at the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. you will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend or a parent. and that is that 1990 wellesley college speech that andy carter referenced in our last hour. welcome back to morning joe on this wednesday april 18th i m willie geist alongside kasie hunt. joe and mika have the morning off. still with us, we have msnbc contributor mike barnacle, noah rothman, chair of the department of african-american studies at princeton university eddy glove jr. and joining the conversation, columnist for the wall street journal, msnbc the great peggy noonan and professor of history at tulane university, walter isaacson and washington bureau chief for usa today susan page, the author of the
constricted. we have to have much more honest conversations with a slightly lower temperature so that we can actually talk about some of the real truths that are happening. i think with donald trump everything is ratcheted up. but it s very clear to me that he won in part because there s a segment of people who hold pretty noxious views who are tired of not being able to speak them out loud, to eddy s point, and they love that he went out and said, yeah, those countries are terrible countries, s-hole countries. and they think he is speaking the truth and being honest. you can be very honest about something and be totally dishonest about it at the same time. the flip side of that is also why people like barry weiss are so important which is i believe the op-ed they were referring to in that skit, unafraid to draw fire and advance ideas that some people think are dangerous. she s very brave. mika, that s an important point. barry weiss caught a lot of flakt with the new york
rothman, chair of african-american studies at princeton university eddy glove jr. and shannon petty piece. joe, so we start it s only monday and we begin that way. right. well, yeah. and of course you didn t show the rest of the tape where we kept explaining to donald trump that putin assassinated political opponents and assassinated journalists just didn t seem to care. didn t matter how far we pushed him. that was revealing. that was in december of 2015. i remember i think it was somebody over at the national review said that may have been the most telling interview of the entire 2016 campaign. i think they were right. it was because it suggested there was something untoward in that relationship with putin. and that, of course, moves us forward not only to what s happening in russia, not only with frank s remarkable
flesh out these issues. and so often people say, oh, we need they don t want an honest conversation because there s twitter. there are bloggers who will go after you and try to destroy you the second you break from whatever the orthodoxy is of metoo conversations or race conversations. and we ve seen it here. yeah, it s always difficult to have these sorts of conversations, joe, particularly when sometimes i think we re absolutely right. folks we want to dance and we have to be careful because people are afraid that you re going to step on toes or you re going to offend. but sometimes people try to hide behind the notion of honest conversations to traffic innoxious views. so, sometimes honesty with actually serves as protection for the actual views that are offending people. but, but, eddy, if somebody
yeah, donald trump, eddy, can t just take credit for that because it s a declining number that was shooting straight down. yeah, no, he can t take credit for it. one of the things that s so ironic about his innovation here is we see the underlying inequality in the labor market. you still see, right, the fundamental structural imbalance in the labor market. donald trump to invoke the black unemployment numbers. look at my black friend, i have one. it s terrible. the guy has like sensibilities of someone came of age in the 1940s and 1950s, as if that appeal was somehow would vindicate him of any racist views. look, black unemployment is low under my administration, as if that absolves of racist statement and sentiment. he can t take credit, a. and b, it doesn t help him at