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Playbook. mike, i guess good morning. >> good morning, mika. >> senator rand paul says there needs to be a republican revolution to save the party. how does senator paul plan to do that? >> well, mika, this is really interesting. this is senator paul rebranding himself, wanting him to stand apart from his dad and set himself up for a presidential run in 2016 during this senate break on this holiday week hes been traveling down in texas. politico traveled with him and he said that republicans fee...

Watch. >> the thing is there are a lot of people, think about it, a lot of people that may not want to have guns in their house. >> right. >> if they have children in their house. >> right. >> and i dont know, this -- >> maybe that changes? >> yeah. might change it. >> might. "the wall street journal" the price tag for targets massive data breach continues to rise. financial institutions say costs from the data theft now exceed $200 million. that includes replacing credit or debit cards for near...

It was there, they -- they would fall. and he just kept taping the thing. which -- whats the opposite of a good samaritan? i guess this is? there we go. oh, myp . >> are we bad people? >> youre not kind of bad people. youre sick people is what you are. but i can relate. >> good morning, everyone. it is wednesday. hump day. february 19th. welcome to "morning joe." oh, mike barncle, msnbc contributor mike barncle is here. >> mika. >> how are you? hows your back, honey. >> it hurts. >> you did a lo...

Finding his footing in the senate as well. >> i think so. >> chuck todd? >> i would just say there was a -- theres an interesting list of people bill didnt have. no paul ryan no rubio, no john thune, no bobby jindal no rick case itch, no rick perry. >> no santorum. >> i dont disagree although i think santorum runs no matter what. >> my list was trying to be my guess. >> who might get there. >> who might make the cut. some will run. paul ryan and rubio would be formidable if they ran obviously. >...

Party to take it over and consolidate it in time for 2016. >> i wonder whether were wasting our time when we talk about the next reagan, the next reagan, thats like boston looking for the next ted williams. ted williams had swing. only ted williams had the swing. only ted williams had the eye. ronald reagan was able to be conservative because he had extraordinary personal skills that didnt scare the hell out of independent voters. >> youre absolutely right. there is no other reagan. men like tha...

And sounds like hes got the right attitude to tackle this. >> what kind of cancer? >> its unclear but it appears hes being treated at dana farber in boston which is a world-class facility. good luck to him. >> wish him nothing but the best. want to turn to football news because it has been more than 30 years since seattle fans have celebrated a championship. theyve never had a championship to celebrate. >> wow. >> they got their chance now. and estimated 700,000 fans flooded into the streets t...

Fought it. >> another thing bob schieffer said was during 9/11 he waited for six hours to make sure his daughter was okay and doesnt feel like going through that again. joining us now from washington, nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. >> robert gibbs, mike barncle, john hileman and david axelrod with us. >> chime in on snowden and bob schieffers comments. do you agree. >> i dont know enough yet about snowden and his motivation other tha...

Landrieu and mark prior will be boiling this down to a simpler -- >> skewing them. >> perhaps not accurate, but much simpler argument that is going to be tough for them -- >> like the headline yesterday. all these jobs that will be lost. >> again, i want to be very clear. you talked about the other side. the congressional budget office is not the other side and the other thing that ive talked about this morning are their exact words. i see you smiling and whatever. no. im just quoting what the c...