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>> romney was the other guy. >> the question i have is if youre the other 16 presidential campaigns preparing for next weeks debate and youre seeing and hearing the language coming out of this focus group, what do you think right now? how are you going into this debate? whats your psychology knowing that the guy who is standing on the stage is one of us for them? >> let me tell you one thing you dont do and lets bring in chuk todd chuck todd from washington and eugene robinson who is a close and...

>> you know what i found out? >> the hat comes in red as well. >> thats ridiculous. >> i need one of those in red. i have one in white. i need the red run. >> ill get you a full rainbow for your birthday. >> us with on set, john heilemann. those were fascinating focus groups. you have more today? >> a lot more today. >> all right. >> dunny deutsche is here much he has a new show called donnie. >> of course it is. >> i cant wait to see it. im supposed to be in it. i havent gotten my phone call. >...

>> its friday. >> can we show the focus groups? >> yeah. so what do we have today? that was pretty crazy yesterday. >> we watched that iowa focus group. so many people said they were blown away. >> a lot of e-mails on that. >> blown away by that. >> usually i get hate tweets. >> a lot of peoples eyes really opened up by the people who were supporting donald trump. why they were supporting trump and the fact that they werent all just per owe supporters and buchanan supporters. there were a lot of...

I know you go up to washington youre going to say exactly what you think. if i need you to fight for me youre going to fight for me. and i learned -- i was a very ideological guy. but howard like you, its not about ideology. its not about position papers. for the most part it is a gut decision based on instinct by the voter. and it is a very gut instinct. >> yeah i just think this is the day that i think the washington establishment better look seriously at donald trump. a guy that has 23% in a ...

Television and therefore feels she knows him. and i think a lot of people feel -- >> but he connected through the screen. >> and you know its aspirational. i always tell the story about when we lived in mississippi and drag down country club drive going to church on sunday mornings and we never set foot on the country club. we didnt know anybody who was a member of the country club. nobody would ever invite us to the country club. we were -- lived out in the country. and yet, every sunday mornin...

Time people started to vote in ohio and new hampshire. >> i guess youre not alone. >> i guess i shouldnt place a bet. >> the second time you look at the focus group, its a bit more jarring than even the first time. >> oh, yeah. i want to repeat something i said early cher is it does come down to organization. n. eye in iowa. he is now a serious candidate until iowa. and then were going to see. the next step that a serious candidate has to do is have a really, good meticulous organization. that i...

>> jonathan capehart what was your take on that focus group? >> i was stunned. i was stunned. i was stunned by what i heard. michael steele has been saying for a long time we have to stop focusing on the messenger and start focusing on the people following the message. and thanks to heilman and halperin we now hear trump supporters and why they support him. and what im curious about now is, okay so theyre all reacting to what hes been saying in his announcement speech and in the speeches in sout...

Governor george pataki about how he plans to try and cut through the field of 17 candidates. youre watching "morning joe." well be right back. >> were going to do a focus group on the governor. get inspired with aarp travel. plan and book your trip online and get hot travel tips from the pros. find more real possibilities at aarp.org/possibilities. do you like the passaaadd? its a good looking car. this is the model rear end event. the model year end sales event. its year end! its a rear end eve...

The establishment. i was stunned. stunned going through that first process. it made no sense to other people. like for instance that one person that when roman said hes one of us. hes mocked and ridiculed about it establishment. hes dismissed. everybody says hes a joke. everybody says there is no way he can win. everybody is ticking him around in the papers every day. he fights back. hes one of us. one of the most shocking comments out of this focus group that people will be -- scratching their ...

>> sure. half of them from massachusetts, too. >> maybe the key, you pick this up when you see donald trump in action is he is unlike all the other candidates. he is approachable in a way that none of the other candidates are. you meet any of the other candidates and its governor how are you? senator, how are you? its donald to a voter. there is no distance between donald trump and the average voter. absolutely. there are a lot of people again, how many people in that focus group probably had a ...