education secretary despite not having any experience in public education and asked why he nominated her in the first place, trump said. i love the poorly educated! oh, my gosh. that was taken out of context. that is actually oh, my lord! welcome back to morning joe. it s wednesday, february 8th. join the conversation, former senior strategist for john mccain presidential campaign steve schmidt and professor at the university of michigan school of public policy, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. and from the capitol hill is jeremy peters. the the wall street journal had a column talking about the real democratic party and despite betsy devos stumble, steve schmidt, you could see, even the republicans that were standing up to oppose betsy devos had been given money by the teachers unions. i didn t see elizabeth warren give that speech about our hud
tweet. it s coming. maybe bannon said no. last night, lawyers for the justice department and for the states of washington and minnesota challenging the ban defended their arguments in a telephone hearing with judges on the ninth circuit. joining us from the white house nbc news national correspondent peter alexander. good morning. how is the white house looking at what happened in court yesterday and what this decision might be? reporter: you guys were just talking about that latest tweet from donald trump and not as jeremy was talking about about elizabeth and better highlighting what happened there but what he did say the last 20 minutes. he wrote this. to be very clear as we wait for word from this west coast federal appeals court, this is more about the status of that stay than it is about the merits of the constitutionality of his immigration order right now. the bottom line is this three-judge panel was pretty skeptical of the government yesterday and pressing them to def
let them relax, it s much better than drawing attention. it s like mitch mcconnell was either pushed by sessions to do this or maybe he got a call from the white house to do it but it was short-sided and stupid and it is another big win for elizabeth warren because of their own missteps. mitch mcconnell told nbc news, a spokesman said elizabeth warren, i can t say this with a straight face, had been warned many times. had been warned many times? and then said, yet she per s persisted to which she said, you re damn right. we are waiting word from the federal court president trump s executive order will go forward barring people from entering the country. judges for washington and minnesota challenging the ban and defended their arguments in a telephone hearing with judges on the ninth circuit.
for axelrod to app on time two weeks into the obama presidency. one of the comparisons that a source drew to me in reporting this piece, and i couldn t fit in the finished story, was the comparison with karl rove. even rove, i don t think, would have risen to these kind of levels. the source talking to me about that, though, was drawing the parallel of, as i say, the principal being diminished. so when people spoke of karl rove as being smart and cunning, george w. bush suffered in comparison. i think we are seeing something similar here. willie, i guess you see a direct link between some of the things that bannon, you know, was sort of connected with or wanted to do, and actual execution in the first two weeks. a riveting and wild first two weeks of a white house. i think for donald trump there is a balance to loyalty to a guy he believes helped him become president but also this ego question. you pointed out, you don t want
him. so-to-joe s point a poll the other day whether it s ttp or pipeline decisions, hiring freezes in the federal government, he actually does pretty well. he s got support of at least the plurality and in some cases the majority of americans on this stuff. the administration is playing us as a whole because part of the toxic brew in all of this is people s contempt for the media. that is the one thing, that is the i don t know that there are playing us. it may be just happening that way. the thing i hear over and over again is basically the press hates him, so i like him even more. so much of this is a pushback to the press that his supporters have always believed, even before they ever thought donald trump was running for president, was biased and disconnected from middle america.