also, "time's" rana foroohar and lawrence wright.next, mike allen with the stories in the "politico playbook." first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> good monday morning. over the weekend we saw light snow from the great lakes to the northeast. we're doing it again this morning. this is a series of clipper lows, weak winter storms. we'll have about three of them this week. we'll keep our eyes out on friday or possibly a bigger one. in the meantime, one storm is exiting new england. brought us the light snow yesterday. but we do have a good band of snow especially north of chicago. that's the travel trouble spot. going to pick up probably two to four inches there. now it's snowing northern indiana, much of southern michigan, eventually detroit, toledo and areas around cleveland and pittsburgh. that will be more or less late today. and then towards philadelphia and new york city later on this evening, again, one to three inches at most. it's not looking like a blockbuster storm. it's very cold still from the great la