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welcome back to "morning joe." its been great having you with us today. just a special word about t.j., our director. his father passed away last night. certainly hes been fighting for some time now. our thoughts and prayers are with t.j. and certainly his mom. >> t.j., we love you. >> and the entire family. that does it for us today. >> its way too early, what time is it? >> its "morning joe." but right now it is time for "the daily rundown" with chuck and savannah. >> savannah, be...

time for some of your comments as we do every day here on cnn. most of you are weighing in on sarah palin. really touched a nerve in her speech. one viewer says, heres hoping palin will start a third party movement and sail off into the sunset taking half the gop base with her. someone else writes, why do you news guys give her the time of day? shes ridiculous. hopi changey. what junior college did she change from? anyone to remember to uplift the audience needs serious help on and on....

Federal air marshals really keeping us safer when we fly? >> we found you experts who call the program useless, also allegations from marshals that your tax dollars are essentially being wasted. our drew griffin went looking for some answers. >> reporter: on christmas day of last year, umar abdulmutallab tried to blow up a flight from amsterdam with a bomb hidden in his underwear. there were no air marshals on board. after this attack was foiled by passengers, the president called for -- >> more...

president obama couldnt spell the word "vote" or say it in english. who is number one? akio toyoda apologizing today for the problems that triggered an 8 million car recall. he says -- toyota will shell out more than $2 billion to fix all those cars. akio toyoda topping t"the list dont want 2 be on". wolf blitzer here now in snowy washington in "the situation room." >> rick, thank you. happening now, a new move by the u.s. military to make the so-called morning-after pill more avai...

expected to be there. bracing for a nasty weekend. a massive winter storm is right now racing toward the mid-atlantic states. more than a foot of snow expected from north carolina all the way up to new jersey. several airlines already canceling flights, knowing this is coming. were live on the ground with what you can expect later today and throughout the weekend. and the party is on in nashville. tee party supporters pouring into the city for the first-ever national convention. cn...

hot shots, pictures worth a thousand words. follow whats going on right here in the situation room, behind the scenes. im on twitter. get my tweets at twitter.com/wolfblitzercnn. wolfblitzercnn all one word. im wolf blitzer in the situation room. up next, campbell brown. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hey, everybody. breaking news right now at this moment. a japanese newspaper reporting toyota is going to recall 270,000 prius hybrids here in the united states and in japan. tha...

good friday morning to you. great to you see, im susan hendricks in for robin. lets get you updated now. new this morning, michael jacksons doctor plans to surrender. no charges have been announced. why would he do that. the lexus is part of toyotas growing problem. also, the cameras rolled by dave looked at the racy photos on his computer. it led to a worldwide campaign to save jobs job. good to see you. michael jacksons personal physician plans to show up at a los angeles court t...

Influence. in the middle box the pretrial hear anything the drew peterson case continues today. hes the former illinois police sergeant charged with killing his third wife after his forty wife disappear -- fourth wife disappeared. prosecutors have call canned about 40 of its 60 witnesses. in the bottom box, pandas born in the u.s. heading back to china. you can track them streaming live on fox the news.com. jane: the white house is now fighting back against are a wave of criticism following the ...

Hes in l.a. waiting to make that happen. separate from that a report that an arraignment could happen as early as tomorrow. were watching very closely for it. jane? jane: harris, thanks. what is the fbi learning from umar abdulmutallab? some are asking if investigators could have learned more if the case wasnt treated like a civilian time. well, the attorney general has now weighed in on this controversial decision. [ peyton ] gotta make a play here. find the opening. be precise. hit that guy, h...

Too, theres a suggestion out there because there are so many administration officials talking about this case now and also about the 9/11 case that maybe these cases going forward in a civilian court would be considered anticipated, and a judge may -- taints, and a judge may take issue with it. >> well, yeah, its a little difficult when the president and the attorney general say he will get convicted and he will get the death penalty. i dont think anybody really questions that thats ultimately w...