pulitzer prize winning historian and author of the best seller the soul of america he is the soul of america, jon meachum. we want to ask jon about star wars because he was writing his fourth book on shay s rebellion and the french-indian war. so you mean the reboot of shay s rebellion is going to be good. willie has been supportive. it s going to be exciting. shay s rebellion, this time, it s personal. so yamish, you know i guess we re praising abc for what they did and how quickly they moved, it was great that they called valerie jarrett. at the same time, a lot of people, here s the daily news cover of rose anne dressed as a nazi, a lot of other people are saying i don t praise them so fast because they knew what they were getting. where do you fall in that debate? i mean i think that yes, abc
john s pj s, actually his paisley smoke being jacket and you hear in the background, daddy, daddy, will you tell us another story about the french-indian war. it s so true. now we can talk about shay s rebellion. all right. coming up reverend al sharpton join us for the must read opinion pages. morning joe is back in a moment. woman: it s been a journey to get where i am. and i didn t get here alone. there were people who listened along the way. people who gave me options. kept me on track. and through it all, my retirement never got left behind. so today, i m prepared for anything we may want tomorrow to be. every someday needs a plan. let s talk about your old 401(k) today.
historical lineage. americans have been populace even before we had a constitution. the shay s rebellion. mika was just thinking about it. shay s rebellion. the vegas odds on shay s rebellion, 500-1. made a $2 bet. but it s true. we had a populace revolt that led to the constitution. so, we re an ornery people ultimately. the question is does it win out. i got hives in history class and getting them now. mika, what s so nice and sometimes i call john late at night and we talk about history and politics and very weighty things and the call is always interrupted because one of his children will come to him and you hear that tug on the arm in
split, basically, a good conservative swing there. basically, you guys have a shot. every presidential election, it seems on average, republicans get most of the states because you get the rural areas of the country which are more conservative. it seems what you have here is a shay s rebellion, whiskey rebellion and want it on paper. by the way, you re bringing up i m a little worried what s your problem with the commerce clause? you got into rand paul country there. if you had been on the supreme court in 64, would you have given judicial review to the civil rights act? under the commerce clause? let s go back to your we re talking about the repeal amendment first and you talked about 25 states have republican control. that s the high water mark as far as i know. you still need nine other states that have split partisan control even right on what is the high water mark in state legislative control in one direction. the republican direction. it s been higher in that
every presidential election, it seems on average, republicans get most of the states because you get the rural areas of the country which are more conservative. it seems what you have here is a shay s rebellion, whiskey rebellion and want it on paper. by the way, you re bringing up i m a little worried what s your problem with the commerce clause? you got into rand paul country there. if you had been on the supreme court in 64, would you have given judicial review to the civil rights act? under the commerce clause? let s go back to your we re talking about the repeal amendment first and you talked about 25 states have republican control. that s the high water mark as far as i know. you still need nine other states that have split partisan control even right on what is the high water mark in state legislative control in one direction. the republican direction. it s been higher in that direction over time. but you still need democrats now even if it were the law now. so you are