more foreign policy credentials than nip candidate, and rick s made in the usa jobs plan will make america an economic super power again. rick santorum, a trusted conservative who gives us the best chance to take back america. there you go, the ads are unbelievable. there are so many of them, welcome back to morning joe. live at java joes. we have a great crowd. thank you for coming. thank you, guys. java joes. they were here so early. they were. what time is it? you see the young girl she actually pulled her parents here. how old are you? what? how old are you? i m 11. 11 and she s waking up to come see a political show. i strongly recommend you look at your priorities.
and where s willie? what happened? i don t know. that was fun doing his show. we should do that every day. why? that show. that little show he does. willie has a show? yes, he does. you don t remember. that was before christmas. no, but for people who are new to the show over the past two or three years. this have where it all began. this is it. and we talk about the moment the show took off was the moment we were in java joes. first of all, i ve got to say, phil wasn t going to bring us here. he wouldn t let us come four years ago. and so we said, phil, we re going, and you can bring the cameras if you want. and he brought the cameras and had us on for 18 hours a day. but we came here and mike barnicle, the moment that things really took off was when your buddy picture behind you on the wall there, tim russert left the civic center where they wouldn t let us go and came
this could be a bad year too. i don t know. i think this is so unpredictable, 41% undecided. we don t know what s going to happen. no doubt. thank you so much for coming in. it would not be java joes without andrea mitchell. this is where it all began. you re off where today? i m going to head to do my show, i m going to try to catch up with ron paul today. with rand, his son. two pauls. that s right. and still ahead this hour, michele bachmann will be our guest here on the set at java joes also terry branstad. and tomorrow, we re going to have mitt romney here. very cool. oh, good, i hope he brings anne. i hope he does too. bring anne. bring anne. morning joe back in a moment. this is an rc robotic claw.
and with all of romney s problems with the base, he s been endorsed by president bush 41, by a lot of conservatives, not a majority, but a lot. as weak of a front-runner the calendar, the republican calendar, we re talking about not having the winner take all primaries. there s really back loaded this year. if you look at super tuesday, it s not that super. there s not there s it s really the delegate output thing goes on for a long time and spread out in a way it s never been spread out before. even on the days with a lot of primaries. there s only a few on the days there used to be 10 or 12, now there s five or six. thank you very much. the thinking was exactly to your point. we don t want this thing over at the end of january. we want to give these guys a chance to fight this thing out and see who comes out the strongest. still ahead, michele bachmann will join us live here at java joes as well as terry
welcome back to morning joe. we re live at java joes. mark haleprin is still with us. and joining the set, we have national affairs editor for new york magazine and jon heilemann. there s too much profanity in television, that s the problem. the national republican national committee michael steele is with us. michael, let s get your take as a republican. how do you see iowa shaping up right now? after the register poll, which is usually dead on. yeah, you still have a significant undecided vote out there. which means tomorrow s going to be anybody s bet who walks through the finish line. yeah, mitt romney s in the best position, but you have santorum and paul. i think really given the organization and the grass roots on the ground touch with the people can really pull through romney who hasn t campaigned hard here this year, what if mitt romney wins?