>> finally bob costas. >> i would tell him no. i would tell him no. i know that goes viral tomorrow, but let me put it this way. if it were my son, all right, he was 13 years old and had reasonable athletic ability i would encourage him to play baseball or to play basketball or to play soccer or something other than football. >> so bob costas says he would encourage his kid not to play -- his sons to play. >> he's talking about it in the context of what's going on with miami dolphins. >> i agree with this. i told my son not to play the game. i played it for a lot of years. it is a painful very difficult very dangerous game. if you want to do it go do it it is a wonderful game from my standpoint as well. it is dangerous. i would much prefer my kid play soccer. >> whyour son is a great golfer. >> so what if he plays football. he can play football. i have a bigger problem with all of these sports casters suddenly becoming so concerned and fretful. sports writers and sports casters are supposed to be rude guard chomping womanizers. return from oscar madis

. >> bob costas says this. i tell them no. i tell them no. i know that goes viral tomorrow. if it was my son and had reasonable athletic ability i'd encourage him to play baseball soccer or anything other than football. >> he says he would encourage his kid not to play. >> he was talking about in the controversy going on with the miami dolphins. i agree with this. i told my son not to play the game. it's a painful very difficult very dangerous game. if you want to do it, go do it. it's a wonderful game from my standpoint as well. i'd rather my son play soccer. >> your son playing golf. >> i have a bigger problem with sports casters becoming so concern informed fretful. sports writers and casters are are rude, chomping, womanizers. they've turned from oscar madison to glad dis. >> oscar meyer weaner. >> that's pretty good. going viral, i hate that. here's an option. don't play any sport. play a musical instrument because that goes so much further these days. if you learn to play drums or guitar, women love you. it's a wonderful skill. teaches you discipline. >>> why are we ta

i am bob costa. we are here with a great panel to talk about the outlook of national politics. i am glad and appreciative to have a great panel with us today. some of the top analysts in the over the keyo races and themes that will be animating our discussions in the coming months. starting from the left, we have john fund. he is a senior editor at "the american spectator." he was known for working at for decades -- working for decades at "the wall street journal." great to have you here. >> thanks, bob. one of myzza, favorite writers. afterned "the new yorker" working at "the new republic." he is on tv all the time. thank you for being here. conway.e she runs the polling -- a polling company that was started in 1995. she has an office in 19 -- new york city. she has appeared on over 1200 televisions those -- television shows. she is active in politics and has advised countless campaigns and is one of the sharpest minds in the republican party. kellyanne, great to have you here. always great to have you. josh green, louisburg business week, another one of my favorite writers. s

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. >> robert costas, let me go to you. we have early numbers in virginia. why is cuccinelli going to lose, bob? >> i think cuccinelli -- >> if he does. if he does. >> when. >> it looks like cuccinelli is going to lose. i think it was because he was not able to seize owe bomb wra care at the 11th hour as an issue that could an him in mate his voters and base. he struggled to get some kind of coherent message. >> and the shutdown issue hurt him a lot. didn't it. >> a lot of people look at polls and say it didn't hurt him. when you look at the demographics in northern virginia, a lot of federal employees. that sometimes does trickle down into a state like virginia. >> yeah, go ahead. >> i wanted to shift over back to new jersey because i think chris christie is your worst nightmare. he's a guy who's a trttracting lot of groups. he's going to come out looking great. a new kind of republican, steve. that's the basic deal. he knows how to make deals and cross the aisle without giving up his principals. so do you feel chris christie is your toughest opponent? >> h

about cuccinelli, you go and ask cuccinelli's people, bob costa now with the "washington post," bob costa wrote an article, when we went back when he was still with the national review, he asked cuccinelli's people. why did you lose this race? and he was expecting to get the answer, oh, it's because the national republican party stayed out. oh, it's because establishment republicans didn't -- they were very simple. it was the government shutdown. it killed us. it te strdestroyed our numbers. it destroyed our game plan. we're now seeing in the cuccinelli race -- i would say three races. in the cuccinelli race, in this alabama race and in this louisiana race, very conservative areas where pragmatism, social tough -- all these guys are very conservative. but social -- i mean, tough conservatism, but pragmatic conservatism is winning. >> joe, that makes me wonder, what becomes the tea party's reaction to these losses? do they take a little step toward moderation? for example, why can't you say to these tea party -- >> by the way, not idealogically, but tactically. >> watch rand paul. watch wh

bob costa interviewed people on cuccinelli's campaign. we are talking about they didn't get the money. you know who they are blaming, a greater reporter for the national review? they are blaming the shut down republicans in washington. they said if -- >> they talked about obama care. >> the plan was to start talking about obama care two weeks earlier than they did. when they had the shut down strategy, it blue up the cuccinelli campaign's plan for the closing month. they are exactly right. if they had not taken on the strategy that we said was going to fail, ken cuccinelli would be governor right now. >> i don't disagree. >> we are coming back to detroit. >> this is looking better now. >> the monthly jobs report is due out with live coverage and offers of a new book featuring unique ag turnatives for putting them back to work. you are watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections