to regain the confidence of the country. rage is not a policy and democrats are going to have to figure out what they want to do. now they have lost 75% of the houses in the country. they have lost the house. and the senate. they have lost it three times in a row. they have elected a president that no one thought could get there. so the question is if you just get angry i d add to that because i ve heard from a lot of democrats that fear is not a policy either. some of them saying they are so scared what is going to happen and don t want to come forward and talk with the trump administration. rage and fear both get in the way of getting anything done. listen. this is going to be tough. they are going have to eat a lot of this because it is painful for the democrats. the toughest thing to explain is why democrats have lost over 900 legislative seats in states across the country since barack obama became president of the united states. this is a rebuilding project, unlike any i can
different going on here and torpedoed so many other presidential campaigns but he is saying something you re not allowed to say and going after this incredibly respected figure and never backing down or apologizing. he would do it week after week. it was the mexicans. megle kelly, it was fox news. i remember after the south carolina debate, my head was spinning. george w. bush was the blame for 9/11. all of these things. planned parenthood. all of these things that would have destroyed any other republican candidate, the voters on like, i like him any way. there really was kind after slowness to pick up on it. i covered jeb bush s announcement which was the day before donald trump s and trump s was almost treated as an afterthought. we are going to go and see the show and not necessarily going to take it a side show. quite as seriously as the announcements we covered the day before.
in moscow and try to travel the restriction. a whole host of things we did kdo to put pressure on moscow and the last three pres have been wrong footed by vladimir putin every time they tried to go to him with an open hand. i d love to get all of your senses on donald trump s position on nato or several positions he has put out there. is it obsolete? i don t know that it is obsolete. i think we have seen pushback from nikki haley on this topic as well. i m actually excited about that because he is surrounding himself with people who do have opposing views, espeal on nato, other areas like that, that makes him a better informed leader. i d rather see a lot of discussion about that rather than everybody nikki haley and rex tillerson and i love general mattis line. if nato didn t exist, we would
finally got him another blackberry but when he tweeted something out, he would tweet it, give it to his staff, pass it around. right. they would figure out whether it should go out or not. weigh it. debate it. revise it. but that s not atweet! donald trump, when he feels something, he just says it. well, he doesn t have to do that all the time. but that is what he does. he does now have a secure phone so he doesn t apparently have that phone number he s had where anybody could call him and he would answer immediately. he has a new number but i m sure he ll be distributing that out to everybody who wants it. we shall see. up next is senators joni ernst and tom cotton join our conversation and michael mcfall will be here from the dubliner when morning joe comes right back.
the dnc. right. far more comfortable being the funny guy and likeable guy that he is. that was great. joining us is the new york times reporter ameesh and kasie hunt and katy tur and along with willie, joe and me. katy, a long and winding road. a long strange trip it s been. i heard willie talking about donald trump s run-up and nobody took him serious in the beginning and i think i m a great example of that because i was assigned his campaign early on without having any political experience coming from london as a foreign correspondent. we have a team of really talented correspondents and here is a field of candidates. we believe jeb bush is going to be a big player and scott walker is a big player and watch out to ted cruz and marco rubio so make