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Some having him playing 13 dimensional chess. it seems the two things that i can figure out are one, theres this almost primal thing where if you say something nice about him, he wants to praise you, if you say something critical, he wants to beat you over the head and twitter is the tool for that, even if youre john lewis. the other thing, he sees this as a tool to go over the heads potentially of congress. he mentioned in his interview as well what happened when the house republicans tried to ...

Republicans to drop that ethics thing that they were otherwise going to do but were also seeing some signs about something that is going to build on itself in the way this goes forward in the next really few days, couple of weeks. watch this. i showed you that selfie video those women shot in roanoke this morning? watch the end of this. >> and we had about how many news organizations covering this event? >> three. we had cameras from tv, we had newspapers, our media release went out an hour befo...

Bernie sanders, in terms of his organizing background, the way bernie sanders is trying to change the democratic party right now, is by getting democratic actual elected leaders, members of congress, members of the senate. hes trying to get them to actually go help organize in their home states in their home districts and lead events like this all over the country. that, of course, would be a new role, a new goal for the democratic party and what their elected officials do. that would be a new t...

Known, whether or not the party pulls it off, regular people are starting to do it on their own. we saw in the that avalanche of calls to congress yesterday. that really did force the republicans to drop that ethics thing that they were otherwise going to do but were also seeing some signs about something that is going to build on itself in the way this goes forward in the next really few days, couple of weeks. watch this. i showed you that selfie video those women shot in roanoke this morning? ...

Pretty excited and high about democrats chances saying democrats had lost white working class voters like those in scranton, pennsylvania, who voted for him, the backbone of his support and was very concerned several weeks out hillary clinton would lose because of that hell be a great guy to help democrats put together a winning coalition again. >> the future of the democratic party belongs to younger people. joe biden, john kerry, barack obama, three people fascinating. clintons, no one expects...

Things youre involved with. they are exempt -- >> therefore, i just want to be clear here, hes not going to ignore the rules. there are no rules against presidents. by the way, one of the shocking things about this transition, i never knew that was the case until trump got elected. >> apparently a constitutional thing. >> so you cant accurately say, im not being whatever -- >> correct me. >> weve got a story coming up. >> not following the rules applied to of everybody else that works for him. >...

Think, as we do, with donald trumps effort to drain the swamp? >> it depends what happens in the office. the full house will vote today. that was just a committee, a blind vote. but i dont want your viewers to be left with the impression theres no mechanism for ethics complaints, particularly that come from constituents, which the former office has been entertaining. this was in reaction to a 2008 scandal. there have been about 100 or so complaints since. only a third of which have been referred...

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To do. >> i agree with gene, its a tough one. i agree with gene the idea of a military option is potentially explosive and i dont mean that as a joke. i think china is a key player here. because china, as gene said, doesnt want north korea to have nukes any more than we do. north korea can reach china now with nukes. weve got to pressure china to pressure north korea to get to a better place. i think thats the only path forward i can think of. >> mark. >> you can try more sanctions, try to negot...

Dynamite. >> pull them in. thats the way to do it. that is something. julie pace, thank you so much. in our next hour were going to speak live to house majority leader kevin mccarthy. he was one of those republican leaders who opposed the rule change. also this hour we have incoming white house counselor to the president kellyanne conway. shes going to join the conversation. youre watching "morning joe." come back, please, we miss you already. its beautiful. was it a hard place to get to? (laugh...