and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. you want to sweep it under the rugment i don t want to talk about this any more than anyone else. when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. they were people that behaved badly on that day. i m not one of them. ms. abrams is going to lie about my record because she doesn t want to talk about her own. i don t have the luxury of being part of a good old boys club. debate night in ohio, utah, and georgia with the midterms exactly three weeks away, things are getting a little heated. steve kornacki is standing by at the big board. did you see that guy beforehand, he s going into the whole rage thing. out of hand. this guy s crazy. the state of the race, which is what we really want from him. republicans claim to care so much ab
sensibility. but he believed that, as theodore parker said, the abolitionist minister, the arc of a moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. he also knew it doesn t bend toward justice if people aren t insisting that it swerve toward justice, because there are always going to be forces of reaction pulling the other way, and that conscientious insight, the capacity to bring conscience to bear on political, economic, cultural issues of contention, that s where american greatness comes. it s where human greatness comes. and i m not mindlessly celebrating this guy at all. i don t think we should look up at him adoringly or down on him condescendingly. i don t think he was martin luther king in a stove pipe hat. i also don t think we can dismiss him from the american conversation.
if we failed to open an investigation, we wouldn t be doing our jobs. mccabe says president trump s own statements prompted the counterintelligence investigations. there s an allegation that the deputy attorney general was basically trying to take the president down through the 25th amendment. it s incredible. we have a president that people within the government don t trust. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around t around the world. this is a special holiday edition of new day. it s monday, february 18th, it s president s day here in america. john berman suspect off today and john avlon joins me. happy president s day. and happy holiday. i brought my stove pipe hat. later in the show. a top white house official says the president is prepared
i want to talk about prosecutorial stylish contrast with you. yes, police. bob mueller, what do you think? anybody that can wear a crisp white suit every day, doesn t have to wear makeup. because every woman knows if you re putting on any kind of foundation t gets inside of the shirt and that is again a privilege robert mueller doesn t have to worry about. abraham lincoln. let s look. extraordinary. that long coat, just long, british style look and the stove pipe hat. he s battle field ready. extraordinary. come on. now tray gowdy. it s like rod sterling was it
topping our political radar today, senator rand paul says he ll ask president trump to lift sanctions that ban some russian lawmakers from visiting the united states. during his trip to moscow this month, senator paul invited members of both houses of the russian federal assembly to washington this fall to continue the dialogue. and he told fox news they ve accepted. but u.s. sanctions in place since 2014 block the leaders of both chambers from visiting the united states. honest abe $9.7 million in debt. the abraham lincoln presidential foundation owes that money after taking out a loan 11 years ago to buy some rare lincoln artifacts, including a stove pipe hat. if they can t pay up by october, the museum may have to put some of those items up for auction. if you want to help, there s a