We walked in the room today and you said youre not getting a truck. We have a bet if he wins the nomination, i get a truck. What is he saying wi . Hes saying he doesnt want to buy you your pickup. You better save your money. Super tuesday is in the books and its all over. Mike barnacle last summer offered a brand new truck to
mika if donald trump won the republican nomination. We made a bet on the set. A valid contract requires an offer, acceptance and capacity to enter into an agreement. Keith stein said, it appears all those elements are met in this case. Our nbc news decision desk confirmed that donald trump has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the republican nomination for president. Vroom, vroom. F150 . Im thinking theres a new one. Theres so many. Who knows. What the heck . Good morning, everybody. The presentation right out here. Where is it . Its friday, may 27th, and apparently im getting a truck. Its official. Veteran columnist and the worst better on the face of the
earth msnbc contributor mike barnacle. Instead of legendary, we have a new word. Thanks, man. Sucka. My daughters are waiting. They are excited. Former chairman of the Republican National committee michael steele. President of the council on Foreign Relations richard haus is with us as well. So its here. He clinched it. Theres so much else to talk about. You dont want to do any other headlines . Fine, donald trump clinched it np the necessary delegate s s t win the president ial nomination on the first ballot at the republican convention. He did it. Did anyone think he couldnt . I was there. Just think b about all the doubters. The thousands and thousands and thousands of articles that he contempt on trump for even thinking about running. That he contempt on those who
suggested that he was going to win. And just the desperate even when hfs obvious he was going to win, the desperate state of denial that he was in. Nobody would have guessed it. He started this thing at 1 . Which is really a lesson, michael, for politicians. Michael bloomberg is a great example. If its not the da tarks hes not going to do it. You go back to nate silver. I made everybody so leftist enraged in 2012. We said u sometimes we cant see it in the data. Sometimes politics is is an art. Sometimes its a feel. Sometimes its a science. 2012 it was a science. But sometimes it just doesnt show up in the numbers. You have to jump off a cliff to see whats going to. Happen. Absolutely. You know what prevents you from seeing that and understanding it is exactly what you said. That desperate denial that you just absolutely refuse to see whats happening in front of you. And understand exactly what it means and what it protends. The telltale signs of where this could go were there. And we talked about it on this set. There was talk about across the country. And everyone ran around we have to stop trump. Okay, guys, but understand what the voters are saying. But the newspapers denied it every week. Every sunday there was another story in the major papers in america on why donald trump was not going to win. Which actually played into it all. Trump passed the mark after gaining the support of unbound delegates in north dakota, colorado and pennsylvania. Trump now stands at 1238, he needed 1237. You didnt bet enough. If you had bet not only that trump would win but he would have it turn up before hillary
clinton, you could have won two pickup trucks. A lamborghini. This is an incredible time in our history. In all seriousness. Mike is awfully quiet. Mike actually within a couple weeks was sort of saying the same thing, but i think even more has a real sense of what people outside the echo chamber are feeling and why this is happening. This is a complete collapse of the republican establishment in washington, d. C. They are all scurrying to him now. Im not sure how they get there after what they said about him. You said a guy is so month nigh kl you cant trust Nuclear Weapons, its going to be hard for you to go out and speak on his behalf, which marco rubio said he would. But it was a collapse of the republican establishment. It was the collapse of the think tanks. It was a collapse of a lot of the conservative magazines. In any pretense that they had
any influence whatsoever over anything that happened in republican politics. Its all of that, joe, and i think its a lot more than that because if you combine the sanders phenomenon with the trump phenomenon, both men came from nowhere. To your point, a breeze in politics when it becomes a win, it becomes a powerful force. And nothing is a more powerful force in politics than people, actual voters. What both movements prove, once again, is the isolation of politicians in washington, d. C. When they are removed from the reality of everyday life and dont understand what happened in the fall of 2000 and 2008 when people, a lot of people lost their homes. They lost hope, they lost jobs and 1 of those people, 1 of the people in this nation were risking losing their sons and daughters in two wars that nobody wants to continue. Trump in his own way with his own artful way and sanders has been doing it for 50 years spoke to that gut issue thats there in america and no one else did. Were going to be talking about this debate they are talking about, which could be fascinating. See how he celebrated. He took a picture on instagram of him eating one of those taco bowls. He was eating mcdonalds. Celebrating 1237 was the caption. At a rally in montana trump talked about his general election plans and the states he will target including some unusual ones for a republican. I want to focus on 15 or so states because we have to win. And i want my energy to be put into the states where it could go either way. Were going to play heavy as an example in california. No other republican would go to dinner in california. They wouldnt do it. Were going to focus on new york. If for instance ted cruz, they are more traditional. If they got the nomination, nay wouldnt spend 10 cents in new york and wouldnt do well there. If you look, its a very tough path to get to the presidency if youre republican. I put 15 states potentially into play. They put three or four states. If he loses one little thing, one state, its over. Whereas the democrats can sail along and lose numerous states and still get in. Dont let it get you scared. Were going to win. Dont even think about it. Its interesting he talks about california. The real clear politics average between hillary and trump is hillary plus 17. Its going to be a heavy lift. I u dont know what his 15 states are or how he picked them, but right now its a heavy lift. Donald has the delegates, but
he still doesnt have the speaker of the house. Paul ryan was tight lipped yesterday about his recent conversations with the partys presumptive nominee. It made it clear hes still not ready to endorse. It was a productive phone call. Our staffs have been meeting. We had a good and productive phone call. I will leave it at that. We had a productive phone call. Ill leave it at that. I spoke with paul ryan last night. We had a very good conversation thats moving along. Hes a good man. Well see how that works out. We had a very good talk. Are you concerned about how it looks to not have the speaker of the house . Im concerned about making sure we have real party unity. Because we need to win this election in the fall. Theres too much at stake. The supreme court, on and on. I want real party unity. Thats what im most concerned
about. Paul ryan would have a very hard time getting close to donald trump this week on a week that donald trump attacked a hispanic female governor from a swing state, who is the head of the governors association. These lobs sort of these verbal hand grenades that keep getting rolled under tables, it freezes everybody else. Theres an attack on mitt romney. At some point, you have to stop. With the world watching, the g7 summit yesterday the president gave this assessment about some leaders take on donald trump that they are, quote, rattled by him. Hillary clinton picked up on that criticism. Donald trumps reaction, good. They are paying very close attention to this election. I think its fair to say that they are surprise d by the
republican nominee. They are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements, but they are rattled by him. Rattled, rattled by what donald trump is saying. And what he is promoting. And what he stands for. The best way to reassure ourselves and the rest of the world is to make sure that donald trump, this loose cannon, never gets close to the white house. I love that word. He used a bad word. When you rattle someone, its good. If they are rattled in a friendly way, its a good thing. He is a man who shouldnt be really airing his difficulties and shouldnt be airing what hes airing where he is right now. I think that youre going to see it stop pretty soon. Richard, its ironic that the
president is talking about World Leaders being rattled by anybody when you and i im not speaking for you and we havent talked about this, but you have heard the same thing. World leaders have been rattle about barack obama since 2009. His lack of engagement, his lack of an overarching policy. If the president had a krcriticm of donald trump, better criticism might be after i rattled World Leaders for eight years and rattled our allies for eight years, the last thing we want to do is elect somebody that will rattle World Leaders for another four years. That might be more accurate. He might not say that. Havent word the word rattled used so much in one sentence. The president rattled people because of syria. It raised fundamental questions about american reliability. And donald trump rattles people. His approach to alliance relations, its a transaction
rather than alliances of existing relationship. Its how much are we getting for what were giving. And the fact that hes outside in many ways the traditional Foreign Policy mainstream whether about nato or nuclear proliferation. What the president is hearing and people like me hear whenever you travel is official meetings, but any free time is taken up. Weve been telling them for six or nine months, wherever you go if you go to paris and you think youre going to talk about climate accords, everybody is talking about donald trump. Is he for real . Do we need to worry . Donald trump, Bernie Sanders, they are trying to understand this is not the United States they thought they knew. They look at the populism, this antiestablishmentism. Theres an expectation that american politics takes place within the 40 yard lines of midfield. They no longer see that. Because they depend so much on us, they franchised out so much of their security and prosperity
to us. They are rattled and just simply uncertain. They are not used to this degree of uncertainty. Thing thas thought they could take for granted they no longer could. That was the president s word. Bernie sanders is not letting go of hope that california will be the state to propel him to the democratic nomination. He rallied a crowd of close to 10,000. I know, michael steele, i know. 10,000 people. Sanders didnt have much to say about Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party, but he did mention his offer to debate donald trump. It appears that donald trump is prepared to debate. Im very excited about it. I think were going to have to rent out the largeest stadium you have here in california. Id love to debate bernie. But they have to pay a lot of money for it. Im in first place. I have won over 10 million. We have had a couple calls from the networks already. Do you think its appropriate if Bernie Sanders debates donald trump . Oneonone . You know, i know they have gone back and forth on this. They seem to be saying its some kind of joke. Trump doesnt sound very serious, but i can tell you im look iing forward to debating donald trump in the general election. I really cant wait to get on the debate stage with him. So are they going to do it . I dont think u so. I dont think so either. Do you want to bet . Yeah, right. Double or nothing. The a fleet. I just dont see the metrics
lining up for it to really take place. Its a complicated thing. Its not just what they debated but what they couldnt debate on. It would be really interesting. They are drawing on certain similar constituencies. The talk about scrambling. How many people would show up they would have to rent a massive stadium. But the real loser that happens is hillary. Theres no doubt about that. This explains the laugh. Why wouldnt trump do it . Whats he got to gain from it. The real loser is hillary. If trump did it before california, that would raise bernies status. Trump party has it. If he wants to hurt Hillary Clinton more, he does the debate and it would get incredible ratings. Bernie could get his punches in. Its not going to hurt donald because hes got the nomination. Why u dont you think its going to happen . Donald trump has not had a oneonone debate yet. We dont know how he would perform. I think bernie would be a great warm up. Bernie could also inflict some damage too. Thats something the campaign would have to be i think it would be raucous. It would be that. This on the front page. Bob corker, a respected voice in washington, d. C. , apparently at the top of the Vice President ial sweepstakes that would be good news for people who are actually serious about Foreign Policy. Newt gingrich also in play. Joni ernst is there, marco rubio and also nikki hailey. Would corker be a good balance . Hes a former mayor, now a senator, chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, also still is on one of the budget or finance committees. Hes one of the few people who is comfortable on domestic and Foreign Policy u. And donald trump has talked about his desire to have someone who is comfortable in washington, who knows washington. This would be the sort of choice that would signal a make people more comfortable. Bob corker is somebody that actually works across the aisle. Somebody that tries to make deals, even when deals are hard to be made. He and alexander have continued in a very conservative state that tradition that howard baker start ed o of trying to reach across the aisle and work with democrats as well as republicans. Bob corker, i cant say enough good things. He did it on the iran deal. He was central to forging a coalition on that. Given how donald trump can
be, why would corker risk his reputation and his political future ongoing on that ticket . If you look at the polls, he has a 50 50 shot of being Vice President. Also whoever is Vice President , look at sarah palin. You get such a stage that if you do it well, youre first in line in 2020. And bob corker had expressed some quiet interest in possibly running in 2016 some time back. It puts you in the National Stage in the middle of everything. He brings a great level of grav us to to the position. It rounds out the trump edges a bit. It is a balance. We all know Newt Gingrich and we like him, but temperamentally newt and trump dont balance each other. I mean, a newt needs somebody like a corker and trump needs a corker. They do not need each other. Thats like mom and dad looking at, hey, you could date johnny, but barnacle over there, you two will be fighting. Hes got a big truck. Im waiting. Still ahead on morning joe, the Police Commissioner of new york city joins us here onset. Actually speaking of new york city officials, take a look at this. Do we have a picture of who was there last night with joes band . Im just saying. Who is that guy clapping . Bill de blasio. It was a fun night. Mike and ann were there, the mayor was there. Your band was awesome. A special guest. Absolutely amazing. Shocked that that voice came out of a 12yearold. She was amazing. How it worked is the night before she said, hey, i started
playing and this huge voice came out. I mean, very soulful voice. I was like, wow. She owned it. It was a big hit. Very nice. Great job. Now to bill karins. Very thin voice. But the forecast is important. Are you going to say its looking good . Monday is iffy at best in areas where youre going to be in new york and new england. Temperatures come way down. All the l problems are still in texas where they were hit by another tornado yesterday. Some homes were damaged. Theres the tornado. That was a big one. All of a sudden you see the power flashes in the background. Those are the transformers blowing as the power lines are getting ripped apart. Then the flooding after this. This is the story that continues this morning. The rain has been endless. We have seen a months worth of rain in some cases in a few
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