Inside Chuck Schumer News Today

jumped the subway turnstile. he threw multiple punches and gets one officers in a choke hold. prosecutors charged him after he was arrested and then immediately let him go free. a retired nypd lieutenant in disbelief. >> if this doesnt demonstrate how far things have gotten out of control, i dont know what will. this would never happen years ago. it would never happen like this because they would have the fear of being prosecuted. they would have the fear of repercussions from the poli...

That inside chuck schumers office, not outside. shame on them for doing that. it is a publicity stunt. they didnt leave when asked. its not the way to get things done. you should go out and make your case. you dont do so inside the majority leaders office. im sure it will smooth things over so that chuck schumer is getting along better with the house. this is not the way to do it. im glad they were arrested and they should be prosecuted. >> harris: im trying to understand and said it to our view...

Biden and Schumer will get their “Court that looks like America” but votes like authoritarian Leftists, and the Democrats’ idolatry of race will continue.

>> there is a chance they will listen. what the majority leader has seized on in the reality inside the democratic caucus right now which is, this is very complicated. on the outside you have a tremendous amount of pressure from activists, from outside democratic groups saying, this is the moment to fight. this is the moment to have the shutdown battle because daca is an issue like they feel theyre going to win on. then you have mcconnell who is flat out saying on the senate floor, if you shut d...

Inside the democratic office, going on inside chuck schumers office right now. theyre trying to decide politically if they can actually afford a shutdown. in the wake of thursday morning, that meeting with the presidents vulgar remarks, the democrats are feeling theyre on the right side of this issue. maybe the time is right for a fight, maybe the time is ripe for a fight. as long as you have democrats very wary with being tagged of a shutdown altogether, there is no easy answer here. thats why ...

Putting republicans on capitol hill and even some people who are trying to help him get his agenda through who are working with his administration behind the scenes to try to accomplish all of this he is putting them in a very difficult position here because i thinky all do really want -- they are invested in the system that has been built and they dont want to see all of these pieces shattered this way. chuck schumer wants to get stuff done but the climate this is creating, the temperature, i k...

Will go through. its fairly certain that supreme court nominee will go through sooner or later. and what our story talks about we spent some time with chuck schumer and his frustration with that, his plans to try to overcome it and rebuild the party both from within and without. that is the question i think that really is on peoples mind this morning. >> michael, there has been some made of the relationship between schumer and trump. we had senator schumer on our show on inauguration day. he dow...

Joining us now from washington, deputy managing editor of "time" magazine michael duffy. the magazines new issue asks the question, do democrats matter? and takes us inside chuck schumers plan to take on president trump. also at the table we have nbc news correspondent katy tur. good to have you on board. quite some times we are living in right now. michael, first of all, lets go right to the heart of the matter in terms of the cover of "time" magazine. you ask the question do democrats matter. ...

2018 in the mid terms. maybe that is the case and that certainly could happen. we are too far out to predict that. but what we saw over and over again on the campaign and i think we will continue to see is that every time we have said donald trump cannot do this, hes proven that he could, because he has a staunch, loud and unmovable base of support who believes that the problem is not within him. the problem is everybody else. >> katy tur, thank you very much. michael duffy, thank yous well. we ...

>>e look back and think could bernie sanders have won? quite possibly. we revisit this campaign. >> it was rigged! >> you think this time around if there is still an economic populace move she has a good shot. >> coming up we will take a closer look how chuck schumer commands his caucus including the fact he has a flip phone and has memorized the phone numbers of 47 of his members! "morning joe" will be right back. >> does he manually dial the numbers? what if we could stop the next