morning. don t go any way, morning joe starts now. this week in covid history, march 2020, week two, everyone is getting mask fever. n95 masks, gas masks and mask singers like sarah palin seen about singing about her moist alaska bottoms. speaking of uncomfortable shaking, president trump shakes hands in florida. lots and lots of hands, but don t worry about that pesky coronavirus. we re doing a great job with it. and it will go away. just stay calm. lit go away. really? because it sort of feels like it s getting out of control. tom hanks got it. arenas are empty and people are buying t.p. like hot cakes. be calm. it s really working out. and a lot of good things are going to happen. no reason to panic. ask fox news. why the mask hysteria over the coronavirus when it s far more lethal to have the flu? why if the flu is by pure numbers much more dangerous, why do you think there s this reaction that we see everywhere? it s actually the safest time to fly
back where they came from the country they came from when they are born here in the united states of america? what i think the president is doing is trying to take the attention off the presidential candidates and put the attention on people in the democratic party that he thinks are giving him the brightest line between his message and what he wants to run against. his socialism thing. yeah, he wants to run against the socialist, radical change, the policies that the four women represent he thinks this gives him the best chance to not just hold his base together we talk a lot about the base but for the people who maybe are a little bit center-right, maybe they stuck with him last time maybe they didn t. maybe they re not comfortable with radical economic change in the country. i think making them and look what s happened this week where is kamala harris joe biden, mayor pete not on tv. the people on tv this week are the squad and nancy pelosi trying to hold them back. and
it is the most unifying argument in what i think is a divided party to talk about defeating president trump. and it s obviously effective when it s used. you saw it last night. i don t blame the democrats in the first round for resisting it, because they were on stage with cory booker who has been basically saying that defeating trump is only the beginning. the party has to stand for things solutions to the problems that the country faces beyond the presidency of president trump. and so i think that they can t really win. if they don t attack trump, people say what s going on? and at the same time if they spend too much time just speaking about him, they re a party with no ideas. i do think they were trying at least the contenders in the first group to make the case that they re about other things and they thought long and hard about what ails the country. on the socialism thing, the president could not be happier with the last two nights.
problems that the country faces beyond the presidency of president trump. and so i think that they can t really win. if they don t attack trump, people say what s going on? and at the same time if they spend too much time just speaking about him, they re a party with no ideas. i do think they were trying at least the contenders in the first group to make the case that they re about other things and they thought long and hard about what ails the country. on the socialism thing, the president could not be happier with the last two nights. all hands in the air on coverage for health care coverage for illegal immigrants. this kind of thing about socialism, and kamala harris is embarrassing retreat on whether she thought she heard she d give up her own insurance. she ran into this at a jake tapper town hall. she said yes, get rid of the insurers. she caught heat for it.
moderate democrat voices to have a platform. i don t want to see totally socialist ideas take over an entire american political party. that is not good for our country and the past weekend you saw the california democrat convention one of the candidates, john hickenlooper say socialism is not the answer or something like that, socialism is not the way forward and he was booed. that is stunning. that is right there, the canary in the coal mine, a harbinger of things to come that this is going to be a discussion in the democrat primary. there will be a moment on the democrat debate stage where somebody says i don t like the socialism thing and you will see that debate happen in real time and the gloves will come off. you don t think joe biden is