What we were talking about yesterday morning, the president follows up a scripted speech one day with an absolute disaster the next, a rhetorical disaster, not only for this country and also just because hell never understand it, his longterm political health. Frank luntz, who spent a lot of time during the campaign, he teed trump doesnt just criticize the media more than he criticizes neonazis, he criticizes them more than actual islamist terrorists. Its not just that. If you look at who he praised last night, brian fallons, Hillary Clintons spokesperson said trump tonight saluted a racist sheriff, who is a convicted criminal and trashed a war hero who has brain cancer. Of course, willie, this was donald trump at his worst, at his consistent worst. We knew this was coming. Im sure people around him on his staff knew this was coming. A lot of times it seems that arizona brings out the absolute worst in him. But theres no doubt this was a hateful, dericive speech. He sounded like an auto democrat trying to dehumanize his allies. Of the media, he actually said he talked with the Washington Post, New York Times. Said they didnt love his country. He left out the border, jeff flake and sheriff joe arpaio. He genuinely believes hes not gotting a fair shake with charlottesville. How many times do i have to condemn nazis and condemn the kkk. He took a sheet of paper out of his pocket, leaving the scripted remarks and read his own speeches over the last week. Heres exactly what i said what else do you want from me. We have steve kornacki, the editor of business week, megan murphy, micah has the morning off. Good morning, everybody. Coming up in 15 minutes, we havent first excerpt anywhere from Hillary Clintons upcoming book on the president ial race. She tackles a lot including this moment when she and donald trump shared the debate stage. Clinton says her, quote, skin crawled while she considered how to react to him. Well being what would you do . Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he werent repeatedly invading your space or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly back up you creep, get away from me. I know you love to intimidate women but you cant intimidate me so back up. Back up you creep, says Hillary Clinton. Well play much more from those revealing tweets. In arizona last night before nows of supporters where President Trump spoke for over an hour on a number of issues. He threatened a government shut down over border wall funding. We are building a wall on the southern border, which is absolutely necessary. The obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it. The president hinted he might pardon sheriff joe a pieia. Was sheriff joe convicted for having his job . He should have had a juriy but ill make a prediction. I think hes going to be just fine, okay . But i wont do it tonight because i dont want to cause any controversy. Is that okay . It was the media, though, and its coverage of charlottesville that took about the first half. The president mischaracterized the statements he made following the deadly protest. What happened in charlottesville strikes at the core of america, and tonight this entire arena stands united condemnation of the thugs who perpetrate hatred and rye lens. You this dont report the facts and just like they dont like to report that i spoke out against hatred, bigotry and violence and strongly condemn the neonazis and white supremacist and kkk. I got them all in there. Lets see. Kkk, we have kkkk. I got them all. So theyre having a hard time. So what did they say, right . It should have been sooner, hes a racist thats about where the president went off script. Hes read almost verbatim heres what the president said the saturday after the charlottesville protest followed by what he said last night. Were closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides. So heres what i said really fast, heres what i said on saturday. Were closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. This is me speaking. We condemn in the strong strongest possible. Mark halperin, the equivocation where he talked about many sides but i think were digging in we can dig in and find all the lies, find all of his stalinist, antipress statements, we can dig through a. Hes done it before, we will do this is a president who claims he goes to shut down the government if he cant build his wall and yesterdaysong the with theyre screaming at each other on the phone. Donald trump constantly insulting him. Donald trump not om going after jeff lake and insulting him in his home state but insulting a war hero who is battling brain cancer right now. And shows absolutely no compassion, no hom it matters if donald trump ever wants to pass legislation through the senate, not just about mccain but about mccain, about flake, about Mitch Mcconnell. I dont see how this moved the ball anywhere but backwards for the president and his hopes of getting nilg done in congress this fall. Welcome to the heightened discipline and new direction had that event i think exceeded the low expectations we talked about he was in yesterday to do. If you take what he did last night and how that he going to be received in washington and by the media and if you take the new york city story about mitch mckomd. Himself anger is partly based on concern about both the russia investigation and his inact to bend congress to his will and nothing he did last night that i see, even as a bank shot, makes it more likely that the very difficult legislative problems he faces in just a couple weeks are going to be easier to deal with. Willy goos but our children have more displan than this man has. I dont ive never met anybody in politics, ive never met anybody in business, ive never met anybody in athletics that more often dids this just because there was something on the tip of their tongue or the top of tr head. Hes going to continue getting nothing done because of this extraordina extraordinary. Hes playing to one third. The electorate and driving twothirds of the electorate away. The rhetoric is bad enough. Joe said its extraordinary. Of koushs its extraordinary for a presence but its not swiezing as soon as. This is the most important guy to trump to get his agenda through and yet hes picking public and private fights with him. Its almost a fundamental s miscalculation of what he has to do to get things done. What i think is more surprising is that anyone wrote articles saying he had a president ial speech onwho talks like that when someone has died at a rally by sympathizers were that kind of abhor nt speech . Who talks like that about this kind of situation . But what was so i think revealing about last night was exactly how unsurprising it was in terms of the tone and in terms of what he said. Lets say who talks like that but heres another question, who cheers at that . Who cheers when a man speaks devid derisively, who has given himself, who has brain cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. People are actually shouting that they want john mccain to die. Now john mccains a tough guy, he can handle that, but, willie, who are these people that act like theyre cheering on a pep rally at a High School Basketball game when hes saying some deeply, deeply offensive things about this country and about a lot of people that have given their lives to this country. Yeah, and not much a reference, if any, of the ten sailors missing. Was there anything more than therapy or catharsis of donald trump . He seeps to be his happiest, i think it reminds him of his campaign days. Was there anything constructive, there was anything he did to move the ball forward for his agenda, his administration . Look, i think any politician who has a Winning Campaign is going to draw certain lessons about that campaign about strategy in the future. The lesson donald trump drew from 2016 is this works. What he did last night works. Were sitting here saying can you believe what he said about jackson last night . One of the first things donald trump said is i prefer heros if he didnt get captured. There were predictions from political experts that this would begin the decline donald trump as a respectable president ial candidate because the republican establishment, he would be off limits to them and his poll numbers would now collapse and he would fade out by the fall. That was the expectation. Everybody who was supposedly smart in poll tex tell now he needs john mccain, he needs jeff flake, he needs nem to get his agenda through. Hes president and hes not a candidate. Hes president and hes not running a reality show. There are other people whose powers and roles hes so mad at the media. Its like he feels jilted. President coverage is his own way of looking at his presidency. There are other tools in the tool box for president that he does not use. Thats thing. Gene robinson is more okay approximately this is. This is a guy that sucked up to the media and played the new york print media so much that hed even have women what was it, the new york press said best sex ever or something look that. He was obsessed with it and he played them nonstop and wall owed and would lick their feet if thats what was required o to get a good head line. Now suddenly he doesnt like the media. You can talk about how horrific this or if you want to, we can just talk about you take that speech and the Mitch Mcconnell story and the times this morning, this is a guy whos not going to get anything done. The thing about the speech last night was how sad and predictable it was. Because what did there would be an unhinged donald trump prps. Maybe it was a bit heavier on media or enemy of the people than i might have thought. I didnt know hed spend so much time on that. It was deeply disturbing and offensive the way he spoke of the media. But what donald trump speech is not deeply disturbing and offensive. And hes feuding with Mitch Mcconnell. He grossly insulted both senators, republican senators from arizona. If anything, of course he made it more difficult for him to get anything done than easier and this is what we president who nolonger seem interested in getting his agenda passed. If he were, hed be listening to reasonable people in his administration who tell him not to do this stuff. He either cant help himself or hes decided that for whatever reason, his strat and thats not a winning strategy. So Gene Robinson at the end of this block hit what struck me the most about this speechoned struck me the most about where donald trump is right now he cant be interested in gotting things done because anybody who is interested in got things done would have flown to arizona yesterday and gone and visited john mccain. Lets just be cynical. Thats one vote that he needs. Would have talked to jeff flake, hey, lets put it behind us, how can we Work Together . Thats another vote hes going to need for a lot of things. Would have called Mitch Mcconnell. Again, i mean, this is not about weakness. This is about getting things done. This is doing what Abraham Lincoln did, talking to a giant in the United States senate over the past 30 years who said Abraham Lincoln would do whatever it took to get things done. Lbj would do whatever it took. They would go and they would work people. Ronald reagan, theres a story of Ronald Reagan early in the administration, somebody, getting down on his hand and kneeses and picking up the jelly beans for the congressman, putting them back up, continuing talking every second. What if were just at a point where he doesnt care if he gets anything done, he dividist own path forward to tax reform, deregulatory rereform to Health Care Reform, to building the wall, to doing all the things he want to do. The New York Times story about mcconnell and president is really one of the most important inside game stories of the entire trump administration, because it reflects bit that is turning point for capitol hill and the Republican Party. And he might feel good about that. He but he leaves today in a worse position than he went in. Again, thats not why president s going on the road. You dont go on the road to make things worse, you try to make things better. Hes now made things worse and theres no one i bet you who reads that the New York Times article and says how dare hitch money or disoos a will the of power and the president s power has receded. Willie, a lot of people last night were trying to analyze Donald Trumps mental health. We wont do that this morning p this morning. I can say hes political community, everybody was shocked and offended by what he did and donald trump, people inside said he was actually very energized by it, was happy all night. Its the same thing last night. What he did last night made him feel good and im sure he flew home feeling like, man, i really stuck it to em. But heses did connected from political reality. He just hurt himself even more with the Republican Party, with the senate, with the house, with everybody he needs to pass legislation and move this country forward. Well, he claims to be worried about get anything done and you watch a performance like that last night and you wonder if he cares about getting anything done. He got some chants going. He setted krnl hes watching the show and analyzing how hes being covered through the media and that appears to be the own thing that matters to him. When he hearse a big crowd like last night, talk to phoenix mayor greg stanton after pleading shes describing him as a, quote, creep who made her skin crawl. We have Hillary Clintons upcoming book on the president ial race. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Introducing listerine® zero alcohol™. It delivers a whole mouth clean with a less intense taste. So it has the bad breath germkilling power of this. With the lighter feel. Of this. Try listerine® zero alcohol™. 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Go irish see that . Yes im gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. Find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. Welcome back to morning joe. We have obtained an exclusive excerpt from Hillary Clintons new book and for the first time were hearing exactly what she thought about sharing a stage with donald trump. First, heres what the democratic nominee had to say about why shes revisiting last years losing bid for the white house. I dont have all the answers and this isnt a comprehensive account of the 2016 race. Thats not for me to write. I have too little distance and too great a stake in it. Instead this is my story. I want to pull back the curtain on an experience that was exhilarating, joyful, humbling, infuriating and just plain baffling. Writing this wasnt easy. Every day that i was a candidate for president , i knew that millions of people were counting on me and i couldnt bare the idea of letting them down but i did. I couldnt get the job done and ill have to live with that for the rest of my life. In this book i write about moments from the campaign that i wish i could go back and do over. If the russians could hack my subconscious, theyd find a long list. I also capture some moments i want to remember forever, luke when my tiny granddaughter raced into the room while i was practicing my Convention Speech and what it was like hours later to step on stage to deliver that speech as the first woman ever nominated by a Major Political party for president of the United States. In the excerpt we have secretary clinton also addressed this moment from october. Youll remember this when donald trump stood directly behind her while the tw candidates debated at Washington State university in st. Louis. In is not okay, i thought. It was the second president ial debate and donald trump was looming behind me. Two days before the world heard him brag about groping women. Now we were on a small stage and no matter where i walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces. It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled. It was one of those moments where you wish you could hit pause and ask everyone watching, well, what would you do . Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he werent repeatedly invading your space or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, back up you creep, get away from me. I know you love to intimidate women but you cant intimidate me so back up. I chose option a. I kept my cool, aided by a livetime of delivfe time dealing with men trying to throw me off. I did, however, grip the microphone extra hard. I wonder, though, whether i should have chosen option b. It certainly would have been better tv. Maybe i have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world. So that book comes out in just a few weeks on september the 12th. A lot of people are going to be interested for reasons we just heard, some color behind the scenes and just to see how much selfanalysis and r