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2011. good morning. >> i guess that was your italian accent. >> the best i could. i did -- when you had a day off. so french and italian, phony french and italian. >> you're a man of the world. at the top for us, leaders who lunch. president obama will sit down today for a private lunch with republican house leader boehner, cantor and mccarthy. this comes on the heels of a lunch with mcconnell last week. kelly o'donnell is msnbc capitol hill correspondent. so much to get to including that surprise vote, but let's start with this lunch. they're going to sit down, break bread, but it come ons th...

>> it's ironic we're meeting with the russians at hellburger, works for me, appropriate i guess. we're not the threat they used to be, not the ally they used to be or the partner they used to be kind of moved to china. it's almost second tier meetings. >> i hope it's a sign of the maturation of the relationship. we've reset the relationship. people aren't worried about missiles going up or anything like that is a sign of progress and hopefully we'll have real progress on s.t.a.r.t. this summer which is one of the reasons why he was here today. >> it's a generational thing, no question about it...

There is this resistance to it? >> build relationships, that good old things, break bread, build relationships, hang around. don't go when times are tough. spend time with people. work with families, and try and make people's lives better. >> but if the schools don't want to change. that's what that felt like to me. >> look, and enlisting the rest of the gang in the school run a tight ship. they're very proficient at their job. i would never take that away from them. and actually while i'm talking about it, the school cooks of america do an incredible job. they work hard. but over the last 30 ...

Especially with winter approaching and oil imports being cut off to north korea. so many officials here thank north korea did come to the table with south korea in the past few days to work out a deal with the olympics and have for break bread, if you will. >> and the president said as well in an earlier tweet about the meeting coming up. and even in a news conference. he said he welcomes the possibility of them talk you beyond -- them talking beyond this. and now, you say the military would have prepared for this. and as you know, we are in the course of budgetary restraints. and you've talke...

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