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say. Good morning. It is thursday may 5th. It feels like may. Beautiful out there. 36 and rainy. It is 36 and rainy. Weve got managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and cohost on msnbc. Dont you love him . Who doesnt. America loves him. He is americas anchor. I think hes getting there. Some breaking news. Yes. As most of our viewers will remember Mike Barnicle offered a new truck. What a dummy. If donald trump won the nomination. A pickup truck. I was so sure we now have a legal ruling. Theres a website called law news. Com reached out to a new
york city contract attorney to see if the wager between mika and barnicle was, in fact, legally enforceable. Here is what they found. I saw the picture of mika pointing at the camera. We have been gloating. Listen closely. Under new york law a valid contract requires an offer, acceptancish consideration, reliance and capacity to enter into an agreement. Contracts attorney keith stein said, quote, it appears all of those elements were met in this case. Where was he when i needed him. Barnicle made an offer to buy mika a new truck, mika accepted in front of multiple witnesses and television audience. As for the issue of consideration. Although mika did not specifically offer anything in return, barnicle received a great deal of publicity and skplour on his show which led to satisfy the consideration requirement. This is longer than most supreme
court decisions. The last line of the ruling, suspe suspect. Here is the closer. It certainly appears mika and barnicle were of sound mind. Look at the picture. Can we just get mikas picture there. Lawnewz. Com. Respected name in legal analysis. Give me the pickup truck. Thank you. Weve embarrassed our selves again. Then there was one. The Republican Partys president ial race has come to an end. Donald trump is the last
standing. Therefore can say donald trump is the presumptive nominee. It is official. It is official. Everybody take this in. It comes after Ohio Governor john kasich suspended his Campaign Last night making the difficult decision as his plane sat on the runway yesterday waiting to go to d. C. A source tells nbc kasich decided he didnt want to go raise money to simply drop out two weeks later. So before his wife and two daughters, the governor reflected on his path. I have always said the lord has a purpose for me as he has for everyone. As i suspend my campaign, i have renewed faith, deeper faith, that the lord will show me the way forward and fulfill the purpose of my life. Willie, let me first say i
was moved. What are you laughing about . Nothing. I was moved he held the announcement in my basement from upstate new york. Extraordinarily well preserved. I thought it was a beautiful speech. No, it was a beautiful spe h speech. That was the most delicate. I love kasich. I supported him after bush dropped out of the race. It was very moving. He had nowhere to go. I know he had to be frustrated you know when we did the meeting in New Hampshire, all along i said this is a guy that will came off. Were in a parallel universe. Regular universe twoterm governor of the state of ohio lost the most important state,
well respected all those things would be pluses. They turned out to be negative and he went headtohead with this storm called trump. The republican establishment given the choice of kasich twoterm governor, first budget chairman to balance the budget since the 1920s instead of this guy who had been in washington for a very long time, they chose ted cruz. The tabment got behind ted cruz and ended horribly for him. Seems like years ago but he did finish second in New Hampshire. He had a chance to parlay that into becomg the establishment choice but he did not do that. Why not . W why . He lacked defining what he was about. He wasnt a career politician. The establishment. This was a personal thing. For some reason they were more comfortable cozying up to a guy who shattered the brand in 2013 than they were john kasich. A guy who, again, had balanced what everybody called the unbalanceable budget. In the end two main reasons the establishment didnt turn to him. They didnt think he could beat trump. The other thing is, as much as we like him, he did not reach out in a way that made them feel invested and personally. You mean the washington crowd. Washington, members of congress, other governors, they just didnt feel they couldnt see outside themselves. They wanted to be sucked up to and he didnt do it. I heard kasich, mean ive known the guy forever, loved the guy. We were on opposite sides. I was voting against budgets, appropriation bills, battled but i loved him. Serious issues. He was very good. That speech yesterday, he didnt talk about donald trump. He didnt talk about politics. He didnt talk about the race, really, he just talked about his experience over a year or so. Having done town hall with him in ohio and watch the way he interacts with people, talk to a woman worried the American Dream was dead for her. I watched him. They both had tears in their eyes. It was real. It wasnt for the cameras. Its a very smart guy. I think the experience for him was almost spiritual. First of all, still the governor of ohio. Second, donald trump is talking about putting him on the ticket. Smart. Hes the host governor of the convention so hell be visible in cleveland. Ill tell you the most moving moment of the campaign may have been when the kid drove from georgia to ohio and started crying, hugging. Amazing. Talked about it yesterday. Again, it was one of those remarkable moments that
transcended politics. On a human level kasich really connected. Which is why i dont understand why those in washington couldnt see the value of what he presented to the country instead of what they needed for themselves in terms of sucking up. They wanted their own hugs. They have a big one now. The Republican Party reacted yesterday, tweeted. Seriously. What did they tweet . They tweeted this. Thank you to the spire republican field for a hard fought race. The party is better for your efforts. Okay. All right. There you go. Thats it. Its kind of like lets go from not very smart to unself aware. This is bobby stepping out of the shower and saying it was all a dream in dallas. A thorn in the side of trump in the Republican Party. He tweeted that and said is this
a parody account, the senator said. Thats a great response. In an interview with lester holt for nbc nightly news, trump discussed whether he felt the bruising primary race had taken a toll on his numbers. Your negatives are staggering, disapproval 69 , africanamericans 88 , latinos 79. People under 34, 75 disapprove. How much of that is selfinflicted by some of the rhetoric from the primary campaign and how do you heal that while still respecting those that got you here. Came out 49 to 31 with Hillary Clinton and i havent started with Hillary Clinton yet. I think ill do well with women. The last few states i won in landslides i won with women, africanamericans, hispanics, i won at every single level. You discard all these numbers. I dont discard anything. I just started. I just got it not even 24 hours ago. Those are the challenges mark halperin. You look at the percentages. He cant win unless he gets 32, 33 support of hispanics. He cant win without doing much better with women right now. Those are the great challenges in front of him, corey, paul, entire trump win. As a snapshot he cant win where we are today. Lets wait and see. Weve seen president ial races in the country, Michael Dukakis was ahead of bush. Lets not compare. Today as to whether he can come back are making a mistakes. Lets wait and see. Maybe he can. I would say anyone that judges the outcome of this race should look at what happened and ask themselves if they thought any of this would happen state after state after state after
state. With donald trump, people keep saying hillary will get i hope so, but i dont know. I really dont know. Here is the thing, nobody knows. Willie geist, New York Times wrote an article how i missed the trump thing, very forthright. You look what so many said, what nate silver said time and time and time again. Look at the fact he was wrong every single time about trump. Trump started at 1 , 2 , upside down in the polls. I believe demographics is destiny. I believe what works in the primary doesnt work in the general election, that it is back to blocking and tackling. I believe trump has a huge mountain to climb. But we dont know, because everybody was wrong about him before. Who really has i went on twitter last night. I really stopped going on it. My news feed which i always went on, talk about mentions, i stopped doing that in 1943. I always loved the news feed. Last night, seriously nine out of ten, were just vile antitrump, heated rhetoric. Ivities like seriously. Just report the news. Everybody is making the same mistake they made before. Yeah. I mean, this started last june when we said this guy is into something. Hes tapped into a vein. Everybody dismissed it. Here we are with him as republican nominee. I agree this chaos theory this donald trump that anything can happen. I do agree as well those numbers are really tough. I dont know how he makes the case as he tries to pivot to a latino voter that hes for them, hes on their side. The number for mitt romney was 24 latino support. Everybody agreed, every smart person in the Republican Party agreed that theres no way a republican can become president with those numbers and we have to do better next time. I just dont know how donald trump does better than 24. Hes going to have to do an incredible 180 somehow and change everything he said over the last year. On latinos, women. The convention offers him an opportunity, will be the first time a lot of americans have really looked at donald trump the candidate. The Vice President ial selection offers him an opportunity. But he doesnt have many opportunities beyond that. If he goes into august with these numbers, i will say in august, hes going to lose big time. The window, while we have six months, hes got about a twomonth window to start turning this stuff around quickly or he will lose. So if they want to win, they better be all hands on deck right now. This is not going to be a slow du turn. I was surprised that yesterday he stuck to the muslim thing. Thats a loser with the majority of americans. Youve got republicans like me. Im not going to vote for a guy stuck by it. Hes got to make the turn and say this is a system we can put in place where we can get muslims allow muslims to come into america, maybe not from syria if they dont have the proper hes got to start making turns like that. Ill tell you, im not im never going to vote for a guy who says they are going to ban somebody because of the god they worship. Hes going to have to make that turn fast. Maybe he does it over the next couple of weeks. On the trump side, those wrong about him are the ones most definitive he has no chance. He and his team have a million things to get done. There are not enough hours in the day to get them done, start to improve, thinking through policy, et cetera. I agree. He doesnt have a lot of time to change the perceptions here with the voters. Hes got to do it fast. The problem is clinton people are up and running. They have a war room, opposition research, a plan of how they are going to dismantle trump. The trump people are just learning how to do this. On that Hillary Clinton has set her sights firmly on donald trump tweeting a web video full of republicans slamming the presumptive nominee. Here is a part of it. I am a unifier. Were going to be a unified party. Wbr id wbr9851 a con artist. A phony. Donald trump is the know nothing candidate. Donald is a bully. This is an individual who mocked a disabled reporter. I dont remember. Who attributed a reporters questions to her menstrual cycle. Blood coming out of her wherever the most vulgar person ever to aspire to the presidency. A man trying to feel big by making others look small. Dont worry little marco. The bullying, the greed, the showing off. Im really rich. The misogyny, absurd third b
grade they at rex. Count to ten, donald. Hes racebaiting, kpeno phobic narcissistic bigot. A level i dont think this country has seen. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe. This guy so unfit to be commander in chief. His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies in america would make the world less safe. What do you think, willie. I think as the Republican Campaign was going on, Clinton Campaign was sitting there hitting record every time a republican said something about him. The message there, even his party wbrid wbr10631 finds him unpalatable, how could you even consider voting for donald trump. Theres a lot more to come. Thats an opening salvo in what will be a relentless against trump. As you said, this is not something he can wait until the
convention. They are ready to attack him. Hes a oneman operation. This is not going to work the way its stacking up. He needs help. He does. Manafort is coming on board. You see corey and manafort. You see more on board. President bush saying were not endorsing donald trump. Were sitting out the campaign. George Herbert Walker bush supported every nominee, his sitting out is a symbol for prominent republicans, dont be for trump. Thats a problem for him. Its not insurmountable but its a problem. I do think, willie, on the other side there are a lot of republicans that did come out, including Mitch Mcconnell, john mccain, going down the list saying, hey, were going to support presumptive nominee, Mitch Mcconnell, richard bird,
mike huckabee, other republicans. They will all get in line. Most will get in line. Of course ben sass and others will never do that. Again, he i guess thats the message of the day. If hes going to turn this battleship around, hes got to turn it around fast and hes got to start turning it around now. Yeah. The question is how he does that. Given all the things he said over the last year, how do you undo the things you said about the wall, mexicans, muslims, all those things. On the other side, Hillary Clinton has to figure out with the attacks coming her way. Does she want to be jeb bush and fly high above him or be marco rubio and fly high with him. Shell have to find her sweetspot. A lot of people dont like a career politician when a lot of the country doesnt want that. He has to make it as much about
her as him. He has a big opening. Her disapproval in the mid50s. I know his is in the 60s. See if he can bring his down. Its not brain surgery. If he wants to turn the ship around, he can. Its a made up story. Can he do this . He can do it. Whats a made up story. I think its a made up controversy, can he turn it around, after everything that happened in the primary. Have you seen what the clintons have done . Have you seen what all politicians have done . They can turn it around any time they want, and they do. People are getting kind of tired of people being dishonest about it. I think its going to be really hard for him to turn it around, specifically with hispanics. I think even with women he may be able to turn that around a bit. I think the biggest challenge right now is turning it around with hispanic voters. I have to say, along with what willie is saying, thats an area where im just going to wait and
see how he does that. If he doesnt, he loses. Show that one web video, wait until you see what democrats, Clinton Campaign and allies do with hispanic language advertising against trump. Its going to be extraordinary. Still ahead on morning joe, republican Governor Rick Snyder of michigan joins us for an exclusive interview on tthe s of president obamas blister comments. The partys presumptive nominee donald trump. Also with us Hillary Clinton supporter rob reiner, no stranger to politics. Tonight yos band is playing here in new york, of course, at prohibition. If youre in town, come join us at prohibition upper west side, the music gets started around 8 30 tonight. But first, lets go to bill karins. We need upbeat, going to listen to him play. Your forecast sucks. It does. Oh, pi god. That is just awful. I agree. Mika, as this point im hoping the sun comes out by mothers day. Thats sunday and now its thursday. Yeah, in the east its been about five days since people have seen the sun in new england, some locations in midatlantic. Two storms, one off the coast and the ohio valley. Were sandwiched between these two. A very slow moving weather pattern. What you see is what you get over the next couple of days. Here is how it plays out today, sandwiched between the storms, rainy, virginia, West Virginia, north carolina. Youre not going to get that much rain from philadelphia northwards through areas of upstate new york, new england. Boston will get clipped late tonight. This storm, two storms consolidate. Noreastertype friday, gusty wind, cold, temperatures in the 40s and 50s. Airport will be a mess with delays. Finally watch that storm slowly leaving over the weekend. At the same time everyone in the middle of the country is saying i have the best forecast in the world. Its going to be almost 90 in fargo, north dakota, and 48 in boston. Thats ridiculous contrast there. Fargo 30 degrees warmer than atlanta. Upside down weather map there. The worst of it is located in the midatlantic and northeast leaving with you a shot of new york city where if everything goes well well give you peeks of sunshine by mothers day. Thats ridiculous. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Constipated . Trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief suppositories for relief in minutes and stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. Dulcolax, designed for dependable relief first they limit where you earn bonus cash back. T you . Then those places change every few months . I think ill pass. Quicksilver from capital one puts nothing in your way. You simply earn unlimited 1. 5 cash back on every purchase, everywhere. You cant dodge the question. Whats in your wallet . Thank you thank you what a week we sat down, we kicked back, and we watched tv [ cheering ] this win is just the beginning it doesnt end here. Because your laundry can wait keep those sweatpants on order another pizza and watch on [ cheering ] dont wait a whole year for Xfinity Watchathon week to return. Upgrade now to add the premium channel of your choice so you can keep watching. Call or go online today. E. T. Phone home. [ soft music ] when you find something you love, you can never get enough of it. Change the way you experience tv with xfinity x1. References to your marriage, to your husband. Hes not the first one, anderson. I cant say this often enough. If he wants to go back to the playbook of the 1990s, if he wants to follow in the footsteps of those who have tried to knock me down and take me out of the political arena, im ready for that. Youre ready for that. Please. This is a classic case of a
blustering, bullying guy who has knocked out of the way all the republicans because they were just dumbfounded. They didnt know how to deal with him. They couldnt take him on in the issues because they basically agreed with him. They didnt know how to counterpunch. We had 17 people just now. I figured that out. Ill be able to figure it out with hillary. Depends on where shes coming from. If she wants to go the low road, im fine with that. If she wants to go the high road, which probably i would prefer, i would be fine with that. I can handle the low road if we have to do it. Weve had some low roads over the last few months. Ill be fine if i have to go that direction. You know what joining us local correspondent kasie hunt. Good to have you back on. Willie, you have something. They say a short memory for politics. Bloomberg put together this clip as evidence calling it bad trump, good trump. Take a look. Ben carson is lower energy than jeb if you know the truth. He took a knife and he went after a friend and he lunged. Hes got a pathological temper or temperament. Lo and behold it hit the belt. Example, child molester. The knife broke. Give me a break. Dr. Ben carson endorsed me. Thats an incredible man. Such an honor, hes a friend. Hes become a friend. Im at 42 and youre at 3 so far im doing better. Doesnt matter. Let me talk. Quiet. Jeb is a loser. I wish him the best. Jeb, who is a very nice person. You have Chris Christie, the George Washington bridge. He knew about it. He was like a little boy, in the helicopter, so excited to be in the helicopter. Is he going to vote for obama . I thought he was for obama. They are going to throw him out
of office. Chris christie, thank you very much. I appreciate it. He supports me. This little guy lied so much. Little marco. Im watching marco sweating like a dog on my right. They call him a robot. Rubio. I want to congratulate marco rubio on having run a really tough campaign. Hes tough, hes smart, and a great future. Lyin ted. Hes a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Cant win by himself. Nobody in congress likes him, nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him. Hes a joker. A very nasty guy. Just so you understand, ted cruz, hes one hell of a competitor. Hes a tough, smart guy. See what i say, now that hes out, everybody when they are out, nice, brilliant campaign. At least hes honest about what hes doing. They could make the same video about a lot of republicans who are turning it around because they have no choice. The death of the Republican Party endorsing him. It goes both ways. Goes both ways but more colorful with donald trump. For all the talk, donald trump is ready to dive into policy now. He told robert costa of the Washington Post hes eager to start receiving regular, classified intelligence briefings. Trump also told New York Times yesterday some of his governing priorities will be. He says that within the first 100 days of his administration he will have designed the wall on the mexican border, put the muslim immigration ban in place and begun the audit of the Federal Reserve and repeal of the Affordable Care act. So i guess hes sticking to that ban. Look at all four of these. Kasie hunt, it doesnt look like hes moving to the middle at all. Seems like hes, in fact, doubling down with what he told the times yesterday. Certainly seems so. I will say, i was talking boult Haley Barbour and his points on this, he has to start making policy speeches that do line up with that conservative base as he heads into the convention. A lot of people on the floor of the convention will still be ted cruz. If theres concern around the party theres concern whether conservative policies or not. Were talking about how we showed that clip of Hillary Clinton talking about how all the republicans on stage agreed with donald trump. I dont think that was the case. A lot of conservatives are concerned about some of the things he said over time. Were going to take care of people, et cetera. I do think he has work to do with conservatives before he starts that pivot. Starts to make that move. Im wondering, what was your reaction to Hillary Clinton laughing and saying, ive handle this before. Does she really think donald trump is kenneth star. James carville and those guys used to be able to carve up
republicans in the 1990s. Somebody comes at trump, hell tear them to shreds. He just will. Im wondering whether they have an understanding of that or whether they think this will be a replay of the clods that went after them in the 1990s. They say it for two things, reassures. Its the oldest spin in the clinton playbook. This has all been tried before, it never worked. They tried to take us down and its never succeeded. At times it has succeeded and they have never faced anyone like donald trump. That doesnt mean it will succeed but this is spin to get the press to say, yeah, you cant beat the clintons. From the inside of the Clinton Campaign, they understand they are about to go into a type of political war they have never been involved with before . They do. With the exceptions of clintons themselves, genetically inclined to be worried about losing, they
are confident they can make this about trump. They are genuinely confident about it. I can see how both sides would be confident. Tomorrows show, the running mate. Were going to talk to ben carson and see if hell pull a dick cheney and put his name on the list. Up next, stay with us, now that donald trump will be gop nominee, what will happen to judge garland. New push by conservatives to get president Obamas Supreme Court pick back on the senates radar. I would do that if i were you. Morning joe is back in a mom. Moment. Real is making new friends. Amazing is getting this close. Real is an animal rescue. Amazing is over twentyseven thousand of them. There is only one place where real and amazing live. Seaworld. Real. Amazing you live life your way. We canelp you retire your way, too. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. My wife and i are now participating in your mutual fund. We invested in your fund to help us pay for a College Education for our son. Weve enclosed a picture of our son so that you can get a sense there are real people out here trusting you with their hardearned money. At fidelity, we dont just manage money, we manage peoples money. We were talking about this oped, very interesting. Mark, talking about wall street journal. Support for trump, they are now in a neutral post. One suspects they will never support Hillary Clinton. They will find their way to supporting trump. Read the trump reality opinion page, its a pretty significant move in trumps direction. Not getting bushes isnt ideal for him. Weighs in somewhat neutral. They do say he would be better for the economy than Hillary Clinton. Its easy to forget in a campaign, we expect the issue list, if trump can convince americans hed be better for turning around the economy, it would be a big advantage for him. Big advantage. Shes ill defined on the economy. I ask people all the time, tell me something shes for explain how your message. How would peoples Household Income do up. They has ideas but they havent broken through yet. Trump doesnt have ideas but hes a businessman and has a chance to do well on the issue of the economy. In the wake of trump becoming republican nominee, conservative blog red state. They have not moved yet. What stage are they in . Abject denial. They are calling for the confirmation of judge garland to the Supreme Court as soon as possible. They write, republicans must know theres absolutely no chance that we will win the white house in 2016 now. So the choices essentially are to confirm garland and have another bite at the apple in a decade or watch as president clinton nominates something who is radically more leftist and 10 to 15 years younger, and we are in no position to stop it. And in new york magazine, how the republicans proceed on garland may serve as an indicator whether the party is prepared to unify or distance itself from trump. Also points out contradiction they face if they move ahead confirming garland. The Republican Caucus spent months arguing america has the right to weigh in on the next Supreme Court nominee via its choice in the november election. If they back away from that stance now, they would effectively rebuke their own president ial nominee. If hearing build Popular Support for garlands confirmation, they will be forced into either defying the will of the general public or that of their own base. A spokesman for senator Mitch Mcconnell said yesterday, republicans continue to believe that the American People should have a voice in this decision and the next president should make the nomination. I dont know. It seems to me they should move on someone to actually appeals to both sides like Merrick Garland and still support trump and unify behind him. Why does one not come without the other. You know, if youre certain, kasie donald trump is going to lose i was just going to say, i think that more than anything right now is the split were seeing among republicans. What donald trump did in sweeping this nomination is convince some republicans in
washington who are willing privately to say, hey, maybe this guy can win in november. They were certainly saying that about him compared to trump. Most i talked to were convinced trump would be way better in the fall. Red states, they are convinced hes not capable of beating Hillary Clinton. Thats not my sense of where things are. What you were saying earlier about him having the potential to change these numbers with women, hispanics possibly more difficult. Still i think they make a fair point if hes going to lose, if not say that in may again, get closer to the fall. I found this, i can criticizes mitt romney and john mccain as i did and george w. Bush in the spring, but when i start criticizing them in the late summer and fall, i got murdered by conservative press. Four, 8, 12. Mitt romney all conservatives hated in the spring. Rush limbaugh said ill never vote for him. By september even when i said Clinton Eastwood was a failure, National Convention abject failure, mitt romneys campaign in trouble, i get massacred in the conservative press. Willie, one thing to say this in the spring. You get to the spring, again, a lot of coalescing in the fall. This is new and fresh and painful for people, the Republican Party that this just happen happened. You get to october and want Hillary Clinton to be president , thats a scary prospect for people and you pull the trigger for trump. Life is a series of choices. Between donald trump and Hillary Clinton. He remembered in 76 when people were really upset coming out of the convention. He said i think there will be a lot of people who will be surprised who will get on board
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attack on u. S. And Kurdish Forces north of mosul. Pentagon Officials Say the isis attack was massive, well planned involving 125 isis fighters in 20 vehicles and raged for hours. On the Ground Forces in the air, 11 u. S. Warplanes and two drones that launched 31 airstrikes. Two soldiers killed with 60 isis fighters. With us member of Armed ServicesCommittee Dan sullivan, alaskan senator, thank you for being with us. Morning, joe, morning, mika, good to be on the show. Good morning. Theres questions whether this navy s. E. A. L. Who died was in a combat role or not. What do you say . First i want to express deep sympathies and respect for the families of the fallen and wounded, right, were seeing more of this. Clearly he and others are in combat. This is a big issue because you have a huge disconnect between
the white house, the president , press secretary saying we dont have troops in combat. Yet just last week in the Armed ServicesCommittee Secretary carter, the chairman of the joint chiefs general dunford said absolutely, unequivocally men and women in combat in the middle east, whether dropping bombs in syria and iraq, marines, 200 marine fire base, artillery fire base. All right so. Why didnt the white house want to admit our men and women are in combat . You know, joe, i really dont understand why. It might be some kind of legacy where the president has said, hey, were going to remove combat forces. What it does do is just undermines his credibility. It further diminishes respect for the men and women who are serving over there. They know they are in combat. The American People know they are in combat. What i think the white house needs to do is just acknowledge it. That will help them with their
credibility with regard to what were doing over there in terms of the strategy to defeat isis. Willie. Senator, a piece in the Washington Post a few days ago talking about what youre saying, buildup, quiet buildup of american troops in iraq. They say noncombat. Seems to me if youre in a firefight in isis youre pretty well in combat. What do you think American People should know about whats happening with troops right now . Willie, look, this is an important issue. We are in combat over there. I think the American People if the president levels with the American People, press secretary levels with the American People, tells the truth like secretary of defense and chairman dunford have, they will understand. This is a huge issue we need to defeat isis. But weve got to do it by leveling with the American People. As you mentioned front page of the Washington Post yesterday, a marine fire base, artillery fire base doing missions every single day. Thats the definition of combat. The white house needs to come clean on that. All right. Just while youre here, wed like to get your take on this. What do you think of donald trump as the presumptive nominee of your party . Will you support him, and what are your thoughts especially on this issue pertaining to Foreign Policy . Listen, mika, your previous segment when you talked about the economy, i think thats the critical issue. Donald trump and even Bernie Sanders have tapped into frustrations. I think that frustration is hugely reflected by the fact that we cant grow the economy anymore. Last quarter 0. 5 gdp growth. This is enormous frustration for American People. I think youre seeing it reflected in the politics. Ive stated that with regard to donald trump, i dont agree with everything he says on policy. For example, when he says that nato, we dont need nato, i dont think thats true. I think our allies are hugely
important comparative advantage we have with regard to the country, some of his rhetoric i havent supported. Ive said i plan on supporting the republican nominee at this time. Senator dan sullivan, thank you very much. Thank you, senator. We appreciate it. Still ahead morning joe exclusive Governor Rick Snyder on the toxic water crisis in flint, michigan, following the president s visit to that city yesterday. Plus you want free speech . Lets see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is Standing Center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing in the top of yours. We will ask director and political activist rob reiner about his version of the american president and whether there are parallel to todays race. Thats straight ahead on morning joe. Jake reese, day to feel alive jake reese, day to feel alive jake reese, day to feel alive
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goings. What have you been hearing over the past 24 hours from republican establishment figures in that building behind you. I spoke to dozens of them yesterday. My sense, joe, is that they are moving toward trump. Not always an embrace, not enthusiastic but theres an acceptance he is going to be the nominee. Theres a sense despite all his vulnerabilities and poor poll numbers across the country he may be able to bring out democrats and independents. Thats the silver line in my reporting. Do you get a sense, they are afraid to run with him on the top of the ticket as some have said through the primary season or do you get a sense that some senators or congressmen, women think he may not be such a hindrance in their districts or states after all . One group of people who actually are more warm to trump than most are those who come from blue states, blue districts, republicans. They think trump can help them
in their home towns or home states. What were seeing right now is a wait and see approach. We have 80 days until the convention. Until then you have a lot of these candidates and Party Leaders trying to build a relationship with trump. Hes going to be coming to washington. Just watch him as a candidate, see how he performs. Bob, what level of outreach has donald trump performed on capitol hill . Has he made phone calls . Is he planning to go to washington at any point . He said a lot of people trashing hmo over the last year are calling him and saying, sorry for the things i said, im calling you. I pressed this on trump yesterday in an extensive phone call i had with him. I said you dont have a relationship with speaker ryan, Mitch Mcconnell. He doesnt have a history there. Hes going to come to washington and wants total coordination with the policy agenda. When it comes to trade and immigration trump wants to have a voice and lead the party. He voiced to Washington Post
his view he can work with the party on the platform and is willing to come to capitol hill and not be someone who is an outlier when it comes to policy. We talked about this yesterday how strange it is voters are going to have a republican nominee, most likely, that is going to be left of hillary on trade and to the left of hillary on military intervention. The cards are going to be sort of think about that. Up in the air. Bizarro world. Interesting nature of the political spectrum of the United States right now. He actually think its reasonable for certain conservatives in particular to be doubtful of donald trump. There has to be movement with regard to his positions in relation to them. When you think about progressives on the left, those bernie or bust people, they are whackos in the sense they are doubting Hillary Clinton can
ally with their position on trade. Theres a sense of whats allowable in terms of the political spectrum. You can have folks on the right, from clinton all the way to the tea party. If you go to the left of clinton, whats available. This is a strange moment. So are there a lot of progressives that right now are contender about getting behind a nominee who for better or worse you can read bob gates book and she aligned with him. A lot of people consider her more than an interventionist, consider her a war hawk. On trade, shes going to be as pro trade and pro wall street as anybody. Thats going to be hard. Absolutely. Lamenting the disappearance of the democrat, the fact Democratic Party doesnt seem to
represent working pool. What hes claiming, theres a whole range of folks questioning her. There are going to be 13. 1 million new hispanic voters. 13. 1 million hispanic voters in the 2016 election. Think about her position on honduras, send those children back. Theres going to be some interesting debate going on on the left, not trying to align on the right. The media loves to focus on republicans trying to line up with their nominee but youre right. A lot of people on the left supporting bernie that are going to have trouble getting behind hillary as well. Hes not helping the Bernie Sanders situation at all. Not at all. Leaders across Republican Party reacted to Donald Trumps take yesterday. Senate majority lead are Mitch Mcconnell put out, trump has opportunity and obligation to unite party around our goals. He was joined in full throated
endorsements from senator richard bird, north carolina, governor mary fallon of oklahoma and mike huckabee. Three candidates up for senate less direct, they reiterated they would back nominee as did party elders john boehner and Haley Barbour who said they would back trump if he becomes the nominee. Meanwhile the club for growth backed off its threat to withhold support from anyone Backing Trump now that hes the nominee but till insist anyone who endorsed trump last night is still on their list for potential retribution. Were starting to see pretty big movement, club for growth especially who disagree with trump on so many issues saying now its okay for candidates to support donald trump shows, again, the coalescing we knew was going to happen. What does this mean for the identity of the republican
party. I dont understand how coalitions will hold in terms of various constituencies to have donald trump at the head. It depends if the Republican Party learns from this. If the party thinks donald trump is just about personality or just about the wall or just about antimuslim rhetoric, they are missing the big story, which is they have had White Working Class voters supporting them for 25, 30 years and White Working Class voters feel betrayed by their positions on trade, a lot of their positions on tax policy. Why are they running around talking about Corporate Tax cuts, which i support, but in the talking about payroll tax cuts that will help. Those making 50,000 or less in a very real and meaningful way. Do they oppose minimum wage. Where i understand the
economic benefits of a lot of these policies that are pushed by think tanks in washington, d. C. They have never reached down to the core, the base of the Republican Party. But this is fascinating, because at one point donald trump was saying the minimum wage is too high. We were talking about that yesterday. There are so many inconsistencies there. A lot of these voters didnt listen to this. Believe hes going to they focused on this guy talking about calling nafta one of the worst policies thats been passed in some time, talking about how working class jobs have been gutted by all these policies could it be hes tapping into something very nasty and ugly at the heart of that resentment, giving voice to not simply being locked out of the new economy, whatever that we know what the new economy talk is, right, but its being voiced in a particular sort of way, in relation to folks we dont see as one of us, folks taking undeserving others, taking from
deserving people, that hes tapping into something very, very ugly. How about something very, very real. Ugliness is real. Yes. He played that card. But the thing is i feel like youre talking about something else. Go ahead. Yes, he played that card. Theres no doubt about it. He played it several times, in ways that disturbed all of us around the table. Im saying, though, that environment, others taking our jobs actually its technology taking jobs. It is some trade policies and gobblization taking the job. Others taking our jobs. The underlying resentment is about jobs. They believe trump is going to take care of us in a way the free traders and supply siders never took care of us. The politicians. And the source of that resentment where youre looking
around for somebody to blame. Also if you go to any go to the midwest, go to an old steam town, auto town, southwestern oregon to a lumber mill thats been shut down and you talk to those people there, its because of trade policy. Its because of immigration. No one else has solved this problem for them. So they are out of work. They have seen their industries go away. They are willing to take risks. Donald trump giving them reason to believe on an emotional level, maybe not on specific policy level, on an emotional level hes going to bring that back for them. You know, Republican Leaders. I did it myself from time to time would go talk to people suffering, working class people that supported us and talk about milton friedman. These people dont want to hear about that. They want to hear about, bob costa, how are you going to get jobs back in this country from mexico and from china, and why do you keep telling me about the benefits of free trade when
everything thats happened since nafta passed has been bad in my town, bad in my community, bad in my state. Thats what these White Working Class voters not just White Working Class voters, working class voters have been asking this year. The question is did the party listen or are they going to be shocked four years from now . My colleague karen and i look at this exact question in todays paper. You have to wonder, is trump a maker of this disruption and chaos with the republican consensus or is he really a product of it . I think its more the latter. Weve seen evolution how the working class deals with Republican Leadership, a frustration, feeling in 2010 and 2014 they elected republicans, expecting certain things with regard to the policy. On the campaign trail you sense a loss in faith with republican hawks, loss in faith you talk about the supply side wing of
the Republican Party. Trump, i think, is a product of a crack in that consensus that has really dominated gop since reagan era. I think it forces think tanks. Wit not wii. Rich getting richer. Poor getting poorer, middle class disappearing, working class getting squeezed. There is despair. White working class americans are dying sooner and are more addicted to drugs and are more racked with despair than ever before. What have our policies done to change that . All the things weve talked about really havent worked. Maybe we need to look at this in a different way. Yes, be capitalist, be for free markets, be for lower taxes, be for government regulations but stop saying the same damn things weve been saying since ronald
reagan was president. In that 40year absence of any policy thats helped those people, into the void steps donald trump. He can say things all these politicians have not said and failed these people, which is im going to bring the jobs back. Katy tur covered donald trump as close as anybody. Shes been there right from the beginning, a few days after he aaccepteded escalator into the lobby of trump tower. We were talking a little bit earlier about this turn to the general election. Hillary clinton was locked and loaded ready with ads about donald trump, surrogates out there. I guess the question is, does the Trump Campaign thats run so lean and mean have the ability to make that same quick turn. I dont think they do at the moment unless donald trump infuses his campaign with a lot of cash quickly. They have been so far pretty hesitant to do that. It depends how much funding they take from the rnc and whether or not they start sanctioning,
essentially, super pacs running adds on their behalf. Donald trump in the past has disavowed or asked any super pac in his name or working in his benefit to cease and desist. There are those out there that are going to try to do that. Ed rawlins joined Great America pac to help him overcome Hillary Clinton in the general election. That is something they could do relatively quickly. So far we have not seen that from the donald Trump Campaign. Trump said yesterday if Hillary Clinton wants to go in the gutter in this campaign, hes happy to go there with her. He said hed prefer to run a highminded campaign. What is the strategy, as you know, katy tur to go after Hillary Clinton. Back months ago he started to float bill clinton stuff and his past and personal relationships. Is he going to go there for most of this campaign . They are going to throw everything they can at Hillary Clinton. My sense is that if that sort of stuff ends up working for him, the attacks on bill clinton, the
attacks on maybe his sexual indiscretions, if they find they work, yes, they will go there. I think right now what they are doing focusing on a twopronged attack really, trying to paint her as corrupt, somebody who could potentially be indicted. Also somebody theres this veiled sexism they have been accused of, somebody that doesnt have the strength and stamina, some be who should not be president. Trying to attack her both on her record and then potentially on the fact that she is was married to bill clinton and thats pretty much why she, in their minds, is being is now running for president , is in the position that shes in. Whether that works, it will remain to be seen. I know Hillary Clinton herself has said this is a playbook from the 90s and not something that will work in 2016. Donald trump is an unusual
candidate and has an unusual, untraditional ability to find ways to make attacks that other candidates would not make work for him. Katy tur out there for a year with donald trump. With the result yesterday, presumptive nominee, she gets a sixmonth extension. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you, katy. Bob costa, we showed number before super pacs spending for and against trump. Most insiders in washington feel trump will be massively outspent by Hillary Clinton in the fall. Thats the expectation. Theres not a thought on capitol hill trump is going to be able to compete with clinton dollar for dollar. When i spoke to trump yesterday i said how are you doing to help the party raise money. He said at 9 00 a. M. Today, a couple hours from now, hes going to sit down with rnc and start to finalize joint fundraising agreement. Though he hasnt come up with a plan yet, at least publicly, how hes going to compete with clinton, at least with money for
senate and house candidates he wants to intertwine his small donner network with the national party. All right. Robert costcosta, thank you much. Still ahead on morning joe Governor Rick Snyder joins us a day after hosting president obama to address the water crisis in flint. Plus Bernie Sanders says hes in it until every vote is cast and the crowds are not dying down. Why does it happen that in vermont and in kentucky and a beautiful baby you have right there. Yes. And that is what this campaign is about. That baby. That baby. Now we know. Covering the Clinton Campaign. In just a minute well talk about whether the email account was hacked. A famous hacker said he was able
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me down and take me out of the political arena, im more than happy to have him do that. Youre ready for that. Please. Look, this is to me a classic case of a blustering, bullying guy who has knocked out of the way all the republicans. They were dumbfounded. They didnt know how to deal with him. They couldnt take him on the issues because they basically agreed with him, they didnt know how to counterpunch. Joining from los angeles that is good spin. Now that youve told me, that is good spin. So makes sense . Makes more sense. When i first heard it, i said, wait a second, she needs to be scared of donald trump, because trump is going to come at her. But now that you say that, thats exactly what id be saying if i were in her position. Heard it all before. Really . What a joke, what a loser, do what ken starr oh, this is newt gingrich. Oh, this is denny hastert. Denny hastert tried that. Thats a great line of attack. Wasnt born in 1990s, weve seen all these old attacks from the 1990s. We remember them well. I think what could be very interesting and very useful to Hillary Clinton is if he goes really awful and attacks hard and she attacks back even more viciously, i think theres a chance people will go, whoa, okay. Now, thats strength. Shes going to have bad cops to do that. Im not sure shell be doing that. Im not sure at some point the big wild card is her husband who some of her allies are worried wont be able to help himself, will feel so indignant he will lash back at trump. I think that is the biggest
concern. You dont tell a president you cant go out and talk and you cant tell bill clinton that. A husband who won his share of political battles and feels like he can take on anybody. Or maybe is the reason shes vulnerable and might want to make up for that. A strategic moment she might step up and respond. The gender question, speaking to trump and holding her own. She shouldnt jump in the pit pigsty but at least put her toe in there. When 1. 7 billion people watching the first debate, might happen there. I think so. You know what, she shows shes stronger than him but all those other guys he squashed. I think he could be a tremendous foil for her if things play out the right way. This is why no one can tell whats going to happen. No one knows what will happen. No one can tell. From los angeles nbc News White House correspondent kristen
welker following the Clinton Campaign. How is the campaign gearing up to take on trump. Shes in our morning Joe Los Angeles bureau. They put her in the closet. Exactly. Joining you all the way from this l. A. Closet. Nice to see you guys. Look, she is ramping up, sort of fighting on two front. Its very clear this battle against trump is her top priority. In terms of lines of attack, shes really trying to make people afraid of donald trump. Yesterday you heard her use the language loose cannon. What was interesting, youre starting to see democrats coalesce around her, including elizabeth warren. Thats going to be krael critical rallying democratic base. Whats interesting, guys, shes also trying to rally republicans, pickoff republicans. She had this ad out yesterday with Top Republicans lambasting donald trump. So were starting to see her strategy come into focus. But tactically shes beefing up her ground game in battleground
states. This morning we are learning that shes adding to her staff at the brooklyn headquarters, marlin marshall, one of her top aides is going to oversee this election rollout and added two staffers. You see this tactical ramping up in addition to this language shes using on the trail. Again, shes not out of the primary and thats why shes here in california. It has the most delegates. She wants to win this state for the optics, if not for the math. Thank you very much. Now to news about Hillary Clintons email server. The hacker tells nbc news, guccifer. That was your name in 1999. And stage name. Really . Said he once gained access to Hillary Clintons server. He tells nbc why is this person . It was like an open orchid on the internet. There were hundreds of folders. He gave no documentation to back up the claims. All right. Im not sure im a little skeptical. This is a guy who broke into a lot of famous accounts. Bush, colin powell, sydney blumenthal. They extradited him back from hungary, bulgaria, one of those countries. Roman romania. Mark halperin . Guccifer, i dont know. I didnt know orchids had folders, makes me suspicious. If he can break into those accounts, its not a stretch. The conversation with the
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struggled 15 to 19 with drug abuse. Campaign trail. Every Single Family has a story. Has been touched by it. Not one story but many. Everybody talked about drugs in the 60s, in the 70s. Here we are in 2016, actually, its wide. Its a worse problem now. Much worse. Easy access to very cheap heroin and overprescription of bills. The scary they think about it is, how are we handling it . What are we doing. Obviously because of the campaign its front and center now. Youre seeing the beginnings of recognition. First of all, the recognition but what you can do, decriminalize, not punish people because they have a problem. Right. Its not like they want to take these drugs. People who take them, they know they are doing down a bad path
but they cant help it. They are selfmedicating because they have internal problems, things they are wrestling w now were starting to understand you decriminalize that and you help people. Not just that. You look at the story of prince. You read the story of prince. Twenty years ago, another rock tar, da da da, finish the story. Here i look at it like, oh, god. He had hip problems. Somebody prescribed him pain medication. Then he got more dependent on it. Pretty soon by the end, hes abusing it because it is so addictive and it helps get rid of the pain. I had a dear friend who actually died. It started that way. I had a friend who died, this is back in the 60s. I do know about this. My son, nick ryeiner, who wrote the screen play. Really . Hes brilliant, a young kid so funny and smart and
brilliant, now in a really good place. We have enough perspective we can write this story. How old is he . Hes 22. 22. He said hes been in and out of many programs. He said of the places that hes been, people that hes known, he said at least 30 people are dead now, the program hes been in. I bet you guys got to talk a lot about what this was like for each of you. My god. Look, you dont go into Something Like this to say, okay, this is a catharsis, therapy, but it was. Is forced me to see what he was going through more closely. It forced him to see what he was going through, his mother going through and brought us very much closer together. How old was he when you first put him he was 15, 15 years old. From 15 to 19. Listen, even if youre not wrestling with drugs, teenager years are tough anyway. Youre struggling with your own identity and confusion in your head and all that. Then you add drugs into the mix and its scary. Youre so active politically, the campaign, best most memorable moments Chris Christie addressing a voter on this very topic and said almost exactly what you said. Why are we criminalizing someone sick. Why are we putting that person in jail. It doesnt help. Do you think that mentality is changing where were helping sick people instead of putting them in jail . Yes, i do. I think this is one issue where you see republicans and democrats coming together. Their understanding maybe the 1994 crime bill overstepped a little bit and reining that back. Criminal Justice Reform and sentencing. That is an outcropping of that. Most of the people were talking about are people in prison for nonviolent crime usually related to drugs. A piece of art but obviously a lot it touches people in a real way. Families having a problem that see the movie, what will they
take away from it . I think they will take away that everybody has a different road. There is no cookie cutter approach. Hopefully this will be part of a dialogue. Everybody as you say, you know a friend or somebody in the family, husband or wife, everybody has this issue. What we cannot do is put it into a one size fits all. Everybody has their path and how they are going to deal with it. Mostly i think its families coming together. Its parents and children not demonizing the children, not punishing the children for the fact they have a problem and keeping that dialogue open with your child. Hopefully thats what youll see at the end of the movie. The last scene in the movie with the father and son, we changed it 100 times between the time we started working on it until the time we shot it based on what was happening between me and nick. It reflected in that last scene. Now, we are a good bit further down the road sin then, but youll see in the movie. Remarkable. Let me ask you, are you going to be in charge of the Hollywood Super pac for donald trump . You see, im one of the few guys, few democrats very few people say, well, are the republicans going to coalesce behind trump. I actually burned my democratic card, im now a trump no, what, are you crazy . The guy is a lunatic. I didnt know if you were a bernie guy. No, i support hillary. We were talking about how some progressives have concern shes seen as interventionist, New York Times wrote an article about it, shes an interventionist. Obviously on trade shes not lined up the way Bernie Sanders and other progressives want her to be lined up. Whats your message to democrats, progressives, that need to unify behind hillary . My message to democrats is very simple. First of all, number one, hillary is the most qualified person to be president in my
lifetime, and im pretty damn old. And secondly, donald trump. Those are the two things you have to think about. I just ran into kasie hunt in the hallway. Shes done a great job. Yes, she has. All the msnbc reporters have been covering your self included have done a great job. But we know, and we all know and youre not quite as old as me but youre pretty damn old. Im getting there. We know since the late 60s when 60 minutes became a hit, all of a sudden networks realize there was a Profit Center in news. We all know that. And slowly, slowly, slowly, now, this is a talk show, this is were having conversation, its not hard news, not claims to be hard news, and yet hard news is presented. But the show of it ive got to say, its a lot harder news than anything else. Probably is. Walter cronkite is no longer with it. The show part of it is getting bigger and bigger, where show business and news blurred. Let me tell you something. Ive got to get to the point. Youre going to do what donald trump does to everybody else, which is talk over them. When i was tap dancing and had the glitter outfit on, that was not show business. I was making a point. I didnt see that one. I never did it. Go on. What im saying is, we have to start you had bob woodward on your show at one point. Fascinating. I remember him saying, we have to hold these people accountable, we have to ask those tough, second, third, fourth and fifth year questions. Chris matthews see what happened. Let woodward ask the second, third, fourth, fifth questions, same exact thing that happens to everybody else. Doesnt matter, doesnt matter. I know. Chris matthews held trump
accountable on his position on abortion. He didnt let him off. He kept going at it and was the most revealing thing that happened during this entire campaign season. The words that have been flung out from his mouth are insane. If he was not a celebrity, if donald trump was not a celebrity, the words that come out of his mouth, youd see a guy in a park, a lunatic in a park on a soapbox and youd walk right by him. But the fact that he is a celebrity, all of a sudden were all interested. And you know, i love Steve Kornacki, i love the guys that work on your show, but when Steve Kornacki says can you imagine the ratings there are going to be when trump and hillary in the first debate. Well, yeah, of course there are going to be ratings. Who cares . What we have to care about is what does this man say . What does he say . Which, of course, we do. Hes not pinned down. I want to hear how hes going to deport 12 million people. I want to hear how is he going to youre just talking, youre not letting anybody else talk. We have asked those questions. I would bet you your proceeds for your next 20 films i could find you any question that you bring up about the wall, which mika tried to nail him down, the muslim ban. We gave bob woodward 20 minutes. Said go for it. What he does is talks around in circles. The questions are asked and repeated. Weve asked repeatedly. Then the next question is, why are you talking around in circles . Why are you not answering my question . Yes, weve asked that question, too. What does he say. He says, i am, believe me. Well, thats not wait a minute. Ill be you. Ill be you. Believe me is not an answer. Believe me is not an answer. Thats what i said to him, rob reiner. Then what does he say . He keeps going on and on and
on in circles. You act like you have special thoughts. This is what everybody thinks one of the situations of covering donald trump, people say you should really ask him well, we did. Ill send you the clip. Were going to make you a little montage. We will. Finally you say, would you like me to actually get on top of him and pin him down with my knee. Maybe stick my heel down his throat and tell him hes not answering the question. Is that not one of the frustrations. People always say, why didnt you ask him this . I did. This is what he said. It is an ongoing frustration for us. I understand it is a frustration. Then at the end of it, at the end of it, all you can say is. The voters are deciding. Clearly you have no interest in answering these questions, and its unfortunate for the American Public because they deserve the answer. You know what i said. End it like that. Joe hung up on him. You know what i should do, hang up on him. I did. Ask the question, whats Hillary Clinton position on 15 minimum wage. Whats hillarys position . Im not part of her campaign. I can discuss what her position is, but its not something that will be understood very easily by the general public, but we can talk about it, which is shes in favor of ultimately having a 15 minimum wage but she understands that in certain areas of the country, it wont be viable. So she supports it when it can be viable but shes looking for the national 12 minimum wage. Its difficult to talk about those things but thats the truth. Youre talking around it. Its obvious you dont want to answer the question. Asking what it is, im giving thats what you told us we should say to trump. No, but i did answer the question. Im just joking, rob. Im just joking. I know, but im not joking of thats the difference. The difference is im the
comedian who is not joking and youre the news politician who is joking. Theres the difference. Tap dancing. Chance of winning . No, i dont think he has a 0 chance. What would you put the odds at . I dont know what the odds are. You dont want to answer the question. I dont know. I dont know. Joking again. Go ahead. I dont have the answer. What i do believe is that if he is held accountable and if the press does their Due Diligence and continue im not saying you guys didnt do it, by the way. You did. I didnt say you specifically im talking in general. Im saying continue to do that. If you do your Due Diligence and continue to do that, he will lose, because theres nobody in america that would agree with the idea that all muslims should be banned from the country. By the way, i just said an hour and a half ago i could
never vote for a candidate who said they would ban over a billion people based on their beliefs. Thats good. We asked him about that again for the record. Let me ask you, how do you explain as much as we like to think the entire country watch every day and this show but its kind of a news show of record. It is. That is true. How do you explain the millions who do not watch this show n like what there a hear from donald trump but they listen to what he says for themselves and vote for him. How do you explain that . There are a lot of people who are racist. Oh, my god. Did you just say that . Im not saying you just said that. Well, thats true. So you think people that vote for donald trump are racists . Theyre not all. A lot of people are. Theres racism in this country thats been submerged for a long, long time and all of a sudden theres a man on hes unearthed it . Hes unearthed it. Could this not be about working class americans being left behind by a Republican Party always talking about yes. Yes. And let me say this to that. There are those following Bernie Sanders that feel the same way theyre racists . No. Do you see any racist people at the bernie rallies . Any skinheads . I cant see into their hearts. Somebody has a tattoo with a swastika and stuff. Come on, joe, be honest here. No, seriously. I am being honest. I am not no, no, no, wait a minute. Wait a minute. If youre a candidate and youve been one and you are standing there and there are people in your rally who are kkk members, members of the aryan nation, white supremacists, if i were you, i would say, you know, i dont really want that support. Thats hate speech and hate
mongering. I dont want that support. I dont see donald trump saying i dont want that support. We were harshly critical of that as well. Thats the answer to willies question. Theres a strain of racism there. But theyre not all racists. No, but theres a strain there. You have to come over for dinner. Thank you very much. Thank you for letting me talk over you. Ive never experience that before in my life. The film being charlie is in theaters tomorrow. You must see this. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful effort. Rob reiner, thank you. Come back. I love you guys, too. Thats why i come on this show. Governor rick snyder. Keep it right here. You both have a perfect driving record. Until one of you clips a fo truck. Then your rates go through the roof. Perfect. For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. Liberty mutual insurance. It was all pencil and paper. Started out, the surface pro is very intuitive. With the pressure of my hand thi can draw lightly,ry intuitive. Just like i would with a real pencil. Ive been a forensic artist for over 30 years. I do the composite sketches which are the bad guy sketches. You need good resolution, powerful processor because the computer has to start thinking as fast as my brain does. I do this because i want my artwork to help people. Okay. Joining us now from ann arbor, michigan, the states republican Governor Rick Snyder. Very good to have you on board this morning. Great to be back with you. Quite a day yesterday. Not a very good reception that you got, but you did face the people of flint along with the president. Id like to ask, though, because you and president obama were drinking the water. You were drinking the filtered water. And my understanding is that water is a huge process for a person who lives in flint to make the water drinkable or
usable. So it doesnt really seem like such a celebratory act to be drinking the water in flint. Actually, doing the filters is much more straightforward than drinking bottled water because we have a problem still with the water system in flint. In terms of alternatives, theres bottled water and filtered water. The bottles that work on the filter work effectively. Were encouraging people, this is a way to improve the quality of their life. They can move away from bottled water. Its been found its safe to use the filter water for everyone but small children and pregnant woman and it would be a step forward in the healing process to get flint back on a well established water system. Governor, you went there yesterday. You knew the reception was going to be harsh. It was. How do you turn the corner . How does the government turn the corner to give the people of flint, michigan, believing in
you and your government again . Yeah, well, it is a process. I appreciate people being angry and frustrated by the situation. Its a difficult one. I want to compliment the president. It was very helpful having him come to flint and reinforce a similar message in the fact that filtered water is now safe to drink for most people. That theres a program to flush the pipes that we need the citizens to participate in that. That were making process with respect to removing lead Service Lines to get the dangerous pipes out of the ground and this will be a process that will take time. In addition he made a strong message that is really important that children can have a Bright Future still. Were putting in place medical and Educational Programs to make sure that if children were affected by the lead at all theres mitigation ways, steps to be taken so these kids can have a Bright Future. Can you governor, thank you for being on the show. Can you just explain to me why
it took so long to acknowledge that lead was in the pipes, lead was in the water . What took so long from the discovery of the fact to the acknowledgment of the fact . That was one of the main issues. That was one of the failures of government, including State Government that basically we had experts at the state still saying it wasnt a problem. It took outside experts, such as professor mark edwards at Virginia Tech. He did a great job identifying the issue and one of the Key Resources i look to for good advice. We made a lot of changes within State Government, and we needed to. A tragic situation you wish never would have happened and now the real question circumstance lets fix. Having the president come to town was a positive step because it shows we need the city issue county, state and federal government all agreeing, lets not spend time on the historical questions but solve this problem by working together. Thats the way government should work. Government. What about your culpability . What role did you play . Lots of investigations. I got up in front of the entire state and the people of flint to say there are people that work for me that didnt use common sense. That theres investigations still going on. If someone is working for you, you should take responsibility for that, and i have. Ive put a focus in on fixing the problem. Willie geist . Governor, the epa received the first complaints two years ago in 2014. There were families saying their children were sick. They couldnt drink the water, couldnt bathe in the water. Between your office and the epa, what happened to those complaints two years ago and why werent they addressed if people were sick . When you say people are sick, it wasnt in terms of sickness, per se. It was in terms of the lead is the key issue here. And that took some time to come out. And thats where the government was too slow to identify it,
particularly State Government. We talk about the State Government and you focused on the State Government here. The Environmental Protection agency had information. The federal government that there was lead in the water and they suppressed those findings. Why . Well, im not going to answer questions for the epa. The way i view it today is im not in a position and i dont want to be in that position of saying my goal is not to go criticize someone else about the past. Its how do we solve the problem for the people of flint moving forward. Thats about all of this working together. There are multiple investigations that have happened and are happening to look at the past. Im cooperating with all of those. I hope everyone is. Lets get to the bottom of that. At the same time, the important thing is how do we get better Water Supplies and help the people of flint. The filtered water is a positive step and the next step is to get it to come right out of the tap. You cant bathe in it you can bathe. You can bathe in filtered water, bottled water the Scientific Evidence so far says you can use the regular water for bathing. Well, then there are some who think you should do that. Let me just say let me just ask, given that this is a catastrophe that some say rivals katrina, why havent you stepped down . Again, if you have people working for you that let you down, there are multiple failures, my view is you dont walk away from things like that. You should take responsibility, and i have, and the value system i was raised on, you want to fix it as much or more than anyone. Instead of walking away from it, you solve it. Thats what im focusing on, solutions. When you and the president
met before your speeches, what did you talk about . We met with the mayor also and had a discussion about how we need to work together. The state finding adequate resources to do that. We made a huge commitment from the budget. Were committed to doing things. The city and mayor are working hard to do it. And how we all need to do this hand in hand. Thats a good part of the discussion yesterday and a constructive discussion. Again, i appreciate his visit to flint. Governor, most of the people affected of in flint were poor people who dont have a voice politically. People who probably dont have any friends at the government level or ceos. Is it fair to say if this happened in bloomfield hills, michigan, that a ceo that you probably know from a Cocktail Party in 2014 made a call, this would have been fixed much quicker . I think i have a track record of working hard to help our urban areas. Look at detroit. Weve been able to show a
massive turn around in detroit. That took a lot of tough decisions. What about flint, michigan . Again, flint, weve been doing a lot of good things in flint. This is a tragic situation that we need to address and were on top of it in terms of moving forward. Its going to take time to heal because of the trust issue. How long until you think it will be back to normal in flint, will people be able to turn on their faucets and dringe watk w out of their faucets . Its not about picking a date on the calendar and its not about political people picking the date. It needs to be built on good science and the experts. Were bringing in outside experts to help reinforce the credibility issue from Virginia Tech and other places. I appreciate the president drinking the filtered water to reinforce hes got experts telling people its safe to drink and lets show people
that. Governor snyder, thank you for being with us. We appreciate it. Professor eddie cloud jr. , thank you. What did you think . I think he should hold himself accountable. And a lot of people are going to suffer. A lot of peoples children are going to suffer because of his decision and other peoples decision. Yeah, i like katrina, the way thats so confounding is the failures were on every level. You had massive failures in the State Government. You had the Environmental Protection agency actually suppressing a report in 2014 . Suppressing a report that said there are massive levels of lead. Thats a federal government. And it takes complete failure on the federal, the state and local level to allow Something Like this to happen. This is what annoyed me about president obamas speech yesterday. One thing to drink the water. Would have been nice to have the army corps of engineers down there trying to figure out how to get those pipes out of the ground and real clean water to children and to adults. I dont buy the filtered thing as a positive. Its an unfortunate step people have to take as they get through this. Its not making their lives better. Lets turn back to the race for president. The Republican Partys nomination race has come to an end. Donald trump is the last candidate standing. Therefore, nbc news can now say trump is the Republican Partys presumptive nominee. It comes after Ohio Governor john kasich suspended his Campaign Last night making the difficult decision on his plane as he sat on the runway yesterday waiting to go to d. C. Kasich decided he just didnt want to go raise money simply to drop out two weeks later. Before his wife and two daughters, the governor reflected on his path. I have always said that the lord has a purpose for me as he has for everyone. And as i suspend my campaign
today, i have renewed faith, deeper faith that the lord will show me the way forward and fulfill the purpose of my life. Willie, let me say first of all, i was moved what are you laughing about . Nothing. I was moved that he actually held the announcement in my basement from the 70s in upstate new york. The wood paneling. Extraordinarily well preserved. It was. It was a beautiful sfeepeech. It was a beautiful speech. Ted cruz, donald trump and john kasich, that was the most delica delicate. I love kasich. I support him after bush dropped out of the race. It was very moving. But he had nowhere to go. I know he had to be frustrated because i really thought we
did the town hall in New Hampshire. Oh, my gosh. And somebody that is really going to take off. And it just, like jeb, it just wasnt his year. Were in a parallel universe this year. In the regular universe the twoterm governor of the state of ohio, robs the most important state in the election. It would be pluses for him. They turned out to be negative and he went headtohead against this tornado, this storm that is donald trump. Mark halperin, the republican establishment, given the choice between kasich, a twoterm governor, first budget chairman to balance the budget four years in a row since the 1920s. Instead of this guy who had been in washington for a very long time, they chose ted cruz. The establishment got behind ted cruz and it ended horribly for them. It seems like a million years popping john kasich did finish second in New Hampshire and had
an opportunity to parlay that into becoming the establishment choice and he didnt do that. Why . Why didnt he he lacked a defined message. He was a career politician. Ted cruzs message what in the world . This was a personal thing. For some reason, they were more comfortable cozying up with a guy who had shattered the republican brand in 2013 than they were john kasich, a guy who again had balanced what everybody called the unbalanceable budget. In the end two reasons the establishment didnt turn to him. They didnt think he could be trump and proved to be right on that. And as much as we all like him, he did not reach out to people in a way that made them feel invested in him personally. The washington crowd . The washington crowd. Members of congress and other governors just did not do it. They couldnt see outside themselves. They wanted to be sucked up to and he didnt do it. Ive heard stories all along. Kasich, hes mean. I knew the guy forever. Love the guy. We were on opposite sides a lot of times. I was always voting against budgets and appropriation bills. I wanted more cuts. And battled with you but he was always respectful. I loved him. A serious guy on the issues. Would have been good for the country. He was very good. That speech yesterday he didnt talk about donald trump or politics or the race. He just talked about his experience over the last year or so. Having done a town hall with him in ohio and the way he interacts with people. Hed talk to a woman who believed the American Dream was dead for her. They both had tears in their eyes. It was real. It wasnt for the cameras. Hes a really smart guy. Human. This experience was almost spirit yurl. The party and country arent done with him. Hes still the governor of ohio. Hes the host governor of the
convention. Hell be visible in cleveland. The kid drove up from georgia to South Carolina and started crying, hugging. Amazing. Talked about it yesterday. It was, again, it was one of those remarkable moments. It was a transcended politics. It was absolutely. On a human level, kasich really connected with people. Which is why i dont understand why those in washington couldnt see the value of what he presented to the country. Instead of sucking up. They wanted their own hugs. The Republican Party reacted yesterday, tweeted well, seriously. All right. What did they tweet . They tweeted this. Thank you to the entire republican field for a hard fought race. The party is better for your efforts. Okay. All right. There you go. Thats it. Its kind of like
wow. Lets go from this is a dallas thing. Not really smart to self unaware. Bobby stepping out of the shower and saying it was all a dream. I had this weird dream on dallas. Senator ben sass tweeted that and said is this a parody account . Thats a great response. In an interview with lester holt for nbc nightly news, drump discussed whether he felt the bruising primary race had taken a toll on his numbers. Disapproval 69 women, africanamericans, 88 . People under 34, 74 disapprove. How much of that is selfinflictsed by some of the rhetoric from the primary campaign, and how do you heal that while still respecting those who got you here . Well, the highly respected rasmussen poll came up. Im 49 to 31 up on hillary
clinton. I havent even started on Hillary Clinton yet. I dont know what youre talking about with the negatives. I think ill do very well with women and the last seven states i won in women, with africanamericans, i won with hispanics, at every level. You discard all these numbers . I dont discard anything. I just started. I just got it not even 24 hours ago. Those are the challenges, mark halperin. You look at the percentages. He cant win unless he at least gets 32 , 3 3 , 34 among hispanics. We cant win without doing much better with women right now. Those are the great challenges in front of him, cory, paul, the entire trump team. As a snapshot, he cant win if you take where we are today. Weve seen president ial races in this country. Michael dukakis was 17 points ahead of george Herbert Walker bush in the summer. Lets not compare. People want to judge the outcome of the race today compared to whether or not he can come back. Maybe he can. Anyone who judges the outxhf this race should look at what just happened n ask themselves if they thought that any of this would ever happen. State after state after state after state after state, and then with donald trump people keep saying hillary will get i hope so, but i dont know. Nobody knows, willie geist, the New York Times wrote an article about how i missed the trump thing. Very forthright. But you look at what so many people said. You look at what nate silver said time and time and time again. Look at the fact and he was wrong every single time about trump. Trump started at 1 , 2 . Upside down in the polls. I believe demographics is destiny. I believe what works in the primary doesnt work in the general election. That it is back to blocking and
tackling. I believe trump has a huge mountain to climb, but we dont know because everybody was wrong about him before. Who really has the nerve i went on twitter last night. I really stop going on it. My news feed which i always went on. I always love the noews feed. Last night 9 out of 10 were just vile, antitrump heated it was rhetoric. And i was like, seriously . Just report the news. I mean, everybody is making the same mistake they made before. Yeah, i mean, this started last june when we said this guy is into something. Hes tapped into a vein and everyone dismissed it. Now here we are with him as the republican nominee. I agree that this chaos theory now with donald trump that anything can happen but i agree
with you as well that those numbers are really tough. I dont know how he makes the case as he tries to pivot to a latino voter that hes for them. Hes on their side. The number for mitt romney, 24 support. Every smart person in the Republican Party agreed theres no way a republican can become president with those numbers and we have to do better next time. I decent know how donald trump does better than 24. Hell have to do an incredible 180 and change everything he said before. On latinos and women. The convention offers him an opportunity. The first time a lot of americans have really looked at donald trump the candidate. The Vice President ial selection offers an opportunity. But he doesnt have many opportunities beyond that. If he goes into august with these numbers, i will say, in august right here, hes going to lose big time. He doesnt the window, while we have six months, hes got
about a twomonth window to start turning this stuff around quickly or he will lose. So if they want to win, they better be all hands on deck right now. This will not be a slow turn. I was surprised and disappointed that yesterday he stuck by the muslim ban. Thats a loser. Its a loser with a majority of americans and republicans like me. Im not going to vote for a guy im not going to vote for stuck by it. Hes got to make the turn. We can allow muslims to come into america but maybe not from syria if they dont have the proper back he has to start making changes like that. Im not going to vote for a guy that says hes going to ban someone just because of the god they worship. He has to make that turn. Maybe he does it. On the protrump side the people so wrong about him last
year are most offended he has no chance. He and his team have a million things to get done. Not enough hours in the day to get them all done to start to improve, including thinking through policy. He doesnt have a lot of time to start changing perceptions here with the voter. Hes got to do it fast. The clinton people are up and running. They have a war room. They have opposition research. A plan of how to dismantle trump. The trump people are just learning how to do this. Onge on that, Hillary Clinton has set her sights on donald trump tweeting a web video full of republicans slamming the presumptive nominee. Heres a part of it. I wbr id wbr83249 am a unifier. Well be a unified party. Hes a con artist. A phony. Donald trump is the nonothing candidate. Donald is a bully. He mocked a disabled reporter. I dont remember. Who attributed a reporters b
questions to her menstrual cycle. The most vulgar person ever to aspire to the presidency. The man who seems to only feel big when trying to make other people feel small. Hes awol. Deep insecurity and weakness. The bullying, greed, showing off. Im really rich. Misogyny, third great theatrics. Count to ten. Racebaiting xenophobic religious bigot. A narcissist at a level i dont thinking this country has ever seen. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe. Hes so unfit to be commander in chief. His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make america and the world less safe. What do you think . As that Republican Campaign was going on, the Clinton Campaign was sitting there hitting record every time a republican said something about him. Even his own party finds him unpalatable. How could you even consider going to vote wbrid wbr84029 for donald trump . What do you think . Theres a lot more to come. Thats the opening salvo in what will be a relentless barrage against trump. This is not something he can start to repair at the convention. He has to start now. Theyre ready to attack him. Hes been a oneman operation. This is not going to work the way the general election is stacking up. He needs help. Still ahead, donald trump starts to envision his first 100 days in the white house while Hillary Clinton and her campaign are embracing the coming showdown. Plus, theres good cop, bad cop and bad trump, good trump. Our friends at Bloomberg Politics with now trump goes from scorched earth to a softer side against his rival once hes dispatched of them. Lets get a check on weather with bill karins. Its just bad. It depends where you are. Middle of the country is great. 90 degrees like pool weather in
north dakota where youre wearing your winter hat, coat and gloves in boston. Heres the storm on the east coast. Luckily one storm is off the coast. The other is in the ohio valley. The sandwich in between is why its been gray and gloomy. Another possible inch to two inches during the day today. North carolina, virginia, friday it looks like more steadier, uglier rainy day from philadelphia to new york and back into areas of central pennsylvania. Northern new england, showers. Heres todays forecast. Billings, montana, 86 degrees today. Almost 20 degrees warmer than atlanta today. The cool air in the east through the ohio valley. How does this shape up toward the weekend . It looks like were slowly going to see improvement. Fridays rain. By the time we get to saturday, we kick that off the coast. A tiny bit of sunshine in the east and severe weather. The Kentucky Derby is on sunday, too. Looks like the weather for that will be just fine. Well clear things out in time
for mothers day for a lot of people. Youre watching morning joe. Wash washington, d. C. , youre also stuck in the gloomy weather. If youre told you have cancer,
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temper or temperament. But lo and behold, it hit the belt. As an example, child molester. And the knife broke. Give me a break. Dr. Ben carson endorsed me. And that is an incredible man. Such an honor to have ben as a friend. Real tough. Insulting your way to the presidency. Im doing better than you. Doesnt matter. Hes a low energy individual. Jeb is a loser. I wish him the best. You have christie, the George Washington bridge. He knew about it. He was like a little boy. Im with the president. He flew in the helicopter. Is he going to vote for obama . People in new jersey want to throw him out of office. Chris, thank you very much. Chris christie who endorsed me. Incredible guy. This little guy has lied so much little marco. Im watching marco sweating like a dog. They call him a robot. Its rubio. I want to congratulate rubio on having run a really tough campaign. Hes tough, hes smart and has a great future. Lyin ted. Nobody likes him in congress. Nobody likes him anywhere. He cannot do it. Hes a choker. Just so you understand, ted cruz is one hell of a competitor. Hes a tough, smart guy. See what i say . Now that hes out, everybody is nice. When theyre out, theyre nice. They ran a brilliant campaign. At least hes honest about what hes doing. As long as you arent coming at me. You can make the same video of the other candidates and a lot of republicans turning it around because they have no choice finally. The death of the Republican Party now endorsing him. It goes both ways. Much more colorful when
donald trump does it. For all the talk of politics, donald trump is ready to dive into policy now. He told robert costa of the Washington Post that he is eager to start receiving regular classified intelligence briefings. Trump also told the New York Times yesterday, some of his governing priorities. He says within the first 100 days of his administration he will have designed the wall onny in mexican border. Put the muslim immigration ban in place. And begun the audit of the Federal Reserve and the repeal of the Affordable Care act. I guess hes sticking to that ban. Look at all four of those. Kasie hunt, doesnt look like hes moving to the middle at all. Seems like hes doubling down with what he told the times yesterday. It seems so. I will say that i was talking to Haley Barbour yesterday and his points on this was he has to start making policy speeches that do line up with that
conservative base as he heads into this convention. A lot of people on the floor of the conviciniention, theres st going to be ted cruz delegates. It concerns whether hell promulgate conservative policies or not. We show that clip of Hillary Clinton talking about how all the republicans on stage agreed with donald trump. I think you have a lot of conservatives concerned about some of the things he said over time. Were going to take care of people, et cetera. He still has work to do with conservatives before he starts that pivot. Coming up, the looming Health Crisis off the coast. The rise of a zika virus in puerto rico and why a fight in congress could make a bad situation even worse. You live life your way. We can help you retire your way, too. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. Its how i try to live. How i stay active. So i need nutrition. That wont weigh me down. For the nutrition you want without the calories you dont. Try boost® 100 calories. Each delicious snack size drink gives you. 25 vitamins and minerals and 10 grams of protein. And its available in two new flavors,
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position to enact. We remember that with ws humble Foreign Policy. Temperament matters. I was reminded that the last weeks of the 2008 campaign. Voters watched how john mccain approached that versus how obama did. Part of their judgment was obama seemed steadier. Wasnt calling for canceling the debates. Thats what im wondering given the hostility. It may not be about ideology but it is about his approach towards immigration, his approach towards what he said about mexicans, his approach towards hispanics and muslims. These are things that matter. Its not even a left right thing. Do you want to go into the fall wanting to ban anyone in a faith that has over a billion people from entering the United States of america . Theres an ideological pivot
we normally talk about. For him its more of a question of a character pivot. I think he started this probably not believing he could win. That moment he gave his acceptance speech where he almost looked scared to me like, oh, god. It was sinking in. And i think he needs to now go on the next phase of this journey of maybe it took a certain kind of man and people have said he almost invented a character to get here and does he want to double down on that man and character or now invent the next character which is President Trump. Mark halperin, whats the answer . What we saw yesterday in his interview with the with costa in the Washington Post is he was doubling down on the muslim ban, on building the wall and all of these things that might have been, you know, catnip for a gop primary but will crush you in a general election. He tooks original positions because theyre what he believes in. He doesnt take them for political reasons. I dont think hes inclined to change things he believes in although hell find a way to be nuanced. By becoming the republican nominee he becomes an historical figure. What you saw the other night, hes feeling the weight of this. He understands how hes got a responsibility but also, i dont think hes going to throw positions off the sled. Joel klein talks about character. Character, humanity may actually be hillarys strongest suit. If you think about some of the moments we have really seized on, Chris Christie and the drug adiblductadduction, th in New Hampshire or what Hillary Clinton did with the coal miner in West Virginia. These are moments of
vulnerability, real empathy, of connecting with the issues people are most concerned about. Joe is sort of wondering if ironically enough one of her big advantages given how often shes described as being awkward or cold is those moments were very real and its hard to imagine donald trump in that kind of interaction with a voter. Im not sure weve seen that. So joe is looking both at how much comfort the clintons both take from bill clintons experience at this phase of the race when his trustworthiness level in the polls was about 13 and at one point behind both ross perot and george Herbert Walker bush in 92. Strump where all the trumpets and drums are sounding now. Doesnt necessarily concern them about how this is going to go in the longer term. I think you have now whats
shaping up to be competition between one candidate who in donald trump really read the pain in america better than almost anybody. And was able to speak to it. But whose plans probably dont necessarily grow out of that in an intelligent, thought through way. Hillary clinton the opposite. Someone who has more plans in her pockets than anybody knows what to do with but im not sure shes figured out how to connect to that pain. Her stop in West Virginia yesterday or a couple of days ago seems to suggest he understands that. Hes making an effort and has had moments going back to 08 where that broke but its not it hasnt been until now in her dna. And i think to be him, its going to need to become a very prominent dream for her. Theres a lot of room for him to grow and to reach people he hasnt reached before because he hasnt showed see, from what ive heard so far, i feel like
everyone thinks hes just one thing. A character who can never get outside of that. And there are many different sides to every human being, including donald trump and look at his kids. That didnt come out of nowhere. So if he can find a way to, you know, reveal other parts of himself, i think a lot of what you were concerned about goes away. If you just look at it and see somebody thats been in politics for nine months and has a 67 disapproval and somebody that has been in politics for 50 years with a 50 disapproval rate. Theres a chance to unite the party. Nobody knows. We never got to the zika virus. This is a very this is something that has Public Health officials really worried. It will be coming here this summer and particularly for women of child bearing age, what they can do to protect
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wellbeing of animals. Exactly right. Were more alert to animals. We know that they think and feel and have the same will to live that we have. And this idea is now percolating throughout our culture. And companies thats used to see Animal Protection as a liability now really can seize it as an opportunity. Companies like sea world that head a problematic activity built into their Business Model had to change. Their stock price went from the low 40s to 16. Food companies change. Walmart is only going to source cagefree eggs over time. 150 big food retail brands moving on this subject. Im going to ask this as someone eating a steak 12 hours ago. I always think about as a write ir what are some things that 90 of us think are okay today that our grandchildren will think was appalling. And ive heard a lot of smart people say the general treatment
of animals and eating and Everything Else you describe is one of the best candidates. What is the best case to someone who is skeptical this will look appalling 100 years from now . You look at our history. For the first 80 years, slavery. For the first 140 years we denied women the right to vote. Civil rights violence with the state having exerted violence against people in the 1950s. Animals think and feel. You dont need to have a ph. D. In animal behavior or biology to know this. When you go to a factory farm and see 10 million laying hens jammed into cages at one farm complex stacked eight high, huddled together shoulder to shoulder. It would be five of us here plus three other people jammed in the tiny elevator never able to get out. We have options in all these areas. This is whats going to liberate
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going to be extraordinary to watch. How do i rationalize, though, the story thats you brought to our attention that kfc is now going to have chicken flavored finger nail polish. If youre in the new york city area come to prohibition tonight. The morning joe music is going to be playing at 8 30. And theyre pretty good. Steve kornacki picks up the coverage. Have a great day. Good morning. Im Steve Kornacki. Topping the agenda, terms of surrender. Signs some Republican Leaders are trying to make peace with the reality of donald trump as their nominee. One call said such bad things. How can you pivot back to me . He said dont worry about it. Theyre politicians. Well get a lot of endorsements. They may not come with much enthusiasm. Many other republicans are