trump s campaign. he s been in washington for decades, right? part of his duties. he s been a senator for decades. so i would just i have the new york times or the washington post or the wall street journal , i hope they ll just look into it and see how many times jeff sessions met with russian officials starting the day before he got involved with donald trump going back all his years. they could do a side bar story on whether attorney general sessions, how does he define the meaning of the word recusal. right, that, too. that would be good. we ll work on it, joe. still ahead on morning joe, this tweet was not a promo for abc s the bachelor, 3:00, a rose garden ceremony, will the president choose paris? we ll talk about the impending decision which is like a
then vote for donald trump back in the democratic fold? uh-huh. i think, joe, that we as democrats think of ourselves as the big ten party. we think we re going like this and reality a lot of people around the country think we re just going like this and moving the tent around. one day they re in the tent, the other day they re out. i think we failed not just to white voters. i think we need a message that speaks to all voters. and that s what i m about working on, an economic message, a jobs message. the need for a real infrastructure bill that has just been waiting in washington. we beg the president if there s one thing we could work on maybe it s infrastructure. apparently we had to do health care reform debacle now tax form which is much more difficult. and then maybe we ll get to infrastructure. at some point there needs to be some effort to try to do something on behalf of the american people. they re suffering. they want jobs. they want long-term jobs, jobs for the future. no
democrats stop what donald trump s doing in washington. i couldn t agree with you more, joe. books will be written about this in years to come and i look forward to reading many of them if not all of them, but what we have to learn is how we win in 2018. and i think it s critical in order to bring balance back to washington that democrats are successful in 2018. and it s not going to be a national election. it s going part of this is a referendum on the president. part of this is a referendum on the inability of the republicans in the house to get things done, but it s also about local politics. you know, the old tip, all politics are local, i think the russia is an important issue for the american people. they are focused on it. but they re more concerned about the economy, concerned about putting food on the table, can they afford college, when they graduate college can they pay the student loan, can they have a job and most importantly, i think, joe, when you have a job, is it m
important is it to have a chief of staff that goes in and has a power to hire and fire? has the power to say to the president, listen, i ll run this place, you run the country but you ve got to let me run this place. how important is that for any chief of staff? it s very, very important, joe. it s what i said when i was answering mika s question. he needs to empower a strong chief of staff. when reagan you know, i led two campaigns against ronald reagan then he asked me to be his white house chief of staff. and he let me staff the white house. and i staffed it with people who understood government, who d been in washington before and who wanted to get things done. and i think that s one of the reasons we were able to get something done. willie. does this remind you maybe an extreme version of what we had the first year or so of bill
white house but also as u.s. senator. uh-huh. joe can talk about what a great job she did for the people of new york. first lady. republicans that worked with her said she was one of the hardest workers and had great admiration for her, generals that worked with her had great admiration for her wherever you went in washington people who worked with her had great admiration for her. but joe, she keeps going out and she keeps blaming this on comey, russia, misogyny, now the dnc. and, my god, if you re a democrat, 2018 is really, i mean, it is one of the most critical midterm elections probably in the past 40 or 50 years. shouldn t all democrats forget about welearn from 2016 but use the democratic forums to help