we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. senior contributor for the week matt lewis. he is out with a new book "too dumb to fail, how the gop betrayed the reagan revolution to claim relaxelections." co-host of with all due respect, john hol ran. >>> chris christie kind of lost it on a young woman reporter. we'll get to that. was she a reporter? >> young woman. >> just asking a question? >> the mop. i don't know. >> please tell me it was not just a person. okay. would have been better if it was a reporter. >>> the trump thing. we laugh about the canadian deal. >> we know -- >> his numbers have bled. have bled since he started calling him the canadian. >> it's not even about the citizenship thing. it's about reminding people that he's canadian. >> born in canada. >> never mind the natural born citizen legal question. it's just the reminder. >> this guy is not from texas. >> a pipeline. >> one of the -- one of the most cutting lines was when ted cruz went after his scottish grand mom, or mother and trump goes, hey, but i was bo

you talk to anybody in boston and they come up to you and it's mike barnicle. is, doesn't matter how big they are, stars in hollywood, it's "you know barnicle, what's he like? >> last week i interviewed matt damon, i said before we started mike barnicle says hi. his eyes -- "barnicle!" . >> and katty kay in washington and managing editor of bloomberg, mark hal preseperin. >> i do want to talk to mark halperin. >> real quickly. you have 20 seconds. >> i was at george w. bush's campaign rally in 2004 in the final stages of that unbelievable presidential race in early november. i saw reagan come to pensacola twice in 1980. i saw the crowds, i've never seen anything like that in my hometown before. it's absolutely staggering, here we are in early january. i'll be honest with you. i guess seeing it in your own hometown, i don't -- i don't -- i can't believe i'm saying this. i don't get it as far as the size of the crowds go. this is like nothing i saw with reagan, it's lying nothing i saw with bush, it's nothing i saw with any political candidate. what i saw come ou

. >> mike barnicle. >> donald, one of your friends, maybe a former friend right now, i don't know, michael bloomberg, mayor of new york, former mayor of new york, a man just as wealthy as you thinking of running for the president of the united states. talk about him. give us your relationship with him and what you think his chances would be if he jumped in. >> he used to be a friend of mine. i haven't spoken to him in a long time. i did a good job for him because he had a project in the bronx that was a disaster called ferry point. it was under construction for years and years. it was sucking up money from the city. they were in there for like $300 million. it was under construction for 25 years or more. they don't even know when it began. he asked me to take it over. i went through the process and i tack it ov took it over and got it done in less than a year and did a great job on it. i really helped him. in fact, i made a promise to him. i said i'll get it done before the end of your administration. it was the last year of his administration. we actually had a ground-breaking in october

. >> mike barnicle on set. >> it could happen -- >> he wants to -- do you want to respond, mike?o, my attorneys are going to respond for me. >> his attorneys will respond for him. >> i'm on the way to hr right now. >> all right. we got to go. hr will not be involved here. oh, my gosh it continues. okay. coming up next, jamie foxx saves a life and then gets a big thanks from the man's dad. we got to go. we got to go. we're back in a moment. can this much love be cleanedrlin' by a little bit of dawn ultra? oh yeah. one bottle has the grease cleaning power of two bottles of this bargain brand. a drop of dawn and grease is gone. into a real guys night out to see if they could find the guy who uses just for men. it's me. >>no way. just for men gives you a natural gray-free look. just lather in. in just five minutes. great-looking hair, made easy. just for men. >>> well, you can now add hero to jamie foxx's resume. the oscar-winning actor and another man helped to free a driver from a burning truck that crashed outside foxx's home in southern california on monday. yesterday the driver'

we have veteran columnist mike barnicle. former communications director for george w.eb bush told "the washington post" last night, quote, look, trump's the front-runner and there as a jump off for second with five candidate. but a new poll of the granite state shows that a fractured field benefits trump. polling has trump ahead by 14% to mub yop's 1-- marco rubio's . you always here so much about christie surging in new hampshire. burlington, vermont is where bernie sanders served as mayor. i love burlington vermont. >> officials are warning residents to expect overflow demonstrations in the streets. yeah, that's going to be quite an event. >> let's go back to the poll really quickly. nicole, a lot of people have been saying for the past couple of weeks you have the establishment between rubio, christie, kasich. jeb moving more than anybody else in this poll. jeb plus 5. donald trump is still way ahead. >> so trump is polling about the same level as handers. but hillary is the only establishment democrat. >> you look up and down -- they're all within the margin of err

mike barnicle. >> mr.ns, if they are significant, lead in terms of the prisoner release sp. >> everybody knows that the irgc opposed this agreement. the reason they opposed it is because they wanted the nuclear weapon, they wanted the nuclear umbrella, they wand their program as robust as possible and they wanted to who willback. and everybody understand that there a tension and it is a tngs between those who want to, you know, play the revolutionary card and keep moving in a srn track and those who believe that iran will be better off rejoining the world, engaming in kmerts. that is why president obama spoke directly to the people of iran yesterday. we all have an opportunity here. whether it will happen or not, i kel tell you. i want to emphasize, this agreement was not calculated to solve all the problems with iran. this agreement was calculated to address a threat that the united states felt to ourselves and to the world about their production potential of a nuclear weapon. so now we've addressed that.

did a democrat just suggest that another democrat, mike barnicle, was a communist? >> no.dvantage of bernie's clearly left-leaning politics and run ads indicating that he has tendencies that sounds like a communist. >> you know, we had warnings from democratic women who said, you know, people aren't going to like you with the way you are about hillary, which is quite frankly fair and asking questions and just wanting her to be on the show so that she can answer them herself, because she is really good at that. this is a price being paid for not taking a very strong candidate seriously. and now they're going nas -- it's not going to work. it's like 20 years ago running against a women and treating her badly. >> the problem is there is desperation here. there is desperation because one line of attack is you're trying to tie bernie sanders to republicans which is nonsense. they're suggesting that the i.g. of the intel committee is working to leak documents, the republicans are, to help bernie sanders. they're talking -- they're bringing in karl rove doing the same thing. and

. >> mike barnicle. >> governor, it's always nice to see you in any form.he lack of mention or lack of focus on wage growth or the lack of wage growth in this country where we have so many people living paycheck to paycheck? if you were elected president of the united states, what steps could you take to help wage growth increase for the first time really substantively in about a decade? >> really quickly. >> even more, mike. it's been about 15 years for hard workers. i brought it up last night about the decline in wage growth. we need to you the economy at a 4% clip. that's what we need to do. the problem right now is with all the regulation that we have and with the tax code that is designed for the rich, that's the problem. i didn't say this last night but i said it before on the campaign trail. president obama has been the best president for the wealthy in recent times. the wealthy have done extraordinarily well for barack obama. the reason is because of the complicated t complicated tax loopholes. those are the ones that real hard-working taxpayers use

i think mike barnicle says doesn't it make sense for the long-term bet to be on iran instead of saudi>> that's the administration's bet. >> it is but you see saudis, like me, as our allies. trouble at times but compared to iran, it's a close call, isn't it? >> the chance to change the middle east was in 2009 when the people in iran went to the streets. and the administration made the decision at that point not to support the people in the streets in iran. instead they've gone forward to engage the ayatollah. that was a blunder. >> at the same time you were saying bore -- our ally must go. >> at the same time we're tilting towards iran, this is what has destabilized, along with our failure to push iraq, and they've launched these ballistic missile, which are obviously a threat to the other countries in the region beside ultimately to us and our failure to push back on that has been duly noted. so the main problem in the region is iranian power and growing influence and their chance of death to america, death to israel. >> chairman of the house foreign affairs committee ed royce, thanks

this isn't over. >> this isn't over. >> so you saw mike barnicle is with us. in des moines, iowa, we have the managing editor of bloomberg blix, mark halperin. in washington, we have associate editor of the "washington post," msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. >> hey, gene, they just stuck an extra jolt of electricity in godzilla. he just grew 400 feet. >> this is right in his wheel house. >> they just -- they seriously -- it -- this is the fattest fastball down the middle for donald trump. oh, wait, you ridicule me and mock me so you give me a chance to look strong and i get to hold a separate event that outrates your debate. >> and raises money for veterans. >> and raises money for veterans and i'm at the center of the political world and stage and i'm the good guy and nobody's watching your debate. why? i don't understand. >> i had a very prominent, very sophisticated elected official call me early yesterday evening talking about trump and what had happened and what had ensued during the day and saying, you know, this is going to hurt him, this is rea

. >> mike barnicle. >> hey, donald, one of your friends, maybe a former friend right now, i don't knowew york, former mayor of new york. a man just as wealthy, perhaps wealthier than you, is thinking of running for the presidency of the united states. talk about him. give us your relationship with him and what you think his chances would be if he jumped in? >> well, he used to be a friend of mine. i haven't spoken to him in a long time. i did a good job for him because he had a project in the bronx that was a disaster called ferry point. it was under construction for years and years. it was sucking up money from the city. they were in there for like $300 million. it was under construction for 25 years or more. they don't even know when it began. he asked me to take it over. i went through the process and took it over and got it done in less than a year. i did a great job on it. you know, i really helped him. and in fact, i made a promise to him. i said i'll get it done before the end of your administration. it was the last year of his administration. and we actually had a ground breaki

and mika, you are excited because you know that mike barnicle will have to buy you a car after donaldruck. >> a nice one too. >> mike is cutting back. >>> up next, her great new book, "where we belong" hit the shelves. the "today" show's hoda kotb. >> it's going to change my life. you are going to change my life. >> will you sign it for me? >> yes, i will. >> we'll return. >> we'll be right back. or but houses in town. or becoming the next highly-unlikely dotcom superstar. and us, we'll be right there with you, helping with the questions you need answered to get your brand new business started. we're legalzoom and we've already partnered with over a million new business owners to do just that. check us out today to see how you can become one of them. legalzoom. legal help is here. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. pinot noir, which means peanut of the night. you know the symptoms when they start. abdominal pain. urgent diarrhea. now there's prescription xifaxan. xifaxan is a new ibs-d treatment that hel

with us on set we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle, the president of the councilions richard haas. in washington columnist for "bloomberg view" al hunt. columnist and associate editor for the "washington post," david ignatius. the pentagon confirms ten american sailors have been released from iranian custody. they were held overnight on farsi island in the persian gulf. two navy vessels were moving betweenqua between kuwait and bahrain. it was said on state television that the boats entered territorial waters after a failure in their navigation systems. iranian military forces seized both vessels and detained the sailors. nine men and one woman. let's bring in nbc news correspondent and tehran bureau chief for more, ali arusi in tehran. >> the revolutionary guard has issued a statement saying that the ten sailors have been released after they initially took them in iranian territorial waters. initially the revolutionary guard said that they were suspicious of their activities. but now that they have said, after a thorough investigation they realized that their nav

. >> still with us, msnbc contributor mike barnicle, the "wall street journal's" brett stevens, kristenann and joining the conversation, editor of the fix at the "washington post," chris cillizza and pulitzer prize winning editorial editor for the "washington post," john that i know canatho >> and chris cillizza, you had the right answer for the best recommend album, "fables. >> it has my favorite recommend song, "green grow the rushes." -- >> look at this guy! >> it's a political show. >> are we doing the fourth hour just be recommend talk? >> yes. >> donald trump is holding to his decision not to participate in tonight's republican debate. trump instead announced a "special event to benefit veterans organizations." it will take place at 9:00 eastern time which just so happens to be the start of the fox news debate. >> willie, percentage? >> 34.1%? >> still? >> going down. >> it will be at drake university, that is an eight-minute car ride from where the debate is taking place in des moines. i'm not sure why he says he's not going to that. despite his feud with fox news, trump appeared