was snubbed by the academy for his work directing argo. while he won t get a chance to take home best director, argo is the odds-on favorite to beat the field for best picture which could make for a true hollywood ending. if i can even execute in a basic way on this, this would be the best thing that i ve ever done by far. reporter: mika, screening those films, it really took it out of me. looks like i ll have to take a couple extra days out here to recuperate. back to you guys in new york. all right. coming up on morning joe, the editor in chief of buzzfeed, ben smith. also the national review s bob costa. and up next, the man who eats, breathes and sleeps, work smarter, not harder. oh, i like that. harvard s bob posen is back with us with more must-hear tips for any executive on how to work less and accomplish more. it s really like dieting. i like it. a diet fad. the capital one cash rewards card
you don t waste good meat. road kill. obviously ann hasn t learned that yet. with us now just left it there? look who we have. she should have been a lot more productive, mika. i know. really, you ve got time is money. time is money. joining us now, senior lecturer at harvard business school, senior fellow at the brookings institution and former chairman of mfs investment management of fidelity investments, robert posen. he s back with more advice for us from his book, extreme productivity. boost your results, reduce your hours, lessons on high performance from an executive. mika said it sounds like one of those diets. work less, be more productive. for you, it s all about ordering, prioritizing. yes. i think everyone has to figure out what your high-priority stuff is. just write it down. write down the three or four things you want to get done this
now obama may be the top prize for the candidates right now l are other important battleground states. we ll take through over the course of the next hour in a way that only cnn can. john avalon and i traveled more than 1800 miles on cnn s battleground bus tour as the race for the white house reaches its conclusion. no mat wrer i ter where i go, t economy is the most important issue in this election. i ve been traveling with john avalon. he joins me now as does my good friend christine romans. she joins me from washington. jim acosta from did he back to you, iowa, where mitt romney just landed. brianna keeler is in milwaukee, wisconsin, traveling with president obama. let s start here in ohio. the state has a very complex economy. here s some of what we ve been hearing from voters on this trip. just a lot of depressed areas. a lot of joblessness. just looking at the unemployment rate, it s so scary to me. the last four years has not been very good for our small business
0 oracle telling us that verlander would be unhittable, unbeatable, just no question about it. willie, it was impressive stuff. verlander said after the game he knew when he was warming up he didn t have it. he said that after the game. he said he wasn t locating his pitches. there s the panda again. there s the third home run. this is the kind of thing that makes you an icon. you think of reggie jackson, the three-home run game in the world series. 77. sandoval did it last night. barry zito, not even on the postseason roster. speaking of stoner. saved the nationals. saved the national league championship season. a horse, man. 5 1/3 innings of one-run ball. and then is relieved by tim lincecum. two consecutive cy young award winners pitching in the same game. two stoners. and two of the most baked pitchers in the major leagues. seriously. shut the tigers down. it s not quite doc ellis. but they were vaporizing late last night. we have frittered away
under fire. his discussion about romney care, his stance on abortion. i m curious who is the mitt romney that is running for president? and is he the same one that sat in the state house, a republican governoring a largely democratic state? yeah, i think he s the same guy. he s a very tough-minded guy. he s got a lot of executive ability. he was able to attract people to work in state government who would not come work for me two terms earlier. doug foye who ran environment and economic development together, bob posen senior financial executive. so he s a real born chief executive. and that s a pretty handy qualification for president of the united states. it is. but is mitt romney the campaigner, then, different from mitt romney the elected official? i think he s fairly gentle on the campaign trail. he s certainly gentle and decent and private. he s one of the most decent guys that i ve ever met. people are asking me these days, well, is mitt the moderate going to show up for wo