Country that feels very disenfranchised, feels very frightened. basically saying we re putting you on notice, we re watching hard and we re not going to sit by idly. all i m talking about, again, i know people at home have already stopped listening, a lot of people have, but for those that have ears to hear. i m listening. the only thing i m talking about is how do you convert this energy, this discussion, to victory for democrats. i m trying to do your job for you. do i sound like regis? i m trying to do your job for you. who is out there that makes somebody say i voted for trump but maybe the first step was democrats and liberals and progressives did something on saturday that restored their confidence that they can organize and fight back. they have done nothing since the election to stand up against donald trump in any meaningful way. that was the first step. a leader is going to have to
Soften things a little bit. add amendments. for one of the major parties to effectively step out against this, that would be a huge no-no just because of that public mandate, because of that public vote we have in june. nbc s lucy kafanov from london. thanks, lucy. still ahead on morning joe, secretary of defense robert gates joins us here on set. also ahead how is the meeting going, mr. president. very good. we have a fantastic relationship with everybody at the table. it s totally just a beautiful, beautiful relationship. donald trump touts donnie, you re laughing. that s him. beautiful. it s a beautiful relationship. the whole relationship. beautiful. beautiful relationship with congress as his nominees speed through committees. we ll get a live report from hallie jackson at the white house. still laughing.
People around donald trump. i think if you ask donald trump he would tell you he was pretty surprised that he won. so they had their own inauguration to get ready for. i don t think they were obsessing about a march that was coming up. they need to do whatever they can to bring over some people, bring over some supporters. but i will say, donnie, looking at the march on saturday while they were obsessing about their crowd size, the biggest crowd ever was gathering around the world. here we go. no, it s just my eyes. my eyes saw this. i don t want to defend anybody. you know what i saw when i saw the event on friday, the inaugural events on friday. you saw highlights. you saw the inaugural events, i thought you were talking about the marches. go ahead. can i finish? go ahead. i saw on friday a president
You shrug. everyone shrugs. i m going to say what i said to everyone else. politics is a game of addition. it s not about making your self feel good. you want to reach out to people, convert them to your side. you want to get them if you re in the march on saturday, you want toting them voting against republicans two years from now. if you re in the march if you re in the inauguration on friday, if you re donald trump, you want to bring them over to your side. i saw none of that on either of those sides. gene, let me answer. the difference is, one is the leader and the other is the people. to me the obligation is on the leader. i agree with that. i thought you were saying i m only talking about the political impact of these. just like gene is asking. the march is great. will the march elect democrats
And wait. i think we understand that he has probably the most difficult job in washington right now. the press secretary job is always hard. it s particularly hard when you re press secretary to donald trump, someone who has very strong opinions about what he wants to see at that podium. we re going to give sean the benefit of the doubt on the policy, on filling out some of these did he taste because the administration is new. at the same time, some of the things that happened on saturday, coming out and sort of ranting at us and not giving us an opportunity to ask questions, that s not going to sit well with the press for a long time. there were factual inaccuracies in what he said on saturday. he tried to clean some of those up yesterday, not all of them. more broadly, the idea that was white house is going to lecture the press on what we should be covering, which was another piece of what he said on saturday. we expect the white house will disagree with what we said or what we cover