would have never said five or six years ago, just ask members of my family and my mom about how they ll say stinging things about you or other people. i m just saying, yeah. i know. i wasn t trying to get now you made me put in 18 caveats, go ahead, john heilemann. i just wanted to put a fine point on it. that was not directed at you in anyway. to be clear, we got a lot of evidence now, it s not like news that the president is a racist, but this is again a pretty strike demonstration of that being true. so you raised the question of mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. you will recall, joe, vividly, that 18 months ago when president trump, then candidate trump engaged in one of his first blatant acts of racism when he attacked judge curiel being a mexican judge when the judge was from indiana, paul ryan came out in an act of considerable and notable courage at the time and said this is a textbook definition of racism
and sickening if it was what was reported. as we watched the meeting two days ago, the 55-minute televised meeting, we saw republicans jumping in to correct the president. kevin mccarthy saying this isn t what we believe, mr. president. joe and others have asked why people like joe ryan and mitch mcconnell haven t stepped forward more strongly when he says what he s alleged to have said about things like haitian immigrants. when you talk to your colleagues in the senate, what do they say about him that they re not saying publicly? they certainly express huge frustration, especially those who like me are in the senate to fight for the constituents who sent us there, to fight for our states. i think the conflict in terms of whether they speak out or not is wanting to get stuff done, and i know right now obviously we re
and they went democratic for doug jones. following up on that, he s going to get absolutely mauled politically. republicans are again, we re talking about this ascendant coalition. now you add white educated voters to that. millennials of all races, and she was talking about a poll from the past week. he s even lost a great deal of support from white noncollege voters. he s bleeding support in every single area, and if it s bad for him, it s even worse for republicans who stand meekly behind him. joe, i hope you re right for all the obvious reasons. i want to throw out a hypothe s hypothesis. i touched on it before the break. i want to go back to alabama.
they ll keep their head down, keep serving americans, but even across the globe, with our allies, with people that might have to be persuaded, to cooperate in joint operations, to find terrorists that want to do harm to america and kill people in and out of our country. yeah, let s start with the service piece of this. people say to me a lot. hey, thank you, for your service. i appreciate that. there are a lot of ways to serve this country, joe, including the fbi, the cia, the police, the firemen, the peace core. there are lots of ways to serve. these are serving professionals, they don t deserve this. secondly, overseas, this is just so detrimental. it undermines confidence in these institutions. when the fbi shows up in africa, to investigate killing of americans, or the cia are trying to ramp up a joint operation in a country in central america, this undermines their confidence
change. there s a story about why he s not going to have a meeting with our closest ally in the uk. he has bad information about that that he s putting out and now this, mika with the morning off, we have national affairs analyst for msnbc, john heilemann, donny deutsche, eddie gloud junior and heidi przybyla, and walter isakson, kimberly atkins and andrea mitchel. we have a full house. good morning to everybody. here is the context of the president s reported comment that joe referenced at the top of the show. a bipartisan group of senators led by lindsey graham and dick