mike barnicle i saw ellis andrew stanley's review of this in "the times." perfect as always. >> she nailed it. >> it was funny except when it wasn't. that's "snl." you go back to the very first "snl." they ran out of time and stood there. >> it's always been uneven always spotty but those magic moments, man, they're magic. and her point, joe, 3 1/2 hours of tv you couldn't stop watching in anticipation well maybe one of the clips will be the thing i remember. >> exactly. >> you couldn't stop watching it. >> i remember a hilarious line i think in the 30th anniversary where chris rock stood up and said "welcome to snl's 30th an anniversary anniversary" and maybe three or four years were actually good. everyone laughed. it's kind of like when johnniey carson missed a joke. >> he had ed there laughing at the nonfunny jokes. >> exactly. we laugh sometimes at the not so funny jokes on "snl." >>> "it's my party" was the theme song of the 1960s. ♪ it's my party and i'll cry if i want to ♪ ♪ cry if i want to cry if i want to ♪ ♪ you would cry too if it happened to y

mike barnicle here is what the post sports headline says don't accept your apology.dear alex disgusted fans pin letters back to a-rod. is he going to win the fans back? >> no no. >> did he ever have the fans? >> yes, when he was alex rodriguez on steroids, yes, he did have the fans. he can't do what the yankees wanted him to do which was to have a press conference at yankee stadium prior to the start of spring training. he couldn't do that. >> why not? >> because he might say something that would get him in legal jeopardy. >> he's still in trouble. >> is he going to be able to produce at all for the yankees off steroids? >> they doubt it. >> what's the history of guys being off steroids for so long getting off steroids and doing well? >> it's not good joe, especially when you've taken a year off. he's 40 years old. >> i was going to say, the guy is not 25. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist domenica davis. so it ooes going to be 75 80 over the next week or two. >> yeah by friday we should be up to 75 just for you. >> that's the type of meteorolo

political director and moderator, former mccain strategist steve schmidt. >> and john mccain. >> and mike barniclee set. he's kind of hanging out. let's go to washington, d.c. while mike gets his bearings. we asked mike to stay here. >> that's not fair. you set him up. >> chuck todd rarely do you have weeks where winners and losers at least on -- in a presidential sweepstakes even a year out are so clear. chris christie had a really bad week. rand paul had a really bad week. jeb bush pretty good week. >> you know i think this is the way it's going to be now from here on out is that every week we'll feel this way, whether my guess is you and i are going to be sitting here every friday going, what just happened, what did we learn? i'm with you. i think we learned that rand paul and chris christie are thin skinned on the case of chris christie, still thin skinned. >> yeah. >> i think we learned -- it's interesting by jeb, the front-runner without the polls showing it. >> right. >> and the one thing i would say he still has oratoricle work to do. reading his speech is one thing. seeing him deliver it

mike barnicle is here. senior political editor for the huffington post. sam stein is here too. hi. >> how is it going to. >> can't complain. >> long week. let's get to the news. jordan is not backing down its efforts to take the fight to islamic state militants. they unleashed a new round of air strikes in syria following the apparent burning death o

>> mike barnicle? say that you know a huge percentage of homeland security employees will continue to work. the most visible homeland securities are the tsa agents that everyone sees at airport '. they will continue to work without pay. how do you sit there in the capitol, you will get paid for working a two- or three-day workweek. the tsa employees working a five-day workweek. how in good conscience can you do that? >> i would forego my pay during government shutdown just as they would. but what's important to remember and joe well knows this and i think you well know this, which is at the end of the day after any of these shutdowns squichlishes, there's a legitimate contest of opinions within the congress and within the executive branch, these folks do get paid. it's not as many they're not paid it's as if they're not paid during that time of shut dols down. >> these are people living paycheck to paycheck. they're not like you. the larger point here. the common sense answer i think most americans wou

mike barnicle what do you think? >> i think we're going way overboard here. with all due respect to david and his reporting you've got a guy here, west point grad 82nd airborne, encounters a homeless person in the streets of los angeles, a guy with no resort to anything. he says, hey, what did you serve with? special forces. trying to establish this thing, yeah, i was with special forces. let it go please. >> what do you think the people in special forces think? >> nothing. >> you don't think anybody in special forces think anything about a guy who claims to be in special force? >> again 82nd airborne west point grad serving his country now with distinction, let it go. >> i think what they care about is what he does for the va now. if there is a pattern revealed bigger story. >> correct. >> i don't see it at this point from looking at that. >>> big news overseas. potential breakthrough in the talks between iran and united states. >> that's just what i was going to say. >> really? >> a new round of negotiations was going the take place next week after senior u

katty kay and mike barnicle back with us.dr. brzezinski and also with us from the woodrow international center robin wright. good to have you both on. >> dr. brzezinski let's start with you. we heard from jeb bush yesterday on his ideas for foreign policy. he was asked how to stop isis and he was no more specific than hillary clinton. both presumed nominees if you can presume a nominee a year out, don't want to go on the record. when then had john mccain on who said we need 10,000 boots on the ground. what do you say? americans are looking at the news and now waking up this morning hearing that even italy is concerned about the threat from isis. what's our next step as a country and as an international community? >> well first of all, i think we have to approach this issue with some understanding of its historical dimension. we're dealing here with a massive political awakening in the muslim world. one which is directed against its former oppressors or rulers particularly in the form of colonial powers. great deal of resentme

you got this. >>> mike barnicle another player we need to sort out.ew york yankees jason giambi is retiring. five-time all-star. one of only 20 players with 400 home runs 1400 rbis 1200 runs 100 walks. that legacy was tarnished by the investigation. one of the roids guys. i remember seeing giambi the year after he got off the roids. he was a little guy compared to the big guy. how is his legacy sorted out? >> he's never going to make the hall of fame because of the numbers. but he goes down within the baseball culture as one of the all-time great team guys. >> great guy. >> supposedly so. supposedly one of the all-time great team guys. >> that's good to know. "washington post" is out with new rampgings of top presidents. i love these lists. i don't know about you guys. i'm a list guy. i mean i get those rolling stone lists with the top songs. i always devoured them. abraham lincoln takes the top spot. the man who brought the country back together. barack obama ranks 18th. john f. kennedy rated the most overrated presidential. >> come on. >> a ranking

i'll have to have mike barnicle explain. >> you understand? to hear that story, mike. >> and 1968? >> i don't want to hear about it that breakthrough and the controversy surrounding it, straight ahead. >> all right. the future of the market is never clear. but at t. rowe price we can help guide your retirement savings. our experience is one reason 100% of our retirement funds beat their 10-year lipper averages. so wherever your long-term goals take you we can help you feel confident. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. ♪ ♪ ♪ "here i am. rock you like a hurricane." ♪ fiber one now makes cookies. find them in the cookie aisle. >>> welcome back everybody. have you heard about this jun britain's house of commons approving a controversial measure allowing one baby to have three genetic parents. >> wait, wait. mike says he understands this. like the summer of love and all that st

. >> a story, mike barnicle of a girl, right here, of a girl that that well behaved. younger siblings. devoted daughter read "harry potter" and now is the top recruiter for western girls. >> and snared these girls in syria, and part of her scenario involves encrypted media back and forth on the internet and seemingly governments can't crack the encryption doed get in there. >> this recruiter left her home in 2013 described as extremely popular, very normal. aspiring pharmacist or doctor. took care of her kids her grandparents, and i mean no sign i guess, is the point. >> listen to coldplay read "harry potter." >> that's any girl it is. officials are sas isis kidnapped at least 150 people from christian villages in northeastern syria following raids there. their rein of terror across the middle east continues and now seem to be more focused on christians. go to the pentagon right now. nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jik miklaszewski. what's the pennell saying about the latest kidnappings? >> talk about the female recruiting for a minute. one of the issues the new

. >> let's ask barnicle about it. mike are you upset about this? t me a picture of him shoveling his snow. barnicle's snow banks were above his head at the end of his driveway. he's not happy. >> poor barnicle. >> let's get in to this. today, snowshowers this isn't the main event. it looks like it's going to be over the upcoming weekend. here comes the storm. the storm itself is going to be just like a lot of the last ones. it hits eastern portions of new england the most a glancing blow for areas like new york and maybe a little more snow around hartford providence and albany. our computers say a possibility exists for another foot in areas of boston through maine. it is going to be very windy. regardless, if the storm is further off the coast, we get a little less snow it's going to be so windy and cold we'll have a ground blizzard. you can actually have a blizzard without it even snowing. it's going to be blowing all over the place. people will have to shovel all over again. windchills in the dangerous levels on sunday like negative numbers when

absolutely. >> mike barnicle. >> talking about the clip we just showed and the extended clip which youd ramifications of what's going on with isis when you say, "we," we have to do this we can do this define the ultimate term of "we," because it's not just in the middle east. we have huge slums outside paris that are spawning grounds for radical extremists. define the "we." >> i think the we is the international community and a very good question. this is not something the united states can do on its own. this week the state department at the white house, we have over 60 countries from around the world who are facing a number of different kinds of extremist threats, who are coming together to say, okay. what are the best practices how question identify people who may become extremists before they do? to help prevent that? once they do to help counterthat. this is not -- you're absolutely right, mike this is not just a threat in one place. if you look at the lord's re's zichbt army and joseph coney. i don't remember people talking about that much more but that's a christian group and th

. >> mike barnicle? >> tough numbers in your state. >> that's not surprising. president. your home state says, no, you committed to being governor, whatever. what bothers me about governor chris christie's potential run for president is he panders to certain -- >> in what way? >> the vaccination stuff that popped up, you know, when he was in london. i mean this -- you know come on. come on. just -- >> no hypocrisy because he criticized the lay day who came back from the ebola areas and said she would be put in a certain area. what's that word called? politics. >> it's now the second story where science has gotten in the way of politics. >> contrast the last two guys we talked about. walker, not a lot of people in the country know anything about. he's able to come out and introduce himself. he made a budget speech yesterday where he started building his personal story. i was a dishwasher worked at mcdonald's. chris christie a lot of americans already know some things. what they know is whether it's fair or not, the bridgegate story, they know he's a little bomb

mike barnicle donny deutsch, mark halperin sarah eisen, eugene robinson and david ignatius with all withhe news. libya is dealing with a setback in efforts to fight islamic state militants. the u.s. and britain are both rejecting the country's request to lift a united nations arms embargo. they say libya needs a national unity government to resolve the fighting in its own country first. but the u.s. has announced an agreement with turkey to arm and train moderate rebels who are fighting isis in syria. meanwhile, senior pentagon officials confirm there are plans for a major offensive to regain control of the second largest city in iraq. sound familiar? officials say the battle for mosul will likely begin in the spring and involve up to 25,000 iraqi troops. david ignatius i know you just got back from an extensive trip to the middle east. any sichbs that we're making gains or winning the fight against isis? >> yes. you can travel down roads in northern iraq on the way to mosul that two weeks ago were being held by the islamic state fighters. they're now open. the amount of ground that's be