In washington, d. C. , Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Nen theres his war of word with the democrats and. What a day yesterday. Good morning. It friday, august 11th. Mika has the morning off. With us we have vet van columnist, mike barnicle, woor still trying to find a title for him. Send is in with two proof of purchase jeremy peters. John, you were on the air yesterday when these press avails happened. They were really bizarre in many ways. Yes, were all focusing on this new cold war between us and north korea and like austin powers, theres only two things that care me, of course Nuclear Power and the other carney. I think this the long run, this war that thhes raised with mit mcconnell, Mitch Mcconnell runs capitol hill. And it just ongoing to anybody who knows how the big ban works. This is a little improvised. Comparing the administration right now. But on the no republican president would wage war on the majority leader of the United States senate. At the same time hes wa
Wounds. Its a very dishonest media, right there. I really believe they dont like our country. When one part of mamerica hurt, we all. When one citizens suffers an injustice, we all suffer. I went to better schools than they did. I was a better student than they were. We are one home with one flag. I hit everything, the White Supremacists and neonazi, i got them all. Kkk, i got them all. There is no challenge too great for us to conquer. The on people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself. Wow. Welcome to morning joe. You know, for over a year now there have been people that have been saying you should not try to figure out the president s mental state and if he has any issues, dont try to be a pop psychiatrist or psychologist but i can say safely, willie that he at least has in its most advanced form plet call schizophrenia. Thats just from three days. And the back and for the is insane. I think what we need to try to dig into today is, first of all, how much does
You look at the time line, you look at the connections with russia. You look at the statements they made, willie, during the transition and in the early parts of their presidency and the lies just keep falling one after another after other and after another. We will obviously be covering that story this morning, but also, willie, a story that you first brought up yesterday morning, the shock waves from this Donna Brazile book thats coming out. She goes after Hillary Clinton for basically losing the campaign, puts the blame squarely on her. She goes after barack obama for bankrupting the party and the dnc for rigging the election. This is something democrats are going to be fighting with for quite a long time i think. I dont think some democrats are saying, hey, we need to leave there behind us, lets not look to the past. Lets look to the future. There is about 50 of the party saying, no, we need to talk about this and talk about what happened. So a lot to talk about today. Yeah, i mean
Wow obviously, this is not just a boston event. Its an international event. They were there to watch their father, to watch their dad cross the finish lines, instead they lost an 8yearold do you like Vladmir Putin comments about you. Sure, he killed journalists. I think our country does a lot of killing, also, joe. What is aleppo . You are kidding . No. Joe, joe, joe a long time coming. What a moment. And i move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party. I make up and have been here a heck of a long time. I will faithfully execute the oflsz of president of the United States. [ applause [ applause ] i just got a quick question. What are they doing up this early . Its really early. But were celebrating ten years. Thats actually barely scratching the surface. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Didnt you guys always assume we were the ones awake at this time. Theyre up, its unbelievable. Were celebrating with our tenth anniversary this morning. [ applau
Apparently. No, the opposite. Otherwise the day to dismantle obamas signature moves. Lets talk first really quickly about john kelly yesterday. Mmhmm. What did you think . I thought he was a real moderating force. You could tell the press really felt comfortable with him and there was a lot to hope for in there. There was one thing he said i think kind of i worry it undermines everything. He says the tweets dont bother him, the president s tweets. Its like you have a patient hemorrhaging on one side of the body the other side looks good, i only work on the other side. I think, though, i think youve had this expectation from the beginning that ive never had, because chief of staffs dont go an tell the president what is they are or are not going to do. Chief of staffs run the white house, richard haase, a tpd president s i would have loved to have seen george w. Bushs chief of staffs go in and give him ideas on iraq or on afghanistan or other issues and basically order him to do things.