times in which we live. but look, it s frustrating. facts don t matter to a certain amount of our society. no amount of data and evidence seems to reach some folks where they are so dug in and eager to believe the talking points that they re being provided by their leaders. and their leaders aren t necessarily members of congress. their leaders are largely men with microphones. that s a really good point. and that also shows once again another victory for vladimir putin just to sow chaos, right? and distrust within the democracy here in the united states. it s just stunning what we continue to see on a daily basis. and the fact you say point blank everybody knows better. everybody knows. all of these republican congressmen, it s a huge disservice. another thing i d like to point out becau
they just wanted to sow chaos. we learned from robert mueller and others that russia put the thumb on skalts fthe scale for trump. strict abortion lines are creating battle lines ahead of 2020. heidi has new reporting on joe biden s decades long evolution on the issue and some may not know about it. morning joe is coming right back. let me ask you something. can the past help you write the future?
sow chaos. i think it was beyond his imagination that by putting his thumb on the scale against hillary clinton and for president trump, he was actually going to help produce that kind of a victory. you know because you see the contemporary news coverage that people blame russian trolls and bots for things like the anti-vaccination movement. people think the brexit vote in the uk was kind of the first test case of russian probing. on a cost-benefit analysis, as you point out, hasn t this exceeded their wildest fever dreams? it certainly has, because it s pretty cheap. it s pretty inexpensive to, you know, hire a couple of hundred technologists to try to exploit fissures in democratic systems elsewhere. and putin is a master of that, of taking advantage in a sense of his own weakness, because he is very good at manipulating the weaknesses he sees in other systems. he is tactically very agile. that moment in helsinki when the one we just showed,
night. our justice department and fbi played right into the hands with this stupid investigation or whatever you call it. people said, not under investigation. i m not a target of this investigation, which nobody ever likes to say. but it played right into their hands, because if they want to they use the word sow chaos. they got it for nothing. they didn t do anything. they got it for nothing. we did it to ourselves. the house, devin nunes, everybody, came out with a ruling there was no collusion. what happens if the democrats win in november with respect to that discussion? we protect the mueller investigation. we fill in the gaps where the republicans buried the evidence on the house intelligence committee. you know, we don t just do things to dance in the end zone and do things. we do things to be productive and tell the american people the wearness they need so that an adversary like russia or any other country can t do this again. and hopefully, unlike what happened in th
that s right, ali. women have been nominated in congress, 16% more than the record. this is the first preliminary party in history to have a majority of its congressional candidates not be of white men. a third of the candidates are people of color. many of these candidates are exceptional people. you have a woman candidate who won the distinguished cross of valor for flying in combat situations, women in the aviation hall of fame. it is astonishingly talented group of candidates who are not men. that s going to be a change in this election. it s going to be a historic night. thank you for being here. tonight s last word is next. when we switched to geico. this is how it made me feel. it was like that feeling when you re mowing the lawn on a sunny day. .and without even trying, you end up with one last strip