but so do the policies for the economy, for congressional investigations, for politics and for the very direction of where this nation chooses to go. it s quite a picture. quite a picture. quite a split screen. welcome to morning joe. the diversity at that donald trump press conference. you wonder, is it planned or wow? i think probably not. it s friday. it is friday, january 4th. quite a day. with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. he could have been in that picture there on the side. he could a. not sure by donny deutsche is here. associated editor. we are way past that. that has not happened in a long time. you sure about that? we worked out our differences, we brought in the mediators, i thought we were all good. no, donny, you told me this gets you dates, people feel
the so-called resistance is mad because their ideas have been rejected by the american people. and we re getting rid of those bad ideas one by one. it is driving them crazy. jason: now with just 68 days until the midterms, many democrats are taking a hard left turn. in a display of anti-trump one-upsmanship, governor cuomo called eyes a bunch of thugs. s new york state is the state that is suing donald trump for ripping babies from the arms of their mother, new york state is the state this as we will not cooperate with ice, they re a bunch of thugs. he politicized eyes, they re a bunch of thugs, we said we will
she said to jim was uncalled for. there was a low. i remember steven miller went after jim another time saying something about something about him was uncalled for. this administration is using that room for the wrong purposes. it s not about size. it s not about iq tests or who has the better one upsmanship or playing the dozens. it s about the american public and getting information out. and for whatever reason, when we ask questions, be it jim or myself or brian or some others in there, who really want answers, they get upset. it s about the american public that s not getting the answers. this is not about a show. this is not about a reality show. this is about it s not about us. apparently someone there thinks it s okay. maybe it s her boss, because, i mean, all you have to do i got to go. she s trying to keep her job. it s okay, maybe because he says it s okay. he sets the example. don, i want you to
he, what was his purpose in doing that first tweet? then he kept it hanging out there. he continued to tease it one after the other. it is pretty clear that his intention was to try to rattle comey. he was trying to do some kind of one upsmanship. if you re to believe jim comey about what prompted him to release the memos, it was that tweet. that s what caused this special prosecutor. he needs to know what the job is. this isn t a game of cat and mouse. he is the leader of the nation. a whole different deal. some of the clips you played aefrgs private citizen. all right. pre candidate. six years ago now. so it is a very different thing. he is no longer running the trump organization. he has to represent all the american people and you re right, i don t think he knows the difference between those two things.
but to see scott pelley take that on as congressman scalise is an assault and self-inflicted, it s to levels that we haven t seen. i have a new term. we all heard about one upsmanship. this is downsmanship. we had president trump calling for unity. the democrats and republicans praying on the field. politicses acting for the most part responsibly here. but harmony doesn t work with some members of the media. is the main street media a joke? because you know where the bias is? look at the numbers from the harvard study. new york times, 87% negative coverage. cnn and nbc, 93% negative coverage of this administration. it s going to skew negative with numbers like that. that shows me a reflex for the negative and an agenda.