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i wrote this last week and i'm going to go to jim vandehei. like, hey, could you read more of your writing? i'm doing this for jim. this was just last week and the pou point is not that i'm some truth sayer, but this is obvious and an unforced error. >> joe biden owes much to his discipline. he kept much of his loquacious instincts in check. if he can restrain himself for 16 more months, biden is likely to be our 46th president. if you think i'm trying to send joe biden a message with this column, you are correct. too much is riding on next year's leelection for any democratic candidate to shoot from the hip rhetorically." jim vandehei, that's exactly what joe biden did. we now have the abortion funding flip flop with the hyde amendment and this boy versus son comment that he made. he's got to stop it now. >> by the way, it's your soothing voice as much as the eloquence of your words that i want to hear everybody day. >> by the way, jim, i want you to know, coming soon a mindfulness evening job where i'm going to have the sound of bobbling broo

. >>> jim vandehei of axios is looking at the economic trouble in trump country. what are you find?slightly over 200 counties that voted for president obama twice and then flipped to trump. so those are the counties that basically gave us trump. in those counties the economy is not doing with what it's doing in the rest of the country. you have a much slower rate in terms of the new jobs, far fewer businesses. half of the counties have seen their population shrink, and really most alarming of all it's -- you see this continued trend that over the last decade 93% of those counties have lost primetime -- prime age working americans. when you don't have people who have jobs that want to be in your community to have a job, you lose your vitality. not just the economic vitality, but i think the long term vitality of these communities. i think the big question for 2020 is can trump continue to win these voters even though the conditions there aren't getting better? that a lot of the promises he made aren't materializing on the ground or can he convince them, listen, i inherited a mess, it

with us the co-founder and ceo of axios jim vandehei and white house correspondent for pbs news hour. she is in london for us this morning. before we go any further let's go around the table and say their favorite bette midler movie. >> trying to context actualize this a little bit. >> on "morning joe" what we do is the gag first and then the text later. >> it's a close call between "hocus-pocus" and "beaches". >> i vote for "first wives club." a lot of fighting and -- >> i should have gone with that. >> wasn't she in one with shelley long? >> sure. >> "troop beverly hills". >> in love with the same guy and it went right out of my head. i will instead because i can't remember the name, "for the boys." >> excellent choices. >> is murphy brown an acceptable answer? it's not a movie. >> was she in "murphy brown". >> apparently. >> you're cheating. >> yeah. >> the context the president of the united states was up in the middle of the night in the uk about 2:00 in the morning, tweeting about bette midler calling her a washed up psycho. that's where his mind is. outrageous fortune by the wa