Matt, maybe after you talk to bob mueller you wont think its quite so easy. Thats President Trump stumping for a candidate that he reportedly trashes in private. Hes doubling down on everything. On all of these headspinning policy decisions, hes doubling down on his attacks against the media. Hes doubling down on his attacks against Hillary Clinton. Hes doubling down on his inflated margins of victory in 2016. In short, just another day at the office. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Its monday, march 12th. With us, we have got veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnacle. Noah rothman, columnist and associated editor for the washington post, David Ignatius. Also Nbc News National Political reporter heidi prison bella will be with us shortly and mika is out. She is feeling a bit under the weather. You know, theres so much to talk about, but David Ignatius, i think the take away from this speech is that there was Donald Trumps worst instincts coming out, the very things
Of these loopholes where killers are allowed to come into our country and continue to kill, gang members, and were just talking about ms13, there are many gang members that we dont even mention, if we dont change it, lets have a shutdown. Well do a shutdown. And its worth it for our country. Id love to see a shutdown if we dont get this stuff taken care of. And ooers theres the presid chief of staff talking with reporters on capitol hill earlier today about some undocumented immigrants. There are 690,000 official daca registrants, and the president sent over what amounts to be 2 1 2 times that number to 1. 8 million. The difference between 690,000, 1. 8 million, were the people that some would say are too afraid to sign up, others would say were too lazy to get off their asses but they didnt sign up. I guess were way beyond bleep hole, so you can say asses on tv today. Joining us on both of our big stories, verizon best repoy bes analy analysts. From the New York Times, Michael Schmidt
Credible. Think about that statement. What part of her interview didnt appear credible . Why wouldnt he have tweeted his review if that was his sentiment . He doesnt have an unexpressed thought. According to a former Campaign Adviser who told me theyd often keep Campaign Announcements like endorsements a secret from him because they were so afraid hed tweet them out. The New York Times adds to this reporting, inside the white house, mr. Trump is eager to defend himself against allegations that he insists are false. Those close to him say. And he is growing increasingly frustrated with breathless walltowall news Media Coverage of the salacious details from the two women. Speaking of walltowall, we were inspired by Rachel Maddows wall, so we built one of our own. Heres a list of all the people, places and things trump has attacked. Im up there. Along with a slew of former president s. Cities under attack by terrorists. And by our count, and with the help of the excellent reporting of the
Intelligence agencies, they say theres no collusion, or that it didnt change the outcome of the election. So they would say that. With the reports, the people who did the reports would say is, that wasnt part of the equation. We werent trying to figure out if it changed the outcome of the election. Right. But just whether there was influence in the election. Right. If russia meddled in the election. It is the same thing, and you and i discussed it, with the pew study that every Single Person comes on and says 90 coverage of the president. 90 negative. Okay, so let me just read this and this is from the Washington Post and at pew. While some may be tempted to read this as media bias, the leader accused Journalism Project said that isnt a conclusion one can draw from this study. Okay . Rather than try to measure what kinds of they were trying to measure what kinds of messages people were consuming when they get their daily news. For example, if someone quoted a protester as saying, i don
I can go to bed. Im glad you ran that. Thats one of the good things and what were art. Can we talk about the business at hand . Sure. Okay. So do you remember during, when the president and reporters would say, well, all these reports coming from the fbi, the intelligence agencies, they say theres no collusion, or that it didnt change the outcome of the election. So they would say that. With the reports, the people who did reports would say is, that wasnt part of the equation. We werent trying to figure out if it changed the outcome of the election. Right. Whether there was influence in the election. Right. If rush meddled in the election. It is the same thing, and you and i discussed it, with the pew study, every single comes on and says 90 coverage of the president. 90 anythinegative. This is from the Washington Post and at pew. While some may be tempted to read this as media bias, the leader accused Journalism Project said that isnt a conclusion one can draw from this study. Okay .