steve rattner? >> i think they probably do in the end because i think the basic forces that led us to have this immigration bill on the table, the confluence of interest between the republicans and the democrats, i think ultimately prevail. and i think what they're doing now with boston is just a smoke screen. i don't think you can make an argument for why it should delay. i think you could make a better argument for why it should speed it up. get them in the system and know who's there. >> maybe it gets to the senate unlike the gun bill. the background check bill. but the house? i don't see the republicans in the house moving forward. right now, they probably feel like they've got the president on the ropes. >> the house is still a stumbling block. even if it got through the senate. we knew it was going to face a tougher time, right? >> right. >> and the same is true of the immigration bill, but there is this overarching self-interest, in which the leadership realizes and will really try to push wi

>> we will tell you who that name is if steve rattner doesn't completely destroy our tease.t's go to weather. >> dylan dreyer has a check on the forecast. >> good morning. we are looking at pretty big storm system moving across the country. it's just a cold front but out ahead of it, we have severe storms. back behind it, we have more snow and it looks like we could end up with another 6 to 12 inches of snow as it does start to increase across parts of south dakota and nebraska. you see western and central nebraska, could be an area that gets 6 to 12 inches of snow. we are also looking at the potential for severe storms today especially down across oklahoma, southeastern kansas. tornadoes are certainly a possible later this afternoon and into this evening. elsewhere we will see a lot of large hail and damaging wind gusts. in the northeast we started off with a couple of lighter showers in and around the boston area and down across new york city too but those will move on out of here and we will see increasing sunshine in the northeast. we should top out around 70 in new york

set is former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst and definitely not a stylist, steve rattnerhe can dress himself but his advice for others, i should have called maureen. >> you should have. >> what was i thinking? >> i don't know. she asked the same question. >> you know what? she is right and why she is so brilliant. president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass author of "foreign policy begins at home." congratulations. >> how was your weekend? why is rattner wrong? >> i went to a basketball game, my first one. >> she can now do sports. >> there was an incredible shots two-thirds of the way down and we have to show that. >> jason kidd? >> no. okay. >> i know what you're saying. >> do you? >> it was jason kidd. >> and he is like 40 or something. >> how did this come about? >> never mind. this is not good. i'm just going to get killed here. >> i'm just curious. your first baseball game you were sitting in the owner's box at fenway. >> that was wonderful! >> were you up in the stands with the kids from the bronx? >> not exactly. >> no. it was like where people a

. >> steve rattner, who was head of the presidential task force on the auto industry, sat across fromnne at the bargaining table during the height of the economic crisis. rattner believes that chrysler's demise could have cost 300,000 american jobs up and down the industrial supply chain. >> was he a tough negotiator? >> brutally tough, yeah. he--but that's part of why he's successful. >> in the end, marchionne and fiat got a 20% stake in the brand-new, slimmed down, debt-free chrysler plus a $6-billion high interest loan from the u.s. treasury, just for taking the auto company off the government's hands and running it. he used the $6 billion to modernize chrysler plants with state-of-the-art equipment to improve quality, upgraded 16 existing models in just 18 months, and began integrating chrysler and fiat's operations. obviously, you saw something in chrysler that you thought would fit well with fiat? >> yeah, from a product standpoint, they were the other half of the coin. when you put the two together, we were gonna come up with a product portfolio that was absolutely complete. >>

mike barnicle and steve rattner at the table with us. >> a great piece. >> we said this from day one.. you have to talk about this violent culture. that's something unfortunately the president hasn't wanted to do. has not wanted to speak truth to power in hollywood. >> my husband and i were talking about this because he was on that first week after sandy hook with you guys and i watched the first few days of the coverage on this show. we were all so emotional. it was so raw. and so much emphasis was put on having or trying to find a comprehensive solution to the problem and this was the time that we were going to address it in a big way. >> mental health, media violence. >> very quickly the debate became so narrow and focused on gun control. i think there are political ramifications to that which is why we ended up with a weak gun control measure. >> joe and i warned a lot of democrats and a lot of powerful democrats behind the scenes if you just make this about guns, you're going to kill any real comprehensive reform. you have to talk about violence in hollywood. like you said, for a

like steve rattner said yesterday. the entire system is dated. >> here we go again. these buffoons vote down background checks and this huge story and back to talking about the sequester? are you kidding me? i'm sorry. but this is incredible. totally nonproductive, insanely boring! >> this is what happens when congress and the president -- i'm going to put it on chronic right now because the president did talk about social security and then he got attacked. this is what happens when 70% of the budget is basically not ever talked about. when you can't talk about entitlements and the past, you haven't been able to talk about defense. so, mike, they go to 12% of the budget and hack it up. i've been talking about it for two years that we can invest in discretionary spending if we take care of long-term debt and it it is boring but it means when you chop infrastructure and all of these other areas, americans will suffer. >> probably closer to 90% of the budget that is left apart from any interest -- when you look at the clip from senator mcconnell and not just him. it's n