Spread of zika. A virus that spreaded creating tragic results compounded by the fact that those who suffers zikas mt sious effects are babies. And that was just one of a long list of unsettling events in 2016. In june, orlandos pulse nightclub became the scene of the worst mass shooting in u. S. History. When a gunman went on a three hour rampage killing 50 people and wounding 53 more. That was followed just weeks later by theuly attack in the french cityf nice. Where dozens of people were killed when a driver plowed a truck into a crowd that was gathered for a bastille day celebration. That same month. Peaceful demonstration in dallas, texas, turned terrifying when a rooftop sniper killed five Police Officers and wounded seven others. And of course, theres the reason those protesters were there in the first place, the dallas attack came during the same week that police shot and killed 37yearold alton sterling while he was selling cds outside a Convenience Store in baton rouge, louisiana. Which was follo the very next day by the Police Shooting of 32yearold Philando Castile after he and his girlfriend were stopped in st. Paul, minnesota, for what was said to be a broken taillight. It seemed that in 2016 there was just no getting away from our grief. And no matter what genera of American Music you love, 2016 gave you a reason to mourn. The list of legendary artists we lost this year just kept on growing. Earth, wind, and fire founder maurice white, rock and roll icon david bowie, merle haggard, one of the country musics most influential artists, and eagles Founding Member and guitarist glenn fry. There was the death that came as the year began, natalie cole, whoo carried on the musical leg i have is her iconic father and became an icon in her own right. Just before years end, consummate Leonard Cohen who died in november. There was that death that felt like it came way too soon when malik taylor better known as tribe called quest fight dog died at the age of 45. Just after hed been recording the groups long awaited sixth album. And of course there was the death that none of us saw coming and couldnt imagine. 2016 was the year we lost prince. The News Business also suffered devastating losses this year. John mcglauf lin died in august at age 89. And just in the last month, we lost the great gwen eiffel who in 2013 became the first black journalist who cohost the pbz news hour. Of course that wasnt the only devastating loss that few could predict. 2016 also brought us the shocking political upset that robbed america of one of the most qualified people to ever seek the american presidency. And the potential first woman president. And it left our country in the stubby and very tiny hands of a reality show star who to put it mildo one ever, ever, ever, ever, ever imagined as president of the United States. On the upside, the arrival of election day put us all out of our collective misery out of a year of endearing what my colleague chris hayes says was our divisive and dem gojic campaign of trump. Even as we stare down the uncertain future of the new presidency, theres still reason for hope. Because in 2017, you can look forward to not facing the madness alone. Because 2016 also brought you weekend mornings with a. M. Joy. Take a look. We to want bring in joy reid who we welcome to the 11 00, about to be 12 00 shift. Joining us now is the great and the good joy reid. Host of a. M. Joy. Weekends here on msnbc. Joy reid, host of msnbcs excellent mustwatch a. M. Joy on the weekends. Joy reid, host of a. M. Joy. Joy reid, host of a. M. Joy. Weekends on msnbc. Joy reid is the host of a. M. Joy weekend mornings on msnbc, of course, and joins me now. When you have Chris Christie standing up and leading these, you know, these chants and even in the room they thought they sounded cool. Outside of the room, it sounded crazy. You have these people chanting, guilty, guilty, guilty. And lock her up. And lock her up. When remember republicans apparent the price was wrong. Good morning, and welcome to a. M. Joy despite the condemnation from the donald trump from the National Security establishment, hes still within four points of Hillary Clinton on questions of National Security. Why is that . Because he exploits fear. What do you suppose is the reason that he is so excitable . He just has thin skin. First of all, dieing to get your reaction to Michelle Obamas speech. Michelle obama is like a prophet on the mountain. No matter what condition he was in, he still has this spirit and that humor burning inside of him. Oh my goodness, that is great. A legend yourself, sir, thank you for taking the time to be with us. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, sugar, it was fun talking to you. One of the groups that has created donald trump is the congress, the Republican Congress. If i ask you a question about donald trump, and you give me an answer about Hillary Clinton, i think its fair for the people who are watching the show to come to the conclusion that either, a, you dont know the answer to my question, b, the answer to my question would not help your candidate, or three, youre not here to answer my question, youre here to give talking points that help your candidate. By the time were on on saturdays and sundays, you know, the news of the week has already happened. So basically im the standin for you. Im the standin for the viewer whose spe the entire week going youv got to be kidding me and screaming at activitynd throwing their socks at the tv. I will throw socks at the tv for you on the air two days a week and observe how ridiculous it is. You have been one of the smartest, bestinformed and most acutely observant voices in any media on this election this year. Youve always been great. And ive always been a fan, but on this election, somethings happened and you have really just hit your stride in a way that youve become utterly indispensable. I know you are, but what am i. Lets play hardball. Im joy reid, well deserved night off tonight. Youre going to have truck ta co. Trucks at every corner wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on a second with 74 days to go. Where can things possibly go from here . Lets bring in our friend, joy reid for her view of what we have heard thus far, joy. This has been quite a night. It was a stunning debate that would have been much more fitting in the third world than it was in the United States of america. To that point, joy, by the way, youre not going to get out of st. Louis tonight without somebody buying you a beer. So prepare yourself. Youre a fan favorite. And coming up, the 2016 election was an ugly televised brawl. Our next guest has seen quite a few of those in his time. Stay with us. Ive spent my life planting a sizesix, nonslip shoe into that door. On this side, i want my customers to relax and enjoy themselves. But these days its phon before forks. They want wifi out here. But behind that door, i need a private connection for my business. Wifi pro from comcast business. Public wifi for your customers. Private wifi for your business. Strong and secure. Good for a door. And a network. Comcast business. Built for security. Built for business. Welcome back. The 2016 election look ld like something out of a Reality Television show. Actually it was literally something and someone out of a Reality Television show and the biggest response that we got to any interstlu we did on a. M. Joy this year was with the king of reality tv, jerry springer. The interview happened the day after america saw this for the first time. I gotta use some tick tacks in case of start kissing her. I just start kissing them. Its like a magnet. They let you do. You can do anything. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. Mr. Springer, sir, great to talk to you. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me, joy. I want you to download your thoughts on last 48 hours of news. Never in my life, and ive been following politics since i was a nerdy teenager did i ever think that we would be talking about groping, forced kissing, vulgarity, and the the potential president of the United States in the same sentence. Your thoughts . Yeah, well, first of i would say, you know, people always are asking me where do you find the guests of your show. And my answer now is at the trump tower. Thats where you find them. What makes what happened last night, the tapes we saw last night, it reminds me for those of us old enough to remember, during the watergate era when people were saying all these thgs about nixon, but people were sll supporting him, then suddenly at the hearings, Alexander Butterfield says wait, we have the tapes. We recorded everything that was going on. And once people heard those tapes, once people read what exactly his words were, that was the beginning of the end. And then Barry Goldwater and other senators went to nixon and said youve got to step down. But jerry so what happened with all of this is once people see it, now they cant deny it anymore. Trump is who he is. And we should have known that. And the we should have known that is the point i want to get to. We have heard countless priorities of the superpakistan, the clinton campaign, women, youve got to treat them like s. All you need in life is a nice piece of a. His vulgarity has been on tape for a year. People know who this guy is. This has not been a secret. Why is this particular tape so much more insend area for republicans than all of that past stuff . What he just said about iowa lease ya machado. I dont think these are just words. In this tape, he is not just using bad language or insults. In this tape, he is driep describing what he does. This is action, not just words. And this is what took it over the line. He talks about what he does to women. Not just using bad words or offcolored jokes. This isnt locker room banter. This is admitting, on tape, what you do to women. Im a star. I can get her. I can grab her by her you know what and do whatever i want to her. This is what i do. Well, if he says thats what he does, he shouldnt get anywhere near the white house. Yeah. I mean we have Reality Television creep into our president ial politics obviously by way of donald trump, but its not as if this is the first time that the thing has invaded sort of the politically secular. The 1992 president ial campaign was a lot about the pursuit of bill clintons philandering and trying to make that an issue and it was salacious, and it was a change, right . People knew that john f. Kennedy was a ladys man, but wasnt something that the press reported. 92 changed all of that. The impeachment of the president of the United States over infidelity changed all of that. Have we reached a point where it is so gross, where it is sort of driven by this kind of stuff that you cant go back . Yeah perhaps. But i think theres nothing on the other side of the ledger to say, well, he said that, but look, look at his great experience and office. Look how much good he would do for the country. The fact is, i dont care if he ever did anything bad to a woman. This man has no business being president of the United States. Hes never run anything that has to do with delivering social services. This man is totally incompetent to be president. Let him be you know, hes better on tv than i am. Yeah, i get him on television, but the white house . The leader of the free world . The very first job in politics is going to be oh, can i be president . Can i be president . How little respect do we have for our country that we honestly believe that we will turn over our country to a man that knows nothing about world affairs, how you deliver social services, and in his heart, has never been about i want to make lives better for other people. Everything hes accomplished has been for himself. Where, in his 70 years, has he made life better for other people . As the purpose of what hes doing . I dont know why we have this discussion. How can trump be president of the United States . Come on. Its crazy. Its really crazy. Yeah. Well jerry springer, i thank you so much for being here not only talk show host, but you are a follower of politics and former politician yourself. Appreciate your thoughts. Appreciate you being here. Wow. He was hot fire. All right. A week before the election of our very first reality show president , i had the opportunity to sit down with legendary film maker Michael Moore. His movie Michael Moore in trumpland looked at White Working Class voters in ohio and their love for donald trump. So im a big fan of your work. And so watching each of your films is kind of an adventure and i feel ties them altogether. I wrote down in my notes as i was watching trumpland pathy. You have this empathy for your subjects, really no matter what the subject is, and in this case, youre in wilmington, ohio, and sort of the heart of trump country. The way that you approached the trump voters who were in your audience was from a position of empathy. How does one in this noxious, toxic environment deal with trump voters from a position of empathy . Well, ive never been asked that question. Thats a great question. I think its because i believe my basic philosophical belief is that were all americans. And were all on the same boat, and were going to sink or swim together. And id rather with not sink. And i think that we can have our differences, and still realize that we share we probably have more in common than not. I know we have more in common or not. All want good schools, we to want breathe clean air. We dont want kids taking guns into schools. Those basic things, right. And the things we dont agree on, like i said, in the film, if you dont believe in gay marriage, dont get gay married. If you are against abortion, dont have one. If i dont like guns, im not going to own one. You know, you want to own one, you can own one, just be safe with it, lock it up so the kids dont get it. You did some fun things with like some of the fears that people particularly trump voters have about our culture now. You have this concede where the mexican voters up in the balcony behind a wall, the muslim voters up in the top where there was a drone going to fly over. You did fun things like that, and you talked guns, the idea that, you know, only women, if only women owned guns, wed have less violence. And what i found remarkable, nobody walked out. Nobody booed. And you actually got people to laugh at that. How, how . I dont know . I read the new yorker review, the movie, and i was reading this, i was learning through them about my own movie i didnt realize. But he was saying the same thing you just said. That how on earth were fourferent constituencies in the audience,rump voters, hillary voters, there were greens and bernie people and people said were not voting at all. And the whole show is trying to reach all four groups at the same time and have none of them leave. You know, i dont as i sit here ive got to watch it a few more times to figure out what i did. Its true, they didnt walk out. Especially the trump guys. You see them at the beginning of the film. Theyre all like this, you know, but they start to warm up. And i think humor is a great vehicle by which to try and reach people. And so, you know, and i didnt i didnt make fun of them as trump voters. Yeah, i went after trump, but not them. Its kind of like when hillary said that about the basket of deplorables. I actually do i agreed with her. If you are racist, if you are sex ix, thats the deplorable. And that is a correct term. The thing i didnt agree on is that when she said they were ir redeemable. That, you know, i really want to believe that no one is without redemption. That, you know, its possible to reach just about anybody. And so, i wanted to reach out to them. And by the end of the show, they were they we ki of into it. Now granted, a lot of the men were there with their wooif ts and girlfriends for hillary and they couldnt leave. I think this is where people get really confounded by really Republican Voters and trump voters. You talk about the american brexit states, michigan, pennsylvania, ohio, they are hurting, they feel like the economy is not working for them, but theyre choosing a guy who bought chinese steel, not american steel, whose Health Care Plan is essentially to go back to the old system where you can be discriminated and Health Savings accounts. Who has the money for that . How do you explain the irony of those american brexiteers really choosing somebody thats never chosen the little guy in his life . And its just like in england. That White Working Class of industrial england was so angry, rightfully so, at their condition, you know, losing their jobs, no longer a part of the middle class, and they wanted to toss a bomb into the system. Legally. By going to vote. And sending a message to leaving europe. Then a few days after when their economy practically crashed, theyre like, oh, well maybe that was too strong of a message. And thats whats going to happen here. I mean, i grew up in michigan, i live in michigan, i am that. I am an angry white guy over the age of 35. So, so and i have a high school education. I am as perfect demographic. And so all these guys i grew up with, and they are mostly guys, not all, but and i say to them, dudes, you know, you have every right to upset. But this is not the way, the ballot is not an anger management tool. You dont go in there next tuesday. There are other ways to send a message. Organize politically, we need that fight of income inequality is going to be with us as clintons president. And i will work with you. I will be there. Ill have your back on this. And bernie does and other people do too. We are not going away. But, dont do this on tuesday because this man is a fraud. Hes giving you a complete snow job. You havent read his proposals, you just hear what he says and it sounds good because he has such a brazen i dont give a damn what anybody thinks. And, you know youre better than that. Thats what i tell them. Youre better