and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. you want to sweep it under the rugment i don t want to talk about this any more than anyone else. when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. they were people that behaved badly on that day. i m not one of them. ms. abrams is going to lie about my record because she doesn t want to talk about her own. i don t have the luxury of being part of a good old boys club. debate night in ohio, utah, and georgia with the midterms exactly three weeks away, things are getting a little heated. steve kornacki is standing by at the big board. did you see that guy beforehand, he s going into the whole rage thing. out of hand. this guy s crazy. the state of the race, which is what we really want from him. republicans claim to care so much ab
well, if mr. walker were here, i d ask him about this disturbing history of violence that we ve seen from him. and we re not just talking about one woman, but multiple women. he threatened to kill his ex-wife. put a gun to her head. he s threatened other women, and when asked about that, he really hasn t given account for this kind of violence, and i want to know for him why he thinks he s ready to represent the people of georgia and if he s ready to face up to this history of violence. democratic senator rafael warnock going after his republican challenger, herschel walker who was a no show in last night s senate debate in atlanta. walker has claimed not to remember the violence. last night would have been their second meeting in two days. we ll have highlights from friday night s debate which walker did attend. we ll also preview tonight s governor s debate in georgia as early voting gets underway in that state today. plus, the pro trump election denier running for govern
his parents religious background. he was not a convention gnat christian at all. he was more of kind of a unitarian guy with a tragic sensibility. but he believed that as theodore parker said, the abolitionist minister, the arc is long but bends toward justice. he also knew it doesn t bend toward justice if people aren t insisting that it swerve toward justice. there are always going to be forces of reaction pulling the other way, and that conscientious insight, the capacity to bring conscience to bear on political, economic, cultural issues of contention. that s where american greatness comes. it s where human greatness comes. and i m not mindlessly celebrating this guy at all. i don t think we should look up at him adoringly or down on him
sensibility. but he believed that, as theodore parker said, the abolitionist minister, the arc of a moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. he also knew it doesn t bend toward justice if people aren t insisting that it swerve toward justice, because there are always going to be forces of reaction pulling the other way, and that conscientious insight, the capacity to bring conscience to bear on political, economic, cultural issues of contention, that s where american greatness comes. it s where human greatness comes. and i m not mindlessly celebrating this guy at all. i don t think we should look up at him adoringly or down on him condescendingly. i don t think he was martin luther king in a stove pipe hat. i also don t think we can dismiss him from the american conversation.
he was preparing, racist opinion, white racist opinion, which was not confined to the american south for this extraordinary measure of emancipation. this is not to celebrate abraham lincoln, mindlessly. right? we need to be very careful about this. but nor should we condemn him reflectively. the utility, i believe, the moral utility of history, and particularly of lincoln in our own time, is not to look up at him adoringly or down on him condescendingly, but to look him in the eye, and the remarkable think about the lincoln memorial is you can look him in the eye. there he is in the great grandeur, and he s looking down at us. you see this human figure who was wrestling with political reality but always this moral conviction that the declaration of independence was more than words. he said, my ancient faith teach