Inside this nightclub. Now we know this is a tragic situation given the fact that 11 people are dead, joe and mika. We havent heard from police who were able to identify the suspect, although they did confirm the fbi is on on the scene to help with that part of the investigation. The Police Sheriff that we are listening to there also said they do not believe at this point they have anything to lead them to believe this is a tli terrorism related incident, although theyre not ruling that out entirely. This is the borderline bar grill, a college area bar, very popular for the College Country night tonight. You guys have kids. You know how terrible parents have to be. The five colleges in the area, they said about 200 people were packed inside here, but California Lutheran University, Pepperdine University in malibu, all you have to do is drive about ten miles through the road there from pch over to the 101 freeway. Apparently Pepperdine University students frequented this place. Also California State University channel islands, cal state north ridge and Thomas Aquinas college. This is a place, joe and mika, that has a very active social life. Its a. L popular place. They have twostep dancing. You can imagine the parents trying to get ahold of their kids at this late hour. But, again, 11 People Killed. So 30 shots fired. There may be more injuries with those kids who took themselves to hospitals, joe. Thank you so much, alex. Willie, this just continues across the country. There is a sheriff earlier was having a press conference saying, you know, i cant make sense out of the senseless. Thats exactly what we have here, yet the another mass shooting in america. Yeah. How many days are we less than two weeks from the synagogue shooting where 11 were killed there in pittsburgh. The word again from the Ventura County sheriffs office, 11 victims inside this bar which alex witt just said it was a College Night, which means you can be under 21 and be there. Among the dead, a sheriffs deputy and you can see there the sheriff getting choked up talking about his colleagues and saying hes survived by a wife and a young son. But, again, this is the borderline bar grill west of los angeles. 11 people were killed. The suspect, the shooter, is dead, as well. This happened just a few hours ago, so well be staying on this story. Well be going back for updates to make sure we have complete coverage there. Also politics today, we have Republican Communications strategist and msnbc political contributor rick tyler, politics editor for the daily beast sam stein, White House Correspondent for p bs news hour yamish elsendor. Good to have you all on this morning. We have a lot of news. Tuesday night, americans gave democrats their biggest house gains in a Midterm Election since watergate. President trump emerged somewhat in denial. Democrats have won control of the house where they gained at least 28 seats with 15 still undecided. And republicans lost 7 governs mansions and 323 seats in the state legislature for a total of 367 during the trump presidency. Hold on one second. Because thats an important number. Willie, you know how we had said at the end of Barack Obamas eight years in office, we said, hey, listen, we understand everybody is focussing on Hillary Clinton losing the race, but if you want to understand just how bad things are with the Democratic Party, you have to look at the thousand seats that were lost over Barack Obamas eight years. To understand the true scale of this thumping, just how badly donald trump lost on tuesday night, how horrible he is for the Republican Party nationwide, the republicans lost a third. They lost a third of those thousand seats in trumps first two years. People like rick and Steve Schmidt and others, they dont have to look five years from now. Hes doing it. They won a couple of red seats in the reddest of red states where donald trump won by 20 points. Big deal. Theyre getting routed on the state level. Theyre getting routed on the local level and they got routed in congress. Beto orourke didnt win, stacy abrams, well see whether or not she prevails there. You lose the house, you have all the power and we learned how important that power in the house will be based on the fact that the president may well talk about the firing of Jeff Sessions. In january, those governorships will start. We all know democrats taking control of the house gives them certain powers to check this presidency and to compel him to answer questions, for example, to release his tax returns in a way that he has not experienced before, possibly in his life given what weve seen and what we know about this individual, about this president. And thats the thing that i think shocked him the most yesterday and in our experience and the patterns that weve seen with him everything that he did yesterday was in response or to deflect. And we can talk about mueller and we can talk about the gafty of firing Jeff Sessions and how weird it was to do it lurchingly the way he did. But the bottom line is, he lost big time yesterday. He hates losing. On top of it, democrats have gained the power to basically ask him every question they finally want the answer to. Donald trump was freaked out yesterday. Everybody could see how freaked out he was. It was embarrassing watching him fire Jeff Sessions. And its serious, of course. Well get to that. Jim acosta, it was horrible that he would do that, but theres a reason, rick, why he did it the day after he got trounced, the day after republicans had their worst electoral beating since watergate. Donald trump was humiliated. He was weak. He was battered. You could see him up there. He was baffled. He didnt know what to do. It was like a little kid kicking sand in the sandbox. Hes screaming at jim acosta and then he fires Jeff Sessions. I he mean, id say the press shouldnt take the bait. This is about donald trump trying to distract from just how weak he is now, how vulnerable he is now. I think when he went out there yesterday, and i watched the press conference. It was an hour and 20 minutes of trump bloviating. It seemed to me very staged. He wanted to go out there and pick a fight. So lets pick a fight with jim acosta, yamish and april. I think it was bush who had the word thumping, right . That was his word. And obamas word was shellacking. So we need a new word for trump. I think he called it a complete victory. Its a baghdad bomb complete victory. He was beaten so badly you look at those house races and those house races keep coming in, sam. They keep coming in for the democrats. Theyre going to end up with Something Like 37 gains, which is a huge you remember 2006, right . The biggest loss since watergate. So you remember 2006. It was a seismic shift. This puts put that into perspective. Trumps vulnerable right now. I think he knows hes vulnerable right now. I think he was lashing out and i think he expects us to take the bait. By the way, everybody did, didnt they . Nobody was talking. I watched last night. You know what the huge story was last night . The story was the press followed him down the rabbit hole. What is going to affect this country and this constitution more than anything else the world. And the world, is that democrats now check him. Its no longer a oneparty rule. And this is obviously a huge issue that he has a political allel lie in the role of attorney general. It could end up being the beginning of the end for the Mueller Probe, right . But because House Democrats are now running the committees, they could theoretically subpoena whatever work mueller has done and bring it into the Committee Level. The president will fight it, but the House Democrats can now continue what mueller is doing. Whereas priority the selection, this would be a huge crisis. The senate map is favorable to him. Did you see the tweets yesterday . Romney went after burr in North Carolina. Thats a swing state. And bur has been a straight shooter. Corey garner. He cannot afford to be a sycophant] for trump. And i wonder, if he didnt know, i told people im going to fire sessions, but i know i cant go after rosenstein or mueller, but im going to throw this out as a smoke screen. Yeah, i think so. But it still has real world implications. This guy, Matthew Whitacre, who was a u. S. Attorney in iowa, hes on television and on twitter calling the Mueller Probe a witchhunt, retweeting something that call tess Mueller Probe a witchhunt. That was his job interview. He talks about how they might be able to scam the government and now hes running the irs. Again, lets take this, though, to the next step, which is youre mueller. Youre putting together this obstruction of justice charge and he has this hole in the puzzle. What can i put there . Oh, he fires the United States attorney general. And appoints a hack, and may not have done that legally, to obstruct justice and stop this investigation. If donald trump gets rid of mueller, now the democrats can hire him. He can now work for the house of representatives and if they want to send all the information theyre going to send it to the states. He thinks hes going to stop his children, theyll be in state jail instead of the federal pen te federal penitentary. And no pardoning if any of these people are sent to state jails. And instead of democrats shouting on television or sending out tweets, jerry nadler comes out and adam fisch comes out and says, wait a minute, this doesnt fly. Were going to look into this Matthew Whitacre guy and see if this is okay. There is pushback now. I want to go to yamish. If we had gone with the narrative or if we were like fox and echoed the president s narrative, if it was a week ago, we would have maybe be going to a reporter on the border, about the caravans making their fox still covered the caravan yesterday, didnt the they . Are they preparing for 15,000 troops to go to the border . I dont see anybody at the border, no. No fox people at the border this morning . No. But they thought it was such a big story. Hold on. Did Rush Limbaugh talk about the caravan . Thankfully i dont listen to rush all day. I dont know about rush what about hannity . They appear to have lost interest, fox news. It was mentioned just once in passing on fox friends. But small pox is coming to america. They told us this as news. Yamish, i dont understand because this was an invasion that was going to threaten our very way of life. Okay. I think weve thrown the red meat out enough. Go ahead, yamish. No, there was not a care a ravan that was invading the United States. I will say i interviewed some Trump Supporters who were in a gated Retirement Community in south florida who were scared this caravan was going to come and bring all sorts of diseases to them. These were interviews i did on camera where people were really, really fearful and the president feels as though he was validated running that campaign because republicans were able to keep control of the senate and gain a couple of seats. Thats why i posed that question to the president. What we know now is that a White Nationalist visited the white house and was tweeting about it yesterday on the same day that i was asking about the question about White Nationalism. And he called you a raciest for asking him about the behavior that he is engaged in that has david duke praising him, right . He did do that. And i think what was going on there was that the president was very frustrated with reporters everall. Moments before i posed my question, he was pacing, literally pacing back and forth at the podium. I thought he might even walk off because he had been calling people rude, hostile. And i, of course, as you know because ive been on this show multiple times and youve allowed me to be myself, im not someone who gets confrontation equal. So i said, okay, if youre going to call me a racist, im going to move on to middle class tax cuts and how youre going to get that done and he didnt have an answer for that, either. No answers. There were three people that went heavy on caravan ads. All of them lost. And for everybody out there that was telling me, no, its a real story, were worried about the caravan, theyre coming. I go back to what i said about martians coming to my backyard. Theyre not coming. And the caravan is not coming. The leprosy is not coming. No, theyre not coming. And the caravan story was so cynically political. But how stupid do you have to be as a voter to believe it . Pretty stupid. Today, when theyre not talking about the caravan any more. Because its all find outble on the google machine. It was a lie. Trump named all the people who lost that didnt party him. But take jon tester in montana he was the number one target. He went to montana four times to try to beat tester, and tester won. If you look at wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania, there were six statewide races there, three senate races and three governors races. The democrats won all of them. Those were were the states that nobody thought he could pick up those electric tore votes which is how he became president. So you could say those rust belt states rejected trumpism. And that will be a real problem going forward. So to your part about the cara van, i dont want to blame people for being stupid because you know what . You can. Its time to stop giving people a free pass if they are going to make racist assumptions and they could disabuse themselves of those racist assumptions in three minutes. That is a sick, and thats a cult. Thank god we found out on tuesday that is a shrinking, shrinking cult. S as i was saying, i think part of the issue here is that you have a media operation, fox news, but also conservative talk radio that essentially amplifies whatever the president s political jaent is to be. And in this case, i think you accurately pointed out, the programming on the cara van was propaganda. It was a Political Campaign motivated propaganda. State run television. Staterun television. So any talk about trumps political issues, he has to mention the fact that he has a media entity that is essentially serving as a campaign arm. I am not shocked in the slightest that the programming on the caravan is stopping entirely on fox. It was never a story. It was a campaign issue. One last note on it to make it official, the pentagon announced yesterday that the military operation at the border where the president sent troops down there will no longer be called operation faithful patriot. Is it a coincidence that went away the day after the Midterm Election . It doesnt mean the mission is over. It means theyre turning down temperature on the at the department of defense. I ask people, tell me what nancy pelosi and Rudy Giuliani have in common. Do you know the answer . No. Theyre both italian americans. But no one ever thinks of that. So weve had this experience with the irish and the germans and the jews and now the for some reason, the hispanics are going to fall for this that theyre the enemy . Because one day, hernandez and rodriguez, ill ask you what they have in common and no one will say hispanic americans. Were following breaking news. We want to update you, 13 people are dead including the suspect and a sheriffs sergeant after a mass shooting at a Southern California bar. Lets go to nbc news correspondent cal perry live in los angeles. Cal, what do you have . This was the borderline bar out in Ventura County just out on the 101 freeway, about 40 miles west of where i am here in los angeles. It was College Night at this bar. And as you said, at least 13 people are dead, chug the shooter and authorities have Just Announced that one of the dead is a police sergeant, a 29year veteran, sergeant ron helus. Absolutely terrifying scenes, started at about 11 45 p. M. Local time. The scene is now being investigated. Policer were able to subdue the gunman fairley quickly. We understand from eyewitnesss the gunman opening fire right away inside that sort of music venue wednesday night in this part of the country and sort of just north of malibu is not like a wednesday night in other parts of the country. This was packed, this the bar full of college kids, scenes of horror as they sort of streamed, mika, out the windows and doors of this club. Its something weve seen in this country too many times. Many of the eyewitnesss saying they knew exactly what to do in the chance of a mass shooting. All right, cal, thank you. Were going to be following this breaking news throughout the morning. Also still ahead on morning joe, well show you more of the president s unbalanced, somewhat unhinged performance yesterday. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Pical vacuum head can struggle with large debris and stuckon dust, so shark invented duoclean, replacing the front wall with a rotating soft brush. While deep cleaning carpets, two brush rolls pick up large particles with ease, make quick work of stuckon dust, giving hard floors a polished look, and fearlessly devour piles. Shark duoclean technology, designed to do more on carpets and floors, available in corded and cordfree vacuums, a