We look forward to seeing that kick off. Thats going to do it for a wednesday edition of way too early. Morning joe starts right now. The top democrat in the u. S. Senate majority leader harry reid has now mentioned the bill nra Koch Brothers this year more than 140 times. Er in in it to make the money. An attempt to buy our democracy. Its dishonest, deceptive, farce and unfair. It is wrong. Incorrect. [ laughter ] erroneous. [ laughter ] even the keystone debate, mr. President , theyre one of the main owners of all that stuff up there. That ugly tar stuff in canada. They are, if not the largest, second largest owner of that stuff up there. [ laughter ] good morning. Hey will. Good morning, its wednesday, may the 14th, on set, along with me, weve got joe here thats here. Thats all. Msnbc. Its a good show, right . Yes. You cant always predict who is going to be here. Its exciting. Its interesting, it remains the name of the show. Mike barnicle is here. Former Communications Director for george w. Bush, nicolle wallace. Jon stewart went in last night. And landed another blow right here. This guy spent millions fighting Online Gambling. Tens of millions fighting organized labor. In the 2012 president ial election he gave 90 million to republican candidates. Perhaps because he thought he would help him take on quote,
radical islam and unions. Yeah, thats right. Laugh harry reid is going to crush this guy. So dont pick on him. Wait . Sorry, what did you say there . Dont pick on the billionaire that puts money in politics. Hes not in this for money. Hes in it because he has certain ideological views. [ laughter ] what the [ bleep ] difference does that make . [ laughter ] what are his ideological objections to online that the largest gambling casino has . I cant tell overt internet who is under age. I cant tell whose got financial difficulties. I cant tell who is not gaming responsibly. But if you come to my casino [ laughter ] you dont enter without answering a very detailed
financial solvency questionnaire. If you lost john stevens, you lu lost everything. He didnt make a distinction between the koches and the adelsons. And also speaking of daily show skits, lets continue with news about karl rove. Karl rove is dullinging down that Hillary Clinton should be prepared for scrutiny about her health if she decides to run in 2016. The republican strategist pushed back who claimed he openly claimed the former first lady had brain damage. He said, of course, she doesnt have brain damage. Still, its pretty clear where hes trying to aim voters attention. My point was, if Hillary Clinton were going to run for president , but she would not be
human if this didnt enter into consideration. This will be a topic in the 2016. They will be 69. She will be 77 if she serves two terms and this ends up being an issue. Clintons spokesperson blasted roves remarks saying Hillary Clinton has recovered 100 from the blood clot from 2012. A republican and the white house getting involved as well. This was not clever. This wasnt an insinuation. This was karl rove running head first into a brick wall. Nothing drives people away from a decent office than this kind of attack. They say why would i put my family through this. It weakens in both parties, it weakens the fabric of both. Heres what i say about cognitive capacity, that dr. Rove might have been the last person on Election Night to recognize and acknowledge that
the president won reelection in the state of ohio. Well leave it at that. Go back to the Newt Gingrich comment it weakens the fabric. Thats tough talk coming from newt. We go fresh off the thrilla in manila. Well let you be the one around the table to defend karl rove this moraning. He didnt say brain damage he said she was wearing a kind of glasses that were associated with severe brain trauma or Something Like that. Which i find this fascinating because she wore coke bottle glasses in college. You have ever seen those pictures of hillary in the late 60s and early 70s . Whats karl thinking . I think she couldnt wear her
sunglasses, she they gave her a pair of glasses. She was wearing the same style four years ago and her traumatic brain injury didnt get in the way of being the most successful secretary of state in history. Let me try to explain karl. What karl let me try to explain karl. Hey, i feel different. Karl didnt just stumble into this line of questioning about Hillary Clintons health, okay . Hes one of the most prepared and deliberate speakers. And when he gave speeches at the white house, people were always doing you know, reading research. So this karls nature, is that things are talked through. He plans these types of thing. So are you telling me that he thought through this before saying this . Well, i think he thought
through and is probably, you know, maybe not in front of whats his strategy . Well, i think injecting questions about her Health Crisis from a few years ago is something that karl thinks is fair game. And i think that the fact that were having a threeday conversation about hillarys age and health, he is in this objective. Its not about hillarys age and health. Its about whether karl rove suffered brain damage. Well, to some. But some of the people that may be thinking about 2016 have definitely given some thought to she is giving it all she has. Thats all ive got. Karl rove you know what can we go back to jon stewart, is there anything else . You gave us an ending. I mean listen, katrina was easy compared to this. Well, when you rebecome president , you release the results of your colonoscopy. You know what karl was trying to do. If she becomes president , there will be countless discussions, over the years she will release her this comes directly from the stupid part of it youre talking about. Ronald reagan got inaugurated at 69. When he starts at 69 and leads at 77, i think about Ronald Reagan. Thats not a bad thing. There anything that they can device to try and diminish Hillary Clinton, theyre going to use brain damage, benghazi, boko haram now. Thats what this is. Thats all this is. Jim peters go ahead. I was going to follow up on what nicole was saying, shes exactly right, this is not
accidental. Hillarys health is something that democratic strategist have been whippering about for about a year now, when they talk about what can ruin her candidacy, its always a question of her health. Heres a case of the most public visible case really spilling out into the open. Now, one thing i think this is not, and youve heard some of this chatter over the last couple of days, i dont think this is sexist. I think you would have had these questions come up about biden. Its ageist. Nicholl, remember i told you, they released that ad, how many houses did john mccain have . Well, he cant quite remember. That was an attack against his Family Wealth and his age. And his age, right. These questions were going to come out, anyway. I think the question is whether or not karl rove has temporarily taken it off the table by being
so crass about it. But the other thing that shouldnt get lost, it is interesting, look at how the clintons respond. Their First Response is pretty funny. Shes 100 . But they escalated throughout the day to near hysteria through the end of the day, whoever gave the initial response should be given the job of Rapid Response and whoever gave the second or two should be the understudy. For people that dont sit around sets like this or dont talk to journalists, there have been questions off camera, speculation. I only say this because jerry was talking about republicans. It wasnt just republican a lot of reporters were worried about her health. Of course, they had absolutely no evidence whatsoever. They were worried. They were worried with justification after that fall. With some justification, it took her a while to come back
but it was speculation. And karl rove didnt help himself and he didnt help the Republican Party by speculating like he did. When we get the results of all of these personal data, colonoscopies and everything else, i think well find out shes healthy as a horse. There you have it. Marco is clarifying remarks . Yeah, going back to the Climate Change remarks. Senator rubio found himself the target of unwanted headlines after he recently entered the Climate Change debate talking at the National Press club. The potential 2016 president ial contender tried to clarify remarks he made on sunday. Here are the original remarks and what he had to say about them yesterday. I dont agree with the notion that some are putting out there including scientists that somehow that are actions that have is an impact on our climate. Let me get this straight, you do not think that the human activity, the production of co2
is caution changes . I do not believe that human activity is causing changes the way the scientists are portraying. I do not propose the laws they pass will do anything about it. Headlines notwithstanding, of course, the climate is changing because climate is always changing, thats a measurable you can see. There is Climate Change. Ive never conceded that the climate is not changing. Thats not the question before me as a policymaker. The question before me as a policymaker, is that if we ban all coal in the u. S. , if we ban all carbon emission information the United States, will it change the dramatic changes in climate and the dramatic weather impacts that were now reading about . And anyone that says that we will, it not being truthful. But for you to go out and say if you pass this bill that i am proposing this will somehow lead to us have less tornadoes and hurricanes, thats not an accurate statement. Seems rational to me. Listen, i may be out of step with my party on this. I dont know where you have to live to think that the climate isnt changing dramatically. And miami is one of those places where they havent seen dramatic change. Its not the same thing as acknowledging that Climate Change is real. I guess whats interesting about this, im not exactly sure who marcos audience is. He says he believes in Climate Change. I do believe, like he said, that were not going to pass legislation theyre going to stop tornados and hurricanes, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And the left is but thats a defensible position. That is a more defensible position. But im just saying all the republicans ive talked to. And ive been talking to a lot of them for a very long time over the past four or five years, they believe in Climate Change, they believe that humans are responsible for Climate Change. The only thing they dont believe that the federal government could combat and
impose massive cut jacks because it makes extremist and trillion theyres. Without getting china and other parts of the world that are doing more. Theyre doing more, actually. Right. So in a time in the world, everybody is saying, steve, well go to you, were going to be in competition with china for the next 100 years and china is going to outcompete us. At that time, were supposed to usually disarm and let the chinese continue to damage the atmosphere more than us . And were supposed to be worried about what tom steyer and other people say . I dont believe that. And even if we do what we do in that direction, without putting millions of americans out of work. I agree. First, the same people, the middle people, do want to have
some kind of coordinated change to Climate Change. Theyre so effective . The reason, nicole, they are not effective, if youre a country on your way up, and you dont have all the resources and you say, wait a minute, you guys have polluted the air for 200 years, dont i get a chance to pollute the air for a while while im economically developed. China, they dont have any clean energy. They have coal. And imported oil and really expensive natural gas and thats it. And they dont have any nuclear yet. So its going to be very hard for them to do what they have to do, but he have to do it. And it thirdly, joe, there are policies, nonetheless, there are policies out there that we could put in place that would destroy millions of jobs that would put us on a path for a more responsive behavior. For example, weve not increased
the gas tax since 1983. The Highway Trust Fund is going broke. We could raise the gas tax, rebate that to americans so it didnt cost jobs and get more balanced. Jeremy peters on the hill, you look at polls, and i dont think Climate Change is at the top when it comes to intensity. I would suspect because of that were not going to see another pass or do anything on the climate for quite some time. Democrat stride in 2009. Even the president was reluctant to get involved but they dragged him into that battle at the last minute. Any legislation on the hill that marco rubio would have to be concerned about voting on before the election and the rest of the candidates . There was a bill that fell apart this week in the senate, an energy bill that was actually quite modest, the fact that it fell apart in a filibuster just shows how difficult it is to get even the smallest things through on climate. What well, you have your moderate democrats that like the
landrieus and others who do not support this legislation . No, it fell over keystone. There was a land mass that landrieu and bagich wanted to approve. The white house has not decided what its going to do. And if it ultimately decides its not going after this, they are going to wait until after the legislation to do that because they dont want it to hurt senators like begich and landreau. I thought it was fascinating having the canadian ambassador here last week. He kept doing the talking points that i thought came from theKoch Brothers, i asked him where he got it, he said, oh, the state department study. Our state department . Our state department. This is one of the most widely overpoliticized decisions. A lot of very rich liberals dont want barack obama to pass this legislation. And what do they have to worry about . Because they got millions and millions of dollars. Its just the 50,000 people that arent going to have jobs because of it. I hope that makes you feel better. Go to your yacht, polish it you wont polish it, youll have somebody else polish it. That would be a really good paying job that makes you feel bad about yourself. Have them buff your fingernails, too. Coming up on morning joe, were going to be talking to senators rob portman and john tester about some of the most pressing issues in washington including the Keystone Pipeline and the controversy surrounding
the v. A. Thats atrocious. And former yankee great Willie Randolph is going to be on set. And larry kudlow and joy reid. And miles nadal. Former secretary time geithner is standing by. First, though, not fun, bill karins. Across the country, just a crazy weather pattern. Record highs on the coast. Its been snowing a couple days in colorado. How about this yesterday, it was 52 in boston. That was it. In d. C. , it was 92. 40degree swing in the northeast alone. This morning, we are tracking showers and a few storms up there around the capital district, albany, schenectady and troy. And albany youve got showers, pittsburgh, a shower or two. Later this afternoon, cooler today in d. C. And baltimore than yesterday. This is where we should be this
time of year in the 70s. Chance of storms from pittsburgh to buffalo. And how about out west. The drought is bad enough. Now were getting one heat wave an another. Areas that dont see a lot. San francisco, san diego, 90s to 100 today. How about this for l. A. , 101 today. 100 tomorrow. We finally cool it off by the weekend but the fire danger is really high. And in the middle of the country, i mean, its cold. Its a chilly, cold morning. A lot of extremes out there. If were going to get any tornadoes 0 are severe weather, well watch out for you from nashville to louisville, back up to the ohio valley. More morning joe when we continue. Well be right back. When folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. But the energy bp produces up here
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