to represent us for free. and he sent a letter to the student government asking or school board asking to reinstate me as class president. pete: j.p., do you think any of this has to do with the fact that you sounded like president trump? honestly i couldn t tell you. but it s there. pete: you think so. our viewers can read through the tea leaves there, too. the foundation will be fighting on your behalf. let us know if you become class president again. clayton: stop harassing people. sandra: thanks for coming on this morning, j.p. clayton: coming up on the show, call it revenge of the losers, president trump has faced unprecedented amount of attacks not only from hillary clinton but also from president barack obama. would these attacks be accepted if the president was anyone else? our panel is here to debate that next. pete: plus, lend us your ears. it s national corn on the cob day. jackson is grilling up delicious recipes on the plaza. rick is going to be out there
tonight s not about the disagreements governor romney and i may have. it s what we have in common, beginning with our unusual names. actually, mitt is his middle name. i wish i could use my middle name. reporter: his rivals, did too. and i come here tonight to the al smith dinner knowing that i m the underdog in these final weeks, but if you know where to look, there are signs of hope. reporter: the laughter flowed both ways, a respite from the negative campaigns that almost seemed quaint this time around. respect for the office seemed clear, from the winners mr. vice president, i can t wish you success, but i do wish you well. reporter: and the losers. don t tell anyone i said so, but our 44th president has many gifts and a beautiful family that would make any man proud. in our country, you can oppose someone in politics and make a confident case against their policies without any ill will. reporter: tonight s dinner, a test for whether that message still stands. jef
negative campaigns that almost seemed quaint this time around. respect for the office seemed clear, from the winners mr. vice president, i can t wish you success, but i do wish you well. reporter: and the losers. don t tell anyone i said so, but our 44th president has many gifts and a beautiful family that would make any man proud. in our country, you can oppose someone in politics and make a confident case against their policies without any ill will. reporter: tonight s dinner, a test for whether that message still stands. jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. donald trump will speak first tonight. he s expected to take the stage in a few minutes. we ll be taking that live. joining me now, gloria borger, john king, and david gergen. gloria, the dinner is designed to kind of be a break from the constant campaign back and forth for candidates. do you see that happening tonight, though?
and finally, first lady michelle obama and britain s prince harry both share a passion for helping injured veterans. but they can share a joke, too. here is what the first lady had to say to women in the audience at a virginia based military base yesterday. all right ladies, prince harry is here. don t act like you don t notice. come on. come on. prince harry is on his first trip to the u.s. in two years to draw attention to his invictus games, an olympic-style event for injured troops and veterans that s scheduled to take place in orlando next year. that does it for me and way too early. coming up next on morning joe, analysis of last night s republican presidential debate. the winners, the losers, and the lingering questions like where does the jeb bush campaign go next? four of the candidates join us this morning, former governor mike huckabee, carly fiorina, governor chris christie and senator lindsey graham. that, and much, much more coming up next on morning joe. life s
a new time reminds us mad men is a history told by the losers, albeit losers with money, over the next 14 episodes we ll see how the story of those compelling losers comes to an end. as cameras rolled on the new season, time got rare access to the secretive set and documented it with some amazing photos. the editor of the last days of mad men, friend of the show radika. the notion that the people in the story are ultimately losers, i think, allows me, in part, to love the show and want to be part of this world where white men are completely in control and everybody else, women, jews, blacks, are beneath them, but because i know that the end is nigh for them, it allows me to accept that world. right. as you say, it s the 1960s. it s a time we think of as a roiling time of change, and these are sort of the people who are hanging on to their power, you know, from our position of history we know that they re