Into a little bit of anger. Good morning. Tuesday, february 6th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, we have msnbc contributor, Mike Barnicle. Looks kind of awake this morning. I am. I dont know whats going on there. Been up all night. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, Steve Rattner. And washington bbc world news anchor, katty kay. Good morning. Good morning. Good. Should we get right to news . Sure. If you want to. Are you joking . You guys want to talk about something . A good story. It is good. Johnny damon wants to play baseball with the yankees. They need somebody. I should have gone with it. When conservatives gather at cpac, theyll do so without one of the most popular Republican Leaders in the country. Have you heard this . I did. Conservative Chris Christie will not be invited to speak at the conference despite him having a record high 74 popularity with the voters. Here are some that will be invited. If youre going to get the guy who has a 74 Appr
Kansas. Thank you, mr. Protester, i never saw a protester drop so fast. I said, sit down. He sat down. That was the end of the protest. Okay. Thank you. I like that protester. Thats somebody we can reason with, all right . Meanwhile, ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich already zigzagging the map rallying support for voting today and tuesday and looking to the other vote today, the c pact straw poll. Well take you there live for that conservative gathering. We will also take you here. [ gunshots ]. A gun range in michigan. One of the key primary states tuesday. We will take an informal poll, who do the gun toters favor . All that ahead right here, this is the place for politics. Welcome, everyone, once again im alexwitt. Were about to give you a live picture in maryland where any minute marco rubio will speak at the conservative gathering running about 35 minutes late or so. Donald trump who was supposed to address the group there earlier this morning instead held a precaucus event fo
0 after all he s done nothing conservative over the last four years, nothing other than declaring war over extreme government bosses, fighting for education reform and spending less on this year s budget than corzine spent on his budget. and keeping afloat the pension program, health program by eliminating colas, increasing employee contributions. the guy has done everything. he also cut business taxes by $2.6 billion. over 100,000 new jobs in his one state over the past year or two. he s the first pro-life governor. that s important to a lot of people at cpac, in new jersey, since roe v. wade was passed in 1973. what s conservative about him? it makes sense. no cpac for you, chris christie. maybe he didn t want to go. if politico is to be believed, he s not invited. this underlies the big problem about the conservative movement over the past few years, it s not about winning, it is not about winning. it is about sitting inside an echo chamber of resentment. chirp small elbow