there s plenty of video of us running down the hall ways, putting microphones in their faces and saying nothing. this guy saw everything, and now he says, hey, i want this endorsement. he knows he can t win the seat without that help, but again, i think it s worth judging him on different terms than you would judge other republicans who wanted to stay in office. some of them had opportunities to change their minds and this guy looked at all of it, and said, nope, still want that support. mike barnicle, he of course when he didn t think donald trump was going to get elected president, he attacked him nonstop, attacked him viciously, said god wants better of us, said that his policies were immoral to absurd, said he was unfit for the presidency. voted for a third party candidate. and then donald trump got elected president. he wants to get elected senate, suddenly all is forgotten.
because i ve been very open that i did say those critical things and i regret them, and i regret being wrong about the guy. whoa. let s bring in right now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, way too early, kasie hunt, and msnbc contributor, mark barnacle. this guy is running in a republican primary and he said, oops, i messed up when he said of donald trump, quote god wants better of us, fellow christians, lord help us, people were a member who fought him the most aggressively. vance talking about himself, said donald trump s policies were immoral to absurd, said donald trump was unfit for the presidency. and said that donald trump was cultural heroin, and yes, he was right. but now he s trying to make ohio republicans that are going to vote in the primary, forget that. how effective do you think that will be? well, part of that is going
we were seeing stories of how front line workers, doctors, nurses, others on the front lines were dying of covid. they were surrounded by so many workers who had covid, they went out and did their jobs. they left their families in the morning. they went out, they worked all day under excruciating circumstances, under such dangerous circumstances, refrigerator trucks filled with corpses. thousands of new yorkers dying, and they kept doing their job. 15 months ago, they did it through the entire pandemic as 100,000 americans died, 200, 400, 500,000, they kept doing it. my god, we owe them so much. you really have to look back to 9/11 and see what those front line workers did on that day. and draw a through line.
those rubble mounds are more than two or three stories high. those cement slabs are massive, that sheer manpower cannot lift up. those are what these individuals are working through. you see from the video, wind gusts of 30 miles per hour. lightning and thunder and rain. these are tough situations. homicide detectives are being used on site to go and catalog items that are found here, and we should also note at 9:00 a.m., there is going to be a court hearing for multiple lawsuits as not only those who lost family members try to reckon with the damages that potentially they can seek for their lost loved ones but also you have to remember there are hundreds of individuals living inside of this tower who have nothing left themselves and are looking for a new home this morning. my god, msnbc s vaughn hillyard, thank you very much for your reporting this morning. and still ahead on morning joe, president biden announces a new push to boost coronavirus vaccinations as the delta
to say about trump back then. in a series of since deleted tweets unearthed by cnn s k file, vance tweeted his disdain for trump in october of 2016 writing quote trump makes people i care about afraid, immigrants, muslims, et cetera. because of this, i find him reprehensible. god wants better of us. god wants better of us. that s a good one. and another deleted tweet, posted after the leak of the infamous access hollywood tape vance wrote quote fellow christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. lord help us. and in march of 2017, vance tweeted quote, in four years, i hope people remember that it was those of us who empathized with trump s voters who fought him the most aggressively. some of his other remarks cannot be haphazardly erased.