here s joe biden on jonathan capeheart s podcast in effect echoing rachel bitecofer s modeling for the presidential election. when an assertion is made, well, the reason the only person that can beat trump is quote an old white guy, i think there s other people in the race who can beat trump. who? well, i i think almost anybody. they d all make a better president than trump no matter who s left in the race. joy reid is generously doing double duty tonight for hosting rachel maddow s show and then joining us here. she s the host of am joy on
meanwhile this morning new york senator kirsten gillibrand debuted her slogan. brave wins. joining me you jonathan capeheart, dana millbank and tiffany cross of the beat d.c. we have a lot of the washington post guests. we re in your own. i m going to the middle. only one person here rocked the full goatee. you re halfway there. i didn t shave. you committed. you re in. until it s down to here. until we have a new president. i like that. you re committed now. let s go with beto first. his campaign is cool. it s cool to get annie leibowitz [whistle] to do a cool reaganesque photo of you. he s jumping on counters. what is the run about? it seems to be about having the nation talk about
hours, meaning there will be 70 votes at least on the senate floor for that democrat bill reopening and funding the government. those 70 votes are still there if donald trump tries this again. and lawrence, this is why i disagree with jonathan. i think republicans have had their hands on that stove for 35 days. they ve got third-degree burns, and i do not think they re going back there. i think what president trump is trying to do and mick mulvaney, and others speaking on his behalf, trying to act tough, we didn t back down. we might do it again. i think they re preparing to take some sort of executive action in the absence of money for this wall whether it s with dod funds or in some other mechanism to re-purpose existing funds, i do in the think there s going to be any stomach in the republican party to do it again. jonathan, the presidential campaign is underway. it s only days old and we are seeing dynamics that you wouldn t expect to develop for many many months, first of all,
confirms that president trump was the big loser of the trump shut down. according to the poll, 50% blamed president trump for the shut down, with 37% blaming congressional democrats, that is presumably the same 37% who seem to support president trump in everything he does and says. there is a devastating number in that poll for the president especially a president seeking reelection, and that is 63% say the country is now off on the wrong track with only 28% saying it is heading in the right direction and now with democratic presidential candidates in official campaign mode against president donald trump, the president today decided to threaten possibly another shut down. joining our discussion now, john harwood, editor at large for cnbc, and jonathan capeheart, contributor for the washington post and an msnbc contributor.
decided to threaten possibly another shut down. joining our discussion now, john harwood, editor at large for cnbc, and jonathan capeheart, contributor for the washington post and an msnbc contributor. the country comes out of this horrible shut down after air traffic started to get scary on friday at laguardia airport and elsewhere. here he is right away saying february 15th when this current funding bill runs out, there could be another one. this should not be surprising, i sent out a tweet saturday or sunday, probably saturday saying if you think we re not going to be in another shut down in three weeks, you got to be kidding. this movie is on a loop. so i wouldn t be surprised if we are in that situation again. it would require senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to stop being in hiding and to make sure that the president doesn t do it again, but again, as we have been talking about for two years, this is a president for