and nancy gibbs, editor-in-chief at "time" magazine and co-author of "the presidents club." welcome both of you back to the program. jon meacham, to you first. i know we don't have a lot to go on, just that short photo opportunity in the oval office, but how did it look to you that this transition is getting off? >> well, better than expected given that 48 hours ago they were at each other's throats. so it's... the bar has been lowered in many ways in this campaign. and so why wouldn't that be true in terms of a transition? i think that president obama has hit all the right notes. i think that president-elect trump has hit all the right notes since election night, as did secretary clinton. and so i think that this may be the short et cetera honey moon ever, but at least it's a period of some tranquility after the storm. >> woodruff: nancy gibbs, as someone who studied transitions going back for many presidents, how does this one look so far? >> well, it looks like a pattern

nancy gibbs, thank you as well. we'll look at the cover of "time" magazine. next hour of "morning joe" starts right now. >> this is going to be a tough play. bryant. the cubs win the world series! bryant makes the play. it's over. and the cubs have finally won it all. >> well, good morning. it's thursday, november 3rd. and what a game it was last night joe. >> what a game indeed. i tell you what. willie geist, this was one -- i mean, this really was one for the ages. you obviously had a team trying to win for the first time in 108 years. and the way they went about it, unbelievable. i mean, they were pushed all the way back to a 3-1 deficit. they come back. they're ahead. the indians che s keep fighting. then they go to extra innings in game seven. rain delay. this game had everything. what a way for them to win. >> it was incredible. the curse is over. the thing that has defined the chicago cubs in some ways that side of chicago, the city, for 108 years, is over now. chicago cubs are world series champions. it sounds crazy to say that. i was born in evanston

nancy gibbs, al carllenas. i was really intrigued today by something from mitch mcconnell.do not have footage of it, but he was campaigning across the state of kentucky last night and basically gave whais for mcconnell, his first real endorsement of trump. he's always said he's going to vote for him, but he said this. we need a new president. donald trump to be the most powerful republican in america. you know, nancy, he's -- this is mitch mcconnell, who has not been comfortable with trump the whole time, i think, has always viewed him as the guy who's going to cost him his senate majority leader title, now he thinks, maybe the only shot of keeping that title is to embrace him. >> and if he keeps it, maybe, in fact, he'll be the most powerful republican -- >> and he may be thinking that way. >> what i think he's thinking is he doesn't like the idea of being a senate minority leader. and the way to keep a majority is to have donald trump do better in a number of states, where the fault line is such that our candidates may not win -- >> it makes sense, politically. you look a

"time's editor in chief nancy gibbs and photographer kira pollack are here. congratulations. how long did it take to put it together, nancy? curating. they had a debate which images matter most. it wasn't the prettiest or well-made. it was which ones can we quantify the impact that they had on how we think, how we act, how we view our world. >> these are the no influential? >> that's right. >> first photo taken with a cell phone? >> yeah. > so that picture was made by felipe kahn. he made that in a when his daughter was born. he connected his fliptop phone to his computer and wrote some lines of code and sent it out to 2,000 people and superinfluential and the treasure we found was precious. >> it's like an essay of american hi, don't you think, when you look at it? i remember going through the book and saying i remember that, i remember, that i don't remember that. it tells our life history as we are looking at these pictures. the beatle picture and pillow fight. tell us about that. it looks like fun. >> how is it influential, guys? >> it was a moment when america needed some