every president hates the president and the democrats you grow up believing that and knowing that. that is a battlefield you fight on. you never call the press the enemy of the people. that crosses a line. as chris wallace said, god bless chris wallace, john mccain, and others who said something that every other republican needs to come out and say. welcome back to morning joe. it s monday, february 20th. it is presidents day. mika and willie have the morning on. we have with us the coauthors of game change mark halpern and john heilemann and with us is mike barnicle and contributor to time magazine elise jordan and nick confessore and jon meacham
kind of language i always worry it s an incitement of elements to our country that might go ahead and do something when the president of the united states calls the press the enemy of the people. that they might take that seriously. does that concern you? well, know the thing is you try to take a lot of what you get, the incoming in stride. i know a lot of people love to retweet the death threats they get and the nasty things they get, but when you receive tweets every day and somebody is threatening your life and they talk about lynching you and your family after president trump has his way with the media, this happens over and over again and i don t think there is anybody that is in the media that doesn t hear that every day. so, yes, there are unbalanced people on the left, there are unbalanced people on the right, there are unbalanced people that support donald trump as well. so, yeah, this is very, very
dangerous. and as chris wallace said yesterday on i thought it was significant on fox news sunday, the president crossed a line. we republicans talking about myself you know, i hear john mccain saying, well, i hate you, i hate the press. he is not joking! we grow up with the press being biased and beating us up and always giving our democratic opponent every benefit of the doubt. that s just part of the playing field. and it s one thing to say the press is liberal and one thing to say the ninth circuit is liberal, but when you start saying that somebody has is an enemy of the people, then that does incite people to violence, especially if it s coming from the president of the united states. mike barnicle, what is so rich about donald trump, talking about fake news and reince priebus talking about stories that are inaccurate, there s a president who, from the second he got into office, was lying
congress can investigate this president thoroughly, if necessary? i hope so and i have to believe so. before i let you go or hope and believe. if you re worried that werpt going to look long and hard at what russia did in our election because trump won and republicans are in charge, you don t need to worry about that. we are. and 2017 is going to be a year of kicking russia in the ass in congress. so senate aide confirms to nbc news that the bipartisan leadership of the senate intelligence committee has sent letters to more than a dozen individuals, agencies, and organizations directing them all to preserve records relevant to the committee s investigation did. mike, reuters say they have matched the new york times report which i think is the biggest story in the last several weeks saying contacts between trump associates and
russia was a huge part of the trump family business. i think he said the majority of the money they made, they made from russia. pretty important contradiction. coming up later on morning joe, the former ambassador to sweden mark brinzezinski will tk about the reaction in sweden and a story jon meechapeopleage cald of amazing and tell but that. and nick s latest reporting on the culture inside donald trump s club in florida mar-a-lago where he spent a third weekend and later, more town halls for republicans and more tough questions for members of congress in both parties. we will look at that. you re watching morning joe and we will be right back. look closely. hidden in every swing, every chip, and erputt, is data at can make the difference between winning and losing.