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shop now. >>> jelani cobb and molly jong fast are back with us. i'm joined by latosha brown, cofounder of black voters matter and founder of the southern black girls consortium. when all of the talk started about whether biden should stay or go, there was one person i wanted to talk to and you were on vacation. please come back to america so i can talk to you. you are one of the signatories. it's up to more than 2,000 or maybe 2600 melanie campbell texts me, 2600 black women have signed this letter urging president biden to not leave the race. explain to me why you think not, and also, as somebody who would actually be the person trying to turn out votes, what do you make of this idea that he cannot win the election? >> you know, there's three things kind of why we wrote the letter and even a week before that, we put out a statement saying this is not the time for us to go in being confused and for chaos. people need clarity, and we need to literally do the work and go move forward. ultimately, what we wanted to make sure is we are sending a sign

msnbc political analyst molly jong-fast, thank you. >>> thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with us on this monday morning. "morning joe" does start right now. ♪♪

molly jong fast from "vanity fair" and former campaign aide che. welcome to both of you. >> good to be here. >> good to have you. starting with the existence of that poll and the moving state of these indications, you are someone who not only has backed the obama/biden ticket, worked directly for the democrats on this, so we know that you think highly of joe biden in general, but tell us what you see as happening tonight heading into this high-stakes press conference. >> well, i see a lot of confusion. i mean, to be honest with you, i said after the debate that joe biden has to be better. he has to be better than what he is. he was in that debate. to be fully frank with you, he hasn't been better. you know, and that stephanopoulos interview, jen psaki said he was just okay. we need state of the union joe biden. we need 2020 joe biden. we need a strategy going forward that can put to rest the questions about his age and fitness, and this is not just a media creation. paul bugala said, people will not go into the house and see what's inside if they c

we are joined again by molly jong-fast and michael steele. e clooney try to reprise that role in the real world, and use his role as a very rich person, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, reportedly, and a big fundraising supporter of the president, and a celebrity, to step into what michael steele, earlier, criticized as a kind of panicky rush without looking through all of the facts and without also weighing the faults of the other candidate. molly, what do you think about that aspect, that some of the people in joe biden's orbit, including those who like him and think he is a good president, and some of the other democrats pushed all of this out very quickly, a kind of snap plan to replace the president. the current nominee, and he is the nominee until he decides he is not. that's how it works. there seems to be, after two weeks in the polling, a movement away from that. >> i wrote, right after it happened, for vanity fair, but i thought everyone should slow down. that i thought making a decision this monumental in two days was insane,

>> a couple of things, in all fairness, i have written about it, molly jong-fast has written about it kamala harris has been under attack from folks sadly within her party, and on the right. we have seen a pickup in the last few days. >> they said it was a dei pick. >> there is a wave of criticism coming from the right and i don't think democrats are prepared to withstand that, which is an issue i have paid a lot of attention to. when -- the fact it is coming from the right is a way to sort of suppress the interest in her and continue to pump up joe biden so that we can continue to focus on the negative attention being placed on joe biden right now. it is a way to dismiss and reduce the entire democratic ticket. at the same time. remember, this is a message being sent primarily to independent voters. a lot of suburban voters coming from the right. for his own base, it is built in already. these are two independent voters that are going to pick up on this, she will be vice president but she does not really deserve it, that is a troubling line when you add in the race and gender aspects

molly jong-fast, thank you.ng up way too early on this wednesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> trump changed his schedule to show up earlier to hear both nikki haley and ron desantis. yes. the former president changed his whole schedule so he could watch his defeated

joining me now is molly jong-fast, and stephanie. my thanks to both of you. hat are you expecting to hear from president biden tonight at his remarks? >> what i hope to hear from him and he can do whatever he wants because he's president and he's a king and that he will now stack the court and do all the things -- i mean, this court is so nakedly partisan, they have put their finger on the scale. the delay was the win. i don't think trump world thought they would get the kind of ruling they did. i don't think anyone thought this would be as extreme as it is, but even just the delay means there is no trial. so i hope that joe biden will take bold action, the kind of bold action that is desperately needed to reverse this partisanship, but my guess is he'll at least do something to start the process. >> the gloves should be off, all things considered, right? >> the presidency and the president is much less accountable today than yesterday. i mean, this really shifts our constitutional understanding of the office. it also means that the character integrity of the

we are joined again by molly jong fast and michael steele. clooney tried to reprise that role in the real world, and use his role as a very rich person worth hundreds of millions of dollars and a celebrity, to step in to what michael steele earlier criticized as a kind of panicky rush without looking through all of the facts. and without also weighing the faults of the other candidate. so i wanted to ask you about that. i also want to update viewers, the president, we had eyes on him through our cameras. he just made brief remarks to an overflow crowd. they say there's so much crowd there that he was basically talking to folks who couldn't get up to the front area where we see. we know he's waking his way up and we're going to hear from his shortly on msnbc. you can see a little movement in the room. molly, what do you think of that aspect, that some of the people in joe biden's orbit, and clooney was careful to say he likes him, he thinks he's a good president, and somef the other democrats pushed this out quickly, a kind of snap plan to rep

reverend al sharpton and molly jong-fast also still with us. chris matthews, a lot of people on the phone over the past week melting down, i find, as only democrats can melt down. i'm curious, the way forward, is it to wait, give joe biden time and space, see what happens over the next week or so, see where the polls go, where the fundraising goes, how the interviews go? is that the best way forward? >> yeah, i think he is going to do this one step at a time with george stephanopoulos today. i think stephanopoulos will be tough. he has been in the business of journalism now for decades, and i think he really wants to earn that title as sort of a walter cronkite. in other words, it has to be a tough debate. that'll be, to me, if i were the president, i would have basic answers that can be familiar answers, but just get through it with confidence. i think that's -- i hope the people around him are saying, do what you've done before on immigration, on infrastructure, on ukraine. just stick to the basics. get through this interview, then work on th

special correspondent at "vanity fair" and host of the "fast politics" podcast, molly jong-fast.st of "politics nation," the reverend al sharpton. rev, you travelled with president biden yesterday to texas and back. we'll get into the substance of what the president announced there a little bit later, but we can see here this picture. you're with the president on air force one. tell us a little bit about your day. >> well, the president had committed to coming to austin, texas, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of president lyndon johnson signing the civil rights act at the lbj library. one of the daughters of the president, president johnson, lyndon johnson, flew with the delegation from the senate, as you see a few senators and congress people went. marc morial, head of the national urban league, and i went from the civil rights community. all of the top eight, we call them legacy groups, were invited to the library. we did not know at that time that president biden was going to bring some of us down on air force one. and the idea was to cite, 60 years later, where we were in

molly jong fast, donny deutsch, the reverend al sharpton. thank you for spending the hour with us.o be talking with all of you about all of it. thank you so much. >>> coming up at the top of the hour right here on msnbc, my friend joy reid will be joined by a very special guest, maryland governor wes moore will be live on "the reidout." stay tuned for that. we need to fit in a quick break. we'll be right back. [sniff] still fresh. still fresh! ♪♪ with downy unstopables, you just toss, wash, wow. for all-day freshness. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement. hi! need new glasses? voltaren, buy one pair, get one free at visionworks! how can you see me squinting? i can't! i'm just telling everyone!...hey! buy one pair, get one free for back to school. visionworks. see the difference. shop etsy for classroom staples under $40 that are anything but basic. find everything from personalized appare

let's bring in special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast molly jong-fastwhat kamala harris has to do to address any concerns she may have and just listening to elise jordan's focus groups disinformation that they are taking in as fact. it is definitely, i think, fair to argue that kamala harris looking like she has the delegates and getting an endorsement by joe biden and being picked as his successor has changed the game. you even see polls upticking for her against trump. think about this, donald trump has already had his convention and he made it all about joe biden and all sorts of other things and that's almost all sort of in the past now and there's this whole new story, but what does she need to do to hold on to that momentum for swing voters in wisconsin? >> yeah, listen, i think that the -- this has been a 50/50 country for decades, certainly for the last several elections so it's safe to assume that she's going to come out of the democratic national convention probably tied, maybe slightly up, her poll numbers will certainly i would think be bett

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msnbc political analyst molly jong-fast, thank you. we'll talk later on "morning joe." >>> thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with us on this monday morning. "morning joe" does start right now. ♪♪ >>> good morning. welcome to "morning joe" on this monday, july 1st. this morning, we are waking up to a sea of headlines and opinion pieces from major news organizations, former party leaders, and very loud whispers, mostly behind the scenes, from present leading democrats who say it is over. here's a taste of the global call for president joe biden to get out of the race. "the new york times" editorial board says biden is not the man he was four years ago, calling his candidacy, quote, a reckless gamble. editors at georgia's largest newspaper, "the atlanta journal constitution," echoed that take, demanding the president pass the torch. quote, biden deserves a better exit from public life than the one he endured when he shuffled off the stage on thursday night. then there were the headlines, sneering, mocking, jeering all at

back with us, molly jong fast and political analyst.ng issue for republicans. seven of the refrn -- referendum, they brought it and they still lost. >> ohio. the rural state of ohio. these referendums are just poison for republicans. because it is not popular. but what i think is so interesting is that instead of saying, like, our abortion stance is not popular, voters don't like it, maybe we should rethink it. instead they've gone like ten times further. so we're talking about project 2025 and the -- and the comstock act and the idea that they're going to make it illegal to mail abortion pills, ivf. >> and on the same basis it used to be legal male pornography. and this is my project 2025, two bound books. it is in here. they talk about come stack and abortion. they are going to make, the alabama thing with ivf, that lasted three days because some people realized that is stupid policy, they want to do this stuff. >> and when we talk about alabama, it is this idea that a fertilized egg is a person. so a fertilized egg should have the sa

also with us, special correspondent at "vanity fair" and host of "the fast politics" podcast, molly jong-fastc political analyst. >> molly, i love your take on what happened yesterday, specifically the buildup, obviously, being was congress came back into town, they were going to pressure joe biden out of the race. for now, again, using sort of wimbledon speak, the president seemed to hold serve at least for a day. nato summit is coming into d.c. i doubt democrats are going to undermine him while world leaders are with the president. so where are we? where is the biden administration? where is the democratic base on this? >> so, again, look, this is all a question of data. we don't really have amazing data. we're all going on polls here, so we certainly see a groundswell of base that has voted for joe biden in the primary and feels that he is theirseeing that. it is a real phenomenon, a pushback. in a weird way, we're seeing a sort of -- i mean, what he was talking about when he called in yesterday about anti-elitism, it's not as much elitism as it is sort of anti-mainstream media. i take no

molly jong-fast, thank you. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this wednesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> trump changed his schedule to show up earlier to hear both nikki haley and ron desantis. yes. the former president changed his whole schedule so he could watch his defeated rivals forced to sing his praise. [ laughter ] >> while he drank a diet coke made out of a goblet of chris christie's skull. then we heard from one of those crushed souls nikki haley who said this -- >> i'll start by making one thing perfectly clear -- >> -- i hate myself. [ laughter ] there's no other explanation. thank you. thank you. thank you. [ applause ] >> i know that a lot of you want to meet my little buddy. so, if baby doll could come on out here. [ applause ] >> you fools! you can't have a dog in a same convention as kristi noem, run. run. [ applause ] >> stay away. >> night two of the republican national convention was about party unity. we'll show you the remarks from donald trump's former r