the show and making a poop joke or two, but i just can t do it because it s just not funny. i was like i wonder if i should make a poop joke, and then i looked at a picture with thousands of fish because they re all dead and they re going to be swimming through dead fish. and i thought about our heroes and sheroes who are part of that 10k water race in the olympics and they re going to be in that water for two hours swimming. it s ridiculous. dave you got 20 second my friend. one piece of good news in sports this week. first woman coach in the nfl? what s she doing, what s her job? assistant likebacker coach jen walter with the card nals but i have to give a shoutout because i m a d.c. guy, the former football coach at unc. let s remember the trailblazers a group who stood before macho men and said i am here to leave. my buddy, mike freeman, great sports writer. he says jen na walters will be a
gilmore declared this week. you may have missed it but with 17 declared candidates the first republican primary debate that will be held this week is already being described as a bloodbath, a multicandidate melee, and, you know, now that you mention it it does feel like an all-out fight to the death battle royale. all the candidates enter and only one leave. okay, they re all leave but only one will win. you know what else is like that? the hunger games. you drop a couple dozen contenders in the ring and see which one makes it out alive. really, stick with me now. just like the hunger games, you have the careers, the odds on favorites, the ones that have been training for this day their whole lives. uh-huh, yeah. and you have the ones that will probably go down in the first couple of minutes. right. okay, and you see how it s all about strategy? how does your campaign team get you ready for the spotlight? what is the persona that you will present to the public? what will
and basically march them to the door of the oven. yep, that s about the best he could do for comedic reaction. good morning, everybody. welcome to morning joe. with us on set we have msnbc contributor mike barnacle mark halperin. nicole wallace is here. richard haase, in washington pulitzer prize winner and analyst eugene robinson. joe an assignment, back tomorrow. we have a couple of things to begin this morning. look at the new poll of republican primary voters in new hampshire. donald trump has the lead. 24% choose trump, doubling the 12% who picked former florida governor jeb bush. the pollsters find trump s quick rise takes votes from nearly all of his opoevenlts it appears to hurt chris christie ted cruz and scott walker the most. the poll has an ohio governor john kasich moving up into 3rd tied with walker. i don t know if that s wishful thinking on my part. that s kind of hopeful. right, halperin? i think kasich will be 2nd in the poll by labor day. on it wh