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Funny. >> but it was just a contact high, i want to make that clear, is that correct? >> yes, it was just a contact -- >> randi then went on to prove live on the air that even a contact high can elicit a tinge of wonderment and perhaps a bit of hyperbole. >> if you saw those joints, i dont know if you could see them in the video, but they were like the size of small cannons. >> did you say those joints were like smoking cannons, they were as big as small cannons? >> they are so big. when she wou...

County sheriff david clarke. sheriff clarke, good to see you again. you have difficulty understanding thats the same man who got up there and said that police basically executed michael brown without feeling for any threat to their own lives, which was against the evidence. but thats what he told everybody in ferguson and the world. and now today after calling the cops cockroaches, and you got to turn on the light to flush them out, hes all praise for law enforcement. your thoughts. >> phony. th...

Out, hes all praise for law enforcement. your thoughts. >> phony. thats what he is. al sharptons a cartoon. i dont know why the media continues to put a camera and a microphone in front of his face -- >> because the white house is using him as their pointman on race issues. >> i get that. im not going to engage in hyperbole, but al sharpton has created a pathway to the police hatred across america. he doesnt believe a word of what he said today. neither does anybody else. he does propagate viole...

Dangerous hyperbole and rhetoric is what we need to tamper down on so the conversation can proceed in a civil way. obviously it has to happen and its bubbling and we have to be able to say we want a better educational system without saying were anti-teacher. we have to be able to say we want a better police system without being anti-police. i am not anti-police. i actually support my police departments. i supported an increase in the police force. so none of us who have been talking about this o...

Florida in the 80s. thats what i look at okay this is what americas going to look like 20 years from now swreering in the -- >> you remember chuck, those bumper sticker, will the last american to leave miami please bring the flag? >> the anger about two languages being spoken any time you went to a store. look, i remember all of those. again, all of the debates and the hyperbole we see nationally on immigration today we saw in south florida in the 80s. >> chuck todd always a pleasure to speak wi...

Was a little bit of hyperbole. >> you could make an argument. you won in iowa. youre doing very well in iowa. thats the leadoff. you must know every county, every nook and cranny of that state. so you could make a credible argument that you in a crowded field could jump off pretty fast. but that crowded field tends to dismiss you. does that bother you? >> no. its been the story of my political career. its been a great blessing of mine that weve always been underestimated. so i mean, i go at this...

>> things are pretty quiet with canada. >> does it do anything to create that tranquillity? >> no. we have -- you often hear people say, obamas the worst president ever. it sounds like hyperbole. in the foreign policy and security spheres, without doubt speaking as a student of american history, without doubt, obama is by far the worst foreign policy and security president weve ever had. we have never before had such a combination of pervasive, extensive failures on every congressty nent. i thin...

Joe," nicolle wallace and sam stein. and joining us from the national atlantic jeffrey goldberg. from washington, nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director and host of "the daily rundown" chuck todd along with nicolle, willie, joe and me. good morning, chuck. >> good morning. >> mika, we had harry reid saying the border is secure. yesterday we had a democrat and republican from texas come here on "morning joe" and talk about a bipartisan bill that they had. it sounded like ...

>> things are pretty quiet with canada. >> does it do anything to create that tranquillity? >> no. we have -- you often hear people say, obamas the worst president ever. it sounds like hyperbole. in the foreign policy and security spheres, without doubt speaking as a student of american history, without doubt, obama is by far the worst foreign policy and security president weve ever had. we have never before had such a combination of pervasive, extensive failures on every congressty nent. i thin...

Care. and he just used it and used it, and you said, thats not true, and everybody said thats not true. and the pinocchios noses came out. and the liar meter got up there, and you know what he said? the same thing, talking over his critics and being amplified by the media. >> i applaud politifact for getting on this. earlier i spoke to glenn beck about his demonizing of the court. good to see you. not only is the left blatantly mischaracterizing the supreme courts ruling because apparently the...