. mr. fox. our family favorite. >> the next "morning joe" trivia morning jolt trivia question, what kind of vehicle was i driving on my way to work -- sort of obsessed here -- with -- actually, the most fantastic car you could ever have. it was given to me. >> the full video at morningjoe.msnbc .com. you have a real problem finishing the teases. >>> here's bill karins. he has a check on the forecast. bill, when will it get warm? >> probably this afternoon will be better in the new york area. but not until the weekend. then it rains. i don't have any good news for you at all. let's talk about the big, huge storm yesterday. the huge wind event from much of new england. but it hit our friends in the canadian maritimes the worst, and they're dressed like us. th

one of morrell's new bosses is allen, and allen's old boss is the committee chair republican congressman mikes. in a statement to fox news, they said morrell was not approached until well after he left the cia. allen was first approached in june after beacon reg sistered saying, quote, therefore, nobody could have been influenced by events that were not yet plans and had not yet occurred. mike rogers underscored the fact no congressional committee has done more to investigate committee, and morrell is now being recalled for a third time where in an open forum, all issues can be addressed, including allegations by republicans that morrell misled the senate intelligence committee. >> that will be an interesting hearing to watch. thank you. >>> later this week, senators will consider releasing key sections of a report on cia terrorist interrogation. that could trigger an escalation of the already tense relations between the lawmakers and the spy agency. some are hoping that president obama will intervene. bret baier will have an exclusive interview tomorrow night with outgoing nsa chief keith al

mike is going to come back into something. ford here. m maurer i don't know tim allen claus. >>: now his got nothing to do. he does ago. >>: he does was to be shown. i think since return his become like a twitter king. he does instagram and bolting. whatever makes you happy. what is it about a beer. it's like a man with a beard >>: i kind of do. like that there was fine. i told you with the duck dynasty. the silly 1382 much. i like it's either feast of the or stay up here. >>: is the purpose of a beer just a gift of attention? >>: it's to be mannerly. >>: and if you can grow one it's laziness. remember here's the thing to. i think we agree on this. in direct farm said that the job demands no reminds me of a young brett farr 3 which no way if you like brecht far. he was not like that. he did not come out of college with this hoopla he was in such a big star at that time and not even know if he looked like that on the field. and i don't even know how you get that out of your mouth. gabriel slate reminds me of a young gary radnich. >>: how does that even come out of your

mike! >> caller: hey, jim, thank you for my tip a year ago. i doubled my money. thank you. what is your prognosis on alu? >> some worries about europe i want to go to allen in new jersey please caller hello. >> hi, helen, how are you? >> caller: hi, how are you mr. kramer. i want to ask about these isis stock. >> i think it's terrific. this group is under pressure. once again the high volatile stocks go down. they bounce back fast. i think this will. i think there are many other biotech stocks hit on unfairly. hal in south carolina. >> caller: jim, you do a super good job. thank you for your advice. >> thank you. >> i want to ask about pba peoplebino pipeline. it's paying 4% dividends. buy, sell or hold? >> is this is like access mid-stream partners. they are very steady. they grow. i can't count on selling it. go to giovani in new mexico. >> yes. >> go ahead. >> yes, how are you doing, jim? i'm inial kerg. i was look into biib. >> biogen, i think it should still be bought. i think it's going higher. can i go to chris in texas? caller boo-yah, this is chris in odessa, texas. >> odessa, two twin city, one of my favors, what's up? >> caller: you hit it on

allen schauffler, appreciate it. on to the hague, in the netherlands. president obama is there urging other world leaders to isolate and punish russia for what happened in crimea. white house correspondent mike viqueria has the story. >> a long scheduled nuclear summit has come to be dominated by the crisis in ukraine. with the famed rembrandt work "the night watch" behind him. >> we're united in imposing a cost on russia. >> but that's become a tough goal of this trip. russia has been thrown out for now from the group of the powerful nations known as the g8. mr. obama called a meeting of the seven remaining, a clear warning to russia there will be a heavy economic price to pay if it goes further into crimea and eastern ukraine. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov showed little concern. >> we are not clinging to that group. >> in a positive sign sat down with ukraine's interim foreign minister after weeks of refusing to meet insisting the kiev government was illegitimate. mr. obama has several meetings, over the next few days, sitting down with chinese leader shin ji pang. ukraine has and will continue to dominate the agenda aas the allies come together to curb future aggression. >> that'

allen had this to say about pot making people lazy. no more than legalizing alcohol did. at least marijuana as many redeeming uses in medicine. mikeittle leasing thati president, not a community organizer. 0 little harsh. gin that had this to say about zeke emanual's comments, i will not register all my family on the government insurance plan or my guns ever. i will negotiate directly with the doctor. not sure where guns came into that but it was in the e-mail to us over the facebook message. it is yours now. adam: i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in your morning meeting the talking about a young woman suing her parents because she had to move out. cheryl: i disagree with tracy on that. what a difference a day makes when it comes to your money. i am cheryl casone. adam: adam shapiro. russia is retreating and the market's doing anything but. the major averages wedding out losses and continuing to gain ground, a better than 2 and the points. cheryl: president obama and john kerry condemning russia's actions but offering few other details. president putin pulling back troops that says he reserves the right to use for

mike mccall. very plugged in to the latest on the investigation. also dr. allen diehl.thinks the satellite images are or are not part of the plane. if you do find them, can you retrace? because we're talking about a couple of weeks later. and then we're going to be talking about ukraine with our panel. john kasich, the governor of ohio. remarkable economic turnaround in that state. running for re-election. some people say a real possibility as the gop candidate for president in 2016. we'll talk to him about all of that. we'll ask him how he's feeling now that dayton beat syracuse in that big upset last night. >> good times for ohio this morning, chris. thank you for that. and all the experts on your show. do you have another expert on your show to analyze how you and john scott managed to wear the same tie today? >> look at that! >> did you guys call each other? >> i have a theory about that. >> what is it? >> that we both got it from the same source, which is the clothes fairy at fox news. >> this happens a lot with the ladies and our dresses, too. >> chris wallace has