it s tough enough to move a platoon. let s go to staten island. okay. you walk around staten island. are they talking about troops at the border or their health care plans and how long it takes them to drive to work. what are they talking about? running for office is not an episode of t the west wing. what they do talk about is their deep frustration with the failure of government. people have two hour commutes on staten island. some of the longestcommuting times in the country. kids are afraid to go to school, afraid of gun violence. that s what they are frustrated by and tired of hearing these bullet points in regular campaigns during get out the vote strategies and then being ignored thereafter. they really want to see politics change in this country.
including charlie crist and other amazing leaders in our state. i did not raise any funds. the only exchanges there were exchanges of idea. another side show. another distraction. i tried very hard not to address these things from their frame. what our voters need to know i served in government for 15 years without a scar to my name. only when i decided i wanted to run for governor for the state of florida did these folks come from the extreme right attempting to paint me as something i m not. the reason i won my race overwhelmingly for mayor of tallahassee is my community trufrpts me. i won the democratic primary because my voters trust me. i ll win this race for governor because the people of florida trust me. so just to clarify the flight to and from st. pete was that paid for with city money? it was not paid for with city money. what was it paid with?
illegal immigrants are not subject to the jurisdiction of the united states is just drivele. were that true then the government wouldn t be able to arrest them. surely that s not the president s position. clearly he has no comprehension of the words he s using. welcome back to morning joe with us this thursday, november 1st, 2018. are the tax cuts here? no, never mind. that was just a lie. still with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnacle. republican strategist and msnbc political analyst, susan. and joining the conversation associate editor of commentary magazine and msnbc contributor noah rothman and the author of the washington post s new early morning newsletter, power up, jackie. good to have you all on board this morning. so noah rothman, trump taking on paul ryan saying he has no right
republicans in charge of government, and even all three, i don t like seeing this republican as president. and i don t like seeing republican house or senate that falls in line directly behind him. i want to see republicans who stand up to this president when he s wrong. and, you will recall, speaker ryan just showed up in the last week. i wonder where he s been all along because that s where we needed our speaker of the house to be. you know, i don t think i m alone in this. this is so sad. this is so depressing, watching this race to the bottom led by the president of the united states who has lapped the field. he takes to the day each and every day in different states of this country to divide, to distort, to overemphasize the truly silly. we have a group, a dwindling group of desperate people, truly
he failed that test and that s one of the reasons why he won t win this race. i m sure you ve seen the report in the tallahassee democrat that shows you took a flight, private travel to and frarks round trip flight back in 2016 from tallahassee down to st. pete. you put it on the mayor s expense account because you said you were there on city business. these new records indicate while there you met with potential donors as you considered whether to run for governor in the state of florida. you attacked the source of this as being an ally of ron desantis. you were meeting with donors down there or purely city business? well, let me first say that wasn t city government campaign funds. those were funds set up after my race to aid me in me doing my job. i met with folks who were assembled, discussing with me affordable housing issues. i met with other state leaders