Good morning, it is monday november 10th, welcome to morning joe. With us onset we have Mike Barnacle barnacle, bright and early. Very chipper. Very chipper. Msnbc contributor and associate professor at Columbia SchoolDarian Warren and Jeremy Peters. What are the jets doing winning . Beating the steelers who i heard are supposed to be good. Steelers were on a roll. Look out. Jets. Michael vick did he have a good game . Okay game. He didnt fumbgle the ball 12 times. First well do the good and then well do the bad and ugly. President bush 43 actually over here. There you go awesome. This book that hes writing is really a love letter to his dad, apparently, and i didnt realize the but 41 thought seriously about not running for reelection. First time i heard that. Isnt that crazy . Very nice. Heres the ugly. This is the Washington Post. If they wanted to grab peoples attention, on monday morning they have done it with a story on the nword which they say get this is used 500,000 times a day as slang. As slang on twitter. 500,000 times a day. Hundreds of thousands times a day than my word of choice dude
or bro and naacp this is fascinating to me naacp had the mock funeral in 2007 and now they basically said its just this is a Youth Culture thing. That it is its so prevalent in Youth Culture which is shocking to me. Theres no way they can ban the word but the 500,000 is enormous but remember we dont know how many times people say it not on social media a day. Oh, my gosh. So its a small, small indication of how often the word is used. Its absolutely unbelievable. That article has a great history of the word. Great history of the word. Has anybody else noticed ill just hold this up the Washington Post over the past three to six months has become a really vital, vital newspaper. I dont know whose in charge so im not kissing up to anybody. The editor much the Washington Post former editor of the boston globe is on this. This paper is now mandatory reading. It really is now i always would go to the times and wall street journal and politico and sometimes the Washington Post. I always go to the Washington Post first now and i havent said that in like in decades. In a long time. Pretty crazy. All right lets start this morning with that dangerous storm and frigid temperatures moving into a big part of the country. Wait. Are we going to get cold . Oh willie lets go to florida. It starts now and ends you can feel it. Ends memorial day. Can we go to boca. Naples. People under winter storm warnings right now. An outbreak of freezing weather isnt far behind. Bill karins just do it. Thats the problem. We get cold in november usually we warm up. Once it gets cold no signs of it warming up any time soon. So this is here to stay. Its cold today in the northern plains. Rest of the country is gorgeous. Problem weather is up in minneapolis. Dealing with a foot of snow by this time tomorrow morning. Watch the cold as it slowly moves across the country. First it heads south. Notice the High Temperature on wednesday in kansas city and chicago, low 30s. The last warm day for the east coast will be wednesday and then the east coast will get cold. We mentioned the 7 Million People understand winter storm warnings that goes from montana all the way through northern wisconsin and Northern Michigan and these are the people digging out from the possibility of a large area of six to 12 inches and up to a foot of snow. Wind chills have tanked in these areas. Thats where it will snow. Youll get a foot of snow. To give you and idea its not how cold it is its how long it will last. Minneapolis is now below 32
degrees. They wont go above 32 degrees for at least a week straight. Whatever ice and snow is out there is here to stay. Even through about the end of this week theres no signs of this cold air exiting. Bill thank you. All right. President obama is in beijing for the First Time Since 2009. Hes pushing a u. S. Supported trade agreement at an economic summit and hell meet with chinas president on wednesday. Hes also scheduled to visit myanmar and australia. The week long trip comes as democrats struggle to make sense of last weeks midterm losses. Also want to ask you about what happened on tuesday. We got beat. The buck stops right here at my desk. So, whenever as the head of the party it doesnt do well ive got to take responsibility for it. The message that i took from this election and weve seen this in a number of elections, successive elections, is people
want to see this city work. And they feel as if its not working. And, you know they know one person in washington and thats the president of the United States. So ive got to make this city work better for them. What do you think . Well i thought he was pretty good. He was very very honest about what happened. What do you think, mike . He looked disgusted the day after. You know hes carrying such baggage. Obviously he got his lunch handed to him on tuesday. Hes going to china. The chinese know whats going on. They are going to give him nothing because they perceive him to be as weak as the voters perceived him to be here on tuesday. What do you think, willie. When he says its time to make washington work thats obviously the first time he said that. Im not blaming him for saying
it. Its what we want to hear. But i dont think anybody in america after six years think suddenly things will work in washington. We hope it will. But its is starting to ring hollow for people who have watched what happened. You got to talk to each other. Of course the president is recivilitying calls from republicans to wait on Immigration Reform and the president said hes given House Speaker john boehner plenty of time to act and hell do it by himself by the end of the year. Take a look. I told him at the time john if you dont do it i got Legal Authority to make improvements on the system. So, john im going to give you some time but if you cant get it done before the end of the year im going to have to take the steps that i can to improve the system. Your saying here their time has run out . What im saying to them actually their time hasnt run out. Ill do what i can do through executive action. Its not going to be everything that needs to get done. And it will take time to put that in place. And in the interim, the minute they pass a bill that addresses the problems with Immigration Reform i will sign it and it sue super supers earn des whatever action i take. If theres one political combustible issue that could really poison the well as john boehner said the other day its Immigration Reform. We have seen time and time again nothing raises the passions on both the left and the right like Immigration Reform. I under they are saying that. Let me play devils advocate. What the hell are the republicans going to do . You dont like what he did, pass a law. You dont pass a law, you
know it will be something new. If im the president of the United States and i really wanted to do this i would sign it. I would give to it the republicans and say okay now you guys, i dont have to fight with you any more. You guys fight among yourselves because jeremy this really is this is an intramural battle. It would allow Mitch Mcconnell and john boehner to say come up with a deal or the president will find it. It seems like a pretty good strategic move on the president s part. The problem as has been for the last four years for republicans, though is going to the controlling, the Tea Party Wing of the party. Which is very very opposed to doing anything on immigration. The tea party does nothing now. You say the tea party. If what you define as the tea party does nothing now then nothing guess done. If the president signs an
executive order they not acting them blocking an immigration bill actually allows the president of the United States to have his executive order be the law of the land right . So them dragging their feet actually works against them and allows the president to have his way. Doesnt that change the dynamics . Well you know when you lay it out like that it sounds like it makes perfect sense but as is often the case in Congress Common sense does not apply, logic does not apply and i think what youre hearing republicans talk about doing is finding a way in the budget bill to hold this whole process, uphold the budget process up through an amendment that would defund whatever the president does on immigration and then that opens up a huge can of worms that could mostly clear up this entire process and i think thats what republicans are worried about another legislative crisis like that. I want to make sure i get this right. I think if im not mistaken lets say, i sign an executive order. Theres the order. Its joes law. Now if congress does nothing, it remains joes law. Right . So if youre a tea party guy, im not doing anything on immigration, then youre making sure joes law remains the law. Theres forces action by republicans one way or another and democrats. You have to ask yourself the question i dont know you think about this. Youre an academic. Figure this out. Be smart for us. Weve heard the inside take on it. Heres my perception. Hes the president of the United States. Why the president of the United States doesnt say, okay weve waited years for anything something to be done on immigration so now here is a version of joes law, Barack Obamas law. Here it is. Executive action. Now, you republicans go slice and dice yourselves up in the house and senate and figure it out. Thats the law. I think well see that. Theres a historical point here. Every single president since eisenhower over the last 60 years have taken executive action on immigration. Thats the historical point. Second this is smart politics if the president signs an executive order on immigration. Frankly the latino and asianamerican vote is up for grabs in the future and both of these groups are looking for which party will represent them in fixing the immigration system. Theres a huge latino vote out there thats up for grabs by both parties. If the president moves first on this question i think latino voters who are angry at the democrats and the president i was going to say. You know what . Caroline kennedy doesnt get
profiles in courage on immigration. So now hes found religion. Hes going to move forward and do it. If he moves forward and does it then the republicans are forced to act. And they have the political incentive to do it. For all the reasons i said a year and a half ago. Now you are going to have Mitch Mcconnell and john boehner look at people that want to get in the way and say really . Do you want Hillary Clinton to be president for eight years. We can stop short of amnesty, we can stop short of citizenship, but we have to do something. And i dont think theres going to be much patience at all for people who want to play to their home district and help lose the presidency for republicans for eight more years. Certainly an opportunity for them to think. Howard dean the former democratic governor of vermont and dnc chair says president obama is not the sole person responsible for the partys losses last week. He said Democratic Candidates lost because they failed to articulate a clear message to voters. The republican message was were not obama no substance whatsoever. What was the democrats message. Were really not either. You cannot win if you are afraid. It felt like it. Where the hell is the Democratic Party. Got to stand for something if you want to win. The Washington Post points out that one clear lesson from the midterms that democrats made the Koch Brothers a top target in many cases they lost the races and the post article on that is brutal to harry reid. He just blew so much money. But heres my only argument with what howard dean said about democrats losing because they didnt stand for anything didnt stop the republicans. The republicans, they are the castrating pigs. It was about washington. It was about washington. It was about making things work. I like joni ernst. Im just saying there wasnt a whole lot of substance on the republican side. They were against barack obama. No substance on the republican side but the democrats argument for months and months ago starting with harry reid on the floor of the senate that david and charles koch are bad people. And you should vote against them. And it didnt work. Did we not say from the beginning what a stupid idea. We could have saved harry reid hundreds of millions of dollars if they ran on real issues instead of well pick on these two guys. Especially when their issues win at the ballot box, minimum wage. The issue wins. Can i ask why didnt i
talked about this too nonstop. Why didnt the democrats talk about, use all of that money to talk about how republicans are blocking minimum wage. Why republicans were blocking this reform. Why republicans were blocking that reform. Why republicans didnt want the little jenni, the 6yearold to have health care United States because of preexisting conditions. Why they didnt want neer do wellsons playing xbox all day to have health insurance. Its just so easy. Think of all the money harry reid burned. By the way, tom styer should be angry about all the pollution caused by burning that money. Why didnt they use issues like minimum wage and other issues jeremy. Thats how they started out. Remember at the beginning of the Campaign Season this was democrats message and it sounded
like it was going be very populace focusing on minimum wage and College Affordability and then it got lost in koch piece sagging stuff and war on women. I will say where the Koch Brothers line of attack was effective, even though it was a distraction to their overall message was that it depressed the republican donor base. If you talk to a lot of republican fundraisers, a lot of republican groups what they said by going out there and demonizing charles and david koch what harry reid did is he scared republicans into giving money because they didnt want to find themselves the subject of the same brutal attacks. It didnt work. Rich donors gave more than before. You know why not have a populace message. It was stupid. Harry reid if democrats allow harry reid to continue to run the senate they should have done the Elizabeth Warren strategy. Yes. Of a strong populace message, talk about the middle class, talk about whats happening to working class americans. Republicans should too. Thats the message. Now, of course you know to do it a little different way than Elizabeth Warren would do it. How would she do it thats wrong. The tanks and going up to rich peoples houses and throwing them out in the street like they did in batman. Im against that. You cant find anything wrong. Speak being of which, ann hathaway this new movie that shes in. Interstellar. Why do people hate ann hathaway. I think shes great. Shes a great actress. I think shes amazing. Maybe because of her first movie like my daughter watched 80,000 times. I saw it. Princess diaries. She was great in that. She was great in batman. Shes great in this. Still ahead on morning joe well talk to independent senator angus king on republican efforts to pull him across the aisle. Plus why today is a big day in the vas Major Overhaul. Long time sports columnist dan shaunnessy. Ameriprise asked people a simple question in retirement, will you outlive your money . Uhhh. No, that cant happen. Thats the thing, you dont know how long it has to last. Everyone has retirement questions. So ameriprise created the exclusive. Confident retirement
approach. Now you and your ameripise advisor can get the real answers you need. Well, knowing gives you confidence. Start building your confident retirement today. You were texting last night. Mika was on there. Group text. Got to be careful of that right. We started talking about her and we forgot mika forgot mika always hits reply all. And so she told us shes come to new york and stupid. Should come to new york and, apparently, apparently they have a sale at barneys. Is that right . Yes. Time now to take a look at the morning papers. Ill get a better jacket. That baby blue doesnt work. Are we ready . Stop hitting reply all. Okay. She had a katy statement. Lets do the papers. The chicago tribune, two remaining american prisoners held by north korea are back on u. S. Soil. Look at that graphic. Look at these pictures. A plane carrying kenneth bae and Matthew Todd Miller landed in Washington State late saturday after north Korean Leader kim jongun ordered their release. Miller who was tried on espionage charges and bae arrested in 2012. They were freed by u. S. Director James Clapper who brought a letter from barack obama. Lets go back to the graphic. We complain that bill doesnt give us a lot of money for this show. We get nothing. Look at that. Released. Do you know how much that cost . Our graphics are incredible. They are the most two dimensional graphics. I love it. All right. The timespicayune, Mary Landrieu getting out a new attack ad against her opponent. Im Mary Landrieu and i approved this message. On may 31st bill cassidy gave a speech that was nearly intoin intoin incoh