circle. and i didn t do it, be if it did happen, there s nothing to be ashamed after. that was a short lived defense. to a report that he paid for a former girlfriend s abortion. we re going to go through his evolving denials on that developing story. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, october 7th. we have pulitzer prize winning columnist from the washington post, eugene robinson. ed luce is with us. officer at princeton university, eddie glaude jr., and jonathan lemire is with us this morning. mika, we were going to get into the news i just saw ed there. i saw a little smirk on ed s face. and i just have to talk about it. you know, ed, we have an expression, we ve always had an expression when people have congratulated me for anything i ve done, i go, well, i m the tallest building in schenectady. your headline, i love this, america is history s most successful failing state, i would define what you re describing here, i m an upstate new york guy
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stunningly super official. ed luce, thank you so much. good to have you here. maybe he would. ed, i know you have to run. thank you. keep that part out of the book. thank you. i m joking. so eddie glaude, we have it s so fascinating, we always talk about on the show how two things can be true at the same time. we have the united states, in terms of relative power to the rest of the world at a stronger position since 1945, perhaps i know this is hard to believe because washington is so dysfunctional. perhaps the strongest point relative to the rest of the world than it s ever been, even 2000, because we had a strong rising china at that point. 1945, with the soviet union. i keep thinking of the lincoln quote, where the famous lincoln quote where he said all the
of eric swalwell joins us. claire is still with us. congressman, i thought of you when i read this. i thought years ago you could have put most of this vladimir putin in 2016 for spreading disinformation. now we seem to do it all by ourselves and i am wondering if you have new questions, a new view on facebook in light this whistle-blower testimony? yes, nicole. it s like the lincoln quote that essentially america will never be defeated by an enemy from abroad. but we can only be defeated from within. and the fact that we continue to see hate speech and misinformation across social media platforms that are tearing families and tearing fellow citizens apart shows we are not doing enough. it couldn t agree with the
and is there any doubt who he s talking about as far as you re concerned? absolutely not. knowing jim as i do i thought unlike in previous segments i thought this was a very significant coming out for jim mattis. the occasion called for humor, and i thought he, you know, threw some real jabs at president trump. and a serious comment, the lincoln quote was clearly directed towards the current situation we find ourselves in as a country and specifically at the present. so i thought this was a very significant event, and i think we re probably going to hear a lot more from jim mattis. if you thought this was the best venue because listen you know him better than all of us, knowing him as you do, do you think that this was the right venue, that it s significant he