story effectively spiked at the new york times. if we want to look at something positive, joe, i hope this era we are in right now with donald trump, with what happened at fox news, with bill cosby, with now harvey weinstein, i hope this is opening up a new chapter, where these guys can t get away with this stuff anymore. they know they won t have safe harbor, women feel empowered, they know they will have the support of men they work with. i hope because all we have seen so publicly that something will change here. but we will see. we know mika has been writing about this. willie, yeah, i know it s a sacred cow at nbc, but c mon, i d be a hypocrit if i didn t say this you have loren michaels saying this is a local story. this is a new york story, so he killed all reference toss harvey weinstein and snl . you know, they bravely go after politicians, we could update his turn to an anti-trump editorial and good for them.
top brass who should be informing him on what we should be doing with our diplomacy. and bob costa, let s talk about the steve bannon part of the story, because as frank wrote this weekend, this guy doesn t appear to be wanting to reform the republican party. his moves make him seem like he wants to destroy the republican party. you have a guy in alabama that got stripped of his judgeship twice. the excon in new york that bannon is meeting with that he wants to get in kocongress. talk about the head of black water he s trying to get to move to wyoming to run against a person. and word i heard is bannon is telling people he ll move to utah to run against mitt romney if romney decides to seek the senate out there. talk about the steve bannon part
we ve entered a new realm that we re living inside a reality tv show in that sense. well, jeffrey, i like your role the best. i like the role that you re playing right now. thank you very much. the editor of 160-year-old news magazine. my staff thinks i m just playing editor on tv. that s funny. you do a good job. willie, what s coming up next. with all this going on, the president this morning is tweeting about espn s ratings tanking. robert costa, thank you very much. thank you to the others as well. still ahead on morning joe, president trump once told us on morning joe he, quote, seeks with himself on foreign policy because he has a very good brain. now he s comparing his i.q. with that of his secretary of state. it s not surprising who the president thinks comes out on top. we ll go live to the white house with that story next on morning joe. how do we say that this fall,
monopoly over stars, over magazines, over the sourcing of news, over all the things that he had figured out how to have a monopoly over, because facebook and google and basically silicon valley blew up his world, so, this would have never happened if harvey weinstein was the power player he was ten years ago and if he was still delivering academy awards, you know, it s the story of, he the get matt damon and russell crowe to call the new york times to kill a story about harvey weinstein being sexually ap abusive. that s just shocking to me. who are these people? you are talking about the allegation that one former new york sometimes reporter made she had written up this story in 2004 and that harvey, through himself and through people he knew in hollywood bought the the
of this story, and how that s going to make a tough situation for the republican party even more difficult moving forward into 2018. what they re experiencing with bannon is a power play. this is not just an ideological fight with bannon who is more on the populist nationalist wing of the republican party. that s how he defines himself. but he s really looking at the leadership and he s saying i m coming at you. i m going to up end you and try to take over power on capitol hill. and yes, he s just one person. and he has a website in breitbart news that has a reach, but it s not a party in and of itself. but he is in a way making his whole wing of the party an option for the base voter to say we re going to replace the entire republican apparatus with this outsider group. and they scored a win in alabama. they re going to have wins and losses across the map in the coming year, but they probably will pick up a few more seats just because the base is so