charlie sykes, thank you. stick around. we'll talk again on "morning joe." >>> thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" on this friday morning. have a good weekend, everyone. we'll see you monday. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> trump also reached back a ways to criticize how the democrats ran their primaries. >> new hampshire was so badly treated by the democrat party and by joe biden and her, i can't imagine new hampshire voting for him. >> yeah, i can't imagine anybody in new hampshire voting for biden. you know why? because he's not on the ballot anymore! [ applause ] i can't -- these people get it. these folks know. >> president biden will not be on the debate stage in four days. vice president kamala harris, of course, is now donald trump's opponent in the race. we're going to go through the strategies for that showdown. >>> also ahead, we'll have expert legal analysis on hunter biden's surprise guilty plea in his federal tax case. we'll have the latest on that. >>> we'll also bring you the very latest

we can't make up territory here, charlie sykes?ere were -- there were guardrails. there were people like william f. buckley jr. who threw the berkshires out. the only reason that we are talking about tucker carlson is because he has donald trump's here. donald trump has embraced and empowered folks that in the past would have been regarded as crock pots as fringe lars and this is one of the extraordinary ways that i think he has degraded not just the republican party but the entire conservative movement. look, what tucker carlson, this is not the first time that he has done something like this. he's been pushing the replacement theory, all sorts of bizarre conspiracy theories. but one would have thought that the final frontier would be whitewashing adolf hitler and that is what he did. he whitewashed adolf hitler. he platforms someone who talked about people that died in nazi concentration camps that happened because they weren't expecting it. and, again, a healthy political party would say, we don't want to associate with that. th

. >> joining me now is charlie sykes. t donald trump does not like legacy media, media as an institution. i read a little bit more psychologically into this. do you have a working theory on why he's doing this right now? >> it is classic donald trump. it's very much on brand. he does not play chess. he doesn't know how the pieces move. he walks in and throws the board over before you even begin the game. as you said, it is a prebuttal. he's playing the victim card. all of this whining is designed to make him an object of sympathy for his base but also there's a little bit of working the refs. he is challenging abc. i said you are going to do all these terrible things. i've told lies about you now you need to bend over backwards to be nice to me. this is donald trump. he's not a mystery, secret, riddle, or enigma. he's going to go in there and he's going to do everything possible to derail the debate. we could talk about the substance of it, but anyone that expects that this will be lincoln-douglas or the nation will be wis

. >> joining me now is charlie sykes, co-founder of the bulwark and msnbc contributor and columnist. charlie, we all know donald trump isn't like legacy media, media as an institution. but i sort of weird more into this prebuttal on the debate is rigged. do you have a working theory why he's doing this right now? >> it's very much donald trump. it's on brand. he walks in and turns the board over before you even begin the game. he is trying -- as you said it's a prebuttal. he's playing the pre-victim card and all of this whining is designed to make him an object of sympathy for his base. he's challenging abc. i said you're going to do all these terrible things, i've told lies about you, now you need to bend over backwards to be nice to me. again, this is donald trump. this is someone not a mystery, not a secret, not a riddle or enigma. he's going to go in there and do everything possible to derail this debate. we can talk about the substance of it, but i think anyone expects this is going to be a reprise of-lengthen, douglas has not been paying attention over the last ten years. >> i w

charlie sykes, angelo carusone, thank you for starting us off.get to that moment before the end of the hour. when we come back, the significant victory for abortion rights to tell you about. we'll also ask the congresswoman about what she's hearing from voters as she takes part in the fighting for reproductive freedom bus tour. that is next. and later in the broadcast the outright lies told by trump and vance about haitian immigrants living in springfield, ohio that continue to endanger the lives of people living in that community today. how a criminal lawsuit filed against the disgraced ex-president and his running mate aims to put a stop to those lies. "deadline: white house" continues after a quick break. don't go anywhere. continues after a quick break. don't go anywhere. easy-to-us, like dynamic charting and risk-reward analysis, help make trading feel effortless. and its customizable scans with social sentiment help you find and unlock opportunities in the market. e*trade from morgan stanley with powerful, easy-to-use tools, power e*trade m

charlie sykes, thank you. stick around. talk again on "morning joe." >>> thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" on this friday morning. have a good weekend, everyone. we'll see you monday. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> trump also reached back a ways to criticize how the democrats ran their primaries. >> new hampshire was so badly treated by the democrat party and by joe biden and her, i can't imagine new hampshire voting for him. >> yeah, i can't imagine anybody in new hampshire voting for biden. you know why? because he's not on the ballot anymore! [ applause ] i can't -- these people get it. these folks know. >> president biden will not be on the debate stage in four days. vice president kamala harris, of

. >> joining us now msnbc contributor and columnist charlie sykes and amisha cross.s now doing checks before class, staying throughout the day. are you surprised it has come to this? >> absolutely not. when bigots spread racist language and rhetoric, when they are hypercharged at attacks on a singular group and hyperfocused on it for a while, remember donald trump, his attacks on haiti aren't new, he called it one of those s-hole countries, he's something who said good immigrants are the ones from countries dominated by blond-haired, blue-eyed individuals. he feels the same way about black people in america who are american citizens. i think this is a serious place to be. he knows it is a lie. jd vance admitted it was a lie. he couldn't get what he wanted picked up by the media, he decided to create this lie and expand it. it put a target on the backs of haitians. it put a target on the back of black americans. at the end of the day, racist can't tell the difference between a haitian or a black american. walking down the street. and i think even some of the photos th

msnbc contributor and author of the book "how the right lost its mind," charlie sykes. good morning to you all. so "trump debate performance frustrates republicans," was the headline in the "wall street journal." "the journal" states, "gop lawmakers and others fretted that trump had missed chances to challenge harris on her record. instead, let his own controversies become the bigger story, as harris' needling got under his skin. lindsey graham of south carolina, of course a staunch ally of donald trump, called the debate a missed opportunity." republican senator kevin cramer of north dakota said, quote, "he treated it like a mini rally in a lot of republicans. you have to be talking to the swing voters in swing states. he could do that better with details." we're also getting reaction from inside the trump camp. one adviser telling nbc news, quote, "it was not his best performance, without question." that's from inside the trump camp. a long-time republican operative saying, "i know everyone in the world has said this, but the inability, unwillingness to realize when h

charlie sykes, there's a lot about her campaign that doesn't have a parallel. it's brevity at which she arrived at the nomination, the organic nature of the enthusiasm, but there's something so familiar to anyone who has worked on campaigns about momentum. this is what momentum looks like. to come out and really be in a call of response with the crowd. that is sort of what we see in the polls under the question about enthusiasm. this is where the enthusiasm numbers have totally flipped. they advantage democrats, they advantage kamala harris in a way they haven't advantaged the republican candidate since 2008. just talk about this moment for her campaign. she made very clear. she doesn't want to ride that momentum. she doesn't want to be on that stage as a winner of anything yet. we are the underdogs. we love hard work and hard work is good work. with your help, we will win. >> yeah, i think she's right to say that she's the underdog, but she has the wind at her back. when you watch that performance and the debate, you realize why donald trump is running away fr

also giants us, charlie sykes is here. with me at the table for the hour, donny deutsche.got a tip from someone at fox news, that they had stopped carrying his rallies about five months ago. tell me about the push and pull, and how much of this right when media is comfortable and uncomfortable broadcasting. >> reporter: right. kind of my role is not the psychologist, but as a reporter thinking one of the conversations i'm often engaged in is the extent to which donald trump is potential distorting the facts, or whether he is truly confused about what the facts are. i think when you're listening to his rallies, or listening to his remarks, oftentimes, it is trying to decipher what that blurry line is, is it intentional or actual confusion? that's where i will cite the former administration officials that worked closely with him, from two of his former secretaries of defense, to former secretary of state, to former national security advisers to him, who have questioned donald trump's judgment, and the extent to which he would respond erratically to situations. we have seen h

what is that about, charlie sykes?al convention here in milwaukee, they held up signs mass deportation. as you point out, this is who donald trump is. this is not -- this is not a gaf or a one off. this is what he is running on and he's doubling down on it. and to tim's point, this does feel like a throwback to a much darker more dangerous period of american history. we've been through these cycles before and that i think is part of cognitive that is actually happening now. you might remember that a couple of years ago, he made this reference about african american congresswomen saying send them back and people were having this deep and shocking, now he has an entire crowd chanting this. and why are they focusing on the haitians of springfield. the racism is so raw. and i can't help think that we are six weeks out from this election and what commentary it will be on american culture if the american people, if, in fact, they look at this man and they say yeah, let's put him back in pow,er, and the issue of mass deportat

charlie sykes, msnbc columnist and analyst along with former new york congressman max rose, now senior adviser to [ inaudible ]. charlie, this list includes quotes from people who currently support the former president like ted cruz, lindsey graham and nikki haley. you obviously do not. help us understand the clear division in your thinking versus theirs. people you would one point agreed with. >> let's start off by noting how incredibly unprecedented it is, it's a word we've used over the last few years, the number of people who have been in donald trump's cabinet, his chief of staff, the people sitting in that room with him were flown on air force one with him, who know him and work with him who are saying this man is not fit to serve and then you have this large group of republicans who may say that privately, but what they decided is that the tribal partisan loyalty trumps their judgment of donald trump. they are deeply invested in the idea this is a binary choice, and for many of them, the only route to relevance in the republican party or perhaps a return to power is to kiss the

joining me now, john kasich, and charlie sykes.ans voted against their own funding bill. yesterday, an embarrassing blow to speaker johnson, 13 days before a potential government shutdown. what is the strategy now? what does he do next? >> i think, andrea, at the end of the day, they will figure out how to get this through. it's immigration. this was the big controversial surrounding whether people have to -- they can't vote if they are not citizens. they have to do all this checking. it falls into the immigrant issue. the rhetoric we see around immigration. i think donald trump and his band of followers think that immigration is a really powerful message. it is to the base. frankly, when donald trump is not talking about the economy and what biden and harris have done, they are losing. this is where they -- they have ratcheted up everything, the rhetoric, every angle because they think it will help them. it's just stirring up the base and not doing much to be able to change where other people are in terms of this election. >> vict

and msnbc political analyst and columnist charlie sykes., jonathan, how much do you think voters are actually wanting details? i mean, let's say of course most of them are not going to read like multipage policy proposals that get into the weeds. but do both of them, to be fair, need to offer more? >> the short answer is yes. back in the 2016 campaign, i remember then the nominee hillary clinton being criticized for having too many plans, for -- diving deep in the weeds on so many things. look, i think that the -- the critique of vice president harris needing to put more meat on the bones of her proposals is not an -- not unfair. i wish we were in a time when she could speak with specificity about these policies. but one of the things you did, chris, which i'm so glad you did was point out that both candidates need to be more specific about what they want to do and how they're -- and how they are going to do it. and do people actually want detailed plans? i think -- i think the answer is -- is no. but the one thing that vice president harri

and author of "how the right lost its mind," charlie sykes.athan lemire, katty kay, and john heilemann are still with us. jonathan lemire, it's interesting, she spoke about that during her speech in arizona, but do the people who are, you know, understanding and following trump's lies on the right ever hearing what really happened? do they ever get that information? i feel like kamala harris' surrogates need to show up in places where maybe they're not so welcome, but they need to have their voices heard. >> yeah, this is an interesting dilemma for the harris campaign. how do you penetrate that right-wing ecosystem? >> exactly. >> how do you penetrate that bubble? as we've been detailing all morning -- >> how do you penetrate the lies? let's say it, how do you penetrate the lies when you actually have donald trump now lying -- >> about his lies. >> saying, i didn't tell them not to support the bill. of course, he was there all along. you were reporting on it. we were talking about it in real time. >> we were. >> donald trump was killing the to

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if they did, charlie sykes, they would not lose a lot of republican voters.r of republican support red flag laws, overwhelming number of republican support raising the age to 21 for people going in buying ar 15 style weapons. a overwhelming majority of americans, i'm sure, would support enhanced background checks, more complete background checks for people let's say, under the age of 30 that are going out to buy ar 15's. we look, there is a line. a line that goes straight through so many of these shootings, one after another after another. a disturbed young man, usually a disturbed young white man buys a ar 15 and he goes and he shoots up schools, our movie theaters, our baptist churches in texas, you can go down the list, sometimes it is older disturbed people who slaughter those attending a country festival, music festival in vegas. again, enough is enough. i go to you because i know you grew up around hunters in wisconsin. i grew up around hunters in mississippi, alabama, georgia, northwest florida, they want this sort of gun safety law and they are conser

. >> and to tie the dots together between what you are saying and ian, this is a piece from charlie sykesrites, for most americans including republicans, the resurgence of hatred against jewish people is the return of an ancient evil. but donald trump apparently sees it very differently. he sees it as a constituency. >> he sees it as a constituency that he will feed and he will make them feel comfortable in their racism. which is why he can say haitians are eating people's pets and puts everybody, haitian and black in springfield, at risk. because he's made people -- it's all right to say that out loud. to say they're finding people on both sides marching through charlottesville, virginia, who -- people were there to take down a confederate statue of a man who fought to keep my people enslaved, and members of the jewish community march, and they march saying jews will not replace us. he says they will find people on both sides. he meant that. we're going to make this fine for you to be anti-semitic, fine to be racist. i think people ought not be fine for thinking they can vote for him and

his failed coup attempt, candidate clearly in the fat elvis stage of his career as our friend charlie sykess it, might not be up to the job this time. from the "washington post," quote, inside and outside the campaign advisers and confidants have urged trump to define harris more aggressively, including a few who say they are unconvinced that his chosen nicknames are the right ones. allies have grown concerned that trump and the republicans are being outspent in almost every state. some by large margins, and that democrats are far outraising republicans. trump also spent several days after the debate calling allies to tell them how well he had done, which struck some as defensive. how about delusional? on top of all of that there's more. harris is consolidating support from people not traditionally associated with the democratic party or even politics for that matter. more than 700 current and former national security officials are out with a resounding endorsement of vice president kamala harris. they write this in part, quote, we are former public servants who swore an oath to the constit