Carnage at, yet another u. N. Schoolhousing refugees in gaza. The third time they have bombed the u. N. Run school. The state department was appalled by the disgraceful shelling outside the school. There can be no question of the state identity . No, absolutely, no. There was encouraging news about an american doctor infected with ebola. I cant think of a better place in the world, other than Emory University hospital, to care for this patient. The plane has picked up the second ebola patient to go to georgia. Congress has left the building. Leading the president promising to go solo on the humanitarian crisis at the border. So thats not disagreement between me and the house of republicans. That is a green light between the republicans and the house of republicans. What are you going to do about it . I think congress has to sit down and have a serious look at this constitutional and that includes that i word we dont want to say. I think it would be foolish to discount the possibility. Mitch mcconnell and his Allison Lundergan crimes. If Mitch Mcconnell were a tv show. He would be mad men. He is stuck in 1968 and ending this season its monday, august 4th. Lewis on set. On set Nicole Wallace and
managing editor of news website bobby ghosh and columnist for the New York Times david ignatius. What are you a columnist of . The news keeps getting worse and worse and worse. You have netanyahu saying to us, mind your own business. He tells kerry that. And then the news that happens after that. My god. Shows we cant mind our own business. You have two sides clearly we will talk about, obviously, most in the morning, but two sides and neither side has someone with the courage to stand up say lets figure out how to end this. Sevenhour truce is under way in the gaza strip. Israeli is pulling back on its ground operations while leaving the door open to further strikes against the militants. On sunday an israeli missile strike killed ten people at a
u. N. School, where thousands of civilians were taking cover from the fighting of the attack which was apparently aimed aat a passing motorcycle who left dozens of palestinians injured. It also sparked intense criticism from the international community, including the state department, thats something that doesnt usually happen towards israeli, which said the United States is, quote this is very Strong Language coming out of the United States state department appalled by the disgraceful shelling. The u. N. Went further calling the israeli action, quote, a moral outrage and a criminal act. Israelis continued air campaign fell over last weeks broken ceasefire and after that truce collapsed, Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu reportedly sold Senior America officials, quote, not to ever secondguess me again. Meanwhile, germanys leading newspaper says Israeli Intelligence agencies
eavesdropped on secretary of state john kerry and his phone conversations during last years peace negotiations. Over the weekend, an israeli soldier initially thought to be captured was confirmed killed. One of 64 troops and three civilians to die in the four weeks of war. So, mike, its very difficult very difficult for the United States to just sit back and even for strong supporters of israeli to just say, heres your blank check. Go off and do whatever you want to do. Which is what basically they are asking us to do and the most extreme members of the pro israeli crowd are asking us to do that we can never ask a question and when you have what happened again with the attack, you have the continued images of Young Children being pulled out of rubble dead. Im sorry. We have to ask that question. You not only have to ask that question, but you also have to wonder about the extent of where we are going when you have the Prime Minister of israeli basically telling the United States, secretary of state as well as the president of the United States and congress of the United States, dont ever secondguess me again. Leave us alone. Yeah. I dont think its that simple. Bobby . Its not just us. Other countries are doing the same thing. Just before i came on, the Chinese Foreign minister is in cairo and he has gone even further than any american politician to say israeli must lift the blockade. When china speaks, countries these days take that seriously. Lets find out what going up to the moment by bringing in nbc Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel who is live in gaza. Richard, can you give us than up to the moment update right now . Use good morning to all of you. Right now, there is this partial truce in place. It seems that israeli agreed to this under pressure, after all
of the criticism, particularly the United States, israeli most powerful ally, this is a chance for palestinians, in large parts of the gaza strip, to go fishing, go to the market, check on their homes, a lot of their homes are destroyed. But it doesnt apply to all of the gaza strip in the southern region, particularly around rafa there is still an ongoing battle and israeli troops deep into territory and this truce is only supposed to last for another couple of hours. After that, there is questions about a diplomatic solution. Will there be a way out of this diplomatically . There is an egyptian delegation in cairo working with them and they are waiting to see if israeli will send its own delegation. The palestinian demand, as bobby was just talking about, is to lift the siege of the gaza strip
and that would be something that both israeli and egypt would have to agree to and exchange or wants or guarantees that it wont see more rocket fire, that hamas wont arm, that it wont use supplies coming into the gaza strip to reinstruct those tunnels that israeli spent the last month destroying. Let me ask you a question. I saw yesterday something on my twitter feed al jazeera editorial and just an absolutely blistering attack of israelis neighbors for continuing to stand strongly, sidebyside with israeli. This is, of course, something that we just havent seen since 1948 where you have literally all of hamas neighbors from egypt, obviously, for good reason right now with egypt, but egypt, saudi arabia, United Arab Emirates and go around to jordan. All standing sidebyside with
israeli and all against hamas. What type of impact does that have on how much leeway israeli thinks they have right now . Reporter well, i think that is probably the biggest difference in this war than . The other two wars we have seen here in the last several years. A couple of years ago, hamas was in a very different position. The Muslim Brotherhood and hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, was on the rise across the arab world. It was in power in egypt and things were looking very good for hamas. It had a lot of friends and it had a lot of support. The islamic movements have taken a beating and no longer popular with large in the arab world. Groups like isis and syria have given the islamic movements a very bad name. The military ruler in charge of
egypt is even a bigger brotherhood than perhaps israeli is. I think that is one of the reasons israeli felt so confident that now was the time to go after these tunnels, to launch a long campaign, and were seeing, right now, as you were suggesting, the western allies, United States, europe, even china, not a western ally, but a major power, that are coming out and criticizing israeli even before the arab states are coming out and criticizing. Richard engel, thank you very much. David ignatius, how strange is it that the United States and americas european allies are now the ones being critical of these strikes that appear to be to the, you know, just say the observer on tv looking at one u. N. School after another being bombed, to be indiscriminate, while you actually have israelis arab neighbors standing shouldertoshoulder with them even through the worse
of the attacks. Why . Well, hamas, which has been the dominant power in gaza among the palestinians, is, in fact, very unpopular in the arab world. And that is one reason that israeli felt that it wanted and needed free rein to go after hamas missile placements and other weapons in gaza. The u. S. , when it moved toward a quick ceasefire, secretary of state kerry turned to hamas only two friend in the region, turkey and qatar, to try to negotiate that. That is what infuriated israeli a week ago. And led kerry down a path that was just exposed into a lot of criticism. More recently, he has been doing something i think your viewers should think about. He is trying to figure out a way to help Prime Minister netanyahu find a way out of this conflict by empowering, not hamas, but
the moderate palestinians under president Mahmoud Abbas, by bringing the Palestinian Authority into gaza as the governing authority, which could be a very different situation, would offer the promise, over time, of some demilitarization of hamas and where is the action is now and where the peace conference is about now. Keep your eye on that. Bobby, what i have seen as the greatest strategy over the past several weeks and had some morons attacking me and i can call them that, morons attacking me online saying im not pro israeli, ive been pro israeli since a lot of these blowingers were getting their you know what wiped by their mothers wiped. Just how isolated and on the run hamas was before all of this began where you did have all of the arabian states against them. You also had the Palestinian Authority against them. You had them running to the
palestinian authorities to make a deal of convenience just to stay alive as a Political Force and now this has happened. As david just said, other than turkey and qatar, they have no friends in the region and nobody they can talk to. Also, as you pointed out, nobody else that can help strike a deal. Thats the problem. In the past, when you had conflicts like this, it would rage for a few days and then egypt would go in, not just the Muslim Brotherhood. Even before that when mubarak was running egypt he had leverage over hamas and go in there and knock Heads Together bring peace even if it was temporary. No longer that way. Sicily is very antihamas and all of israeli neighbors are antihamas. Qatar and turkey are sort of speaking for hamas but they are new to this and not their traditional role. They are distant and ideological nowhere close to hamas. Its clear, as we saw last week when the ceasefire broke down, hamas doesnt listen to turkey and to qatar. I have to jump in. We have sat here i think seven minutes speaking as hamas as a nation. They are a terrorist organization. Our government has designated hamas as a terrorist organization. We spent eight minutes talking about what they do and israeli does as though they are two armies sponsored by a nation who should be treated equally. They are not. Hamas is a terrorist organization so the tragic and heart breaking deaths of civilians is on the hands of hamas who embeds their weaponry in schools. Hamas put the weapons in schools. When we sit here and talk about these actions we cant ignore hamas actions and hamas are not a nation first of all, two points. Hamas was actually elected by gaza to run gaza. They are a Political Party but they are a designated terrorist group. I agree with you and you know i know they are a terrorist group and i have said unambiguously they are a terrorist group and said that israeli uses mills to protect people and hamas uses people their missiles. That said, if somebody is holding a gun to the head of a 5yearold which nobody has done. No. Hamas is doing it. Right. Right now. They are using little children as human shields. Do um shoot through the 5yearold to get hamas when there is not even a great chance it will get hamas. Hamas is not going to be destroyed by what is going on who is being destroyed, 5yearold and 6yearold and 7yearold children. Of course. That is always of course, i know congress cant have this happen without let me ask you. Would the United States of america be firing into places where day after day after day after day after day 5 and 6 and
7yearold babies were being pulled out of rubble . Would they . We dont but after 9 11 when we were attacked by a terrorist organization we went into afghanistan and targeted the terrorist group, the taliban. Yes, we did. We know and on this show a lot of attention gets paid to inadvertent and tragic death of civilians. Inadvertent and tragic, but when its happening every day, its not as inadvertent and tragic as it is when the United States has done it. The reason the arab nations are silent, they understand better than i think we do in this country, the tactics of ma hamas. The biggest reason, the arab nations, i would think a shared enemy. Is they are afraid they will end up in cairo. Hamas is aligned with the people who took out kurdish towns in iraq. They dont share the same values but a lot of these arab states dont share our values either so lets be careful about
that. Yes, its clear hamas is a terrorist group. They have been for a long time. But every time there has been this conflict between israeli and hamas, it has only ended one way with peace negotiations. The question now is who is going to make those negotiations happen . John kerry has been trying for a couple of weeks, no success. Qatar and turkey have been trying, no success. Who is going to bring them to the table . Nicole, my only point a month ago hamas was dying on the vine. They were isolated and dying on the vine. Exactly. The israelis have played into their hands and every time a 5yearold girl, 6yearold girl, every time a grandmother is blown up in a public market, every time they blow up a u. N. School when the u. N. Says 17 times this is a u. N. School. I agree with you. Who does that help . Who does that help . That terrorist group youre talking about, the terrorist group we all hate. Thats my only point. Lets go to al hunt. Poor john kerry. He gets kicked around, you know . Even netanyahu now is saying leave us alone. I dont think that is going to happen any time soon, do you . No, i dont. I want to go back to davids point, because i think that is relevant here, which is that if this very, very difficult dicey situation could be improved by the Palestinian Authority taking over gaza, netanyahu has got to deliver something to the Palestinian Authority. In the past, he really hasnt been willing to do that and id love to get davids view on this. Is he willing to give up something . Because i dont think he can just say, why dont you good guys or better guys rather go and run gaza now. He has got to give them something on the west bank and go much further than he is wanting to do before. David, wasnt there an opportunity for him just to pay the salaries of Civil Servants that hamas could no longer pay, that could have averted a lot of this disaster and they fused to
even do that . Joe, the question of how Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Authority would play more role in running gaza i think is the big issue that is now before Prime Minister netanyahu and kerry is trying to put it there. Netanyahu has to decide after these weeks of war, the images that have been so disturbing to people, how does this thing end in a way that leaves israeli more secure that doesnt just mean youll have to go back and fight another war two years from now . Secretary kerry is saying if you can figure out a structure where the Palestinian Authority replaces hamas as the governing authority in gaza, you will leave israeli and the palestinians safer and more secure over the long run. And i think kerry is going to push netanyahu dont secondguess me and dont tell me what to do, but the truth is the u. S. Can be helpful to israeli now in trying to figure out a way to move from this awful status quo into something new. How much do we give israeli
every year . 2. 7, 2. 5 billion. Its close to 3 billion dollars. What is your point . My point is i mean, its an interesting idea. Get the Palestinian Authority more or fatah more power in gaza. Do we think hamas is going to roll over and let that happen now that they have essentially been i mean, empowered in some ways. Do we think they will simply just let that happen . Traditionally they have taken a very dim view. They have taken a dim view. They have just proved to be the most disastrous leaders. They have done for their own good what the Muslim Brotherhood did in egypt, where they did more damage to their own cause trying to run a country than we could have ever done. Look at the numbers up on the screen. You know what . I voted for support for israeli every year. And i would continue to vote for support for israeli every year. But we pay 3. 1 billion a year in foreign aid to israeli. We pay 504 million for the iron
dome. 121 billion since world war ii. And, of course we are their biggest supporter. I will tell you we need to be, with the antisemitism sweeping across europe right now, which is absolutely revolting, even coming out of germany, of all countries. France. Out of france. It is disgusting. It is revolting. The antisemitism is sickening and we are going to talk about that later on. Im glad the United States of america is there to be israelis staunchest defender but, hey, we should be able to have a dialogue with a country we pay over 3 billion a year to every year. Dont tell us not to give our opinion. Thats something we like to do on morning joe. Coming up, other people who will be giving their opinion, mike murphy and Campbell Brown is going to be here. My twitter feed, which i rarely read, but this weekend, i was on
talking about music. Holy cow everybody is going against Campbell Brown, just attacking her, savaging her for this School Reform bit. She is going to be there with her voice. And look at this, like we are going back to the cavern or the beatles. This is awesome pat buchanan will be with us throughout todays show and tell us about a historic book he has on Richard Nixon and teacher tenure law and the likelihood mitt romney is running for president again and the ebola patient that is already in the u. S. With another one on its way. How prepared is the u. S. For an outbreak of a major deadly virus . Then are video games actually good for your kids . A new study explains why that may be the case. My kids are mind draft freaks. Oh, my god, they are mind craft freaks and there are parents at home that know what i am talking about. They are just obsessed with it. Unbelievable. Coming up, we will talk to Benjamin Netanyahu former senior policy adviser. That should be fun. Youre watching morning joe. We will be right back. When folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. But the energy bp produces up here creates Something Else as well jobs all over america. Engineering and innovation jobs. Advanced Safety Systems technology. Shipping and manufacturing. Across the United States, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. When we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. Thats not a coincidence. Its one more part of our commitment to america. Honey, look i got one to land. Uhhuh. vo theres good more. Honey, look at all these smart rewards points verizon
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According to a research out of oxford university, kids who play electronic games up to one hour daily on more sociable. They say is provides children with more cognitive challenges giving them more value than watching tv but that study was prepared by people who dont have children. Where do they find kids that do not do play games . Do such people exit . Run outside. I think that might be a little better for them. No kidding. From the independent. A fisherman in china caught a 16foot long whale shark weighing more than two tons. The fisherman who appeared to be unaware that the shark was endangered said it died after getting caught in a fishing net and the unbelievable photo. The man can be seen transporting the enormous fish on a tractor to a market to be sold. Sharks are the largest living fish and can live up to 100 years old. Nobody will notice this if i drive through town. The loiplos angeles times. The Disney Marvel blockbuster raked in 94 million as the biggest Opening Weekend ever for any film in the month of august. Globally it was even bigger. Galaxy took in 160 million worldwide. Its a coore toon. Who is going to see this movie around this table . No one. Bobby, are you . I am. Anything scifi, ill see it. Youll see is three times, thus the big box office. Transformer age of distinction. That has now surpassed a 1 billion mark. The first movie to reach that point in 2014. Bobby, are you going to watch that . I did. Worst of the transformer movies and still made a billion dollars. We need you on as our movie critic. The personality of the u. S. Has changed drastically the past two decades. The journal partly sunny out in 1990 manufacturing was dominant as the countrys biggest developer. The map shows where the industries were the highest states were. Manufacturing in yellow. See that . Now look at last year. You know what the blue prepar . Represents . Where health care is the top industry. Lets flip back to that other map. You want to see a dying economy . There you go. Manufacturing. What was orange . Yellow. Retail. These are the biggest employers. In the yellow you had states that were actually making things and selling things across the world in 1990. Now lets go to blue and these health care, which we all know, that money comes from the federal government, for medicare and medicaid and those are the top employers. The disappearance of those states marked in yellow in 1990 also represent demographic dynamite, people 45 to 60 years of age working in factories and plants making things in the 1990s, gone jobs gone. Plants are gone overseas. Demographic dynamite. Not good news. Turning now to the middle east. The Palestinian DeputyPrime Minister says reconstruction of gaza is going to cost at least 6 billion. Israelis military operations there have displaced 500,000 as they force to eliminate weapons and stockpiles. The Tunnel Network used by hamas militants also trying to be destroyed. With us now is dr. Gold a senior Foreign Policy adviser to Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu. Doctor, thank you for being with us. Lets begin what happened over the weekend. Obviously, there was an attack on that u. N. Facility that has got condemnation worldwide. The United Nations and even the United States speaking out against these attacks. What is your response to those attacks . Well, lets be very clear. Israeli does not target u. N. Facilities and israeli does not target civilians. Back in 2009, the United NationsHuman Rights Council alleged that israeli was deliberating striking at civilians. A commission called the gold Stone Commission was put together. It reflected that view as well. Finally, gold stone in the Washington Post in 2011 wrote israeli does not do that. It doesnt target civilians. We are seeing a loss of life. We have to figure out why thats occurring and we have to figure out where the blame lies. But it is not with the Israeli Defense forces. David . Dr. Gold, when the unity agreement between Mahmoud AbbasFatah Movement and hamas was announced last april, Prime Minister netanyahu denounced it. Even though language submerged from that that would install the Palestinian Authority under abbas as the new governing
authority in gaza, and im wondering, you think Prime Minister netanyahu might change his position enough to allow that p. A. Governing authority to have some clout . Well, david, here is the dilemma and the hope. Excuse me . Go ahead. [ speaking in Foreign Language ] okay. Did we lose him . Communications difficulty with dr. Gold in israeli . All right. Thanks, t. J. We had a Big International that was going make some news and he pressed the chopper 4 button. We really appreciate that. Do we have him back yet . T. J. . Way to go, t. J. I swear to god. We have got to find him. Seriously . Joe, i want an answer to that question. I know. I want an answer to that question too. It was coming, i think. T. J. Pressed the wrong button. Its like when i said a word on the air accidentally. Did he get it in time . Here it is. Show me the sevensecond delay. Do you have it there, t. J. . Yeah, we have it. Make sure you get that right and also if you can get the dori gold button right. I swear to god, how do we do the show with him . We want an answer to that question. We deserve an answer to that question. We bring in ignatius for a reason. Ill answer it and then we can send it to dore. You want to answer the question you asked . Be like hardball. Not now. Oh, no. Somebody forgot your button. He got my button. I love chris matthews. A great show. Do we have the doctor back . Im back. We thought there was either some malfeasance on the part of hamas or our director who is really not a really good director. So do you need david to ask you the question again, or can you answer it . David, give them the refresher on the question. Its about the reconciliation agreement . Yes. Dore, the simple question is moving forward now, would Prime Minister netanyahu be prepared to let the Palestinian Authority into gaza as the governing authority to empower it and its moderate members as a way of replacing hamas, even though that would mean accepting the hamas fatah unity agreement . Thats an excellent question. Let me show you what the dilemma and opportunity is. The dilemma is this has happened when abbas made his deal with hamas. We wanted to know whether that would lead to hamas becoming more moderate, willing to go along with diplomatic option and what, of course, happened is right afterwards, we had the attack on those three israeli teenagers who were killed by hamas and then the escalation of rocket fire. So it didnt seem that the agreement was moving hamas in a better direction. We have also seen, as im sure youre aware, iran has improved its relaegs with hamas. If you look at the recent communications between the two, it seems they are moving back in the direction of hamas. So the question is can the Palestinian Authority play a more positive role . One of the things that everybody is looking at is the whole area of the rafah crossing. The egyptians will not open it up for trade if hamas is controlling the crossing. They are hoping that, of course, the Palestinian Authority will come in. Mike barnicle . Dr. Gold, over the weekend, Prime Minister netanyahu was quoted as saying about the United States, dont ever secondguess me again. Was that quote accurate and, if so, what does he mean . What is he referring to . You know, i saw that quote and its a popular sport today in journalism to speculate about private phone calls and private conversations about the u. S. And israeli. I cannot verify that quote. It doesnt seem to make sense to me. All right. Thank you so much, doctor. We greatly appreciate it. Sorry for the transmission problems. Hope to get you back soon. Coming up next, rory mcilroy is back at it again with the worlds top golf ranking at stake. We will show you how things
played out this weekend at the World Championship of golf. Did he walk off the course this time . See . Back problem. Oh, back problems. This is horrible. An absolute i cant watch it again. I cant watch this. An absolutely gruesome basketball injury this weekend. We will update you on paul georges condition in morning joe sports. Joe theismann has nothing on him. I make a lot of purchases for my business. And i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. Like 50,000 bonus points when i spent 5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. And i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at Office Supply stores. With ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. Travel, gift cards, even cash back. And my rewards points wont expire. So you can make owning a business even more rewarding. Ink from chase. So you can. Im spending too much timer our calhiringer. And not enough time in my kitchen. Need to hire fast . Go to ziprecruiter. Com and post your job to over 30 of the webs leading job boards with a single click; then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. You put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. Makes my job a lot easier. Over 100,000 businesses have already used zip recruiter and now you can use zip recruiter for free at a special site for tv viewers; go to ziprecruiter. Com offer99. 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
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or pout or anything like that . Tiger . No, rory. He is the best golfer in the world right now and he is going to remain the best golfer in the world right now because of tiger woods and what happened. Playing in next weekends pga championship, woods reaggravated the back injury that sidelined him for 11 weeks. You notice everything is falling apart on tiger . I mean, it just is. You know who else has things falling apart on them . Who . People who are juiced up and then get off the juice. We are not necessarily saying im not necessarily saying that tiger was juiced up even though he is really, really big and when he came back from his, quote, injury, he was like two club lengths down and now everything is falling a part on him. I would never, ever suggest that tiger woods was juiced. I just wouldnt do that. He has a bad back. He just has a bad back. Look the way he is walking there. He is older and everything is just falling apart on him. I think that just naturally happens when you swing a golf club. He is not playing golf for a while. No, hes not. Old people golf. But if you are juiced. It hurts . And you get off the juice, you fall apart. Of course, im not talking about tiger woods. Why would anybody suspect that tiger woods was ever juiced . Right. Its just like lance armstrong. We saw what happened i never saw that coming. Really good . No. What are we doing here . Sergio garcia . No one cares about golf. Im not saying that tiger was juiced. That physique he had looking like hulk hogan . Dont show that. Youll get sick. Ill spit it out and it will be good tv. Paul george begins his
recovery today after suffering an injury on friday in las vegas. He immediately went successful injury but the injury will likely cost the pacers star their allstar forward the entirety of next season and no doubt respark debate over whether nba players should participate in international competition. We are not going to show it. There is a lot of baseball but we have these fools in the control room who think the preseason football is more important than baseball. Do we not have baseball . The yankees, red sox . How could we not have traded Clay Buchholz . This is why youre so grumpy today . That is one of the reasons. Mike, we trade everybody. Why were we trading everybody . We traded everybody to build immediately for the future. Are we going to get lester back next year . Id say its 50 50 red sox resign him. I think im pulling for the as now. You have to pull for oakland. Ive been there. I like the as. They are nice. You smoked a lot of dope when you went to berkeley, didnt you . Oh, my god. What would that ever have to do with the as . You just talked. Lets get it out on the table now. I am a mother now how much dope did you smoke when you went to berkeley . Let me say ucberkeley, its easier to get pot than alcohol and its really easy to get alcohol. Yeah. Is that your way of saying i smoked a lot of pot . No, im not. Im just describing the climate wh where i went to college. Would you say this time if you ever got back into government, yes, i smoked massive quantities of pot . Its not true. I did not. You didnt smoke pot . I did end up a republican at the end of college, though. Did you smoke spot when you were at berkeley . Coming up next, the must read opinion pages. Shes in the south france. We are getting it over the teletype. These are good ones. Dont go away. Ucation. Al conservation. Chris uniting the nation. Jim with a bit of imagination. The more you know. What if it were more than something to share . What if a photo could build that shelf youve always wanted . Or fix a leaky faucet . Or even give you your saturday back . The new snapfix app revolutionizes local service. Just snap a photo and angies list coordinates a toprated provider to do the work on your schedule. The app makes it easy. The power of angies list makes it work. Download snapfix for free. Today, more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about longacting levemir®, an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. And levemir® helps lower your a1c. Levemir® is now available in flextouch® the only prefilled insulin pen with no pushbutton extension. Levemir® lasts 42 days without refrigeration. Thats 50 longer than lantus®, which lasts 28 days. Today, im asking about levemir® flextouch. female announcer levemir® is a longacting insulin, used to control high blood sugar in adults and children with diabetes and is not recommended to treat diabetic ketoacidosis. Do not use levemir® if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. The most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause symptoms such as sweating, shakiness, confusion, and headache. Severe low blood sugar can be serious and lifethreatening. Ask your doctor about alcohol use, operating machinery, or driving. Other possible side effects include
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head. Yeah. Listen. The socalled unity government was really never going to unite it very long. Hamas was weakened, greatly weakened but the differences between hamas and fatah is so great and the animosity between them is so great. Not that long ago, hamas was off the roof of buildings and hamas to fall and die on the street below. So, i mean, this unity government, you know, i wouldnt trust it as far as i could thit it was hamas that came crawling to the Palestinian Authority. They needed some cover. They were so unpopular. 80 of the people in gaza were against them. Yes. David ignatius, they were failing and they were collapsing. They were failing. I would just note for your viewers that dori gold said something very interesting from israeli from the interview that
was interrupted. Remember when you talked about control of the rafah crossing, which is the crossing from egypt into gaza, and that controlled, he implied being given over to the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas people, as opposed to hamas. Its my understanding that is precisely the proposal that secretary kerry is working hardest on now and it would be a significant change because it would give the kind of Financial Leverage in that key passage to the p. A. , not to hamas, so keep your eyes on that. Bobby, i know the reasons to be suspicious of this, but if this piece of it came through, it would actually move the ball a little bit. Its true. David, the polls in israeli show 86 support for Prime Minister netanyahu, basically, saying go get hamas, kill them, we dont care what happens. What kind of a factor is that in delaying, delaying, delaying any sort of accord here . Netanyahu has to decide how is this going to end . He is quite popular now. So he has the ability to do what you can do. At wars end, which is to be a little bit creative. He has got the country behind him. Lets see if he does something to move beyond the status quo. Coming up next, a construction worker makes an unlikely friend. News you cant use. This is one that will change the world. When laquinta. Com sends him a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes . I think the numbers speak for themselves. Im sold a selling machine ready for you alert, only at lq. Com. Were changing the way we do business, with startup ny. Weve created tax free zones throughout the state. And startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. Thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. No property tax. No business tax. And no sales tax. Which means more growth for your business, and more jobs. Its not just business as usual. See how new york can help your business grow, at startup. Ny. Gov fancy feast broths. Theyre irresistabowl. Completely unbelievabowl. Totally delectabowl. Real silky smooth or creamy broths. Everything shes been waiting for. Carefully crafted with real seafood, real veggies, and never any byproducts or fillers. Wow being a cat just got more enjoyabowl. Fancy feast broths. Wow served daily. vo ours is a world of the redeyes. daughter im really tired. vo the transfers. Well, thats kid number three. vo the copilots. All sitting. Trusting. Waiting. For a safe arrival. Introducing the allnew subaru legacy. Designed to help the driver in you. Care for the passenger in them. The subaru legacy. Its not just a sedan. Its a subaru. Caman thanks, captain obvious. Wouldnt stay here tonight. Captain obvious id get a deal for tonight with deals for tonight from hotels. Com. And you might want to get that pipe fixed. Yyyup. With xfinity internet soyour family can use all their devices at once. Works anywhere in the house. Even in the garage. Max whats going on . Were doing a tech startup. Were streamlining an algorithm. Whats grandpa doing . Hi. Sssh, grandpa you dont want to be an intern forever. Sorry dad, we have to get back to work, we have a deadline. Were going public [cheering] the fastest inhome wifi for your entire family. The x1 entertainment operating system. Only from xfinity. Here is a question. People get asked this question multiple times. The president will be asked this question. First question in the press conference, how hard is it to complete a rubiks cube . Anthony brooks, a guy with a lot of time on his hand apparently, accomplished that. Set a new guinness book world record. He only started the rubiks cube in one day. He needs to get a job. It apps a fawn got pretty attached. We are moving it out of the way so it doesnt get smashed by a tree. We started rubbing its belly and
when we put it down, it freaks out until we start rubbing his belly again. [ screaming ] that be good. I got to sit you down. It does not want to go. Do it again. [ screaming ] we have spoiled a wild deer. Are you serious . I just wonder if he is going to be able to do his job with lymes disease. Beyond baseball. He is going to have lymes disease. I want to send that guy a kitty or a puppy, right . Way to go, t. J. We cut him off for that. All right, listen, i swear it will get better. Coming up at the top of the hour, the house is in recess. We are no closer to a deal on immigration or anything. Will this force the president s hand to take executive action again . Even though the republicans ask him to take executive action on immigration reform, will they then try to impeach him for doing what they asked him to do . Plus, how does this impact the president ial hopefuls in the Republican Party . This mitt romney thing keeps going. Did you see this . Like everybody is saying, mitt needs to run. Mike murphy joins the conversation next. Thank god. The most dangerous political prognosticator in all of america. Hes here and he is on morning joe. If energy could come from anything . Or if power could go anywhere . Or if light could seek out the dark . What would happen if that happens . Anything. Just past away carnage at yet another u. N. School housing refugees in gaza. The third time they have bombed the u. N. Run school. The u. N. State department was appalled by the disgraceful shelling outside the school. There can be no question of the state identity . No, absolutely, no. There was encouraging news today about the condition of an american doctor infected with ebola. I cant think of a better place in the world, other than Emory University hospital, to care for this patient. The specially equipped plane to pick up the second ebola
patient has just left to go to georgia. Congress has left the building. Leading the president promising to go solo on the humanitarian crisis at the border. So thats not disagreement between me and the house of republicans. That is disagreement between the republicans and the house of republicans. What are you going to do about it . I think congress has to sit down and have a serious look at this constitutional and that includes that i word we dont want to say. You dont think an impeachment is possible . I think it would be foolish to discount the possibility. Mitch mcconnell and his opponent Alison Lundergan grimes. If Mitchell Mcconnell were a tv show, he would be mad men. He is stuck in 1968 and ending this season goodness gracious. I think im just going to listen to the police for a little bit and let that sink in. My message in a bottle
there you go. Not getting much better. Welcome back to morning joe. Mike barnicle and Nicole Wallace still with us and al hunt. With us at the table while the republicans should move quickly for impeachment proceedings against president obama, columnist for time magazine, mike murphy. Also in washington nbc News White House chief correspondent and host of the daily rundown, chuck todd. Mike murphy, why cant they just say no way . When the question of impeachment is brought up. Its a little bit like the kid and the light socket. Can we waterboard them . Is it okay . Its not torture. Its not. They will be the first to say its not torture. Now that nobody has a swing district any more, the whole game is the primary. Right. Everywhere. So that is the frequency everybody is tuned into. Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. It feels like winning. That is the problem. They get together and there is free coffee, you know . The problem is strategically if we are ever going to get outside the minority in a president ial race, we have to change some stuff and the incentives kid in a light socket, dont put your finger in the light socket. Zap. There it is. Whoever runs for president down the road, damaged by it. Mike, what do we have . We have the big immigration hot button, putting your finger in a socket. President obama will take several more weeks before taking executive actions. House republicans to limit the president s power to delay deportation. The bill doesnt have much support in the action. The lack of action has some republicans floating impeachment, a welcome topic for democrats, welcome to drive the president s supporters to the polls. I think congress has to sit down and have a serious look at the rest of this constitution and that includes that i word
we dont want to say and i say that only on this program because i want to encourage the president , please dont put america into a constitutional crisis. You dont really think impeachment is possible . When the house takes an unprecedented step to sue the president of the United States for and even though he is issuing executive orders more than a hundred years, i think its foolish to discount the possibility. Brandnew nbc polls say americans are not happy with congress job performance. Wow that is news. 74 say congress has not been able to get anything done and 1 in 5 say congress is somewhat productive. We want to know who the 1 is. A fraction think they are productive. A clear divide which americans would like to see in control after the midterms. By a slim margin registered voters would like to see republicans regain control of the senate from democrats and stay in power in the house. Mike murphy, its a race to the bottom. The president has low Approval Ratings. You look in those states where he has low Approval Ratings in the red states and republicans have even lower Approval Ratings. Its 1916. When do we run out of bullets and grind the thing down in a sea of blood . Its horrible. It is the nature of our politics because everything is based politics. The problem for the party i think far more likely to win the senate but what happens if we do and get the big microphone set up for the 16 where everything is at stake including the senate again. I ask you as a republican consultant, what are the republicans and the house stand for . What have they done other than investigate and say no . What have they done . That what is their pro active piece of legislation to get america back to work . Oo they would say they pass good budget stuff but if you would fundamentally, here is what we are against. Its resentment. Yeah. That is the question of 16. Do we run the resentment campaign or how do we fix america . If we run the resentment campaign in 2016, we lose 6 out of 7. Which would beat the Washington Generals because their losing streak was 24. We tie them. We, right now, on the national scale, chuck todd, the republicans are kind like the Washington Generals and reminds me of clancy, the clown, how could you bet against the Harlem Globetrotters . I thought the generals were due. The republicans are due but they are not going to get anything done as long as this continues. I mean, talking about impeachment . I mean, nobody is seriously talking about impeachment in the Republican Party, but these yahoos go on sunday shows and they get attention. By the way, so the white house is in cahoots with roger and Chris Wallace to get steve king on fox. You couldnt have played into the white houses hands more. I think the white house would love if everybody booked steve king 24 hours a day, because he is one of those guys, but its in a fringe part of the House Republican conference that is talking about it. But there he is going out there bringing it up and making dan pfeiffer say, see, i told you. And then be able to say, hey, john boehner, he cant control his own conference, so he may be taking it off the table, but, you know, his own members wont take it off the table. So we do, you know, you may think we are just being chicken little about this but, hey, see, there is that guy two weeks in a row now, fox has put somebody on that wont take it off the table, but it does feel like a total base feeding frenzy here. You know, again, its something i said on friday. As mike said, democrats have handed the senate potentially to the republicans on a silver platter. Steve king and those guys are just knocking it over. Al hunt, you and i collectively have been covering politics since the cleveland administration. I was there in harrison, mike. Yeah. Can you recall, remember, think about a more dysfunctional political time in the last 30, 40, or 50 years than what we have right now, what we are enduring right now as the American Public . No, i cant, mike. A simple answer. And i agree with what mike murphy said. I think this should be a republican year. They may be able to somehow just snatch it away. Ill go a step further than chuck todd. If i were the dnc or dnscc, i would pay for steve king to go all over america. I would put him in every single district. Get him a plane, right . And denigrate him is just the fringe. He is the guy, along with ted cruz, who forced boehner to change on immigration. Hes a guy that really resulted
in the house making a fool of itself. Hes not an insignificant figure in that caucus. What do republicans do, nicole . We got chloroform, right . I think we have a back room meeting, steve, we want you to attend. I think you hope that maybe we dont go over the finish line. We dont take the senate, so that we can spend a couple of more years gathering ourselves around someone who hasnt had to make all of these compromises. I think you hope for a governor to carry dr. Youre saying for us to win, we have to lose . Im not able to trot out in these fancy campaigns like mike murphy is. I would go out and throw the senate. In 16, its bad for us. We have a lot to defend in a bad year in 16. Give us the big microphone. If we continue this stuff and
the country takes a look at this and say who are these people and take it down again. The question for anybody around the table is this. What do the republicans in washington, d. C. Stand for . Exactly. Name the big thing they stand for, other than investigating the irs, which they should do, investigating the nsa, which they should do, investigating benghazi, do all of the investigations, thats fine, but you got to have two tracks you got to have the people investigating but then you need legislation that will get america back to work what is it . Good day, they are not bad on fiscal stuff but they only have about two good days a week. Because of paul ryan. Al hunt . I think there are a number of republican ideas floating out there. Paul ryan and marco rubio and rand paul but it gets overshadowed by the steve kings and all of that fringe element. And look at the primaries this year. In mississippi and in georgia and in virginia, it was that immigration bashing that really, really took hold and helped some of those insurgent candidates and i think that may be good shortterm politics for them but its lousy longterm politics. What was your reaction, joe, when you saw the story over the weekend about senator ted cruz having 20 to 30 House Republicans over to the senate side to his office to talk about immigration and basically to goat them or urge them to obstruct any further immigration legislation . I think that is ted cruzs right. I think the guys that have the voting cards or the women who have the voting cards have ultimate responsibility to do what they need to do. They dont need to hide behind ted cruz. You know, if they are not man enough or woman enough to go over and vote their conscience
and do what they think is best for themselves and best for their party and best for their country, then they are too weak to be in congress. Everybody is trying to blame ted cruz right now. Hes not the public master. They are looking for an excuse to be cowards and to go back to their district and not do anything. Say, oh, we are standing up to barack obama and were going to impeach him or we are investigating the irs and we are investigating benghazi. Benefit ghazi, benghazi, benghazi. Like you said they are not in swing districts and nobody saying my family has been out of work for eight month. My husband has a College Degree and i have two kids that need to get into college. We dont have the money to do that. In fact, we have to put our house up for for sale. There is nobody has that to go there and talk about what middle class americans are suffering through right now. I will guarantee you that somebody whose father was out of
work for two years in the early 1970s, these people dont give a damn about benghazi right now. They care about getting back to work and getting food on their table, and getting their kids into college and hoping that their children will have a better life than they. What drives me crazy is the constant hammering of the face courage. How courageous is it to go home and tell only in your party base exactly what they want to hear . If i hear ted cruz talk about how courageous he is in washington. I dont blame him for going and playing politics in washington. That is part of equation and he is running for president. Pretty simple. He will try to own these issues and now he might have to try to get through rick perry which will be tremendously fun to watch and off he goes. As far as getting anything done, we are not getting anything done. Mike, such a great point. I was thinking about this weekend. All of these guys stand up and talk about the great courage they are showing. They are not showing korcourage. They are playing to 90 of what their people want them to do. They are going home and basically saying, look, here is the plan. We are not going to govern. They are cowards. Courage would be actually would actually be taking a chance on something that is not popular. A year ago i was always calling on ted cruz to resign in texas and move to michigan where we had an open seat in the swing state and run there and show how its done. Take his message to a swing state, put it all on the line. And never got a reply on that. Lets talk about another state. Congress kicks off its fiveweek vacation, folks. Five weeks they are taking off. All eyes on the political world this weekend turned to the Crucial Senate race in kentucky. Republican senator Mitch Mcconnell and democrat Allison Lundergan grimes met at the political fair in a rural town of fancy farm. Candidates shared the stage in front of a record crowd and supporters from both sides looking on, red shirts for mcconnell and blue for grimes,
the 35yearold democrat made her case against the 30year veteran. What a huge crowd for senator mcconnells Retirement Party if Mitch Mcconnell were a tv show, he would be mad men, treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968, and ending this season when it comes to our students being able to afford college, Mitchell Mcconnell, well, he doesnt care when it comes to being a woman and being treated qael equally here in the commonwealth of kentucky, well, Mitchell Mcconnell doesnt care senator, you seem to think that the president is on the ballot this year. Hes not. This race is between me and you and the people of kentucky while we attend to hold you accountable for your 30 years of failed leadership. Was that the real Mitchell Mcconnell they are showing
there . Its time for the steel cage. Im telling you. I would love to go to that event he is going to beat her. Ill bet money. He was next. Mcconnell was next on the stage and his speech linking grimes to one of the most unpopular figures in the democratic party. By any standard, barack obama has been a disaster for our country thats what you get for electing someone with no experience. He was only he was only two years into his first job when he started campaigning for the next one. Sound familiar . There was so much turmoil around the world, we cant afford a leader who thinks the west bank is a hollywood fundraiser. There is only one way to begin to go in a different direction. That is to change the senate and make me the leader of a new majority to take america a different direction senator mcconnell got a ten
in the mellow meter. That is so incredibly lame. Kentucky senator rand paul was also at the event. Earlier in the day hold on. Before you hand out tens on the lameo meter, okay . Its all you know, you got to see what rand paul said first. I think youll bump mitch down to a 9 or an 8. Really . Because rand may have nailed that. I thought her mad men, get it . That was a good one. No, i dont think so. Thats what i mean on the lameo meter. But for lameo meters. Rank them. We have time, right . Here is rand paul. Lets hear rand paul. There once was a woman from kentucky who thought in politics she would be lucky, so they flew to l. A. For a hollywood bash. She came home in a flash with bucket of cash. To liberals, she whispers coal makes you sick. In kentucky, she claims coal makes us tick. One thing that we know is true, one thing we know is guaranteed, she would cast her first vote for harry reid ladies and gentlemen, i think we have a winner. Ew. Its rand paul. What do you think . I want to hear from i was waiting for green eggs and ham is probably the big closer. Yeah. Theres a thing in hollywood as a hollywood conservative that conservatives use is five more minutes. Give it five more minutes. Try a little harder. I wish i was there, though. That is quite a race going on down there, chuck todd. They might have as well as just done your mamma jokes. It might have been funnier and
they could have gone back and forth. You read these speeches as they prepared them. You wince just reading them and then listening to them, youre like, they are really delivering this on camera . Really . They are going to be quoted saying these things . But, look. This is the you know, all of the other races, theres a bang shot here and Constituency Group there and a wedge issue here. Not in this one, man. This one is so clear, its sort of you know exactly we can explain exactly how each candidate wins if they win. If grimes win, that mcconnell experience business was too much. 30 years is too much, he cant do it. If he wins, coal was just too much for her to take. There wasnt enough democratic votes for her. There is no easier race in the country to handicap and we know exactly what by the way, the thing hasnt moved. This thing has been a one or two point race for six months and be that until election race. A great race. You think mcconnell is going
to win . Yeah. I dont bet against mitch in fights in kentucky. Election day it will come down to one thing. Do they want to punish obama or mitch . They got to pick one and i think they are going to punish obama. All right. All right. Thank you so much, chuck todd. We will watch you at 9 00 eastern on the daily rundown. Al hunt, thank you for being with us. We greatly appreciate it. Those lines make you miss the late, great genuinely funny is rare but it works. Otherwise its the lead and written stuff. Ahead on morning joe, second ebola patient set to return to the u. S. This week, we take a look at what the deadly virus could do if there is an outbreak in our country. How Richard Nixon was able to create the socalled new majority. Douglas brinkley and pat buchanan with his new book on nixon, joins us at 8 00. A big name joins the fight
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he is doing well, he is in good spirits here. They learned yesterday that he received some kind of experimental medicine back in liberia before he came here and that could be helpful. They are saying that he is getting the best quality care here but, in the meantime, people are a little nervous about his arrival. Content brantley shocked a lot of people when he walked into the hospital with just a little support from a paramedic. Ebola on meet the press the head of the krs for decease control defended the decision to bring him stateside for treatment. He is an american citizen and what our role in Public Health is make sure if an american is coming home with an infectious disease, we protect others so they dont spread it. They are very professional and know what they are doing but one mistake its and all over. Reporter a sentiment popped up all over social media this weekend am i the only person who thinks it was a horrible idea . Ive seen this movie. You were in the car behind the
ambulance . Dr. Alex isikoff was in that suv behind the ambulance. He says there is no risk to the public. If i had ebola and i was touching your hand, maybe you would be at risk for contracting it. If i coughed and sneezed in your face, you would be at risk for contracting it, but thats how its transmitting. Not from standing a room away from someone . Absolutely. Not from being in an ajissent room and not from casual communication. Reporter brantlys family has been talking to him through a partition. Where the brantlys first met, a friend road their words. We are amazed and humble by the worldwide response in prayer by this crisis. We cannot share any news of kents condition but please know we believe kent will be healed and that healing will come from the hand of god. The other american missionary who has ebola nancy writebol, is expected here possibly by tomorrow for treatment. While peace corps volunteers are being evacuated out of west africa, interesting to note many African Leaders have landed in washington and here for a summit with president obama. Thank you, kate. Appreciate it. With more on the ebola crisis, lets bring in dr. Toby cosgrove. The president and ceo of the Cleveland Clinic. Mike barnicle wants to know if he is going to get the ebola virus and be quarantined for six months. The question is were reading a lot of story, a lot of hyperventilating and a lot of concerns about this coming to the United States. Isnt it easier to catch the flu than the ebola virus . Absolutely. Everybody is concerned about the ebola virus particularly because its very lethal but its not highly contagious. The influenza virus is much more
contagious than ebola so i think we are at very little risk. You have to understand now that we are now in a global world and transportation has made a disease that happens in one part of the world part of the worlds problems. We have seen that with sars and multiple other diseases. Right. I think its important that we are prepared through the cdc and other organizations in the United States to look after these sort of situations. So what do we do if we fly back from a country, people flying back from a country, a lot of people watch this show that travel internationally and have business on every continent. What do we do . Wear 12 masks or something or not worry about that . What do we do . I dont think you have to worry on airplanes. What we are seeing people coming from south africa being scanned for temperatures when they come into the United States by the cdc. If that is the case they get quarantin
quarantined. The period of incubation for ebola is somewhere between six and 21 days. Some people are coming back already and taking their temperature on a regular basis and if, in fact, they have a problem, they are going to be notified. Going to notify authorities. So i think we have done a great job of the cdc in beginning to isolate this particular disease and quarantine really is the major therapy for this sort of an epidemic. In fact, there have been ten of these epidemics in africa since 1976, they have been quarantined in relatively rural areas and burned themselves out over time. The problem now that its in the cities where there is little ability to qaruarantine an enti city. I know the peace corps is being arrived in evacuating peace corps workers around the world. I have a Family Member who lives
and works abroad. What do you do if you have Family Members or friends living and working abroad and youre not sure that they have access to the kind of health care that we have here . People like you, people that understand and now how these diseases spread. What are their best resources for working abroad . I think the main issue is right now in west africa and the three countries you talked about previously. It does not seem to be located outside of that particular area. Unless you are in one of those three countries, i dont think you have a concern. Mike barnicle . Toby, are you at all concerned about the potential for hysteria and misinformation on social media . In kate snows piece about people tweeting about these things with very little knowledge about what is going on and where its going on. I think it is a concern, mike. We need to get the true information out about the issue. Look at how wellprepared the cdc is, and understand about how this disease spreads, and make
people understand that the risk of this particular disease is very low, particularly the way its being handled currently in the United States. Toby, let me ask you a quick question about a the New York Times article i saw yesterday in the magazine. Some children are cured from autism. Autism affects our family. Got a child that has got asperbergers but ive noticed him improving over the years and ive been shocked by a lot of the improvements. Im sure you read the article and im sure you know about the research. What is behind that, about some children actually being moved out almost off the autism spectrum . Well, we have a school at the Cleveland Clinic of about a hundred students and we have been using this behavioral therapy now for 15 years. We see about 5 of the children who completely have their autism
symptomatology go away. About 25 of the students are able to be mainstreamed starting early on, say, at about age 2 by the time they get to kindergarten or first grade they are able to be mainstreamed into the schools with little or very little support. So, you know, there is this is now an accepted form of therapy. So what is the common denominator for the kids that beat autism . Is it that you guys work extraordinarily hard and others work to mainstream them to impact their behavior to try to get them as much as in their own world and in social settings . How do you do it . A couple of things. The diagnosis needs to be made early and need to get to people early. Secondly there appears to be a correlation between i. Q. And your ability to recover and higher i. Q. S do better at recovering than do other
children. Its very intensify therapy and 35 hours oneonone a week with a child. Its very expensive. But it is the best hope that we have currently. All right. Very good. Thank you so much. We greatly appreciate it, dr. Cosgrove and hope to see you again soon. My pleasure. Coming up, Campbell Browns fight against a teacher tenure gets a major boost. She is here to explain when morning joe returns. We will ask err about those nasty tweets too. In new york state, were changing the way we do business, with startup ny. Weve created tax free zones throughout the state. And startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. Thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. No property tax. No business tax. And no sales tax. Which means more growth for your business, and more jobs. Its not just business as usual. See how new york can help your business grow, at startup. Ny. Gov a good nights sleep. And aveeno®. [ female announcer ] only aveeno® positively radiant face moisturizer has an active naturals® total soy formula. One of natures most effective skin tone correctors. It helps reduce the look of brown spots in just four weeks. And for stubborn spots, theres new aveeno® targeted tone corrector, with vitamin a added for faster results. [ Jennifer Aniston ] aveeno®. Naturally beautiful results™. He gets a ready for you alert. The second his room is ready. When sales rep Steve Hatfield books at laquinta. Com, so he knows exactly when he can prep for his presentation. And when steve is perfectly prepped, ya know what he brings . And thats how youll increase market share. Any questions . Can i get an a, steve . Yes three as amazing sales he brings his agame la quinta inns and suites is ready for you, so youll be ready for business. The ready for you alert, only at laquinta. Com la quinta my motheits delicious. Toffee in the world. So now weve turned her toffee into a business. My goal was to take an idea and make it happen. Im janet long and i formed my Toffee Company through legalzoom. I never really thought i would make money doing what i love. We created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. Go to legalzoom. Com today and make your business dream a reality. At legalzoom. Com we put the law on your side. Yyyup. With xfinity internet soyour family can use all their devices at once. Works anywhere in the house. Even in the garage. Max whats going on . Were doing a tech startup. Were streamlining an algorithm. Whats grandpa doing . Hi. Sssh, grandpa you dont want to be an intern forever. Sorry dad, we have to get back to work, we have a deadline. Were going public [cheering] the fastest inhome wifi for your entire family. The x1 entertainment operating system. Only from xfinity. West coast update. States are being hit hard by drought and fires this summer. Now california has joined washington and oregon in declaring a state of emergency in hopes of bringing more resources and money to help battle the blazes. One of several california fires destroyed eight homes this weekend and caused one local hospital to evacuate. That is unbelievable. The drought out there, mike murphy, is just deplorable. We on the east coast have no idea how bad it is out west. The resource in california is only water and its only going to get bigger and bigger and this is a super drought so we will have these fires. Norm jerry brown would declare a state of grooves so its a serious time in california. Another leadened joke. Up next taking on the third rail of democratic politics. How teacher tenure is hurting the u. S. Education system and why its time for a change. Now a big name is joining the fight for reform and that is next on morning joe. We will be right back. When folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. But the energy bp produces up here
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majority to me. Why are we blaming the teachers . Maybe its the dumb kid. Ever thought about that . Kids are rated effective, maybe cut the kids lose and put them back in the bobbin factories. Isnt it about that . With us the founder of the partnership for educational justice, Campbell Brown. Last week she appeared on the steps of new yorks city hall to voice her support for a lawsuit that seeks to overturn new york states archaic and teacher and tenure laws. Mike barnicle, look. This is big. We need him at some point. I already do and talk to you afterwards. Star trial lawyer david boies who will be the new chairman of the partnership for educational justice. The New York Times reports about david in lining himself with a cause bitterly opposed to by Teachers Union he is emblem mattic between the democrats and Teachers Union. He viewed the cause of tenure
overhaul as, quote, proteacher. Randy wine gartgardner told me will be on the show or at some point. Her low point was turning on the show and seeing a bunch of liberals around me and all of them attacking what she is doing at the Teachers Unions. This is no longer a republican democrat conservative liberal issue. A lot of democrats are concerned about what is going on. Why did you decide to get involved in this hot button issue . I think education may be the most important issue we have in this country. I think its a basic civil right. We started desegregating our schools based on race and now segregating our schools based on economics. We dont have effect education in this country and we need it. Dont you consider this to be, like, one of the civil
rights issues . Making sure that an africanamerican kid or in the bronx or harlem has a shot at education as saying my kid or kids in scarsdale, new york. Absolutely. If they dont get an education, they are lost to this country and they are lost to their families. And if we are not able to fix our educational system, we cant compete globally. David, you say this as the son of two Public School teachers and as a lifelong liberal. I got to tell you, it is hard talking its hard to find liberals who arent directly involved in, lets say, Teachers Union or have some stake in it that arent exactly where you are, which is we have got to do what we have to do to help the truly disadvantage get a break. I think thats exactly right, because liberals have always
wanted equal opportunity. And the thing that prevents equal opportunity today, more than anything else, is access to education. We need education. Look at the technology the people have to master. You cant do that if you dont have effective teachers. Teachers are the most important, in my view, most important profession we have in this country. If you dont have good teachers, you dont have good doctors, you dont have Good Business people. You dont have any society unless you can educate your youth. And its totally unfair the people dont get in quality education. Mike, as campbell said before, i mean, there are a lot of great, great Public School teachers out there. There are some that arent great and they shouldnt be protected. The children should be protected. Well, i think that is part of the confusion about this issue. Like you, david, i mean, my mother was a school teacher. She taught for 35 years. Yet there seems to be, within this issue, this cloud of misinformation that this is aimed at teachers. Its not really aimed at teachers. Its aimed at reforming a system
that has been set in place for you tell me what its about. I think its about us beginning to treat teachers like professionals. Right. And to me that means also paying teachers more. Here in new york, a starting teacher salary is barely above 3,000 a year which is hard to even live on 30,000 a year. We by no mean tackling these laws is a Silver Bullet and solve all of the problems. But it is acknowledging that teachers arent interchangeable and that they are individuals and they should be evaluated and rewarded for performance as any individual would in any other profession. You get municipality cutbacks with shrinking budgets and what happens in School Departments is the best teachers are often, quite often, some of the younger teachers and they go first. Thats right. You look at program like teach for america. Every summer, we have the teach for america volunteers up at our house to a picnic and they are
just great. They are enthusiastic. And, yet, some people want to keep teach for america out of new york city schools. It doesnt make any sense if what youre primarily concerned about why do they want to keep them out . Because they view them at competition for people who are already teaching there. I think they listen. Maybe they are disruptive in the sense they have new ideas and enthusiasm. That is what teaching is about exactly my parents were teachers. I grew up with teachers. I mean, teachers are the best people in the world. They love kids. And they are out there, the best teachers, and i think most most teachers feel this way. Its this is not antiteacher. This is proeducation and prochild and ultimately its proteacher because that is the way you make them professionals. Randy says tenured laws and other laws are against cronyism and patriotism and hiring based
on what who you know and not what you know. We havent been doing that in our educational system for years. Not the way to get a job in new york city. People get jobs based on merit. We need to keep that merit system going while they progress. What is next . We brought this case in new york inspired by one in california where the judge ruled in their favor. Around the country and youre going to see additional lawsuits being brought in other states too because parents are seeing this as an opportunity to express themselves, to voice their frustration with the system they think is failing them, and with legislatures that havent moved to address these problems for years. Its a way of them saying were fed up and if youre not going
to deal with the problem, were going off the courts. You dont want to read twitter these days. Haters gonna hate, right . But outside of twitter, this is an idea whose time has come. I think randi weingar ten will be on. Pat pbuchanan is standing b talking about his book on Richard Nixon on, my gosh, what is this, the 40th anniversary of nixons resignation . Yeah. 40th anniversary day, and our friend, pat, is here to talk about his new book on Richard Nixon. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. In new york state, were changing the way we do business, with startup ny. Weve created tax free zones throughout the state. And startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. Thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. No property tax. No business tax. And no sales tax. Which means more growth for your business, and more jobs. Its not just business as usual. See how new york can help your business grow, at startup. Ny. Gov
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carnage at yet another u. N. School housing refugees in gaza. This is the third time israel has bombed the u. N. Run school. The u. S. State Department Said it was appalled by todays disgraceful shelling outside the school. There can be no question of mistaken identity. Absolutely none. There was encouraging news today about the condition of an american doctor infected with ebola. I cant think of a better place in the world other than Emory University hospital to
care for this patient. The specially equipped plane has just departed from georgia. Im confident that our fears are not going to overwhelm our compassion. Congress has left the building, leaving the president promising to go solo on the humanitarian crisis on the border. So thats not a disagreement between me and the House Republicans, thats a disagreement between the House Republicans and the House Republicans. What are you going to do about it . I think the congress has to have a serious look at the constitution. You dont really think impeachment is possible . I i think it would be foolish to discount the possibility. Mitch mcconnell and his competitor threw down. We cant afford a leader who thinks the west bank is a hollywood fundraiser. If Mitch Mcconnell were a tv show, hed be mad men, hes stuck in 1968 and ending this season. My goodness, that just makes me tired. I dont know about you, barnicle, but im tired. Seriously . Can they not hire professional
joke writers, right . You still have to tell them. Thats a good use for super pacs, right . Lets say super pac money should go to pay for hollywood speech writers and make all of our lives better. Welcome back to morning joe. Mike barnicle is with us. Also Nicolle Wallace still here. With us on set New York Times reporter tripp gabriel. He was paid extra to go listen to those jokes in kentucky. Were going to talk kentucky politics with tripp in just a minute but first lets go to israel with a sevenhour truce is under way in the gaza strip right now. If israel pulls back on its ground operations while leaving the door open to future strikes against hamas. On sunday an israeli missile killed ten people at a u. N. School where thousands of civilians were taking cover from the fighting. The attack, which was apparently aimed at a passing motorcycle, left dozens of palestinians injured. It also sparked intense
criticism from the international community, including from our United States state department that said the u. S. Is, quote, appalled by the disgraceful shelling. The u. N. Went even further calling the israeli action, quote, a moral outrage and a criminal act. Israels continued air campaign followed last weeks broken ceasefire. After that collapsed Benjamin Netanyahu told Senior American officials, quote, not to ever secondguess me again. Perhaps the United States may never again want to give him 3 billion a year. Meanwhile germanys leading newspaper says Israeli IntelligenceNews Agencies eaves dropped on secretary of state john kerrys phone conversations during last years peace negotiations and then used that information against him in those peace negotiations. Lets bring in right now from charleston, South Carolina, oped columnist, roger cohen. Roger, i read your oped this weekend and just absolutely loved it. I want to read a little bit of it for our viewers and then get you to respond. By the way, i just want to say for the record it is not fair that you get to be in charleston, South Carolina, and the rest of us have to be here. So this is why americans see israel the way they do. To cross the atlantic to america as i did recently from london is a move from one moral universe to its opposite in relation to israels war with hamas and gaza. Fury over palestinian civilian casualties has risen to a fevered pitch in europe and the u. S. , by contrast, support for israel remains strong. The israel saga, of courage and will,icies in American Mythology far beyond religious identification and it goes on and on and on. You set up, though, roger, this parallel universe that i noticed in 2006 when i went from the u. S. To london and just watched bbc reporting and was stunned. It was like i had been transported into another world. You talk about how antisemitism is sweeping across europe at an alarming rate. At the same time in america, we unquestionably support israel where even images of dead children or women in these mortar attacks would be seen as almost unpatriotic. Talk about that divide. Well, good morning, joe. I think its an unhelpful divide in many ways because it prevents either side, whether the United States or europe, from seeing the whole picture. In the u. S. Palestinian suffering remains a taboo subject in congress, cant talk about it. In a quasipacifist europe where the slaughter of jews took place, its impossible to see israel responding to rocket attack from an organization that
is bent on its destruction. What state, after all, would not respond in such circumstances. And i think its important to see the grievous errors mad by both sides rather than just seeing one side of the picture. In the u. S. , its support for israel. And in europe, its sympathy, understandable sympathy, for the huge number of palestinian victims and growing anger at what is seen as indiscriminate israeli attacks on this small area called gaza. Growing anger in europe. You talked about antisemitism in europe. You also mentioned germany specifically, a country whos been israels closest ally other than the u. S. , certainly since the horrors of the holocaust. But you say there even cracks in that facade now. Explain. Well, i lived in germany, joe, as correspondent for the New York Times about a dozen years ago. At that time whats been happening now would have been
unthinkable. Germans felt they had to show allegiance to israel because nazis had slaughtered jews. Now with the passing of time this time around, youve seen violence, including an attempt to set a synagogue in one german town on fire. Awful slogans, antisemitic slogans being chanted at demonstrations. A very ugly atmosphere. And i think germans with the passing of time look, this is the work of a rabid fringe. It doesnt represent the mainstream in any way. But still, for this to happen in germany is very troubling. Youre seeing similar incidents in france and elsewhere to the point that you have the Foreign Ministers of france, germany and italy making a statement saying antisemitism has no place in our societies. The distinction between antizionism and antisemitism
has in my view always been a much more flimsy one than those claiming that just antizionists say. Nevertheless, the way this has spilled over in parts of europe into open antisemitism is very troubling. Roger, i was with senator George Mitchell on saturday. During the day on saturday, he did a half dozen interviews. He was telling me four of them were from overseas outlets, the bbc, other european outlets, two of them were here in the United States. He was saying that it was like a parallel universe, the questions that he was getting from european outlets as opposed to the questions that he was getting from United States outfits. So my question to you has to do with the coverage. We see the coverage here obviously in the United States. How different is the coverage of what is going on in gaza within europe as opposed to here . I think its different in
significant degrees. Of course the bbc just like the New York Times would say that its trying to be balanced and objective. Everybody in this conflict, as you know, has extremely strongly held views, so they perceive bias, even if that bias doesnt necessarily exist. But all media organizations in europe are working against a backdrop of extreme anger at this point at israeli bombardment of gaza. That is the backdrop in which theyre working, the atmosphere. Similarly in the United States, youre working in an atmosphere where jon stewart, just because he reports on palestinian suffering, is said to reveal this to americans. Any criticism of israel is seized upon and said to be some kind of betrayal of a very important american ally. So thats the cultural environment, if you like, in which this is happening. I think it makes the reporting on both sides of the atlantic either side of the atlantic different. Okay, roger, thank you so much. We greatly appreciate it and we hope you dont have to move to an island somewhere between the United States and europe as you wrote about in your piece to be able to find a more balanced nuanced view of this extraordinarily important issue. Roger, thanks for being with us. Thank you very much. We hope to get back sometime soon. It is interesting, roger was also talking about how, you know, if you even show images of palestinian suffering, of palestinian children in the United States, thats almost considered taboo. Well, i dont think that the media has been intimidated by any of that. I see those images every night. I think that the media actually deserves some credit for not only showing a pretty rounded picture. I feel like ive seen lots of those horrific images, but also of listening to i think there
was someone at cnn that was accused of being impartial and in this rapid media climate people get right on the air and address the criticism. I think journalalists have been confrontational trying to address that. Mike, lets move to kentucky. Another conflict in kentucky. Has Congress Kicks off its fiveweek vacation. Boy, that must be nice. All eyes in the political world turned to the crucial race in kentucky. Mitch mcconnell and Allison Lundgren grimes met in the rural town of fancy farm. The candidates shared the stage in front of a record crowd with supporters from both sides looking on. Red shirts for mcconnell, blue for grimes. The 35yearold democrat made her case against the 30year veteran. What a huge crowd for senator mcconnells Retirement Party. If Mitch Mcconnell were a tv show, hed be mad men,
treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season. And when it comes to our students being able to afford college, Mitch Mcconnell, well, he doesnt care. When it comes to being a woman and being treated equally here in the commonwealth of kentucky, well, Mitch Mcconnell doesnt care. Senator, you seem to think that the president is on the ballot this year. Hes not. This race is between me and you and the people of kentucky. We intend to hold you accountable for your 30 years of failed leadership. By any standard barack obama has been a disaster for our country. Thats what you get for electing someone with no experience. He was only he was only two years into his first job when he started campaigning for the next
one. Sound familiar . With so much turmoil around the world, we cant afford a leader who thinks the west bank is a hollywood fundraiser. Theres only one way to begin to go in a different direction. Thats to change the senate and make be the leader of the new majority to take america in a different direction. All right, tripp, weve already talked about if this was a comedy special, it would have been cancelled five minutes in. But it seemed like a pretty raucous crowd there. They were getting into it. Give us a color, like were there wild borars running around chewing at your ankles . It seemed crazy. Fancy farm is one of the unique events in american politics. Its one of the great datelines in american politics in far west kentucky. But its very rare to go to a political rally where you have both democrats and republicans on the stage at the same time and a mixed audience of supporters of both. So while a candidate is
speaking, half the crowd is cheering and half the crowd is shouting and trying to heckle and distract and cause them to lose their cool. So what did you pick up down there, just confidence in the mcconnell crowd, the grimes crowd, what do you pick up . Both sides are very confident. Its a close race, statistically a tie in all the polls that have shown up. Closer than it ought to be. Mitch mcconnell is running for a sixth term. He won easily the last two times. This race is close. Why is it so close, especially with her the mcconnell people say her anticoal position, Barack Obamas unpopularity in the state. Does this seek to mcconnells builtin weaknesses in kentucky . It does. She had a joke that her Approval Ratings were about her age, which is 35. Hes got a lot of power in washington, minority leader. Hes never been hugely popular
in question. Look at that, by the way, 36 are favorable. 43 unfavorable. Im not really good at politics, i dont know much, but if youve been around for that much and your favorable ratings are 36 . Thats pretty crazy. You know, we watched those two clips that we just saw. Its, as you said, great dateline, fancy farm, kentucky. The mixed crowd, republicans, democrats. Was there any joy in the crowd or was it combative . Its both. I think people love to go there because you get a chance to shout at the other guy. Theyre having fun, right . Theyre having fun. Theres barbecue, they cook ten tons of barbecue out there. Ten tons . Thats a lot of meat. A lot of barbecue. Its like a kentuckylouisville game. Listen, at the risk of hurting your sides from
laughing, do you want to see one more . Are you ready for rand paul . Yeah, i was going to ask about the rand paul impact. Im excited to see this. Senator rand paul. There once was a woman from kentucky who thought in politics shed be lucky. So she flew to l. A. For a hollywood bash, she came home in a flash with buckets of cash. To liberals she whispers, coal makes you sick. In kentucky she claims coal makes us tick. One thing that we know is true, one thing we know is guaranteed, she cast her first vote for harry reid. I wanted to ask you about the rand paul part because hes patched together a pretty smart, Strong Coalition of supporters for himself but hes not really worlds most charismatic stump speecher. What is his impact . What effect did that have . Whats interesting about rand on saturday was that he completely put aside all of the issues hes been talking about to pull together this national campaign. He didnt talk about enlarging the Republican Party. He didnt talk about speaking more to minority groups in this country. He was a completely it was a perfect surrogate for senator mcconnell and everything he did was on the talking points of the mcconnell campaign. Im not sure who wrote his limericks. I was going to say, if he was a perfect surrogate, he would have left his little limerick at home. Didnt he remind you a little of Henny Youngman . Tripp, thank you for being with us, we appreciate it. Still ahead, is mitt romney going to be the republican candidate by default in 2016 . Why the third time just may be the charm for the former
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running ten points or so ahead of obama. But hes running behind hes running behind hillary. My view, though, is that romney is sort of the nixon in the sense that hes a candidate whos lost two times or three times, whatever. And hes considered a loser. However, hes considered president ial material. I think a lot of people are looking at him because they think that maybe hes the only guy that can really go the distance. A lot of people are going back looking at the things he said with russia and other things. Mitt was right, barack obama was wrong. Maybe we should give this didnt i another look. I think so. And also theres a lot of folks that say if one of the Tea Party Folks win or libertarians win, were not going to win the election, hes one of the few guys that can do it. Matt lewis, you wrote this on a romney comeback. Ironically romney is tailor made to benefit from having lost before. It actually transforms romney into a more compelling candidate. Having struggled and stumbled is, for romney at least, a feature, not a bug. Explain that. Thats right. Look, for other candidates losing, its a deal breaker, theyre losers forever. But the knock on mitt romney has never been that hes a loser, its always been that hes this kid in the front of the class with his hand up. Kind of the goody goody whos lived a charmed life, hes got a beautiful wife, hes made a lot of money and i think we resent that honestly. I think the public doesnt like that about him. Theres a movie why like the rocky movies are about people that make a comeback. I think its possible that romney could benefit from having gone through this experience, having lost and then showing us that hes resilient and that he can make a comeback, like pat was talking about nixon. Sometimes it could actually work in your favor. Pat, you know, nixon ran at a
different time, in a different field of candidates. How much of this romney resurrection talk thats going on do you think emanates from seeing people like rand paul on tv or the bleeding arrogance of a ted cruz . I mean delegates and Republican Leaders see that and think, geez, mitt romney is looking better and better. I want to associate myself with all your comments about cruz and rand, but theres no doubt about it. In the mainstream of the Republican Party, a lot of folks are behind rand, hes a libertarian, but they dont think he can win it. They think cruz may do extremely well in the primaries but they dont think he can win. But i also agree about the fact matt mentioned the fact that he lost. Nixon told me back in 196667, you know, im eight years younger than i was in 1960 and so on who was on his staff was eight years older. He had gone through a tremendous maturing process. He was less angry, less youthful, less in your face. And i think a man benefits from getting beat. I think romney has clearly benefited as that and hes someone whos much more acceptable to the broad middle of america which is nonideological and nonpolitical. Nixon is less angry . 1967, 68, he was very mature, very mature. My wife worked with him in 1960 and he was angry and he didnt put on makeup when he went to the debate. Hed get requests to do an interview and hed brush them off. By 68, he listened. He had a young staff. None of us had been in 1960 at all. And he just he was a mature guy moving right through that incredible year 68 of assassination, of war and riots in the city and urban disorder, Republican Party split with goldwater wing and the nixon wing and rockefeller wing. So democrats get beaten up in 1960 and then humiliated in 1962 in his race for governor made
him a better candidate in 68. And after that 62 defeat he said you wont have nixon to kick around anymore. Quits politics. Comes to new york. Then goes out and campaigns for goldwater and then he sees, and i think i saw it when i went to see him in 65, you can see that path down the sideline opening up. And nixon said to himself im not going to kick this away, im not going to blow it. Im going to do everything right. We probably wont be able to make it, but it was clearly there and he could see it. And he did everything right between 65 and 68. It was one of the most flawless campaigns i think that has gone on in the 20th century to take a noncharismatic figure, who had really, as you said, been humiliated and defeated, and have him get up off his butt and campaign for everyone in 1966, get into a head to head with lindyndon johnson then make a really smart decision stepping out of politics. He said im taking a moratorium for six months, he took it for a year. As he told me about mitt romneys father, he said let them chew on him for a little while. And then nixon returned for a section round. And thats exactly what romney is letting the press chew on, you know, whether its rand paul or whether you name it. Theyre all chewing on them. Hes just kind of sitting back waiting and seeing. It could be it could be an opportunity for him. Absolutely. Look, i think this is brilliant on nixons behalf. I think that sort of laying low is an underrated political strategy these days. Everybody has this sense that you have to be out there, you have to be generating buzz. But it takes a toll on people over the course of years. And i think it may be that a year from now or year and a half from now, were sick of ted cruz and rand paul and even, you know, talk about jeb bush and then you turn to mitt romney, who would be fresh and he would
be a compromise candidate who could come in fresh. He could instantly turn on the money machine. The other obvious analogy, though, hes doing what nixon did. Hes going to be out campaigning this year for republicans all across the country. If republicans have a good midterm election, its the nixon playbook strategy. Just like republicans did in 1966 before the 68 comeback. Matt, thank you so much. We greatly appreciate you being with us. Pat, stay with us because coming up next, more on your book on how Richard Nixon was able to push beyond the warring factions in the gop and have one of the most incredible comebacks in american history. Thats straight ahead when morning joe returns. You drop 40 grand on a new set of wheels, then. Wham a minivan tbones you. Guess what your Insurance Company will only give you 37thousand to replace it. Depreciation they claim. How can my car depreciate before its first oil change . You ask. Maybe the better question is, why do you have that Insurance Company . With Liberty Mutual new car replacement, well replace the full value of your car. See Car Insurance in a whole new light. Liberty mutual insurance. When la quinta. Com sends sales rep Steve Hatfield the ready for you alert, the second his room is ready. You know what he brings . Any questions . Can i get an a, steve . Yes three as he brings his agame the ready for you alert, only at laquinta. Com since robert taira openedsion kings hhis first bakeryd, in a small hawaiian town. Making bread so good, that people bought two loaves
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meacham who regularly burns tapes. I love this quote, pat, from the greatest comeback. Dwight chappin said starting in 66 there was a recurring refrain you would hear around the nixon office. Accrued through the campaign and even greater through the years of the administration and continued to the post presidency. It was what does buchanan think . What does buchanan say . Pat, you have a thousand memos that you sent to nixon and his responses that make up this book. Extraordinary. Tell everybody again the story of how you met nixon and how you got involved early in his comeback. Well, i first met nixon when i was on the caddie log at Burning Tree Country Club in 1954 and 55. They put out the Vice President s golf bag. The assistant pro looked over at the rookie caddie, and i went
around 18 holes with Richard Nixon. Then im a young editorial writer and hes coming over to bellville, illinois, to speak. I got invited, went up and met him in the kitchen and said if youre going to run in 68, id like to get aboard early. Two weeks later i was in his office in new york and i was hired december, 1965. And there are only three people in the office. Rosemary woods, pat buchanan and a lady named pat ryan who was answering the phones. Patricia ryan nixon. We had a couple guys travel with us in 66. He went out to 35 states, 80 congressional districts and it was a phenomenal republican comeback, 47 house seats. Suddenly he was in the hunt again. So how did this happen, pat . We have to put this in proper
perspective. Nixon lost in 60. He ran for governor in 62, he lost to pat brown. He said you wont have nixon to kick around anymore. Howard k. Case brought on a soviet spy and the program was called the obituary of Richard Milhouse nixon. Three years later you believe hes going to win. The most brilliant thing and the right thing he did, both right and wise, was in 1964 when that tremendous convention when theyre cursing Nelson Rockefeller, you know, hes demanding extremism be denounced, nixon introduces goldwater and then he goes out and campaigns for goldwater harder than goldwater did himself. At the end of that goldwater says, you know, i know you didnt do it for yourself, you did it for me. If you ever have selfish motives, im with you. That meant that goldwater, who was the martyr of our conservative movement and the leader of the conservative movement politically, i saw if we could weld goldwaters movement to nixons center of the Republican Party, there is no way Nelson Rockefeller or romney, who had both taken a hike on goldwater, could get the nomination. As soon as i got with Richard Nixon, i said the first thing weve got to do is we have to go capture the entire conservative movement, move them into our camp before this guy, reagan, in california wins the governorship. Jon meacham in london. Pat, im curious. After 68, nixon is in the house. He says watch what we do and not what we see say and a lot of people see the Nixon Administration as a bigger government philosophy and practice than people would have expected in 68. Take us inside the white house in 69, 70, 71 with the
development of a really aggressive domestic policy. Well, nixon was not a goldwater conservative , he gre up in the depression, admired woodrow wilson. He had no problem with new ideas and fresh ideas. That statement by john mitchell, that was about segregation. He was telling the civil rights leaders and the others, watch what we do, not what we say. We were raising the devil with some of these Court Decisions on courtordered bussing. But if you take what nixon did, he came in with 10 of the Southern States desegregated. When he was out, it was 70 of them. Now, it was a bloody mess all through that process, but nixon was pro civil rights, he was antiforced racial balance and thats what he did. And it was a success. But look what else he did. He ended the draft as he promised to do. He put in the 18yearold vote. He created the Environmental Protection agency. All of these things, domestic
policies were dramatic and foreign policies, who can rival the opening to china. He ended the war in vietnam. All the troops came home as he promised, the p. O. W. S came home. He saved israel in the yawar. Enormous achievements. If he had quit after his first term, he would have been regarded as one of the near great president s. In 1972 he had the biggest landslide. In december of 72 nixon is leaning back, taking a moment to celebrate and said somebody write a book about 1972, one of the west years in political history. We did so much. And as pat suggested, in many ways he was domestically a continuation of a new deal liberal. Built a great society. Family assistance, clean air and
water. He created the dea. He was believing in Big Government still. That was one of the things we worked in 72. Here was a guy completely dead isnt 65. By 1972 hes created this new political majority, which succeeds the Roosevelt Coalition and dominates president ial politics all the way up until 1992. A 49state victory for a guy who ten years earlier said goodbye and good luck, im done with politics. What about internally, though, pat, within the white house during that period of time. Especially the first term. You were just talking about the first term. Nixon is not alone in this, but if you listen to some of the tapes and read the transcripts of the tapes, he and kissinger had an opportunity, several opportunities to end the war in vietnam long well before it was ended. Right. Well, my feeling on that is well, nixon told me after i left office i should have done in 1969 what i did in 72. In other words, bombing hanoi. I think the north vietnamese jerked him around again and again. He desperately wanted to end that war but he wanted to end it in a way in which the whole thing did not come crashing down. Thats one of the real what happened in vietnam, what happened in cambodia, you have the holocaust there. But he wanted to make sure that all these sacrifices, death and suffering of these 58,000 americans was not poured down a sewer, was not done in vain, and my 73 he seems to have succeeded. But then hes broken. Congress cuts off all aid to the south vietnamese. North vietnamese wait for nixon to get out of office for eight months and then they go. Jon meacham back in london. Pat, talk about, if you would, the Republican Partys evolution because you have in
the primary campaign in 76 of reagan, the 80 campaign. You have a kind of reaction, right, to the nixon, both with the soviets and the larger Government Role we were just talking about. Talk about the partys evolution. All right. In 1972 people forget, you mentioned bill buckley i know on the show often. 1972 bill buckley broke with nixon and supported the manhattan 12. They put John Ashbrook in the primary against us, a mistake, bill. But that showed you the dissent, its dissent in the conservative movement over what youre talking about, nixons building of the great society. And then ford continued detente. My 1976 i remember a story Henry Kissinger and i were at the 76 convention and henry was nervous. He was going to the convention and he said im heading off to the convention hall, pat. I said ill be right behind you,
henry, im leading the demonstration against you. And so but that was detente was the thing that drove Foreign Policy. Anticommunism always drove the conservative movement. Thats what drove goldwater. By 1980, that movement that had taken over the nomination was now capable not only of getting the nomination but of winning a president ial election. But even reagan wasnt as conservative as is believed by everyone now. Right. He told me once in the white house, reagan, he called me up and said, pat, pat, some of my friends want me to go over the cliff with flags flying. And then he walked away. And i said, yeah, and im one of them, you know. No, but he knew we were pushing him and pushing him and thats the nature of the movement. And i think by 1992, jon, theres no doubt about it that clinton understood that weve got to get the south and we cannot keep writing these folks off with these liberal
candidates. Weve got to get some of them and of course george h. W. Bush had moved away again and somebody was challenging him in the primaries. Boom. There you go, baby. Pat buchanan, thank you so much. The book is the greatest comeback, Richard Nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority. I cant wait to tear through this book and want to interview you some more. Maybe well do a package on this. Plus im reading another great book on rakivic. There was an amazing scene about how reagan was going from the summit to the base and you were completely in the dark and said that you were scribbling down all the notes i was rewriting his speech because the whole thing had blown up there. I have never seen reagan, Ronald Reagan as angry as i saw him there when he came out of that room. You know, i remember a guy we were standing up looking down, he and gorbachev came out and a
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fiction movie, its machines. These were stories, these were movies with beginning, middle and end. Does it strike you now the huge difference between altmans filmmaking prowess and whats going on today in the business . I think it was always different. Robert always ran counter to what was happening, not necessarily because he wanted to be counter but he wanted to be who he was. He didnt change. Theres something called altmanesque, what does it mean to be altmanesque. Well, ougaltmanesque to robert meant never having to say youre sorry. He never apologized because he did what he loved doing and he was always counter. Absolutely. Do you have a favorite . No, i dont have a favorite. I kind of find myself saying the same thing that he would say when asked that question so many times. He would always say my films are like my children, and im the most concerned with the one thats the most needy at the
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