She has brutally covered other president ial elections. Hes an onair political analyst for New Hampshires w nu and a commentator for cnn and political. Patrick griffin is also a cnn commentator, longtime New Hampshire political strategist and a visiting fellow at the center for political future and a fabulous teacher he advised president george w. Bush and recently serves as a Senior Advisor to New Hampshire governor. My friend, mike murphy, codirector of the center, veteran of five president ial campaigns and the numerous campaigns for senators and governors including Arnold Schwarzenegger and mitch romney. Patrick, i will begin with a question that we will start with you. A lot of critics think New Hampshire with the lack of diversity should never be the first primary state. What is your response to that and will this change . My responses it will probably never change we can talk about that for a second but there is a great amount of hostage taking, malfeasance and holdups everythin
at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do, it s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. all right. good morning. it s 6:00 on the east coast. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, january 13th. that was president obama at the memorial service last night. we ll have much more of that ahead. with us onset, msnbc political analyst, nyu professor and former democratic congressman from tennessee, harold ford, junior. and head tore in chief of the daily beast and newsweek, tina brown. willie is in washington alongside msnbc political analyst pat buchanan. i thought that was a wonderful message. a great message and one we ve been debating on many levels here as to what place it has in the whole conversation. i t