Senator Mary Landrieu says she has the 60 votes needed to advance a bill authorizing the construction of the controversial Keystone Pipeline when it comes up for a vote today. Well be watching that one. An architect will [ music playing ] 6r7b8g9s at the g 20 summit, politicians took a break from saving the world. Take a look at these three photos that have never shaken hands before. You put your, you put your hand on red and your left hand on yellow. Hold on, spin it. Spin it they took a break posing for pictures holding koala bears, Vladmir Putin and Prime Minister tony abbott with koalaings. Heres other one with president obama and a koala. Apparently kim jongun heard about this and field bad. So he had his photo taken with a koala. Cute. Oh, speaking of koala bears, joe. Yeah. Have you seen willie lately in. Oh my gosh. I know. So. So cuddly. Lets have some grooming i would id things going on here. Less than two weeks. The countdown is on. Good morning, everybody. November 18th. With us on set, we have economic analyst steve radner and willie, joe and me. Good morning, joe. Yeah. Before we get to the fuse,
which is a lot. Tammy duckworth. Have you seen the story . Do you think she should have been able to deliver her vote to the committee . There is politics involved. She allowed the vote by problxy what do you think . You know, its not been done before, in this case, you have a woman thats eight months pregnant. You get a doctor who told her she cant fly to washington, d. C. , so you can make that exception. A lot of people are criticizing nancy pelosi. The people who are criticizing themselves are all the people who tried to use their situation so they can also cast a proxy vote. Thats when nancy pelosi had to say no, people started saying, yeah, i may have a chipped tooth. I may have. Everybody came up with an excuse and so hopefully nancy will be,
i dont know, an exception should have been made. It wasnt made. It worked in washington now. So theyre going to have to just adjust. Well get back to that. Maybe there is more to this story. We are following a developing story this morning out of jerusalem, where two palestinian men stormed a sin go, attacking worshippers inside t. Attack left four people dead and at least four more wounded. The two men attacked congress regants inside the orthodoxed neighborhood before killed in a shootout from police. The men were said to be from east jerusalem, fueling one over another. People would come to worship god in the sanctuary of the sin knowing, were hatcheted and hacked and murdered in that holy place in an act of pure terror and senseless brutality and
murder. This violence has no place anywhere. Palestinian president pla mud abbas condemned the attacks while hamas praised them but did not claim responsibility. Turning now to obamacare where this morning the Washington Freebie conhas footage on its website of a 2006 Panel Discussion featuring then senator barak obama. It includes a sound byte where the future president praises a group of academic, including economist Jonathan Gruber, who has been all over the headlines recently for say that the stupidity of the American Voter happe helped Congress Pass health care. You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles. Many of them i have stolen lit lal
lally my good friend jim wallace who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice. President obama was less complimentary when asked about gruber earlier this week. I just heard about this i get well briefed before i come out here the fact that the summit adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that i completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflex on the process that was run. Fact checkers say gruber earned almost 400,000 and earned reportedly 2 million for an ongoing contract with hhs, the National Review puts the figure far higher as if 6 million. It lists paychecks to gruber
from a number of states, including vermillion, minnesota and michigan to name a few. David axelrod recently wrote, if you looked up stupid in the dictionary, youd find grubers picture. He went on to add one note, his contributions to the ar ca, like governor romneys massachusetts plan were valuable. Hills quips were offensive. Nancy pelosi recently said she doesnt know who Jonathan Gruber is, although she touted his work back in 2009. Joe. I dont know from to start. He got 103 million from the department of state, many insurance mince, 293,600 from the department of hhs. 1. 73 million from the justice department. 2 million 50,000 from the u. S. National institutes for health. Hes a guy that went into the white house i believe to help construct this plan a dozen of times, in fact, the president said he helped write the Affordable Care act. If these people that are saying every couple days, who gruber, where gruber, horton hears a gruber. Theyre embarrassing themselves. Nancy pelosi saying she has never heard of Jonathan Gruber barak obama is doing this act. I dont know who tells him it makes him look cool it doesnt it makes him look out of touch. How many times do we hear i was just told about this va ca vasc. If he were president of the United States he said Jonathan Gruber for health care reform. I mean, there is talk about taking a oneday story and making it a oneweek or twoweek story, they should have just come out and said jonathan grubary strong guy, they helped us draft there bill. Hes an idiot. There are obvious reasons why hes a tenured professor. Because hes an idiot in front of cameras. He helped put together this package. They cant get out of tear way. Heres the thing. Watching those two sound bytes back to back when the president
said he didnt joe is absolutely right. The white house staff, you got to wonder about the staff. You got a smart guy saying stupid things. Why they dont say just that, by the way, what is the obsession with taking 10 Million People off the health care rolls . With the president mentioning his name. I didnt see it. How many speeches or book events where you thank the person or give a nod, have you no idea who they were. He was reading that off the script. Its not so gotcha. I have been in situations on a much, much smaller level. On a much, much, smaller level, where you are running for office. But every president ial candidate guess through this. Who are the people you are going to surround yourself with when you become president of the United States and people say, well, you know, colin powell over here and it would be great to have leon panet thta over he. So if you are president of the United States, we will know which direction you are going to go if. Steve radner, he brought up Jonathan Gruber and he did that for a reason because gruber has put together romney care up in massachusetts. He wanted him to put together obamacare in washington, d. C. I think that is a very. I dont want to say gotcha moment. Because this is taken care of by the president you know engaging in politics 101 hes a smart guy. He said some stupid things. Instead of steve pretending like he didnt even know who he was. I think thats exactly the point. Jonathan gruber was back in the day in 2009 the guru on health
care as you said, he designed the massachusetts plan for romney i think if you go back and look at the Washington Post or the New York Times times in that period Jonathan Grubers fame will be all over it on health care quoted by everybody, who the white house was using mg i dont think we few the dollar numbers he was paid at the time. He was certainly i remember that when i was in the white house, he was certainly viewed as an important figure in helping to put obamacare towing. So its exactly what you said. The problem is not that gruber helped them put obamacare together. He was the man. The problem is what he said in the last two weeks and how the white house has handled it. You can almost hear David Axelrods frustration in that tweet say, hey, guys, this is the answer to the question. Hes a stupid guy. He helped write it. He did some good things for us. We condemn these comments. He keens going day after day after more tapes come out. Its not a onetime gap for
gruber. There are six, seven, eight videos where he has total contempt for the American People and can say they dont have toll economic, so we can slip this by him. At this point to sort offing a like i dont know who this gruber guy is, its again just say it, what an idiot. I would just say when democrats lost the election, you let me down, guys, just say it. Its funny, what willie said is exactly right. When i saw David Axelrods tweet yesterday, it was like, okay. He is pulling out his hair in chicago. He was trying to send a single, guys, say he was really important in this because people arent dumb. Its almost like the white house thinks people are as stupid as Jonathan Gruber thinks people are. Oh, please. Im serious. I know. By saying if you think can you go out and say we dont know who this guy is when he got paid millions and millions of dollars by the federal government. He was one of the architects of
obama case organizeing for america, you identified him as one of the architects, one of the writers of obamacare. Barak obama when he was running for president , said when he wanted to keep people running his administration, its almost like they agree with Jonathan Gruber were all stupid and were not going to be able to google his name and find all of this. They need to put this behind them. Okay. Well start by turning the page right now. Because dan says we have to move on. As we have discussed, president obama is reportedly poised to take executive action to keep millions of undocumented immigrants from being deported. But a new poll shows resistance on the part of many americans. 46 want the president to wait until the new congress. Top Senate Democrats, harry reid back the president taking action now, writing a letter, showing tear support. As the new york sometimes notes, the president appears to have evolved about using such broad executive action. In 2013, someone asked the
president if hed consider taking action to keep parents of minors who qualify for the dream act from being deported. Young people who have basically grown up here are americans that we should welcome. Were not going to have them oefrt under a cloud, under a shadow. If we start broughtening that, then essentially i would be ignoreing the law in a way that i think would be very difficult to defend legally. So thats not an option and i do get a little worried that, you know, advocates of Immigration Reform start losing heart and immediately thinking. Well, you know, somehow there is an out here. If congress doesnt act, well just have the president sign something and that will take care of it. We wont have to worry about it. All right. Joe, take it. What jose said what jose got to president to say in that
interview is obviously going to be something we will be hearing time and time again the president of the United States say figure he took president action in this way he is thinking of doing it now, it would actually be unconstitutional. It wouldnt be legal. Its unconstitutional. Its hard a couple years later to turn around and do the very thing you said two years ago as a guy that taught constitutional law at the university of chicago, this action would be unconstitutional. President correspondent, tracy lunt, is there any case this spirals into another shutdown standoff . Reporter Republican Leaders are trying hard to prevent that from happening him i think at this point it would take a set of circumstances to get into that storm again. There is a real recognition basically to lose this fight with the brought is to go into another government shutdown. I will say as joe was pointing out, these comments from president obama are definitely going to be something that we
hear over and over and over again from republicans on the hill and i think we know now that the president is definitely going to go forward with this executive order t. Question is the timing. I think it does matter if he decides to come out with it before december 11th when the government fwheedz to be funded or after. But after that point, i think the question is how do the longterm politics of this play. Do americans get upset that the president is, do they view it as the president going around the law doing something that as he said in that interview with jose outside of the law or is it something that becomes politically untenable to reverse . And the president is clearly betting that republicans are going to decide that they dont want to undo this for fear of angering those hispanic voters that they really need entering the president ial election. All right. Casey, thanks. Still ahead on morning joe best selling author tony robbins will be here and then the company that took on fork city
taxis is now going after journalists . The latest uber war is next. Are you watching morning joe. Well be right back. Kid hey dad, who was that man . Dad hes our broker. He helps looks after all our money. Kid do you pay him . Dad of course. Kid how much . Dad i dont know exactly. Kid what if youre not happy . Does he have to pay you back . Dad nope. Kid why not . Dad it doesnt work that way. Kid why not . Vo are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed . Wealth management at Charles Schwab. Okay. Let take a look at the morning post. In california more than onefifth of the homeless in the u. S. T. Nation finds the high poverty rate is to blame for the increase and domestic violence. A New York Times says an executive at uber should consider apologizing for dig up
dirt on the media last friday. He thought the conversation was off the record and says his comments do not reflect the companys views. Suggesting hiring opposition researchers to gather info on the personal lives of his critics. He mentioned targeting a female journalist who accused them of sexism and urged other women to delete the app. Michael has been at uber for years. Take a look at this, a local investigative report in new york city finds a radar system at furyk International Airport is often not functioning properly and repeatedly sending out false alarms. The system is supposed to prevent collision as planes come too close to one another. But as jim hopper reports the key safety tool isnt working as intended. Reporter complaints about the unreliability of the anticollision radar fill these daily logs. One controller noting as dx keeps shutting down, we ask tech ops to shut it down completely. Our investigation is found from january to february this year. The radar failed to operate properly. 118 out of 131 days. That lack of reliable may have played a role in the closest of close calls last april at newark when an express jet taking off if a United Airlines 737 came within 400 feet of colliding. He was real closer. We are told the radar did alert be every the near miss but gave little time for the controller to react. The daily log shows the radar again false alerted. Just 28 minutes before the close call. Go, jim. Wait a second. 118 of 181 day the radar at
newark didnt work . Willie, thats correct. Im flying out of lagardeia or jfk. That is absolutely insane. How did that happen and not get fixed. They write it down on a newspaper somewhere. The reporting. The independent Chef Gordon Ramsay is accusing a rival chef of turning up the heat. Oh my lord. Sabotageing his new london restaurants opening weekend. Ramsay blames quote haters for booking 100 tables left unoccupied. It says he will now recon firm every registration to make sure its real. The biggest Chocolate Companies are warning of a coming shortage. Farmers are producing less cocoa than the world consumes, if part because of disease and drouchlt analysts warn we are in the middle of a 50year streak of chocolate production deficits. Last year alone the world ate about 7,000 metric tons more chocolate than was produced. Mars, one of the largest chocolate numbers says that number could swell to 1 million by 2020. Some people say hoard gold. I say hoard chocolate. Keep it in the freezers . M ms. This is the greatest marketing ploy of all times by the chocolate industry. I love it. Well done. The New York Daily News one woman going all out to prove her loyalty even if it means exchanging vows with him a. 26yearold woman is intent on
seek him exonerated. She moved to california almost a decade ago to visit him in prison. Now she tells the associated press. Thats so sick. Is that okay for me to say. To get access to case information only available to relatives. The woman believes her fiancee is innocent and will get a few trial. Yeah. Where are they registered . Home video . No, shes actually an activist trying to get him off and they are owe glow lets, just, everybody stop. No, no, no, they are registered at manslaughterry barn. Oh. No, no, no, were ending the. Still ahead, did president obama lead the country down a path of isolationism that has done irrepairable harm to the u. S. . Brett stevens joins us with his new book, also a look at todays must read opinion pages, dont
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