his -- his legacy is extraordinary. >> joe scarborough talking tonight, and from morning joe, talking about the legacy of john mccain and how the tributes that are pouring out for him are -- are because of the unique place he held in history as a legislator and senator and war hero, prisoner of war, twice candidate for president, once the nominee for president, and yet still having such a large impact on our public life, despite the fact he was not elected to the presidency. historian john meachum joins us again. john, john mccain carved out such a unique role in public life. having never won the office of the presidency, the office he always wanted, he still looms so large in human rights, in fighting for the -- against what was happening to the prisoners in guantanamo and what was happening to prisoners in black prisons around the world. these were not popular positions that he took. >> no. we used to think of him as kind of the umpire of american life. he would call them as he saw them. and where -- to belabor the metaphor, we're at a moment in our politics today where everybody is

his -- his legacy is extraordinary. >> joe scarborough talking tonight, and from morning joe, talkingbout the legacy of john mccain and how the tributes that are pouring out for him are -- are because of the unique place he held in history as a legislator and senator and war hero, prisoner of war, twice candidate for president, once the nominee for president, and yet still having such a large impact on our public life, despite the fact he was not elected to the presidency. historian john meachum joins us again. john, john mccain carved out such a unique role in public life. having never won the office of the presidency, the office he always wanted, he still looms so large in human rights, in fighting for the -- against what was happening to the prisoners in guantanamo and what was happening to prisoners in black prisons around the world. these were not popular positions that he took. >> no. we used to think of him as kind of the umpire of american life. he would call them as he saw them. and where -- to belabor the metaphor, we're at a moment in our politics today where everybody is o

joe scarborough is with us, host of "morning joe." you know this being a master of detail here. 1983, john mccain served also in the house of representatives. he was sworn in '83. he became a senator. his path has been long here in politics. >> it really has. he came to washington. obviously, that iconic photos of him coming home and shaking hands with richard nixon. he was returning as a prisoner of war. he was a foot soldier in the reagan revolution. and he remained a committed small government conservative throughout his career. but he was always a maverick. he was not an insider. i remember david dryer, the former rules chairman telling me when i first came to congress. he said, there's two doors. you have to choose which door you want to walk through when you go to congress. you can go in as an insider or go in as an outsider. i think he meant that to encourage me to go in as an insider. i chose the other door. senator mccain was always an outsider. he was always a maverick. you saw that in 2008 in his presidential x presidential

msnbc's joe scarborough thinks he knows exactly what this mean means. >> it's illegal to get informationrom a foreign national. it doesn't have to be cashed. there doesn't have to be an exchange of cash for something of value. anything of value -- that's called and incoming contribution of the law has always looked at that just as seriously as they have looked at -- as they've looked at money exchanging hands. >> laura: oh, joe. joining me now to discuss this, former deputy trump campaign manager dave bossi, john solomon and attorney leo terrel. all right, take it away. joe was definitively putting his legal skills to work, definitively declaring it is illegal to meet with a foreign national who promises opposition research. wouldn't that call hillary's favor in question? >> that's what the clinton campaign did. if there's any collusion, it's their campaign with the fake russian dossier and paying him through the state department, through other places, through the fbi. look, they are the only ones -- the clinton campaign are the only ones that colluded during this campaign. don jr. did n

he teamed up with a legislator named joe scarborough who is now on morning joe. and really for the first time brought tremendous attention the stage and the third stage of the exoneration effort was handled by captain bill cody is a work behind the scenes. you see bill negotiating in the halls of the pentagon to get this done. that is the second to the last major movement at the end of the book. >> i think the members of the teams and is the perfect time for us to include in the book again at the last minute. as most of you know on august 19 of 2017 the indianapolis was finally found. it was an incredible moment for the crew and the families but what was interesting, actually i got a call from bill cody at 4:00 in the morning. i don't know what the first words he said were but it was sarah, they found the ship. we had three hours to notify the survivors, anyone we could before it went to press. it was a great privilege to call them in and share this information with them that their ship had been found but what was incredibly interesting to me there was a celebrat

jaws" and thought it was -- it would make a good history project he teams up with a logger named joe scarborough, who is now morning joe, and we're going to be on there, by the way -- and really for the first time in decades brought tremendous attention to this case, and then the third phase of that exoneration effort was happened by captain bill tot y as he worked behind the scenes. it's like spy novel the end of the movie as you to the bill negotiating the halls of the pentagon to get this done. so that is the second to the last major movement, and at the end of the book, and then there's the final -- >> i think the members of the team for finding the ship at the perfect time for us to include it in he book. >> at the last minute. >> again, the last minute. but as most of you know, on augh of 2017, the indianapolis was finally found, and it was an incredible moment for the crew and the family, but what was interesting is, actually i got a call from bill toti at 4:00 in the morning. i don't know what in the first few words were but came to down to star remarks the found the ship and we had thre

joe scarborough might like having an under performing economy like under performing ratings. liz: oh, i heard that. >> manufacturing jobs in at best pace since confiden 1995. >> best year. and remember these are same experts and former administration told people in midwest, their manufacturing jobs were not coming back, president said no, we can do it he did it. liz: mark lottery thank you. >> thank you. >> check your money, markets closing dow down 25, 21 sen 21st century fox beating. the parent company of fox business network. to nicole on the floor of nyse with the latest. reporter: 21st century fox, parent of fo fox business netwok comes out with quarterly numbers, a beat on top and bottom line. and you were 75% for this particular stock. over last fiscal year versus s&p 500, outpacing that and media groups overall, they did see strength in cable, and double digit affiliate growth, looking at markets, dow finished down 45, snapping a 3 day winning streak, and s&p 500 first down day in 5, nasdaq up 7 days in a row, then uber, new york city council capping uber and lyft. th

. >> when is joe scarborough on?ecause it seems to me that greg grew up a fan of fox and friends, i'm just wondering why you are watching him? >> or mornings with maria. >> also it makes me laugh. >> what competition? [laughter] >> two things we found out they do know, maybe bill burke would tell you something different on "the new york times" guy. >> i haven't talked to them about the case. >> while he was very interested in the comey firing, i would have thought of. talk about coming out of left field, but here is what's going to happen. if i understood john roberts report, and my scores were averaging yet my reading was strong. he came out and said today, the reason why -- school? the reason why dowd came out and did this is because he wanted to talk to everybody. and he says that we got to prepare ourselves to get thrown under the bus. as months passed it became apparent that mcgann and burke had overestimated the amount of thought that went into the president saying, go talk to him. they had no master plan to th

remember joe scarborough, mika brzezinski, they claimed they got a call from the white house where they were threatened to stop saying negative things about the president. >> they were told they would have to apologize, they would have to say we're apologizing or the "national enquirer" would run a story that would embarrass them. >> let's listen to that moment. it was striking and maybe emblem matt atic. >> we got a call that the "national enquirer" is going to run a negative story against you guys and and it was donald is friends -- the president is friends with the guy that runs the "national enquirer" and they said if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage he will pick up the phone and basically spike this story. >> they didn't do that and the "national enquirer" ran the story. >> and you can see why. they were working hand in glove. look at the headlines about hillary during the campaign. >> that's a good point. >> they were making staggering unbelievably fictional claim. >> they said she was six months away from death. >> lung cancer, alzheimer's disease, ha

and joe scarborough, a onetime republican congressman said while criticizing some of your comments, his eyes are bulging while he's talking and he looks disoriented. do you feel disoriented mr. mayor? >> absolutely. i completely disoriented. i'm sure sound that way. doesn't this give you an indication -- of what you cover, how completely disoriented the press is and how out of control they are criticizing not only the president but everyone around them. you can disagree with me. i'm probably disoriented. i know what i am and who i am. i don't even think it is worth commenting except for the fact that our their way out of control as journalists? accusing of some kind of mental illness? >> that is in the political coverage of donald trump as opposed to the coverage of the investigation. a lot of coverage of the president is negative but robert mueller is running an investigation where there are indictments and guilty pleas. >> it is one thing to do that and another to say that a person is jury is disoriented who is not. they said about the present all the time. scarborough has some deep a

. >> how about the way he criticizes people like chuck todd and joe scarborough, if you want to go into does not seem to hold back regardless of gender or ethnicity at all. and in all those cases, by the way, i'll also defend him on this again i don't think he should go after lebron because he's not in politics. in all these cases these are people that come at the president first. he's probably going to punch back harder than you gave it to him in the first place. he's the floyd mayweather of politics. i don't want him to do it against people who aren't in the political arena but he does it regardless of gender or race. >> i just want to say, you're going to get in, but i didn't attack him. i was interviewing lebron james. he chose to attack me. >> you didn't that night, but, don, you have called him a racist -- you've called him a racist. it is a punch to the throat of the president and he punches back and that's totally fair. >> how much more evidence do you need? how much more evidence do you need? being a racist does not mean walking down the street calling people the n-word. it is

lots of people still on the landscape, including joe scarborough.the -- after katrina and the iraq war, you had the democrats take over the house and snenate with nancy pelosi and 2010, you had the tea party revolution against barack obama. would you like to know the pattern i see here, mr. lemon? >> there's a method. i won't say madness. just a saying. go on. >> there's a method to my list. the method is that you see these big democratic wave elections after nixon in '74 and after the iraq war and katrina in 2006. after something bad has happened. like a natural disaster or watergate or something like that. the republican wave elections seem to come after legislation, after clinton tried to get through the -- his health care program and after obama did. they both had budget and tax increase plans. depending whether you think this coming election is about scandal or something terrible happening, which has historically fared to democrats or whether it's about legislation. that's my historical lesson for the evening. >> we are all the better for it. t

>> in the words of joe scarborough, he should aspire to be a well-educated white man in america. really, it displays an animus he's had, not just recently, not just with his campaign, but over a period of decades. it is housing discrimination. central park. it is the mexicans as rapists. it is the birtherism things tha surprising. when you hear the words coming out of donald trump's mouth, it does sound different. i think that is what scares the white house. they know that there are other tapes out there. they don't know what's on those tapes. when you hear it, it changes the nature of the conversation. >> okay. we should clarify, that was from an nbc special. this is something that trump voters have known about him. to some extent, it is one more nugget. it adds to the broader picture, but does this actually hurt him in any way politically, do you think? >> i think you're exactly right. trump's base supporters, they preyed and loved on his campaign slogan, make america great again. it's tinged with racist motivations, in ways we're not talking about. i think that you make so man

joe scarborough for all these years. the selective media outrage is laughable. also kind of sad. but come on, if it's directed at trump, protest and violence are considered really patriotic and kind of cool. but otherwise, it must bell condemned as dangerous. it's pretty simple. look, the culture has been worsened, the entertainment industry, music, film, billboards, television, everything is over sexualized or too violent or just dumbed down altogether. but this didn't start with trump. it began about 50 years ago when liberals were on a mission to kick god out of the schools and when they began ripping down our basic institutions of civic life. and as this happened, fly over america felt demeaned by the dominant culture, which came to see them as backwater, intolerant, and yes, even racist. this just made them furious and resentful. but then came donald trump. >> our economy is soaring, our jobs are booming. factories are pouring back into our country. they are coming from all over the world. and the forgotten men and women of the united states are forgotten no more! [cheers an

so was joe scarborough and every reporter on fox. it went on and on.he lied, and say the show was canceled. the show was not canceled my friend, i left the show and money on the table to go home and parent. he changed it on the fabric of america because i was not on tv to rebut it. people go, i see what she is, i understand what she is. when he was the only one doing it, nobody would stand up to him. they would let him. as if only rosie o'donnell could be only the 700 girls missing from the border, only stormy daniels, only all these mexicans he derides and diminishes every chance he gets. he's a horrible horrible human with no soul. he has a very serious mental distorted. there are so many -- mental disorder. there are so many psychiatrists and he is not mentally stable enough to run this country and every congressman who hasn't filed should lose their jobs. >> it is my practice to let people respond as they want with their own tv shows. >> okay. >> as to the activism. that's how i am. that's the lawyer in me, rosie. with regard to the activism. >> th

this sunday on nbc sports network hosted by our own joe scarborough . don't miss that.hile, in the nation's capitol while lawmakers pour over judge kavanaugh's writing for insights into how he might rule, the new yorker is investigating his writing as a sports reporter. it was noted of kavanaugh's account of a mid season game against cornell that his seeming fascination with a single-player domination might be a muscular view of executive power. dallas cowboys fans might be more concerned with kavanaugh's precedent revealed about dez bryant's controversial overturn reception against the packers in the 2015 playoffs. kavanaugh said it was, quote, not a catch according to the nfl's rules governing the play at the time, which, of course, have changed since then. we'll just have to wait and see. all right. turning to major league baseball and a new home run leader in minnesota where the athletics chris davis started the scoring in yesterday's 6-4 loss against the twins with his 39th homer of the season, pushing him one ahead of the red sox's j.d. martinez for the major leag

he said, go pull an article about joe scarborough and mika. i want to know about this and that. i wondered why he asked me. i wasn't his press secretary. he was working around the people who would -- >> and the negative coverage -- >> i was giving him whatever -- when the president calls you ana says get thi that for me, i did it. yes, i was one of the people feeding him the things he's asked for, because he'enthe presof the united states. when he calls and asks, you answer. t >> yked about you were offered a job on the campaign. you have shown me the e-mail offer, i have read the offer that you received from laura trump. om it wasn't from lara trump. it was e-mailed he campaign. >> from the campaign. >> yes. >> and i want to put up the nondisclosure agreement here. it is a very stringent one.it aid this, the no disparagement clause during the term oyour service and after, you agree not to disparage the mpaign. mr. trump, mr. pence. any trump or pence company. any trump or pence family member. any trump or pence family member company or an asset, any of the foregoing -- by the w

so, april, as we all remember, last june, msnbc host joe scarborough and mike nicco, they claimed -- they went on the air and they claim, look, we were threatened by the white house, they said. they were told, according to them, if they didn't apologize to the president for some of their critical coverage, the "national enquirer" would run some hit pieces on them and their former marriages, right? >> right. >> essentially, they were saying, this is blackmail. just listen to this. >> we got a call that, hey, the "national enquirer" is going to run a negative story against you guys and it was, you know, donald is friends with the president -- is friends with the guy that runs the "national enquirer." and they said, if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike this story. >> well, they didn't do that. and april, as you know, the "national enquirer" did run some negative stories about them. i mean, this, this sort of dirty way of doing business was all out in plain sight. >> dirty way -- this is street politics. this

i would like to bring in joe scarborou scarborough, host of "morning joe." the way it was described by chris matthews was, this came faster than we wanted, certainly. now, it's a time to think of where we are at in the state of politics because now john mccain passing at the age of 81 today. >> it is the timing, of course, would always be terrible. but the timing now, it comes at a time when john mccain was one of the few republicans, my former party, that stood up. the things they stood up for years. and john mccain was -- it seemed to me, fearless. one of the few republicans in washington that was fearless. he didn't fear what donald trump said about him. he didn't fear what donald trump thought about him. he didn't fear what donald trump tweeted about him. john mccain showed more character as a prisoner of war in one day than most of us show in our entire lives. he was always tough. he was tough in the war and tough in the senate. he was a maverick. he was fighting to make this a more perfect union. he had sharp elbows. he wasn't going to win any hospital

. >> so, did you push, aesthetic, i'm just curious, the joe scarborough seven second delay?d myself several years ago. let's go to brett stevens. you talked about donald trump's high crimes and misdeamnors. yesterday noah was on yesterday and he laid it bare. i think he's exactly right. we have the president of the united states talking like a mob boss, and saying that the federal government should ban people who actually cooperate with federal prosecutors to undermine their own wrongdoing, that that should be banned. if that's not open obstruction of justice coming from the chief law enforcement officer in america, i don't know what is. >> it's somewhat ironic coming from a president who advocated torture when he entered the office and had to be dissuaded by general jim mattis that torturing is okay but flipping suspects is something of the justice department of legal officers for decades if not longer should somehow be illegal. noah was exactly right. what we're hearing, what we're watching, done resemble any president of the united states we've seen except, i mean, perhap

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joe, as of last night, of course, there is no possibility of governor scarborough of connecticut, which >> by the way that collective sigh you heard was from across an entire state. so, go ahead. a sigh of relief. >> yes, you know, we got a real race for a tough job, ted lamont, like stephanowski a famous guy for beating joe lieberman, largely over the iraq war. joe, one of the stories out of connecticut is yet another chapter in the story of what we are seeing nationally, which is just unbelievable democratic enthusiasm. you know, we saw ned lamont get something like 30,000 more votes than all five republican candidates combined. so the enthusiasm here is very strong. stefanowski, playing the game, giving the guy an a for mirms as president. frud a republican and you are not a trump-publican, you are in a lot of trouble. >> a lot of trouble. womanly, i think we will see this. everybody is looking at congress and whether republicans will lose those 23 or 24 seats. but 2018 is a critical year because it's going to determine redistricting for the next decade and how the district lines are

joe." it's wednesday, august 8th. kind of a special day. >> it's a special day. katheri katherine scarborough'sve noah rothman, former treasury official, steve ratner and joining the conversation washington bureau chief for usa today susan page, former chair of the republican national committee, michael steele, he hosts the aptly named podcast, man of steele. i like it, michael. >> thank you. >> that's good. because you are a man of steele. co-founder, publisher real, clear politics tom bevan joins us now. >> tom, i'm reading this guy, sean t. at rcp, you may know him, but sean wrote last night this tweet which i thought really sort of summarized everybody was freaking out on all the channels over who was going to win this race or who wasn't going to win this race and it was a nail biter. sean tweeted -- i know people don't want to hear this, but at this point it doesn't really matter. ohio 12 shouldn't even be a nail biter for the gop. even with two solid candidates running. talk about the ohio race, whether you agree with your colleague that a nail biter in ohio 12 is a bad sign for republica