Welcome back. Lets get a check on the day ahead. President obama and german today. The crisis in ukraine and relations with russia are expected to dominate that meeting. Jury selection continues for the man accuse of killing famed navy s. E. A. L. Sniper kiss kyle and his friend. 27yearold eddie is expected to plead not guilty by reasons of insanity. Thats going to do it for way too early. Stick around. Morning joe starts right now. You know, mika,ic its time. Its ting for what . I think its time. Tell me. I think its time for your hero. What . I think its time for the moment you have posters all over your room. What are you talking about . And the named your cat after and you have the stickers on all
of your cars and your buick and your vw. I think i know what youre getting at. But youre starting with this . I think its time for Elizabeth Warren to run. I do too. Okay. Good. No, but you were just talking about before i think its time for her to run. I think a lot of other people think its time for her to run, too. Boy, weve got a lot to talk about today. Awful lot to talk about. Obviously whats going on with isis. Whats going on with jordan actually stepping up and vowing revenge, saying theyre going to destroy isis. Its a leadership that we havent seen in quite some time. New polls are out in iowa. We, of course, have, to for us the very sad Brian Williams saga were going to get to. I am just curious what you think about Elizabeth Warren really quickly because theres just more talk about her being ready to go and hillary still sitting around with this remarkable war machine. And they cant figure out theyre trying to figure out what Hillary Clinton stands for. Theyre having meetings to figure out what Hillary Clinton stands for. Theyre paying tons of money to figure out what she believes. I think the problem is like picking issues. What will work whats going to get in the pocket of winning an election. You feel like thats what these meetings are for. Yeah. Theyre trying to figure at what Hillary Clinton believes. Right. Which is remarkable because Elizabeth Warren knows what she believes. Thats right. You look at the fact that the rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer. You look at the fact that income disparity is bigger than its ever been. You look at the fact that woking class americans are falling behind on wages. More believe their children will not do as well as they are doing for the First Time Ever in these pollings. Billionaires are paying 14 tax rates. Their secretaries are paying 28 tax rates. This is the time in what you need to understand is that these times dont come along very often. You know john high manhigh man and
i could tell you. You hung out in chicago for a while, right . Sure did. Chicago cubs won the world series in 1907 and 1908. You know theyre thinking hey, were going to win in 1909 too. Come on. Its the last time the chicago cubs won the world series, 1908. Get a friend he had a ring, he was going to give it to his girlfriend who he loved madly. He goes to dinner decides, you know time is not right. Basically says im going to get back to you, honey. She goes out crying. Leaves him. 25 years later the guy is still Walking Around like a zombie. What . He said his time passed. He had his time. The moment passed. The moment also could pass for Elizabeth Warren. I see the parallel. In politics jfk said i thought he was hillary. You run to it. Right . No, he wasnt hillary. He was elizabeth. And cubs are hillary . No theyre elizabeth. Theyre both elizabeth. Im sorry. This is hard for me. Theyre all elizabeth. I got it. Stay with me. Stay with me. You think that youre going the get another chance. You any that everything is okay. Elizabeth. You think, you know what tomorrow is another day but sometimes tomorrow never comes. In president ial politics you know this better than anybody else, sometimes tomorrow doesnt come. Right. And this is her chance. The sky will never be bluer. Jfk said when theres blue sky in politics you run to it. She cant wait four years. If shes going to run, she needs to run now. Are you with me now . Im with you. I thought the guy was hillary and the cubs were that was our the aardvark. Got it. The walrus will you tell her who the walrus was . Im the walrus. The walrus was paul. The walrus freaks me out. Heres another clue for you
all. All right. The walrus was paul. I thought you were the walrus. What . This is strange. All right. Were going to start with jordans onslaught against Islamic State militants. They carried out five dozen air strikes since the jordanian pilot was burned alive. Many include logistic sites and training camps. The leader of jordans air force is promising to quote, wipe them from the face of the earth. It comes as u. S. Military advisers are training Iraqi Security forces for an offensive to proclaim mosul and fallujah. The efforts will likely involve risky urban warfare. But in an exclusive interview on nbcs meet the press secretary of state john kerry said he is confident the u. S. Led coalition has the upper hand against isis. Are we actually winning and our goal of do min anybodying and eventually destroying isis . Well, i believe we are on the
road to yes. I absolutely do. And i think the evidence is not in my saying it but its in the facts of what is happening. We have taken out a significant proportion of the top leadership of isis. Their command and control facilities have been attacked interrupting their command and control. They no longer can communicate the way they were as openly. They no longer travel in convoys the way they were as openly. We have said since the beginning this is a longterm operation, not a shortterm one. But we believe everything including the governing process in iraq itself, is moving in the right direction. Meanwhile, the parents of an american female aide worker who was kidnapped by isis militants are holding out hope that shes still alive. Islamic state militants on friday said that Kayla Mueller was killed during one of jordans air strikes in syria but u. S. Officials say theres no evidence to support the claims. And jordan says the air strikes
were miles away from where kayla was being held. She was kidnapped 18 months ago when she left a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders. Thats the aide group. Until friday her family asked news organizations not to report her name citing safety concerns. Kaylas family was opposed to a risky military mission to rescue her, preferring negotiation talks inside. That led to u. S. Officials rejecting proposals before they reached president obama. Wonderful, wonderful young lady from everything that weve read about her. Were going to have more here live coming up. Nbc news correspondent joins us live from a Jordanian Air base not far from the syrian border. What is the latest on the ground there . Mika im standing in front of the aircraft. When secretary of state says theyre destroying isis depots when they talk about wiping isis
from the face of the earth. This is what theyre talking about using. This is 2,000 pounds mk84 bomb that they are dropping from these f16s. I think we lost kiers shot. Were going to work on bringing that back because clearly jordan is stepping up the pressure as well. Lets go to the latest on the dangerous and wintry conditions along several northeastern states. You know what every sunday night is . What . Celebration. Kids at my house every sunday night have a celebration because they find out they dont have to go to school on monday. Thats happened three weeks in a row. Fourth winter storm in two weeks. Threatening who would have ever guessed that when we moved to nova scotia scotia. Long commute. Including boston for the mayor warned they are, quote, running out of space to put it. The storms that were getting is unprecedented. Weve never seen this type of snow in the city of boston in the history of our city. There are discussions there could be more snow at the end of the week. We are focusing on one storm at a time and working to make sure we can clear this storm up as were removing some snow from the past. You would never guess i came from boston. The weather channels jim cantore. Jim . Reporter yeah hes right. I mean, if you look at the five day, seven day, ten day, and closing in now on the oneinch of the 30day snowfall record this is more snow than weve ever had in boston. Removing but melting 400 tons an hour, they still have no room at the snow yards to put the snow. So i mean this is getting into one of those i guess so ises where, you know everybody is going to have to get back to the traditional snowshoes, maybe some horse, buggy. Because its just not going to be able we just cant clear the streets and get the snow off the roads p this is the eighth day that boston ski city schools
have canceled classes. Eighth day. Most theyve ever had in the last 20 years. So the most theyve had in the last 20 years for boston city schools. Once we get into the nine ten, they canceled for tomorrow, now we have to startic taking away days from spring breaks because theyre already going to go to june 30th. They cannot go into july because of the contract with teachers. Come on. Can you imagine going to school through june 30th . No. Thats unbelievable. You cant do that to the kids. Come on. Were outraged. Shocked and stunned. Jim, thank you. Thank you. Thats what i dont understand. Yankees do school because, you know, we lived in upstate new york when i was like lived in upstate new york and you go to school at 7 30 get out at 3 30. And then we would get out of for Summer Vacation like june 27th. I went down to florida, man, Catholic High School pensacola, florida. You go in at 8 30. Youre out at 1 45. 1 45 . Yeah everybody is going to the beach. Wow. And then school ends like may 10th. And youre just like this until after labor day. No. You went back early august. They make up for it. You go back too early. They do now. Not when i was there. Maybe School Started but you werent there. And then lunch, we had the longest lunch. But then again, thats because i would go off campus every day. I would go to morrisons and have lunch. Am i super ignorant or does everybody at the table know there are snow yards. So much snow. Im in california so i presume this is just stuff that everyone else knows and i dont know. Normal thing, like there are snow yards in big cities . Carry it across the city and put tlit . No wonder it takes so long. Lets ask the expert. I think its time to rely on the great wiz, the late, great, marion barry and what he said about snow removal. Do you remember this . No. God brung it. God can take it away. I think he was in jamaica at the time. Lets bring in meteorologist bill karins now with the late sdples not only do they have snow yards but in the snow yards they have snow melters now, too. They have machines that will be melting snow. Why they just cant dump it in the harbor i have yet to figure out. Lets talk about whats going to happen in the next period of time through valentines. This is going to be a brutal stretch. This will be the worse in new england weve seen yet. It may make this storm look like nothing. First off, obviously its snowing. We know that. We can deal with the snow. The other issue we have is the ice. Be careful around the new york city area especially in northern new jersey southern connecticut. Weve got freezing rain. There was no snow before that either. So the pavement just has a coating of ice on it. Untreated roads, your sidewalk and front step. Be careful when you walk out this morning. It may catch you off guard. Were only going to pick up five six inches on top of the three or four feet we have on the ground around boston and new
england. Theres no melting. Were in the 20s all week long. Theres another snowstorm in boston thursday, cold blast friday. Another snowstorm in the weekend. Heres what i was talking about with the temperatures. The arctic blast comes down from the northern plains. Friday will be the brutal morning in the northeast. Windchills in new york are expected to be down around negative ten to negative 20. Thats much colder than weve had any time this winter. Then on sunday it could be worse than that. So theres really no hope in sight right through the next ten days were in the thick of it. Bill karins, thanks very much. Now, to the latest details on the situation involving nbcs Brian Williams. There were a lot of developments over the weekend. Heres where things stand now. I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago. Reporter Brian Williams will not be in the anchor chair this evening after a selfimposed suspension from nbc nightly
news following his admission he misled the public about his experiences covering the iraq war back in 2003. In a statement to staffers posted online saturday, williams writes, quote, in the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news it has become painfully apparent to me they am presently too much a part of the news. Due to my actions. As managing editor of nbc nightly news, i have decided to take myself off my daily broadcast for the next several days. And lester holt has kindly agreed to sit in for me to allow us to adequately deal with this issue. Upon my return i will continue my careerlong effort to be worthy of the trust of those who place their trust in us. The hiatus follows a whirlwind six days for williams whose story of riding in a helicopter that was hit with rpg fire was exposed as fiction by the pilots who actually were on the damaged aircraft. Williams initial apology is also facing scrutiny by those
who say it glossed over the fact that he repeated the story numerous times. I dont know where that unbridled confidence came from. Ive done some ridiculously stupid things under that banner like being in a helicopter i had no business being in in iraq with rounds coming into the airframe airframe. But i did you think you would die . Briefly, sure there have been probably handful of us. Yeah. But do you tell yourself thats the job . Oh, absolutely. We were going to drop some bridge portions across the euphrates so the third infantry could cross on them. Two of our four helicopters were hit by ground fire including the one i was in. No kidding. Rpg and ak47. Reporter they informed the News Division she has a Team Checking facts about williams actions during his stay in iraq. But the Washington Post and
other news outlets are also raising questions about stories told recovering his time covering hurricane katrina. Maureen dowd use her column yesterday to quote sources claiming that williams has a long history of inflating his resume. And late last night news broke the David Letterman appearance scheduled for later this week has now been canceled. And there is no word on when the most watched broadcast news anchor will return to his nightly news post. All right. What do you think . Well, its really tough for us as a friend of ours who is also in this business. Very well known anchor said he would rather eat dirt than have to talk about this. I mean brian just so our viewers know when i say there are politicians that i know and im personal friends with i say it. Brian is not only a colleague, brian is a friend. Hes a friend of our family. Brian is not only a friend of our family he is also our neighbor. We literally live just around the corner from each other. And when we moved to town he showed and his family showed extraordinarilyrd narlordinary kindness to our son and daughter. And they have been nothing but extraordinarily remarkable, kind giving people to us in a way i know it will shock you, not everybody in this industry is especially when you reach the level and the height that brian did. Im im just hopeful because i cant be objective here. Im hopeful that when all madness on twitter and all the madness online and all the madness thats going on right now, the investigations that need to be going on were not
saying they dont need to be going on but when the fury dies down and when we get through this storm and the decision is made to judge what Brian Williams future should be that that decision will be based on the entirety of his career and not only one or two or three mistakes. Bad mistakes yes. They were bad mistakes. And guess what he would say that. Guess what he says that. We all make bad mistakes. I just you know one of the things one of the versus in the bible that always always makes me a little nervous before i start judging other people is the one that says that you will be judged and you will be given the mercy that you show others. I think we should all step back and ask whether we are so perfect that we want to be the ones to cast that first stone. Let ye who is without sin cast the first stone. Im in no position to cast the first stone. And quite frankly, in over a decade in this News Business it is fair to say looking straight in the camera, ive seen a lot, i know a lot, and i know that there are very few people in this industry or in politics that could live by the standard of perfection. Cast the first stone, i would be careful. I think i think right now the entirety of everything that brian has done including the Peabody Awards that he won for his remarkable katrina coverage should be taken into effect and people should consider again, the totality of a mans life and not one or two mistakes. Well, ive been thinking about it all weekend and talking about it with people and kind of horrified by the pileon that im seeing out there. I guess its part of the game and brian would know that too. But its hard. And while, as you point out, while these errors are very human and none of us are above them, im also well aware that Brian Williams is one of the few people in the face of the earth who is held to a different standard and he knows that. I think this is hard to know if we can even be objective because we know brian, we like him, we respect him. This is in our house and its very painful. Something we were talking about last night on the phone, willie. Yeah. For all the reasons you said and we should start as joe did by saying i cant account for and i certainly dont excuse any of the mistakes were made. Mistakes brian himself admitted to. All i can tell you is how hes treated me how hes viewed inside this building. Ten years ago wh