command, lieutenant colonel the situation. i d watch that show. welcome to morning joe. i m willie geist. joe and mika have the day off today but i ve surrounded myself with a galaxy of stars. norah o donnell and in los angeles, the h and h boys, mark halpern and jon heilman look so pleased to be here. are you still awake or did you wake up for the show, halpern? do naps count? you ve been out partying? straight on through. we just come from an east l.a. taco truck. we will give you a minute to take a nap and bounce some stuff around the table here. we haven t talked to you since the mcchrystal shake-up. how did the president perform?
i think the democratic brand you will not say it s a more conclusive brand the democratic brand throughout history? lincoln was inclusive, i felt. overall, was it fair to say if we went congressman by congressman and politician by politician i don t know how far back in history you want to go but i think probably during the civil rights fights in the 1960s you had democrats who weren t particularly conclusive in obviously, objections on both issues. if we wright a thesis on what the brands stand for as democrats more conclusive brand, i think it s inarguable. all i d say is that you have slips of the tongue. sometimes you can say they are revealing something or not. i just think if you two are going to be so tolerant of what he did and i m not saying we shouldn t be. i m usually forgiving people and looking at their overall records but the next time a republican says something unfortunate i m going to remind you you two of what you said today.
this? it was fairly muted. twenty students showed up. largely not from students, some from alumni or towns folk isn t this a? they are firing the minister. but basically it was hardly noticed. do you do any undercover reporting in this story? the smith college? all women s college some. what i m getting at. it was the wig makers. you didn t sense, though, from the administration at smith that this was a move justified some some separation of church and state? this was all about the fact that the kids just didn t want to go to state-sponsored chaplains? it was partly that. largely to close a budget gap and also realization that there is an office of religious life and what they are doing is running journal writing groups leading morning hikes. they are looking at spirituality and