top of the hour. welcome back to morning joe. mike barnicle, howard dean and ray suarez are all with us and with us from the blaze, amy holmes and in washington, political reporter for the washington post, robert costa. by the way, i m a little upset, willie, apparently there is this guy named larry mize. he is claiming that he won in 87. i m going to have to call trump s lawyer. yes. you know what? he branded make america great. i branded i won the masters in 87. we ve been saying it for ten years now. we ve been saying it since 1988 hoping people had short memories. mize had that great chip in in 87. it was incredible. off the side of the green. i still, all these years later, i wonder how the ball stopped.
the professional-political class and the media. people are tired of both. and they don t trust either one anymore. i think what donald trump taps into is a disgust with professional-political class, a belief that the game is rigged and that in part whether this is fair or not, the media helped rig it. i think people want truth telling in politics. i can remember being challenged on multiple sunday shows just as an example about the fact that i said hillary clinton has lied. lied about benghazi, lied about her e-mails, lied about her server. and the media said oh, my gosh, those are such harsh words. by any common sense definition of the term, she s lied. so i think donald trump s a wakeup call to a lot of folks, the professional-political establishment for one and the media for another. having said all that, i think what presidential campaigns do is reveal character over time
going to go away. it s going to go away. you know, it doesn t as of now, it seems to be sticking around a bit longer than anybody thought. it s not going to go away because it s a reflection of not just the volatility in the cycle, but the anger and anxiety in the electorate which is on has been present for the last decade or more. and the reason that trump is transcending the normal rules is because particularly republicans but i think many americans, majority of americans if polls are to be believed, are so fed up that their anxiety and fear has turned to ang we are the system. it s not working in washington. it is working here. so when trump says what he says in the way that he says it, they re like that s right. we ve been saying this for a decade. but this is not new volatility. this is anxiety that s been around for a while. there is special frustration. we have elected monumental
there isn t anything differently i would do if i were john kasich. on the back end he is building up that campaign organization. right. he certainly is. of course, we had carly fiorina on earlier. yeah. she s slowly moving up. slowly moving up. bob costa on the campaign trail, are you picking up from kasich and fiorina? in different ways. you see for kasich he s really creating a difficult situation for bush in new hampshire. bush is getting attacked on the right from trump. and then from the center left, the more moderate conservative side, that s kasich. and so bush s coalition in new hampshire is disappearing. it s difficult situation. carly, she s a player in iowa. trump is surging there. but if they re looking for an outsider, a business person, fiorina is well positioned should something happen with trump to be that candidate. and ray, david axelrod said this is nothing more than the swimsuit portion of the beauty contest. at some point they re actually
i wonder how you remembered that. what i heard his name, i said, of course that, is the year he had the chip. zblin decre . incredible. right, amy? i think you re making it up. no, it was amazing from the side of the green. amy, all right. donald trump went to iowa last night. he beat greg norman in the play-offs. you are remember that. i do. all right. go ahead. donald trump picked up support of rick perry s former wait a second. wait, hold on, if he can go stream of consciousness, so can we, right? i think you wrote the book on it. tiger woods! that s all you know. oh, my god. all right. listen, everybody, while introducing sam clovis, the story became about jorge ramos who went all the way to iowa to question trump. he did so at the start of the press conference before being called on.