We walked in the room today and you said youre not getting a truck. We have a bet if he wins the nomination, i get a truck. What is he saying wi . Hes saying he doesnt want to buy you your pickup. You better save your money. Super tuesday is in the books and its all over. Mike barnacle last summer offered a brand new truck to
mika if donald trump won the republican nomination. We made a bet on the set. A valid contract requires an offer, acceptance and capacity to enter into an agreement. Keith stein said, it appears all those elements are met in this case. Our nbc news decision desk confirmed that donald trump has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the republican nomination for president. Vroom, vroom. F150 . Im thinking theres a new one. Theres so many. Who knows. What the heck . Good morning, everybody. The presentation right out here. Where is it . Its friday, may 27th, and apparently im getting a truck. Its official. Veteran columnist and the worst better on the face of the
earth msnbc contributor mike barnacle. Instead of legendary, we have a new word. Thanks, man. Sucka. My daughters are waiting. They are excited. Former chairman of the Republican National committee michael steele. President of the council on Foreign Relations richard haus is with us as well. So its here. He clinched it. Theres so much else to talk about. You dont want to do any other headlines . Fine, donald trump clinched it np the necessary delegate s s t win the president ial nomination on the first ballot at the republican convention. He did it. Did anyone think he couldnt . I was there. Just think b about all the doubters. The thousands and thousands and thousands of articles that he contempt on trump for even thinking about running. That he contempt on those who
suggested that he was going to win. And just the desperate even when hfs obvious he was going to win, the desperate state of denial that he was in. Nobody would have guessed it. He started this thing at 1 . Which is really a lesson, michael, for politicians. Michael bloomberg is a great example. If its not the da tarks hes not going to do it. You go back to nate silver. I made everybody so leftist enraged in 2012. We said u sometimes we cant see it in the data. Sometimes politics is is an art. Sometimes its a feel. Sometimes its a science. 2012 it was a science. But sometimes it just doesnt show up in the numbers. You have to jump off a cliff to see whats going to. Happen. Absolutely. You know what prevents you from seeing that and understanding it is exactly what you said. That desperate denial that you just absolutely refuse to see whats happening in front of you. And understand exactly what it means and what it protends. The telltale signs of where this could go were there. And we talked about it on this set. There was talk about across the country. And everyone ran around we have to stop trump. Okay, guys, but understand what the voters are saying. But the newspapers denied it every week. Every sunday there was another story in the major papers in america on why donald trump was not going to win. Which actually played into it all. Trump passed the mark after gaining the support of unbound delegates in north dakota, colorado and pennsylvania. Trump now stands at 1238, he needed 1237. You didnt bet enough. If you had bet not only that trump would win but he would have it turn up before hillary
clinton, you could have won two pickup trucks. A lamborghini. This is an incredible time in our history. In all seriousness. Mike is awfully quiet. Mike actually within a couple weeks was sort of saying the same thing, but i think even more has a real sense of what people outside the echo chamber are feeling and why this is happening. This is a complete collapse of the republican establishment in washington, d. C. They are all scurrying to him now. Im not sure how they get there after what they said about him. You said a guy is so month nigh kl you cant trust Nuclear Weapons, its going to be hard for you to go out and speak on his behalf, which marco rubio said he would. But it was a collapse of the republican establishment. It was the collapse of the think tanks. It was a collapse of a lot of the conservative magazines. In any pretense that they had
any influence whatsoever over anything that happened in republican politics. Its all of that, joe, and i think its a lot more than that because if you combine the sanders phenomenon with the trump phenomenon, both men came from nowhere. To your point, a breeze in politics when it becomes a win, it becomes a powerful force. And nothing is a more powerful force in politics than people, actual voters. What both movements prove, once again, is the isolation of politicians in washington, d. C. When they are removed from the reality of everyday life and dont understand what happened in the fall of 2000 and 2008 when people, a lot of people lost their homes. They lost hope, they lost jobs and 1 of those people, 1 of the people in this nation were risking losing their sons and daughters in two wars that nobody wants to continue. Trump in his own way with his own artful way and sanders has been doing it for 50 years spoke to that gut issue thats there in america and no one else did. Were going to be talking about this debate they are talking about, which could be fascinating. See how he celebrated. He took a picture on instagram of him eating one of those taco bowls. He was eating mcdonalds. Celebrating 1237 was the caption. At a rally in montana trump talked about his general election plans and the states he will target including some unusual ones for a republican. I want to focus on 15 or so states because we have to win. And i want my energy to be put into the states where it could go either way. Were going to play heavy as an example in california. No other republican would go to dinner in california. They wouldnt do it. Were going to focus on new york. If for instance ted cruz, they are more traditional. If they got the nomination, nay wouldnt spend 10 cents in new york and wouldnt do well there. If you look, its a very tough path to get to the presidency if youre republican. I put 15 states potentially into play. They put three or four states. If he loses one little thing, one state, its over. Whereas the democrats can sail along and lose numerous states and still get in. Dont let it get you scared. Were going to win. Dont even think about it. Its interesting he talks about california. The real clear politics average between hillary and trump is hillary plus 17. Its going to be a heavy lift. I u dont know what his 15 states are or how he picked them, but right now its a heavy lift. Donald has the delegates, but
he still doesnt have the speaker of the house. Paul ryan was tight lipped yesterday about his recent conversations with the partys presumptive nominee. It made it clear hes still not ready to endorse. It was a productive phone call. Our staffs have been meeting. We had a good and productive phone call. I will leave it at that. We had a productive phone call. Ill leave it at that. I spoke with paul ryan last night. We had a very good conversation thats moving along. Hes a good man. Well see how that works out. We had a very good talk. Are you concerned about how it looks to not have the speaker of the house . Im concerned about making sure we have real party unity. Because we need to win this election in the fall. Theres too much at stake. The supreme court, on and on. I want real party unity. Thats what im most concerned
about. Paul ryan would have a very hard time getting close to donald trump this week on a week that donald trump attacked a hispanic female governor from a swing state, who is the head of the governors association. These lobs sort of these verbal hand grenades that keep getting rolled under tables, it freezes everybody else. Theres an attack on mitt romney. At some point, you have to stop. With the world watching, the g7 summit yesterday the president gave this assessment about some leaders take on donald trump that they are, quote, rattled by him. Hillary clinton picked up on that criticism. Donald trumps reaction, good. They are paying very close attention to this election. I think its fair to say that they are surprise d by the
republican nominee. They are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements, but they are rattled by him. Rattled, rattled by what donald trump is saying. And what he is promoting. And what he stands for. The best way to reassure ourselves and the rest of the world is to make sure that donald trump, this loose cannon, never gets close to the white house. I love that word. He used a bad word. When you rattle someone, its good. If they are rattled in a friendly way, its a good thing. He is a man who shouldnt be really airing his difficulties and shouldnt be airing what hes airing where he is right now. I think that youre going to see it stop pretty soon. Richard, its ironic that the
president is talking about World Leaders being rattled by anybody when you and i im not speaking for you and we havent talked about this, but you have heard the same thing. World leaders have been rattle about barack obama since 2009. His lack of engagement, his lack of an overarching policy. If the president had a krcriticm of donald trump, better criticism might be after i rattled World Leaders for eight years and rattled our allies for eight years, the last thing we want to do is elect somebody that will rattle World Leaders for another four years. That might be more accurate. He might not say that. Havent word the word rattled used so much in one sentence. The president rattled people because of syria. It raised fundamental questions about american reliability. And donald trump rattles people. His approach to alliance relations, its a transaction
rather than alliances of existing relationship. Its how much are we getting for what were giving. And the fact that hes outside in many ways the traditional Foreign Policy mainstream whether about nato or nuclear proliferation. What the president is hearing and people like me hear whenever you travel is official meetings, but any free time is taken up. Weve been telling them for six or nine months, wherever you go if you go to paris and you think youre going to talk about climate accords, everybody is talking about donald trump. Is he for real . Do we need to worry . Donald trump, Bernie Sanders, they are trying to understand this is not the United States they thought they knew. They look at the populism, this antiestablishmentism. Theres an expectation that american politics takes place within the 40 yard lines of midfield. They no longer see that. Because they depend so much on us, they franchised out so much of their security and prosperity
to us. They are rattled and just simply uncertain. They are not used to this degree of uncertainty. Thing thas thought they could take for granted they no longer could. That was the president s word. Bernie sanders is not letting go of hope that california will be the state to propel him to the democratic nomination. He rallied a crowd of close to 10,000. I know, michael steele, i know. 10,000 people. Sanders didnt have much to say about Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party, but he did mention his offer to debate donald trump. It appears that donald trump is prepared to debate. Im very excited about it. I think were going to have to rent out the largeest stadium you have here in california. Id love to debate bernie. But they have to pay a lot of money for it. Im in first place. I have won over 10 million. We have had a couple calls from the networks already. Do you think its appropriate if Bernie Sanders debates donald trump . Oneonone . You know, i know they have gone back and forth on this. They seem to be saying its some kind of joke. Trump doesnt sound very serious, but i can tell you im look iing forward to debating donald trump in the general election. I really cant wait to get on the debate stage with him. So are they going to do it . I dont think u so. I dont think so either. Do you want to bet . Yeah, right. Double or nothing. The a fleet. I just dont see the metrics
lining up for it to really take place. Its a complicated thing. Its not just what they debated but what they couldnt debate on. It would be really interesting. They are drawing on certain similar constituencies. The talk about scrambling. How many people would show up they would have to rent a massive stadium. But the real loser that happens is hillary. Theres no doubt about that. This explains the laugh. Why wouldnt trump do it . Whats he got to gain from it. The real loser is hillary. If trump did it before california, that would raise bernies status. Trump party has it. If he wants to hurt Hillary Clinton more, he does the debate and it would get incredible ratings. Bernie could get his punches in. Its not going to hurt donald because hes got the nomination. Why u dont you think its going to happen . Donald trump has not had a oneonone debate yet. We dont know how he would perform. I think bernie would be a great warm up. Bernie could also inflict some damage too. Thats something the campaign would have to be i think it would be raucous. It would be that. This on the front page. Bob corker, a respected voice in washington, d. C. , apparently at the top of the Vice President ial sweepstakes that would be good news for people who are actually serious about Foreign Policy. Newt gingrich also in play. Joni ernst is there, marco rubio and also nikki hailey. Would corker be a good balance . Hes a former mayor, now a senator, chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, also still is on one of the budget or finance committees. Hes one of the few people who is comfortable on domestic and Foreign Policy u. And donald trump has talked about his desire to have someone who is comfortable in washington, who knows washington. This would be the sort of choice that would signal a make people more comfortable. Bob corker is somebody that actually works across the aisle. Somebody that tries to make deals, even when deals are hard to be made. He and alexander have continued in a very conservative state that tradition that howard baker start ed o of trying to reach across the aisle and work with democrats as well as republicans. Bob corker, i cant say enough good things. He did it on the iran deal. He was central to forging a coalition on that. Given how donald trump can
be, why would corker risk his reputation and his political future ongoing on that ticket . If you look at the polls, he has a 50 50 shot of being Vice President. Also whoever is Vice President , look at sarah palin. You get such a stage that if you do it well, youre first in line in 2020. And bob corker had expressed some quiet interest in possibly running in 2016 some time back. It puts you in the National Stage in the middle of everything. He brings a great level of grav us to to the position. It rounds out the trump edges a bit. It is a balance. We all know Newt Gingrich and we like him, but temperamentally newt and trump dont balance each other. I mean, a newt needs somebody like a corker and trump needs a corker. They do not need each other. Thats like mom and dad looking at, hey, you could date johnny, but barnacle over there, you two will be fighting. Hes got a big truck. Im waiting. Still ahead on morning joe, the Police Commissioner of new york city joins us here onset. Actually speaking of new york city officials, take a look at this. Do we have a picture of who was there last night with joes band . Im just saying. Who is that guy clapping . Bill de blasio. It was a fun night. Mike and ann were there, the mayor was there. Your band was awesome. A special guest. Absolutely amazing. Shocked that that voice came out of a 12yearold. She was amazing. How it worked is the night before she said, hey, i started
playing and this huge voice came out. I mean, very soulful voice. I was like, wow. She owned it. It was a big hit. Very nice. Great job. Now to bill karins. Very thin voice. But the forecast is important. Are you going to say its looking good . Monday is iffy at best in areas where youre going to be in new york and new england. Temperatures come way down. All the l problems are still in texas where they were hit by another tornado yesterday. Some homes were damaged. Theres the tornado. That was a big one. All of a sudden you see the power flashes in the background. Those are the transformers blowing as the power lines are getting ripped apart. Then the flooding after this. This is the story that continues this morning. The rain has been endless. We have seen a months worth of rain in some cases in a few
spots. It hasnt stopped. Lets go to the maps. 16 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Flash flood emergency. The Fire Department has been out doing water rescues with water in homes and we continue to get rain in the area. Heres houston. Those thunderstorms are right over top. And then youll be safe. The flooding was not in houston. It was to the northwest. This is where the flash flood emergency continues. The other stories, how about the southeast coastline. Dealing with a tropical system. This could be bonnie throughout saturday. South carolina, North Carolina, georgia coast or even northeast florida, watch out for rip currents through the holiday weekend. A lot to talk about. A lot of developing weather situations early this morning, especially in southern portions of texas. New york city locking at another three or four hot days until we cool off on monday. Hope you like the summer heat. Thats what youre going to get today. Youre watching morning joe, well be right back. My experience with usaa is awesome. Homeowners insurance Life Insurance automobile insurance i spent 20 years active duty they still refer to me as Gunnery Sergeant when i call being a usaa member because of my service in the military to pass that on to my kids something that makes me happy my name is roger zapata and im a usaa member for life. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Get an insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. Igoing to clean betteran electthan a manual. Was he said sure. But dont get just any one. Get one inspired by dentists, with a round brush head. Go pro with oralb. Oralbs rounded brush head cups your teeth to break up plaque and rotates to sweep it away. And oralb delivers a clinically proven superior clean versus sonicare diamondclean. My mouth feels super clean oralb. Know youre getting a superior clean. Im never going back to a manual brush. Memorials that tell stories of courage and heroism. Graves and empty caps that echo of unspeakable depravity. Yet in the image of a Mushroom Cloud that rose into these skies, we are most starkly reminded of humanitys core contradiction of how the very spark that marks us as a species, our thoughts, our imaginati imagination, our language, our tool making, our ability to set ourselves apart from nature and bend it to our will. This morning president obama
has done something no other sit ing president has done. Visited hiroshima, japan. He joined Prime Minister abe for a wreath laying a the a peace e memorial. Its a gesture to show the strength of the two Nations Alliance and renew efforts to rim nat nuclear arms across the globe. Before he left, he met with survivors of the bomb that killed 140,000 people. The symbolism of this, any concerns . Well, its a gesture towards japan and its the concerns in the region are just that. The United States moving closer to japan for the president its a tight rope to go there. This was an act that saved enormous number of american lives. It hastened the end of the war. A lot of people think it also saved some japanese lives because had there been an invasion, the amount that would have died to defend their country would have been greater than died with the two bombings. How do you go there to acknowledge and not apologize. Thats the tight rope and thats why the president was talking not so much about the past but about the future, the need to reduce or get rid of nuclear arms, which doesnt look like its going to happen. How do you think the president did . Okay, i think the problem is that going there is he avoided any explicit statement. Its the implicit that by going there there will be those people that said japan hasnt done enough to do au poll jis, hasnt dealt with the issue. We have met them more than halfway. I actually think its part of a larger thing where the socalled pivot to asia. What i think it shows is the United States does want to get beyond certain historical things and move closer to japan, vietnam, the earlier part of the trip. The chinese will look at this and be slightly uneasy as the contours of american Foreign Policy and given what china is doing in the building up of the
islands. Thats not necessarily a bad thing. Im curious how the president s rhetoric, which was very well delivered and a solid rhetorically, but how does that square with the iran deal, for example, where theres concern about on the one hand saying you want to take down this Nuclear Menace potentially, but a lot of people argue, well, the deal you struck with iran actually increases that menace down the road. The president and those who defend the deal would say it dramatically decreased over the next 10 to 15 years Irans Nuclear capabilities. They would say thats consistent with this spirit. The big question about the iran deal is does it stimulate Nuclear Activity and what happens after 10 and 15 years after the ceilings go off . Then as the president acknowledged, iran is free too build as many centrifuges and as much uranium as it wants. A lot of people interestingly on the left is saying this administration hasnt done
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information was part of the official records. That was mind boggle iing. The number of false statements contained within that. I dont want to be negative, but that was just mind boggle iing. Does she not have anybody around her that can tell her we have to stop lying about this. Everything she said in there was a lie. It was not allowed by the state department. That was the point of the news this week. Everybody knew in the state department we were doing it. They said we didnt know, but if we did know we wouldnt allow her to do it. She goes on and own. She sent out directives in 2011 saying dont do it the way im doing it. In 2009 there was a federal regulation as far as recordkeeping goes. Shes just not telling the truth. And her own state Department Said she was not telling the truth. It would be better for her to say i screwed up and im sorry. Why kent they do it. Youre teasing this focus group youre doing. I u can guarantee what they are going to say which is thats why they dont like Hillary Clinton. Its not just you have to start telling the truth. They have the bunker mentality. Its always been the truth about her. Theres not a group of people and love her and think shes always right and no one is saying do what youre saying she should do otherwise you wouldnt do an interview and get that answer. So the Washington PostEditorial Board writes about clintons inexcusable disregard for the rules. Hillarys use of a private email server while secretary of
state from 2009 to 2013 has been justifiably criticized an an error of judgment. But the new report from the state Department Inspector general is that it was also not a casual oversight. Mrs. Clinton had had plenty of warnings to use official Government Communications methods so as to make sure that her records were properly preserved to minimize Cyber Security risks. She ignored them. While not illegal behavior, it was disturbingly unmindful of the rules. In the middle of the president ial campaign, we urged the fbi to finish its own investigation soon so all information about this troubling episode will be before the voters. And the New York TimesEditorial Board writes this. Across the years of the clintons, the public has seen that she can be fiercely protective of her roles and prerogatives. At times grudging and admitting error and during bill clintons
presidency blaming a vast right wing conspiracy for allegations against her and her husband that began early in his tenure and continued through the impeachment scandal. This defensive posture seems to be at play in the email controversy as well as her refusal to release speeches she made to wall street audiences. The reflex shes revealing again now to hunker down when challenged is likely to make her seem less personal to voters and surely inflame critics of underlying arrogance. Its just to say i wanted to keep my personal emails personal. I screwed up. Im sorry. Where she gets herself into trouble is her spokesman when they use these really cute words. I did nothing wrong. You know this is more than a screw up, right . You know that. Thats what she should say. But you understand this is way u more, far more problematic than
a screw up. But in the scheme of life, its become a big issue because of the way shes handle d it. No, the action classified information, we dont know what the fbi is going to rule on that because the state department themselves said that 22 of those emails that passed through the servers were of such a sensitive classified nature that to release them would be devastating to Americas National interest. So Richard Haass you wonder why they keep going out there repeatedly saying, what i did was approved by the state department. It was allowed by the state department. When the state department clearly said it wasnt. It was not allowed. She didnt ask. If she did ask we would tell her hell no. They have and has a classified system. Its okay to have a personal system. The idea is the comingling that gets you in trouble. Powell wanted the state department to become more wired
to the world. He wanted to be able to go on the internet to e see what was going on, to have a larger set of connections but comingling gets you in trouble and setting up the separate system and bringing the two together. How sad and pathetic when clinton supporters and people in the media say, you know, colin powell did this also. Colin powell did this at a time where there were not the rules that there were when Hillary Clinton was there. And when the world was completely different when colin powell was doing it. Everybody knows that. I dont know why u people saying that really think americans are that stupid, but they do. Also it was the only email that she used, so she forced people that wanted to zens send Sensitive Information to her through that one unsecured system in her house. The colin powell piece that referenced back to colin powell is the dodge in my view. The reality of it is the systems were different, number one. Number two, the rules were
changed when she got into office. The Administration Made that very clear. But number three, heres the thing. Even if you want to use colin powell as an example or former secretary of state, all those other former secretary of states including the current secretary of state submitted themselves and subjected themselves to interviews by the state department in this investigation. She has yet to do that. So if you want to make that comparison, why didnt you subject yourself to a oneonone interview to lay out exactly the facts, as you saw them, to put that in the context of the report that we saw released this week. So theres still that avoidance issue that still bothers people and that trustworthy point goes right to that. Jim, stay with us. Coming up, littering, loitering and drinking booze out of a bag will no longer be criminal offenses in new york city. Willie is off this morning celebrating. Well ask the police
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that he cuddles up to brutal dictators because he does it in cuba and iran. Its only our allies that he attacks and makes them feel like they are no longer alloys and should look to china and russia for support. Hes gotten quite comfortable with cozying up to dictators as president. Whats interesting about this, its not containment. Its a series hedging strategy. The idea that we drop the embargo with vietnam sends a message to china. Its beginning to push back against greater chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea and East China Sea a letting them know its unilateralism will not go unnoticed. This is good stuff. Richard, thank you very much. Coming up at the top of the hour, donald trump hits 1237 and 1. Its 1238 is what he got. And vows to go where no republican dares to go in the
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coward or a loser . Signed, president trump. Im reading the wrong thing. He asks, ber gnu, you have been treated unfairly both primary systems are rigged but in particular the democrats ridiculous system of super delegates. Will you run as an independent when the party bosses steal this nomination away from you . Well, i think theres a little bit of selfservice there for donald trump. Hes not like that. You think hes really worried about me. Maybe youre right. He told me last night he doesnt like to see you and hillary fighting. Its upsetting him. I appreciate his concern. I know that comes straight from his heart. But tell him that what i hope will happen is that in fact, i will run against him as the democratic nominee for president of the United States and if i do, were going to beat him and beat him bad. You can tell him that. Ill tell him u. Notice that sanders didnt rule out that third party run
for the first time. Welcome back to morning joe. Its friday, may 27th. I cant believe it. Wheres the year going . Still with us former chairman of the National Committee michael steele. And joining the table managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and cohost of all due respect, john heilemann. Trump clinched. What are your thoughts . 1238. Exciting. Foregone conclusion. Whats to say . Its an amazing thing. We have known this was going to happen for awhile. It seems like a question of the math of it. But if you think back over the totality of this ark from a little less than a year ago until today, there are not very many people who predicted it. Anybody who says they did with the exception of a couple people would be lying. Its kind of amazing. I still think people are struggling every day whether they are pro or antitrump, you talk to people that are still trying to make sense of what happened. What happened to the party, what allowed this to happen, the strengths and we can neaknesses. People are still grappling with it in a serious way. Trump passed the mark after gaining the support of unbound delegates in north dakota, colorado and pennsylvania. He now u stands at 1238. More than the majority plus one number of 1237. His First Response was to post a picture on instagram of him eating mcdonalds. Celebrating 1237 was the caption. At a rally, trump talked about his general election plans and the states he will target including some unusual ones for a republican. I want to focus on 15 or so states. Because we have to win. I want my energy to be put in
the states where it could go either way. Were going to play heavy as an example in california. No other republican, they wouldnt even go to dinner in california. They wouldnt do. Were going to focus on new york. If for instance, ted cruz or any of the guys, good guys, but they are more traditional. If they won, if they got the nomination, they wouldnt spend 10 cents in new york. They wouldnt go there and they wouldnt do well there. If you look, its a very tough path to get to the presidency, if youre republican. I put 15 states potentially into play. They put three or four states. If he loses one little thing, one state, its over. Whereas the democrats can sail along and lose numerous states and still get in. Dont let it get you scared. We are going to win. Dont even think about it. Bernie sanders is not letting
go of hope that california will be the state to propel him to the democratic nomination. He rallied a crowd of close to 10,000 at Ventura College yesterday. He didnt have much to say about Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party, but he did mention his offer to debate donald trump. It appears that donald trump is prepared to debate. And im very excited about it. And i think were going to have to rent out the largest stadium you have here in california. Id love to debate bernie. We have actually had a couple calls from the networks already. Do you think its appropriate if Bernie Sanders debates donald trump . You know, i know they have gone back and forth on this and
they seem to be saying its some kind of joke, trump doesnt sound very serious, but i can tell you im looking forward to debating donald trump in the general election. I cant wait to get on the debate stage with him. Clinton may have laughed it off, but some democrats are apparently ticked off at sanders for trying to debate trump. Senator joe mansion told politico that its bs that he used the actual word. Manchin questioned why anyone would expect sanders to unite the party. They should do it. It would be the greatest show on earth. Donald trump as the ultimate celebrity. Hes going to want to do this in a massive auditorium. He could use it to bash Hillary Clinton. He could use it to use sanders as a pawn. What would be the downside . Sanders could use it to win california. You could have Hillary Clinton
losing california. She wins the nomination, but the democratic nominee losing california, what better way to get 50 Million People to watch than to pull off a debate that nobody can miss. Sort of a high wire act for sanders. I see why he would want to in the sense hes statistically in the biggest long shot in the world to win the nomination, but lock at the polls. Im more equipped to take on trump than Hillary Clinton. If he got out there and cleaned trumps clock, a huge win. If he got out there and got thumped by trump, it would sort of cut the knees out from underneath him. I think for him given his position in the race, its totally a worthwhile gamble to take given that hes almost statistically procolluded from being the nominee. It would be for hillary back in washington going, well, that could really make her look bad. It could really help her argument. I take the reverse on that. I think that the dangers to
trump are equally important for his consideration because as hes trying to pivot and to sort of focus energy in a different direction in the party, if, for example, e he gets on the stage and gets thumped by sanders in a significant way, it makes that effort that much harder. But i think to your point, its great theater. Politically historic. How does he get thumped . Im just saying you get caught in one of those moments in a debate. Trump has been caught in dozens of those moments and his poll numbers go up. Its a different dynamic when its oneonone. If im donald trump and i have u a chance of going up against a socialist and allowing the socialist to punch me out to help Hillary Clinton, or to help him against Hillary Clinton, that seems like a win, win, win. Donald trump is all about dominating the news cycle. What dominates a news cycle more
than a thrilla in manila and a build up. I see that part of that. I get that part. Im just also cognizant of the risk for the Campaign Going into that setting. I think there are equal consideration there is. We all want to see it. We definitely want to see it. Wed all pay money to see it. He wants a lot of money raised to go to a womens charity. You know why . Because he cares. 100 obviously. He cares too much about womens health. Paper view like a boxing match. That would be incredible. How many people would pay 20 to watch that . Millions. Lets do it. What is happening . Now to this. The sister of vince foster, the clinton aid, who multiple investigations showed committed suicide in 1993 is speaking out. Responding to donald trumps
suggestion that his death was very fishy and raising conspiracy theories involving the clintons. Her Washington Post oped reads, its beyond contempt that a politician would use a family tragedy to further his candidacy, but such as the character of donald trump displayed in his recent comments that Hillary Clinton may have somehow played a role in vinces death. How wrong, how irresponsible, how cruel. Trump was canny enough to hedge hes not the one raising the questions, he said, but others have. This is coming from right wing political operatives who pedalled theories for two decades. How could this be coming from the Presumptive Republican nominee for president . Trump had this to say at his press conference yesterday. It was asked of me, what do you think of vince foster . I know nothing about the vince foster situation. Havent known anything about it. Somebody asked me the question the other day. I said a lot of people are skeptical as to what happened and how he died. I know nothing about it. I dont think its something that frankly unless some evidence to the contrary of what i have seen comes up, i dont think its something that should be part of the campaign, but again, if you people reveal something to me, i will answer it in the appropriate way. John heilemann, he said it was very fishy. Many people believe that it was a murder. It wasnt like he was asked a question and said i dont know. Or said that was a suicide. Tragic event. Lets move on. The notion that one of the things that there are many things that are not president ial in the traditional sense, but in this way, you can see this oped was going to write this and im not surprised it didnt happen, is the notion that whats less president ial than i have heard people say it. One of the things president s cant do is go online, read crazy stuff on the internet and
repeat it without just say, well, i dont know, i read it somewhere. Some people think this. Like lee harvey oswald. Thats something no president can or should do. Yet trump seems to do that all the time. Its not the first time hes done it. Jim . Its the thing. Its not president ial in any way. Unacceptable. It was a question that was posed to him. Fine, push off the foster thing. But the rape, the other allegations, its beginning to be relentless from him. I thought tuesday was the most telling day where i think that was the day where Hillary Clinton went after donald trump in a very specific way in a,000word speech and all trump did was put out something on instagram with two women accusing president clinton of rape and a picture of bill
clinton chomping on a cigar. To me thats a microcomp of what youre going to see. I have been harshly critical of what hes done, but some people said he knows exact ly what hes doing. Hes being offensive and thats his defense. So there are a group of millennials that have no idea about all these clinton scandals. He wants to get it out there. He has somebody thats not believed, that has low numbers when it comes to being honest and trustworthy. Its like a boxer whose left arm is hurt. What do boxers do . They foupound on the left arm. Hes found this weakness, honest and trustworthy and bringing up every scandal from the 1990s in any way possible. You talk about millennials because they dont know. They go to the very sources youre talking about out of that internet and picking up all kinds of information. Donald trump is like, i dont know, i didnt say it. They raised the question. But its in the conversation. To your point where he just comes back and 9,000word speech and drops a picture. He dup does an instagram and whats dominating. Whats leading the news is the picture with the cigar not the 9,000word speech. What do you do if youre her . What do you do if youre here . Every day youre going to get atta attacked. Theres some allegation that you dont respond and people say you have to respond. U be once you decide to respond, youll be in the game with a series of responses. I dont know what you do. What is the smartest way to handle essentially a bully who is never going to stop bullying you on your most sensitive vulnerabilities . I do know its the question that brooklyn is thinking about. I know the answer is the way
you meet a bully is punch him in the face and keep punching him in the face and keep punching him in the face until he falls like mike tyson against buster douglas. Bullies cant take a punch. Nobody has punched donald trump. The question is, is Hillary Clinton capable of punching donald trump . I dont know. Elizabeth warren has punched him. In a press conference yesterday donald trump responded. A native American Woman that got into the conversation. Shes a freelance writer attending the event and called him out for the way hes taunted Elizabeth Warren. She seems to have made it her job. Pocahontas . Isnt that offensive . Very offensive. Im sorry about that. Its absolutely ludicrous that high cheekbones, the
stereotypes. Pocahontas is so overdone. Come on. I believe that mr. Trump and his tone was offensive today. If there was other young indigenous or native american young girls sitting here, whats that signaling to them them . The war of words continued online with trump responding to the idea that calling Elizabeth Warren pocahontas is offensive. I find it offensive that goofy Elizabeth Warren pretended to be native american to get into harvard. Warren responded, get your facts straight u. Im a graduate of the university of houston and rutgers university. Warren described herself as a minority in a law School Directory when she was professor of harvard. Though investigators have not been able to substantiate family stories that she is of cherokee dissent. John heilemann, you were laughing. I was laughing at the sometimes referred to as
pocahontas. Sometimes by me. She punched hard. I think she will again. I mean in terms of your description of how you handle a bully. Shes punched the hardest at him talking about shes not in the game. Shes not running for president. Shes on the sidelines. Shes punching from the sidelines. Shes really on the sidelines . Thats the question. Thats hillarys problem. Shes the hold out. To get her on board in some way . Shes not on the sideline. They need to get lizelizabet warren to the table. Shes running around the country punching at donald trump, but what does it mean for Hillary Clinton at this point to have this extra force out there thats not her doing the pumpbling . When shes punching as hard as it does, it just shows how sort of prepared and unfeeling Hillary Clinton is. Or how incapable she is to do that. I think this is at the middle
of this conversation, which your point is someone has to punch donald trump in the face. Stay after him every day. But normally the way president ial politics works is the candidate stayed above the fray and surrogates do the dirty work. Elizabeth warren is a good surrogate for Hillary Clinton. Shes not going to be as capable as donald trump is at throwing punches, but traditionally thats not what president ial candidates do. They leave that to surrogates. One of her problems that she lacks great surrogates. Elizabeth warren could be a strong surrogate for Hillary Clinton if she gets on board and does this every single day. But this is not that race. Here you have the leading president ial candidate for the republicans doing the punching. He is his own surrogate. He doesnt have the surrogates. Hes doing the punching. Youre right in the traditional sense, so this is hillarys problem. Shes going to allow everyone else to punch for him and donald
trump is taking it to everybody . Shes sitting back allowing Elizabeth Warren. She has to figure that out. Not only her ability to punch with no fear, but also the Bernie Sanders supporters perhaps might warm up to hillary because they are the same people that support Elizabeth Warren. Is she tolding out for Bernie Sanders . Get in the game and endorse the person. Shes holding out like any guy would. I think it will be insufficient to leave it up to surrogates. So if youre going to leave it up to tim cane to be your attack dog, thats insufficient. If youre going to take the strategy, which youre probably right that would be the best strategy is go after him, bully the bully. She has to bully the bully. I dont think Elizabeth Warren can do it for her. Im just saying shes a great example of someone who can do it
well. But thats not that race. I think theres a good chance to get on the ticket. What do you mean . What he just said. As a Vice President ial candidate . Oh. No one has said that before. We all know you have been saying it nonstop for like two years. You think its a great idea. I think it might happen. Okay. Is that a problem . Im going to agree with you. Would you like him to say it was going to be johnny depp . Would you prefer that . Would that make you happy . No, think its an interesting concept that i have heard before. And ive been laughed at. Not by me. Thank you very much. Still ahead on morning joe,. Were only laughing because you say it so much. So often, every single day. Well, well talk to one of the Top Police Officers in the country. Commissioner bill bratton. Also Hillary Clinton rains attacks down on donald trump in california. Well go live to Kristen Welker in los angeles following the campaign. Plus in florida they hate little marco rubio so much. Little marco. Little marco. Little marco rubio. Hes a choke ar tus. Thank god he has large ears. The biggest ears i have ever seen. Little marco. After all that, why is donald trump suddenly backing marco rubio to run for senate again . And marco actually saying he will back donald trump. Thats a deal. Youre watching morning joe, well be right back. [engine revs]
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this far. We started off 17 people up on the stage. What the hell did i know about this stuff . I have never done this before. Your word is lying. How would you spell that . Lyen. Im sorry, donald, thats not quite right. Youre new at this. Would you like to have another try . Lyin. Okay, donald, well accept that. Your next word is little. Liddle. Im sorry, donald, thats incorrect. I love you, folks, but i can think of places id rather be. Thats very cute. Were obsessed with the National Spelling bee round. You guys wouldnt do well as judges. Or as contestants. Neither would mike. Id do extremely well. The word of the day is mike. The word of the day is bet. Exactly. Have you bought the truck yet . Where is it . Its on the way. What color is it . Its blue. When you get your car, take us for a ride. I might give you all a ride. This is going to be amazing. I dont know you would fit, but well see. It have traunsing marco rubio in floridas primary, donald trump is encouraging him to get back in the race for senate. Rubio ruled out a reelection bid when ae announced for president and last monday the senator tweeted i have only said like 10,000 times i will be a private citizen in january. But during the senate gop lunch
yesterday, his colleagues urged him to reconsider before the june 24th filing dead line. With the chairman bob corker putting out a Public Statement of support and now donald trump has joined the chorus tweeting this. Poll data shows marco rubio does by far the best in holding on to his senate seat in florida. Important to keep the majority. Run marco. Unlike previously, hes not discouraged the speculation saying this is something that just happened for me. I need time to talk to anybody about it, but my sense of it is nothing has changed in my thinking. Yesterday rubio said hes ready to unite the party around trump. Im going to go to the convention. I dont know if ill have a role in the convention, but i have people there that were supporters. If donald trump asked you to speak on his behalf, you would
do so . I want to be helpful. I dont want Hillary Clinton to be president. If theres something i can do thats helpful to the cause, i would be honored to be considered for that. Joining us now from los angeles is nbc news correspondent Halle Jackson who is covering the trump campaign. And White House CorrespondentKristen Welker, who is covering the clinton campaign. And in washington, nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. Chuck, i will start with you. What im interested in is this possible bernie trump debate. First shot around the table this morning everyone said it will never happen. Will it never happen . Ill be surprised if it happens. I think im surprised trump isnt pushing to have this happen more. I think its sanders that will get talked out of it. If it got close, i think this would be very harmful to clinton. So i think youd have a bunch of democrats. By the way, this marco rubio thing smells like a total
orchestrated draft. It does not feel very organic. Like the Vice President ial draft . No, like this decision has been made and then lets create a draft environment to make it easier for rubio to change his mind. It all feels a little too preci precise. Thats all. Whats your take . Its interesting to hear chucks comments. When you look at what rubio has said, you guys covered him as well when he was in the race when he first drop ped out, im going to go back to florida and be a private citizen. So now its a real softening of that position. When you see trump, i love that super cut before the break of him hammering marco rubio again and again. Trump understands that hes coming under fire in some conservative circles for potentially being damaging in the view of some. Down ballot for some of the n l
vulnerable senate seats. I get that people in Congress Might be urging marco rubio to run and o to keep the senate seat so im going to tweet out run marco. No little. I want Kristen Welker to chime in on the email saga. Hillary clinton saying it was allowed yet again yesterday. Then i want chucks take. But what in the world is the strategy there . I think to continue to Say Something thats been debunk ed by the state department itself. Am i u correct . Its a pretty big spin job that they are doing. First of all, it was interesting she went on this trumplike phoneathon. She called in to do damage control. Shes making the point that former secretary of states used personal email u. The reality is when you look at it, it was only colin powell and when you look at the inspector generals report, it says that
the rules were just not as defined and clear under colin powell because they were just starting to use email in that type of a setting. And the report also says that she didnt properly preserve her emails and didnt turn over her records. Her argument for that is that she tried to preserve her emails to people who have state. Gov accounts and said colin powell used personal emails, she never knew she needed to ask permission. Shes on damage control. Shes going to continue to be. Shes going to try to turn the page and doing that by putting the focus on donald trump and the fablt hes clinched the nomination. Her message be afraid of him. E we cant get him close to the white house. But certainly she has some work to turn the page. So im going to take it do you. Take a look at Hillary Clinton yesterday in san francisco. There is absolutely no way
that we can let donald trump get anywhere near the white house. Can you produce positive results that will improve the lives of americans . Secondly, can you be commanderinchief, protect our country and lead the world on behalf of the United States with the kind of smart, steady, strong leadership in akor dons with our values that we need. And number three, can you unify our country . Now you will have to make u those decisions, but i can tell you not just as a candidate, but as a voter, donald trump fails every one of those tests. So chuck, you talked to secretary clinton yesterday. She got out yesterday afternoon and did a pool interview. She talked to you, some others. It would seem to suggest that
they thought they needed to get her out there because she would not have wanted to be out there. How well do you think 48 hours in, how well do you think they are dealing with diffusing the political damage from the ig report . I think they i dont know if they have done a lot. This has been a great way of dealing with this. I think they have just sort of muddled through it. I felt like her essential message was about emails and trump is, yeah, okay, my emails was bad judgment, but im not him. That seemed to be the tone she was doing with me. And i do think this is something youre going to see a lot more of. They know they need to be a little more like trump when it comes to being quicker to respond in the media, to be involved in the news cycle. They are not going to do it as
aggressively, but they are not going to be like they have been before. Youre going to see more of this. I feel like this election is becoming who dont you want. It is. S in many respects. How is whats happening now playing out for the respective parties . You still have speaker ryan sitting on the sidelines and on the democratic side, you have Elizabeth Warren who is like lobbying all kinds of grenades. The sidelines in this campaign are just as important as whats happening on the field at this point. Are you seeing that in talking to the staffs and some of the operatives out there. I think you are. A sense that people want to get sort of folks off the sidelines. Thats why theres been pressure from the trump team to get out u there and publicly back him more wholeheartedly. We talk about marco rubio. Its very interesting to see him come out and say, yeah, sure if
you want me to speak for donald trump, i might do so. This is a guy who six months ago was brought up the small hands. I get this is politics, but for the republicans, they want to get folks behind trump. Its why youre going to see trump talk more about the fact hes clinched the delegates he needs for the nomination to capture it in july to say i did it before Hillary Clinton did. I did it before california. When it comes to Elizabeth Warren, she has been one of the democrats who has delivered the most biting attacks. I think you see it get under his skin. You see him continue to turn to her photo just at press conferences like yesterday, but at his rallies. He brings her up on his own. And slams her much to the delight of many supporters out there cheering him on. Thank you all very much. Chuck todd, what do you have on sundays meet the press. We have arnold schwarzenegger
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seen in the last 20 years. I think youre going to see major changes in terms of technology, what nypd is doing. Use of force, police talking about the sanctity of human life. On the one hand using narcan to save lives and deescalate situations. So i think this is an important moment in policing. We havent seen these kind of changes in 20 years. Let me ask the both of you. The ferguson effect was mentioned a few times. The slowing down of the police process, cops getting out of their cars, the ferguson effect and the impact of cell phone cameras on police activity. What is your view . Has there been given human nature, is there a slowdown in terms of the policing process, the ferguson effect . Theres an anxiety level and thats what the director was
referring to. Officer nous understand when they get out of a vehicle, atem to engage, very frequently they are going to do it with a group of people, group of individuals that will have cameras out videotaping everything they are doing. The concern is that f that goes beyond the line of videotaping and interfering with the arrest, it raises the anxiety level. What do you think . Has it impacted new york city . It has not. Our crime numbers continue to go down. Officers are still out there actively engaged. We have been consciously seeking to pull back policing in this city in the sense of our stop and frisk reductions, changes in our arrest policies. So its hard to measure because were consciously pulling them back in some respects while action that they would have taken years ago that in some respects deescalating as the crime situation has gotten better doesnt require the same policing in the 90s when crime was rising. Disorder was everywhere. Its a different city. And discussions over the last several days indicate that every American City is like a medical situation. A different pausht. Were all having different experiences. And just to add to that. You have 18,000 police departments. I dont think you can step away from the fact when you look at cities like chicago, what happened a month after that situation, homicides went way up. Baltimore, a month after freddie gray, disturbances went up. I think there may be a shortterm impact, but i think after awhile it levels off. And in some cities there isnt any impact. With i dont think. A big part of policing that i
think has largely gone untested in this new landscape post ferguson is community policing. What role and what emphasis are you planning to place on that to sort of help police in the communities the relations between the police and the members of that community so there is not the sense that these are strangers. The way police look at the community and the Community Look at police. Were gaining trust. Its an essential component of moving forward. The murder of my tkts, but Going Forward how do we regain trust . So in new york city specifically, a major part of our whole redesign of our policing strategy is based on the rebuilding of trust and try to get it back where we had lost it. You look at it like
baltimore. West baltimore is where the commander there, her job is to try to rebuild trust. You have six officers on trial. Every situation is different. But her job is to rebuild trust in west baltimore. They are doing it. So i Mean Community policing is still significantly important. Especially with body cameras too. Body cameras are technology, but the human factor is very important. A part of that and kind of this is a big issue in new york city is this decriminalization issue. Quality of life, wall street journal has a piece called back to the future new york and talks about offenses such as you are nating in public. Are you concerned your efforts will backtrack . Not at all. Back in the 90s on the design of the strategies with mayor joule were an everyday
experience for every new yorker. Its a different city 20 years later. So like a patient being treated for cancer, after you cure the kacancer, you dont keep hittin them with radiation and chemo. Thats what were doing. The city 300 murders this year versus 2200 back in 1991. Anybody knows this stuff its me. I designed it in 1990. Im designing it now. We will watch carefully to see if it starts to come back. Were fully prepared to step back in. You use the term decriminalization but we have not. Police still have the right u to make an arrest in these matters using their discretion. So thats very critically important. Its not a get out of jail free card. If youre engaging in it in a way that is subject to an arrest, well make the arrest. Lets pull back for awhile. One quick question before we go. Any other city in the world have
as an acutely sensitive Intelligence Unit as does the new York City Police department . And have other cities tried to adapt some of your tech noeks . I can speak about new york and l. A. The seven years there, we were modelling a lot of what we did after what new york was doing and we had roughly the same number of officers assigned to that function. Youre correct that nobody does it as well in america as new york because of the special sensitivity of 9 11. We have worked very hard to have seamless relationships with the feds because they cant do it alone. But together we can do a lot. What we have done over the past 15 years commissioner before me, during my time, we have kept the city safe. Were going to continue to prioritize that. Commissioner bill bratton and chuck wexler, thank you for coming on the show. Good luck this weekend. Well be right back with much more morning joe. Nah. What else . What if we hire more sales reps . Nah. What else . What if we digitize the whole supply chain . So people can customize their bike before they buy it. That worked better than expected. Ill dial it back. Yeah, dial it back. Just a little. Live business, powered by sap. When you run live, you run simple. Introduces new, easytoswallow tablets. So now, there are more ways, for more people. To experience. Complete protection from frequent heartburn. Nexium 24hr. The easytoswallow tablet is here. [ male announcer ] tora bora fallujah argonne khe sanh
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a tab in my briefing book for area 51. The great mark knoller. The best. Hillary clinton is redefining the meaning of Foreign Policy. Some are calling the democratic frontrunner the extraterrestrial candidate with promises to pull back the curtain on the governments ufo files. We sent Louis Bergdorf to investigate. Theres a new name. Its unexplained aerial phenomenon. Ive seen unidentified flying objects that were unexplainable. Unfathomable things. Things that no aircraft can do today. Our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. All of a sudden, it just zoomd away. Time to find out what the truth really is. The aliens wont let it answer. They have strict control over us. There are enough stories out there. People see things. What they see, i dont know. All of a sudden, its just gone. Two things happened. Something crashed and the government definitely covered it up. You saw there were aliens there. Would you tell us . Yeah. President clinton said he did check and there was nothing. Thats what were instructed to say. Unless its, you know, a threat to National Security, i think we ought to share it with the public. Different lives that happen up there. And i believe that there is something out there. Its the stuff of conspiracy theories, hollywood blockbusters and even president ial politics. The question, are we alone . Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries of all time. But some people believe we already have the answer. We came to one of the most secretive spots in the world to have a Close Encounter of our own. Along the extraterrestrial highway just miles outside the boundaries of area 51, the folks of rachel, nevada, know a lot about the unknown. Do you feel like weve been
visited by other beings . Yes, i would say that. I would. Between me and you, i would say that. Do you believe weve been visited by extraterrestrials. Yes. Dont trust them. There is different lights up there. Sometimes you cant explain them, but seeing is believing for some. Science demands more. We havent found life yet of any kind, but were looking and we have High Expectations that it should be out there. Now theres like the question, have we been visited by intelligent aliens. The evidence is really weak. Ive flown thousands and thousands of hours in aircraft, all over this planet. Ive flown in space four times, and ive never seen anything that i would characterize as a ufo. Doesnt mean its not there. But how close are we to actually discovering life outside of our planet. The potential is enormous. However, when you consider
distance, the closest star other than our sun is 4. 4 light years away. We can travel at about 35,000 miles an hour. To get to 4. 4 light years its about 86,000 years. Thats the closest. If you dont have 86,000 years to spare, why not travel to the birthplace of the ufo conspiracy theory, roswell, new mexico. Every president since truman when this first started in 1947 has tried to open up the ufo files and failed. This stuff is classified for president ial clearance. Hillary clinton says shell release the files if she were to be president. What are your thoughts on that . Is that swaying votes . I think it sways some votes, and it gives hillary a sense that shes a with it candidate. I was talking this ufo thing long before everybody else was. I said the pentagon, the
department of defense, the government hadnt released all their facts. They should release all the facts. Theres a lot of questions out there. Whether you are a skeptic, true believer or somewhere in the middle, its hard to ignore some Big Questions that can make us all feel very small. Im a navy test pilot. Im pretty familiar with what is done in area 51, but i cant really comment on that. With regards to the aliens, they moved them all to area 52. Im just kidding. The possibility that were not alone in the university is exhilarating, and the possibility that we are alone in the universe, to me, is terrifying. Ooh. Thats pretty good. That was a good piece. Yes, it was. Up next, Hillary Clinton unleashes on donald trump just as he clinches the republican nomination. But it may end up being Bernie Sanders who gets the first crack at trump on the debate stage. Plus, the significance of president obamas historuc and emotional visit to hiroshima this morning. Were back in just a 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 your hair is still thinning. You may have inactive follicles. Reactivate them with womens rogaine® foam the only once a day product, proven to regrow new hairs up to 48 thicker revive your va va voom and save on any rogaine® we built our factories here because of a huge natural resource. Not the land. The water. Or power sources. Its the people. American workers. They build worldclass products. And that builds communities. And a better future. For all of us. Because making something in america means so much, to so many. Weathertech. Proudly made in america. If legalzoom has your back. S, over the last 10 years weve helped one million Business Owners get started. Visit legalzoom today for the legal help you need to start and run your business. Legalzoom. Legal help is here. So we walked in the room today. It was 5 57 and you said youre not getting a truck. We have a bet if he wins the nomination, i get a truck. What is he saying, joe . Hes saying he doesnt want to buy you your pickup. Hi, mike. You better save your money. Thats all im going to say. Super tuesday is in the books. Its all over, but the pickup trucks. Mike barnacle last summer offered a brandnew truck what a dumb
to Mika Brzezinski if donald trump won the republican nomination. It was a bet on the set. It requires an offer, acceptance, consideration, reliance and capacity to enter into an agreement. Contracts attorney keith stein said. Hes great. It appears all of those elements are met in this case. Our nbc news decision desk has confirmed that donald trump has reached the number of delegats s needed to clinch the republican nomination for president. Vroom. Key phrase there in that clip was dumb ass. What are you thinking . Theres so many. Who knows. Oh, my gosh. What the heck . Good morning, everybody. The presentation like just right up here. Yeah, where is it . Its friday, may 27th. And apparently im getting a truck. Youll get a truck. Its official. Veteran columnist and the worst
bet or the face of the earth, mike barnacle. Guys instead of legendary, a new word. Thanks, man. Sucker. My daughters are waiting. Theyre very excited. Msnbc political analyst and former charm of the Republican National committee michael steel. President of the counsel on Foreign Relations, richard haas is with us as well. So its here. He clinched it. High clinched it. Although theres so much else to talk about. You dont want to do any other headlines . Okay. Donald trump clinched it. The necessary delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot at julys Republican National convention. He did it. Anyone here didnt think he just think about it. I was there. Just think about all the doubters, the thousands and thousands and thousands of articles that he contempted on
trump for even thinking around that heaped contempt on those for suggesting he was going to win and the desperate, even when it was obvious he was going to win, the desperate state of denial everybody was in. But he did it. Nobody would have guessed. He started this thing at 1 . At 1 . Which is really a lesson, michael, for politicians. Michael bloomberg is a great example. Its not in the data, hes not going to do it. I dont see it in the data. You go back to nate silver. I made everybody so leftist, enraged in 2012. We said sometimes you cant see it in the data. Sometimes politics is an art. Sometimes its a feel. Sometimes its a science. In 2012 it was more of a science. But sometimes it just doesnt show up in the numbers. You have to jump off a cliff to see whats going to happen. Absolutely. And you know what prevents you from seeing that and
understanding it is what you said. That desperate denial that you just absolutely refuse to see whats happening in front of you. And understand exactly what it means and what it portends. The telltale signs of where this could potentially go back in the day were there. We talked about it on this set. Talk about it across the network and across the country. And everyone ran around. Weve got a group to stop trump. But understand what the voters are saying. The newspapers every week, every sunday there was another story in the major papers in america on why donald trump was not going to win. Yeah, which actually played into it all. Trump passed the mark after gaining the support of unbound delegates in north dakota, colorado and pennsylvania. Trump now stands at 1,238. He needed 1,237. You didnt bet enough. If you bet that trump would win and have it sewn up before
Hillary Clinton had the democratic nomination, you could have won two pickup trucks. A lamborghini. This is an incredible time in our history. In all seriousness. Mike is awfully quiet. Mike actually, within a couple of weeks was sort of saying the same thing, and i think even more has a real sense of what people outside the echo chamber are feeling and why this is happening. This is a complete collapse of the republican establishment in washington, d. C. They are all scurrying to him now. Scurrying. Im not sure how they get there after what they said about him. He said a guy that is so maniacal that you cant trust him with Nuclear Weapons, its going to be hard to go out and speak on his behalf, which marco rubio said he would. But it was a collapse of the republican establishment. A collapse of the think tanks. A collapse of a lot of the conservative magazines. In any pretense they had any influence whatsoever in anything that happened in republican politics. Its all of that, joe, and a lot more than that. If you combine the sanders phenomen phenomenon, the trump phenomenon, both men came from nowhere. And to your point, michael, a breeze in politics when it becomes a win. It becomes a powerful force. Nothing is a more powerful force in politics than people. Actual voters. Both movements prove once again is the isolation of politicians in washington, d. C. When they are removed from the reality of everyday life and dont understand what happened in the fall of 2000 and 2008, when a lot of people lost their homes, they lost hope, they lost jobs and 1 of those people, 1 of the people in this nation were risking losing their sons and daughters in two wars that
nobody wants to continue. And trump in his own way, with his own artful way, and sanders certainly has been doing this for 50 years, spoke to that gut issue thats there in america, and no one else did. Well be talking about this debate theyre talking about, which could be fascinating. He took a picture on instagram of him eating one of those taco bowls saying and mcdonalds french fries. Eating mcdonalds. Celebrating 1,237 was the caption. Trump talked about his general election plans and the states he will target, including some unusual ones for a republican. I want to focus on 15 or so states because we have to win. And i want my energy to be put into states where it could go either way. And were going to play heavy as an example in california. No other republican would they wouldnt even go to dinner in california. They wouldnt do it. Were going to focus on new york, which everybody if, for instance, ted cruz or any of the guys, good guys, but theyre more traditional. If they won, if they got the nomination, they wouldnt spend ten cents in new york. They wouldnt go there and they wouldnt do well there. If you look, its a very tough path to get to the presidency, if you are a republican. I put 15 states potentially into play. They put three or four states. If he loses one little thing, one state, its over. Whereas the democrats can sail along and lose numerous states and they still get in. Dont let it get you scared. We are going to win. Dont even think about it. Its interesting. He talks about california. The real clear politics average between hillary n trump is hillary plus 17 right now. Its going to be a heavy lift. I dont know what his 15 states are or how he picked them, but right now, its a heavy lift. He has the delegates but still doesnt have the speaker of the house. Paul ryan was tight lipped about his recent conversations with the partys presumptive nominee. And made it clear hes still not ready to endorse. It was productive phone call. Weve had these conversations. Our staffs have been meeting. We had a very good and very productive phone call. We had a very productive phone call. Ill leave it at that. I spoke with paul ryan last night. We had a very good conversation thats moving along. Hes a good man, and well see how that all works out. Can you elaborate on that . No, its just we had a very good talk. Are you concerned at all about how it looks to have the speaker of the house not formally getting behind your nominee . What im most concerned about is making sure we have real party unity, not pretend party unity. We need to win this election in the fall. Theres too much at stake. The supreme court, on and on and on i could go. I want real party unity. Its interesting, though, mika. Paul ryan would have a very hard time getting close to donald trump this week, a week that donald trump attacked a hispanic female governor from a swing state who is head of the republican governors association. These errant lobs sort of these verbal hand grenades that keep getting rolled under tables, it and his attack on mitt romney. At some point you just have to stop. With the world watching, the g7 summit yesterday, the president gave this assessment about some leaders take on donald trump. That they are, quote, rattled by him. Hillary clinton picked up on that criticism. Donald trumps reaction . Good. They are paying very close attention to this election. I think its fair to say they are surprised by the republican
nominee. They are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements, but theyre rattled by him. Rattled. Rattled by what donald trump is saying. And what he is promoting. And what he stands for. The best way to reassure ourselves and the rest of the world is to make sure that donald trump, this loose cannon, never gets close to the white house. I love that word. He used a bad word because he knows nothing about business. When you rattle someone, thats good. If theyre rattled in a friendly way, thats a good thing. He is a man who shouldnt be really, you know, airing his difficulties and he shouldnt be airing what hes airing where he is right now. And i think that youre going to see it stop pretty soon. Richard haas, it is ironic
that the president is talking about World Leaders being rattled by anybody when you and i im not speaking for you, and we havent talked about this, but youve heard the same thing. World leaders have been rattled about barack obama since 2009. His lack of engagement. His lack of an overarching policy. If the president had a criticism of donald trump, a better criticism might be, well, after i rattled World Leaders for eight years and rattled our allies for eight years, the last thing we want to do is elect someone that will rattle World Leaders for another four years. That may be more accurate. Havent heard the word rattled used so much in one sentence. The president did rattle peel. More than anything else was because of syria when the United States set a red line and didnt act and it raised questions about american reliability. And donald trump rattles people. His whole approach to an
alliance relationship youd call it transactional rather than seeing alliancesa an existing large relationship. Its how much are we getting for what were giving. N the fact that hes outside in many ways the traditional Foreign Policy mainstream, whether about nato or nuclear prolif raugs. What the president is hearing and what people like me hear, you have your official meetings, but any free time is taken up telling us this for six, nine months that wherever you go if you go to paris and think youll talk about climate accords, everybody is actually talking about donald trump. Is he for real . Donald trump to some extent. Bernie sanders. They are trying to understand this is not the United States they thought they knew. They look at this populism, antiestablishmentism. Theres an expectation thats american politics, to use our football analysis takes place within the 40 yard lines. And they depend so much on us. Theyve franchised out so much of their security n prosperity to us. Theyre uncertain. Theyre not used to this degree of uncertainty. The things they thought they could take for granted they can no longer take for granted. Rattled. That was the president s word. Senator Bernie Sanders is not let going ever home that california will be the state to propel him to the democratic nomination. He rallied a crowd of close to 10,000. I know, michael steele. Amazing. At Ventura College in southern california. 10,000 people. Sanders didnt have much to say about Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party but he did mention his offer to debate donald trump. It appears that donald trump is prepared to debate. And im very excited about it. And i think were going to have to rent out the largest stadium you have here in california. Id love to debate bernie. But they have to pay a lot of money for it. Because im in first place. Ive won. Id Say Something over 10 million. Weve had a couple of calls from the networks already. Do you think its appropriate if Bernie Sanders debates donald trump one on one . Well, you know, i know theyve gone back and forth on this, and they seem to be saying its some kind of a joke. Trump doesnt sound very serious, but i can tell you, im looking forward to debating donald trump in the general election. I really cant wait to get on the debate stage with him. So are they going to do it . Mike barnacle . I dont think so. No . Michael steele . I dont think so either. Do you want to bet . Yeah, right. Double or nothing. A fleet. Im good. I just dont see the metrics lining up for it to really take place. Its a complicated thing. But you want to see it. Its not just what they debate, but what they couldnt agree on. They are drawing on certain to some extent on similar constituencies. Talk about scrambling. Bernie was talking about how many would show up. Theyd have to rent like a massive stadium. But the real loser is hillary. No doubt about that. That explains the laugh. Why wouldnt trump do it . Whats he got to gain from doing it . Yeah. The real loser is hillary. Yeah, but i dont think if thats the equation. If trump did it before california, that would raise bernies status. Trump already has it. If he wants to hurt Hillary Clinton more, he does the debate. And it would i dont understand why he wouldnt do it. Bernie can get his punches in. Its not going to hurt donald. Why dont you think its going to help him . I think part of it looks at it is donald trump has not had a one on one debate yet. We dont know how he would perform. I think bernie would be a great warmup. Maybe. Bernie could also inflict some damage. Thats something im sure the campaign would have to be it would be practice. I think it would be raucous. Oh, it would be that. Still ahead, a government study finds a link between cell phones and cancer. Well talk about that in just a bit. First, president obama goes where no american commander in chief has gone before. Well have his stirring words from hiroshima, the first place mankind used a Nuclear Weapon during war. First, bill karins with a check on the forecast. Great if we had a nice simple memorial day weather forecast. We dont. Record heat in the northeast. Possible tropical system in the southeast and still dealing with the aftermath of Severe Weather in the Central Plains thats continued through last night. Yesterday around areas in bryan,
texas, a distant tornado. Large one on the ground. Thats transformers blowing as that was raked in the ground. And the flooding got very impressive late yesterday overnight it continued. Started in austin, texas, and moved to college station. Right in between austin and houston got nailed by training thunderstorms all night long. We ended up with about a foot of rain around the brennan area. One report as high as 16 1 2 inches of rain in one night. In some areas, thats like a whole years worth of rain. Still a flood emergency there. As far as the houston area, youve cleared out for now. Isolated storms later. Dallas is in some soaking rain. Big thunderstorms out here between san angelo and waco. In the southeast, 80 chance this becomes bonnie over the next couple of days. This provides us with gusty winds, squally weather, coastal ga, North Carolina and rip currents through your memorial day weekend. If your memorial day weekend
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survivors of the bomb that killed 140,000 people. Richard haas, the symbolism of thus, any concerns . Its a gesture towards japan, and its the concerns in the region are just that. The United States moving closer to japan. For the president , its a tight rope to go there. This was an act that saved enormous number of american lives. It hastened the end of the war. A lot of people also think it saved some japanese lives because had there been an invasion, the amount of japanese that would have died would have been far greater than those that died with the two bombings. How do you go there to acknowledge and not apologize. Thats the tight rope. Thats why the president was talking not so bmuch about the past but about the future to reduce or get rid of nuclear arms, which unfortunately doesnt look like its going to happen. How did the president do navigating that . The problem is going there is he avoided any explicit statement. Its the implicit that simply by going there, there will be those that say japan hasnt done enough to do certain types of apologies. Hasnt dealt with the issue. So weve met them more than halfway. But i actually think its part of a larger thing. The socalled pivot to asia. What it shows is that the United States does want to get beyond certain historical things. We want to move closer to japan, vietnam, the earlier part of the trip. The chinese will be made. More than anyone, china will be slightly uneasy as they see the contours of american Foreign Policy. And given what china is doing and the building up of the islands, thats not necessary lie a bad thing. Im curious how the president s rhetoric, which was very well deliver and very solid rhetorically. How does that square with the iran deal where theres concern where youre saying you want to take down this Nuclear Menace potentially, but a lot of people
argue, the very deal you struck with iran actually increases that menace down the road . The president and those defending the iran deal would say dramatically decreased over the next 10 to 15 years Irans Nuclear capabilities. And theyd say thats consistent with this spirit. The big question about the iran deal is does it stimulate Nuclear Activity on the part of irans neighbors. And what happens after 10 or 15 years when these ceilings go off because then iran is free to build as many centrifuges and to accumulate as much uranium enriched uranium as it wants. And a lot of people, interestingly on the left, are saying this administration hasnt done enough to reduce Nuclear Stockpiles. The real nuclear question more than iran, more than any of this is going to be north korea. Whoever wins this election is going to have to deal with the north korea that can put Small Nuclear warheads on missiles that can reach the United States. That has the potential to be the great Foreign Policy challenge
before the first term of the next president is over. Coming up, on wednesday, Hillary Clinton was slapped on the wrist over her use of personal emails. Yesterday she said this. Well, it was allowed, and the rules have been clarified since i left about the practice. Having said that, i have said many times it was a mistake. And if i could go back, i would do it differently. Im confused. Up next, Chris Jansing joins us with a group of i just, the state Department Said she violated the policy. So how is it allowed . If shed asked, theyd say no. Okay. Chris jansing is going to join us with this focus group on how women voters are interpreting the latest twist. man oh, looks like we missed most of the show. woman and theres no way to restart it. jon bon jovi with directv there is. You see, weve got the power to turn back time so lets restart the show that started at nine
and while were at it, lets give you back your do and give her back the guy she liked before you hey, thats the power to turn back time. vo get the ultimate allincluded bundle. Call 1800directv. Mountains, and racetracks. Ve conquered highways, and now much of that same advanced technology is found in the new audi a4. With one notable difference. The allnew audi a4, with available traffic jam assist. Donald trump is an urgent threat to our rights and to our country. Two years ago, donald trump personally signed a contract with a unionbusting firm to break up unite heres organizing campaign at his hotel in las vegas. I was proud to join those workers on the picket line last fall. That was Hillary Clinton speaking in las vegas yesterday. Were back with john heilemann,
mike barnacle and Thomas Roberts joins us as well at the table. And with us from san pedro, california, Chris Jansing. Yesterday you sat down with a group of democratic voters in california. What did you find out from these women . Well, i found out that its going to take a bit of work to bring the Democratic Party together, if there are any indication. We wanted to talk to young women. Nbc did an analysis of the exit polls in the contests held so far. Bernie sanders with women under 30 beats Hillary Clinton 6831 percent. Voters shes going to need if shes going to beat donald trump in the general election. For them, their lives are at stake. Thats how they put it to me. They have college loans. They are starting young families. The makeup of this group we talked to, two Bernie Sanders supporters, two Hillary Clinton supporters. And were going to start with the one undecided voter. Shes a veteran of the air force. Served her country for six years. Now works for veterans. And a lot of the passion in this conversation came when we talked about the inspector generals report on Hillary Clinton and the email server. Lets start with that undecided voter. Take a listen. I take National Security really seriously. And the idea that she would have a private email server, it demonstrates someone who thinks theyre outside of the rules. Exactly. And not accountable. Its reckless. And i dont the most disappointing part is i dont feel shes taking responsibility for it. Jessica, you are a supporter of hers. Are you worried about the email controversy. I agree with those concerns but the report also stated she was not the first person to do this. This was a consistent thing with other people who held that office. When people are in positions of power, they have a responsibility and a duty to make sure that what they do is
transparent. And the entire problem with this email server issue is that shes not being transparent. You dont think even now what she said about it . No, its totally, you know, when someone doesnt abide by the rules, they are not being transparent. And the rules are there for a reason. Yes, she is being held accountable. Maybe the Political Climate that were in, but she should be held accountable. I think shes being criminalized versus held accountable. Bernie supporters talk about mass incarceration, talk about how the system is broken, how were criminalizing all these people of color but were criminalizing one person for one mistake which defeats the purpose of for me its not just about the emails. It speaks to her character. When were talking about who do we want leading us in a larger sense than just specific policy issues or specific, you know, decisions, i want someone who i can trust, who i think has, you
know, character that is credible and that im going to believe what that person says to me when they say it and believe that they told themselves good leaders hold themselves to higher standards. N shes not doing that. Shes above the rules. And thats a problem. The great irony of the email exchange is shes moved a lot of people to support her through the emails coming out because shes you can see that shes a person that cares about her staff. She watches the good wife. It is like a great irony that it has actually humanized her in a particular way. I dont know. You feel its helped her . I know a lot of people that are like, i feel like i understand her better and can see what shes like behind closed doord. A lot of times people have trouble interpreting her. She feels cold. I dont think shes very good at running for office. This has shown her truer self who she is behind closed doors. A lot of people are surprised by
the fought ththought they like. There was skepticism about that interpretation of what the emails would mean for Hillary Clinton. What they all agreed is that Hillary Clinton has these problems as a candidate with her authe authenticity and perception shes not totally honest. There was one point of agreement. This is for mika in particular. They all were enthusiastic about the possibility of Elizabeth Warren as her running mate. Even though they range a little bit of the political spectrum, they all thought that she would be someone who would help bring Bernie Sanders supporters over in a way that a lot of other things that were talked about around that table they think would not accomplish. Chris jansing, thank you. Greatly appreciate it. Youve been saying this Elizabeth Warren thing from the beginning. Mika just started saying it this morning. Thomas roberts, you would think
younger women would be Hillary Clintons democratic women, would be Hillary Clintons strongest suit. Its divided. Shes losing 21 acrossing to Chris Jansing. I dont think you can go with gender identity politics. Younger women feel a different selfrespect, a different empowerment that theyve come up with. And they dont automatically identify with Hillary Clinton just because shes a woman. Theyre looking at her and scrutinizing her over other aspects of leadership. And they think potent yelly thats a character flaw about the server and the emails. Thats stunning listening to those women being as skeptical of Hillary Clinton as they are. A table full of men here. Woor n were not in the right position to speak for women. I am because im very sensitive. Almost as sensitive to womens issues as donald trump. Well, yeah. Thats what im saying. Thats my point. Cares a lot. But we did we had the Bloomberg Politics poll yesterday that you guys talked about. So with middle income, with slice poll. Middle income women, working class women in the industrial midwest, clinton has a lead with those women. Theres no doubt that she has a very strong hold on older women. Her demographic is older. The younger women have been surprisingly resistant. Thats true not just in this focus group but across the board. Look at the numbers throughout. Bernie sanders has been connecting with younger women in state after state on the democratic side. And millennials. Overwhelmingly, 85 to 15 , a lot these exit polls have already voted. Its staggering. I agree with thomas. The gender factor is overrated right now, especially among younger men and women because theyre dealing with these
potent yell lp potentially crippling problems. You referred to the Elizabeth Warren situation. It indicates she might be on the ticket . Its just the instincts and sources and also just whats going on. Hillary clinton has a huge problem which is how does she get Bernie Sanders voters to not just accept her but be enthusiastic for her. This millennial vote. Younger voters of both genders. If shes not going to put Bernie Sanders on the ticket. If this fight continues past june 7th to the convention, who would be the one potential person in the world other than Elizabeth Warren. Shes not going to put Bernie Sanders on the ticket. Who is the other person that brings those people in. The war between gawker and the Silicon Valley billionaire
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news. A provocative new study that links alzheimers to the brains own evefforts to fight off infection. What does that mean . Its in worms and mice. So lets pause. Weve known over the last decade or so that the old theory something is wrong with it because when we develop drugs based upon the old theories, it doesnt seem to work when we reduce them. This is provocative. Far from proven. Well have to see. It may be the problem is you should be seeing a big decrease in alzheimers because weve done better on treating infections and yet that doesnt seem to be the case so lining those things up is going to be important. Its an afternoon we have to pursue. Has there been an up tick in alzheimers over the last
decade . Boo its about 1 in 8. Its one of those nerve degenerative diseases similar to cte in nfl players and parkinsons. We have to look at this whole package of neurodegenerative disorders a little differently. This is a hypothesis thats produced by this study, not definitive scientific evidence. Because lifespan has gotten longer, has that made it possible to expand Scientific Research when it comes to alzheimers patients and genetic links . There are certain genetic links of that almost guarantee youll have it. This recent study is very interesting. Its both genetics and the environment. And its very low level until you hit about 75 and then really
shoots off. By 85, 1 in 3 or 1 in 2 people have it. Its a scary situation for most people. Because thats the disease you fear the most. Losing a brain. There are two things im scared of. Nuclear war and carnies. I want to add a third. Superbugs. Superbugs scare me. It looks like we have one thats coming to the United States. The body of a 49yearold woman in pennsylvania. Tell us about this superbug. Should we be worried . Definitely worried. Definitely. She has resistance to the last antibiotic which weve held in reserve. Military person traveling overseas exactly how she got this resistance is unknown. But if you put this resistance with resistance to the super antibiotics we have, then we are in serious, serious trouble. That hasnt happened yet but
its only one step away. Weve not been developing enough antibiotics. We need a difference approach. The current one of letting the Drug Companies and researchers do it has not been working in terms of antibiotics. About a year ago, i suggested a big multibilliondollar prize for more antibiotics. I think we need a new idea about how to develop great antibiotics. Its not just us. The chinese need a new idea. Theyve used coliston in farm animals. Weve been holding it in reserve. So this is a world wide issue that the world has to approach as a big Large Organization and community. All right zeke is going to fund that multimillionthere are prize. Its very easy. A lot of money left over. Between the americans, the europeans and japanese, its not that hard. Especially if were all being threatened by it. Dr. Zeke, greatly appreciate it. Dr. Campbell, appreciate it as well. Coming up next, what, if anything, did we learn today . Hey, need fast heartburn relief . Try cool mint zantac. It releases a cooling sensation in your mouth and throat. Zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. Nexium can take 24 hours. Try cool mint zantac. No pill relieves heartburn faster. Daddy doing work,d its funny that ive been in the news for being a dad. Windows 10 is great because i need to keep organized. School, grocery shopping. My face can unlock this computer. Thats crazy. Macbooks are not able to do that. Hey cortana, remind me we have a play date tomorrow at noon i need that in my world. Anything that makes my life easier, im using. And windows is doing that. That is already done in
effect. There is no way that i wont be. Does that make you mad seeing that . Just a tinge arrogance. What did you learn today . Me . I learned between dave and zeke the fact that they cant really agree on the cell phone usage doesnt make me feel badly that i dont want to talk on it. Id rather text. I learned two things. Up until the doctors were here, i thought i was going to have a nice weekend. Now im going to be fearful. Last night, kate scarborough, 12 years old, got up at prohibition and blasted it. The voice that came out of that little girl. We also had the mayor there last night. Bill de blasio. What are you joe scarborough, the marathon. I try to run a marathon every weekend to loosen up the joints. I think its the runners physique. This is what you look like. A guy posted a picture on instagram of one of my music shows. And you get the comments. And one of the comments was, would it really kill you to exercise once in a while . Rock star, yeah, yeah. All right. Have a great memorial day weekend. As always, thank you so much for your patience. Your forbearance. And forgiveness. Coming up, Kristen Welker. Shell be much easier to watch. I promise. Shes just not as irritating as i am. Reminds me of a story. If you look, its a very tough path to get to the presidency. If you are a republican. We had a very productive phone call. At this point, he is prepared to ba