This is good news, people. Wait wait wait. Did he wbr id wbr357 just wink . Lets see that again in wbr id wbr557 slow motion. b what . Wait, wait a second. Hold on a second. Didnt he just realize he lost a historic election . Both house by historic margins . Even his own party was deserting him. Doesnt obama know he wont get anything done these last two years . Oh he doesnt give a [ bleep ]. You know thats really okay. Pretty much it. No its not. Stop. I was sitting there with like 187degree temperature. I didnt know it could go that high. I didnt either. Ron forter had that great tweet. In the state of the union, he was really really good right this. Yes. Incredible performance. Yes. But its kind of like one of those hollywood stars who do an
incredible performance and then walk on the street oh, wait a second they cant lift those huge hammers and get lightning from the sky. In the words of john lennon it was all showbiz. Im not being negative but he cant do anything. Thats the thing, the day after, hey, hey boy, this is a great barack obama. Literally he can do no more i mean thats whats liberating about it. No. All of this talk no its not. No, if you cant do anything thats not liberating. What you do is you say, okay lets make deals. What if you make the calculation that you can. What if you look back on the previous six years and look at the Republican Party the Democratic Party, im not going to say this publicly but theres no Common Ground are between the two of us. Thats not true. I think thats essentially the calculation that he made right after the election. That is a defeatist thinking
that has surrounded this white house for oh, we cant do anything. Because republicans just we cant do anything. If he had said i stead, richard, maybe im crazy, hey, i tell you what we can debate that. I am crazy. If the president said, listen heres the deal i want to get people that work hard 10 an hour minimum wage you want a pipeline. Now, instead of just saying its a pipeline forget it. When, of course canada and everybody else says its really good deal and its going to create jobs and lots of money and stimulate growth for two or three years, its not bad. Republicans might go we wont give you 10 but well give you 9. Theres always a defeatist thinking. Its either black or white, yes or no, im right, youre wrong. This is the state of the union that should have been
given a year from now. This is the january 2016 state of the union. Then you can do i was right, you were wrong. By then the window for governing would have closed. We all know this is the last year that window remains open. And whether its Corporate Tax reform infrastructure modernization, trade, there were things he could have put on the table very solid me had another year before he basically played 2016. I thought he missed that opportunity. You know what he did . He played to his ego, he played to his base he played to everybody in the white house that has told him a lot of them are friends those republicans are just bad. Mika, you really see the difference between a politician who spends his entire life surrounded by his own type whether its democrats around democrats, republicans versus a Ronald Reagan who had to deal with democrats in california or a bill clinton who had to deal with republicans and conservatives in arkansas. I dont know what state of the union you were watching, but i saw a very positive tone to it. I really did. And this was you know obviously the audience was for the first time, you know republican he had a tough audience. And i thought he put it out there in a positive way saying wbr id wbr3126 we can try and do this without being too confrontational about certain specific issues which you know they would just cease upon and the next day chatter about until everything is dead. The door is now open. If you watch John Boehners body language if you look at the lack of applause. Republicans really took it as a very confrontational state wbr id wbr3326 of the union. Listen heres fever was just about to break. I might have been delirious. You were hallucinating. Like right now im thinking that were going to have a straight down the middle conversation. Mika, the i think at the end of the day if you look at what the president said and you look at issue after issue after issue, it was democratic talking points. He was playing even democrats said, hey, he is setting up the b
2016 election. Thats all i heard that day yesterday, hey, hes setting up the 2016 you know what . We still have a year or two of governing to do. Then you can set up like richard said, the 2016 election. Think hopes for bipartisan ship willie, it seems to me deflated like a football. How about that segue . Good segue. But first, this has been their posture since the midterm elections. On Immigration ReformCommunity College, normalizing relations with cuba. Hes going to put out what he thinks is best. The other night on the tax code hes going to put out his ideal and force republicans to say, no, i dont think people should go to Community College for free. I dont think people should be deported. I dont think there should be a tax hike on the rich. Hes putting them the position of having to go against these things. Whether or not thats productive to make those things happen you can debate about but hes putting out his ideal at this point because i dont think he
thinks over the next two years its going to happen. I think this is going to be good for him. Yeah. I think hes numbers are going to keep going up. If you look at what hes done on cuba, for instance the overwhelming majority of americans support what he did on cuba. If you look at what he did on the immigration, executive order, the majority of americans support that. Now, they dont support a pathway to citizenship if you look at the latest nbc poll but they support what hes doing and i think most americans will look at that and the people that swing back and forth, and i think his numbers will actually go up. Im just talking about getting big deals done. Oh rhine ohwell get that sound bite for you on the next discussion on this because we need to move on. Some republicans saw some things in the speech that they thought they could work with. Paul ryan was one of them. It made news because he heard,
you know he didnt hear just a liberal agenda there. He heard something he could work with. I thought there were one or two things they could work with. Im just talking the overall picture. Again, im a lot more optimistic than most people after this election. I really thought a lot of things were going to get done the next two years. Maybe they will. That wasnt the speech that most people would have given. Im right, youre wrong. Ive been right, youve been wrong is not usually the pathway to compromise. One quick point on that also if you think of atmospherically what democrats would wanted from republicans, at least rhetorically theyve gotten since the election. Mcconnell boehner talking sensibly about areas where they might compromise. They know they have to govern. The moment they say, hey, were gilling ing willing to govern mika is that not a nice change, the republicans are actually, for the most part acting responsibly. I think so. I saw no one set their hair
on fire. Did you watch every single republican response . Can you honestly say that . Well, i didnt see everyone. There were like 85. There were 85. I missed the ted nugent response. Okay. By the way, thats a good sign, that things are changing in the Republican Party. Ted nugent was not the guest of honor with guns strapped on him. Fantastic. Okay. Good songs. Lets go back to your deflated segue. Were not seeing ted nugent in the audience sort of left me with a deflated feel. There you go. I dont think we can show the cover of the New York Post. Decide while i read this. Let me decide. Joe, joe. Ill just read it real quick. I havent seen it. Lets read the story. No we shouldnt put that up. Still investigating claims game balls used sunday were underinflated by the team and whether or not it was
intentional. Ron mott has the latest. Reporter espn citing Anonymous Sources reports that the nfl found 11 of 12 game balls used by the new England Patriots were underinflated which can make the balls easier to throw and catch, especially in the rain, as was the case in sundays victory. The controversy over deflate gate as its called on social Media Centers on whether the patriots tampered with their footballs after they were inspected by the referee. I think its possible that the curtain has been pulled back here on a whole series of things that go on behind the scenes that no one was really aware of. Reporter according to league rules two hours before the game 12 balls from each team are checked by officials, measured and weighed to meet league specs and marked with the refs signature. Ten minutes before the game they are given to ball runners on the sideline. How can it happen . Just a few seconds they the carry a small pump needle like this and release two or three
pounds of pressure enough, some say, to gain an edge even if its barely noticeable. Nfl rule s do not govern access to footballs during games but stipulate, if any individual alters the footballs, they face discipline including fines. I believe the loss of draft picks might be in play. I believe a suspension for the head coach might be in play depending on what kind of proof they have and even what kind of chain of custody they have on these stupid footballs. Theyve come this far. Theyve played good football. Why would they want to jeopardize it. Theyre cheaters. They should be punished for it. Reporter the patriots and coach Bill Belichick were heavily fined for spygate in 2007. Videotaping an opponents signals during the game. The patriots push the boundaries of the rules constantly. Most of the team theyre within the realm of whats acceptable. This time it appears theyve gone outside it. Reporter while some colts players tweeted they would be happy to replace them in the super bowl duane allen said they could have played with soap
and beat us. Thank you, duane allen. Seriously. No, im serious. No thats all class. It really is. The colts have i think most part been classy, you could have played with soap and beaten us. For people who dont really understand it. You know quarterback played in the north, i mean its ice. When its cold, those balls are like rocks. You deflate it you can actually grip it. Right. So the question is should there be some punishment leading up into the super bowl . Thats not going to happen. Theyre not going to suspend belichick. So theyre going to get a fine. They say of 25 grand, Something Like that, take awe way a draft pick. I would take away their first draft pick that will hurt. Mike, this is obviously playing huge up in boston. What do you think . What should happen here . Hey, mike do you love Bill Belichick as much as i love Bill Belichick . A lot of these coach rest paranoid to a certain level. If people knew the extent of their paranoia about football
and about winning games and gaining an edge i think a lot of people would be shocked. The patriots have already lost. They have priors. In the publics mind and the Public Relations aspect of it the patriots already loses. Id like to find out what happened and i think well find out later today what happened. And i would assume that if the patriots are found culpable of deflating the balls in the first half of the game not the second half of the game when the balls are exposed, then theyll suffer a severe penalty because of their priors. 457 it was a 38point game. Obviously the balls didnt make the difference in the game. But cheating is cheating and youve got to punish it. Not only that willie if you check the stats of the game tom brady, the patriots quarterback, had a much better second half after they found out about the balls than he did the first half. Okay. Just why does each team provide their own footballs . Thats stupid. That is the stupid part of it. Opening the door to cheating. How about the nfl provides the footballs. It seemed to me in high school, when i played willie i thought the other team when we were in florida, i thought the other team actually provided the balls. There will be some kind of reform where these things will be held under custody, shall we say. Deflation. What . Yesterday, europeans here we go. Q and a speech. Hes not doing it. Hes really going to okay. We have a lot to talk about. You saw Hillary Clinton yesterday. She was in canada in winnipeg speaking at the chamber of commerce and she channeled her inner Vladimir Putin and did an imitation. Take a look. If for some reason you decided to be leader of the United States or actually run for that because there is process. There is a process. You got elected. People said, you know what you can imagine the conversation with putin. He was Prime Minister after president. Vladimir vladimir, do you think you would like to be president again . I think i would, actually. Why dont we just go announce it. Well tell dmitri he can be Prime Minister. Actually. Yes. We have a process, yes. Thats bill clinton. I think she needs to talk to a marriage counselor because she actually sees her husband as vladimir. That was the worst Vladimir Putin. There was the best bill clinton. A lot going on overseas. Lets go to this violent protest in yemen which has reportedly simmering at least for now. Shiite rebels struck a deal with the countrys president late yesterday after storming his residents and holding him captive there. The agreement ends with local officials have labeled an attempted coup. They will amend to yemens constitution and give the rebels more representation in parliament. Four months ago as the Washington Post points out, president obama was holding up yemen as a Success Story in the fight against terror. The president said quote, the strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us while supporting partners on the front lines is one that we have successfully pursued in yemen and somalia for years. And here we are. You haddon nald rumsfeld saying a few things he wish he could have gotten back about iraq. There is just chapter and verse of the the president has keeps providing these quotes that keeps suggesting he may either be out of touch with the war on terror or he may just wish it didnt exist. You dont want to make comments that are confident and predictions about any middle eastern state. Look, weve got four countries in the middle east essentially failed states. Three for sure. Syria, libya, yemen. Iraq arguably fourth. This one was not our doing unlike the other three. Youve got a country roughity
the size of saudi arabia on the brink of failure, totally infiltrated by terrorist groups. Weve lost essentially any sort of a partner in the global effort against terrorism here. This is a serious piece of bad news. Jim republicans obviously bring this up Foreign Policy analysts as well. The president says isis is jv and then, well, you can put kobe bryant in a jv uniform but still jv player. All this while they are actually gaining ground in syria despite bombing runs. This president , does he just wish terrorism. Didnt exist . Is he trying to pish it away . Its certainly the fairest critique of that speech is how much he diminished the lingering threat, the idea that syria, the idea that yemen imly curious, why does he keep saying that . I mean democrats, independents republicans would say, thats just not connected with reality. Im serious here. Dangerous politics. What is the purpose of it . Why does he do that . I think, my guess is and i dont know definitively whats in his head but i think his reasoning would be hes trying to say that weve had lots of success in afghanistan and iraq and my overall approach to fight terrorism and dealing with the threats works by putting these things in manageable boxes. The problem with that is theres lots of evidence it doesnt work. Your point, dont ever declare, no president should ever declare any success in afghanistan, iraq syria, yemen, libya again. Willie, no mission accomplished. No more mission accomplished. Richard, how dangerous is yemen to the United States . How close is it or can it be to syria which is to say a place we thought we might be able to make partners to fight terrorism and now its not clear who that partner would be and we see people coming out of there and coming back to europe. The one you just suggested, as a base from which people would return. The other is a base against
other middle eastern states. When sighsisis changed its name to islamic state, the goal was to reform the region. This is where they can go after saudi arabia which is ultimately the crown jewel. The question of why the president keeps doing this look at the beginning of the state of the union, what was his first foreign point . Troops coming home from afghanistan. Its what weve been able to stop doing and bring troops back home from iraq and afghanistan. I think the administration is putting too much emphasis on that and not enough on conditions in the region. Mike, you look at the last two president s and their ideology has just had disastrous impacts for u. S. Foreign policy. George w. Bush thinking he was going to export democracy to all four corners of the globe. Look what happened. It was just an absolute nightmare that we continue to pay for todayed. And then barack obama making Campaign Promises he was going to bring everybody home. Both of them continued down
their path regardless of the realities that stared them squarely in the face. Were all paying for it. Troops, especially, are paying for it. The world is paying for it. Well, unless you get very little mention of terrorism in the state of the union speech the other evening, joe. There are no Success Stories here, no matter what they might parrot about our success in quotes in afghanistan, there are no Success Stories. There are no Success Stories in the middle east. Thus, why talk about it . Because you don