jokingly. you know, come on, run with me man. in a new interview former vice president joe biden said he would challenge president trump to do pushups if trump criticized his age or mental state in a debate. if someone criticizes your mental state and your response is to do pushups, it s not a great argument in favor of your mental state. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s wednesday, july 17th. along with joe, willie and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnable, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan, former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, steve ratner, and senior news correspondent, kim atkins. i don t see what the problem is. every time we have nobel peace prize winning economists, we tell them, let s arm wrestle.
in 2016, when bernie sanders jumped in, he was exciting, the political revolution, it was something new, it was something that we really hadn t heard before, and it was a binary choice, now we re in a situation where you have elizabeth warren and others, elizabeth warren up by double digits, kamala harris coming up as well, and so what bernie needs to do, he needs to expand his base, his support, it s going to be very difficult for him to do that as we were just saying because of elizabeth warren and when you look at the, take a 30,000 foot view, yes, biden is leading, he is clearly the front runner, but japanese, elizabe but geez, elizabeth warren, they are exciting different parts of the base. steve, a couple of weeks ago, you mentioned how pro-business democrats, moderate democrats, they had sworn in the past they would never vote for elizabeth warren are actually giving her a second look, and perhaps thinking well, if she is the nominee, she s running a very
any unfairness, but unfairness is not enough because we want to just fight. house democrat emanuel cleaver had enough yesterday on capitol hill. ultimately, the house voted to condemn president trump s racist comments. as republicans tried to strip nancy pelosi s mark from the record, as one person said on twitter, so we re not allowed to call the president a racist but he s allowed to be a racist? welcome back to morning joe, wednesday, july 17, this is where we are, still with joe, willie, and me. we have msnbc contributor, mike barnicle, former aid to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan. former treasury official, steve ratner, and nbc news capitol hill, and host of caskasie dc,
a 2000 profile by maximum golf magazine and it talks about epstein and trump, how epstein hitched a ride with jizlaine maxwell, the fixer, the pitch, the copredator on his private plane. we know there s at least an eight year stretch where they were tight enough where donald trump was welcoming epstein on to his plane, and that seems pretty significant that it wasn t just a casual friendship, i mean, if i had a plane, i wouldn t let anyone on it. steve probably doesn t. jeffrey epstein, look, i think it s clear that they were obviously friends and close and all that, and they had this falling out in 2002 and there are various rumors about why they had it. there s a before and after part to the relationship between the two of them, which we will eventually get clarified. this is all so utterly depressing, thooes president of the he s president of the united states. utterly depressing and also,
what so many republicans said who aren t in washington, d.c. believe and so many republicans that, well, used to be members of the party are saying all the time, this isn t difficult steve r ratner and yet there are people inside the white house, let s start with donald trump, who believe this is a good campaign strategy. yesterday, we re going to be talking to jim about this, jim vandehei about this, but yesterday, charlie cook wrote, that there was an intensity among democrats, i think it s like a plus 20 intensity of democrats who believe it is important to get donald trump out of office and they re energized to do that with their vote, compared to 52 or 53% of republicans who believe that it s important to get donald trump out of office and there s this intensity and what vahe s