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Corral them to vote for this, but they might let some of the liberal democrats like elizabeth warren, for example, if she so chooses, to vote against it in protest. such as there arent unemployment benefits in this package. those are expiring for about $1.3 million people in this country. that is the state of play. it really is kind of bizarre, carol, when you think about it. so many times weve had these fiscal issues where it has passed bipartisan way in the senate and has gotten stopped up in ...

0 your screen. >> you are the best. >> good stuff. lot of news this morning as well. lets get you to the newsroom with carol costello. >> i appreciate that. have a great day, guys. "newsroom" starts now. good morning. im carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin at the white house. next hour the biggest names in tech have a great big meeting with president obama. this mornings round table comes one week after many of these companies sent an open letter to washington, asking th...

0 thats why its the good stuff. >> thats right. big story today, of course, is the train derailment. we have continuing coverage on cnn. lets get right to carol costello. carol? >> you got that right. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. an 82-mile-an-hour disaster. >> when i heard about the speed, i gulped. >> the bronx train derailment, no questions and new details developing right now about the engineer, reports he zoned out. his phone records seized. drug and alcohol tests under review. >> we ...

I think everybody has a right to be skeptical. we did arms control agreements with the great enemy the soviet union. weve done arms control agreements in other parts of the world. you dont trust. its not based on trust. its based on verification. its based on your ability to know what is happening. >> okay. joining us now from the white house, deputy national security adviser tony blinken. tony, good to have you on the show this morning. want to talk to you about the iran deal. just looking at t...

0 has made the world a much more dangerous place. >> all right. good morning. its monday, november 25th. a little cold out, everybody. welcome to "morning joe." with us onset we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. we have the president of the council on foreign relations and author of "foreign policy begins at home: the case for putting americas house in order" richard haass. he also has the lead piece today on iran. and you agree with dad. >> thats one way to put it. >> oh, no. that was yeste...

Blocking the presidents nominees to the d.c. circuit and democrats say its simply unfair for them to do that. so what we are likely to see today is harry reid, the democratic leader, at least make a move to have a discussion about changing the rules so that republicans dont have a 60-vote threshold that democrats would have to overcome to break that filibuster, but rather a 51-vote simple majority. right now the way the balance of power in the senate is that democrats have that. they have 55 vot...

0 im john berman. >> im in for christine romans, carol costello has the day off. >> new this morning we learned that a jumbo jet stranded overnight at a wichita airport will be able to take off. this air deback started late last night when a huge cargo plane headed for a military base landed in a small airport instead. >> the atlas 747 dreamlifter headed to mcconnell air force base but for some reason it ended up ten miles away at the smaller jabarra airport. the faa is investigating what went w...

Has been his books. >> so, youre right that he will have a big national fundraising base but here are the problems. one, its very late to be going up against a sitting senator, especially in jon cornyn, tons of money, and david barton will have a lot of trouble attracting support from people who otherwise might step out for him, some of the things he said including, comparing homosexuality to a health disorder. >> who said that? >> david barton. one of those books on your shelf. >> didnt read th...

Charlie crist is. >> and you have a video of him talking about democrats. >> mike allen, the chief of the white house correspondent for politico. mike, good to have you up here. first thing, your screaming headline this morning is ominous one for ken cuccinelli. it reads cuccinelli fights off stench of doom. you also have a piece up, texas tea party members trying recruit what they say is another ted cruz. >> oh, boy. >> who are they looking at and why? >> ted cruz is driving the conversation in...

0 we wanted to know how you took advantage of your extra hour. >> i can relate to dawn. she said i i spent the first 30 minutes changing all the clocks in the house and the second 30 minutes wondering why i have so many clocks. >> the car clock is the most annoying and then you have to spin it. "morning joe" starts right now. a new report shows that only six people actually signed up for the affordable care act with trouble on its first day but obama care is only doing slightly better than gui...