certain women like carly fiorina and fox news host megyn kelly. during his trip to the white house pope francis got to meet the first dogs, beau and sunny. this photo was taken by the white house photographer. and as conan o brien pointed out last night the pope had one very historic moment yesterday. for the first time, this is true, for the first time on u.s. soil, the pope said a mass today canonizing an american saint. canonizing an american saint. that s pretty cool i thought. very cool. yeah. so congratulations to saint oprah. and that s your morning dish of scrambled politics. in washington i m joined now by syndicated columnist bob franken. good morning to you. that was very funny bit there. she s not canonized. not yet anyway. i think she s been self-canonized. well, i do want to talk to you about what the pope is doing. because pope francis will be the
and the experience to cram buzz words into everything i that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. coming up on 22 minutes past the hour. jonathan allen is chief political correspondent for vox which has a partnership with nbc universal. good morning, jonathan. good morning. i love the ad. the courage to point. let s talk about these candidates, these real candidates. how many times is trump going after fox s megyn kelly is the question this morning? he s going back to that well, if you will. could that be because his numbers are slipping? it may well be that. you know, donald trump has used megyn kelly as a foil before. and certainly got a lot of attention for it. so he s seeing a field right now where he is at the very least stopped rising. maybe hit a plateau. in some polls you ve seen a little bit of an erosion from him. and i think he s got to keep himself in the news.
busy day in washington, d.c. with the pope s arrival. talk show host conan o brien gave us his take last night. president obama is going to be there to greet him when his plane lands. that s very unusual. yeah. yeah. president obama is going to be the guy at arrivals holding a sign that says pope. that s your morning dish of scrambled politics. a political analyst, co-author of how to catch a russian spy, good morning to you. good morning. that s the kind of greeting i want. is it every day? it s nice, right? don t you worry. things will change around here now that you ve requested it. things are changing for scott walker, indeed. ouch. he has dropped out yeah, exactly. that s been the problem, right? a lot of people just he just didn t resonate with them. but here s what s interesting. not only was he the front-runner at one time, now that he s dropped out he s asking other candidates, gop candidates, to
of the united states, i don t think there s any doubt about that. they are back, funnier guys, little republicans with their take on the second gop debate. i spend my days. with the constitution. i m a retired pediatric neurosurgeon. a committed conservative performer. i m the one who can fix this country. i m donald trump. i think we are in fact the a team. i made sure i brought my own water. that s your morning dish of scrambled politics. msnbc reporter jane tim joins me now. good morning. let s talk about donald trump but the normal version. he s not doing so great in the polls follow the debates. the reality show might not be fun after the first hour. we talked about this last week. it could be a pivoting point
images using different faces of the donald. just take a look at this for example. it s a portrait of none other than donald trump himself. and according to tonight show jimmy fallon most who watched the debate complained it s too long. he s got an answer for anyone who tuned out. don t worry if you didn t watch the whole thing. here s a summary of the entire debate in tonight s edition of the gist. if i m elected president. i will take care of rich people and we must make sure that we have medical marijuana and toilet paper. each and every day. oh, i m not so sure about that summary but that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. let s bring in political correspondent for the hill. good morning. happy friday, betty. thanks for having me. happy friday to you. let s get down to this, because this is pretty serious. is donald trump going to take a hit with voters for not denouncing a supporter who