p.j. o'rourke. his newest book for preorder "the baby boom how it got that way and it wasn't my fault and i'll never do it again." also contributing editor with "the weekly standard." thanks for joining us. what do you make of chris christie? >> i think he's great. i'm a republican. and his is a return to republican common sense. and art of the possible as we always say about politics. and he understands that. i mean he's maybe a little more liberal than i am, or maybe he's just governor of new jersey. but i think he's great. >> how hardened are you, alex, by sort of the breakdown of the vote that went out for chris christie? >> well, it's good to see that republican governors -- he's not the open one by the way who's very popular in his own state -- when you get out of washington the republican party is not in bad shape. chris christie has done a good job per the people of new jersey, sticking mostly to republican principles. how much of the chris christie lesson, though, translates to wa

bobby dpoesh, p.j. crowley, joel rubin, thank you for your time. this leads us to our question today. who got the better end of the iran deal? talk to us, the conversation going on, twitter and facebook as we speak. >>> right now a deadly winter storm that's making its way across the country could threaten your holiday travel plans for thanksgiving. this powerful system started out west dumping snow, ice and freezing rain across several states including arizona, new mexico, utah and nevada. >> we had almost as much water content out of this one storm as we had most of the season last winter. >> all right. the storm already responsible for some 13 deaths and wicked weather forced dallas-ft. worth to cancel 650 flights yesterday. more than 300 have been cancelled today. let's talk about this storm, where it's headed, who's going to get the worst of it. nbc meteorologist bill karins tracking this system for you. >> good morning, thomas. everybody has been asking me how is it going to affect my plans. let me break down the next three days so you can ma

and northern africa following the arab spring so pope francis and president putin are on the scene p.j. on lots of issues they are set to meet later on monday and of course i'll be keeping you updated. the u.k. slowly recovering from one of the deepest and longest financial crises to hit the country but despite moderate growth some key indicators like living standards health and education suggest few reasons for optimism artie's or smith reports say the bank of england's forecasts for economic growth is on the up unemployment down it sounds great but beyond those immediate fake is a darker picture that pretty much all the measures by which we track economic progress are in decline people's real incomes falling more and more of it spent on basic essentials uniquely this generation of young people is worse educated than their parents and obesity female life expectancy and child mortality among the worst in europe they're leading economics commentator jeremy warner says growth is good but warns it's unsustainable there's not enough exports is not enough business investment in this economy

solutions to the problems created under law problems that the president today made a light touch did his p.j. louiana >> we had this problem with the website. i am not happy about that i want to fix it myself but i don't write code. there will only be so much support we get on that on a bipartisan basis and tell it is working real well then they will stop calling and obamacare. gerri: our panel is back. and from the center of health policstudies thank governor pataki is that in good taste? ltd. is pathetic he is laughing at a problem that millions of americans have bid 10 million more will have. it doesn't just have colbert problems it is flawed. it will not work they can try to tax parts of it but ultimately th have to take a look amir to say we screwed up we finally read ite have to go back to the drawing board. gerri: he apologized last night. >> i am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from the. >> that is as close to an apology will ever get from this president. he is not noted for his modesty and i really think this will come back to ha

i hate rap music, i hate most sports and like reasoning to rock music such as p.j. harvey.ow. he joins me from toronto. i guess you can call it self-hatred. who do you blame for your self-hatred? >> um, i would say, i think it manifests from society. i would say. >> when i read through all of that and you are saying you hate being a black man, do you hate being a black man or just hate the stereotypes about black men? >> i hate the stereotypes. in pop culture, the stereo typical image of a black male is to be aggressive, is to be arrogant, is to not be a nice person and i just feel as though there are a lot of black males out there, such as myself, who don't conform to those sexist and racist stereotypes. >> do you really not want to be black anymore? is that what you are seeing? >> no. >> if you could change it, would you change it to some other race? would you be white? what are you saying here? >> no! no, what i'm saying is i'm a canadian, i'm not an american. you have to remember, in canada, there are less than 1 million blacks in canada. it's a very euro centric. we ha

international correspondent christiane amanpour, republican strategist alex castillanos and writer and humorist p.jurke. his newest book for preorder "the baby boom how it got that way and it wasn't my fault and i'll never do it again."