jonathan, i ll start with you. i mentioned this earlier. this column from your colleague at the washington post jeanne robinson this morning, the timing of this is interesting in light of what happened this afternoon. the headline on his column was obama is the wrong person to lead a discussion about race. i mentioned this earlier. one of the lines is, the unfortunate fact is that obama s aim is to promote dialogue about race, speaking his monday is demon st demonstrably counterproductive. just wondering what your take is. well, i m hoping history will prove gene wrong. it was incredibly powerful to be there in the room when the president gave these remarks. his coming into the room was a surprise, but i think what he had to say was even more surprising. the press core always pays attention when the president speaks. this time, no one moved.
0 yet. we want it to become a more perfect union, which was in some ways a bookend to the i had historic speech he gave on race in 2008, then senator barack obama that was given under that perfect name, more perfect union. peter, definitely a bookend to the philadelphia speech. you didn t expect today s speech, so i don t know if you can answer this question, but so much was laid out on the table today. any expectation if there will be any policy or any other speech coming after this one? that s a good question, obviously they caught us by surprise today. so i couldn t tell you what exactly is going to happen next at this point. but i think what was most striking is that this president, as we often refer to the idea of the bully pulpit, in some ways this was an opportunity to use that bully pulpit to spark a true conversation on the issue of race without dissecting the language used in the political circuit to politicize this conversation of race. just from an effort, he said this
show me the birth certificate. who are you? i e of the states. it was vicious. but the country rose above it. they said his race ofnon-whites were not going to come out and areas that went up. so a lot of critics on that side are left empty handed because the president did lose support. and again, it. take a lot of us a while to get over. i think we re challenged tonight to accept it. him. let me just go. we think we have couple of minutes until the president speaks. literally. be ask jeanne robinson washington post to weigh in in terms of what he s expecting and what is imm the president given the way this victory out. jeanne? we still have a divided country. that popular vote is going to be pretty cl have a big lead in the electoral college. to here is
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worse. this is why i like jon huntsman. i like jon huntsman. i need more of that. exactly. that we just saw. bring it on. good morning, everybody. it s tuesday, october 11th. welcome to morning joe. with us onset we have the columnist for the new york times and president of the council on foreign relations richard hoss. in washington, washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. good to have you with us. i love jon huntsman. you can say it again. i love that. that s the side of him the guy should show. you call someone who acts like a moron a moron. and you say it. you just go there. there is no doubt about it. you look at the flurry of polls that are coming out today that we re going to be showing today and it just illustrates that this type of politics does not work. i ve said it time and time again and offended michele bachmann supporters and sarah palin supporters. right. and glenn beck viewers, but the fact of the matter is, at the e