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>> we do have this great tradition of bringing our rivals along. you go back as far as as lincoln -- let me just play this sound boit of mitt romney during the campaign talking about donald trump and you can respond lets play it. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. >> go ahead, selena. >> well, after that, we do have a great tradition of bringing our rivals along, presidents do. i mean, the battle between suard and lincoln in the ...

Tooth and nail against barack obama and wound up secretary of state. lbj was jfks vice president. >> i wanted to mention reagan before you did. >> thank you. youre getting the hang of it now. >> i would go for grover cleveland, but -- >> mitt romneys father, george, who ran against richard nixon was put in the nixon cabinet. >> i read a report that he didnt like the experience. >> he was sort of, in those days, he was shouldnunted off, dont think he was particularly happy there. but it is a trad...

What should republicans who are in that position previously, what should they do now? >> well, my first instinct as an anti-trump republican has been liquor. but once i moved beyond that, i believe the president deserves a shot to succeed. i am -- i have suspended -- i put on hiatus radio-free gop, because i want to see him rise to the office and do well. but i hope he understands that the campaign won, fair and square. his campaign. but there is a stain on his campaign that has divided the coun...

Her mother owns the property, which has been in her family for generations. fact of the matter is in the old south back when the dishes, flavors and ingredients of southern cooking, which is to say american cooking as opposed to european, chances are that food was grown, gathered, produced and prepared by african slaves. chef b.j. dennis has made it a personal mission to celebrate and protect the culinary traditions his ancestors passed down to him. >> b.j.: so this is, um, some local blue crab,...

Is something happening here and is it a good -- what, what, whats changed? >> b.j.: i mean, its good to have people from -- to have a more diverse community in a sense, but then you also lose a little bit. >> ashley: the danger is theyre coming to charleston because of the beauty, and were having to fight against, you know, bigger entities that seek to get the land so that they can develop it. and so, were fighting to keep whats been ours, and so its important for us to preserve this area, prese...

This, i got to tell you. >> sean: this is so delicious. >> ashley: oh my goodness. >> anthony: how african is traditional gullah cooking? >> ashley: well, i think what happens is you change the location of the people, but you do not change who the people were. you did not change the information that they came with, with their traditions. >> sean: if you look at the history of american food and youll -- youll quickly see that this is -- this is one of the first true cuisines of america. >> anthon...

This i promise will be a fascinating conversation so i hope you pay attention. when donald trump takes the oath of office on january 20th, he will become president of a deeply divided nation. lets discuss with b.j. roark, with daily beast. selena zito. lets start with you, patrick, because you wrote a piece in roll call with a pro vok tick thesis. you said more americans -- im sorry, the real bubble isnt the coast, it is rural america. now, before everyone gets mad at patrick, hes the rural -- w...

That you had truman loathing ike. ike having contempt for truman. and yet they got together. they had a rough meeting. ike and kennedy had a rough meeting because ike thought that kennedy wasnt up to the job. lbj and nixon loathed each other. we go through history. and yet these two men seem to have a better meeting despite all of the public bloodshed than a lot of meetings in the past. >> wouldnt have you loved to have been in that room for 90 minutes or whatever it was that they talked yesterd...

I want to make sure that handoff is well executed because ultimately were all on the same team. >> election is over. its been decided. the american people have decided. president obama didnt get to choose his successor. the american people do that. theyve chosen somebody that president obama disagrees with on a wide range of issues and those disagreements in most cases arent just minor disagreements but profound disagreements. >> thats one way to look at it. welcome back to "morning joe." its th...

Could go. one way is that the electorate is more white working class, more nonurban whites. what trump is doing is, in fact, bringing out this army of voters. the other thing, chris, its equally possible that the electorate will be more diverse. the electorate has been two points more nonwhite every four years pretty much for the last 20 years since 1992. most of the late polls are having it even or up one. the good news is we wont have to speculate too much longer. >> can i add an historical no...