it is good. it used to be good morning, everybody. it s the top of the hour. this is the last blast of winter. what blast it is. good days are coming. it s cold though. last blast. is it? it is. okay. according to who? eight feet of snow in my backyard in march. i can t even manl gin boston new england. how s maine? unbelievable. mike barnicle here. john heilemann and steve ratner joins us as well. you don t like flying. i don t. you don t like flying. whenever i m on a plane with you i have to say, it s okay it s okay. look at this thing, steve ratner. we re going to talk about this in a second man. but almost skidded into the bay. fear of flying is perhaps the most irrational fear in the world. these days you have a greater chance of being killed riding your bicycle. stop. i can t even here we go. you can t even talk logic with her. you can t talk logic with her. you have a greater chance of drawning in your bathtub. if you lead
in which you live. [ applause ] the inspirational words of stuart scott, a longtime anchor of espn who passed away on sunday after a long battle with cancer. he was 49 years old. we ll have more on that just ahead. good morning, everyone. it s monday january 5th. welcome, everybody, back from a long break. with us we have economic analyst steve rattner, msnbc contributor and associate professor at columbia school of international public and foreign affairs. what an incredible guy. my neighbor came out saying did you hear? my daughter s boyfriend said did you hear? the president put out a comment. all sports fans across this country have been touched by stuart scott for decades now. as one of his bosses at espn said he changed everything. he broke down the barrier between athletes in a way that many did not. there are so many catch phrases that we now take for granted that he brought in. my son who is five says that. that s the effect of him. i tweeted out yesterday i ca
mourning the loss of two of their own in las vegas after an apparent ambush left five people dead there. two police officers alyn beck and igor soldo were eating lunch at a cici s pizza when a man and woman opened fire on them. one of the officer s fired back but they were both killed. according to investigators the two left the restaurant and fired at bystanders killing another in front of the nearby walmart. police converged on the scene and fired at the suspects but they say the woman shot the man before turning the gun on herself. police have yet to reveal a motive of course but the las vegas review journal cites sources who say the shooters draped the officer s bodies in yellow revolutionary war era flags with a coiled snake emblem reading don t tread on me and investigators found what the paper calls paraphernalia with white supremacists. screaming the revolution has begun and get out of the store. what precipitated this event we do not know. my officers were simp
let people keep repeating you ll never fall in love the usa issuing a voluntary retail of certain hot pockets. the food company say they contain a small amount of recalled beef. oh, my god! i had no idea they put actual beef in these! i thought the insides were just stuff they found in their pockets! no, it s not just that. good morning, everyone. it is friday. it s been kind of a long week actually, hasn t it? february 21st. welcome to morning joe. oh, my god. i can t believe that you just put that on the set. with us on set former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst steve rattner. i had a terrible front yesterday. what has happened? i turned on the show and somebody who looked like donny deutch was sitting in your chair! oh, my god. no! he was here. was he really? yes. i thought i was just having a nightmare. was he doing a lot of grooming during the breaks? i was a viewer. i wasn t here during the breaks. how was it? y
0 prepare for it and only six people can enroll. only six people can enroll. that s a bad headline. i don t think it s the case now. let s see. no, you know why we don t know? we don t know. because they won t release the numbers. they have the numbers and refuse to release them. they say the documents are just notes and not official numbers. then give us official numbers, right? right. the white house continues to point to massachusetts where 123 people enrolled in the program the first month. that number steadily grew. speaking of massachusetts, i thought it was fascinating yesterday, the same man that accused mitt romney of killing a woman, remember that? mitt romney killed my wife. remember that commercial? he was such a beast, a horrible human being. mitt romney killed my wife. barack obama believed that. obama did not claim that. impedestrianment for someone trying to lead is because of exactly what you are saying. and it wasn t steve rattner, we talked about