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Drives that into the ground and reputation as a deal maker becomes 9 billion in debt and ineffectual and not there in a seemed undermined by the lack of here we go again. But mika, this was such a bizarre News Conference meeting of the g7 is a stunning, any actual deals. In fact, the president s remarks, particularly his yesterday, a bizarre weekend. Stunning thing. Yet, we can expect nothing 68minute press conference that capped off the summit, raised the lies. I mean, all over the place. Different as well as donald yesterday morning, when the president said were going to trump is president i think and the other leaders consider doubts about whether he has a themselves fortunate that there was no sort of disaster at this clear grasp of those problems take to Richard Haass in a let alone a clear vision of how second about this, but just to to solve them. Here is some of what he said. Frame this show, yesterday morning when he said we got meeting and their whole attitude the United States which has calls from the chinese. China called. China called. Never collected ten cents from right. Now, that was a lie. China will we said it was a lie yesterday was lets get through this, morning without even having to well get on with our business hear from the Chinese Government and get on the best we can and theres a limited amount they can do without the United States that, no, they actually had not made phone calls to donald and thats how they have to proceed right now. Trump. But he backed himself into that richard, we conservatives corner. Criticize barack obama for talking about leading from he spent the entire weekend trying to get out of the corner behind. This is something completely because he figured out that hes different. I mean, were not leading from the front. Were not leading from behind. We seriously have put ourselves actually his day trading has put america and American Workers in a bad position and thats on the sidelines, on every going to put him in a bad significant issue impacting the position next year and he lied g7. And on the sidelines on about so many things. So many bizarre claims. Trade, sidelines on climate. One of my favorites that melania has really grown to really like sidelines on russia. We have an approach to north korea that other people shrug kim jongun their shoulders at. Yeah. They have a wonderful this is a fundamental departure. Relationship. Of course, they had to be reminded that actually melania again, donald trump came into office you know this, joe, he believed two things has never met kim jongun. But one bizarre claim after passionately. He believed that the entire set another. Well go through all of those in of commitments he inherited a minute. We still though have to we wasnt worth it. That the price was much greater have to try to figure out why it than the benefit and he was against trade. The other people sitting around this table, they survived by is that donald trump pushed spent this weekend pushing so hard for Vladimir Putin and those commitments the united doing Vladimir Putins bidding states has historically made. Theyre allies who cast their behind closed doors to such a degree that he made everybody else uncomfortable. Security and put it in their you know that lie that he put out in a tweet claiming that hands so the fact theyre dealing with the first this is the first president sindoesn everybody over here is saying how Great America is, they just dont know why the press is so negative toward me and the foundations of post world war ii American Foreign policy. He doesnt believe in the alliance structure. Country. He doesnt believe in free trade well, that was a lie as well. Or multilateralism. He created as Kellyanne Conway so this entire meeting is based said very early on, alternative facts, alternative reality and he did it on the world stage on now a divergence between where he really did hurt america and our closest allies. Thats why it cant work. Can you imagine the relief must have felt with the empty americas reputation and chair . That would have been credibility. With us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. Embarrassing. National Affairs Analyst for the equivalent of trying to negotiate a communique. Theres no consensus so couldnt msnbc and cohost and executive producer of showtimes the circus, john heilemann. Succeed. As alex said in my ear, not president of the council on leading from me hind, leading from an empty chair and elise, one of the great disappointments Foreign Relations and author of is that we all have a president the book a world in disarray now who relates more to Richard Haass. Pulitzer prize winning columnist autocrats and right wing and associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc nationalists in central and political analyst Eugene Robinson. Eastern europe and across the and from the school of foreign globe than he does democratic nations that helped us win the service, elise labott. Good to have you all on board cold war and helped us win world war ii. With us. Thats right, joe. I mean, look, it used to be the President Trump is back in washington after returning from g7 that it was the g8 with the g7 summit in france capped russia kind of the odd man out. By what the Washington Post is now its the g6 with trump the calling 68 minutes in biarritz, odd man out. He does kind of you know, a glimpse into trumps unorthodox mind. A polite way to put it. Appreciate leaders like putin, yeah. The president closed out the leaders like erdogan in turkey, gathering of the World Leaders by speaking for more than an hour in which he trashed his predecessor, bragged about his leaders in north korea, everywhere around the world where theres no opposition. He can do whatever he wants. Personal property, suggested again, this is the presidency that trump wants in his mind. Hell hold next years gathering where theres no opposition. At doral, the paper adds how the hes lauded by his people. He can do whatever he wants and speech was riddled with is kind of a god like figure riddled with false or dubious like you said. Hes the chosen one. And so, you know, the problem is statements and as peter baker points out the trade war on china resulted in whiplash for that this meeting, the g7 and fellow World Leaders. Theyre talking about china, he baker highlights how on friday, did have a real opportunity to trump claimed that chinas lead on the china issue. President xi was the enemy, but i think, you know, the idea that by yesterday his view of xi was much rosier. You should push back on china, you know you know better than anybody, joe, that the whole i think president xi is a great leader. Idea of pushing back on the who happens to be a brilliant tariffs, currency manipulation, man. On intellectual property, does and he cant lose 3 million jobs have merits. But this is the big disappointment i think of some in a very short period of time and thats magnified many times supporters of President Trump that the instincts to disrupt and, you know, maybe shake over. In the meantime, the united things up a bit he just disrupts states which never collected the it and leaves it on the floor and walks away for someone else 10 cents from china will be over to clean up the mess. 100 billion in tariffs so i think they want to make a deal. Very badly. Ironically this issue of china was something the g7 was meant to deal with. You have recently been saying had he said, you know, listen, that china wants a deal, but this trade war with china, you youre not necessarily ready for a deal and you like the tariff revenue thats comin deal for t know, has a purpose we have to get china back to following International Norms he could have led. States. But instead he alienated the otherwise, i will not make a deal. We have billions and billions coming in and i think were european allies, talked about doing to get there. Tariffs on aluminum and cars in germany and just alienated all its not a question of behavior. I think they want to make a deal the allies and i think this is a and if they dont make a deal big disappointment. Its going to be very bad for china. Its the same people are and i very much appreciate the fact that they came out very joking about greenland for instance. Its not stupid to want more control of the arctic. Late last night and said they but you dont go by saying im want to make a deal. They wanted it to be under calm going to buy greenland. Circumstances. It was a different kind of a statement. I thought it was a beautiful you talk to denmark and say, lie statement. Except a Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson said he in the arctic lets build it up was not aware of the phone calls together and that gives u. S. A trump mentioned. You could hear it, joe, china sphere of influence there against china and russia. But throwing the mess on the floor and walking away, you know, i think thats its called and his eyes i guess impossible to harness any good the president doesnt understand instincts that President Trump that things can be verified. Has productively. That actually people will actually ask at least someone in the white right. House can confirm this call took and, you know, mika, its you place. Whether they actually called look at green land, thats a or not. One other thing and its becomes great example of a day trader. He tweets something about about greenland. A little laborious but we have and insults our ally. To keep saying it. Hes talking about billions and billions of tariffs going to and then decides not to take the take from china. Meeting. Never occurring to this day it comes from you, the american trader that actually if you want to move forward and purchase taxpayer. Greenland, probably the best the chinese do not pay the thing to do would be to go over, tariffs. You pay the tariffs when you go take the meeting, be diplomatic, shopping, when you go grocery shopping. When you go to walmart. Be polite, build that relationship and figure out what when you go to target. They really need and then you work toward that goal. But, you know, elise really got whenever when you go to the mall. You are paying the tariffs, the american consumer. It right. Again, not exactly sure who he thinks hes fooling. I dont think his supporters are there are problems, we have had problems with china for years. Its something that nancy pelosi and i, it was the one thing we stupid. I guess he thinks theyre stupid agreed on in congress. Which is sort of insulting but we fought against china stealing tariffs arent paid by china. Intellectual property, against the tariffs are paid by the Human Rights Violations back in the 1990s, but Donald Trumps american consumer. John heilemann, i want you to problem and richard and give us an overview before we go everybody else would agree with this hes a day trader. To Richard Haass and get the theres never any strategy. Specifics on the Foreign Policy. Your father literally spent a his performance this weekend was generation studying the soviet just extraordinarily unmoored. Union and how to weaken the worse than ever. I think everybody agrees donald trump is getting worse. Soviet union. He made it his life mission. He began the weekend on friday he made it his life mission to by ordering u. S. Companies to get out of china, ordering they work to figure out how to open would and then on saturday up china. He made it his life mission to study and methodically work saying that he had the Legal Authority to do it. Through a middle east peace plan, to help jimmy carter and in fact citing a federal statute. Become the architect of the camp bizarre statements through the weekend, a bizarre defense of david accords. Vladimir putin. Donald trump does it by tweet, just a bizarre obsession. By fiat, a statement here. No planning and with no its really sad and emasculating that donald trump is so obsessed planning, no strategy, we end up nowhere with a president whos with barack obama. Its it makes him look so, so put the United States of america small but that obsession on the sidelines. Elise labott thank you for continued as he attacked a former president while defending your making your morning joe an exkgb agent. Then from all reports when he debut. Come back as soon as possible. Thank you. Still ahead on morning joe, new polling is painting an was inside private meetings, just completely obsessed with entirely different picture of the democrats race for president. Bernie sanders and Elizabeth Warren are in front of joe biden. Getting Vladimir Putin in the and the former vps campaign is room with him. What are our allies to think of pushing back on that. It and how in the hell can steve the rage kornacki, hes majorly mad this morning. He breaks down the numbers. Republicans watch him promoting next on morning joe. Hmm. Exactly. Doral on the world stage, a property that is collapsing, and Liberty Mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. To little more write opeds than nice. But, uh. Whats up with your. Partner . Saying about donald trump is write about purchasing not again. Limu thats your reflection. Greenland, and he canceled the only pay for what you need. Liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty meeting with greenland with denmark because they wouldnt sell him greenland. Yes. So the tom cotton thing youre referring to is just so sad to watch the United States senator it is. Sucking up to the president in a ridiculous way when its been clear that greenland is not for sale. So all arguments about its merits or demerits are totally irrelevant. And again, john, the world is on fire when hes literally. Over at the g7. Literally, and you can look at whats happening with russia, whats happening with china and with our closest allies, and your answer is to go back to last week and go, well, you know its a really good idea to purchase greenland. Another trump apologist doing the same. How do they ignore the fire in front of them . I believe the words are sycophant and toady. But look, the thing to focus on because trumps performance was quintessentially trump and the republican reaction is quintessentially republican in the sense they ignore what hes doing. They suck up to him. They have given up any pretense of having a position thats not completely in his possibility. I think the relevant thing to look at and i think richard will talk about this more than i will, but to me the main thing you look at over the course the weekend all the things you laid out. The most the image that summed up the whole thing was the notion to your image of the world on fire. The amazon is on fire. And the most urgent meeting of the weekend in some respects was the meeting on Climate Change where the spire entire industrialized world recognizes now the threat that the Climate Change poses. It is vividly on display as we watch the amazon, you know, burning in a way that is going to potentially create ecological havoc, that will take hundreds of years to correct if it ever gets corrected and at the session on the Climate Change the president did not show up. There was an empty chair and the empty chair symbolizes i think where we are now. We are fully there. Were the the president of the United States but his excuse was a lie. His excuse for not being there yes. It was even proven to be a uh, well, this will be the kitchen. Lie. Everything he did all weekend and wed like to put a fire pit out there, was an alternative reality. And a dock with a boat, maybe. For sure. He said he was off doing bilateral meetings with i believe with india and maybe why havent you started building . Germany and of course those leaders were actually in the well, tylers off to college. Room. So yes, he lied again. And moms getting older. And eventually we would like to retire. Yeah, its a lot. 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Thats what you saw over the course of the weekend and thats what well remember this summit for. And of course its just a realization, Richard Haass, of what Angela Merkel told germans a few years ago when she said we can no longer rely on the United States of america. The measure its interesting. The measure of a g7 now is not what you accomplish. Its what you avoid. In this case it was avoiding a major blowup from the United States, and from the getgo Emmanuel Macron decided the last thing you needed was a communique because it would be impossible to get one that the United States could sign on to so a new Monmouth University that would be substantive. Poll claims the democratic race for the presidency in a virtual so i think john is right, threeway way to senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren at abdication is the world i have 20 and former Vice President used. America is now the principal disrupter. The problem for the europeans joe biden at 19 , but bidens and the japanese and others is they simply lack the capacity to campaign pushed back on the poll and they cited the real clear substitute for us. They do what little they can on 20 million for amazon fires which is a literal drop in the politics show biden leading bucket. But without the United States in sanders and warren by 11 . And theres another poll more in the drivers seat. We dont make a lot of progress. Line showing biden with a 13 to the contrary, the gap between the challenges and the International Responses is growing. And thats the historical judgment about the g7 which looks like an awfully tired gathering. Point lead. That survey showed biden with i think the two immediate though things i would highlight are the 33 of the vote and bernie in president walked back two big issues. He walked back the trade war for second place and lets bring in National Political correspondent the moment with china. For nbc news and msnbc author of and he walked back the threat of the red and the blue steve actual war with iran. In both of those, i think there kornacki and former chief of was a change from where he showed up in france and where he staff to the dccc and a former director of strategic ended. Well, richard, do you agree that the president after having communications for Hillary Clintons campaign, adrienne elrod. Steve, is there any reason to a tantrum publicly on friday, on believe that the monmouth poll is anything more than an outlier . Well, no, i think you go to twitter, and then again on the poll average and even saturday, do you think the factors in the new morning president realized that he had consult you put up there, about 27, 28 for biden still about ten points ahead. Boxed himself into the corner. I think the thing for his campaign to worry about though that xi is president for life is given the trajectory of this race, given some of the dynamics and that he figured out that that have emerged, is the china can wait him out and that monmouth poll the future . Donald trump is going to cave and hes going to crumble. Do we not find ourselves in a is that where this is heading place now where trump has for joe biden because when you look inside the numbers there on the monmouth one, what you really see are some of the blinked and now hes going to have to crawl back to the table weaknesses that we have already identified, that we have long and get the best deal that he seen in polling when it comes to can under the worst of joe biden. The weaknesses get a lot worse circumstances for himself for him in the poll. Politically. For instance, in the monmouth i think the economic reality of the last week if you look what happened when jay powell and the other federal bank heads poll, if you look at democratic voters under 50 years old we have seen him struggling with met in jackson hole, wyoming, that group the entire campaign. Its essentially what they were in the monmouth poll hes down to 6 with them. All saying, we have done what we hes tied with andrew yang. Can. Interest rates are at historic maybe hes not down to that level in reality yet but thats lows, you can tweak them a little bit. But the biggest overhang over the u. S. Economy and the world a place where hes been economy is u. S. Trade policy. Struggling and thats what the and the growing confrontation race suddenly looks like. Thats the big thats beyond not what central of course though adrienne in bankers do. So for donald trump he finally the Morning Consult poll and reached that fork in the road or that cross roads where his every other poll out shows joe biden with a comfortable lead. How do you you obviously have been around Democratic Politics for quite some time. Biggest calling card, economic how do you look at the monmouth growth was endangered on life poll . Yeah. Well, joe, its interesting because obviously steve just support by the other calling card which is hostility to trade. Something had to give. Mentioned the Biden Campaign has i think essentially what you saw been pushing back against this was that hes pulled back from poll showing its an outlie e the brink on trade. The question is whether we can saying that the Methodology Conducted in the poll is not on par with the standard poll, i design and negotiate with the think those are fair points but chinese so i think they feel what steve mentions is true. They have a lot of leverage. A trade agreement that the which is look bidens name i. D. President can defend. Is 99 . It wont be a big, ambitious he doesnt have a whole lot of room to grow, so if this is agreement. We wont get the chiendz to say, if this actually becomes a future, thats a problem for him. But i also think its interesting, joe, to look at the you know, we have decided we fact that Bernie Sanders and wanted a different economic Elizabeth Warren combined have model so the question is whether you can get a more narrow or 40 of the vote. Again, well see if that trend modest trade deal and what the president then has to worry about hell be attacked for continues. You know, there is some thought among Democratic Party selling out, hell be attacked from the china hawks and from operatives and pollsters that if the trump economy goes into a the possible democratic candidates. But thats where he is, can he recession, if the economy position a deal that reassures actually continues to sink that democratic primary voters are more willing to take what they the markets and to get Global Economic growth back on the may consider to be a risk in terms of determining the trajectory it was on six months ago. And as we said President Trump also used his final nominee. That would be at the detriment of joe biden. Remarks at the g7 summit to so i think its interesting to see if the trend continues. Of course tomorrow august 28th advocate on behalf of russian president Vladimir Putin by announcing he plans to invite is the deadline to qualify for the third debate so well have a feeling in next three days who him to the 2020 gathering of is on the debate stage. World leaders. I think the third debate is going to be very important to as the Washington Post framing, you know, who goes forward. Stresses trump will host it amid where people stand. Cory bookers campaign shout out warnings that russia is actively to cory theyre excited about this poll because hes really at a solid 5 now. Trying to interfere again in the youre not seeing that just in election. This poll. But youre seeing that in other take that in. Polls. And the president slammed former they feel like they have this incremental improvement over the president obama claiming he was course of the summer, starting outsmarted by putin. With that second debate that has been very positive for them. Why do you think its appropriate to invite russia to the 2020 g7 and it might hurt so well see what kind of growth he has there. But a very interesting poll. I think the big picture is this the trend Going Forward or is this just an outlier . You politically because its only a couple months before the 2020 election . I dont care politically. A lot of people dont understand this. I ran one election and i won. Yeah. You know, cory like elizabeth is doing a lot of things right and its why we said around the happened to be for president. Table that of all the people i dont care politically. Im going to run another sitting at 2 about a month ago, election. Look to cory booker to possibly i think im winning based on polls that we see. Be the one that breaks out of whether i win or not i have to there. But john heilemann, i noticed do the right thing. So i dont do things for yesterday the monmouth poll. Political reasons. When you saw biden at 19 and is it good, probably not. A lot of bad things happened with president putin and said, well if this is the president obama. One of the things that happened future, the 19 could become was as you know what happened in with a very big area, a 15 , could become 12 . I dont think is, but look, other than biden, i mean, very, very big and important warren, a progressive. Area in the middle east where the red line was drawn and then sanders, progressive. Harris, progressive. Booker, progressive. Buttigieg, progressive. President obama decided that he yang, progressive. Was not going to do anything castro, progressive. About it. I mean, joe biden is the only you cant draw red lines in the sand, you just cant do it. And the other was in ukraine having to do with a certain moderate in the field. Section of ukraine that you know its interesting what happens as we move forward and the very well where it was sort of taken away from president obama. Progressive vote continues to be not taken away from president split among nine, ten other trump. Taken away from president obama. People and biden is sitting president obama was not happy there as the only moderate in the field. It shows just it just shows that this happened because it was embarrassing to him, right . It was very embarrassing to him. Where the Democratic Party has gone over the past four to eight and he wanted russia to be out years. Yeah. Of the what was called the theres no doubt about that. Ill say a couple things real quick. One of which is that the thing g8. And that was his determination. That i think the monmouth he was outsmarted by putin. Poll is obviously an outlier and he was outsmarted. President putin outsmarted i agree with steve and adrienne president obama. Is how does that work . Does it foretell the future or misleading statement that not, but its a real problem for the Biden Campaign in this respect. They have staked so much on this russia outsmarted president obama but he did. The reason that russia was electability argument. The notion that the first ad kicked out is because they last week was broadcasting poll annexed crimea. Numbers early in the race, for a i know you like president frontrunner to be making the obama, but it was annexed during president obamas term. If it was annexed during my term i would say sorry, folks. Polling strength part of your pitch to voters is unheard of and it puts you in a position i made a mistake, sorry folks. Where when a bad poll comes out, president obama was pure and simply outsmarted. You suddenly have to push back they took crimea during his against the poll. The fact they were spending time term. That was not a good thing. It could have been stopped. Could have been stopped with the right whatever. Yesterday pushing back against an outlier poll is not a it could have been stopped. But president obama was unable position where any campaign to stop it. Wants to be and certainly not where a front Running Campaign wants to be. I want to talk to steve about this because we were talking about it off camera before which is you know theres this just its insanity. Misconception that people have yes. It is. Which im not saying you have first of all, Vladimir Putin did not take crimea from an a misconception but this notion american president. That sanders and warren are competing for same vote, i think the one thing that the monmouth poll reveals thats true is that Vladimir Putin took crimea from ukraine. Just like he took georgia from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren though theyre obviously both progressive are competing for a very different set of voters and theyre not chewing georgia. Those invasions were invasions into each other. Sanders strength ine of Vladimir Putin. A man who is still trying to vote tells you something about the fact that the axis of disrupt and interfere with competition between the two is american democracy according to more about class than it is about ideology. Donald trumps appointees to the fbi, cia, everybody. So again, its extraordinarily Elizabeth Warren is a one track unbecoming of a president to talk another president overseas in defense of a well, of a candidate. Shes competing for the College White voters and Bernie Sanders is for downscale progressive voters for sure. But the two of them could very dictator. Easily not like a zero sum an exkgb agent who has now invaded two countries over the game between the two of them. Past decade, and who is still they can go deep into the democratic fight. Its fascinating how similar invading the United States in the cyber war and who Donald Trumps own intel chiefs and messages can matter to different factions. If you looked at the monmouth military have warned is posing a poll, sanders was doing well direct threat to american with moderates and democrats and democracy. Right. Unlike warren so far you have this, mika, is the man that seen the polls sanders has gotten some traction with black voters. With africanamerican voterser donald trump goes to the mats who more likely to call for every day defending and the question remains why. Themselves moderates in the polls. I think when you play this out a i asked last week, republicans little bit, look, iowa, who and donald trump apologists, sycophants they dont like the dominates in the iowa caucus. You have blue collar and you have liberal voters though. Answers the questions that have been asked of donald trump. Sanders and warren in particular i think could score in iowa. So i need to hear their theory. If either one of them scores in what is their alternative theory . Thats the question i have iowa where does the contest move for elise labott. But you have to understand, joe, that one of the patterns that next . Eight days later, New Hampshire, you might say many are tracking sanders already got 61 of the vote in New Hampshire. In this presidency is the undermining of the media and the warren, the track record of massachusetts candidates in the undermining of the truth, undermining of the journalists. Iowa primary if one of them can the more you do that, the more break through in iowa its hard you think you can live in the to see them not continuing and dream world and make up stuff winning New Hampshire. And if you win iowa, and you win like that and pretend you were New Hampshire, at meetings and when we show the picture of the meeting either way it works for joe biden. Biden if the electability merkel and moda in the argument for biden you come in second or third in iowa what happens then . Yeah. Middle. We showed the picture before. Theyre sitting right in the i have to say, mike barnicle, middle of the meeting when donald trump said, oh, no, i though, you can make the argument about biden. Wasnt at the meeting, i was if biden wins iowa hes in a position where say barack obama actually i dont think this is him being mr. Magoo. I think that there is a huge was in 2008, where barack obama knew if he won iowa he was off effort on this president s part, to the races. My concern is that he is and with biden, in er an devaluing the truth and early win in iowa i say this to devaluing our standing on the say everything they said is true. Iowa is more important this year world stage every single day than before. That he opens his mouth. Because first of all, you have elise labott, my question to you two basically hometown though is with this putin candidates with sanders in connection, this putin envy, vermont and warren suburbs this desire for some reason to obviously of boston. Right on the New Hampshire line. Just obsess over russia and putin in a way thats beyond inappropriate and beyond but biden is so strong in south reflecting where we have been over the past 10, 20, 30 years, carolina and biden is so strong against across the deep south that a win for biden in iowa, people like my father who know deep, deep inside information propels him past whatever results he has in New Hampshire about how this has all come together, strategic and lines him up where his strength is right now and where its been and thats with black partnerships, concerns about our elections, how is it that nobody voters in South Carolina and in the white house and no across the deep south. Well, that would certainly be the case, joe, if he did win republican except finally rick iowa, but iowa according to santorum speaking i mean, everyone you speak to is totally where are these people and what planet are they on . Organized far and ahead in terms what could be the strategy for any trump supporter to stand by this relationship . Of organization by elizabeth i mean, i think, mika, you warren and anecdotically, adrienne, separate the polls. Anecdotically, all you hear in put it exactly right. This primary so far is talk its kind of he has this envy of president putin and he will not be deterred. About Elizabeth Warren. Thats all you hear. You know, theres been a lot of it dominates every conversation. Whether putin has something on they might start with joe biden, a good guy, i like him, hes a him, whether hes bribing him or moderate, im kind of in the middle, but wow, what about what, i think its the putin Elizabeth Warren . Its amazing. Yeah. Envy. It is amazing, mike. You know i talked to a lot of he doesnt have a real constituency in the country because he does everything kind people not just folks from of by fiat and force. Arkansas, where im from, democratic operatives here in thats the kind of leader, no washington, d. C. , around the protest, no acrimony from the country. Doesnt matter what you talk to, people, thats the kind of where they are regionally a lot leader President Trump wants to of people have said you know, be and the reason why the Elizabeth Warren just continues republicans dont Say Something to grow on me. I think is pretty simple. I like her plans. I think theyre just putting i like that shes got a plan and party over country and, you ideas for everything. And i think that she is proving know, its a pretty sad thing. You would think some of the from poll after poll, time after conservatives, the party of time, that her plan for Ronald Reagan, would say incremental growth in these something more about, you know, polls and just getting out a country like russia which they say out loud is interfering in there, pressing the flesh, talking to as many people as possible, taking as many selfies as possible, its all starting the u. S. Elections. Its interfering in world to pay off. Also, mike, to your point, she elections, you know, across the notoriously has the best ground game in iowa. That is something thats widely globe. So it befuddles the mind to ask why these people arent saying anything. Recognized by all the campaigns its possible that some of them out there. That she got in early. Do in private but i think it she had staff in iowa in 2018 goes back to back to what joe helping some of the iowa down and what richard were saying in ballot candidates which is now terms of this summit was really paying off. I still think this is joe interesting in terms of the tale of two summits. Bidens race to lose because of theres the one in president his entrenched support among trumps mind where hes winning africanamericans and other key the trade battle with china, hes the strongest president in constituencies in the democratic primary. The world. But Elizabeth Warren is gaining hes an enviromentalist. Ground and her campaign hes done so much. Operation, the organization well see how that pays off. But iowa is a state that i think and the summit that was in she will do very well in. Actuality he felt like the odd and i agree with joe that iowa man out and he realizes that the matters more in the primary leaders, the fed, are process than it ever has because questioning whether his policies are affecting the world economy. Which in turn could affect the u. S. Economy. And so i think he felt like the of the stakes and the fact that odd man out and it was kind of obvious he felt inadequate and joe, i think thats why he New Hampshire may be a little on see lets and iowa is a big deal this time around. Cowered on iran. She has a convincing, i think thats why he cowered on authentic message and just anecdotically you hear of people china. Because hes starting to you who go to her events who might be on the fence, who end up know, i think President Trump had as close to an aha moment as being all about Elizabeth Warren being convinced by her. You could have when he realized also, her crowd sizes. You know hes not winning. Yeah. You have to look, like tens of you could see that actually thousands show up to hear what she has to say at times. Saturday morning when the president woke up to understand Steve Kornacki and adrienne that the chinese are going to elrod, thank you. Match him tariff for tariff. Johnson johnson must pay move for move. Half a billion dollars for its and hes been outsmarted yet role in oklahomas opioid again. Epidemic. And the landmark decision could be the first of many to come. This is a guy who wrote the art well talk to oklahomas attorney general about that of the deal and he lost more ahead on morning joe. Money according to the irs deals more than any other american and what he did for his own business is driving them into the ground. 9 billion. Hes now doing to america and the question again is why republicans are saying nothing. Why this weekend donald trump kept lying on the public stage, oh, wow. You two are going to have such a great trip. Thanks to you, we will. 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Mike barnicle, it was staggering to see an american president attack another american president on the world stage. I have never seen it before. In defense of an autocrat who said the greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the soviet union collapsing. Well, no one has seen this before, joe. No one has. And its odd that i guess were in a stage now where people dont realize that history never stops and you had an odd portrait a mixture of resentment and envy on trumps part talking about barack obama. But you also, gene, seem to have really on the world stage this u probably it will cost me anywhere from 3 to 5 billion to be president. Imagine opening the worlds greatest collection of Donald Trumps lies. First lady has gotten to know kim jongun. Dozens of beautiful fabrications, exaggerations and insults. Youll remember defending americas adversaries. President putin outsmarted president obama. 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Make up excuses for not attending the Climate Change meeting. We can go on and on and on. So i guess the question is, how do we after donald trump put this back together again . What do you hear from our allies especially in the g7 about what theyre expecting from the United States in the years to come . Its actually the most frequent question i get which is what comes next. I think its a big difference by the way if hes a one or two term president , joe. One thing for americans to vote for him once. A lot of europeans are saying if you reelect him, then its not simply about him. Then its about you, america. So i think that would have a much more profound effect. Also if he were not to be reelected, theres a big difference between him being succeeded by a joe biden who kind of has a traditional American Foreign policy as opposed to say Bernie Sanders who would contribute a lot of trumpism without the tweets when it comes to trade or afghanistan or places like that. But i think the bottom line is theres no going back to we were. If it happened once, it raises doubts about who the United States is and what we are and these other countries as we talked about before have cast their lot with us. I think this raises questions. I would think if youre the National Security adviser of any other country in the world thats dependent upon the United States, you have now got a yellow file that basically says what are our alternatives if we can no longer rely on the United States the way we could . And whether theyll start cutting deals with strong neighbors or start thinking about expecting more selfreliant and selfsufficient and were beginning to see this around the world. India is starting its open path much more say with pakistan. We see japan and south korea going at it. China feels it has pretty much a free hand with hong kong. What were beginning to see is what Fareed Zakaria and others have called a free world and were still out there and wife not playing the role like we did and others are discounting american interests, discounting american influence. You know, gene robinson, for eight years we heard conservatives and to be fair we did hear former democratic diplomats complaining about barack obama quote leading from behind, not being as aggressive as he should be on the world stage. In fact, being far more passive than past american president s and not just not just bush, not just bush and cheney. But that being said, we find ourselves now in a position where i think theres a presumption among americans that were in 2000 and the world stands alone on the stage and is the sole dominant power. We have china moving into the middle east. And africa and you name it. Chinas following behind us with every frayed relationship and going in and making new strategic partnerships. They have been doing that now actually for the past 18 years. But its certainly amping up now and you look at russia who is in the middle east for the first time militarily since 1973 in syria, donald trump has said hes willing to cede afghanistan back to russia if they want it. This is were not just talking about a one fouryear term. Were talking about relationships that have been frayed and opportunities that we have given our chief protagonists on the world stage. Absolutely. Meanwhile, we have a president who stands at a podium and asks in all seriousness, wheres england . I mean, its its one of the stunning moments from yesterday for me. You know, the rise of china is a major world historical event that were living through right now. And both china and russia and in their different ways are using soft power throughout the world to expand their influence and power and to bolster their economies and to chart the way forward and donald trump has no understanding of the power and doesnt understand the relationships he doesnt understand how to build them, how to sustain them. And hes he is leaving us on the sidelines. Its an abdication really of the United States position in the world, and i agree with Richard Haass. I dont think you can put all of this toothpaste back in the tube after trump. Assuming hes defeated in 2020 and a new president takes over, assuming its not Bernie Sanders and someone who would be at all trumpy in Foreign Policy. I dont see how if youre sitting in any other capital you can assume that the United States is going to go back to playing the role that it played in the postwar years. I think were in the post, postwar era now. Well, Richard Haass, mike barnicle, john heilemann, gene robinson, all still with us, and joining the conversation, Senior Adviser at moveon. Org and an msnbc contributor karine jeanpierre. And director of domestic policy studies at Stanford University and Research Fellow at the hoover institution, lanhee chen joins us. Lets get to the moment of the g7 that many see as encapsulating the problems of trumps performance at the entire summit on the world stage. President trump did not attend a meeting of World Leaders to discuss action to address Climate Change before the close of the g7 meetings in france. But after the session concluded, trump insisted it was actually later in the day that he would be there. Did you make it to the climate session . Im going in fact, its our next session. So we havent had it yet. Do you have a message that you would like to deliver no, i want clean air and clean water and were having the cleanest air and the cleanest water on the planet. White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham then explained trumps absence. Saying the president had scheduled meetings and bilaterals with germany and india. Okay. So a Senior Member of those are two important countries. Okay. I get it. Okay. The only problem with that alibi is that both german chancellor merkel and indian Prime Minister modi were in the Climate Change meetings so thats a complete lie. And have we seen shes the white House Press Secretary. Yeah. I havent seen her. Where are the press briefings and i dont know. Is there i dont know. But is there anything she can do to inform the American Public, because i think she works for us. I dont know. But merkel whats doing on in the white house . And modi, john heilemann, were at the center of the table. Yeah. There we go. Theyre there. Its not like theyre hiding in the back, drinking fresca. Theres the spicer thing about the crowd size. Wow. So john, its just one more example of how of course not only americans and republicans should recognize that the president lies, but obviously people in the world stage understand the man lies all the time. Hes not good for his word and theres no deal that you can enter in with the United States, with any confidence hell keep it. Also, joe, just think about this. You know, the amazon is on fire. Right . And the president is saying when asked about Climate Change, i want clean air and clean water. I mean, i think if youre a leader of another country you look at the guy and just think in addition to being a pathological liar, you think hes a simpleton. Like in an incredibly complex existential threat to the planet that everyone whether theyre a scientist or not understands is not about like i want clean air and clean water. Yes, we all want clean air and clean water, but the president s grasp of the scale of the problem is i think part of the issue of why he doesnt show up at the meeting. You know, this is a guy who we just had reporting that he wants to nuke hurricanes. Like a person who is just intellectually hes not a serious person and hes intellectually not capable of beginning to get even a rudimentary grasp of the scale of the problem. So in addition to that, if you add to that pathological liar to that, you understand what the world is dealing with and why. Although its symbolically horrifying to see that empty chair in that meeting for a lot of these leaders and it might be for the best that the chair is empty because having him in that chair would only make things worse. You know, lanhee, we can show the clips of the president s misstatements, his distortions, his lies and we can snicker a little bit because were sitting here fairly comfortable. We all make a good living, all of that stuff. But its not funny. We are watching, are we not, the public unraveling of the president of the United States and thus the further disruptions in answering the question around the world what is America Today . Well, you know, theres a particular concern here i would say around the u. S. china relationship which i know we have talked about this morning. But what you see in this relationship, what you see in sort of the back and forth, the changing of the opinion about the best way to deal with china, that has very real implications for the u. S. Economy. Very real implications for American Consumers. It has very real implications for peoples living in americas heartland. You see the feedback that we are getting from iowa, for example. Farmers have been hurt by u. S. Tariffs. But the u. S. china trade conflict so the changing nature of u. S. Policy particularly with respect to an important country like china what youre seeing is the impact that has on america. We can talk about the intellectual elements of Foreign Policy and we can argue ago argue about whether the United States is in the leadership role or not and when you talk about the nature its changed and changed back again over the last few years that has real implication anns that we should talking about. And the white house is also clarifying one of the remarks President Trump made during a News Conference at the g7 summit yesterday where he suggested that First Lady Melania Trump knows north korean dictator kim jongun. Kim jongun, who i have gotten to know extremely well, first lady has gotten to know kim jongun and i think shed agree with me, he is a man with a country that has tremendous potential. You know thats more than a suggestion. By the way, thats so revealing, that moment is revealing that is a guy who inherited 400 million from his father. Surrounded himself with yes men his entire life. He was able to create his own alternative reality and all of the yes men around him and all of his caddies, all of his workers, would agree with him and go, yeah, boss, yes, boss. Its like saying china cult. Okay . You never never dawned on donald trump that the chinese would actually fact check that statement. Never even dawned on donald trump while he was lying about the great legalship relationship between his wife and the dictator in north korea that actually it was very easy to fact check the fact that he was lying. He lies and still for some reason doesnt think hes going to get called out on it. White House Press Secretary grisham wrote, President Trump confides in his wife on many issues including the detailed elements of his strong relationship with chairman kim and while the first lady hasnt met him the president feels like shes gotten to know him too. Oh, wow. Wow. Great job there, steph. Are you kidding me . Yeah. Karine, i feel like i have gotten to know elton john through my friends that met backstage at a concert. Hes a really great guy. Seriously, its ridiculous. Again, this is on the world stage and i completely agree with lanhee. If youre talking about the real life implications of what donald trump is doing and what he did this weekend, look no further than the farmers in iowa and across the midwest. But statements a collection of statements like that make our allies far more hesitant to ever believe they can count on the United States of america again as long as that guy is sitting in the oval office. Thats exactly right, joe. Look, what we saw at the g7 in france the last couple of days from this president is embarrassing. Its just an embarrassing performance. And once again on the world stage. Not only does he abandon our allies, but he also embraces dictators. You know, like Vladimir Putin in talking about bringing him back and turning the g7 back to g8. I mean, this is what he does. I mean, he sells himself as a disrupter but this is not disruptive. This is the this is really a destructive. Hes destroying how the u. S. Is perceived on the world stage. And its incredibly dangerous. It is to what others were saying how do you put the toothpaste back in tube . You cannot. So this is going to have a long lasting effect. When you think about the Climate Change session that he missed, you know, he was able to tweet about fox news polls and make time to tweet about regis, he was able to make time to tweet about nuking hurricanes but he could not attend a Climate Change session while the amazon is literally burning and when we talk about that empty chair at that meeting it really symbolizes not only that trip but the presidency. It is abandoned leadership that is what were seeing from this president of the United States. And thats frightening because once again, its not disruptive, its destructive. Well, Richard Haass, lets go back to what lanhee was talking about when you look at our relationship with china, the impact its having on American Consumers especially farmers and especially working class americans, you look at the tariffs and those taxes that are going to disproportionately hit them and you have donald trump i believe on friday calling the president of china an enemy on monday calling him a great guy, you have him on friday talking about higher tariffs, on saturday talking about second thoughts. Later on sunday, doubling down saying his only regrets are that he didnt raise talk about raising tariffs even more and then sunday and monday playing good cop bad cop. When we were talking about it china, Deng Xiaoping when asked about the revolution it was too early to tell. This is a country that thinks in terms of centuries and here we have donald trump who thinks about his twitter feed every 15 minutes. It just sends a terrible message and a weak message to our trade adversaries. Yeah. A couple things i wanted to ask lanhee a question. John heilemann was talking about, the president is clearly confusing pollution with Climate Change. Climate change is something global and systematic so the europeans and others watching that say would say, wow, the president of the United States simply does not understand what Climate Change is. Thats simply one takeaway. Two, on china. Right, all over the place. The president had a revealing moment in the press conference where he said thats my negotiating style. Hes all over the place. I guess the question is, others come up against it like a china, does that put them on the heels, does that make them feel like they have to be careful around this guy or for someone like a xi jinping who is there forever does this give him tremendous leverage because his basic reaction is this guy saul over the place, im going to wait him out. Hes got political challenges. I dont. Yeah, i think there are two ways to look at it. First of all, if it were a onetime strategy, thats an interesting strategy. Thats something our adversaries and trading partners around the world need to contend with. When its quite clear from the chinese perspective at this point in time they are perfectly content to play the long game. You know, as joe mentioned this is a country this is a leadership that thinks in terms of millennia. U. S. History goes back to 1619. The chinese history goes back 1600 years. So that difference in perspective i think suggests that they are more than happy to wait out this president or any other president for that matter. So the notion that unpredictability, the notion that were going to surprise them with a point of view, i think is misguided because the chinese will say thats fine. You can do what you like to do. Well hang out until we get the deal we want. And what that does for both sides is it makes it less likely that were going to see a deal that improves both economies and yes, the chinese economy is hurting but our economy going to feel the impacts of this very soon if not already. So the challenge here is you can deploy unpredictability once. Maybe twice. But when you deploy it four or five times, people sort of look at it and say, yeah, not so much. That said, still ahead on morning joe, two developments inside joe bidens president ial campaign. First, reaction to the new poll that shows him trailing his progressive rivals. And a brandnew campaign ad just out this hour. How hes aiming to manage the message. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Tylers off to college. And moms getting older. And eventually we would like to retire. Td ameritrade can help you build a plan for today and tomorrow. Come with a goal. Leave with a plan. Td ameritrade. Im off to college. Im worried about my parents retirement. Dont worry. 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Your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. Upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. Tell your doctor about your medicines and if youre pregnant or planning to be. Otezla. Show more of you. So joe bidens president ial campaign is out this hour with a new ad on health care. Airing across iowa, starting today. Lets take a look. I was sworn in to the United States senate next to a hospital bed. My wife and daughter had been killed in a car crash. Lying in that bedroom my two surviving little boys. I cant imagine what it would have been like if we didnt have the health care they needed immediately. 40 years later one of the little boys, my son beau, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only months to live, i cant fathom what would have happened if the Insurance Company had said for the last six months of his life youre on your own. The fact of the matter is, health care is personal to me. Obamacare is personal to me. When i see the president try to tear down and others proposing to replace and start over, thats personal to me too. We have to build on what we did because every american deserves Affordable Health care. Im joe biden and i approve this message. All right. Joe, what do you think . I think its an extraordinarily powerful message. Not simply because of the pain that hes endured and the suffering hes endured throughout his life. But it really brings home the message that actually john edwards talked about in the 2004 campaign, that when it comes to Health Insurance, when it comes to so many other issues there are two americas. Thats right. You sit there of course john heilemann, and you look at joe biden and you just assume that when tragedy befalls joe biden hes going to be taken care of like you and your family members are going to be taken care of, like my family members and me are going to be taken care of. And yet, for 40 million americans, 50 million americans, thats not the reality. I think thats a very strong message for joe biden. He of course whispered to president obama that it was a big deal, passing obamacare. He believed it then. He believes it now. I think that should be the central message of his campaign and in a year that democrats care most about health care. Its a good ad, and i certainly an ad i like more than talking about his poll numbers because health care is a central issue and democratic voters care about it more than anything else and there are many democratic voters who are deeply troubled by some of the proposals on the left side of the party, to take away or abolish private Health Insurance. So where biden is coming from this in this ad its not just an important issue to a lot of democratic voters but where hes where the mainstream of the party is dont abolish my health care and lets build on and modify and improve the Affordable Care act. So lanhee, given thats where i think again, just as an empirical matter its where the mainstream of the party is, is that a message that joe biden can by focusing on a laser like way is that a message that can help him stave off the challenge, the very energetic challenge hes facing from some of the candidates on the left of the party where they may have smaller overall number of supporters on some of the issues but theyre a very energized portion of the democratic electorate right now. I see energy in the volume. The Biden Campaign has to walk a tight rope but i think what worked about that ad was reminding people about the leg so i have obamacare which remains very popular amongst the primary democratic voters and obamacares popularity has remained steady through all of the debate in 2017. I think what biden and the Biden Campaign are trying to do, look, we have a contrast here. You have other democrats who want to start over, tear it down and start over as the ad said. You have the biden team that wants to essentially take obamacare and strengthen it and tweak it. And thats a message they think will work in a primary and a general. The question is, all of that energy you have seen it on the debate stage, over and over again, where the medicare for all crowd, the crowd that wants to take the Health Care System and essentially blow it up, take away private Health Insurance, that position is becoming increasingly popular among the far left and if its biden versus lets say warren or sanders or someone from the progressive wing of the party, then it really becomes a where is the partys heart at . Is that position one that essentially says were doing to improve our obamacare, not destroy it and start over. Is that position one thats going to be tenable . I think biden is banking on the answer that yes, it is. Karine, we heard lanhee use the word heart. If you watch that ad, it seems to me to be sort of a Building Block of an ad. Based upon a couple of things. Obviously, health care and its a big issue in america. But also the underpinnings of the ad have to do with loss. Joe biden understands loss. And it also enhances something that joe biden has tried to provide on the campaign trail thats sorely missing in america, empathy. And im wondering your thoughts on seeing the ad and those two words loss and empathy. Thats such a great analysis there. Because what i see from that ad is joe biden uses something thats really personal. His own personal story and then he weaves it into this ad. And talks about health care something thats incredibly important to tens of millions of people. And so that ad is incredibly its powerful. Its smart. And i think its good that the Biden Campaign is talking about issues and in particular health care as people have discussed, which is the issue that will be the most important issue for many americans. Instead of not talking about electability. I think electability works to a point but people want to see that. They want to see like you just said, they want to see empathy. They want to hear him talk about his own story but not just that. But how is he going to move the country forward on an issue Like Health Care . He talks about that at the end and what he wants to do with obamacare and building on obamacare. So yes, that ad is incredibly personal which is why it works because its joe biden. This is the joe biden that we know and we hear about all the time and hes able to bring that empathy forward to the American People and i think its smart that its a smart ad. Smart that they did that. You know, for those of us living in the bubble of news 24 7 following twitter 24 7, to say that people want to see empathy, want to see kindness, that people want to see bipartisanship, that of course would be laughed at on twitter and perhaps laughed at on a lot of news shows. But in fact, there is a great hunger and a great desire. I mean, i believe they want leaders who can get along, especially after four exhausting years. You know, republicans at this point are starting to understand according to axios that they are in deep trouble in the suburbs. Theres no way theyre going to be able to survive in the suburbs except under one circumstance mike allen just reporting this morning that republican operatives are hoping that whatever democratic nominee ends up winning goes after obamacare, wants to destroy obamacare and replace it with a Health Care System that does away with private insurance. That is according to republican operatives the only way they believe they can win back some of those women in the suburbs. Yeah. I think thats definitely that looks to me like a tough sell in those suburbs that tended democratic in 2018. That previously were thought of as perhaps republican or at least up for grabs for republicans and now seem to be heading democratic. And those voters might be turned off by the idea of getting rid of private insurance. So i think thats something that if one of the democrats who has that as a big Platform Point like an Elizabeth Warren for example is the nominee its something that she is going to have to shes really going to have to finesse. You know, so its there are two sides to this campaign. I mean, youre looking ahead toward the general election but youre also running in a primary when the Democratic Party clearly has moved to the left in many ways. And youve got to get nominated before you can get elected so its youre going to see these candidates walk this tight rope and some will walk it more skillfully i think than others. Bernie sanders is just like my way or bust, basically. I think warren will be a bit more subtle. Yeah. Yeah. I think youre right. More subtle, but well see. Well see. But you know, Richard Haass, whats interesting about this debate and of course people say youre a former republican, what do you know ago democratic maybe i dont know a whole lot about the democratic primary right now but i can read and i can look at poll numbers and i can look at data and the data i show is that not only is private insurance and Obamacare Popular with the majority of americans but obamacare is extremely popular within the Democratic Party. The last time i checked what 70, 75 of democrats support obamacare. So i dont really see it as a purity test, trying to destroy obamacare and creating a new system. That was my question coming back to the ad by Vice President biden, whether it went hard enough against the democrats who basically want to have medicare for all. It talked about the president disrupting the Health Care System and it seemed subtle going after Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders with the new proposal so i had a personal reaction. The loss he had the deal with, what you called empathy, joe, but the question is whether it soft pedalled the debate in the Democratic Party and to reach the general you have to get through the primaries. And whether hes got a dilemma there, which is how hard to go after those who want to do away with the current system. I wouldnt go, mika, hard against anybody personally. If theyre supporting medicare for all. Obviously bernie and elizabeth believe it in their heart and its not something that they tested. Market tested. But i would say if youre joe biden, on this issue, i would hammer this issue harder than any other issue and talk about how he and president obama and every democrat fought heart and soul to pass the Affordable Care act, to pass obamacare. Despite the fact that every republican voted against it. Despite the fact that donald trump is trying to destroy it. And i would have that as the centerpiece of my campaign. Dont end it, mend it and if i get elected you can guarantee yourself that obamacare and the Affordable Care act will be stronger eight years from now been. Thats a winning message. Not among just republican suburb voters. Thats a winning message among democratic primary voters. I agree completely. Lanhee chen, thank you so much. Coming up, only one day to the deadline for the democrats to qualify for next months democratic debate, new york city mayor bill de blasio could be left off the stage. Hell weigh in on what it means for his president ial Campaign Next on morning joe. Every day, visionaries are creating the future. So, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. The United States Postal Service makes more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. Its how we care for our Cancer Patients like job. When he was diagnosed with cancer, his team at ctca created a Personalized Care plan to treat his cancer and side effects. 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I saw this breaking news headline that a panel that you put together is suggesting that all gifted programs in new York Public Schools be eliminated. These are legendary schools that have not only contributed to new york city, but have made america and the world a better place. Can you give us some insight on your view on that recommendation . Yeah, joe, its literally a recommendation that just came out and im going to assess it in my and my School Chancellor is going to assess it and well come back our thoughts on it. Look, the panel was put together to address an issue thats facing american education, how do we diversify our classrooms in our communities that obviously affects our schools and at the same time, i always say the Central Mission we always have to keep front and center is to keep improving public education. And we just had test scores come out for new york city six years in a row, test scores have been going up. Graduation rates going up. We see a lot of improvement i have to tell you Early Childhood education, prek for all is making a huge difference for those the kids, helping us to close the achievement gap between the white kids and kids of color. How do you strike that balance . We want kids to Learn Together in diversity. We want to break down barriers and we want to make sure we have academic strength and were positioning kids for their futures in a world where education dictates more in history. Ill come back with my thoughts on how best to handle them. By the way, i spoke to somebody that talked about your prek program an and they said it made a great difference in their life and how education in new york has improved over the past five or six years. I just want to make sure that you of course, were both red sox fans. You dont have to agree with me, but you would agree with me though that these new York City Schools for gifted students schools that would never even let me approach the front door, so this is not personal to me at all. Other than i know the contribution they have made to new york, america and the world. You would agree that those schools, those gifted schools are extraordinary educational institutions. Yeah, two things, joe. One, they are. We have some of the finest public high schools in particular in america. And we want to keep them great in every way, but theres not a contradiction between ensuring fairness in admissions and diversity in the classroom and also having great academics. One of the things that i have been fighting for is to get the high stakes tests out of the admissions equation. I think its something youre seeing all over the country. Folks want to look at the whole child, the whole student, and determine, you know, what think bring to the equation. I think you can do that, i think you can have more diversity while keeping the academic standards high. But the second thing is to recognize, joe, the really the future is in addressing the great missing link in new york city and in American Public education which is we have started too late. The time when children learn the most is between birth and 5 years old in much of america the first time a child goes to full day score is when day school is when theyre 6. One of the things that needs to come out of the National President ial debate is an agreement that america will focus on the Early Childhood education and what were doing here in new york and a big scale here, even 3yearolds were given full day education and its unlocking tremendous potential. If you do the Early Childhood education part of the equation properly thats really where our investments should go. Thats where youll get the biggest bang for your buck. Then those Great Schools later on, they are going to be available for more and more kids of greater and greater diversity and continue to perform that role youre talking about. Just churning out great talent for our society. But if we dont get it right on Early Childhood education and that has to be a federally led initiative, local School Districts wont be able to do it and afford it, if we dont get it right on Early Childhood education which should not be surprised if the future children will not be ready. This country has to double down on Early Childhood education. I couldnt agree with you more on that. Sorry. Isnt the logical i was going to say, richard, richard, i couldnt agree more, richard with what the mayor said on early education. Because again, my family can afford it. And everybody around the tables family can afford it. Every american should be able to send their children to school at an earlier age, because richard, i think we found it makes a big difference in how our children perform in first grade, second grade, third grade, moving forward. And ill just say one thing before turning to richard. The Democratic Party a proud democrat should stand for Early Childhood education. This is a kind of thing thats being missed as the kind of appealing, meaningful, tangible vision that would attract independence, that would attract republicans and attract folks in urban and rural areas. In fact, when im out in rural iowa one of the greatest frustrations people have is School Districts and schools consolidating and fewer and fewer options for their kids. Well have a vibrant role in america, you have to have Early Childhood education available. You certainly know in a lot of urban america its been a huge missing link in terms of the Public Schools. Think about the Democratic Party standing for something that would literally be unifying and attract a lot of especially younger americans across the spectrum to say, hey, thats something that would change my life and make it better. Joe, what you said about this city i have had folks of every stripe, every background, every belief come up to me and say that universal prek changed the life of their child and their family. Saved them a lot of money. Thats made a huge difference and we should be looking at that for the whole country. So its tied up to children at 16, so one chance to make everybody is exposed to one certain thing, whether its civics. Isnt it to not to change the schools, but like your investment to give it time and you get a funnel of talented younger people who are more representative of this city and then you have arrived where you wanted to get. Whats the rush to change the formula of the Successful Schools . A couple of things. Yes, i understand that logic for sure i think as Early Childhood education has more of an impact youre going to see something we have never seen before. We never had a moment in this city or this country where every child started at the same starting line. Its been the education was divvied up according to economic reality and the wealth of a family. Imagine the society where every child actually gets that fair start. I think thats going to be very exciting. But on your question, look, the one thing i would say about those very high quality high schools is the notion that kids are getting into them based on a single three hour test, you know something about the ivy league. You dont get into harvard on a single test. I think its outmoded and how you judge the fullness of the young person and i want to get rid of that. But the university of texas really gave us the inspiration for this idea. They recognized that lots of high schools in texas werent sending schools to the university system. Its split by income and race. They came one a simple system, every high school is guaranteed a certain number of kids and those who perform the best on multiple levels give them a chance to get that University Education thats created a lot more diversity and opportunity thats what were talking about wanting to do here in new york. I think youre right. Early childhood education is one of the big difference makers but admission systems have to be carefully constructed so they dont inadvertently create separation. A large part of what youre talking about is not a new york dilemma, but a national dilemma, urban school dilemma. Are you prepared for the distinct policy that you eliminate the tests and the testing schools its hello westchester and hello fairfield, because parents would take their child and move out of the city . Its a fair question but thats a much greater concern in the past than it is today. New york city Public Schools are moving forward. I want to give a lot of credit to our educators. They have helped move this system immensely. And theres a lot of Great High School options and i think one of the goals of course is to keep expanding them. Create more and more Great High School options for the Public Schools. But no, if you have admissions based on testing, grades, multiple measures, a lot of kids are going to do great under the system. Bluntly a lot of kids who are not great test takers but are really smart, capable kids are going to have that opportunity now. And i think other kids are going to find other great opportunities in a lot of high schools including specialize in performing arts, science, technology. We have a whole range. We are at the highest population we have had in new york city. We have the most jobs we have had. I dont see an exodus. I see people wanting to stay here. Hi, mayor. This is corinne jean pierre. Hi, corinne. How you doing . Good. Wanted to switch a little bit to 2020 debate president ial debate on health care. I dont know if you got to see bidens new ad iowa ad that talks about health care. He really at the end tells a beautiful story about his personal story with health care but he talks about building on obamacare. I know you have been a proponent for medicare for all and we have been having this discussion. Can you tell us more about it . I think in polling, voters are confused about medicare for all. There is not a clear distinction about what it is. Can you to on that, please . Its an important topic. Its nice to have the conversation outside of a debate with ten people. Look, i think it comes down to this. I believe in obamacare, in the Affordable Care act. Democrats believe in it, fought to protect it. I led mayors around the country in fighting to protect it when trump tried to attack it. So i would argue some of the rhetoric that i have heard, you know, folks wanting to destroy obamacare, i think thats inaccurate. This is a great achievement. I give president obama tremendous credit. We need to protect it. The question is, is this all we aspire to or is there something more . The reason i believe in medicare for all is to say, okay, look at the reality of an insurance system based on private insurance. What do we know is the real experience of working class and middle class americans . A lot of things are not covered Mental Health care not covered the wayviously, a l physical Health Care Needs arent covered sufficiently and families if they have a Serious Health care problem between the deductibles and copays and hidden expenses run into a problem. God forbid a really serious disease can lead to bankruptcy. Thats not an ideal Health Care System. Obamacare was a huge step forward. There is a whole other place we have to go as a country. We should say, hey, what is the kind of Health Care Every american should have and the kind of security they should have . I would say this is about the fact that working class and middle class americans dont feel secure economically, personally at this point in history. A lot of them are literally one paycheck away where they feel tremendous concern about something going wrong. They also dont feel they are getting all the health care they need when they need it. I believe in medicare for all because i believe it is the next step in evolution to a truly universal inclusive system. Ill tell you here in new york we got so sick of seeing people go without health care because they didnt have insurance in new york we have a plan to guarantee health care for the 600,000 people in the city who do not have Health Insurance to give them a health care card. They get a primary care doctor assigned at a public clinic or hospital. They get care when they need it, not when it is too late and they go to the emergency room. Until we solve that kind of conundrum in this country we should aspire to something greater. Mr. Mayor, here we go. Yes. Lets talk about politics and this debate in a concrete way. There is the qualifying deadline for the next debate is upon us. Yes. You are not going to qualify, i believe, for the third debate. There are two elements i want to ask you about. One is youre going to like half this question and hate the other half. At least you told me in advance. Youre a gentleman. Is it not insane that the Democratic Party for the first time in modern history that i know of is putting the thumb on the scale and intervening rather than letting the Campaign Play out applying arbitrary standards driving the democratic senator from colorado, the mayor of the biggest city in the world, driving them out of the race . Talk about that. Then second, given that it is what they are doing is your campaign not dead now . How do you reach a National Audience if you are excluded from debate stages Going Forward . Very fair questions. There is another bite at the apple in october. Just like june, july debates were the same standard and obviously one candidate, steve bollock didnt get in to june but did in july. I can still get into october, well before any voting. We have seen the debates be vibrant but really not move much in terms of polls. What else matters . Televised town hall meetings. I had one on cnn sunday night. The major media appearances of all kinds the candidates do. The cumulative impact. Bluntly, in this conversation already i have had more time to talk to the American People than i did in the first debate, literally. It was five and a half minutes total for me. I think there are many ways to get a message out. I think the next debate is a crucial opportunity. Im going to fight hard to get into it. I would say the reason no one should count out any candidate who has something serious to say and serious qualifications, i certainly think my colleagues you mentioned fit in that category, is because in America Today in the age of social media, you can go from being obscure to famous in 48 to 72 hours. Any moment, any idea might catch fire. Any moment, authentic moment might take off and change the way people see you. Any world event might change the discussion. I think if i were looking back 20 years in time i might have seen this differently. Were in a more open context than we have been in. The Democratic Party did things i agree with and things i disagree with in terms of structuring the debates. One thing thats progress is the notion that small donors, even giving 1, help to determine who gets on the stage. Its not the money you raise, its how many people. If you agree with the things im saying, anyone out there go to bill de blasio. Com and give at least a dollar. It helps. Its small d democracy to say how many people want to hear from you . Thats progress. The reformers in the party fought for it to be not about how much you raise from high donors or the early polling which you know early polling is often not instructive, not accurate. But bringing the grassroots element is helpful. Thats my job to fight for that. I left him speechless. Mika, hes speechless. They just said were out of time. You never listen to cues, im glad you did. See . A great moment. Still ahead, we are breaking down all of President Trumps bizarre claims during this years g7 summit, from mixed messaging on china to skipping a climate meeting and claiming president obama was outsmarted by Vladimir Putin. There is a lot to talk about on where we stand in the world. Plus, Oklahoma Attorney general mike hunter joins us on the heels of a major Court Decision that points the blame at Johnson Johnson for the states opioid crisis. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. 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Hes trying to get it above water . Who knows . Again, he doesnt care about profits. Look at the bankruptcies. Right. Hes given 400 million in todays profits by his father. He drives it into the ground and becomes 9 billion in debt. Here we go again. This is just such a bizarre News Conference yesterday. A bizarre weekend. The lies. All over the place. Yesterday morning, when the president said and well talk to richard haas in a second. Just to frame this show, yesterday morning when he said we have calls from the chinese. China called. China called. That was a lie. We said it was a lie yesterday morning without even having to hear from the Chinese Government that, no, they actually had not made phone calls to donald trump. He backed himself into a corner. He spent the weekend trying to get out of the corner because he figured out that his day trading put American Workers and america in a bad position which is going to hurt him. I dont think he cares about that. Next year. He lied about so many things. So many bizarre claims. One of my favorites that melania has really grown to really like kim jongun. Oh, yeah. They have a wonderful relationship. Of course they had to be reminded that melania has never met kim jongun. One bizarre claim after another. We go through all of those in a minute. We still have to try to figure out why it is that donald trump spent this weekend pushing so hard for Vladimir Putin. Doing Vladimir Putins bidding behind closed doors to such a degree that he made everybody else uncomfortable. You know the lie he put out in a tweet claiming that everybody over here is saying how Great America is. They just dont know why the press is so negative toward me and the country. Well, that was a lie as well. He created, as Kellyanne Conway said very early on, alternative facts. An alternative reality. He did it on a world stage where he really did hurt americas reputation and credibility. With us we have msnbc contributor mike barnacle, analyst for nbc news and cohost and executive producer of showtimes the circus john heilman, author of the book a world in disarray richard haas, columnist and associate editor the Washington Post Eugene Robinson and journalist in residence at Georgetown School of foreign service, elise labot. Good to have you on board with us. Welcome. President trump is back in washington after returning from the g7 summit in france capped by what the Washington Post is calling 68 minutes in biarritz, a glimpse into trumps unorthodox mind. Thats a polite way to put it. The president closed out the gathering of World Leaders for speaking for more than an hour in which he trashed his predecessor, bragged about personal properties, said hell hold next years g7 gathering at the doral golf course in florida. The New York Times peter baker points out trumps comments on the trade war with china resulted in whiplash for World Leaders. Baker highlights how on friday trump claimed chinas president xi was the enemy. By yesterday his view of xi was rosier. I think president xi is a great leader who happens to be a brilliant man. He cant lose 3 million jobs in a very short period of time. Thats going to be magnified many times over and break down the chinese system of trade. In the meantime, the United States which never collected ten cents from china will in a fairly short period of time be over 100 billion in tariffs. So i think they want to make a deal very badly. You have recently been saying china wants a deal but you are not necessarily ready for a deal and you like the tariff revenue thats coming in. Are you now ready to make a deal . Only if it is a fair and good deal for the United States. Otherwise i will not make a deal. We have billions and billions coming in. I think we are going to get there. Its not a question of behavior. I think they want to make a deal and should make a deal. If they dont make a deal, its going to be very bad for china. I very much appreciate the fact that they came out last night very late and said they want to make a deal, want it to be under calm circumstances. It was a little different kind of statement. I thought it was a beautiful statement. Except a Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson said he was not aware of phone calls trump mentioned. You could hear it when he was like, china called. His eyes were i mean i guess the president doesnt understand that things can be verified. Well, actually people will ask foreign ministries whether they actually called or not. Of course one other thing and it becomes laborious, but we have to keep talking about billions of dollars that tariffs are going to take from china. It comes from you, the american taxpayer. The chinese do not pay the tariffs. You pay the tariffs. When you go grocery shopping, when you go to walmart, target, you are paying the tariffs, the american consumer. Im not sure who he thinks hes fooling. I dont think his supporters are stupid. I guess he thinks theyre stupid which is insulting, but tariffs arent paid by china. The tariffs are paid by the american consumer. John heilman, lets take a step back. I want you to give us the overview before richard haas gives us the specifics on policy. His performance this weekend was extraordinarily unmoored, worse than ever. Everybody agrees donald trump is getting worse. He began the weekend on friday by ordering u. S. Companies to get out of china, ordering them. Then saying he had the Legal Authority to do it. A bizarre defense of Vladimir Putin. Just a bizarre obsession. Its really sad. Hes so obsessed with barack obama and it makes him look small. That continued as he attacked a former president while praising an exkgb agent. When inside private meetings, from all reports, obsessed with getting Vladimir Putin in the room with them. What are our allies to think and how in the hell can republicans watch him on the world stage promoting doral, a property thats collapsing and do little more than write opeds saying donald trump is right about purchasing greenland without mentioning he cancelled the meeting with greenland, with denmark because they wouldnt sell him greenland. Yeah. The tom cotton thing youre referring to is so sad to watch a United States senator its pathetic. Sucking up to the president in a ridiculous way when its been clear that greenland is not for sale. Oral arguments about its merits or demerits are irrelevant. Again, john, the world is on fire when hes over there g7. Literally. Literally. Look at whats happening with russia, china, with your closest allies and your answer is to go back to last week and say, well, its a good idea to purchase greenland. Doing the same. How do they ignore the fire in front of them . I believe the word you are looking for is psysycophant and toady. Because trumps performance was quintessentially trump and the reaction was quintessentially republican. They ignore what hes doing, suck up to him. They have given up the pretense of not being in his pocket. Well talk about it but the main thing over the weekend, all the things you laid out, the image that summed up the whole thing was the notion, to your image of the world on fire, the amazon is on fire. The most urgent meeting of the weekend in some respects is the meeting on Climate Change where the entire industrialized world, the rest of the world recognized in a way now that it has never before, Climate Change is vividly on display as we watch the amazon burning in a way thats going to potentially create ecological havoc that takes hundreds of years to correct if it ever gets kreekted. In the session on Climate Change at the g7, the president didnt show up. There was an empty chair which symbolizes where we are now. We are fully there. The president of the United States is abdicating. His excuse was a lie. His excuse for not being there was even a lie. Yes. Everything he did all weekend was an alternative reality. For sure. He says he was off doing bilateral meetings, i believe, with india and germany and of course those leaders were in the room. Yes, he lied again. The bigger story is the story of abdication. We talked about how donald trump was seeding American Leadership on the world stage. Now we have the full abdication of leadership and the heads of the other g7 nations which in every other trans national, International Meeting over the last two and a half years have tried one way or the other to cajole trump, to push trump, to offer blandishments to trump. They are giving up. How do we keep the arsonist from burning down the house, keep him from doing damage and go about our business because america is no longer the leader of the free world. Thats what you saw over the weekend. In the long arc of history thats what well remember the summit for. Of course, its just a realization, richard haas, of what Angela Merkel told germans a few years ago when she said we can no longer rely on the United States of america. The measure its interesting. The measure of a g7 now isnt what you accomplish. Its what you avoid. In this case it was avoiding a major blowup with the United States from the getgo. Emmanuel macron decided the last thing you needed was a communique because it the United States could sign onto that would be substantive. He was very smart. He cut his losses. I think johns point is right. Abdication is a word i have used. Essentially the United States has gone from being the principal architect and general contractor of world order to becoming the principal disruptor. The problem for the europeans and the japanese and others is they lack the capacity to subjects du substitute for us. They do what they can. 25 million for amazon fires which is a drop in the bucket. Without the United States in the drivers seat we dont make a lot of progress. The gap between the challenges and the International Responses is growing. Thats the historical judgment about the g7 which looks like a tired gathering. I think the two immediate things i would highlight are the president walked back two big issues. The trade war for the moment with china and the threat of actual war with iran. There was a change from where he showed up in france and where he ended. Still ahead on morning joe. They took crimea during his term. That was not a good thing. It could have been stopped with the right whatever. Yeah. With the right whatever. Well run through the president s strategic analysis of geopolitics next on morning joe. With all day comfort for all day fun. 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That was his determination. He was outsmarted by putin. He was outsmarted. President putin outsmarted president obama. Why do you keep making the misleading statement that russia outsmarted president obama. He did. When other countries say russia was kicked out because they annexed crimea. Why keep repeating a clear lie . I know you like president obama, but it was annexed during president obamas term. If it was annexed during my term i would say, im sorry, folks, i made a mistake. Sorry, folks. President obama was pure and simply outsmarted. They took crimea during his term. That was not a good thing. It could have been stopped. Could have been stopped with the right whatever. It could have been stopped. But president obama was unable to stop it. Its its insanity. Yes, it is. First of all, Vladimir Putin did not take crimea from an american president. Vladimir putin took crimea from ukraine just like he took georgia from georgia. Those invasions were invasions of Vladimir Putin, a man who is still trying to disrupt and interfere with american democracy, according to Donald Trumps appointees to the fbi, the cia, india, everybody. Xtordy unbecoming of a president to attack another president of of a dictator. An exkgb agent who has now invaded two countries over the past decade. And who is still invading the United States. Who Donald Trumps own intel chiefs and military warned is posing a direct threat to american democracy. This, mika, is the man donald trump goes to the mats for every day defending. The question remains, why . I asked last week. They dont like the questions that have been asked of donald trump. I need to hear their theory. Whats their alternative theory . Thats the question i have for elise. You have to understand one of the patterns that you might say many are tracking in this presidency is the undermining of the media and the undermining of the truth, the undermining of journalists. The more you do that, the more you think you can live in this dream world and make up stuff and pretend you were at meetings and say you were with certain people when we show the picture of people at a meeting where he was not. Right in the middle. Pick somebody on the side. We showed the picture before. They were right in the middle of the meeting when donald trump said, oh, no, i wasnt at the meeting. I dont think this is him being mr. Magoo. I think there was a huge effort on this president s part, my concern is that hes devaling the truth and devaluing our standing on the world stage. He is. Elise, my question to you is with this putin envy, putin connection, the desire to obsess over russia and putin in a way thats beyond inappropriate and beyond reflecting where we have been over the past 10, 20, 30 years, people like my father who know deep, deep inside information about how this has all come together, strategic partnerships, concerns about our elections, how is it that nobody in the white house and no republican except finally Rick Santorum speaking. Where are these people and what planet are they on . What could be the strategy for a trump supporter to stand by this relationship . You put it right. He has this envy of president obama and he will not be deterred. Theres been a lot of whether putin has something on him or whether hes bribing him. Its just putin envy. Hes a strong leader, doesnt have any real constituency in the country. He does everything by fiat and force. Thats the kind of leader, no protests, no acrimony from the people. 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Speaking of envy, gene, your latest piece titled trumps obamacare envy is getting even worse you write this. One of the things that seems to matter to trump is comparing himself favorably, of course, with his predecessor, no matter how delusional the rationale. Russia was kicked out of the g 8 after putin sent forces into ukraine to seize and annex the Crimean Peninsula. In trumps version, however, crimea was taken from president obama. Those are Donald Trumps delusional words. Trump blasts the obamacare administrations record of creating jobs and claims to be doing much better, yet journalists listen to this, too, because you keep talking about Donald Trumps great recovery. Under obama, the Unemployment Rate fell from a high of 10 to just 4. 7 . Also, by the way, obama created more jobs the last two and a half years of his term than trump has for being soft on illegal immigration yet deports fewer undocumented migrants than obama did, by the way. Also illegal crossings. 50year low under barack obama. They have skyrocketed under donald trump. Facts. Stubborn facts. Trump seems terrified history will look more kindly on obamas presidency than his own. If thats the case on this one point he couldnt be more right. Mike barnacle, it was staggering to see an american president attack another american president on the world stage. I have never seen it before. In defense of an autocrat who said the greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the soviet union collapsing. No one has seen this before, joe. No one has. Its odd. I guess we are in a stage where people dont realize history never stops. You had an odd portrait, a mixture of resentment and envy on trumps part talking about barack obama. You also, gene, seem to have a very dangerous portrait of instability for the first time really on the world stage this year and the portrait is of donald j. Trump. Yeah. You know, in that 68minute tour du nonforce i dont know what you call it, that bizarre appearance yesterday. The world got to see what we are now pretty accustomed to seeing. Donald trump getting in front of a microphone telling lie after lie, winging it, showing his obsessions, neuroses, resentments, insecurities and inadequacies and his stunning ignorance. We have seen it a lot. The world got to witness just who was in charge of the United States and its economy, its military, this great world power that now as everybody has been saying, is essentially on the sidelines. For the United States to be basically in effective, ineffectual and just as well not there at a meeting of the g7 is a standunning thing. We can expect nothing more while donald trump is president. The other World Leaders consider it fortunate there was no other disaster at the meeting. The attitude was just, lets get through this, get on with our business, do the best we can. As richard said, there is a limited amount they can do without the United States. But thats how they have to proceed now. Coming up on morning joe, a pharmaceutical giant is fined a half billion dollars. Remarkably, its stock goes up. Well talk about the lawsuit against Johnson Johnson and its role in the opioid crisis. Morning joe is back in a moment. Applebees handcrafted burgers now with endless fries starting at 7. 99. And get more bites for your buck with late night halfpriced apps. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Its how we bring hope to our patients like viola. Her team treated her cancer and strengthened her spirit. So viola could focus on their future. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Appointments available now. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Cant imagine doing it any other way. This is Caitlin Dickerson from the New York Times. This isnt the only case. Very little documentation. Lo que yo quiero estar con mi hijo. I know thats not true. 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Joining us now Oklahoma Attorney general mike hunter. Also with us is danny savales along with corinne jean pierre. Mr. Attorney general, congratulations on this. Thanks. Explain to us what exactly was the argument that you want . Well, the promise was honestly pretty clear. This company, Johnson Johnson was the originator of the oversupply and overprescribing epidemic in the country. They got together with partners in the mid 90s and came up with a scheme that doctors needed to treat pain as a fifth vital sign though there is no criteria for that. They bought a poppy form and supplied 60 of the ingredient for prescription opioids in the United States. They misrepresented the addictive qualities of the drugs, promoted the sale of all opioids in this country including their own. They collaborated, conspired with their Industry Partners to head off policy changes that would have helped abate the epidemic. As far as we are concerned, when we use the term kingpin to describe their activities it wasnt hyperbole. Yeah. We proved it and the judges decision in a way thats absolutely inarguable established their cull pablt for causing the epidemic in our state. How did they misrepresent the addictive quality of opioids . They fiendishly used pseudoscience, misrepresented studies, hired Key Opinion Leaders with degrees and credentials to go around the country and, again, deal with this misinformation in a way that began to change attitudes on the part of prescribers about opioids. So they spent millions and millions of dollars on this campaign brainwashing prescribers. General hunt, given the fact that oklahoma isnt unlike a lot of other states where the epidemic has ravaged the population, i assume there could be more than one defendant in a case like this. Why was Johnson Johnson the only defendant . We settled with two other defendants earlier this spring. Purdue pharma and teva. So cumulatively we have been able to get almost a billion dollars from the companies to start dealing with the epidemic in this state. The conduct of opioid manufacturers in this country is indivisible as far as im concernl conce concerned. We have danny savales with us. He has a question. You used a relatively novel theory of public nuisance law which is usually a persons use of property interfering with anothers use of property like loud noises or noxious orders but oklahoma law as written doesnt require that the nuisance be tied to use of property. Right. Other states do. Is it true, a. G. Hunter, that had the case been brought in one of those states that tie s nuisance to property you couldnt have won a case like this . I believe in federalism. I believe in the ability to have states to conduct their own business and to have Legal Systems that protect their citizens. Oklahomas public nuisance law is unique. It is powerful. It gives me as attorney general and judge bachman, as the judge in this case, the authority to abate a public nuisance when there is significant harm occ occurring to a population, when you can demonstrate causation you have the ability then in court to abate the epidemic. Novel, yes. When 6,000 oklahomans die as a result of the conduct of this defendant when we have perhaps 100,000 oklahomans addicted, we used a legal asset available to us to deal with whats going on in the state. I have no apologies, nor do i think it is a theory that isnt going to be upheld in ap lpella courts. We know what we are doing and we are ready for appeals. To me, the most astonishing and saddest sentence in the opinion by the judge is essentially this one. Its that the defendants apparently used a phrase called pseudoaddiction meaning something thats false, to convince doctors that patients who exhibited signs of addiction were not suffering from addiction but instead were suffering from undertreatment of pain and the fix for that was more opiates. This should be the leading line in every interview you give. This is the saddest sentence in the entire opinion. I want to get your comments on the pseudoaddiction concept. Shameful. I dont know if there are words that are sufficient to describe the recklessness, the irresponsibility, the coldbloodedness of trying to convince physicians that it wasnt an addiction and they should prescribe more. The money Johnson Johnson made is blood money. The ceo needs to step up, write the check in oklahoma so we can deal with problems they caused. General hunter, the check thats going to be written after the appeals are all through, how is the money going to be distributed . Where does the money go . Most of the money will be principally dedicated to dealing with counseling, rehabilitation and treatment for around 100,000 oklahomans who have become addicted to opioids in many different forms. There is also money that will be made available for education and prevention and law enforcement. So the judge has done a good job in ensuring that we are dealing with from a to z the different ways we need to, again, abate the epidemic in oklahoma. All right. Oklahoma attorney general mike hunter, thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you. Congratulations, huge. Lets get to the business angle in the wake of the ruling against Johnson Johnson. The Company Stock jumped yesterday and it appears shares will continue to climb today. Domenic chu of cnbc joins us. Explain why that happened. It comes down to expectations. The Johnson Johnson shares are higher on the news largely in part because the 572 million ruling you spoke about was far less than the 17 billion oklahoma was looking for and less than some analysts had forecast. We had seen ranges from 500 million to 5 billion. Nothing close to 17 billion, but still it came in less and thats the reason Johnson Johnson, with a little bit more certainty here, incrementally not a lot. The appeals process is in place, but look at teva pharmaceuticals, other big drug makers that have some of the painkillers. Those stocks on the rise as well given the smaller than expected damage award. Markets are stable and opened slightly higher for the day. Trade tensions are easing slightly between the u. S. And china. The dow, s p and nasdaq will try to make two days in a row of gains. The companies we are watching that are the most impacted by trade tensions have been ones with a lot of business presence in china. Otherwise the manufacturing side of things as well. We are watching apple computer. Also chip makers like intel, Athletic Apparel makers like nike and Construction Companies like caterpillar because all have significant exposure to china. Each of the four stocks members of the Dow Jones Industrial average and they do count china as a key market there. Finally, shares of beyond meat rose yesterday. They are higher in trading today. This is the maker of plantbased meat alternatives. It will go beyond patties and sausages and get into plantbased chicken nuggets. Yum brands kfc will test the beyond chicken product at one of the restaurants in atlanta, georgia. The possible rollout could happen based upon customer feedback. If you are looking for more ways to get alternative meat into your diet, it could be at kfc with beyond chicken. Back to you. Oh, great. Cnbcs domenic chu, thank you very much. Danny savales, thank you as well. Last year the Record Number of women sworn into office changed the face of congress. 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It was a politically bleak time for many women across the country, and there were murmurs at the time. Early reports of being inundated with women newly interested in running for office. So, at that time i thought i really saw it as the bright light. I was compelled to follow it. It led me to women like catalina and i was able to follow their stories really from even before some of the women decided to run all the way through election night. And then in january when they took office. Hi there. Great book. Really looking forward to reading it. My question to both of you is, do you think that this was this a reaction to donald trump or part of a larger trend . Thats the first question. The second question is will we see a repeat of this in the upcoming cycle . More women, more Diverse People running in the next cycle . I think ive often called it a perfect political storm because you have these new surge of women who not only felt empowered because finally they felt like they had a political platform and a piece of the conversation. What you also had, a new president who continuously worked to silence that. So he gave us that extra push to want to do this. And im certainly hoping well see a repeat. Not just of more women but more women of color, more men of color to take place at the table where the decisions are being made. So im crossing my fingers well definitely see a repeat. You were born in colombia. You came to america. You lived in dreamer land for several years, became a citizen, married. Why did you decide to run for the new York State Assembly . What prompted that . I felt like i had a lot of privilege and had not fully used it in the way i could protect and fight for my community. I was a lawyer. I had worked for governor cuomo, worked for the city council. I had all of this experience but i also had this secret of how i grew up. I grew up so poor my mom and i used to collect cans. I grew up so poor that, you know, a piece of the book actually talks about how i had to buy Feminine Hygiene Products at a 99 cents store. That is the level of poverty i had. Now i had this privilege of the knowledge, the education, and here i am doing great work at an agency when i could be creating the policies, i could be pushing the change that will help protect our community while we weather the storm of this presidency. So im curious, youre seeing this huge thing happening, this large increase in women candidates, the importance of that chunk of the electorate is rising. Weve seen it obviously happened in 2018. People look at the 2020. Im curious as you look at just texturally, what is different about how women run for off for . As emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, the things at the center of their campaigns. If you compare and contrast the different styles of candidacy . Yes. Well, were seeing it right now in the 2020 race in a really big way. Having more women in the democratic primary already has put really important issues, the equal rights amendment. Were talking about abortion access. We are talking about the wage gap. Were talking about affordable child care. These are issues that have been brought to the forefront in the president ial race and, really, the reason for that is because the female candidates in the race have pushed those issues. In doing so, the men in the race have also had to come forward and talk about them and address them much more prominently than i think we are typically used to seeing in races. Thats just one effect of having more women in politics. All right. Well, the book is, see jane win the inspiring story of the women change having american politics. Great concept. Catalina cruz, great story. Thank you very much, both of you. Thank you. For being on the show today. Thank you for having us. Speaking of powerful Women Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg made her first public appearance yesterday since the announcement she is receiving Cancer Treatment for the fourth time. Justice ginsburg was presented with an honorary law degree from the university of buffalo law school. Ginsburg reflected on her law career and her longtime focus on womens rights. Ginsburgs recent cancer announcement did not appear to rattle the 86yearold, who even joked about her nickname, notorious rbg. It was beyond my wildest imagination that i would one day become the notorious rbg. I am now 86 years old. Yet people of all ages want to take their picture with me. Amazing. My gosh. Amazing. Mike barnicle, thoughts . Well, you know, seeing Justice Ginsburg and just having had the conversation about more women running for more offices state, local, federal around the country that can only be viewed as tremendous progress as well as a gift to america, because the more women we have on the ballot the more women we have in public office, the smarter we become. That is mike barnicle, a man who is married to an extraordinary woman and knows exactly which side his bread is buttered on but all true. The other thing id say is, look. You look at the notorious rbg. Literally on friday i think a lot of the world whether youre conservative or liberal, hearing she had another cancer scare, hearing it was related to pancreatic cancer, a lot of people on friday were saying prayers and to see her out in public looking so strong and vibrant in that video just so recently after everyone was kind of holding their breath on friday, kind of incredible relief for a lot of people out there in the country. Great to see. Yeah, incredible relief indeed. Look, ill be a little bit of a downind of