finish. special counsel is looking into two potential spheres of improper conduct. one is was there collusion or cooperation by the trump campaign and russia when this hacking happens? the hacking was illegal. was there a second period, improper financial ties, russians who are close to vladimir putin and the trump campaign? we don t know the answer to either of those questions. everything is circumstantial, there is no part of it, despite all these leaks, and a couple more things, we spent 50 missiles into syria, we shoot down a syrian jet and add more sanctions, why would you do that if you are sitting there and vladimir putin has dirt on you and you collude with him, your
questions asked. he also addressed the appointment of neil gorsuch to the supreme court. but he also, and one would assume this was something that wasn t scripted, this was something not in the prepared text. he went on this bizarre tirade, and once again referred to senator elizabeth warren as pocahontas. why do that here? i don t know. look, when you go to the nra, you re definitely going to have a friendly audience and they re not going to like elizabeth warren. one of the things donald trump lacks is his ability to reach toward the middle. recent polls show about 96% of trump supporters are still with him, and another poll 7% said they wouldn t, but basically he has his base. if he wants to keep that for reelection, he s gt ot to learno reach out to someone besides people who voted for him. this is all just a part of what the president said a few moments ago. take a listen.
he also said on the debate stage, he s spending 100% of his own money. that s completely not true. he s raised $4 million. he s put in $2 million. remember, how long he needs to spend. i don t know what he s done infrastructurewise, he has no beef with the media, he s not he can have air time. you can t go wrong with bashing the media. you know where he went wrong last night, jeb bush went wrong by not bashing the media on stage. what you saw were good athletes, marco rubio, ted cruz, christie, turn the debate in the moment. ted cruz s wasn t scripted. he brought up what was given to him. jeb bush when asked about fantasy football, answered the question, he said 7-0, the popular response is the one that
and been loved and all the rest is background music. and to me that, really summed it up. wow. really nice. thanks alex. that s a great moment. that was really good. that was like a real moment with her. i thought it was fantastic. says a lot. you know one thing that makes that you know that wasn t scripted. that is clear sli something that came to her. she listened to that young kid. a good message. welcome back to morning joe. mike barnicle is here and john heilemann is here sam stein and admiral sam just got his latte. we did the punch line and then we let him sit there for an hour. thank goodness the admiral is joining us. joining us from washington moderator of meet the press chuck todd and john mccormick. good lord. a lot of people here today. okay. so let s start with reports this
speakers. the only living speaker from 50 years ago and the headliner none other than the president. carol, i know you re anchoring right now and you have the questions for me. i have a question for you. i have been sitting here and reading i have a dream speech which he has that refrain which wasn t scripted and the great gospel singer and as he was saying his speech, he said, tell them about the dream, doctor, tell them about the dream. he said, i have a dream. what do you think the president will say? i am the dream, i am living the dream. some sort of refrain and it s going to be interesting. what do you think it is going to be? i don t know. i really don t know. but it struck me, you were describing how someone from the crowd yelled out to dr. king and it give me chills. i just think dr. king was such a powerful speaker. it would be hard to match, even for president obama, who is also a powerful speaker.