Complaining about a rerun of saturday night live, expressing outrage over a sidelined fox news host and criticizing the late senator john mccain for the second consecutive day. A story Michael Beschloss points out this was the week in 1973 mccain was released from prison in vietnam but i digress. Following those morning tweets, the president headed to church. While the confines of the white house and st. Johns episcopal no doubt felt peaceful on this st. Patrick sunday, the 2020 storm looms on the horizon. Beto orouke blanketed iowa during the first days of his campaign, drawing big crowds, sucking up oxygen and standing on every tabletop he could find. Today beto orouke was in wisconsin where he found more things to stand off and continued to draw stark contrast with the president. Can you please nice . Great question. I think everyone is applauding because its the best question thats been asked today. The way in which we treat each other, sam, the words that we use are so important. We dont lock children up in cages out of nowhere. It follows the rhetoric and language that we use. You dont see the spike in hate crimes in years in a row and counting without the kind of permission thats been provided by this president. So the antidote to that is not more meanness and pettiness and smallness and hatred, it is as you suggest, sam, being nice to one another. Im going to do my best to do. Thank you for the question. Meanwhile orourkes First Campaign swings came as senator Kirsten Gillibrand made her White House Run official n a web video released this morning and as former Vice President joe biden seemed to get a little ahead of himself. I totally get criticized by the new left. I have the most progressive record of anybody running of anybody who would run. I didnt mean anybody who would run. And with that id like to welcome in my panel, White House Reporter to l. A. Times, eli stokols, policy editor for the daily beast, sam stein, White House Correspondent for and just back to the trial from new hampshire, msnbc political reporter ali vitali. Thank you all for being here tonight. The president , sam, on a little bit of a terror. Little bit. This morning, i stopped counting the number of things or people he insulted kind of along the way. Basically i was wondering how much of that has to do with whats been going on, on the 2020 campaign trail. Its hard to tell. It usually is whats on his tv that inspires him. So there was a direct correlation this morning between one of the Auto Worker Union members being on fox and him tweeting about the gm plant closing. And anchors. Anchors, he didnt like their programming. Judge Jeanine Pirro wasnt on last night. He didnt like that. I think its bizarre because hes also the president. But you have to imagine also heres someone who loves to be the center of attention and has the discussion constantly revolving around him. To a certain degree as the candidates step forward and they suck up the media oxygen, he feels a competitive response to that and try to draw those cameras back towards him and sometimes it would be an utterly outlandish ways and sometimes utterly offensive ways and were seeing it this morning. Amish to that point beto orouke has kind of captured Media Attention during the week, anyway, in a way honestly i was trying to remember the last time we saw Something Like that. We have not seen as much of it, live events on the campaign trail in the coffee shots certainly since the 2016 race and it was donald trump getting that coverage at the end. Yes, and what you saw was the president lash out at beto orouke the way donald trump would but he standed making fun of his hand gestures saying hes someone that is essentially just weird. I think its right to say the president is feeling this pressure and wants to be the sun everyone revolves around. But i think theres an idea he cant help himself when he has enemies and decides to pick on you, you will do even if you passed away like the case with john mccain. I think about his legacy and thinks about the funeral john mccain got and thinks i will probably not get something similar. And the mueller investigation, everyone is waiting for d. C. To drop, i think you have someone watching tv and hate tweeting all of these people. Eli, how afraid is the white house of beto orouke and 2020 field as its shaping up . I dont know how afraid he is of beto, though hes aware of him. Biden is somebody who i think agitates or unnerves the president a little bit more just because the president i think understands that his path to reelection is through the midwest. Biden is strong there. But i think that hes probably wary of beto orouke in the fact this is a person, like the president himself, is this sort of cult personality on the left is driving through sheer personality or charisma. Not substance or policy ideas, policy ideas are not fully formed yet but hes out there getting intense media coverage. That looks familiar to the president when he sees reporters chasing after beto orouke in the coffee shop, thats what it was like when donald trump entered the race. I think theres something unique about beto orouke, obviously, the president will understand and identify with. I think also this has been a tough week for the president. He was rebuked twice by the republicans. They voted unanimously in the house to release the Mueller Report. The president tweeted yesterday, oh, i told them to do that. Thats obviously not true but hes trying to shift the narrative because he hates to look weak. He did the same thing friday in the oval office trying to pretend he didnt try to convince them not to do that. Not true. Not true. But he cant stand to look weak and as sam pointed out, he does to the like not being the center of attention. Democrats will look at how to separate themselves from congressman orourke and republicans honestly are going a step further, surprise surprise. The president , as we referenced, mocked his hand gestures this week. And thats the theme that comes up a lot lately. And official account of the Republican Party tweeted, on this st. Pattys day a special message from noted irishman Robert Francis orourke, that included a purported mugshot from a dwi. Orourke was asked about this a little while ago in milwaukee. Do you have any response to that . Do you think thats does that offend you . Or do you think that is perpetuating the stereotype of irish people . I have been asked the last 3 1 2 days, 23, 24 events, and anyone can ask any question they wish to. Was i asked about that or was i asked to Say Something negative about another candidate or someone from another party. I take from that that people want us focused on the big picture, on our goals. They want us to be defined not by pettiness or personal attacks we see and ones like the ad you just described. It is not the first time republican officials have gone after beto and his heritage, including donald trump jr. , who once asked, what is authentic about an irish guy pretending to be hispanic . Asking for friends in texas. This raises questions about texas and cruz, who is cuban heritage, versus beto, a typical spanish nickname for roberto. He, of course, does have a very irish name. But the tweet from the gop, the response has been overwhelming. How many people were possibly offended by this . Pointing back to tropes about irish people and drunkenness that quite simply, i certainly thought we had left in the past. Here we again. I think it actually says something about the Republican Party now in the age of trump because that felt very trumpian to me as i was looking at that tweet. Trump is someone who will go there and say the thing youre not supposed to say but maybe he wont say it again but its out there. People are thinking about it. This is a sign of what trump is doing to the Party Overall and i think its a good thing that people are come out and kind of rebuking a tweet like this but i think it says something about what trump has done to the Republican Party. So this 2020 campaign is quickly becoming a race about labels, as we were just discussing. But also socialists, capitalists and all of the policies that fall in between those two, ali has been following several candidates in recent weeks. She did some reporting on this very subject. Im running to serve you as president of the United States of america in politics you define yourself or someone else will. Democratic socialism. Populism. Centrism. Moral vandalism. Awe thor tarean. Sobelism. Reporter candidates from all parts of the party are jockeying for position to play out a about faye and isms. Are you ready for another radical idea . What was radical in 2016 . Now is the time for us to go forward and pass a medical for all single payer road plan. Thats why we need medicare for all. Thats why we need medicare for all. I think medicare for all is one of the possible paths. And thats why i believe we have to get to universal health care. I think any politician who throws around phrases like medicare for all has a responsibility to explain how we would get there. Despite a change in public opinion, most candidates want to keep the term socialism at arms length. You said youre not a democratic socialist. Im not. I strongly believe we need to have medicare for all. And within that system do you think thats socialist or not, medicare for all . No, its about providing health care to all people. I say theres plenty of money in this world and country but its in the wrong hands. Do you consider yourself a capitalist . I consider myself a social democrat. Theres a lot we have to do to make sure theres capitalism is just. Once you get back into labels am i a capitalist, am i a socialist . How many of a capitalist, how much socialist . It becomes silly. Some are willing to explain the labels all together. This is a capitalist country with socialism tendencies. While democrats position themselves as the party of ideological hair, the chief operating officer is hard at work branding them as extreme. Theyre embracing open borders, socialism and extreme lateterm abortion. While rising stars on the left push back. It seems like moderate is not a stance, its just an attitude towards life of like, the meh is like worship now for what . Candidates wedged between a campaignready president and hungry base already. Great reporting, ali. Summing up just how this field has emerged. We saw you with some voters. What is your sense of how connected the conversation is about all the of these isms that we have in washington, the president is having and how people are thinking about it. I think it kind of divides based on democrats and republicans. Republicans who hear President Trump go out and talk about socialism, thats red meat. They love it. Want to hear that. What about democratic primary voters . Democratic primary voters, not so much. They were willing to answer questions about capitalism and socialism but they werent so plugged into, for example, John Hickenlooper answering youre not a capitalist. We get bogged down because we would like a direct answer but voters are kind of down to hear whatever the pitch is early on. Theyre not in a decisionmaking mindset right now. They want to meet everybody in new hampshire, take as many selfies as possible, and same in iowa, get their hands on the candidates and ask questions. Rhetorically anyway, in terms of hands. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. Sam, how effect do you think socialism will be a tact for republicans . Is that scary . Theyve done it basically every election since fdr. Its always the attack they go after democrats for. Obama was considered and dubbed a socialist in retrospect. Now the democrats look back and say it was far from anything like that. Corporatist, perhaps. I am struck a bit how differently, to your point, theres two different conversations happening. One is this meaningful universe where we talk to candidates and want to get the answers from them. The other is the voters who dont see it in terms of labels. They look to the candidates in large degree and coming together around a lot of the main policy, like medicare for all, for instance, and one of the key elements is how you distinguish between candidates is what they choose to prioritize and how they choose to prioritize. So, for instance, you have candidates who are now not a socialist or moderate but theyre the ones who emphasize Climate Change as the main issue to emphasize. And that becomes the most, or im a generational candidate, and this is about a generational movement. You have beto orouke who is a moderate ideologically but his appeal is about sort of creating this post part sin positive agenda. Its not really about a label, its about an approach and policy prescription. We will talk about where beto orouke stands on policy or not. Thats an interesting vain. Ali, thank you very much. Were just getting started. Still to come, a live report from new zealand as the president s chief of staff said its absurd to link the president s comments to the horrible massacre there. Plus, Congress Rebukes the president over his National Emergency declaration. And in our 8 00 hour, hes back. Anthony scaramucci joins us live. 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The Washington Post reports he was aggressively lobbying senators in the runup to that vote. The paper writes, quote, in numerous calls with republican senators in recent days, the president spoke with the battle almost exclusively in personal terms, telling them they would be voting against him, while brushing aside constitutional concerns. But the president painted a much different picture of those conversations after vetoing the bill on friday. I put no pressure on anybody. I actually said, i could have gotten some of them to come along. I said i want you to vote your heart, do what you want to do. Ill let them know when theres pressure, and i told them that. Joining the conversation, Nbc News National Security and justice reporter Julia Ainsley. Just to be clear, we mentioned this once already on this show but i think its worth mentioning again that what the president said there is not the case. Just not true. Totally the opposite is true. He cared very much and tried very hard and failed. Senator tom tillis changed his vote because the white house was pressuring him so much. Its not like we have deepseated reporting on background. The president said on camera, im calling people. My aides are calling people. Were lobbying congress. So its bizarre that he would say this when we have evidence, easy evidence, not evidence we have to dig for, to show that he was at the white house absolutely pressuring republicans. He tweeted frantically about it to the days up to the vote. Its not just bizarre but troubling somebody could like so egregiously and publicly when all of the evidence is out there. Its what he always does. He tells you what he wants because he points your attention right to t thats whats remarkable about the statements in the tweets saturday. He said i didnt do that. The reporting