most diving medals in olympic history after her and her partner wrapped up the women's synchronized three meter springboard competition yesterday. wu won five career golds four in a row in the three meter event scored more than 31 points higher than the silver medalists. >> listen to this, lewis. we have to tell you about the gymnast won her first medal in 1992 taking gold with the unified team in barcelona and also competed in atlanta, sydney, beijing and london and, she's not done yet. last night she's done what no other gymnast has done before at the age of 41 she competed for uzbekistan and did well enough to qualify for the vault final. right now she's in fifth place. look for her. >> incredible story. that will do it for "way too early." . "morning joe" starts right now. >> i have said during the

interview and many other occasions over the past months that what i told the fbi which he said was truthful is consistent with what i have said publicly. so, i may have short circuited and for that i will try to clarify. >> in front of some friendly reporters. they asked her a very easy question and they used the term short circuit. she took a short circuit in the brain. >> oh, wow. >> what's up? how are you? >> good morning. >> good morning. >> it's monday. it's monday, august 8th. >> did you have a good weekend? >> i just saw that and that kind of just reminded me about this election. >> i don't understand. what do you mean? >> we'll show you and look at these latest polls. it's kind of depressing and

frightening. happy monday, everybody. managing editor of bloomberg politics mark halperin. >> he's great. >> political reporter for "new york times" and president on the council of foreign relations richard hoss. >> "new york post" not big fans of a-rod. come on, this is a very cold send off. >> and your point is? >> i mean, you're a yankees' fan. was a-rod worth the money? >> no. let me think about it, no. >> did he ever help you win the world series? >> he had his moments but all in all not worth did and too much off the field drama. >> did y win the world series with him? >> yeah, but -- >> would you have won it without him? >> no. >> of course not. but no buts about it. we're the yankees.

he won the world series and he's getting kind of rough treatment. i don't get it. by the way, nick, great oracle on donald trump when he raised all the money in small donations. >> fascinating, right? >> if he weren't in the middle of a self-induced you know what storm that he caused himself, a melt down -- >> i don't know which candidate you're talking about. >> that would have frozen a lot of the news coverage. everybody would have stopped and looked at that and said, that's a game changer. >> we talked on the set before if he only put his back in the small donor fund-raising, boy, if those numbers are accurate, he's exceeding bernie sanders in the world and we all know why it's important. it shows enthusiasm and a connection to your grassroots activists and leaves you dependents on the donors. >> you don't invest it on an

advance get out the boat scheme that they have been working on for years. >> well, eventually probably they'll spend it on paid advertising. they put out press releases saying they have new ads and turns out they are web videos. they have money to spend and they have to figure out a way to win in the electoral college whether that's tv ads. the thing nick said is important. which is enthusiasm which is something he is going to have to have if he can put together some of the electoral votes. >> let's get to the lead stories today and then you can dig into the weeds. donald trump is set to focus on policy giving a speech in detroit today on winning the global competition for the economy. he's expected to talk about reforming energy policy regulation, trade and the tax code. comes at a time when trump is struggling in the latest wave of polling. clinton now leads by eight points.

50-42. she has doubled her lead since before the republican convention. a mcclatchy/marist poll has clinton leading by 15 nationally. clinton's unfavorables are at their smallest margin since january. >> mark, this is a turn around on favorable, unfavorable. we actually saw trump do in the primaries, but hillary clinton was down to 21%, 31% of all the numbers that jumped out at me this weekend 38% favorability rating was the most shocking. >> she closed the gap with trump on honest and trustworthy. doing better than him and a lot of those other questions that are showing why she's so far ahead in the horse race, but still vulnerable. still would be losing to most other republican candidates. >> she would. doing a lot better in most of

these categories despite the fact that she just held a deplorable press conference and became the singularly response to kristen wellker. at the end of it i was just saying you say, i made a mistake. i learned from my mistake. i was wrong. i'm moving on. please forgive me. >> to the politics of taking everyone down the road that there wasn't a problem with the e-mail. that they were cleared. that everything is hunky dory. >> everybody knows that's not the case. everybody around hillary clinton knows that's not the case. the only person that doesn't know that is the case is hillary clinton. who can go to hillary clinton and just say. >> just stop. >> i'm not going to stop. >> say stop. >> it's not always about you. >> tim kaine was asked basically the same thing. and even before tim kaine

answered, i knew he was going in the right direction. and, sure enough, he answered it like a pro. and just swatted it away. if hillary had done that, we would be much better. >> there is a bigger problem. a lot of body language in that answer. we'll get to those polls in a second and what really worried me is there is a bigger picture here. that they are, i don't want to say covering up because it sounds like completely illegal, but a self-serving reason to set up the private server that was completely inappropriate. and it was done, whether to widen the footprint of the foundation while she was secretary of state or whatever, paranoia. but they set up a server because they didn't want it in the state department. can we go back to the beginning here and not talk about the five e-mails that were marked or not marked or whether she knew it was marked.

>> mika, everybody knows that. >> no, they don't. >> everybody knows that but hillary clinton. >> okay. >> that's the problem. hillary clinton needs to say, hillary clinton needs to say, hillary clinton needs to say. >> because we're counting on hillary. >> i made a mistake. i shouldn't have done it. i am so sorry. it was a terrible lapse in judgment. i have learned my lesson. i accept the fbi report. now, let's get americans back to work. boom. that's it. leave, stop. richard, did you see the tortured response. it was the most tortured response i've ever seen. >> the context to this election is not a good one for hillary clinton. she is in some ways swimming against the tide. and what we have seen already this morning is, you know, about whom is this going to be a referendum? every morning you and everyone has been talking about donald

trump's latest, and every morning we spend talking about hillary clinton in e-mails is a bad day for hillary clinton and a good day for donald trump. get this issue off the stage. >> this, by the way, mika, an answer that you can write in like four lines right here. >> she was reading all this legal stuff. >> it was legal mumbo jumbo. >> i will read this and then i never want to see it, again. on telling the clinton campaign. we've been talking about this. when you talk about something, you actually have to show athe viewers what you're talking about. are you ready, dan? >> are you mischaracterizing director comey's testimony and not -- >> i was pointing out in both of those instances that the director comey had said that my answers in my fbi interview were truthful. that's really the bottom line here.

and i have said during the interview and in many other occasions over the past months that what i told the fbi, which he said was truthful, is consistent with what i have said publicly. so, i may have short circuited and for that i, you know, will try to clarify because i think chris wallace and i were probably talking past each other because, of course, he could only talk to what i had told the fbi and i appreciated that. but i do think, you know, having him say that my answers to the fbi were truthful and then i should quickly add what i said was consistent with what i had said publicly. that's really sort of in my view trying to tie both ends together. >> now, that was only one-half of the answer. we're not going to let you hear the follow up to that because your face would be in your cereal both. could you imagine diagramming that?

>> it would take forever. >> i was like in law school class and you would have fact patterns and diagram them for 45 minutes. i couldn't really diagram that. >> it's weird hillary clinton wants that everything was hunky dory with the e-mails and they were cleared of wrongdoing and that's their spin and nobody believes it. >> nobody in america believes it. >> dan, while we're going over some polls let's get tim kaine's response, which was a great response. boom, just like that. >> we really need them to do this better. >> you know when somebody goes up to the plate and they're about to get a hit, they're about to get a hit. you know the way they carry themself. they were halfway through the question with tim kaine and he's just going to hit this one out of the park. >> not a-rod, though. >> please, you're so bitter. he won your world series and you're bitter. meanwhile the cbs new s trackin

poll. >> clinton is inside the margin of error in nevada. trump is hanging on to a two-point lead in arizona. >> still close out west in some of those states. >> 15-point lead for clinton in new hampshire. >> not close in new hampshire. >> and wsb poll in virginia has it neck and neck. another poll in this state. from the atlanta journal constitution has her in the lead there. >> so, mark halperin, let's look at two states. georgia and virginia and you take the states out of the red column and give them to hillary clinton. he is swimming up stream very quickly. >> mathematically can't win. >> also in new hampshire, 15 points. just turned brutal for it state that first got him a victory. >> the state against bernie sanders. giving a speech in detroit today trying to get back on track. the things republicans want him to talk about. the things advisors want him to

talk about policy and foreign trade and if he does that and he's successful, narrow the gap in a lot of the places and get back in the game by labor day. he does have some issues, including the issue of change where he's clearly got a marity of voters on his side. he just has to perform better. the last 72 hours he's performed better. >> performed a little bit better. what is he going to say in a speech? he's going to be talking about reviving the economy. i guess that's what he needs to do. >> the most recent economic growth numbers were 1.2%. so, normally, that would be a large opening for any candidate from the other party. >> our economy is basically flat lined. >> the growth is low. now, the most recent job numbers are really high. you have the democrats talking about job creation and the republicans talking about economic growth. the question is, what is he going to say in terms of

infrastructure and square that with trade. but he's against trade. what is he willing to do across the board in terms of taxes, spending. >> i'm wondering if he can do those things off the cuff or read word for word like his endorsement of paul ryan, john mccain and kelly ayotte which truly looked like he was grasping on to the words. it was a hostage video. >> that was a hostage video. >> 75-25 today. >> no, i want that. >> what do you mean 75. >> how does he get beyond, you know, the hostage video. >> his campaign is already released. his campaign has already said he'll say this and say this and say this. a way his campaign has of locking him into his teleprompter. >> any time they want to lock donald trump down. that's how they get pence and that's how they do it all the

time. maybe they need to start leaking his speech beforehand to get him down. >> talks about estate tax and wall street regulation, tax cuts, he can actually like work, bear down, rather, on a traditional republican constituency that is so far in these polls is kind of wobbling on him. >> the thing is, they're gone. like the republicans that would vote for him for getting rid of the death tax, i think they're gone. i think at this point -- >> gone from america. >> not going to come back from him. he's going to have to go populous. trying to give a traditional chamber of commerce speech, they're speaking to the wall and being too clever by half. >> little of both, though. >> the hostage video from the other day where he supported ryan who was up like 80%. very courageous thing. then you had that and mccain and then kelly ayotte.

you have any back story on that hostage story? >> put a lot of pressure on trump when he was in wisconsin to do this, to clear the decks. you know, endorse each of them brought special problems. kelly ayotte for some was the most serious. here is a popular incumbent senator in a battleground state where trump wins he wants her back in the senate. he came under a lot of pressure. he read it and maybe did it grudgingly, but he had to do it. again, if you look at the things he has done in the last 96 hours. liberals would say grading on a curve. >> that's exactly how he read it. getting it out of the way. >> here's tim kaine when he was asked about hillary clinton's e-mails and look how well he handles it. >> i think chris wallace and hillary were sort of talking past each other last week. she was saying what director comey acknowledged to be true. when she spoke to the fbi, when

she was talking to the fbi, the fbi thought her answers in that setting were truthful. chris might have been asking her a different question, but the bottom line is this, she made a mistake and she said over and over again. i made a mistake and i learned from it and i'll fix it and i apologize for it. >> mika, i love what he said at the very beginning. >> let's get to the punch line first. and the punch line is, she made the mistake and she knows she made a mistake. right there you're not unraveling everything. hillary clinton. >> and then, clearly, like trying not to lie by reading what should be said. just forget it. it was a huge mistake. >> right now americans -- >> you're going to make us say why it was bad a million times by doing answers like that. >> the thing is right now americans don't want a legal answer, richard. they just want her to say she messed up, she's sorry and she's not going to do it, again.

>> america believes in forgiveness and we believe in second chances and hillary clinton needs to stop talking about this and reintroduce herself and that's the only way she can drive these negatives down and i think it sets her up, obviously too, win this fall. but she's got to get this behind her. >> the answer on james comey is a very simple answer. they'll throw that to her. i respect the fbi director. i'm going to take his words to heart. i made mistakes and i'm going to move on. but there is no story after that. >> what? >> tim kaine's answer is a great spin, but doesn't acknowledge as hillary clinton doesn't want to do. it was incriminating. but she doesn't want to acknowledge any of that. >> the thing is, she knows that. the american people know that. everybody on her staff knows that. everybody in the media knows that. don't try to swat it away because then you get more entangled. just say, i respect fbi director

comey. i'm going to take his words to heart. >> not one person speaks for hillary clinton, including hillary clinton, has said that. >> i know, mark, i'm saying you want this story to end, this is what you say. i think we're talking past each other here. >> are you short circuiting? >> it's very simple. i respect fbi director comey. i'm going to take what he said to heart. i'll take what he said to heart. i've made the mistake of judgment, as i've said before. and i won't make that mistake, again. and i think tank the american p, i looked that recent polls obviously, like me, they want to move forward and start focusing on getting america back to work. what about when comey said, like i said, i respect him. i'll take it heart. >> like i said, i respect him and take it to heart. i understand i got the message,

guys. i'm not short circuiting. i get it, guys. i get it. now, let's talk about jobs. now, let's talk about this. now, let's talk about that. it was so painful. we only showed one half of it. >> do we have to show more? >> no, we don't. paul ryan's seat may be safe but what about the rest of the republican majority? sat down with the house speaker and he's with us straight ahead. >> trump's pain endorsement of mccain and two other republicans. >> he's a good guy. >> i'm doing my speech, i'm doing my speech, having fun and now i have to do something very unfun. let me get out a piece of paper and read it in the most pained way. that's coming up. also, live to rio on the heels of the record setting weekend for americans. complete highlights just ahead. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. this is me, using a wrench to build a jet engine.

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republican nominee donald trump took on leaders. you know, it always helps when you do that. denying his support to re-election of house speaker paul ryan, as well as senators john mccain and kelly ayotte took new hampshire. kind of important people. after that wave of brutal poll numbers, including signs of a ruptured party, trump backed down because i guess poll numbers moved him and hailed the benefit of unity. >> we have to win this election. well, we have to win it. have to win it. otherwise, our big movement was not as big as we thought. so, in our shared mission, to make america great, again, i

support and endorse our speaker of the house paul ryan. and we may disagree on a couple of things, but mostly we agree and we're going to get it done and do a lot of wonderful things. and while i'm at it, i hope in the highest esteem senator john mccain. for his service to our country in uniform and in public office and i fully support and endorse his re-election. i also fully support and endorse senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire. >> he didn't mention it at the new hampshire event the next night. >> we're all laughing here. >> how do you describe what just happened there? i support and endorse without

reading the speaker of the house. i fully support senator john mccain. and that kelly ayotte, she's a rising star. >> you were talking about how it's a hostage video. he's acting. >> i'm going to do this. >> i'm being forced to say these words that i don't really mean. >> and he's senator john mccain. >> and, so, look, senator john mccain. >> are you guysidding me? he's making a joke of you. this guy's making a joke of you. so, at some point, like you said, joe, you've got to go 98 miles an hour either against or for. you can't be in the middle or you'll get killed. you'll die politically. >> what do the kids say? >> the kids say nobody ever stops you when you're going 90 miles an hour. that's actually the problem for the republicans. you get in trump's camp. >> get in the camp.

>> or you say i'm going to destroy this guy and spend every waking second of my life taking it to this guy and destroying him and crushing him and making sure that republicans get re-elected in the senate. you don't go halfway. they've gone halfway. they're in the middle of the road and they're going to get run over. >> in "washington post" that interview and all three have been critical him. as critical as anybody in terms of getting attention. you look at donald trump, when is he at his weakest. when somebody attacks him. that's what happens with the kahns and these three prominent republicans. in this case he was convinced he needed to make things right and go in their direction and he did it by reading and sending a signal to mika and they didn't really mean it. >> if you're going to endorse donald trump and if you truly believe he's good for america and you should be out

campaigning for him. you should be working with him and saying this guy is grateful for america. and if you don't think that anything you've seen over the past two to three weeks when the general really got into full swing and you really started seeing a message that was for all americans, if you don't believe 100% in your gut that he is good for america, shouldn't you be on the other side of that vehemently. >> let's not even do right and wrong. let's talk about what's best cynically and politically. >> that's kind of what i meant. >> why does best politically for their careers is to choose a side and stick with it. again, if you were for donald trump you go all in for donald trump and you go 90 miles an hour and explain why. if you're not for donald trump, you oppose him and you explain to people why. i found this time and time again. there is a reason why i always said, if you make a decision that is, the decision i made in

my district was to overthrow the popular speaker of the house. the republican speaker of the house. good luck trying that at home, kids. going newt gingrich who had taken the republicans to a majority. you do it like 100%. >> 100% and you go back to your district and you explain why you're doing it. >> the first debate almost every republican in the country elected official will disappoint you. they're all hedging. they're all 75/25. >> but what i'm saying is it's not disappointing me. they're disappointing themselves. so, you have this dance between donald trump, who doesn't like the other side and these people that don't like donald trump and they're just sort of there as the bible would say, they're lukewarm and they're going to be spit out. either get on a side and support him 100% or tell people, no, i can't support him.

i can't support him because of the mexican ban and david duke and i can't support him because of this. i can't support him. but i tell who you can support. kelly ayotte. we have to have a republican senate. >> no model for winning that way right now. i know you think it'she right thing to do. >> no, i said it's even cynically. you're still not listening to me. we're short circuiting over here. i am saying cynically, i've run against a guy that was trying to get away from bill clinton. it is the easiest thing to do. like those little ducks. oh, really, so, you're not sure. i mean, you've got to pick one side or the other. >> doesn't kelly ayotte need the suburban moms that are supporting and donald trump -- so, she needs the voters to put trump over the top in the new hampshire primary and they're both trying to get the supporters. >> the problem is when you do this, you end up offending the

suburban moms who can say, that how could she endorse donald trump? you support the donald trump people who are absolutist who say, what in the world? why is she criticizing? >> you try an awkward compromise and satisfies everybody. >> it doesn't work at the top of the ticket. you watch, i think pattumy is probably in a better position than everybody else. he's not endorsing and saying donald trump is donald trump. you worry about donald trump, he's over here. >> but they're exceptions because they're constituencies. i mean, most states if they did it now their chances of winning would go down. >> mark kirk is in trouble in illinois, regardless. >> but in better shape -- >> he is. same thing with pattumy. coming up, katie ledecky didn't beat her own record, she crushed it. highlights when we go to rio

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has long been dominated by none other than the great michael phelps. >> yeah, michael phelps, ryan lochte have won gold in this event for the last three years but they are not swimming it any more because it is known as the most grueling event in swimming. so, get ready for a new american star. his name is chase kalisz. i sat down with him and said why is the 400 im so tough? here's what he told me. this is a sport a discipline that has been dominated by michael phelps and ryan lochte. how did you take it over? i think they got tired of it. >> those two are the two best swimmers that the world has ever seen and they have the two fastest times. for me to be able to be in a position that i'm in and i'm very grateful and i'm just taking it all in right now.

>> what does it feel like? you talk about it being painful and i heard this race described that way before. what is it like? >> i would say it's like you're trying to finish a marathon and while people are running, you're just on your knees crawling. you're trying to use every effort and every amount of strength you have to get home on the last 50 and your whole body is falling apart and you can't move and can't feel your legs and you're just trying to get to the wall. you have to plan out your race strategy and conserve energy throughout the race. >> keep your eye on chase, he'll be back in four years. meantime his big brother, the world's most decorated olympian has added another gold medal. michael phelps earning his 19th gold after leading his teammates to victory in 100 freestyle relay. outswim the french team by about

a second and a half. phelps has triumphed before but this was the most special because his 3-month-old son was there. the men weren't the only americans to rule the pool yesterday. katie ledecky earning her first gold medal in the freestyle. she smashed her own world record by about two second finishing yesterday's race nearly five seconds ahead of the silver medalist. unbelievable. here's a look at the olympic medal count so far. the united states currently leading all other countries with 12 total. three gold, five silver, four bronze. china is in second followed by australia and italy. i got a chance to catch up with gabby douglas' family yesterday. of course, u.s. women's gymnastics team absolutely on fire. they're setting all kinds of records and, sadly, i was in the stands when the william sisters played their last match

together. >> this is just a horrendous assignment. i i'm so sorry. >> there i am with gabby douglas' family. old friends. >> all right, nbc chris jansing, thank you so much. up next, the must-read opinion pages. "morning joe" is coming right back. let's feed him to the sharks! squuuuack, let's feed him to the sharks! yay! and take all of his gold! and take all of his gold! ya! and hide it from the crew! ya...? squuuuack, they're all morons anyway! i never said that. they all smell bad too. no! you all smell wonderful! i smell bad! if you're a parrot, you repeat things. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. squuuuack, it's what you do.

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a foreign policy dedicated to saving the world is luxury. it is one thing to sacrifice on behalf of vital interests and another to pay in lives and dollars for preferences. americans today are no mood for such extravagance in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. the slower the normal economic recovery. the realization that certain jobs are never returning and the mounting evidence of rising inequality. it is this combination of dissatisfaction with foreign policy and economic frustration that has given rise to a new isolationism. the stakes in this debate are very high. it's the one, it's one thing to question american overreach. it is something very different to question american reach. >> didn't barack obama really start doing that in 2010? when we pulled out of iraq, left the void. >> obama falls into the class of presidents where you can describe as retrenchment.

some presidents who dial up american involvement in the world. obama has dialed it down and middle east is a textbook example of what happens when the u.s. pulls back dramatically. what we have done in iraq and what we haven't done in syria. >> i mean, you look at the chaos not only in the middle east, you look at the refugee crisis that spill under to europe and you see all the world's ills that are on the front pages of the paper. isn't this in large part because of the united states retrenchment since 2010. >> the u.s. has made it a lot worse. one of the lessons is, you know, people focus on w. and going into iraq and the lesson seems to me the last two presidents what you do can be dangerous and what you don't do can be dangerous. acts of omission and we have gotten it wrong now for 16 years. >> where are the american people? >> the american people have about had it. the pendulum overswings and same things happens in political

markets. what you're seeing with bernie sanders and donald trump a new isolati isolationism. you basically see let's focus at home and forget about the rest of the world and people aren't seeing the connections that when the world begins to unravel, it just doesn't stay there and it comes here and affects us. we're going to get hammered if the world unravels. but you're seeing it across the political spectrum. when it comes to foreign policy are not between the parties, it's within the parties. >> what is hap pening in syria is, obviously, impacting germany a great deal and impacting the middle east and impacting france and it's coming to our shore soon, is it not? >> come to our shores through terrorism and come through the economic consequences, potentially, for europe. it could also spread in the middle east. why do we think a place like saudi arabia that produces more than 10% of the world's oil is

immune from instability that is lengthy to syria or iraq. >> i'm sorry, go ahead. somebody going to ask you a question, richard? >> i'm just going to ask you, you look at the economic trend and the immigration trends and the terrorism trends and america's retreat. are there any global trends kurn currently that are likely to lead to more stability? >> not everything. over the weekend, an interesting thing in south africa. the fact that the party had been there. mandela's party got hammered in the election. you see the development of real civil society and democratic politics there. latin america is in many ways the most improved part of the world. you look at argentina and chile and you see the civil war ending. north america looks extraordinarily good. but as bad as great power relations are, u.s., russia, china, they're not bad by historical terms. i think you can look at it glass half full.

what i'm worried about are the arrows. the xwrgreater instability and some extent seeing it in asia. >> speaking of great instability, the subject of maureen dodd's column on sunday. >> crazy about the presidency and she writes in part, this. it is inauguration day, january 20th, 2017. donald trump clicks on the overhead tv set and quickly turns it off in discuss. the clinton news network and msnbc and the failing "new york times" are so bias that you would think hillary clinton won the presidency. not me. she's still all over the news. i don't know why she's always grinning when i turn on the tv and she's practically stalking me. every time i see her lately she's pictured around the white house. i should tell the secret service to get her tossed. the door opens, trump looks up expecting mike pence, but it's two orderlies in white coats collecting the ex-presidential

candidate who lost in a landslide to hillary after spending the fall being treated at the bellevue. mr. trump, it's time for your impulse control delusion reduction therapy one orderly says soothingly. we need to go early. it would be crazy to miss the swearing in today of madam president. >> mark halperin, maybe donald trump has lost maureen dowd. >> one of the inside stories that is important in the last two months, he used to get very favorable coverage. you can ask ted cruz and donald trump cast his going after reporters. in my career, republicans win when they have good relations with the press. as much as they see liberal biest and they're losing people

like maureen who is pretty favorable. >> maureen has been extremely fair to donald. >> we had different waves of press overreach or underreach. like, for example, you could argue that candidate obama got great press to the point of unfair. >> you could argue that. >> make my point, please. joe, i'm trying to make a point. >> didn't vote for him were dismissed as racist. >> if you could please, i am trying to make a bigger point. some would argue that that happened. definitely an argument -- >> what do you mean some would argue? just say that happened. don't be hillary clinton, just tell the truth. that happened. >> honestly, okay, now we're going to argue this. i think, actually, i think, actually, to go back wn obama first announced his candaens for the presidency of the united states, everybody laughed. everybody laughed, including this set.

okay. when we were in new jersey, i was laughed off the set. >> mika, the majority of the campaign -- >> i want to hear the point you were trying to make. >> for the majority of the campaign, barack obama was worshipped and idleized by the press. it was sick. >> we so digress. so, i think that in the beginning, donald trump was so mocked and so ridiculed there were a few people saying he could win the nomination and we were misunderstood as supporters. but most people, most people were extremely rude and extremely condescending towards his candidacy and i think there was a window of correction happening, especially when he won the nomination or came close to it and he squandered it. he gave the middle finger to the press that needed to eat a little crow. >> we talked about it time and again. trump would say something, the press would overreact.

they would always overstate what donald trump did. which then allowed him to go back and point to the bias media. >> yes. >> what i don't really understand is, here is a guy who has known the press and played the press extraordinarily well since the mid-1970s and now at the time when he needs to play the press the most, he's just gone off the cliff. >> he's doing it against a woman who gets the most unfair coverage of anybody i ever covered. she brings a lot of it on herself. for some reason, he's just decided to not go for it. >> look, it's back to foreign policy. if you can get voters angry at the press, again, and say it's really the press' fault that's a good line and i do think, call me crazy, i think he haseached the point where there are so many blunders so quickly and things are being treated as blunders. i think he got a raw deal on the baby thing and i think he was

joking about that and everybody treated it like, he hates babies. >> we never even covered that. i think the crying baby is kind of cute. we're not playing it not next hour, gosh. the poor baby. funny picture of him holding two babies and one is screaming. it's so cute. that's fine. that's not the serious stuff. the serious stuff is the way he treated the kahn family and the muslim ban and the serious stuff is the way he's making america really kind of divide itself in the way he speaks. that's the kind of stuff that republican leaders need to consider before they endorse him. do they really want to do this. will you vote for someone who supports a muslim ban. >> i say that forever. >> i know. coming up -- >> what's so amazing, though, is that i've never seen one candidate with as many self-inflicted wounds in my life. >> i've never seen it in my life. >> along with peggy's article on

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