government interference. juan: jesse, let s play hard ball and real politics. we have a quinnipiac poll that even the president s own polster saying i think six democrats right now beat trump head-to-head nationally including bernie sanders. what do you make of this. jesse: i don t believe those polls they had reagan losing in a landslide in 84 to mondale. he was the won that won in a landslide. why out to what s going to happen. to your point about trump being a corporate socialist. trump wasn t the one that bailed out the big banks. trump wasn t the one that threw $500 million at solyndra. trump is jawboning a lot of these big corporations to keep production here instead of offshoring it overseas. is he jawboning lockheed martin to keep the price down on the jets. wall street donated more to hillary than they did to donald trump. he is constantly going after billionaires like bezos and what s his name george soros? and if you look income inequality has actually shrunk under pres
evening. lots more news. we live on the new york times and the washington post. we re news driven and, you know, i think we always hope a story breaks around 5:30 or 6:00, the hottest story breaks the latest, we love that, then we go on the air at 7:00 and we break the news. so i can t give it to you now because i can t tell what it s going to be tonight. it will have to do with trump process. it s a process. it s all connected, joe. i was certain the night when the big omarosa broke that he would go omarosa, let s play hard ball. or les moonves. less is more. all right. still ahead on morning joe, before brett kavanaugh was a supreme court nominee he spent more than three years working for ken starr, the independent counsel who investigated bill clinton. ken starr joins us with his new
let s play hard ball. good evening, i m chris matthews in washington. three big guests on hardball tonight, senator bob corker, a dark horse prospect for secretary of state, ohio congressman tim ryan, the rust belt democrat ready to challenge nancy pelosi for house leadership. out front tonight, libertarian senator rand paul. well, this as president-elect donald trump and his allies are criticizing, disputing and otherwise down playing reports his transition is in disarray even as multiple outlets portray a team consumed by backbiting, vendettas and acrimony. over the last 24 hours, the president-elect has taken to twitter to personally address those reports. he said last night a very organized process is taking place as i decide on cabinet and other positions. adding with a note of suspense i am the only one who knows who
i don t what is legal or illegal. it s just very weird. don t you think? i don t think it s that big a deal. i. don t think she is trying cool the rhetoric. they want it to calm down. they know the truth. they re try to do it, too. we should have hip-checked them. say, oh really? you re going going to reveal th? let s play hard ball. is this coming up on the fox? in the b block. the second one. about 14 minutes after the hour. i ll be watching. i hope you re happier then. happy? i m as happy as i can be. you seem depressed about the spying. i feel we should all follow the rules. i don t think rules were broken. then that s agreement i think we should have great. cheese, please. no diet coke. english breakfast. whatever you want, we ll get
no country for old men. let s play hard ball. good evening, i m chris matthews. let me start with today s democratic party. if you want to be president, you better be young because you ve got some waiting to do. if hillary clinton runs in 2016 and then 2020, the job is not open for you until 2024. it gets worse. if there s a president hillary clinton, that means 16 years of democrats in the white house, the longest run since fdr and truman. that means almost impossible democratic chance to win again in 2024 if anyone now in politics can wait that long. so the big question loomenting, what other career goal makes sense if there is no real shot at the presidency? or is there a lingering hope that secretary clinton won t make the run?