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Barnacle. >> im ready to go. i can close it down. ive closed this show down many times. >> well, willie, which explains why the red sox maybe, maybe we squeak ahead of baltimore next year, maybe. >> i think its the rays year, red sox fourth and fifth with the yankees, i think. >> is that right? >> yeah. >> the rays payroll, what, $65 million? >> theyre going to be good. >> they are good. >> joe, we see who is in charge of this marriage because the second mika is not here, were into baseball. >> ...

Mika has the day off with her family, a long-planned family event which shes sorry shes not here because well be talking about baseball most of the morning. im just joking. were doing politics. so along with willie and me, we have mike barnacle, john heilman, donnie deutsch is here and guru, advertising guru and all around good guy wearing baby gap t-shirts in all black this week only, donnie deutsch. actually, thats he week. also the aps legendary jonathan -- >> okay. right. >> washington ancho...

For pbs news hour, yamish. willie, i know mika would agree with me and jonathan lamere would agree with me this morning that you got in the boston red sox, like we understand the yankees are going to probably win by 15, maybe 20 games next year. >> thats right, yeah. >> so were kind of playing and lamere, feel free to chime in. were kind of playing for maybe third or fourth place. we have joe kelly who is our best pitcher. we know were never going to be a team that wins with, you know, by paying...

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Ive got these calendars, these beautiful, creepy calendars. give me a can of water. >> my god, it is classic "saturday night live." welcome to "morning joe" on this monday, october 1st. we made it to october. donny deutsch is with us and we also have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and co-host and executive producer of show times "the circus" john heilemann, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments elise jordan. nbc news chief white house correspondent ...

So important, is to not just talk to him, but then to talk to leads. who else did he talk to about this incident? who else was there? theres talk about a former girlfriend. did he make statements to anyone else about this? in the past month has he talked to brett kavanaugh or others about what his story would be if questioned by the fbi. i would push there. but whats important is you dont just talk to him, you talk to those around him to find out if what hes telling you is truthful. >> all right...

And a lot of men, of course, are very sympathic to dr. ford watching her testimony and how compelling and convincing it was but at the same time theres this group of americans experiencing this story in the exact opposite way. >> there were people moved on both sides. i can tell you mika was watching it. i was too. mika teared up watching dr. fords testimony and also teared up watching brett kavanaughs testimony when the talk turned to his daughters, when it turned to his parents, when it turned...

Women. did you ever hear him say to a male office holder youre the best looking guy? >> we have mika. i wanted to set this up for you. >> exactly. >> sam doesnt really care. so you tell me. what do you think? >> i think both are right. im sure he meant to pay her a compliment. >> im glad i waited for that answer! >> im sure he meant to pay a compliment to her and meant to be nice but, quite frankly, it divides women and up and divides them up to separate them by looks and probably was a little h...

Background checks. i think we saw something important yesterday. i need to hear the president of the united states come out and go after his own base. right? ive gone after the nra. ive talked talked about background checks. joe manchin is going after the nra talking about the need for background checks. >> call chris dodd. >> a lot of people have done it. the president of the united states need to it and joe biden needs to do it and talk about the violent video game. im sorry to repeat it but s...

About violent american culture. >> we have only done two or three. the mental health component has been there. limited but it has been there. and ive been surprised at how little the culture component has been part of this debate. because traditionally that has been the counterpoint guns and culture. >> mika and i sat down and really powerful democratic leaders in america. and we talked about guns. said, if this is going to work, because they were saying how does it work? i said you have to talk...