a sense of proportionately. it s one story all the time, always angry, always outraged. that has a sense of driving the public to say, you know what? they really are the opposition party. those sfoers are often justified and need to be covered very very hard but have a consequence when they land on a very diverse and now divided public. frank makes a good point, mika. donald trump is not the reason why a lot of people in middle america see the press as opposition party. donald trump is the result of that. same thing with foreign policy. donald trump is the result of 20 years of failed foreign policy. this was a pre-existing condition. americans, a lot of americans in middle america believed for a very long time that the media was just an extension of the democratic party. so to blame that all on donald
with this conservative majority on the supreme court. so i think you got a lot of republicans who are going well i m worried about norms getting thrown out but i do really love these wins that i think that s what it s those wins that has enabled donald trump to say well it took some very different approaches to get there and that s why you re seeing folks like lindsey graham suddenly sounding a lot different. thank you all for being on this morning. we wanted to mention frank s book ask more the power of questions to open doors, uncover solutions and spark change. still ahead on morning joe for the vast majority of u.s. senators their respective votes on kavanaugh were a foregone conclusion. our next guest said only five members took their duties of advise and consent as seriously as founders intend.
constant politics from the policy that things that are being done that actually affect people s lives. that s what i fear is getting lost most of all. it was interesting, frank, and hard not to get swept up interest at times, but you saw a lot of female journalists sharing their stories, and sort of bringing there was a kinship developing among women activists, democrats, but also women journalists sharing their personal stories, and it seemed to me that part of me too, i m just trying to pick my words very carefully that believes very much that all women are to be believed. that also sort of overflowed into the media. and that s a hard one to talk about, because, again, our job is to ask questions, correct? not to believe. well, to ask questions, to
potential losses this will continue. it won t be until you see significant mobilization of young voters, latinos, coalitions that democrats you know democrats have activated female voters for this election, college educated female voters. they will be hugely influential in a lot of districts. there s other pieces of the democratic coalition that i have not seen data that they are fired up at the levels that democrats would need to really make this blue wave a tsunami and i think that is part of where republicans will be saved and if they are, i think that the step towards being the party of donald trump, that will not change after this mid-term unless a blue tsunami happens. frank, mika and i last week were, while of course we are regular critics of donald trump, some would say we ve gone overboard at times.
thoughtful but also tough questions of everybody, right? and that is something we need to do no matter what. frank, what about the daily challenge presented to newspaper editors, to television news directors, programming directors and it is this: in an administration built on a tissue of lies on a daily basis uttered by the president of the united states, this search for truth, this questioning, looking for facts each and every day performed admirably by institutions like, you know, all the tv networks, the washington post, new york times and others, a substantial percentage of americans don t believe us. you know, they choose to believe the wire in chief, you know. i m kind of reluctant to use that phrase but it s been proven true. what about that challenge?