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republicans have control of the house? >> a sign that obamas staff is urging him effectively to find the middle ground and compromise with republicans. theyve been looking at the clinton model what happened after 1994 elections and into the 199235 cycle consider clinton moved from a disastrous health care bill to having a number of different, important victories from welfare reform to passage of different tax wry forms. and this is a model i think theyre look at now, can they find midd...

american people and i was not willing to see them get harmed. >> the presidents side of the ledger affects 156 million people in our country. those initiatives are being held hostage. >> the american people are outraged that the republicans are holding hostage two million unemployed workers. >> the fact of the matter is, republicans were holding middle class taxes hostage. >> do you allow yourself to be held hostage and get something done for the sake of getting something done when, in...

tonight it will be just as cold as last night and tomorrow will be just as cold as today, mid to upper 30s. now to lisa baden. theres been a change on metrorail. if you take the green and yellow lines, theres track maintenance. they are setting a single tracking. there is a life for them. orange line customers have a delay because of the disabled train outside the east falls church metro station. all of these commuters have an additional weight. -- wait. 66 traffic is building in vol...

i was veryism pressed with it. it was a very clear statement of what they did and how they did it and what they were trying to accomplish. i thought, boy, there is such a gap between the clarity and focus of that campaign and the confusion of the presidency. he just suffering a stunning defeat and hes behaving nothing has changed. bobbing and weaving. look what reid is trying to do in the senate. its the same baloney. nothing has changed. good morning. its monday, december 6th, welco...

>> if you were to get back out there in the public arena and run for president, would you then do interviews with the lame stream media figures? would you even do another interview with katie couric? >> i would look forward to being more open than i already am and speaking to the public. as for doing an interview with a reporter who already has such a bias against what it is i would come out and say, why waste my time? >> wow. we have to go around the table on that. good morning. its t...

americans and others, youve got folks putting explosives in their underwear. who would have thought that? striking the right balance is what this is about. and i am absolutely confident that our security experts are going to keep trying to get it better and less intrusive and more precise. >> i understand howdy it is and how offensive it must be for the people who are going through it. >> final question. my time is up, but would you submit to one of these pat-downs? >> not if i could a...

democrats lost in this cycle. your positive rating with independents stands at 8%. why are you the best person to lead democrats in the current political landscape. >> let me put that in perspective, how would your ratings be if $75 million were spent against you. because we got the job done on health care and wall street and reform and consumer protections, the list goes on. you take 9.5% unemployment, burn a dollar bill, $75 million spent against one person, and id like to see what y...

late winter, early spring, ill be going back -- coming back here to chicago and beginning to work on that project. >> okay. good morning. its monday, november 15th. welcome to "morning joe." what a weekend. how was your weekend? >> can i say this? my daughter won the new york state championship. >> in what? >> in cross-country, running. >> her team did. >> that coach is amazing. then i took my kids to -- >> that might have been a mistake. its good, but a little bit not age appropriate,...

from being a united states senator in florida because he doesnt represent florida values. >> did mr. meeks say he was considering dropping out? >> he did say it. in fact, a couple of occasions he already agreed to do so but changed his mind. all right. top of the hour. 6:00 on the east coast. good morning. its friday, october 29th. do you know what youre going to be for halloween? with us onset, msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin and director of the eart...

keys. there are the antlers. "morning joe" starts right now. we have this parallel system in the shadows in which people can give $100,000, $1 million, $10 million, not the captains of these industries and special interests, to defeat or elect candidates and they dont have to disclose. it makes the campaign finance system fraudulent and it throws us back to the days of the robber barons and the gilded age. well keep fighting this fight. well deal with whatever happens. its not someth...