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shannon: some worry this stuff helps donald trump, joe scarborough, the betsy ross flag is a symbol of white nationalism and slavery? not defined against a distant monarchy? pc madness is accelerating just in time for 2020, trump feeds on that, great job, everybody. >> joe scarborough is an idiot. troops were serving overseas right now not wearing the betsy ross flag. the capital is not flying the betsy ross flag. nike placed 50 stars and 13 stripes on those shoes and people had an issue with that i would agree with you but that is not the flag to represent every american right now so let's salute the flag we fly today, not the one we flew 200 years ago. >> that was a myth made up 100 years later. >> i played betsy ross in the kindergarten play, there are probably pictures out there but fox news has a new poll out asking people whether things are patriotic and one of those things is is flying the flag and act of patriotism? 201494% of americans said yes, that is drop 9% since then, now 85% say yes. are you worried about the level of patriotism in this country as we fled into independen

my colleague joe scarborough weighed in on that. >> i'm dead serious, democrats running for the president of the united states, i'm dead serious presidents running the house of representatives, if you want to stop donald trump, it is time to stop fighting by marquess of queensberry rules. it is time to roll up your sleeves and go after him and do whatever it takes to win. if you don't do that, well -- >> you'll see him again. four more years. >> you'll have donald trump four more years. >> i co-sign that, my own two cents. every democrat should travel to puerto rico quickly and insert himself and herself in the political triumph. that is where we start with some of our favorite reporters and friends, with us in washington heidi przybyla. at the stable rick stengel, author of the upcoming book "information wars" and former veteran of the obama administration. and national correspondent for "the new york times" magazine and from "the l.a. times" eli stokolses is hit. let me start with you, heather. we have been here for some of the lowest moments of the trump presidency, and some of the hum

that's the name he got this morning from joe scarborough.ay fbi director christopher wray raised the prospect of foreign actors manipulating voter data, but said his bureau was working relentlessly to try to prevent it. >> we have yet, happily, to see attacks manipulating or deleting election and voter-related data, or attacks that actually take election management systems offline. but we know that our adversaries are relentless. so are we. >> relentless. this comes after wray said earlier this week he has yet to read the full mueller report. here he goes. >> have you read the mueller report? >> i've reviewed it. i wouldn't say i read every single word. >> let's go now to the things that you must think about as an american. what do you think the worst case would be in 2020 that would possibly screw up our notion of who actually won the election? >> well, i think as we were concerned in 2016, if the russians or someone else did something to try to disrupt the electoral systems going in and maybe taking down some of the registration rules, pre

and, of course, host joe scarborough completely ignored the comment. wake up, joe. the new way of the left. there's a new poll, pew research center finding 91% of democrats believe the way politicians speak and their political differences could result in violence compared to 61% of republicans. wow. joining me now to talk about it, gina loudon, author, member of president trump's media advisory board and new co-chair of women for trump. gina, good to see you, thanks very much. >> great to see you, gregg, thank you. gregg: so here you have today aoc saying of the president, and i'll quote, his violent rhetoric end dangers millions -- endangers millions of americans. and, of course, the media ran with that all day long. you've got jon tester, u.s. senator, who says punch trump in the face, and the media largely ignores it, including joe scar scarborough. what do you make of it? >> what i make of it, gregg, is that they are so on the other side of the american voters here, because if you really look at what is actually done -- not the words this aoc and her little trib

so when my colleague joe scarborough dubbed mcconnell moscow mitch, it wasn't just snark. he is refusing to protect his country from foreign election influence. he believes donald trump can't win without foreign help, so he is propping the door open for whoever wants in. there's no other way to explain what he's doing. well, there's also donations that moscow mitch fwot frgot fr voting lobbyists before blocking the bills. according to the outlet sludge. the man that failed to prove barack obama was born in kenya was helped by the man that failed to make barack obama a one term president, and both a-okay with help from russia. perfect. we'll have more on mitch soon. >>> first, let's discuss yet another anniversary. let's go back a moment to three years ago this weekend when my next guest predicted that we would eventually find out that russia meddled in our election. >> i think we are in a situation of a national security crisis that's only going to get bigger. i think the russians are running a strategic political warfare operation against the united states, what appears t

i want to play a clip of my friend joe scarborough on "morning joe" this morning. let's play that right now. >> he is aiding and abetting vladimir putin's ongoing attempts to subvert american democracy according to the republican fbi, cia, dmi, intel committee, all republicans are all saying russian is subverting american democracy and moscow mitch won't even let the senate take a vote on it! that is un-american. >> un-american? >> absolutely. when you look at the fact -- you have to look at the total context. donald trump, mitch mcconnell and the republicans had tried to convince the american public there was this massive voter fraud. they had people feeling that they were going to steal the election. they set the climate for what russia could have and in this cases actually did. so if you're going outside and people are walking by with an umbrella, be eveven though it's raining, you're getting ready for the rain. they took the umbrella out. they're the ones that raised the issue. now they're the ones that are going to shut down looking at any possibility of the f

the hashtag moscow mitch was trending after joe scarborough pilon accusing him of aiding and abetting efforts to subvert our democracy. >> republicans are subverting american democracy and moscow mitch won't even let the senate take a vote on it. >> today mcconnell pushed back hard touting his 34 year record of urging tougher action against russia and calling the latest attacks against him modern-day mccarthyism. >> it is a routine occurrence in the senate. it doesn't make republicans traders or un-american, it makes us policymakers with a different opinion. this modern-day mccarthyism -- is toxic and damaging because of the way it warps our entire public discourse. >> mcconnell has blocked efforts with a number of election security -- he and other republicans have long argued the federal government should largely stay out of telling the state how to run their own elections. and today he defended his opposition to democratic bills calling one so partisan that only received a single republican vote in the house. as soon as mcconnell was johnson a minority leader chuck schumer attempted

. >> laura: joe scarborough ramped up the rhetoric with this gem on what the democrats need to do. >>stop donald trump, it is time to stop fighting by marcus markley of queensbury rules. it's time to roll up your sleeves and do what i have ever it takes to win. >> laura: that's what maxine waters said, get their face in the restaurants. we are so squared, joe. >> i have to roll down my sleeves been now it looks like i'm taking -- the public doesn't want this. they don't want the yelling, they don't want the screaming, they want you to do the job for the american people. >> laura: results and success. >> they want it to be meaningful, three more words, efficient, effective, accountable. i do not hear that language from the democrats. >> laura: they are huffing, puffing, all of that. do you like it better than what it was two and a half years ago by november 2024 years ago? are you doing better, is your family doing better? that's a pretty simple question to ask and answer. frank, always great to see you. >> it's 60-40 that we are better than we were two and a half years ago. >> laura:

and my good friend joe scarborough was so right yesterday two days ago, it's war. we've got to stop fighting the nice guy stuff. number one, do you agree with the thesis it's time to take from the mueller report but move away from impeachment time to fight differently? >> i 100% disagree with you. >> i knew you would. >> here's the reality. yes, most of what you said i agree with. donald trump clearly committed obstruction of justice. he can't be indicted for it because he's president. the only thing protecting him from being prosecuted. the job he has now, so he will do anything to stay in it. let's be clear his voters will crawl over broken glass to keep him there, so fine. but democrats can't run away from two things. number one, if he broke the law, the only people who can indict him is the house. the only -- the only punishment that you can inflict on him is impeachment. that's the -- >> but joy -- >> one quick thing, if you don't do it the base of this party will understand they gave democrats power. they won't use the only thing the house can do, and i don't

i am joy reid in for lawrence o'donnell and this week my colleague, joe scarborough, and other americans mitch. mitch has made it clear he willig nor robert mueller's warnings about ongoing foreign interference in our elections and block all election security bills that could protect your vote from the russians or the saudis or the chinese or donald trump's newest best dictator friend, kim jong-un. mitch mcconnell will do that because clearly he believes donald trump might need foreign help to get elected just like he had in 2016 so he will not allow

steve will, joe scarborough. they really only result liken like a one-day headline. not much happens after these people announce they're quitting the party. i want to know your thoughts on leaving the party versus maybe staying in it to fix it. >> well, i think it was the right move for justin amash to do. i hope he druoes run for president. bill clinton used to say, it's rather to be rigwrong and stron than right and weak. and jeff flake, for example, who stood up to trump, but did so in a way that was not very strong. i think amash is tough and, look, is he going to beat donald trump? no. can he create a beacon of hope for young conservatives and libertarians and maybe a pathway forward after donald trump? i think he can. >> kirsten, your thoughts on amash quitting? >> first of all wing he's an incredibly principled person. i disagree with him on a lot of things, but i've always had a lot of respect for him. and he is somebody who really does stand by his principles. so if anybody is going to do it, it's going to be justin amash. i would expect -- i'm not surprised

joe scarborough, donny deutsch, moscow mitch.solutely teeing off on this. >> the question is the fbi director, the senate intelligence committee bipartisan run by republicans said the russians interfered, it got in every one of our 50 states and will try again. the question is has the government done everything it can do to stop that from happening. we will see. >> sandra: "the wall street journal" penned an op-ed hearing mitch mcconnell. they heavily defended work to do. they distort his record on russia. we dug up just about everything he's done. when he 19, march of this year he called russia a significant threat. warned russia about election meddling. i could go down the list here on the things that he has done. charlie, final thoughts to you. >> of course everybody agrees that something should be done to tighten up the elections and they should be done, but the problem is the democrats just put out a bill like nationalize our elections and there can be a legitimate debate about whether that's the right way to deal with this

"the washington post" writing a column that says, mitch mcconnell is a russian asset and why joe scarboroughhim moscow mitch. it obviously got to him but he doesn't have an answer. this issue of states rights, states always want to run their elections but our nation was attacked by a foreign power and the senate intelligence report shows that states are not equipped to deal with this issue. >> they know, you know, mcconnell, the republicans, they know trump only won in 2016 with all this various help. they also probably know he cannot win in 2020 when all of this various help. why would they shoot themselves in the foot? as much as he drives them crazy they want donald trump more than a president biden, president warren, president harris. when you look at the congressional republicans the reason they let a lot of it slide off their backs is because it doesn't affect them. what do they care if people are putting kids in cages? they're not their kids. why do they care if cities are being attacked on racial grounds. it's not his cities. they are the last on the list of people who are at risk an

mitch mcconnell as joe scarborough has named him has earned his title of moscow mitch. he either will stand up and defend this nation, or he should just admit that he wants moscow's assistance many this next election. >> there is also the question of just how extensive. obviously we know about the wikileaks, about the hacked emails. we know about the troll factories and all that. but the degree to which, you know, russian hackers were inside election systems, including efforts in illinois. this is a recap of the most to me unnerving part of that report, which specifically discusses efforts in illinois and an unnamed state too where details about meetings and security efforts mostly jive about what has been disclosed about hacking attempts in florida which matters a lot more for presidential election. senate and intelligence committee apparently unwilling or unable to provide more information. florida's politicians and election officials remain stuck in yet another guessing game. this just seems insane to me. like how is it the case that there is no coordination happenin

i am joy reid in for lawrence o'donnell and this week my colleague, joe scarborough, and other americans dubbed him moscow mitch. mitch has made it clear he willig nor robert mueller's warnings about ongoing foreign interference in our elections and block all election security bills that could protect your vote from the russians or the saudis or the chinese or donald trump's newest best dictator friend, kim jong-un. mitch mcconnell will do that because clearly he believes donald trump might need foreign help to get elected just like he had in 2016 so he will not allow congress to stand in those foreign governments' way. moscow mitch needs donald trump to win to keep the spigot of far right judges flowing. we're going to have more on this growing republican shame in tonight's show. >>> we're also hearing disturbing new details about the 18-year-old american citizen who was detained by customs and border protection for three weeks, even after showing officials his i.d., his social security card and his birth certificate. that is coming up as well. but first, we are crossing a threshold. th

>> well, when joe scarborough named him moscow mitch, he made quite an argument that mitch mcconnell'saviors were in support almost direct support of the strategic objectives outlined in the mueller report about russia's attack on the united states and damage to its electoral process. no other person has ever stood for a foreign power tore intervene in our elections. and now we find out that in august of 2016, mitch mcconnell was the one that harry reid was talking about when he said that there was opposition to naming names as to who was actively attacking the united states. three years on, almost to the month, we need to understand whose interest does he work for. does he work for the people of the united states? problem it. defend this nation with your oath of office by giving us the election security we have. otherwise, that nome de gere is going to stick with it. >> we look at what we learned from the mueller report and the senate investigations which has to do with whether as mueller said ongoing and where it is. i want to put up something that is pretty straightforward. here's a

. >> martha: that was joe scarborough saying that democrats that are get down and dirty if they intendn 2020. if we got brand-new fox poll's that are just out tonight that show really more growth for joe biden and how he performs against the president, but he's going to obviously survive the primary first and he's also on e top of that list with the next democratic debate less than a week away. the gloves are coming off. at the front runner warning he's not going to be as polite as he was last time around. peter doocy ask him about that today. >> what did you mean when you said you're not going to be as polite in the next debate? >> we'll see. >> martha: here now, austan goolsbee, former chief economist under president obama and distinguished lecturer at the state university of new york and a former aide to hillary clinton, both here to talk about the democratic deal tonight. good to have both of you with us, thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. >> martha: first of all i guess do you believe -- last time around the feeling was that joe biden was not as strong as he needed

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former representative joe scarborough now with msnbc called the situation an imaginary border crisis. former bush whaust official nicole wallace, also with msnbc, said there's not a crisis. another one sess a fake crisis. another one. there is no crisis on the border. another one. there is no crisis at the border. same talking points that get passed from one person to another. another one, a faux crisis. there's no crisis at the southern border. a make-believe crisis. even the comedians on late-night television weighed in and said a fake border crisis. in this one article, there are over 26 examples and there are plenty more where this came from. the situation at the border is so terrible in part because of those in power and those cheering on in the media that steadfastly resisted commonsense measures to reduce the flow of illegal migrants. the large majority of whom do not have a valid claim for asylum. across the border, the resulting paralysis in the border policy encourages more migrants to come and making the situation worse by the day. perhaps some of those quoted above only wa

joe scarborough, why don't you give us the bottom line here.ing for? >> yeah, well, i've just got to say, this is -- what we're going to be looking at today is an extraordinarily significant hearing. donald trump, despite what he says will be watching the entire time. millions of americans will be watching the entire time. and despite the fact that perhaps interest has waned a bit over the past several months because of misguided statements from the attorney general and the president of the united states, misleading statements, robert mueller iii has to know that history will be watching today. and history will remember what is said today. and whether we remain a nation of laws, whether we remain a nation where no man or woman is above the law, well, that will be determined at least attitud l attitudally by what robert mueller does today, he can play it safe, mika, or he can answer to history and tell the american people what they need to know. >> msnbc will have gavel to gavel coverage all day long. and brian williams picks up the coverage rig

. >> unlike barnacle, unlike joe scarborough i think john kennedy in profiles of courage are people in days like tuesday. so happy july. >> i'm the representative here to take the beating. that was very strange a couple of games of baseball. i was somewhat busy over asia so i didn't see much of it so i'm glad for that. seems like the red sox bullpen is what we call an international problem. but let's also talk about some basketball. you folks there are knicks fans. i'm a celtics fan so good luck to -- first of all, to the net with the kyrie irving. but in terms of the knicks, wasn't this supposed to be the summer you got a major superstar? >> you know what? you know what, jon, the taj gibson era has arrived at the garden. the bobby portis era has arrived at the garden. we have completely lost our audience so i'll move on. jon meacham, you spoke to president carter on friday when he spoke about president trump's russian interference. here is what he told you, followed by president trump's response over the weekend. >> there's no doubt that the russians did interfere in the election and

reading your piece and watching you on twitter over the last several days that you share the joe scarboroughts donald trump not to be re-elected but what he saw on the stage last week is not the way to get there. >> i think one of the reasons biden looked flat footed is you didn't expect that kind of an attack from someone you think of as a friend, that you have endorsed, who's accepted your endorsement and thanked you for it. who then kind of slyly implies you might be a racists or you're too comfortable with racists. i'm not sure that the debate with donald trump is going to matter. i mean, hillary clinton won all three of her debates on points with donald trump and, you know, that's why she's president today, right? i think, you know, the folks like me, the never trumpers that are coming at this from outside the tent, my only requirement is 270 electoral votes. i'm not telling the democrats how to run their primary. but i think, you know -- but forced busing as an issue in 2019 is probably not going to be the way to get to 270. you were mentioning room for harris to grow. i'm not sure whe

mika and joe scarborough will tell you dave won because he used the breast plate and don't play goliath's>> kamala harris has shown an ability to take it to others and that a lot of people are saying that could be very interesting. i guess her language has been very tough so she's not shrinking. >> well, "the new york times" reports that americans are overly optic, they have an overly optimistic perception of economic mobility and that might hinder the chances of democratic presidential candidates who advocate sweeping changes like free college or universal health care or protecting the consumer from big banks. this map from a survey by researchers from harvard university shows children in each state who were born into the lowest fifth of income ranks, then moved up into the top fifth by adulthood with some of the lowest social mobility in the deep south. >> so let me explain the map. what that means is let's take a state like mississippi where it says 4.5%. what that means is if you were a child born in the lowest fifth income wise in mississippi, you only have a 4.5% chance of going fro

so i'm going to say to those democrats we love you, joe scarborough. don't pay attention to you.y put forward that agenda to change the center of gravity of the country and watch what happens. >> pay no attention. run for that cliff and jump off and flap your arms really fast. >> just called us dodo birds. >> i will say democrats for those who shouldn't listen to me, that's fine. i mean, i do care because obviously i made it very clear, i don't want trump to get re-elected but you didn't listen to me in 2016, did you? in fact you mocked me. you said a lot of nasty things about me when i told you donald trump could win. could get to 270. oh, my god, would you like to see the press clippings then? maybe, just maybe, eddie, maybe a few should listen. >> all right. >> up to you. hey, dave, so let me ask you this question. you look at 2018, there were some pockets that i found absolutely fascinating. my old friend pete sessions lost his race in suburban dallas. i would have never seen that coming two years before. are you seeing any trends post 2018 that are surprising you like that o

. >> hey, joe scarborough, i want to get back to a comment you made a second ago about how in the end this is about democrats. i was perusing this new media platform called the twitter yesterday. >> the twitter, yes. >> i came upon this account by someone called@joe nbc. he said i was interested at one point he tweeted jesus, forgive me for ever being a republican. the other one i liked. this is the thing i want to engage you on, this piece written by someone in the national review that goes -- speaks directly to this issue. the quote that you tweeted out, which i think is -- the headline of the piece on the twitter thing it says you can't beat trump without throwing a punch, and then the quote from it is like jeb bush, marco rubio and those before him, house democrats will lose any contest with donald trump so long as they are unwilling to sustain political damage in the act of inflicting more damage on him, and i'd just like you to unpack that. i think that is where we are right now. that's what this debate has been about. it's been about political timidity. i respect nancy pelosi,

ask people like the fox crowd, then if these people are so bad, joe scarborough and you, mika, and nowlijah cummings, then why does the president call people like sharpton and ask him for meetings and make him look to his own base inconsistent or use that to go after the senators and the republican leadership that have -- while he's peddling racism and dividing this country. we must say we may not get him directly ever to grow up, but we can make those around him know that you're going down with him or you're going to stand up with us. >> well, again, it's a great message and we just put up a picture of donald trump with you back in 2006 at the national action network convention. that was back, reverend, when you were cheating on your wind sprints. you look much more fit these days and it's so interesting -- thank you, rev, for being with us. you can't say it enough. this is back when donald trump is giving money to hillary clinton and giving money to nancy pelosi and giving money to rahm emanuel and giving money to chuck schumer and giving money to the democratic national committee an

someone recently called joe scarborough, the former republican active from florida, who has a morning show now, probably on as we speak, who called him moscow mitch. and i thought that was a little harsh, but perhaps if people made it into a bumper sticker, because mitch himself calls him the grim reaper, the place where the bills from the house go to die. and that doesn't sound like anything that the founding fathers or anyone who really came after and believed in our country working properly every believed in. host: after mitch mcconnell blocked those two bills that democrats hoped to move by unanimous consent last week, concern by democrats yesterday keeping the pressure on via their twitter pages and news appearances. this is ron widen, senator from oregon, member of the senate intelligence committee, saying on twitter yesterday, we are 463 days away from the 2020 election, and mitch mcconnell has yet to make any concrete steps to protect our federal elections from hacking or foreign interference. appearing on msnbc yesterday was the democrat from minnesota, teen smith. this was h

this morning my colleague joe scoreboro p scarborough put it like this. >> he is aiding and abettingr putin's ongoing attempts to subvert american democracy according to the republican, fbi, cia, dni intel committee, all republicans are all saying russia is subverting american democracy and moscow mitch won't even let the senate take a vote on it. that is un-american. >> okay. joining me now is the former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. thank you so much for joining us on this. you have been at the ire shall we say of russian president vladimir putin. you full well know what it's like to be the focus of russia in general. and of moscow. what is your response to mitch mcconnell? >> well, i won't be quiet as dramatic as joe just was there, but i agree with him entirely. this is not a partisan issue from democrats and republicans. what is more american, what is more patriotic than protecting the votes that americans will cast in the 2020? and i think this new report could give him an out. he and the president. because remember, in the past, we are talking about dysinformation