donny deutsch, what do you make of those economic numbers? numbers were soaring in november when the democrats were seeking seats. what's important for the democrats is to strait spraepar words and wages and health care for the economy. you could say the economy is good for them and not for you, and obviously if the economy falls that's a double down favor. >> okay, donny. coming up, our next guests account for four tony awards, nine emmys, and three academy award nominations. our conversation with lori metcalf and john lithgow for their new broadway play "hillary and clinton." that is next on "morning joe." so, you're open all day, that's what 24/7 means, sugar. kind of like how you get 24/7 access to licensed agents with geico. hmm? yeah, you just go online, or give them a call anytime. you don't say. yep. now what will it take to get 24/7 access to that lemon meringue pie? pie! pie's coming! that's what it takes, baby. geico®. great service from licensed agents, 24/7. ♪ the pain and swelling.. the psoriasis. cosentyx treats more than just

well-known ad man donny deutsch.t princeton university -- >> wait a minute he went from legendary ad man to iconic. to well-known ad man. >> maybe a few people know who he is. that's where we're headed. >> i know. >> oh, my god. >> all in the tone. princeton university professor eddie jr. white house reporter from the associated press jonathan lapeer and adrian joins us. >>> mika, a really special day yesterday, regardless of whether you used to root for tiger or not, whether you're a republican or a democrat. you actually, just saw two things happen. america stopped, a lot of americans stopped, based on the phone calls that were coming in from everybody. the phone was ringing off the hook yesterday like it hasn't. my gosh, in an era that -- >> long time. >> where you have 300 cable channels and a million youtube channels. for some reason yesterday, mika, everybody stopped. they are watching tiger. and they watched mayor pete. and i don't know, ten years from now, 20 years from now, just may be a day that a lot of pe

. >> you got donny deutsch and you're wasting that insult on mike?cal analyst susan dell percio and sam stein who's just sick of us and our jokes about him being 20. we're going to keep doing it because we don't care. so congressional democrats have forally responded to the reports that special counsel robert mueller's investigators were frustrated that their public letter excluded damaging information about president trump. and the "washington post," summaries were prepared for different sections of the report with a view that they could be made public and two people telling the post that barr not releasing them has particularly disappointed team members. this is important because who would put together a report especially bob mueller without creating sections that you can release to the press, that really help encapsulate all the work that's been done. >> right. >> and a senior law enforcement official tells nbc news that the report includes detailed accounts of trump campaign contacts with russia. and that while mueller found no coordination -- or

joining us, branding expert, political commentator and guru donny deutsch. do and julia ainsley. >> i think basically what do the democrats do now? do they follow his moral imperative and say we've got to protect our constitution or do they say we have an election to win, we have to get trump out in 500 days and go back to things that matter. there's a way to thread both. you keep the story alive about the mueller -- not only through impeachment but this is one more example the way the system is rigged against the little the guy. that was compelling message is the rich and powerful are going to get everything. they want to take your health care away, they got their tax break, and you didn't. they don't even have to play by the same laws that affect you. the most important thing going forward about the mueller report is to use it the right way politically, not let it go and not run around with your hair on fire, aoc today, we're going to bring impeachment things. let that process go, keep it alive as part of a big ager narrative that says the little guy is ge

nick comp sorry, heidi prezbella, and our front donny deutsche. i'm going to start with you donny, if you had to distill the single most damaging thing trump has done and be a force against it, that was it. >> it was brilliant and it was brilliant because it was him. a 78-year-old can do that, not that anybody can't say it and have the right to say it. he immediately took one of the perceived negatives, he's been around too long, he's old, remember how holebrook and wall street were the voice of reason. it's comfort food. that's what this nation needs now. and he also figured out how you run you have to be the anti-trump. you have to package a way that's relevant. the important thing going forward you can't just stay on right and wrong. you have to flip that what does that mean to a voter. we can't put sme ball. ball. the powc% you have to go down into women's active wear, basketball. stay up there they pick him apart on the policy. but he has the overarching brand architecture that nobody else can have. and i think the other thing he has going for

and as donny deutsch said today, does the country need a hug and will biden give it to them? >> a lot of voters are very concerned about the president's style, especially suburban voters. biden is very reassuring to those voters. he can reassure suburban voters, vice president for eight years, a good leader during that period, and he can reach out to working-class voters. i think he represents a very, very strong candidate. probably the strongest candidate in the field today, would be my guest. but he's going to have to stand up to the primary. can he defeat bernie sanders? that remains to be seen. >> ray: do you agree with the analysis and does he have a women problem given the fact that anita hill has rejected his apology, and of course there is the grope and sniff thing. >> can we get back to four years ago, six years ago, stop the chaos? biden runs a real risk in doing that because if you look at the electorate, the electorate is not risk averse. they are furious with the political establishment. >> ray: but get back to what? economic malaise, wages lighting? uncertainty

with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, well known ad man donny deutsch. >> wait a minute.nown? >> eddie glaude jr., white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire

, the man who helped write the special counsel regulations, claire mccaskill, mimi roker, and donny deutsche is here. take us through the original report, michael, and then i want to get to the president's attack on you and your colleagues. >> to deal with that sort of off the bat, the president is repeating this falsehood about us about how we apologized after the election to something he said repeatedly, it's false and he continues to do it. there's not much we can actually do about that. in terms of the reporting here, there is this frustration within some of the mueller team. they're disappointed that the narrative has been seized by barr. that barr was able to cast the dye and essentially clear the president without showing the fruits of the investigation and giving a greater sense to the public or to congress about what is really here and the conduct that they uncovered. and they feel that this has helped cement the narrative for the president, and the president obviously going out and taking that narrative further than it actually is and saying that the mueller report completely exone

and donny deutsche is at the table. and "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter banker and caroline nash, reporter for "the washington post." >> the front pages of your papers, i thought of offering to frame them and deliver them to the museum myself this morning. for those of us covering this all day, i was on tv all day, it didn't hit me until i opened my door and saw your front pages just how seismic this shift was in terms of what we now know took place in the 2016 election on the part of russians and the one wittin unwitting conduct of trump and his aides. peter, let me start with you and the story you wrote for today's paper. >> its's a story his own aides tell. that's what's remarkable about this mueller report, the portrait of the white house comes from the people he chose to surround himself with, people like don mcghan, rob porter, reince priebus, corey lewandowski, and chris christie. these are people that told stories about what happened in the first couple years of the presidency that today a

ann carne, julia ainsley, the rev al sharpton host of politics nation here on msnbc, and donny deutsche is in the house. let's start with the president wanting to use the military in a way that's so outside the norm, outside the main stream that it causes all of us to explain a term to our viewers. take us through what you and kortney are reporting today. >> that's right. so a term we can all use today, the act that keeps the military for enforcing domestic law. we can think of a lot of reasons throughout human history about why you wouldn't want your military to be used in a way like a police force. they couldn't be used to interact with immigrants. but it has been floated at the white house in recent weeks the idea of using military to build tent cities to hold more migrants. and there's been some conversations about using them to run the detention camps which would be in violation of that law. however, it is somewhat legal -- or it is legal to use them in a construction purpose. they think this is a way they could get these places up and running more quickly than going through the ty

tried to do the urchin recusal -- >> people that talk -- donny deutsch who has become a character witness to how trump rolls speaks of decades of corrupt business practices. surely donald trump if he was smart enough to become president is smart enough to know he was probably under investigation by the southern district of new york or soon would be to call you. no offense. you're pleasant company. >> i do jokes. >> you do jokes. do you really think he was calling you for any reason other than to sway your opinions about the things you were investigating? >> i think ultimately he probably had an interest in cases that were happening, unfolding, some publicly, or could happen later. he said to jim comey, i want your loyalty. i want to be careful to say he didn't say anything untoward to me in the two calls we had during the transition. i don't know if he would have said anything untoward to me in that phone call. i have no doubt that ultimately when his back was up against the wall he wanted a favor done, this is how he's made himself clear to the public about jeff sessions who he said, if