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Surgeon general or director of health and human services. >> very well intentioned but its a big job. >> is it too big a job? >> for him i think so. >> im watching that if im ben carson ive got to show people im up to the task and informed. >> exactly. that they like him. they like him a lot as a person but theyre not convicted hes the next president of the united states. >> all right. great work as always. youre going to join us for the rest of the week. well go through the other candidates. a ...

Bad job? >> its a great followup. im sure if he comes on the show you can ask him that. the fascinating thing is race. they dont want to be talking about race on the year of charleston, unrest across the country. immigration, most of the presidential contenders want to shy away from that issue if its not talking about border security. trumen, he welcomes these discussions. ask him a question, hell give you a confident answer and ramble on. >> and howard dean, he will confidently march straight i...

About race on the year of charleston, unrest across the country. immigration, most of the presidential contenders want to shy away from that issue if its not talking about border security. trump, he welcomes these discussions. ask him a question, hell give you a confident answer and ramble on. >> and howard dean, he will confidently march straight into a racist answer and plays with the confidence that he will outmaneuver the followup question. he will push this past the point where he knows jon...

Names? >> it is interesting. steven ill go to you. youre a trump critic. i thought that my friend mary matlin had good advice. other republicans can learn from him, that they can speak their mind. they dont have to be so guarded in their own way and that they would benefit from their out spokenness. is there a lesson to be learned? >> i think there is. i think thats been true before donald trump. republicans would do much better to say what they believe and make their arguments the best they can...

Surgeon general or director of health and human services. >> very well intentioned but its a big job. >> is it too big a job? >> for him i think so. >> im watching that if im ben carson ive got to show people im up to the task and informed. >> exactly. that they like him. they like him a lot as a person but theyre not convicted hes the next president of the united states. >> all right. great work as always. youre going to join us for the rest of the week. well go through the other candidates. a ...

Draw so many more eyeballs to the debate. probably a lot more people who would watch. if trump wasnt there fewer. so there is potentially upside for the gop. >> kasie, thank you very much. i want to talk about that point going after donald trump with two colleagues here. thank you very much both for joining us. lets start off with that point that kasie made. donald trump. hes going to be front and center. donald trump, do the other candidates go after him? is he going to attack the other candida...

Service. you know willie used a key word authenticity. i think its powerful. it comes through. in some ways joe is historic vice president historically been authentic to a fault. and the question is now whether this is the moment where you cant be authentic to a fault. and somehow it fits where we are. >> i think joe, you pointed out something that came out of the focus groups last week that people were talking about donald trump being one of us, being aspirational, all those things but one of u...

Complete are hand motions which actually exists. >> not bad, good for him. >> we should. still ahead on "morning joe" -- >> if you talk long enough -- >> come on. lets see what they got. come on. and well hear it. i dont think we ever pumped up to that song. >> lets see what you got. >> lets not start now. >> much more about that compelling focus group about the new hampshire republican voters. why they want to hire trump to be the next president and what they expect from the presidency. chuck t...

Advertising guy, marketing guy, nobody manhattan, nobody in georgetown, nobody in any of the elite circles would have ever guessed that john hil man would have -- john heilemann would have done a focus group with unemployed people, middle class people in new hampshire and the word that comes away several times is one of us. >> okay. >> reaganesque. >> that was the other thing, one of us. he speaks his mind. >> jeremy? >> i was going to say that i think -- >> at the end of the day -- >> go ahead....

Going to be a one time thing, i think everybody needs to put that notion aside and stop wishing trum april way. i -- trump away. i think the guy is in this for the long haul. thats why jeb is saying what hes saying. hes trying to figure out what will this look like if im the nominee. but in the meantime boy, seeing that focus group -- you know john heilemann id like to ask you, i get the sense that if you asked that group this question and you may have done it thats why im asking you this. what ...