I need to keep organized. School, grocery shopping. My face can unlock this computer. Thats crazy. Macbooks are not able to do that. Hey cortana, remind me we have a play date tomorrow at noon i need that in my world. Anything that makes my life easier, im using. And windows is doing that. The fact of the matter is, you can find Common Ground with the other side, without compromising your core beliefs. Ladies and gentlemen, Vice President joe biden is one of those people. Joe and i had many disagreements
on many different issues. I can imagine what hes doing back here. Even as we disagreed, we both always understood the need to keep looking for things that we could agree on. Because while im a republican and joes a democrat, the fact is, at first, were both americans. So, mr. Vice president , it is an honor to share the stage you today. I was thinking about what i was going to say this morning applaud. Applaud for joe. Lets get something straight right off the bat. I dont like john boehner. I love him. Good morning. Its monday, may 16th. That was wonderful. I survived prom. Did you really . Thats fantastic. Your daughter looked so ahh i survived prom. She looked so gorgeous. I survived prom. Your daughter can i say this, too. Your daughter looked fantastic, too. You were a little close to her, but, like what . I did not know that you had an 18yearold daughter. Yes, actually, shes 27, and she is my daughter. And i know you were trying to get your audience to believe that i might be out with a younger woman. 18yearold. Her name was phoebe . Tiffany. What in the world is wrong with you guys . What are you talking about . Hi, mike. With us on set, the legendary commentator what is so legendary by the way, what is so legendary about him . Look at him that im still here. Hes bostons icon. If you ask that question, my friend, then you have never been if boston. Really. Go to boston with mike, its crazy. Legendary forget it managing editor of bloomberg
politics and cohost of with all due respect that airs at 6 00 p. M. On msnbc, mike halperin. Advertising, branding, and marketing expert, Donny Deutsch is with us. Experts not bad. And nbc news senior white house correspondent, Chris Jansing as well. How was prom . Long night. Up all night. They had a great time. I survived prom. All right, shall we get to what . Youre troubled. I am troubled. We have a lot to get to. I just wonder if the New York Times has done again here we go. Im just wondering if the New York Times has done again what they have done since the beginning of the Trump Campaign where they take a fact, they take an essential truth, and then they they expand it to such a degree and put it on the front page, above the fold, on sunday. Because, remember, weve always said, they always overreach on sunday. They did it with john mccain on
sunday. And they took a, an offhanded, unfortunate remark and turned it into the reason why his campaign was going to collapse. And i could go every sunday. Mark, weve seen this time and time and time again. And as i have said, its in the transcript. Everythings in the transcript. Ive said it time and time and time again since june. You overreach. And by overreaching, you only play into Donald Trumps hand. That story will go down in history one way or another. Okay. There you go. Now, let me set the scene. Does that sound like youre forwarding it to the Pulitzer Committee . One way or another. So heres what theyre talking about. Donald trump begins the week under a mountain of bad press. Over the weekend, a front page New York Times article that joe was talking about featured the stories of women who said theyd faced unwanted comments and advances from trump in years gone by at trump tower, at his
home, and backstage at beauty pageants. Temple tagert competing in the miss usa pageant at 21 years old told of a series of advances, including that trump introduced himself by kissing her directly on the lips. Trump was married to marla maples at the time and he disputes the account. Trump tried to dispel many of the details of the story, telling the paper, a lot of things get made up over the years, i have always treated women with Great Respect and women will tell you that. He puts a final point on twitter, saying, quote, everyone is laughing at the New York Times for the lame hit piece they did on me and women. I gave them many names of women ive helped they refused to use. Wow, i have had many calls from highranking people laughing at the stupidity of the New York Times people. Massive fail for that. And why doesnt the New York Times write the real story on the clintons and women. The media is totally dishonest. The head of the National PartyReince Priebus played defense on the sunday shows. Chairman priebus, does that bother you . Well, you know, a lot of things bother me, chris. Obviously, im the wrong person to be asking that particular question. But, look but, wait a minute, why are you the wrong person . Youre the chairman of the party. This is your nominee, and theyre saying he has mistreated women over the years. I think all these stories that come out, and they come out every couple of weeks, people just dont care. I think people look at donald trump and Hillary Clinton and say, whos going to bring an earthquake to washington, d. C. . I think the bigger issue, when we make these judgments about people are, you know, whether or not individuals are throwing stones in glass houses. And when people are hypocrites, obviously, thats when these stories have an impact. But i dont think donald trump, and his his personal life, are something that people are
looking at and saying, well, im surprised hes had girlfriends in the past. Thats not what people look at donald trump for. And former obama senior strategist, David Axelrod, tweeted this. The New York Times report on trumps boorish behavior to women is troubling, but did not to surprising findings live up to the big, over the fold play . Let me ask you that. Did David Axelrod have a point . That this was blown up to something. You can tell the truth. Youre rolling your eyes. The storys very complicated. Whats the worst allegation . Whats the maybe whats the worst allegation of this explosive front page story. Name it i will comment on this in the spirit Reince Priebus. Theres some troubling things in the piece, but theres nothing illegal, theres nothing
even kind of like beyond boorish or politically incorrect, which is built into the donald trump brand. So if thats the best they have in this score so mike barnicle, ive got two stories. And i did, i kept reading it. Because i was trying to figure out, what did he do. Because thats the lawyer in me. And you tear through all the documents and then you go, they did this, they did this. I have two things. When he met somebody, he kissed them on the lips as a dpregreet. I will tell you donny does that to you all the time. Thats not a pleasant thing, but thats a thing. In the thousands of receptions ive had before, women of all ages have come up and kiss me on the lips. I dont like it, i wish they wouldnt have, but i wouldnt have run to the New York Times. And he denies it. And secondly, he gave a woman a bathing suit to try on. That was the lead. Thats an explosive lead. He gave a woman a bathing
suit to try on. When this was unfolding, i expected that she was going to try it on in front of him and he was going to like they ended up dating. Instead he goes, you look really good in that. Heres the deal on donald trump and that story. Im sorry. Thats ive got a lot to say. If this is their lead story on sunday, explosive, abovethefold, especially consider who he is running against, its breathtaking. Its about 7,500 twills, thats an old phrase for tof typewritten things, its boorish behavior, you wouldnt want it occurring to your daughter by a guy, but its donald trump. And when it comes to donald trump, it comes with the dinner. People know it, they expect it, theyre not surprised. Whats the most offensive thing that donald trump did in that piece . I think the most offensive thing, if true, is some of the
comments he made in the workplace to his employees. I want to jump on that, mark yeah, now, that is when you are in the workplace i think that should be when you make those comments, thats what you put in the lead. Not a kiss on the lips. Guys, i have a lot of i have to tell you, i dont want to be glib here. I was reading that and in many ways i was relating to it. Donald trump is a feminist. I want to defend him what . I want you to hear something. I ran a company and i was roguish in certain ways. By the way, can i say, before you start saying this, you have not been a fan of Donald Trumps politically. You have said some very i call it as i see it. You have said some very harsh things. I want to really defend him. Go ahead. Just like me, i ran a company and 9 of my 11 partners were women. I would say things in the workplace, but at the end of the day, it was a meritocracy, women
wouldnt insult men, men wouldnt insult women. Hes an equal opportunity insulter. We cant have feminism unless everything is on the table. You want 1 on 1 and not 79 cents on dollar. The same way he will insult a man for eating candy but we dont get a dollar. But thats my exact point. He was before anybody. Thats the most maleoriented business by the way, they talked about how his father ridiculed him for hiring a woman in an important position, and he was scared of his father. You could tell. But in this area, he didnt listen to his father. We have all these politicians, the ceos will never say the wrong thing. And yet, the entire you know, all of the people running the companies are white males. And then we have a guy like donald, who, yes, says the wrong thing sometimes and can be coarse and boorish, but at the end of the day, you show the real respect for women in
equality, is the way you pay them, you run a meritocracy and treat them just like men. I have done that, and i have done a lot of stupid things and probably kissed women on the lips and said inappropriate things, but at the end of the day to me, it was gender equality across the board. And hes an equal Opportunity Employer and insulter. Thats who he is. Mika . I think the stuff that was said in the workplace points to a pattern of other things that were probably said in the workplace. And i dont really care if they were said to men. I think those are the worst things in the article. And hell have to answer to that, especially if they are true. By the way, thank you by the way, mika, have people at news organizations said such things to you over your 20 years in the workplace . Oh, im sorry, or has it been a lot worse than that . Um because i have heard ive been told to lose weight. I have heard what men say to women in the workplace and its rough. Look at the treatment of jill abrams by the times. I mean, come on yeah i think that when youre in the
beauty pageant business, an article like this, that if thats the most they can find and he runs beauty pageants and and modeling agencies. And tons and tons of young women flock to him in bathing suits and parade themselves across the stage and thats the worst they could find, imagine if bill clinton ran beauty pageants. Lets stop right there and not talk about it, okay . By the way, donald trump loves women. Got it. But i have to say, i do think that he has to, he has to look at the way he talks about people objectively. Whether theyre men or women. And if youre going to be president. Thats a different discussion. Its something that perhaps even he needs to talk about what needs to change. Because thats not going to fly. But i dont think he would think it doesnt. Was the article overblown, mika . I think the article might even have wrong information in it. And i know him and hes a germaphobe. Its been hard for him to shake
hands. No, hes kissed me on the lips. He went to the visual. Was there one thing or anything in there that surprised you. No, thats the issue. No, and Chris Jansing, i think, the i think im struggling with here is the article doesnt describe somebody its of an attractive description of someone if you read it. And you dont want but at the same time, i think people know this about donald trump. Know what . I dont think this is new. Know what . That hes made these kind of comments before, that hes said things, whether its Carly Fiorina or rosie odonnell, or a woman who is pumping breast milk and he says its disgusting. These are not surprising comments. You know, i dont think its going to change anyones mind. I do think to donnys point, it does raise a different and larger discussion about if you pay a woman for what she does, if you promote a woman in the workplace, particularly in construction industry, where they have nod hat the kinds of
opportunities, does that excuse potentially boorish behavior . If that, indeed, happened. I think thats still a legitimate question. And i do believe, mika, im curious what you believe about that. I think its different if its a 21yearold or someone who has worked her way up and is in the business, and with whom you have that kind of equal or closetoequal relationship. Exactly. No, shes asking me. If youre a 21yearold intern, for instance. Go ahead. Thats predatory. Thats predatory if you do something to a 21yearold or 23 or 24yearold intern if youre in a superior position of power. Thats harassment. Thats predatory. Okay, guys. I think the bottom line here is that if youre excusing boorish behavior for the fact that perhaps the company is run in a, in a way that really promotes good for women and has equal pay and maybe donald trump has some great statistics on elevating women in his company, i dont
know. But if you look at what was excused in the Clinton White house, this article is defunct. It is totally useless. The entire country excused boorish behavior and then some. Which is what i was going to say. Did you want to Say Something else . No. Not at all. I was i was just going to say, theres never any excuse for boorish behavior. Im just saying, if youre going to be talking about doing that, lets go back to his main opponents husband. Yes, stacking this up with that history, its theres just not even a close comparison. And its just kind of shocking that the times would actually lay this out there. When i saw that headline, t was expecting, oh, boy, you know, orgies. Im preying on a 22yearold intern. Lets go up to 40,000 feet
here. The next president , assuming its one of these two, will not be perfect. Theyll be a person with a past and a history that a lot of americans will find uncomfortable or worse. But the thing about donald trump is, and this front page Washington Post story that mike and i were talking about earlier, the thing about donald trump is, hes on the offense now in this race. The clinton people are understanding, theyre dealing now with a discombobulating situation. Shes the favorite, but all this stuff on his side and her side, i dont think is going to settle this election. Its going to be about other things. This is just more stuff. And americans are about but theres stuff on both sides. This is the first time a character whos been a private citizen for 40 years and has a dossier as a private citizen for 40 years will be on display. And thats what weve got. This is not a lifelong politician. And its baked in and ironically, joe, you opened with
this. It allows him to be a victim in this article. And they blew it. But i think the bigger discussion i would love this country to have is, when do we really get equal . He made fun of marco rubios height. He made fun of Carly Fiorinas face. Im not saying either one is not boorish behavior, but its not a man woman issue, its the way he deals with people. In a strange way, hes gender blind. And even some of his stumbles are displays of that. Thats interesting. So why did you say this was going to go down in history one way or another . The clinton people that donald trump will lose this election because of the accumulation of stories like that. That hes just not the right person to be if he loses it, its one thing. They will just make people afraid. Too afraid. Thats what this is coming down to. Fear of the known, fear of the unknown. If he wins, people will look back at stories like this one, because its the New York Times, and theyre going to
say, this is these were off the offbase for what people were voting on. That people were voting, as Reince Priebus said yesterday, on whos going to shake up washington. And a guy who has flaws you cant argue that hes less likely to shake up washington. Hes more likely to shake up washington than she is. And that story did not speak to that issue in a way that hurts him. Wow. Okay. Coming up on morning joe, donald trump and Elizabeth Warren have been going back and forth over twitter. And mow trump may have a new nickname for her. Well show you what he told maureen dowd. Also this morning, Texas Governor greg abbott on what hes telling fellow drauz droouz voters about the general election in november. Plus, Bernie Sanders lone supporter in the senate. Jeff merkley of oregon joins the table. But first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. It was cold this morning, very cold. I reached for the gloves and im sure im not the only one. The images from Northern New England are not pretty. A good reason they tell you not to plant anything until after memorial day, its snowing right now in northern portions of maine. Theres a covering of snow on the ground in many places in Northern New England. Temperature in new york city is 43. One degree away from our record low for this date. At 33 in columbus, ohio. A little shock in the system as you head outside. The next couple of days, a slow but painful warmup. Get into the 60s in chicago, detroit will be 60s