The judge belongs to a group called san diego Lawyers Association which does advocacy work on behalf of latinos. Its not associated with the radical group, but confusion is understandable. Because of that, mr. Trump apparently believes the judge may be biassed against him as it is well known the candidate has taken a strong stand against illegal immigration. The trump u case is political to
some extent, and its a high profile situation. Because of that, talking points believes that the judge should recuse himself. Not because he did anything wrong, he didnt. But to eliminate any doubt as to the motivation in court rulings. No. That didnt happen. Did he just say that . That because trump called it was a parody. Its like a to recuse himself . Because trump made a racist statement about the judge. Is that the new standard we set . Apparently. Know what you call that . Killing justice right there. Oh, thats a book a really bad its staggering that you actually have a defendant in the case making racist comments
about a judge. Highly decorated judge, an honorable judge, who took on the mexican drug cartel. Exactly. In detail yes. And because a defendant makes racist comment about a judge talking point said he must recuse himself . Remember its talking point not oreilly himself. One should point out, this is not fox news position because megyn kelly on the same evening took exactly, of course, the opposite position saying this is absurd what trump is saying about the judge is, you know, a lawyer who tried to make this argument would be sanctioned. Im sorry, around schwarzenegger came out yesterday i retweeted that. He said the judge is an
American Hero. A guy that took on the cartels. It goes on and on. Trump had the call yesterday where oh. He ramped it up and encouraged the surrogates to join in on the attacks. You need to read the piece, at least one in the New York Times about this guys life. Trump could not be more wrong. Help me out here. I was doing my afternoon needle point. Crochet. My needle point has gotten a lot better. All right. Smokey mountains. A beautiful scene. [ laughter ] love it. Ill needle pointing and everything, right. Im on ancestry. Com and im looking over and i realize that Donald Trumps mother came to the country about at the same time that this judges mother came to the country. And i put down my Rocky Mountain scene and i said wait a second
if were judging americans, right, right . On their history. Donald trump is no more american than this judge. This is insanity. Then he went wack a doodle lets back up a little bit. Everyone calm down. Can i ask a question . No. Mark hall paren, what is going on . I saw don rickles last night. How many Million People watch it . Armed forces ii. 72 million. If you had Armed Forces Radio across the planet watching and last night you started asking the question weve been asking for awhile here. Does he want to win . Has this really become a craze. Just a destruction of the Republican Party for fun. A crazied Reality Tv Show. And destroyed the republican
party. The convention is far enough away some republicans are fantasizing is there a way to stop it . They have to. They are concerned that he will not listen on something as fundamental as this. Calling a judge a racist. Lets back up a little bit, guys. Their concern is hes doing this for himself. This is about his own private litigation. And nothing to do with helping the Republican Party. No, no. Hes ruining it. If he will do this much damage to the Republican Party for his own self, theyre worried about him and what might happen in the next five months. The good news is the leading republicans who endorsed them revoked their endorsements. One after another. Yeah. Its june 7th. Chief washington is here
it was donald trump. A personal friend of mine. What the heck . He was announdenouncing me b adding paraphernalia threadd ing parentheticals. Gene of washington. Eugene robinson. Exactly. Hes scottish. Bloomberg politics reports trump demanded they intensify their attacks on judge cure yell and others involved in the case involving forprofit Trump University. According to bloomberg trump told the surrogates we will overcome and ive always won and im going to continue to win and thats the way it is. It goes on. When former Arizona Governor jan brewer interrupted the discussion to inform campaign that his own campaign had asked surrogates to stop talking about the lawsuit in a email on sunday, trump immediaty
overruled his staff. Take that order and throw it the hell out. That came from the staff thats right. His very, very small staff. His staff puts out an order. Stop talking about it. His teeny staff. Yeah. I predicted on the program yesterday he would trump would realize this is a huge mistake and try to apologize and ring the bell. And my bloomberg colleagues Jennifer Jacobs said we heard about the Conference Call. Clearly he apologized. It turns out no. Theres a little phrase that willie likes to use called doubling down. Trump apparently said are there any other stupid letters sent out to you folks . Meaning directives sent from his campaign. His very Small Campaign. Thats one of the reasons i want to have this call. You are getting sometimes stupid information from people that arent so smart. So donald trump has a Small Campaign. Yeah. Its tight. He hasnt had to hire that many people. No. You think if he doesnt have to hire that many people, hes not going to screw up that badly. Could meet him in the phone booth. Meet him in the phone booth and have time to put down the cable and have a 12course meal inside the phone booth. Apparently he hired people that arent that smart. Thats what im saying. If this guy is going to be hiring people to run washington, d. C. , he cant even pick a few people that hes already calling stupid. Its his own people that he selected are stupid. Yes. Bill clinton has an expression he couldnt organize a twocar parade. Campaign manager cory said he wouldnt share details of the private call, which covered multiple topics. Only trump gave the individuals in the call the understanding the background of the case that it should have been dismissed on summary judgment. The bloomberg report was not accurate, he said, but refused to specify inaccuracies. Last night trump spoke with fox news Host Bill Oreilly, as you saw, called on the judge to recuse himself to eliminate doubt. If the judge recuses himself, itll be interesting. I think the judge is an honest man. I dont think hes hosing you. I dont. I checked him. I hope so. Look, i want him to be. Mexican or not mexican. I want him i want him to give me a fair shake. When we have thousands of people saying this is great i got it. Why does it continue to go forward . You know, all these times every time i go i want to talk about how lousy the economy is. I want to talk about how badly were doing against isis. How badly were doing at the border. Every time i do a show they want to talk about Trump University. You know in the context of this this is amazing were having, right. This may be a small point, but what trump just said. All i want the judge to do is agree with me. Right. And he is just like tremendously indignant at anybody that doesnt agree with him. Like he cant imagine that. Theres got to be something wrong with the guy. Put aside the bigotry for a second. Lets talk political strategy. What is donald trump doing here if he wants to become the president of the United States. If youre running off latino voters, the argument after mitt romneys loss is he only won 23 of the latino vote and republicans might to get 40 win a general election. As a strategic matter. We know donald trump is smart the way he ran his campaign during the primary. What is he doing with this . Is it about winning a lawsuit the expense of becoming president of the United States . Yes. What are his endorsers doing . What is the Republican Party doing . Every republican in the country is being asked to weigh in. And the best anyone has done in defending him is to say i wouldnt have said it that way but lets move on. Youre going to see editorials and the Clinton Campaign, the Democratic National convention and harry reid, they are going to run with this forever. Because this thing hasnt even played out. As long as trump continues to have the position. We have to talk about the difference between this and the muslim ban at some point. Because that was as abhorrent. I want to go back to republicans, gene, that say, gee, i was shocked by this. Paul ryan this just came out left field. No it didnt. There was a muslim ban back in december we all said was disqualifying. Paul ryan went out and held a press conference condemned it. Right. Yeah. And he was making racist statements about this judge last week before paul ryan endorsed
donald trump. Exactly. It was all out there. You know, it didnt come out of left field. Yeah. This is not out of left field. This is in the main stream. And what a trump has been doing and saying. For paul ryan it came out of left field. There are two reasons. I hear what youre saying butna number one in that case, the hard, uncomfortable truth for the Republican Party was a lot of republicans agreed with trump on the muslim ban. A lot of republicans agreed with him. Right. Right. But ryan had to face the reality that a lot of republicans agreed with donald trump. The other reason is, they hoped, which i know mika will say is a silly hope on their part, they had hoped once he became the presumptive nominee, that he would cut stuff like this out. No, it was up to them to make him. See Bernie Sanders now . Hes not out yet. Hes going get something out of this. Elizabeth warren getting something out of this situation. Thats how it works, too. I thought it was deal making. I thought you guys were so good at this. You guys, you republicans in washington are negotiating like women 20 years ago. Its bad. Let me just tell you. Youre being selfdeep i are candidating and naive. They give you nothing. Nothing. Right, nothing. Back of the hand. Back of the hand. Yeah. So, yeah. The thing is, though, the muslim ban deal. Its not something that you can swat away that easily. And if paul ryan wanted or if donald trump wanted paul ryans endorsement, he could have said you have to back up this muslim ban. Yeah. We have some of the best people in National Security. We can put together a package to make sure its tougher for terrorists to come into the United States. It will give you complete cover. Well standby your side. You can say, hey, i dont feel safe under Barack Obamas regime. But when i am president , regime of letting people in but when im president this is regime well operate under. This is the matrix that people will have to go there u. Instead he had happy talks. And here it is. Quit the muslim ban and ill endorse you. He did nothing. No, he didnt extract anything in exchange. I dont understand what paul ryan would have lost by waiting it out. Were trying to swat this away. Youre starting to see cracks. Lindsey graham in the piece in the New York Times this morning. Its the most unamerican thing from a politician since joe mccarthy. If anyone was looking for an off ramp, this is probably it. There will come a time when the love of hatred will trump
hillary. Republicans just a couple of weeks ago we were talking about how the republicans were united and the democrats were divided. There are a lot of donors and member of congress and candidates who would like to figure out now can we run without being united with trump. Kelly ayotte of new hampshire. And she faces a tough reelection fight in new hampshire. His comments are offensive and wrong and he should retract them. Thats fine. Her Campaign Said she intends to support trump as a nominee. We have a twostep process. If trump continues to double down, at some point for people like kelly, ron johnson of wisconsin, portman in ohio. Theyre not going to be able to this becomes endorse a guy that makes racist statements about people born in indiana. Youre right. It becomes a clear loser for
them. Right. In indiana. Becomes a clear loser for them. They have to cut him loose. Lets stop here. Because, you know, a lot of times we say things and we got to go to the other things. The new hillary ad. A lot of times we just stop and say hold on. And, like, for instance during the Republican Convention in 2012, all the republicans wasnt that cool . We just stopped and said this is a disaster. The Romney Campaign is in deep, deep trouble. And theyre going to lose if they dont turn things around quickly. People went absolutely crazy. I get skewered 24 hours a day. My twitter feed. You have no idea say this right now republicans in washington, d. C. , right now youre letting your presumptive nominee, who is making racist statements run rough shod over what remaining National Reputation we have as a national
party. So you to start calling him out today. This is not where you can do the slow boil. You have to start calling him out and saying youre going to retract your endorsement of him today. Or else the United States senate is in danger. Kelly ayottes seat is in danger. Rob portmans seat is in danger. Ron johnsons seat is in danger. A lot of other seats the party are in danger. If the speaker of the house who continues to endorse a man making racist statements and really tearing away at the very fabric of madisons separation of powers that talks about an independent judiciary, then the house of representatives is in danger. We will tell you this remember, and it may have drove you crazy in the fall when willie and i said what is today . We would say okay trump is still ahead. And you would say hes going to fall . And, you know, look at the day. And we said he wasnt going to fall. He was going win the nomination. Now what is today . Today, willie, today is june 7, 2016. Republicans, call him out. Back away from the endorsements. Make him back down on the muslim ban. Make him back down on the racist comment hes made about a man born in indiana saying hes incapable of being a fair judge because where his parents were born. Or else you will lose the senate and you will lose the house. You will lose the presidency. You will lose governorships. You will lose your standing as a national party. Its that simple. And one other point on this, according to my michael of yahoo . Last month the plaintiffs lawyers argued to hold a trial as soon as possible in that 6yearold case saying there are people who paying off their debts from the money they paid to Trump University. But the judge pushed the trial slated for just after the Republican Convention back to november 28th, so it would not
interfere with the campaign. That sounds fair. In footage captured by yahoo news, this is what trumps own lawyer said outside the courtroom on may 6th, just three weeks before trump began claiming the judges heritage made him biassed against him. You said you have no plans to ask the judge to recuse himself. Can you talk about that . If the judge is doing his job and were not seeing to recuse the judge. Were trying to assert our rights and i think the court today is balancing out competing interests. We preferred a trial later in time and well set it november 28th when it was preferable there you go. Meaning all around. He was wrong all around. Still ahead on morning joe
Hillary Clinton is declared Presumptive Democratic nominee. Dont tell that to six states voting today. Plus, well ask senator bob corker how its possible to support a nominee without supporting what he stands for. Thats a good question. Plus, david finch bowed out of his independent challenge for the white house. First, bill karins with a check on the forecast. Bill very well. Very well. Too well. A little uncomfortable intimately. Tropical storm k orcolin pre much a dud. No complaints at all. A little storm surge about 2 to 3 feet in some areas. There were waves and minor damage that was done, but in general we didnt have any significant structure damage that was done. We didnt have any reports of injuries or deaths. The winds were not that strong. We had a little bit of water to deal with. That water since receded. So this morning what is left of colin is out of the eastern
banks and raleigh is clear. And this will be gone by about 10 00 a. M. Here is our future radar showing the storm headed off the outer banks and the southeast is clear with the exception of left over showers and storms through central florida. The other story today new england is going to be warm and then its going to get much cooler. In between well get some thunderstorms. Right now a few showers out there. We have a chance of Severe Weather today. Areas of southern new hampshire, vermont, massachusetts, northern county, large hail could be possible with these storms. And the timing of these will be typical Late Afternoon into the evening. Boston around 7 00 to 8 00 for you. Springfield and hartford around 6 00 p. M. So, again, colin is exiting. A nice quite weather pattern the rest of the week. New york city in for a nice day today. A chance of a stray shower later today and cool weather tomorrow. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. L alive
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unprecedented moment, but we still have work to do, dont we . We have six elections tomorrow and were going to fight hard for every single vote, especially right here in california if we can win here in california, south dakota, north dakota, do well in new jersey, were going to go into that convention with enormous momentum. Bernie sanders last night vowing to fight on. The speeches came after the ap and the nbc news declared her the presumptive nominee setting Hillary Clinton up to become the first woman to secure a major party nomination. Im asking you. Ill tell you, mark, i was surprised by it. Again, i mean, theyre calling it the presumptive nominee. We dont know what happens between now and the convention. The super delegates vote at the convention. You cant put those in her column until we see what happens. There are other things going on. There are investigations going on. I think you wait until actually the super delegates. Trump is the presumptive nominee but i guess trump is over his number and he doesnt have to wait to see how people are going to vote at the convention. Pledged delegates. Yeah. Look, lets pay homage to historic reality here. A woman securing a major party nomination. Amazing. After florida in 2000, i became hard lines for anybody. It turns out there was voter error until its certified. The press, as bob novak would say a lust for declaration. These are tallied. Shes every bit as much the
presumptive nominee as trump except the fact theres somebody in the race. And super delegates, as sanders said, should change their mind. I think he should be given the time to change his mind. And not have to face a rush to judgment about the result. By the way, the press tallies these things. The press is tallying it not a super delegate has switched. But they could. But theres no other candidate against trump. There could be rules changes. If it relies on super delegates who declared publicly they support clinton or sanders or told nbc and or the ap privately they support sanders. You try to add them up and they got across the threshold. The word presumptive covers a
lot of sense. Thats true. But shell be declared the winner of the new jersey primary before the votes are counted. Yeah. You know, because there will be projections that say shes going to win new jersey. Its the same thing. Presumptive. I dont think we should do it but thats the way the press operates. You dont agree . No. But im not singling her out. Im not singling her out. That the votes be counted by party officials. Congratulations to Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile the super pac supporting Hillary Clintons candidacy is attacking Donald Trumps soul. The new tv ad from priorities usa action set to air in Battle Ground states it talks about trump mocking a reporters disability. Something the candidate denies. I remember being in wbr id wbr17354 the ultrasound room and founding out daughter was going to be born b
with a disability. She was born 20 weeks later on valentines day. And she is a total blessing in our lives. Grace is the happiest child youve seen. Despite her medical challenges, she brings out the goodness in each person. Thats what we see every day with grace. When i saw donald trump mock a disabled person, i was shocked. You ought to see this guy. I dont know what i said. I remember. That reporter hes talking about suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. The children at graces school all know never to mock her. And so for an adult to mock someone with a disability is shocking. When i saw donald trump mock somebody with a disability, it showed me his soul. It showed me his heart. I didnt like what i saw. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. What do you think . I think its wbrid wbr17954 pretty good. The super pac said it will air in ohio, virginia, iowa, new
hampshire, and colorado along with two other ads. Priorities usa said it will have spent 26 million on ads attacking trumps character by the start of the Republican Convention on july 18th. Its a piece of a larger message that youll hear from the Clinton Campaign. Hes a bully, hes meanspirited, and this is just one corner of that. Shes actually setting up that message to land perfectly in the minds of millions of americans. At a time when people are making up their minds. Its an important period now. And shes out there defining him. Hes helping. Hes defining himself. Hes helping in a major way. He has no idea. The focus on the attacks on the judge are distracting from a lot of other problems with the fund campaign. They dont have a fundraising apparatus like the clintons. The Clinton Campaign just nuts
and bolts of president ial politics. This ad will go unchallenged in the short term because they figured out which super pac is supporting trump attack secretary clinton and fight back. And in the short term, as gene said, you know, trump thinks he can gear up for the convention and coast between now and then. He cant do it. Again, mark, your cohost jo hileman wrote a piece saying this is what theyre doing in may. Theyre going to paint romney as a coldhearted person throughout this. Define him by the time he gets to the convention so he cant turn that around in the fall. Thats what they did. Thats why we were saying here a month ago that trump has about six weeks to turn this ship around over the six weeks hes gone in the opposite direction. Its been a disaster. Even internally theyll admit hes been wasting time. The question is has it been pushed to the side. You know that statement probably came out and trump who sent it out stupid. Theres so much to do. Manfort has been on the job a couple of weeks and the things i listed surrogate operation, fundraising, super pac decisions is trump i think negnoring h . We saw man fort what type of campaign he wanted to run after the wisconsin debacle. He disciplined trump, kept him off tv and the sunday shows, manage the message a lot better. Hes not listening to anybody. Hes not listening to his family. Hes not listening to ib anybody. No. And why not . Why is he not listening to his family . He thinks he knows best. He thinks he knows best. Hes delirious. And the racist donald trump. Thats a big part of the problem now. Have an ad of real people, real americans who are speaking out against donald trump versus a guy using his time in the spotlight talking about his civil case. You cant he was born in indiana. For a lot of republicans, that contrast says that everything about where the race is now. Because trump is simply doing this to defend himself. Theres no benefit to the Republican Party. None. Its getting worse by the moment. They should be more than scared. They should be galvanized and acting. My god, are they blind . What has he done and said every step of the way that has given
them any hope he could work with them . At some point, theyre the ones who have to deal with actually they have to do the math. All along the way in the primary process, there was this, there was that. There was this explanation, there was that explanation. There were the primary voters. This is blatant racism. And he cant say its out of left field. You cant say that. Paul ryan, it didnt come out of left field. He knew it all along. He knew what he was getting when he endorsed him. The must read opinion pages ahead. From video highlights to the top talkers. The morning joe news letter has new features added all the time. Willie and i opened it up its one of the last hotels in new york. man oh, looks like wmissed 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 give yback time. do vo get the ultimat allincluded bundle. Call 1800directv. Wrely on the Us Postal Service . Because when they ship with us, their business becomes r business. Thats why we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than yone else in the country. Here, there, everywhere. United states Postal Service priority you
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mission and a huge distractions. I dont see it going anywhere. I dont i think in order to be a Viable Third Party candidate, i think you have to have a National Name id and a ton of cash in order to get even a blip on the radar. I think the people involved with it are embarrassing themselves. That was rnc chair Reince Priebus flat out reflecting david french as a Viable Third Party candidate. Im writing him now an email saying you, sir ultimately david french did bow out of the of the race but theres plenty of daylight for somebody to challenge the twoparty system. Let me ask you this hes a constitutional lawyer and he joins us. We love you. So was bill kristol taking another hit of his bong one night and did he call you up and say, hey, dude, i got this great idea for you . Well, it was over dinner. So it wasnt a phone call. He was doing a bong hit over dinner . Thats crazy. He was hungry. Now youre putting words in my mouth. Its gotten so horrible out there that even i thought about this. Look, you know, we have a situation for gop officials that are not just heading for the hills, theyre endorsing the man. Theyre endorsing the man. You know, the question was could a complete outsider, somebody who had, you know, a decent biography come out and say to the american people, look, we can do better. Yes. If you had 200 million. And i did a deep dive into it. Theres a path. 65 of americans want to at least consider another option. Could you have gotten on the ballots . Thats you know because everybody is saying its too late. Other than texas, no deadlines have passed. That is the easiest question to answer. Yes. Absolutely. So an independent candidate
that is well funded could get on 49 ballots. Absolutely. 48. Theres a path to texas. Yeah. So absolutely. The Ballot Access issue. Ballot access blocks you. You havent studied. There are people saying its a 250 million challenge to get on ballots. Divide that by ten. Its less than 25 million if you paid for every petition. Theres a hunger out there. Theres people willing to consider. And, you know, this is a path that is absolutely wide open. Did trump operatives reach out to your family . My wifes family, yes. Well, you know, it was probably one of the more ham handed attempts at intimidation, which out of the trump operation you can expect the most incompetent way possible. What happened . An individual called and said im sorry but ive been asked by the Trump Campaign to make sure that david knows this will be
really bad for him. Which, you know, i learned about it after i made the decision. I assumed if i did this, look, i have been up against trump for some time. And the assaults on my family have been overwhelming just as a writer. The as everyone knows, trump has an online racist mob that he often stokes by retweeting some of these horrible white supremacists. That online mob is fond of pointing out i have a multiracial family and they have gone after my daughter in the worst way imaginable. Its one of the things im sorry. Theyve attacked you for having a multiracial family. You have no idea. Threats. Ive had neighbors who this is months ago before i considered this. Neighbors who were nervous there were going to be attacks in our neighborhood. Its been he unlocked something terrible in this country. Its one of the reasons i was so
motivated to look at this. If nobody it stepping up but the reasoning that somebody is better than nobody. Its not always the case. I did more harm than good as somebody without a lot of name id coming forward without the natural constituency he could go, oh, look. Theres that not Many Americans that oppose me. When there are millions. Is that someone from the Trump Campaign called someone from your wifes family . They identified themselves as someone affiliated with the Trump Campaign who had been told to call, you know, a member they tracked down a member of my wifes family in tennessee. While this is going on. And i only learned about it later. You know you consider that a threat . I considered it a ham handed effort to intimidate me. If there is a path, as you have described in here, why have people like homichael bloomberg who could put a billion dollars into it. Maybe hes not the perfect candidate to run down the middle. Why havent other people done
it . Michael bloomberg took a look too soon, frankly, i think. If he waited awhile, i think he was worried he would take more votes from Hillary Clinton and end up electing trump. I think the candidate the independent has to come from the center right. Thats where so much of the low hanging support is from the center right. Its an Establishment Group of voters from Republican Party cant abide trump. Theres a constitutional tea party wing. I think theyre willing to put aside the differences and say trump is a threat to the party of lincoln. When paul ryan endorsed him, the day before all of these horrific comments and im not going to use the phrase mexican judge i did but hes an indiana judge. Who is an American Hero hiding out from drug cartels. Were you shocked that paul ryan endorsed donald trump the day after he started making his racist comments about this
indiana judge . At this point, nothing shocks me. I was profoundly disappointed. Paul ryan is a good man. Yeah, he is. What happened . Eugene, you write in the Washington Post endorsing trump will leave a mark. Imagine what a disaster it would be if this man were elected president. Think about it. Then consider your obligation as a citizens to prevent such a thing from happening. Gop leaders who choose party unity over principle should know that there is no way back. When you embrace trump, you make a decision that will stay with you forever. I suspect that most of these Establishment Republicans who now meekly support trump believe he will lose perhaps badly and are positioning themselves for the aftermath. But that is no excuse for putting the nation in peril by endorsing trump and thus bettering his chances even incrementally. Hes not going to change. He is who he is. The question for those who
cynically support him, who are you . Gene, who are you . Who are you, paul ryan . You know, sometimes you listen to paul ryan speak and he can be inspiring. Hes a smart man. He claims intellectual leadership over the Republican Party yet he endorses donald trump who mocks and makes a travesty of the ideals that ryan proports to represent and uphold. You can go down the list. You know, marco rubio, you call him a con man. A con artist. By the way, marco rubio said you cant trust donald trump with the nuclear codes. Exactly. Hes saying hey, you know, lets give him the codes. Ill endorse him. If he wants me to speak on his behalf, you know, at the party, ill do it. I know. And i dont understand the
calculations theyre making and, frankly, i think that as the days go on, more and more of them will not understand the compilations they have made and figure out what, if anything, they can do about it. But, you know, this is just going to get worse and worse and worse with them. Its interesting. Its coming from both sides this morning. Gene at the Washington Post and Brett Stevens at the wall street journal making almost the same arguments. If you get close to trump youre stained by history. Do u i dont want to be attached to this in the eyes of history. Do you think anybody will jump . Its not too late. How would it happen . How is not too late . You have to have existing constituency and resources you have yourself or mobilize instantly. If you get on the ballot on 45 or 48 states. You can get on the debate stage. What will the world look like in three months. It things continue like this. And i couldnt agree more that, you know, this active endorsing is going to stain the reputations of these gop officials forever. The idea they step forward. They didnt have the moral courage to sit it out. Not even sit it out. Even wait and demand of trump. Your muslim ban, drop this and that. Lets talk economics. Well have a debate between populist economics and conservative economics. They could have done that. They refused to do it. They rushed in line. And they did it because what i believe is a blip. He got close to Hillary Clinton while Hillary Clinton is embroiled on a big fight in the democratic side. All of a sudden, it looks like he has momentum. To me its political cowardess. The people involved in talking with me are embarrassing themselves. Hes embarrassing himself. Here is a talented man, an inciteful man with a lot of godgiven talent and using it to advance trump. Hes going to look back not a year from now, five months from now and say what was i doing . I would think hes looking at it now. I would hope. Saying wait a second donald trump just questioned the integrity and character and the honesty of a man born in indiana in the midwest. Just like Reince Priebus because of where his parents were. His parents worked hard. This is pretty straightforward stuff. Is think any chance that we in the media and others are making a mistake in saying this is a big problem for donald trump as we did so many times during the primary or is it completely can i answer that . At this point im of the view that we its likely hell sail through this. I think here is the thing, a lot of americans are on a learning curve with him. I was on a learning curve. I did a humbling thing a couple of months ago. I looked at what i wrote about donald trump in august of last year. And i wasnt for him by any stretch. But i wasnt taking it seriously. I admit that. I think there are a lot of americans at this point and as the days and weeks go by, everybody has a different breaking point. Where they say this is enough. You dont want to believe he is actually racist. You want to give him the benefit of the doubt. Hes not earning it. Hes not earning it at all. David french, its nice to see you. Thank you very much. Sorry for what your family has been through. And sorry for having to have dinner with bill kristol. Yeah. It was a great dinner. Hes a patriot. A great man. Yeah. Hillary clinton isnt just looking past Bernie Sanders. Shes looking past donald trump, too. New York Magazine is looking at how a candidate is just shaking off the primaries and planning her post inauguration policies. Morning joe will be right back. You totaled your brand new. Nobodys hurt, but there will still be pain. It comes when your Insurance Company says theyll only pay three quarters of what it takes to replace it. What are you supposed to do . Drive three arters of a car . Now if you had Liberty Mutual new car placement, youd get your whole car back. I guess they dont want you driving around on three whee. Smart. With libty mutual new car replacement, well replace the full value of your car. See Car Insurance in a whole new light. Liberty mutual insurance. Using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all t t framewo. Wire. I bought all t t framewo. And plants needed to give my shop. A face. No one will forget. E what theower of points can do for your business. Learn more at chase. Com ink what are you doingetting faster. E what theower of points can do for your business. Huh . Detecting thats faster, responding faster, recovering faster. When your securitys built in not just bolted on, and you protecthe data and not just the perimeter, you get faster. Wow, speed kil. Systems open to all, buclosed to intruders. Trusted by 8 of 10 of the Worlds Largest banks. Jake reese, day to feel alive
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banner. Even donald trump said thats too white. Bernie Sanders Campaign yesterday ahead of the states democratic primary in california and check odded the famous car. It got a little awkward when the music stopped and bernie wouldnt admit it was over. Welcome back to morning joe. Tuesday, june 7th. We have mark halperin, msnbc Political Correspondent kasie hunt, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist eugene robinson. And in washington, nbc news political director moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. Also, msnbc contributor and editor of the fix Chris Cillizza. What it going on . I fought to see leadership in washington. I think the Republican Party has a new day ahead of it. They finally have realized they
need to no, they havent specifically. What is going on. What is going on with donald trump now . What is happening . How would you gauge this campaign . Hes going backwards. Hes not doing what his advisors are telling him to do. These not doing what his family is teaming him to do. He appears to be combusting over a civil lawsuit. Where is the sense of urgency in the rest of the Republican Party . This is what has happened in the last five days. I saw you guys yesterday, i think i heard mark say theres something about this one that is leaving a mark. Every other one of these moments that we thought were the moment that was going to, you know, that trump was going to have to deal with in a bigger way they sort of went away. This one doesnt feel like its going to go away. And im just confused where is the sense of urgencied in the Republican Party . They have five or six weeks to do one thing or another. Right. Either figure out a way to get
trump to change his tone or tune or figure out a plan b well, Bloomberg Politics reports that on a Conference Call with surrogates, donald trump demanded they intensify their attacks on the judge and others involved in the case involving his forprofit real estate course Trump University. According to bloomberg, trump told the surrogates he didnt. He really didnt. I cant believe it. Its instru dedestruct. It is destructive. Attack the press all you want. Weve been attacked since guttenberg invented the printing press. But eroding the rule of law. Eroding trust in the judicial system. That is a slippery slope
well, here is the thing. Trump is going to be attacking Hillary Clinton on all levels. Right. Personal levels. We all predict its going to get ugly. Right. I actually think hes just undermined any attempt at that being effective. Because hes just proved he cant be believed. This judge has been proven to not be, first of all, what donald trump says he is. But trump has said about him is racist. He is completely undercut his credibility across the board. Now any attacks look stupid, ugly, and possibly wrong. What an impressive judge hes gone after. The governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said the judge is an American Hero. He fought the drug cartels at the expense of his own safety. He had to have protection. The list goes on and on. We have chuck here and Chris Cillizza. What is this strategic move . Is it about winning a lawsuit or
politically what is he doing . Willie, did you use the word strategic. Theres nothing strategic about this. Unless hes trying to [ talking over each other ] i was going to say in the primary, chuck, he had a reason. He knew the muslim ban played well with a certain segment of the electorate. Who does it play well with in a general election . What do you mean calling freedom indiana yeah. If theres a strategy behind it, i dont have any idea of what it is. I think i think he thinks hes going to bully the judge into recusal. Where is his sides motion to ask for a new judge . Well, that whole thing. This makes this even more bizarre in that he claims this bias and yet they have made no formal request. And he call s his own people stupid. It undermines everything he could do in terms of attacking his opponent in the general election. Because hes been proven to be somebody who does not tell the truth. Who does not dial back when he should. He doesnt apologize when he said something racist. Hes throwing stuff out there. Vomiting it out and not picking it up. What is the the fixs take on this. Last night talking points came out and said that the judge should recuse himself. He wanted to take a leave. Hes not going to. What is the fixs position on this . The strategy appears to be run republican primary race in a general election. You know, trump won by running to the sort of hard right and appealing to voters who fed up with obama, fed up with, you know, the way things are. The problem is, you know, hes going to win at the end of
today. Hes probably going to win around 12. 5 to 13 million votes tops. Mitt romney got 60 million votes when he lost in 2012. Obama got 65 million. The idea that you can do exactly what you did in the primary, which is say stuff that is clearly meant to be controversial, refuse to apologize, despite leaders in your party calling on you to. That will work he was dealing with the republican primary electorate that was primed for a message like his. Obama is bad. The Republican Leadership is dumb, and we need someone to fix it. My staff is dumb. Right. The problem is the hispanic community, highly educated whites, you know, he needs to appeal to people outside of the sliver of the sliver which got him the nomination. And thats just a reality. Look, he got about 37 or 38 of the overall vote in the republican primary, which is a piece of a larger piece of the
party. It wont work i dont honestly know. The idea theres a strategy here, willie, i wonder about. Right. I think he just kind of wings it and we connect some of the dots and i dont know if he connects them. The Clinton Campaign must be just jump agent the bit. I think we knew that trump won the republican primary on his instincts. Right. And his instincts were such that, you know, they were in many ways better than the instincts of a lot of the Republican Party establishment, mitt romney knew that. It became obvious. But its clear now, you know, we raised the question is he going to have the instincts for the general election. I think it falls into the category of an example of not doing it. Hes not willing to let Anyone Around him challenge his instincts. I think the reporting from bloomberg shows it. So, gene robinson, the entire world and just the bottom
line is what he is being told the truth, by the way, hes wrong. Trump, you were wrong. Yeah. You were wrong to call out this judge this way. You are wrong to speak in a racist way. You are wrong in every way about who this guy is. And exactly about how you want to play this game with this days. You are wrong. Is anyone saying that to himmed in the campaign or is he just calling them stupid like he called Staff Members in that phone call . It doesnt seem to be matter. I would assume somebody, somebody must be saying, you know, boss, take a look at this. This is hurting you. But its not penetrating. He doesnt listen. Its not penetrating. Not even a millimeter. [ talking over each other ] this is totally selfinterested. Hes not arguing some sort of National Policy or anything
about the country. Hes arguing about his whining about his own civil suit on this Scam University he was running. And, you know, people are not going to get that. Theyre going to get there. [ talking over each other ] his supporters would say you attack donald trump. Youre helping Hillary Clinton. Donald trump is helping Hillary Clinton. Hes getting her one step closer to electing her and nominating liberal Supreme Court justice. Heres a theory that was presented to me. It connects to the unreleased tax returns. Donald trumps Business Record is front and center in his campaign now. Im a successful businessman. The way trump u operated brings up the themes that people who are critical of trumps Business Practices play to make part of the election. Hes using this opportunity to
discredit any attacks on his record. How much hes made it doesnt matter. Hes done it in a way that is wrong. Im not saying its a good strategy. Or a strategy. Im saying this is attempt, according to one theory, to try to inoculate himself against any attacks on his Business Record. There are people who looked at the facts of the case and say it represents a lot of problems. Everyone is like this is when its over and weve said no. No, its not. Oh, no. I will say this botched a lot for donald trump. I dont know how he comes back from this. If he doesnt apologize for being completely wrong. Completely 100 across the board wrong and damaging to the fabric of this country. If he doesnt dial it back and apologize i think he botched his candidacy. I was going to say, i think the problem here is it shows weve talked a lot he has a Small Campaign staff. All of that none of that
matters because he doesnt think hes ever wrong. He doesnt he cannot admit hes wrong. If he gets advice. [ talking over each other ] thats the worst thing you can be in campaign politics. Joe knows this. If you dont have somebody who can say im with you most of the time. Im your guy but in this situation do you didnt do it right and youre better off getting it solved quickly and you dont listen. You go the other direction. He spent 11 minutes talking about it last night. I had three people in the office. If all three say no i cant do it unless i convince one. It got ugly at times. But it kept me so theres a story on the top of page 6, which we havent talked about. Yahoo stunned by couric mess. Theres a story about the producer. Have you seen this . Where the producer completely
cut out all these questions to gun owners and makes them look like bumbling idiots. Their responses. Where, you know, if what was it about background checks or something. What would happen, and it just showed shots of them looking stupid. Just like wow. Stumped them with the question for about ten seconds. It ended up they were smart enough to record the whole thing and they all had very quick, eloquent responses. Without pause or music. Apparently the producer that did this in the yahoo documentary. Has anybody seen it . Ive seen it and heard the audio. Its one of the most stunning things ive seen as far as just a complete, complete hit job on a group of americans. Just stunning. Yeah katie couric initially
said she stands by the movie. Then she came out with a long apology after seeing the edit. She asked a question, then theres an 8 or 9 second pause where its shots of the audience of gun rights advocates looking like they were stumped by the question. Cut to a gun. Unfortunately for the director of the film, the full tape was produced by this group that showed them giving long, thought out 10 minute response to the question. Examples of how to prevent guns from falling into the hands of felons which was the initial question. The answers were about the rights of gun owners. If you served your time in society, you should have the same rights as everybody else. There are legitimate arguments in the debate over background checks and gun ownership. I didnt see the clip but i read about it. Its stunning. How about you guys . Yeah, ive read about it, joe. I havent seen the clip. It sounds like the kind of thing that you dont do journalistically. Have you seen it . Havent seen it but ill say this is exactly what we dont need. I mean, this is the exact kind of thing that convinces people who support gun rights that the other side is sort of plotting against them. You know, this is the good will goes right down the toilet. Youre trying to have a conversation. Chuck, have you seen it . Only the clip and the controversial part of the clip. I didnt i have not watched the whole documentary. I dont of all issues, if youre a part of Something Like this, i can tell you, when i deal with certain issues i know are polarizing on the left or the right, right, that are just fire somebody up. You look at it seven times. Eight times. Nine times. You just scrub it because you dont want something small to take away if you have a larger point to make. The producer, i guess, you need to see. Its one of the most shocki ini
things ive seen in my life. It was not just the producer. It was everybody who put together the documentary. Because the process, as you know, is a collective process from everybody works together and dukes out, you know, and kind of makes sure its fair. Its not just one person. Thats never always blame the producer. Documentaries have to be factual. Yeah. If you can, get the clips. Well play them later in the show. People will be stunned. It was presented an evenhanded look. An evenhanded conversation about guns. Anded ed as chuck said this pie underme undermines it all. Still ahead on morning joe i was the one that broke the Glass Ceiling on behalf of women more than anybody in the Construction Industry and my relationship, i think, is going to end up being very good with women. Donald trump shatters the Glass Ceiling. Ahead, just in nancy pea low see
endorsed Hillary Clinton. Two democrats in california. A divided party and unpopular war. Were not talking about sanders and clinton. Rather kennedy and mccarthy. Tom bro haw as a fascinating look at parallels between 1968 and today. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Hmmmmmm. [ dreams by beck ] hmmmmm. Hmmmmm. The turbocharged dream machine. The Volkswagen Golf gti. Part of the awardwinning golf family. Whatwherever you are. Ing. Spnda zero is fun, easy way to get the perfect amount of sweetness, down to the last sip. Zero calories. Zero carbs. Zero sugar. Zero effort. New splenda zero. Usg 6000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the fruit. Usg 6000 points veggies. And herbs needed to create a popuppickyr in the middle of the city, so now everyone knows. We have some of the freshest juice in town. See what the power of points can do for your business. Learn more at chase. Com ink im walkin, yes indeed and im talkin bo you and me im hopin that youll come back to me
i no, youre notull yogonna watch it tch it we cant let you download on the goooooo youll just have to miss it yeah, youll just have to miss it we cant let you download. Uh, no thanks. I have x1 from xfinity so. Dont fall for directv. Xfinity lets you download your shows from anywhere. I used to like that song. Excuse me. What do you say to women excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me, madam. Im asking a question other hands are up as well. What do you say to women that say you staying in the race youre standing in the way of what could be the first female president. Is that a serious question . Any woman running for president anyone who opposes that any woman that any person that any woman who is running for president is by definition the best candidate. So any woman who runs. To say it is sexist. That any so if Hillary Clinton runs for president is
your point it is sexist for any man to oppose her . If she had more delegates thats another point. That was Bernie Sanders in a Testy Exchange with a New York Times reporter and worth noting for the first time in weeks Hillary Clinton took questions from the media cackling with them. Joining us now tom brokhaw, jeff greenfield. Tom, you were looking at parallels between the current race and 1968 well, for jeff and me, its like groundhog day. Jeff was a speech writer for Robert Kennedy at that time. I think the 1968 california primary was the kind of classic campaign they ever covered. Just that short period of time. Bobby kennedy against mccarthy. Johnson stepped down. Counter culture is running amuck. Doctor king had been killed not
too long before that. Think about all in play. These two Irish Catholics from opposite ends of the pew who loathed each other, frankly, came to california and a lot was at stake. Bobby felt if he won he could persuade daily to support him and get the mom fashion. This is what it looks like in california in the month before the election itself. I shall not see and not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. Lyndon johnsons stunning announcement a little more than two months before california would go to the polls plunges the Democratic Party into chaos. Senator Eugene Mccarthy used the unpopular vietnam war to push johnson from the race, but now bobby kennedy, a 42yearold senator from new york. I came to the state of california to ask for your help. The two men shared a faith, a party, and a mutual contempt for each other. Irish catholics from opposite ends of the pew. Mccarthy, cool, cerebral. I thought the time had come to divide the party if it was not already divided. Kennedy instinctive. I will work with all of you. Give me your vote they did share a mutual passion against vietnam where more than 15,000 americans would die before the year was out. Kennedy, a rock star in black and hispanic neighborhoods lead into White College students avoiding vietnam with deferments. They went into the final hours swinging away. Exhausted. You know what we need in this country, really. We dont have much belligerence. Kennedy won by less than five
points and saw the nomination within his grasp. But there would be no chicago. Robert Francis Kennedy was murdered in a kitchen passage by a palestinian busboy. In the end, kennedy and mccarthy, for all their personal differences shared more views than not. Today the Clinton Sanders race, however it turns out, will be about beating trump, if they can heal their wounds of the primaries. Jeff, of course, you were there. Obviously the shot was bobby on june 6th, 1968. Give us your thoughts of being right there. The thing that keeps coming back to me, you know, 48 years later is he was 42 years old when he was killed. So whether or not he would have gone on to the nomination a
speculative. But the fact that for 20 or 30 years we were deprived of a challenging kind of voice. Challenging the orthodox liberalism of this party. Trying to fuse the conservative belief with the progressive belief in caring. The fact that the party and more importantly the country was deprived of that voice, i think, was a real loss to this country. And quickly, the second thing that strikes me those debates 1968 were about serious matters. Not just between the two of them. Mccarthy and kennedy but between kennedy and the democrats and nixon and reagan running in 68. Very different time. Its remarkable to hear in your piece, tom, mccarthy stand at podium and say its time to divide the party. Its not that you wouldnt hear politicians say that today. Its bring the party together. How does Hillary Clinton do to her party what wasnt necessarily done back in 68 to bring it to together in a way that can advance the cause and keep some of those things that
Bernie Sanders brought into the race. Thats going to be the big trick for her. Its a different charge for her. She has to unite the party and bring the Younger Voters to her side that Bernie Sanders had trailing him around like the pied piper. That was a classic campaign in my judgment. Because the issues that jeff raised. There were real issues at stake here. We were at war. People were dying every day. It was a great Cultural Divide in the country. Race was even bigger than it is now. We have the two articulate people who represented not just such different parts of the party, but had such different attitudes how you should do it and personalities were so much different. People say weve never seen anything like this before. The fact we went through something in 68. Yeah. The part, of course, that dominates this race has was the permit personality of donald
trump. The one key thing that will help h Hillary Clinton unite the party is donald trump. Particularly the last week or two. Having see nothing that hurt donald trump in the primary. All the things i thought and other people that said you have to wonder whether or not her task is going to be made easier by the sheer fact that the last week of Donald Trumps behavior has reached a level that is left a lot of people, including me, absolutely jawdropingly flabbergast flabbergasted. What i dont understand, by the way, if Mitch Mcconnell and speaker ryan that came out for him are saying we hope hell change. I dont know how he changes from this position. What did he say in a week . I was wrong. Thats not donald trump. Hes not going to say i over stepped there. Its not going to happen. Theyre stuck with what theyve got, at this point. It seems know, going to the convention. Last question. Were a day or two left after
the passing of bobby kennedy. You look back at those films, especially the california campaign. I dont think ive ever seen as much excitement around a single plit candidate as bobby in 1968. Would you agree with that . I would, all though there was a different kind of passion around mccarthy. It was quieter but he had a real group of people who were as devoted to him. It was in the end, a close race. When bobby first came to california, jeff will remember this well, and i think that might be a picture but his hair was longer and they put him in the neighborhoods. When he arrived the Burbank Airport it looked like a triumph for him. Within the campaign they said thats not what we need to do. We need to get him a haircut and get him into white middle class in the san fernando valley. He would say i cant run in these neighborhoods. Every time they go to a white
upper class neighborhood he said when i am going back. I was 24 and i thought this is a normal campaign. 20,000 people show up at an airport there are near, you know, clammous conditions. It was 1968 will be a year that will be hard to explain to later generations and still is. Tom brokhaw and tom greenfield. Tom brought some pictures. I spent a lot of time with ali. He came to the today show. Howard bing ham was his photographer. The champ shows up on the today show and kind of unannounced and sits down. We had a Great Exchange in which he did that great thing when i said a lot of people believe you have lost a little speed and he said hold up your hand. He said want me to hit it again. [ laughter ] and then is later. This is in atlanta. Howard, the photographer, called me and said come up to the champs booth. When he lit the flame that day, and no one knew, i burst into tears. And seeing him again in the fragile fashion it was hard to accept. Everything has been said about him in the last few days, but he was, for me, the most charismatic american i had ever encountered. About how he lit up the world not just this country and how he always stayed in control of who he was on his own terms. And theres a lot to be said for that. But he changed this country in so many ways. We looked at everything differently because of him. Tom brokhaw, thank you. Coming up on morning joe. If hillary cannot win a general election without our support, she doesnt deserve the nomination. Wait until the republicans start campaigning against hillary in a real active way. She will stand no chance against that trump. Nbcs Chris Jansing sits down with a group of sanders supporters. Many of them are not ready to presume anything about Hillary Clintons claim to the nomination. That is ahead on morning joe. man oh, looks like we missed most of the show. woman and theres no way to restart it. jon bon jovi with directv there. 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 tturn back time. vo get the ultimate allincluded bundle. Call 1800directv. I like the bride more than the groom. Turquo dresses. So excited. Did all her exes get invited . None got moves like uncle joe. Should i stay or should i go . When its go, book with Choice Hotels and get a free 50 gift card for staying just two times. Book direct at choicehotels. Com. You always have a choice. This just got interesting. Why pause to take a pill . Or stop to find a bathroom . Cialis for daily use is approd to tre both erectile dysfunction and e urinary symptoms of bp like needing to go frequently, day or night. Tell your doctor about all your medic conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex do n take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas for pulmonary hypertension, it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. Do not drink alcohol in excess. Side effects may inclu headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. Avoid longterm injury, get medical lp right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. If you have any suen decase or loss in heari or vision, or any symptoms of an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help rig away. Ask your doctor about cialis and a 200 savings card
i continue to have strong agreements with him on a bunch of issues. And frankly im disturbed by the way he keeps referring to this judge, an american, born in indiana who he continues to raise issues about, and i hope hell stop doing that, but thats what the voters this is the choice the voters have given us in the primary. Well see what happens. Profiles encourage . What is that risk forest fi republicans that dont take on trumps comments about a federal judge. Republican Campaign AdvisorSteve Schmidt joins the table. Wrelyn the us postal rvice . Because when they sp with us, their busine becomes our siness. Thats why we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. Here, there, everywhere. United states Postal Service priority you try duo fusion ing antacids . New, two in one heartburn relief. E antacid goes to work in seconds. And the acid reders one chewable tablet. Y new duo fusion. From the makers of zanc. I built my busins with passion. But keep it growing by makg every dollar cnt. Thats whyave the spark cash carfrom capital one. I earn unlimited 2 cash back on erything i buy for my studio. And that unlimited 2 cash back from spark means thousands of dol each year going bk into my business. Thats huge for my bottom line. Whats in your wallet . My name is barbara and i make dog chow natural in davenport, iowa. Now that i work there and see all of the care and the ingredients that go into it. I value the food even more. I feededoshi dog chow natural because theres no artificial colors, preservatives and its made with real chicken. Hes got so much energy. His coat is so shiny. And he just seems over all happier. Im so proud to make dog chow natural in davenport, iowa. Another antiwrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happe neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works. In one week. With the. Fastest retinol formula. To visibneutrogena®. Inkles. Of course its inappropriate to be taking federal judge as race or ethnicity. You have to ask dont to explain the things he does. Im not going to try to do so. No. 39 past the hour. Joining us now former mccain Senior Campaign strategies and msnbc political analyst Steve Schmidt, msnbc anchor and Political Correspondent steve cor corp. Knacky. And we have hallie jackson. Steve is the rage. Is that picking up . Im in uncomfortable suit. So now you might [ talking over each other ] my, gosh, were talking about what at risk for the Republican Party now. Am i overstating it to say when you got a guy that is being racist against a federal judge born in indiana that republicans upanddown the ballot could be endangered if they dont the right way . Yeah. I think not only in danger but i think youre seeing all of the beginnings, all the outlines of devastation for the Republican Party. You know, i think were certainly setting up the conditions to lose the United States senate and to see a
largest house majorities in the history of the country, you know, shrink down to 10 seats or under. Its a devastationing moment for the modern Republican Party. What does paul ryan need to do . What does Mitch Mcconnell need to do . You think about paul ryan and you think about hiss endor endo of trump. He got nothing for it. He didnt get him to back off the muslim ban or any of the why not . Maybe because hes a bad negotiator. I dont know, joe. But certainly, you know, i know who got the better end of the deal, and i knew who, you know, represented the losing proposition for the Republican Party in that deal. Which is paul ryan. Yeah. And so i think paul ryan is a good man. I think hes a decent man. But you cant the Republican Party from Donald Trumps positions here. Mika, you said on friday, i think, paul, youre going get nothing for it. Got nothing for it. Youre going to get nothing for
it. And trump has proven you right. I think its unbelievably instructive to his reputation. Its a stain. Its a tattoo he just got. Stories around Trump University are continuing to develop. The associated pretsz reports that floridas attorney general personally solicited a political contribution from trump around the same time that her office deliberated joining new york states investigation of alleged fraud in Trump Universitys activities. The money came from a trump family foundation. A political consultant who worked on attorney general pam bondis campaign tells the ap that she and trump spoke several weeks before her office publicly announced whether to join the lawsuit. And that she asked for the donation before she was aware of dozens of consumer complaints about trumps real estate seminars. A group backing bondis reelection reported receiving
trumps 25,000 donation in september of 2013, four days after her office announced it was considering the probe. Back in march, the Washington Post reported trump aid said the donation was a mistake. The mistake was made all the worst because it was not reported to the irs. The Group Supporting pam bondi and justice for all, the charity listed a donation of justice for all a wichitabased nonprofit who said they never got the money. Did she join the suit or not . Not joined she ended up not joining the suit. Florida did not join the suit. Steve, the rage, i bet it makes you angry. To get back to what im talking about in general trump and the judge and now oriley and other republicans circling the wagons for him. The interesting one is ted cruz. You played the clip yesterday. Hes not yet endorsed trump and
i was talking to rick tyler who worked with ted cruzs campaign for most of the race. He doesnt think ted cruz is going to endorse donald trump before its over. He may end up being the highest profile hold out on the republican side. Marco rubio, i think, grappling with the same things. Hes further down this kind of acceptance of donald trump than ted cruz, but my question for you is who is left standing if, in fact, the Trump Campaign continues ends up off the rails at the end of this. Are there any republicans left to pick up the mantle . Well, we dont look, its the beginning of june. Right. We have a long way to go with donald trump as the nominee of the Republican Party. You know, assuming he becomes the nominee. So i think that you look at marco rubio and the other candidates. I think there will be a clear dividing line Going Forward for the future of the Republican Party between people who
accommodated donald trump, and people who held out on principle and said i cant do this. I cant endorse him. If he stays on this track, and, you know, the big question was he won the nomination in an unorthodox style, to say the least. But i think there was a belief that over the last five weeks that having put away the nomination hes going to surround himself with the alist that he talked about. By the way, thats what everybody around trump, including family members said was going to happen. He wins the nomination, hes not going to have the people fighting him, and hes going to raise it to a completely different level. Completely different level and he was a disrupter. A 17person steel cage match. He had to do to win. Having won it the choice wasnt going to be a continuation of the tactics to win the primary. It was going to be a clear choice on the issues. He was going to have the best people around him. He was going elevate. He was going bring his a game. He was going to have the right tones. And just for the record, before we go to halle. Along the way, when a lot of things like this similar to this, not as bad as this happened, but some were equal like the muslim ban. We denounced it because its so obviously denounceble, even though its not necessarily our role in the media. But we said it would work. Im telling you, this wont work. It will not work. We denounced it disqualifying and we felt strongly about it personally. This is undermining Donald Trumps ability to attack Hillary Clinton. Lets go to halle. Hes proving that nothing he says can be believed. Even when hes wrong, he will not back down. Halle, how are people on capitol hill responding to this . Reporter youre seeing just wide spread condemnation from almost everybody on capitol hill
that has spoken so far. There have been notable hold outs. Republicans that not commented. I look at senator mark kirk. We reached out for a comment on this judge situation with donald trump and the response completely looked past any mention of trump or those comments. We went back at the office and asked for a comment and didnt get one. Youre seeing silence from republicans who arent commenting. Were seeing from ted cruz who didnt comment and when we hunted him down responded calling it inappropriate. Again refusing to talk about any kind of endorsement of trump. He didnt answer questions last night about whether he will actually endorse donald trump, or, you know, alternatively not endorse and come out and say he will not be voting for him in the fall. We expect to see him on the hill today. People like senator Lindsey Graham who quoted in the New York Times at some point love of country trumps hatred of hillary
which is a significant statement coming from graham. So, you know, theres nobody. Theres no notable republican. Really, who has come out and backed trump up on this. I guess good news is that, you know, if you take cruz, it was worse for him because at least with this judge, out of indiana, donald trump didnt accuse his father of killing jfk. Thats true. Remember that . Thank god for small favors. I will say, i think, we were talking a little bit earlier about gapping with the difference between what he did in the primary which worked and whether or not this will work in the general election. I think Hillary Clintons campaign, to a certain extent, had been treading very carelifully when the remarks about the judge came out. It took them a beat. Ch its almost they were evaluating. And i think to a certain extent there were people who were surprised at inside the Clinton Campaign about how its going. And i think theyre cautious. They dont want to take it for
granted. Its being done for them. They can just sit back and enjoy the ride. Any attack that comes from trump, undermiwill be undermines inability to tell the truth. Lets talk about california. Does bernie catch hillary in california . It looks like a toss up. It looks like a slight edge now for Hillary Clinton and the big wild card is the news of Hillary Clinton being declared the presumptive nominee. Will that affect voting today. Is there going to be a backlash . Are people going to say not so fast im standing up to the media or people say okay i guess shes the candidate. Going to sign a support here or no effect . If you had to set the line going into tonight, shes probably favored by two points. Well see. I was out there on the ground, and it normally its you can kind of get a sense of which way Something Like that is going to turn. I was there for a week. I still left feeling exactly that way. It seems like the complete toss up. I will say her speech seemed to be a major turning point in
california in addition to kind of nationally and the way we talked about her. The Foreign Policy speech . Tell us its a latebreaking state. A low information state. California is not a state like others where politics is going to be front and center on the news every night. It doesnt giveaway to the freewaychase. And so its really hard to tell whats going to happen in that state. You look at the polls. You see a registered voter poll close. You look at all the likely voter polling coming out of california. Hillary clinton has a substantial lead, which suggests to me that Hillary Clinton is going to be more than okay out there tonight. All right Steve Schmidt, steve kornacki, hallie jackson, thank you all. Still ahead, republican senator bob corker will be our guest. Were back in a moment. Were good. Okay. What if a Million People download the new app . Were good. Five million . Good. We scale on demand. Hybrid infrastructure, boom. Ok. What if 30 Million People download the app . Were not good. Scale on demand withroes. The Number One Company in cloud infrastructure. I bought all the framework. Wire. And plants needed to give my shop. No one will forget. See what the power of points can do for youbuness. Learn mo at ase. Com ink see what the power of points can do for youbuness. Trolling for a gig with braindrone . Cant bla its a drone you control with your brain, which controls your thumbs, which control this joystick. No, im actually over at the ge booth. Were creating the Operating System for industry. Its called predix. Its gonna change the way the world works. Ok, im telling my brain to tell the drone to get you a copy of my resume. Umm, maybe keep your hands on the controller. Look out ohhhhhhhhhh. You know what, im just gonna email it to you. Yeah thats probly safer. Ok, cool. vo on the trane test range yoarn what mak our heating and cooling systems so reliable. If tres a breaking point, well find it. Its hard to stop a trane. Really hard. Real is touching a ray. Amazing is moving like one. 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
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talking points says he must recuse himself . Who is talking points . Remember its talking points. Its not oreilly himself. The collective once you point out this is certainly not a fox news position because megyn kelly on the same evening took exactly, of course, the opposite position saying this is ridiculous. This is absurd. What trump is saying about the judge is, you know, a lawyer who tried to make this argument would be sanctioned. Its just incredible. Im sorry. Arnold schwarzenegger came out yesterday who is governor and appointed judge curiel and schwarzenegger said judge curiel is an American Hero. Quote a guy who stood up to cartels. Well talk more about this. Trump had this call yesterday where, far from backing off. He ramped it up and encouraged all his surrogates to you need to read the piece
about this guys life. Trump could not be more wrong. While i was doing my afternoon needle pointing. Its gotten a lot better. The smoky mountains. Its a beautiful scene. While im needle pointing and everything, right, im also on ancestry. Com and im looking over there and i realize that Donald Trumps mother came to the country about the same time that this judges mother came to the country. And i put down my Rocky Mountain scene and i said, wait a second. If were judging americans, right, right on their history . Donald trump is no more american than this judge. This is insanity. They went all whackadoodle on this Conference Call. Can i ask a quick question . No. Thank you. Mark halperin, what is going on. I saw what about don rickles last night. How many Million People watch . Armed forces 2 . 72 million across the world. If you add Armed Forces Radio across the planet watching and last night you guys started asking the question that weve been asking for a while here. At this point, does he want to win . Or has this really become just a destruction of the Republican Party for fun. A crazed Reality Tv Show where he he just gored it. And basically destroy the Republican Party letting hillary walk into the white house. The convention is far enough away that some republicans are fantasizing about is there a way to stop this because they have to. There would have to be at this point. They are concerned that he will not listen on something as fundamental as this, as
concern the word or back up a little bit, guys. Their concern is, hes doing this for himself. This is about his own private litigation. Nothing to do with helping the Republican Party. No, no, hes ruining it. If hell do this much damage to the Republican Party for his own self, they are worried about him and what might happen in the next five months. All the leading republicans who had endorsed him revoked their endorsements yesterday. They were so smart. One after another. One after another. Scroll the list. Its june 7th. Gene washington is here. Who called him Gene Washington . Donald trump. Personal friend of mine. As he was denouncing mine but adding parenthetically, a man i like. A man i like. Its identifying people where they live. Gene of washington. Gene robinson. Ill stick with robinson, if
i can. Bloomberg reports on a Conference Call with surrogates, trump demanded they intensify their attacks on judge curiel and others involved in the case involving his forprofit real estate course Trump University. According to bloomberg, trump told his surrogates, we will overcome, and i have always won, and im going to continue to win. And thats the way it is. It goes on. When former Arizona Governor jan brewer interrupted the suggs to inform trump that his own campaign had asked surrogates to stop talking about the lawsuit in an email on sunday, trump immediately overruled his staff. Take that order and throw it the hell out. But that came from the staff. Hold on. Hold on. That came from the staff. Thats right. Right . Hes very, very, very small staff. So his staff puts out an order, stop talking about this. His tv staff. I predicted here on the
program yesterday you did. That trump would realize this is a huge mistake and apologize and try to unring the bell. My bloomberg colleagues some of the best in the biz said weve heard about this Conference Call. Well, clearly, he apologized. Turns out theres a little phrase willie likes to use call doubling down. So trump apparently said, are there any other stupid letters that were sent out to you folks meaning from his very Small Campaign . Thats one of the reasons why i want to have this call because you guys are getting sometimes stupid information from people that arent so smart. So donald trump has a Small Campaign. Its tiny. So he really hasnt had to hire that many people. So youd think if he doesnt have to hire that many people, hes not going to screw up that badly with the people he hours
a. Could meet in a phone booth. Could meet them in a phone booth and have a 12course meal inside that phone booth with elbow room. Apparently he went out and hired people who werent that smart. If this guy is going to be hiring people to run washington, d. C. , he cant even pick a few people that hes already calling stupid. His own people that he selected are stupid. Bill clinton has an expression. Couldnt organize twocar parade. Speaking with reporters, Campaign ManagerCorey Lewandowski wouldnt share details of the private call which covered multiple topics only that trump gave them the understanding that it should have been dismissed on summary jmts. The bloomberg report was not accurate but refused to specify inaccuracies. Last night trump spoke with fox news Host Bill Oreilly who, as
you saw, call on the judge to recuse himself to eliminate doubt. If the judge recuses himself, it will be interesting. But i think the judge is an honest man. I dont think hes hosing you. I checked him. Well, i hope so. I want him to be. I dont care about mexican or not mexican. All i want him to do is give me a fair shake. We have thousands of people saying why does this thing continue to go forward . All these times, every time i go. I want to talk about how lousy the economy is. I want to talk about how badly were doing against isis. How badly were doing on the border. Every time i go into a show, all they want to do is talk about Trump University. This is in the context of this discussion, which is just amazing that were having, this may be a small point but what trump just said. All i want the judge to do is agree with me, right . And work it out. He is like tremendously
indignant and if anybody doesnt agree with him, its like, he cant imagine that. Theres got to be something wrong with the guy. Put aside the bigotry for a second. Lets talk political strategy. You have to think, what is donald trumping too here if he wants to become the president of the United States. If youre running off latino voters, if the argument after mitt romneys loss is he only won 23 of the latino vote and republicans may need to get 40 to win a general election. As a strategic matter, we know donald is very smart the way he ran his campaign during the primary. Is this just about winning a lawsuit at the expense of becoming president of the United States . What are his endorsers doing . Every republican in the country now is being asked to weigh in on it. The best anyone has done in defending him is to say, i wouldnt have said it that way, but lets move on. And youll see editorials and the Clinton Campaign, the Democratic National committee and harry reid, they are going
to run with this forever. This hasnt even played out. As long as trump continues to have this position, this thing is well have to talk about the difference between this and the muslim ban at some point because that was as abhorrent, but and then again, go back to republicans, gene, that say, well, gee, i was shocked by this. This paul ryan. This just came out of left field. No, it doesnt. There was a muslim ban back in december. We all said it was disqualifying. Paul ryan held a press conference. Condemned it. Yeah. And he was making racist statements about this judge last week before paul ryan endorsed exactly. Endorsed donald trump. It was all out there. The right hand heard about this. It just hasnt crossed it didnt come out of left field. This is not out of left field. This is in the mainstream of what trump has been doing and
saying. Heres why for paul ryan it came out of left field. I hear what youre saying. Hes naive . Well, number one, in that case, remember, the hard, uncomfortable truth for the Republican Party was a lot of republicans agreed with trump on the muslim ban. A lot of republicans agreed with him. Ryan didnt. Ryan had to face the reality that a lot of americans agreed with donald trump. They also had hoped, which i know mika will say is a silly hope, but they had hope once he became the presumptive nominee hed cut stuff like this out. It was up to them to make him. See Bernie Sanders right now . Hes not out yet. Hes going to get something out of this. Elizabeth warren getting something out of the situation. Thats how it works, too. I thought it was deal making. I thought you guys were so good at this. You guys, you republicans in washington, are negotiating like women 20 years ago. Its bad. Youre being selfdepp
reicating, naive, and you just think that everyone is going to be nice to you. And they give you nothing. Nothing. Right, jen . Nothing. Back of the hand. Back of the hand. In fact so, yeah, the thing is, though, the muslim ban, you know, its not something that you can swat away that easily. And if paul ryan wanted or if donald trump wanted paul ryans endorsement, he could have said, youre going to have to back up this muslim ban. Weve got some of the best people in National Security. We can put together a package that will make sure its tougher for terrorists to come into the United States than ever before. It will give you complete cover. Well stand by your side. You can say, hey, i dont feel safe under Barack Obamas regime. But when i am president , regime of letting people in. When i am president , this is the regime well operate under. This is the matrix people have to go through to be in here. Instead he had happy talks. So here it is. And donald, lift the muslim ban n ill endorse you, but he did nothing. He didnt extract anything in exchange for that. I dont understand what paul ryan would have lost by waiting it out. Or demanding that publicly. You are starting to see cracks in it. Lindsey graham in this piece in the New York Times. He said this is the most unamerican thing from a politician since joe mccarthy talking about trump and judge curiel. If anybody was looking for an off ramp, this is it. There comes a time love of country will trump hatred of hillary. The pressure is on Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party because republicans, just a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about how republicans were all united and democrats were divided. There are a lot of donors and members of congress and candidates that would like to
figure out, can we run without the united with donald trump. Kelly ayotte of new hampshire, and she faces a tough reelection fight in new hampshire. His comments are offensive and wrong, and he should retract them. Thats fine. Her Campaign Said she still incontini intends to support trump as a nominee. A twostep process. If trump continues to double down, at some point for people like kelly, ron johnson in wisconsin, portman in ohio, theyre not going to be able to this becomes endorse a guy that makes racist statements about people born in indiana. This becomes a clear loser for them. People born in indiana. It becomes a clear loser for them. Theyre going to have to cut him loose. Lets just stop right here. A lot of times we just stop and say, hold on. And for instance, during the Republican Convention if 2012,
all the republicans, wasnt that cool . We just stopped and said this is a disaster. The Romney Campaign is in deep, deep trouble, and theyre going to lose if they dont turn things around. People went absolutely crazy. I got secured 24 hours a day on my twitter feed. You have no idea what youre its time to stop right now and say this. Republicans in washington, d. C. , right now youre letting your presumptive nominee, who is making racist statements, run roughshod over what remaining National Reputation we have as a national party. You have to start calling him out today. This is not where you can do the slow boil. You have to start calling him out and saying you are going to retract your endorsement of him today. Or else the United States senate is in danger. Kelly ayottes seat is in danger. Rob portmans seat is in danger. Ron johnsons seat is in danger. A lot of other seats
the party. Are in danger. If the speaker of the house continues to endorse a man making racist statements and, really, tearing away at the very fabric of madisons separation of powers, it talks about an independent judiciary in the house of representatives is in danger. We will tell you this. Remember, it may have drove you guys crazy in the fall when willie and i would say, whats today . Wed look at the day. Trump is still ahead. You guys say hes going to fall. Just look at the day. And we said he wasnt going to fall. He was going to win the nomination. Whats today, willie . Today is tuesday, june 7th, 2016. Republicans, call him out. Back away from those endorsements. Make him back down on the muslim ban. Make him back down on this racist comment that hes made about a man born in indiana saying hes incapable of being a fair judge. Because of where his parents
were born. Or else you will lose the senate. You will lose the house. You will lose the presidency. You will lose governorships. You will lose your standing as a national party. Its that simple. Still ahead on morning joe, senator bob corker says he doesnt condone Donald Trumps comments about judge curiel. When he joins us live, well ask him whether it changes his support for the presumptive nominee. Plus tomorrow is a big day for america. Go to the polls tomorrow and take your family and your friends. Tomorrow in the most important primary in the whole democratic nominating process, were going to win here in california. Hillary clinton declared presumptive nominee, but Bernie Sanders vows to fight on. But first, heres bill karins with a check on the forecast as Tropical Storm colin bears down on the east coast. Florida still getting the
brunt of it. The tampa st. Peter area. Had a minor storm surge and water overwashing in numerous areas. You can see this beach location. Normally a beautiful place to have a lunch or dinner. Yesterday it was about two feet under water. That water has since receded. Didnt get a ton of structural damage. Just a lot of overwash on the shores. Right now in tampa, the storm is long gone. Its over north carolina. But a tail, almost like a cold front down to the south side of this has produced flash flooding early between tampa and ruskin. Storms south of i4. The storm itself is south of wilmington and you can see this is where the center of it is offshore. Almost all of the rain is now exiting the southeast. Only the outer banks has some nasty weather. Heres the latest advisory. The 8 00 a. M. Advisory just out from the National Hurricane center. Its racing to the northeast at 33 miles an hour. They say max winds of 50. Havent seen any reports even close to that near land. That will be over the open water. By 2 00 p. M. Today, starting to
clear the outer banks and increased from a tropical system to an extra tropical low. The other story late this afternoon, maybe isolated severe storms in new england. Marginal risk for a good section of new england. This yellow area here is a slight risk. Thats where we could see large hail. The timing on that does appear to be typical of Late Afternoon into the early evening. These are the scattered storms at 2 00 p. M. By 4 00 p. M. Into the berk shisshish berkshires and summer weather continues. 90s from the west through texas. Going to be 96 today in boise. New york city, looking for some coolish type weather now in the great lakes. Thats heading your way as we go throughout the next two days. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Ight here. Oh no, ill take you up to thfront of the school. Thats where your friends are. Seriously, its, its really fine. You dont want to be seen with your dad . No, its. No. This about a boy . Dad top, please. Ohtheres tracy. What [ horn honking ] [ forward collision warning ] [ car braking ] bye dad it brakes when you dont. Forward collisn rning and autonoavailable onheraking. Redesigned passat. From volkswan. Using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the framework. Wire. Needed to give my shop. A face. No one will forget. See what the power of points n do for your business. Learn more at chase. Com ink
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i was the very first person to call him out about the outrageous comments he made about immigrants calling them rapists and criminals. I was criticizing donald trump for his divisive, insulting, dangerous language a year ago last summer. And i have continued to point out that his kind of hateful rhetoric has to be repudiated no matter what party you are. Its a bizarre, bizarre world. Theres former donald trump Wedding GuestHillary Clinton talking about her condemnation of donald trump early on. And she certainly did. You were reading an article when i got on set. What article . Associated press advancing some reporting you mentioned earlier that the Orlando Sentinel did about Donald Trumps relationship with the attorney general of florida. Contributions he and ivanka made to her causes and campaigns at the time she was considering whether to join the suit against Trump University. Whats problem atic for trump nw is all these things hes done are being seen in a different light as a potential president. As people know, hes bragged about the fact the reason he gave money to politicians was so theyd do what he wanted. He said i understand how the system works because i was a part of it. He said im a businessman. This is what i do. You brought up the wedding. I invited Hillary Clinton to my wedding because if i wanted something from her, im more likely to get it. This story if it were about a normal politician would look horrendous. There were a lot of stories like this before when he was running for the nomination. Its an interesting story based on the timing of her decision to not enjoin the suit and the
contribution. Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, republican senator bob corker of tennessee. Hes been supportive of Presumptive Republican president ial nominee donald trump in the past, and met with the candidate last month to discuss policy. Senator, thank you for being with us. Before we go to the Wonderful World of trump, why dont we figure out whats going on around the rest of the world where you have some say in u. S. Policy. First of all, we understand that we are making some advances in fallujah. How is the war against isis on the ground going right now . Its not going well. Its been slow. Its urban warfare as you know. We have shia militias on the ground, the iraqi military, which really has not stepped up and been as good as everyone would wish for them to be. I think we know its going to be a long slog. Weve got a lot of work to do
there. Joe, moving back to the issue, at the end of the day, we have a binary choice thats coming before us. If you think about the decisions that were made back in 2011, the incredibly immature incursion into libya that just we have 5,000 or 6,000 isis members there. You look at the precipitous leaving of iraq which has created this situation. You look at the fact that we encouraged the moderate opposition in syria and at a time when we could have made a difference. We department idnt do the thin the fact is that weve had a series of really bad decisions that have been made, and weve got to focus on the fact that we have a binary choice that is coming up. So if i could, i, look, i dont condone the comments about the judge. Let me stay with Foreign Policy for one second, if thats
okay. So weve been hearing from some military leaders, also hearing from Foreign Policy leaders that we are making advances against isis on the ground. That their footprint is shrinking. Again, im not crossexamining you. Im hoping for some good news here. Yeah. Is what were hearing, or at least truth check is what were hearing from military leaders correct . Is the isis footprint shrinking . Are things Getting Better there . So we are making slow gains. I was in iraq at a time right before last june when we were planning to go into mosul at the time. Obviously, its june again. Its a year later. We havent been able to make those moves yet. Its a slow slog. Yes, we are making advances. That is true. And we should encourage Additional Advances to be made, no doubt. But its been its certainly taken much, much longer and we
gave up so much, and now were back in with 4,000 troops doing what theyre doing, and we appreciate those efforts. But weve lost years. We lost a lot of ground due to some really poor Foreign Policy decisions. Lets go to mark halperin. You dont condone with your presumptive nominee said about the judge. Can you enunciate why you think what he said was wrong . Well, at every level. And, so, look, mark, i have listened to the program this morning. I read genes fine editorial. And heres what i would say. Every campaign gets to an inflection point, or at least most do. And were at a point right now, joe, myself, so many people would relish being in the position that donald trump is in where he has a chance to change the trajectory of our nation. I mean, what an opportunity is there. And so he has within his fingertips the opportunity to pivot, to move to the general election. Look, in fairness, guys, secretary clinton certainly is an accomplished person, but theres no way that she is going to change the trajectory of this nation. As a matter of fact, shes going to double down going in a direction that is very negative. We have huge deficits. President obama is out there right now looking at hes moved away from the entitlement deal that he was willing to make years ago. Now theyre doubling down. So she is frozen in a place where theres no way that she can senator, could you he has an opportunity to pivot. He has an opportunity to realize theres been some mistakes made, and he has an opportunity to overcome that. Senator, if if i can say one more thing. Were at a hair on fire moment. Im saying, look. Its up to him now to pivot. I want to encourage that. Ive been criticized for saying some nice things about his Foreign Policy. Look, when he gave the speech, it was at an important time. I thought it was a step in the right direction. Ive tried to encourage the type of Foreign Policy that jim baker, one of my heroes in senator, but im sorry weve got to ask you some questions. He has had days of criticism over this. Ill just say again. Enunciate, im sure mr. Trump is watching. Enunciate why what you think he said was not the proper thing to say. At every level. I mean what does that mean . To say that somebody because of their background or their ethnicity has doesnt have the ability to carry something out is wrong. Thats not where we are in our country. And, look, in campaigns like this you have people coming at you. Youve been involved in a
primary. Youve been with primary people throughout it. This is a time for him to pivot and, by the way, i want to encourage that. And i want to remind people like joe that if he can do that, if he can, you know, move away from pride and say, hey, we sort of stepped in it here. We need to move in a very different direction. This is about unifying our country. By the way if he can pivot, he can do that. This is not about republicans and democrats. This is about please dont filibuster. Hold on, mika. This is something weve been saying for the past four or five weeks. He has an ideal opportunity to pivot and mika, at every step of the way, hes failed at that. If he does not pivot because you have talked about your hope that he will, if he does not pivot from this, is he fit to be president . It is up to him to take advantage of the incredible
opportunity that anyone who cares about our nation would relish having to pivot and become the general election candidate that, by the way, there are armies of people that can help with treasury functions, with Foreign Policy, with commerce, that would be willing to come in and help a candidate, lets face it, that hasnt fully formed views on numbers of topics. Part of what people like me do, joe, and mika and others, is to encourage into a direction sure. And this is thats he does not appear to be capable of being encouraged. If he doesnt pivot, is he fit to be president . This is a very important time for him. It is a very important time for our nation. And, you know, it is up to him,
and im going to encourage with every cell in my body until i see that maybe he doesnt take advantage of this to take advantage of the opportunity to change the trajectory. There is no way that secretary clinton is going to do that. It is not possible. It is not possible. So, yes, i am urging him through this Television Show to reassess, to realize where he is. And im saying to you, joe, that if he has the ability to do that, then certainly, you would want to be you want him to be president. So again, i i have been very clear for a very long time, since we talked about the muslim ban, since he pretended like he didnt know who david duke was that there were certain things that were disqualifying. Hed have to change his position on them. And so, yeah, i certainly am glad there are people like you that are encouraging him to not say a guy thats born in indiana
is incapable of being a fair judge. But if he does not pivot, is he fit to be president . But i i am i hear you. Let me ask it this way. Youve asked it three times. If he does not pivot, is he fit to be president . So mika, heres what i mean, i think semi prudent people do, they dont answer questions of conjecture. Heres what people, hopefully, say is, look, if we get to a point where it is seen that the pivot is not capable, that there is really no way that this is going to evolve, ask me the question at that time. Until that time, look, mistakes have been made. Everybodys hair is on fire. I got it. These kinds of things actually, our hair is not on fire. Whats your deadline . Look, i think hes at a very important period of time. And i think over the next few
weeks, he has an opportunity to really move into the general election. Joe and i have seen this happen multiple times where candidates are frozen in the primary process and dont move ahead. But let me just say one more time. All of us should be encouraged all of white house care about the trajectory of our nation should be encouraging at this moment and thats what i hope look. The comments that hes made are totally inappropriate and youve well documented that. Ive documented that. Senator, theyre yelling at me to go. But i have to ask you because youve been talking about me a lot. Ive got the greatest respect for you. I just want to make sure you feel like i do that he has missed an opportunity over the past four or five, six weeks, since people like you and me have been saying he needs to make the turn. Would you agree with me that hes missed an important opportunity and he needs to move quickly to catch up . He has, no doubt, missed an incredible opportunity. He still has time to pivot. He does. Time is running short. But he has time to do that. And, you know, theres still five months or so until the general election ends. This is an important time as he moves towards the convention and hes looking at the types of people that hes going to bring around him and those kinds of things. But he has time, and i just encourage him because of the negative trajectory that our country is on today to take advantage and know that there are people everywhere that would come to his aid if he would do that. Im hoping hes going to do that and ill continue to encourage it until its too late. The power of positive thinking practiced every day by mr. Chairman bob corker. And that is extremely fair. And we thank you so much for being with us. As always, weve got the greatest respect for you. Thanks for being on our show. Well be right back. Or across the globe in under an hour. Whole communities are living on mars and solar satellites provide earth with unlimited clean power. In less than a century, boeing took the world from seaplanes to space planes, across the universe and beyond. And if you thought that was amazing, you just wait. The call just came in. Shes about to arrive. And wither, a flood of poteial patients. A delu of digital rerds. Xrays, mris. All on accnt. Of penelope. Ging them the agility to bend a networflexible reliable. Down because no one knows like at t. First they limit where you earn bonus cash back. Es at you . Then those places change every few months . I think ill pass. Quicksilver from capital one puts nothing in your way. You simply earn unlimited 1. 5 cash back on every purchase, everywhere. You cant dodge the question. Whats in your wallet . Hey kevin. Hey, fancy seeing you here. Uh, i live right over there actually. Youve been to my place. Noi wasnt. Oh look, you dropped mething. Its youresume with 20 llararill taped it. Thats weird. You want to work for ge too. Hahaha, what . Well were always looking for developers who are up for big world changing challenges
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joining us now, nbc news senior White House CorrespondentChris Jansing. You sat down with bernie supporters in colorado where you found few fans of the superdell got system. What did they tell you . They dont like it one bit and they were in tune with the 10,000plus people i saw at a Bernie Sanders rally. They thought the system is rigged and they believe these superdelegates can turn the race for Bernie Sanders. The job of the superdelegate as it was sdrined to me by rick palacio, our state chair, is to elect the most electable candidate. Thats how they put it. It is not looking like the most electable candidate. 3 million more people have voted for Hillary Clinton than Bernie Sanders in the early primaries and
caucuses when nobody knew about bernie. Because now those people in iowa are saying, if i knew what bernie stood for, i would have voted how many of you think the system is rigged . Big time. How many of you believe today with california, new jersey, the other states coming up on tuesday, Bernie Sanders could still win the nomination . Early on, the media didnt give bernie a chance. Didnt give him any coverage. People didnt know about him, his ideas or his platform. And thats why they voted for clinton. They knew the name. They knew the person. There were no debates before the south. If you were to hold those early primaries and caucuses now, i bet you bernie would win them all. The clinton machine is pressuring those superdelegates. If you want a political career, you better be backing hillary. It seemed too lopsided. Sure maybe 3 million votes but theres like 46 pledge
delegates, theyre close. For the superdelegates to be that lopsided in favor of hillary tells me theres Something Else going on. I dont like the superdelegate system but its one you have to live with. I want to see the superdelegates take advantage of this opportunity Bernie Sanders is offering them. But i dont think they will. Im skeptical they will but its unfortunate and would show theyre out of touch with the general public if they dont, you know, switch sides, come over to bernies side. But i would like to see the superdelegates come to their senses, forget about the political squabble and listen to what not just democrats are saying but the public as a whole. So these six, only two would definitely vote for Hillary Clinton if its between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. Two said they would write in Bernie Sanders no matter what. For all of them, they talk about this electability argument, these polls that show in headtohead matchups, Bernie Sanders does better. And three of them plan to go to the convention. Two of them are going to march in some of these protests. One of them is going to be an actual delegate for Bernie Sanders. All of them, joe and mika, talk about trump clinton being a lesser of two evils election. They say theyre sick and tired of it, and theyre going to work to see if there is still a chance for Bernie Sanders. And last night, ive got to tell you in that huge audience, he still attracted 10,000 people last night in san francisco. The boos for the idea that Hillary Clinton was the presumptive nominee, loudest of the night. Wow. Chris jansing, thank you very much. Thats this whole other thing really is going on. Lets bring in mike allen from politico and writer at large for new York Magazine who profiles
Hillary Clinton in the cover story entitled a woman running for president. Bernie sanders whats leading playbook today . One Joe Scarborough wait. Thats a loaded question. That was selfserving. Politico playbook is leading with your call for many republicans to retract their endorsement of trump. Because the effect of your saying that on the show is now every leader including paul ryan and leader mcconnell is going to be asked, based on whats happened in the last 48, 72 hours. Are you going to retract your endorsement. For tough for them to ask. And theyll be asked that for weeks and months. On twitter, its pretty effective, i have to say. I just retweeted it. You spent time with a confident Hillary Clinton who is glad shes facing trump . Very excited to be facing trump. And says she can even win texas. I told her i thought that was
overstating it. But being with her on the campaign trail and i was there in the last weeks of april and early may when things were tense between her campaign and Bernie Sanders campaign. And part of the story line we heard about her. Shes uninspire, not a talented politician. When you see her one on one with supporters. When you see her at events, doing retail politics, the handshaking and remembering peoples names. How is she . Phenomenal. The small groups where she talks to individual people about their issues. She connects with them. Fantastic. Its the big stage stuff which is the stuff we recognize as president ial campaigning. Which, by the way, mika, thats something she said to us. Im not good at that. Thats not what i like doing. Im not a natural, right . Its a problem. She feels uncomfortable with it. Some people it comes completely natural to. For her, its work. One on one when you talk to her, she is as connecting and likable
and fun to be with as like your best girlfriend. Kasie, you are following hillary. You write about the disconnect. I was at that National Security speech she gave about turned out to be a political speech on donald trump, right . She did seem to come into her own. Im wondering if thats the sense you picked up from that as well. Thats part of what she and people around her were predicting and i had been thinking about. President ially weve seen her in 2008 and in 2016 against people against opponents who divide her natural base, the left, democrats. Nice when with good politics who she cant hit too hard or she looks monstrous. Bernie sanders, nice man. Hes perceived as an inspiring hero to many. And especially a purity of idealism and for mean old hillary to go after him, which she didnt do. Shes really barely laid a glove on bernie. Shes very constrained in her ability to go after these guys. Weve never really seen her
where she has the backing of those on her side, roughly speaking the left, to really go after somebody. And i think shes been dying for this and that National Security speech was a great example. Theres sunshine in brooklyn for the first time in a long time. Encouraged by this speech, but rebecca, secretary clinton told me, im actually looking forward to running against trump. Even more true today than it was two weeks ago. She said whats not true, though, is she said im not sure running against trump is as fraught with complexity as people say. Look at the last 11 months. It sure is. Its very fraught with he just made running against trump so confident and she feels shes on her way. N actually planning post inaugural activities. All right. Here we go. The latest edition of new York Magazine. Rebecca, thank you. Mike allen, kasie hunt. That does it for us. Thank you for coming. Hes known in the halls of
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