Admission. Well, whats going to test his ability to stay in Public Office today . [ bleep ] he dies or i die. [ bleep ] i will throw his eyes out. I dont know what he was saying, but it clearly looks like out takes from tommy boy. All right, is that where we are going to start this morning . Its how our Staff Meetings go. Give them a peek. That rang, that sort of reminds me of something. I dont know. Good morning, everyone. Its friday, november 8th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, please keep your clothes on today. What was that . What did you do that for . Larry helps run the red sox, the ceo, we have a celebration, donny takes off his shirt. Shows his waxed, tanned, chest. Theres no waxing. Come on. Lets put this in context. Oh, i just got sick. Somebody was complimenting you because you did a lap around or you took a shot at me. To which, i got home theres not justification for it. Theres no justification. Spike in the numbers like msnbc has never seen before. Just saying. A plummet. Donny is here and its all gross. Larry said i guess Donny Deutsche knows how to on a birthday cake. I just ate munchkins. Did you just say that . Thank god, julianna goldberg. Sorry we left you in the dark with donny. From washington, we have New York Times reporter jeremy peters. Guys, jeremy, stay with me. Willie, can you believe this . The fda seeking near total ban on transfats. This is huge. Its going to save lives, thousands of lives. Its really going to change the food we eat, like the frosting i used to eat like yogurt when i was a kid, all transfats. I dont know how they are going make it. Doughnuts. Popcorn, frozen pizza, coffee creamers. All these things, they are going to have to reengineer them. Why are liberal sos antiscience . Do you know how hard it was to come up with the right mix of chemicals to create transfat that is allow, for instance, i dont know, a candy bar to last after a Nuclear Explosion . Its not easy to do. This locks in goodness. Those were Good American jobs, too. Twinkie. Come on. Pills bury dough boy. Its a good story. Itis good for the nations health. Im glad the fda is making this move. Lets talk about crack smoking mayors. Rob ford from toronto. Yeah, its better than transfats from here. Okay. Fine. Crack over margarine. Exactly. Just as long as we run the Nancy Snyderman package that is so important on this. Can we do that . Come on, lets go. This talk is killing me. This is after he acknowledged he was smoking crack. This is the lead story this morning. Its fine. A revelation that brought light, a lot of Different Things in terms of his behavior. Then there was a new video you just saw of him freaking out. Do you know if that was when he was on crack or a Different Event . He said it was while he was drinking, no crack involved. He had to apologize for that as well. This is like his fourth apology. When he apologized he couldnt do it. He was so embarrassed. Im hoping he was on crack. Take a look. I have made mistakes. All i can do is reassure the people that i dont know what to say. Mayor ford, do you need help . Mayor ford, do you need help . Is it time to ask for help . Your colleagues want you to go away. Why wont you go away . I hope none of you have ever or will ever be in that state. Why dont you seek help. Mayor ford, do you need help . Is it time to get help . Obviously, i was extremely, extremely turn the page. He needs help. I need to see the rant again. Lets see the rant again. Are you kidding me, joe . No, i think its very important to figure out the story. We are off the rail this is morning. We are not. You know what . This is called journalism. I dont apologize for it. Watch this. He dies or i die. Brother, youve never seen [ bleep ] [ bleep ] i will make sure that mother [ bleep ] dies. It will be over in five minutes. If its ten minutes [ bleep ]. All right. See, at least i knew not to run for mayor. I knew there were crack smoking videos of me. I was smart enough. You bring perspective to the table none of us have on so many levels. Thats sad. He needs help. Turn the page on this story. Okay . Actually, hes on the city counc council. The crack platform, huh . Oh, boy. Twitter has successfully launched the highly anticipated ipo initially priced at 26. Remember that . Its a little different. Willie and i said it was going to be big. Shares jumped 73 opening at 45. 10. It remained around that level for the day before closing just under 45. By the closing bell, it raised over 2 billion moving market value around 25 billion. All of which was extremely good news for the man running the company. Chairman jack dorsey is now a billionaire on paper. Evan williams worth other 2. 5 billion and the crow has a 345 million stake in the company. Give you perspective on that. They got close to 30 billion, the same value of kraft foods. It is just stunning. This company now turned a profit and has the eyeballs. I think we are going to watch it drop in the near term. Now its a question of what to do with that pile of cash. Unbelievable. We are going to move on now to president obama. This is obviously, i think, probably what should have gone first, but i was happy to do the toronto mayor. This is rough. President obama says he is sorry for promising americans if they like their insurance plan, they would be able to keep their coverage under the Affordable Care act. He sat down yesterday with nbcs chuck todd. I meant what i said and we worked hard to try to make sure we implemented it properly. Obviously, we didnt do a good enough job and i regret that. Do you feel like you owe them an apology . They feel misled. You have seen the anger out there. I regret, very much, that what we intended to do, which was to make sure that everybody is moving into better plans because they want them, as opposed to because they are forced into it, that, you know, we werent as clear as we needed to be in terms of the changes that were taking place. Even though its a small percentage of folks who are disadvantaged, it mean as lot to them and is scary to them. I am sorry that they, you know, are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me. During the interview, the president defended hhs secretary Kathleen Sebelius. I think Kathleen Sebelius, under difficult circumstances over the last four and a half years has done a great job in setting up the Insurance Markets so there is a good product out there for people to get. Kathleen sebelius doesnt write code. She wasnt the i. T. Person. The buck stops with me. Im the president. This is my team. If its not working, its my job to get it fixed. Julianna, what does the white house think of the apology . What were they trying to do here . The fact you heard sorry come out of the president s mouth recognizes, means they recognize they have a problem on their hands. Between the website, the controversy over peoples coverage getting canceled, its opened the door. Its to legitimize having the credibility. They consider it a big deal. We heard people close to them for a long time saying they feel like if they ever admit the mistake, then the door. Its a big deal they said sorry. Itis what the sorry is about. The sorry is not for what he said. The sorry is they didnt get the policy right. So, they say they have a team looking at an administrative fix to try to get people covered who are now going to be facing higher premiums who arent going to get subsidies. Jeremy peters, as you listen to the president talk to chuck yesterday, he did apologize, as he said, again, that small percentage of those who would have their policies canceled. Wait a second, hold on. Jeremy, you are not supposed to grow a beard. Can we go full screen . Is he going on the today show . No shave, no beard. The make up lady wasnt here on time. The make up ladys fault. Oh, wow. Another nonapology. If you were donny, you would say the make up lady showed up and did the best she could. Im just so, whats the word . Rough. Dont throw the make up lady under the bus. Come on, man. You look adorable. You carry it well. Willie . Come on. Sweetheart, this morning i told you the truth. Its kind of hot. Did you hear that . Close up, no good. As part of this nbc family, im embarrassed about the men not being able to deliver on the beard. Theres like nothing happening. Its not even a week. Its going to be fine. Lets get back. Jeremy, what did you take away from the president apologizing to chuck todd yesterday . I think the question becomes now, what do republicans do with that . One of the things they have struggled with on capitol hill is finding the right strategy. You have seen them come out with no real substantive policies or legislation. Its been, kind of, lets fire Kathleen Sebelius and issue subpoenas. Can they transition it into a meaningful policy act here and really show that they are being a creative force, a constructive force . Im not seeing that happen, yet, but im hearing republicans are realizing they have to do more than just complain. Yep. All right. So, i want to go to donny. House speaker, john boehner responded to the president s statement saying if the president is sincerely sorry he misled the American People, he can support this bipartisan effort, otherwise it doesnt amount to anything. He was referring to a vote on the keep your health plan act which allows people to keep the plan that is existed on the individual markets as of january 1st this year through 2014. The president says he has a plan in place to close the gaps. I think its a great idea for republicans. Put the plan out. Big picture that echoes the president s words over the past several years. If you want to keep your plan, you can keep your plan. If you want to keep your doctor, keep your doctor. Im sure harry reid is going to try to kill that bill. There are a lot of conservative or moderate democrats in red states that would jump on that, i think. Yeah, this is all tv. The oped piece about the poor lady suffering from cancer and basically, they took my doctors away and its going to cost me more money. The follow up showed her coverage would increase. In six or nine months from now people are Getting Better coverage, premiums are going down, none of this is going to matter. I think they are going to stay the path. Lets let the chips go where they may. Say you launched a new car going to be 500 miles per gallon of gas. The first week, the paint wasnt working and this wasnt, at the end of the day, if it delivered, people are happy. Theres no easy way to do this. Theres no easy way to handle a bad rollout. Early on when it happened, the president just has to deal with this. He thohas to fix this. They are focused on fixing the website. They think once the website is fixed, they think everything el else is going to fall into place. They are acknowledging, hey, the product. Theres a flaw in the product we are putting out. All along, this is what they have been saying making the metaphor the president used, its like going Grocery Shopping with the wobbly cart. November 30th, its when the deadline to get this fixed. I dont think they would have said november 30th if they werent 100 confident. Lets hope. Im surprised we are where we are today. I guess the president i throw this to you, too, jeremy. Im going to throw it on the table. What about his defense of Kathleen Sebelius . Its what a leader does. I think he would have looked weak had he thrown her under the bus. He said the right thing. Its my team, the buck stops with me. She was responsible, though. Hen he says shes not an i. T. Expert. That rings hollow. She was in charge to make sure im not im throwing this out there. It would be destructive. Did everybody think he handled it the way he needed to handle it . I think, joe, one thing i hear from my colleagues who cover the white house is Kathleen Sebelius is in no danger of losing her job. One of the things we observed about this president is he hunkers down when his team is under fire. You have seen this with eric holder. You have seen it with janet napolitano. When the right comes after his people, which they have done with extreme fierceness over the past few years, he digs in. I dont think hes going to throw her under the bus, at least not yet. She is one of the more trusted members of his cabinet, isnt she . One of the more trusted members of the cabinet, a key endorsement in kansas back when he was running in the primaries and caucuses. I think jeremy is right, Kathleen Sebelius is safe. The white house is not interested in ceremonial firings. They need to get through the website fix, come back and reassess later. Kathleen sebelius was in charge, but was there a ceo of health care . Thats part of the question. There is nobody whose been accountable from start to finish for overseeing the implementation of this. There was a part of the interview where it was kind of clear he felt he got totally screwed over by his staff, team and the people behind it. He said i got taken by it. I mean the American People got taken by the website. I forget what the word was but it was burned. Thank you, tower. I got burned. It was telling. Hes not happy. It shouldnt have happened. And the buck stops with him. So, he quickly fixed it. In terms of what he was saying. Itis not about him being burned, its about him being responsible and he knows that. Hes not happy. Mitch mcconnell is speaking out about the tea party. In a recent interview with peggy noon noon noonan, he said the most important race it was special election for congress in South Alabama where the candidate said the shutdown was a great idea, the president was born in kenya and the opposed speaker came in second. He lost 5248. Mcconnell spoke about the tea party more generally saying many have been mislead. They have been told the reason we cant get Better Outcomes is not because the democrats control the senate and the white house, but because republicans have been insufficiently feisty. Its not true. I think the folks i have difficulty with are the leaders of some of the groups that mislead them for profit. They raise money, take their cut and spend it. Mcconnell who faces a tea Party Challenge says hes not worried about his reelection bid. Quote, i dont want to be cocky, but im going to be the nominee next year. For those who want to understand this and the conservatives sorting through what they are hearing from both sides, you have people who make millions and millions and millions of dollars preaching the kind of junk thats been preached over the past six months. If only the republicans were tougher, we would live in a land of lollipops, sunshine and a 12 flat tax. This, of course, ignores the fact that harry reid is the pocket veto for president obama and the president can veto anything he wants. This is about math, not ideology. Im surprised, mcconnell finally, somebody finally had the guts to tell people the truth. This is all about money whether we are talking on talk radio or on tv or whether we are talking about, you know, special interest groups. People are making money selling people snake oil. Democrats control the senate and the white house. Thats the way it is. Well, it took him a long time to say it but he finally did. This is why i think Mitch Mcconnell is so savvy. Look where he did the interview. He did it with peggy noonan. He knew exactly the audience he needed to reach to say, look guys, i know exactly whats going on here. I may have been quiet the last few months, but you can count on me. Im not fooled by ted cruz and mike lee and im not going to let them push me around. The interview will get a lot of reaction. Joe, you touched on Something Else that is interesting. I have been talking to a lot of outside groups lately. The sense that i got after the Government Shutdown was that they felt that this fight really wasnt so much about the direction of the country as it was a fight among these groups for who can be the most supreme. That, i think, a lot of conservatives are starting to worry about. Before we go to sorry. I was going to say, mcconnell called out specific groups by name. He goes after the Senate Conservative fund saying nobody elected more democrats over the last three cycles than the Senate Conservative funds. Can we listen quickly . Okay. They put up murdock, who lost. They put up sharon engle, who lost. And people running heritage right now. They put up todd aiken who lost. Ken buck lost. They put up and they put them up, of course they can point to conservative states but you are right, you look at these groups and it is a matter of fact that the only reason harry reid is not retired in nevada right now and why reasons dont control the senate is because of these groups and their stupidity in the primary process. I agree with you, the government is too big and problem has disastrous policies. We need to be more strategic to win the elections to unseat the people who put the laws in place. You have to have a strantegy. We want to go to bill karinss following one of the most powerful storms ever recorded. Bill . 12 hours ago, for the first time in human recorded history, a storm of this magnitude moved over a land area. Think about that. Katrina, the ritas and camilles. This was worse. We dont know how bad or catastrophic the damage is, yet. No one can communicate with the region where the eye moved on shore. The eye was huge. You could fit from baltimore to washington, d. C. In the center of the storm its weakened other the mountains. From here, it will head to vietnam. It will be a big storm for them, not as bad as we saw in the philippin philippines. The other interesting weather e swre vent that is going to take place, the european models predicting a noreaster snowstorm from North Carolina through new england. The american models predicting no snow what so ever. Its a bat that will is going to take place. If you remember, with hurricane sandy, they said it was going to hit new jersey. The american model said out to sea. Willie and i try to do the whole European American model, we stick with the european one. We didnt see this coming, did we . Donny prefe