A new album is being released today nearly five years after his death. The record features eight previously unreleased songs. The songs selected were written between 1983 and 2001. Were going the have to check that out. Thats it for a tuesday way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Michael sams war on traditional gridiron values started as soon as he got the phone call. This is the moment where michael sam got the news that he was going to be a member of the st. Louis rams. There you see the raw emotion. Holding. Unnecessary tenderness. Good morning. It is tuesday, may 13th. Beautiful sunrise over washington this morning. With us on set in new york, msnbc contributor mike barnicle, former Communications Director for president george w. Bush, nicole wallace, mark halperin, Donny Deutsch with important information. And in washington, columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post, msnbc political analyst and a man who has Important News mr. Eugene robinson. Good to see you in d. C. Good to see you. Joe and mika have the morning off. Theres things to be talked about this morning. The post has a story that cant not be talked about. Most importantly theres donny
deutsch. We have a realtime correction here. Ive had my publishers up all night over this. These are the kind of things, they seem small, these details. Next thing you know, theyre writing about me kissing mike barnicle. Look in the camera and ask for a correction. I would like a correction because i was there four hours earlier. This is why republicans dont trust the lame stream media. You can tour with sarah palin and, like, seriously have you know, i know youve been through this before. What an ordeal. Im reported to be in central park at times when im nowhere near central park. Not by a newspaper, but the police department. Fine, good food. Been there many times. But not this past sunday. Not this past sunday. I think we need Edward Snowdenon this. You have to draw the line at time, date, and place. The next thing you know, you will be on a date with sarah palin. You will be hunting moose. You will be making your own moose sausage. And its all going to be all over. Speaking of which, you know, mr. Scarborough has a whole new notice his wardrobe he has. Very pricey stuff. Looks good. But yet i still take the heat. Thats another trick for republicans. Thats the medias double standard. Men can spend as much as they want on their clothes but if women buy a fancy skirt its like youve been through this before. Well let you work through your ordeal. Take as much time as you need. Lets get to some of the news this morning. Donald sterling has spoken on the record with cameras rolling fully aware of his remarks this time going public. But that did not stop the disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner from sounding off again. In an interview with cnn
sterling says it was jealousy, not racism that fueled his conversation with his former mistress. But that wasnt all. Sterling only made things worse with what appeared to be a disillusioned view of the controversy around him. I think you have more of an plantation mentality than i do. I think youre more of a racist than i am . How so . Im not a racist. Ive never been a racist. Ill never be a racist. The players dont hate me. The sponsors dont hate me. The fans dont hate me. The media hates. Its all the media pushing it. Honestly you believe its just the media . I believe that 100 . I believe it, people call me by the thousands and give me support. You believe the players of the Los Angeles Clippers absolutely. They know im not a racist. And im not a racist. Anderson cooper well known for his plantation mentality. Meanwhile, former lakers guardMagic Johnson was also the subject of sterlings ire. Youre not going to believe this one. Listen. What has he done . Can you tell me . Big Magic Johnson, what has he done . Well, hes a business person. Hes got aids. Did he do any business . Did he help anybody in south l. A. . I think he has hiv. He doesnt actually have fullblown aids. What kind of guy goes to have sex with every girl and catches hiv . Is that someone we want to respect and tell our kids about . I think he should be ashamed of himself. I think he should go into the background. But what does he do for the black people . Doesnt do anything. You call up and say hes opened a lot of businesses in inner city neighborhoods. The jewish people have a company and its for people who want to borrow money with no interest. They want to give them a fishing pole. We want to help people. If they dont have money, well loan it to you. One day youll pay us back. Im just telling you. He does nothing. Its all talk. So youre saying that africanamericans dont contribute to africanamerican communities as much as jewish people . Theres no never mind. Im sorry. You know, i they all want to play golf with me. Everybody wants to be with me. This is the damage control interview. In response to those remarks about Magic Johnson, nba commissioner adam silver issued this statement, quote, i feel compelled on behalf of the nba family to apologize to Magic Johnson that he continues to be degraded by such a malicious and personal attack. The board of governors is continuing with its process to remove mr. Sterling as expeditiously as possible. Gene robinson, its hard to know where to begin when you listen to comments like that. Im just oh, my god. You could spend an entire show telling what Magic Johnson has done for africanamerican communities. Hes donated tens of millions of dollars in low income communities around the country. He could have picked any random person and said they, you know, they might not have done something for the Africanamerican Community, but not Magic Johnson. Tus just this guy is on mars or something. But hes not a racist. Right . Im not a racist. But let me tell you about every africanamerican. Its just get him out of here. Ill tell you one way that video helped, hes clearly out of his mind. Beyond being a racist. You could just see in the way he responds and as he drifts off, hes just mentally just not there. Apparently soontobe exwife
has indicated she feels strongly hes in the early stages of dementia. And he has proven it. You watch him and then he talks, hes not a well man. Just to accentuate the positive for a moment, anderson was awesome. Just let him talk. Took a lot of restraint to not step in. I thought that was good. Stepped in just enough. Thats one where you get out of the way and let the guy do it. Sterlings argument says what was on tape was out of context and this woman pulled this out of him. And then he does this interview thats supposed to clean up the mess and the true Donald Sterling comes out. Hes not fit to own an nba team anymore. What is surprising, the guy is worth a couple billion dollars. He must have handlers around not very good one. I dont know whos advising around him, but someone with a great sense of irony. Yeah. Someone who loves him just
like the players love him. Were going to leave Donald Sterling now. Lets move on to other news. Want to get you in on this, nicole. Karl rove isnt just analyzing Political Races now. Hes talking about the medical condition of one potential president ial candidate. According to the New York Post, karl rove speculated last week that Hillary Clinton may have brain damage. The former adviser to president bush repeated his theory several times to the audience. He cited the health care in 2012, remember she fell and suffered a blood clot. On thursday rove said, quote, 30 days in the hospital . And when she reappears shes wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury . We need to know whats up for that. It caused her to postpone her testimony on benghazi. Supporters note he was hospitalized for 3 days, not 30. Her spokesperson says please
assure mr. Rove she is 100 . I was asking for glasses for brain damage. And they were all out. What do you make of this . Karl did not raise this issue by accident. I worked with karl far long time. This was a deliberate strategy on his part to raise her health as an issue and i think in his view a legitimate line of questioning ahead of the next campaign. Whats interesting to me and doesnt seem to be in line with karl is that he had some of the facts wrong. She wasnt in the hospital for 30 days. Listen, this sounded pretty off the wall to me, but i worked for john mccain. His health was a question and issue every day. Dick cheney i think ended up writing a book about his health. She will answer questions about her health. If he voters and her opponents have questions about them. But this attack seemed out of place, out of time, and some of the basic facts seemed to be wrong. In the absence of a strong
front runner, leading republicans right now are more focused, less focused on finding a candidate, more focused on trying to define her. This is one of a thousand things that has happened the last month of republicans trying to see what will undermine her and maybe intimidate her out of the race. There are people around her who dont want her to go through this stuff. She did suffer an injury. She had a blood clot between her skull and her brain in 2012. What do you make of this approach from karl rove . You know, i think that the assessment that marks assessment this is an attempt to define her and raise an issue which as nicole says will be an issue if he decides to run. Any major president ial candidates issue in health or weight or whatever physical condition is a legitimate issue. But dr. Rove really should he
didnt do very well in medical school, i gather. Because he doesnt have any of his facts right. I, too, have been shopping for those special traumatic brain injury shades because i think they look cool. But i cant find them. I think, gene, it proves that karl rove probably didnt do that well in medical school. But hes doing very well in the school of demographics. He knows looking at his field, the republican field of Hillary Clinton takes each one of those potential candidates and beats them. And so this is as mark indicated, this is just another measure that theyre taking to try and knock down the presumed front runner if she does run for the democratic nomination. Another reality of this, this is a private event. I dont know who put out what he said, but at these private eastbound traffics sometimes, people like karl want to perform for the paid audience and say stuff they wouldnt necessarily say in public. When it makes its way to the public and its harder to explain. Who thinks there are private events anymore, though, mark . What is a private event these
days in a time when cell phones are everywhere. Mitt romney was at a private event. Don sterling. Karl is smarter than that. I dont think thats the issue. Karls been getting videotaped on cell phones for the better part of the last two decades. This, i think, is a strategy. He may have been trying it out on behalf of the party and nominee. While his comments may have been off, her health regardless of why she was in the hospital or whether she was in the hospital, questions about a candidates health are not only legitimate, they are always part of a president ial campaign. Particularly someone as old as she is. We take it to extremes suggesting brain damage. The substance of what he said listen. Voters are smart enough to cancel out anything thats either wrong or over the line. So if you overreach with questions about health, the voters make a correction for that. The notion she isnt going to have to answer questions even in
a democratic primary about what she went through is ludicrous. Of course she will. And wrap benghazi into this as well. Benghazi and her health into one statement. Another issue thats likely to come up during the president ial campaign coming up, the chamber of commerce is issued the party an ultimate tum when it comes to that race. Tom donahue is pass comprehensive Immigration Reform or else. If the republicans dont do it, they shouldnt bother to run a candidate in 2016. Wow. I mean, think about that. Think about who the voters are. And i just did that to get everybodys attention, but we are a nation with people without jobs and jobs without people. We need all these people that were training in the universities. The best universities in the world and we tell them to go home . When you do that, you send the work to where the people are. Nicole, i see you nodding your head over there. Hes absolutely right. I wish he hadnt walked it back and said im only saying that for effect. Hes absolutely right. That wasnt a private event. That was a public event and he was in front of the association of manufacturers. Employers. People who know a little bit about how we educate workers and then basically waste them by not having a comprehensive immigration policy. So when does the Republican Party do that . Is that on track to happen in the lame duck . Early next year perhaps. But people in the chamber need to go to republicans and say this has to happen. Because its not on track to happen. He conflated two issues. Talking about people who are highly educated people trained in this country who are then forced to go home. Hes going to have to if he wants this to happen, he has to take on citizenship for the 10 million here that are here
illegally. The Business Community if they want this to happen, they have to make republican dos it. Isnt the path to citizenship a third rail at this point in a republican primary . What candidate is able to step out, make that claim, say thats the way we should go and still get through the primaries . Jeb bush if he runs. But the party is so far and away from dealing with this. Theres two tracks. Theres Everything Else you can do to improve your standing with hispanic voters on which theyve done virtually nothing since the election. And then comprehensive Immigration Reform on which theyre Still Standing in the way. The partys committing suicide. People in the chamber want this to happen, they must act now and theyre not. Theyre giving, you know, remarks like that. But thats not how it changes. Its amazing, donny, in the world of big business and Small Business, the amount of intellectual property thats leaving after being educated here. The waste right in front of our
eyes as people come and go to premier schools. And universities around the country. And then are forced to leave and go back to their country. How about revenues leaving this country like pfizer buying companies not to pay taxes here. The moneys going, the peoples going. Thats no good. Quickly before we go, every time i hear jeb bush i i think think the same thing. How long has jeb bush been out of office . Hes been out of the governorship for a couple of terms. Eight years, ten years. I know having been out of advertising for ten years now, im out of it. Jeb bush isnt out of it. I dont know. Thats a long time to not be in the business youre in. Thats a long time in any business. Hes in the business. No, hes not. What has he been for eight years . Participating in the debates. I participate in debates every day. Im just saying in any business,
any in industry when youre gone for a decade as far as really hands in it, thats a big deal. Well, Hillary Clinton has a similar challenge because shes been in the state department engaging in diplomacy which is a far cry from president ial politics. Theres a big difference. Thats one of the highest a offices in the country. Go to iowa and see how many people ask about foreign aid. One of the biggest issues youve raised, the difference is that a lot of people i suspect republicans are clamoring for jeb bush to get in. Nobody is clamoring for you to get back in your business. As a result of page six. Youre right. Libel and slander and Everything Else. Still ahead on morning joe, hell be trading the capitol floor for a booth. And then the United States of secrets, documentary film maker michael kirk is here with
headlines gripping new project. And scott brown said earlier this month he probably doesnt have the best credentials to run for senate in New Hampshire. Our casey hundredkasie hunt givr crack at that answer. Also the list of high profile people who have canceled commencement addresses this year because of protests keeps growing. Well tell you who the newest person is to join that list. But first bill kairns has a look at the forecast. Good morning to you. Yesterday was the hottest day weve seen this early summer season. We were 90 for the first time in hartford, connecticut, yesterday. That warmth was from boston all the way down to d. C. Today things change. We got cool air coming in off the atlantic. Also its pouring rain this morning with thunderstorms in western new york. There is a little bit of flooding out there on the roads. Be careful driving there south of buffalo. So the forecast for your tuesday, look at boston. Went from mid80s yesterday to 53 today. Thats because of the cold water
just off shore and the breeze coming in. Even new york city about 20 degrees cooler. But youre still going to be very hot from philadelphia southwards. Southeast you look great today. All the troublesome weather is in the middle of the country. Especially in texas. Weve got a lot of heavy rain there. Thats going to be the case for flash flooding today during the day. So from dallas to houston, san antonio, all the way back up in there towards little rock, a chance for flash flooding. Already had had about five inches of rain in areas east of texas. Chicago you had bad storms yesterday. Chance for more storms today. How about the west coast . L. A. Today, 96 degrees. As we go towards tomorrow, we should be just as warm out there. Theyre still dealing with a horrible drought. When you see San Francisco at 90 degrees, thats impressive stuff. Thats a very cool city right by the bay. More morning joe when we come back. Can and when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens . I thinkim sold ers speak for themselves. Hes a selling machine put it there. And there, and there, and there. La qui