Another antiwrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works. In one week. With the. Fastest retinol formula. To visibly reduce wrinkles. Neutrogena®. She was not nice and i was fine. Just a little bit of a jab. She wasnt nice. You think im going to change . Im not changing, including with her. Go ahead. One more question. Donald trump responding to a question yesterday about new mexico governor susana martinez. She was not nice . She seems really kind of pretty nice actually. Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday june 1st. Can you believe its june 1st . Joe, can you believe its june 1st . What happened. Summer is here. This is good. This is good. It is. We have legendary columnist and msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle yesterday. Legendary. It was so good. Also did where is my truck . Where is the truck. I want to drive it home. Im excited. Youll schedule the presentation. The truck, hand me the keys. I want to drive home in it. When would you like the presentation. When should we do it . I could drive home in it. A week from friday. A week from friday why . Because i have a son thats getting married this friday. Andrew. My main man andrew. Hes a handsome boy. A week from friday i want to be able to drive home in it. Joe. Did you pick the final color. Forest green. Forest green. You should stipulate new. Brandnew, real, huge truck. Used car lot. Former treasury official morning joe economic analyst here we go. Should i get a truck . Ill pick out your truck for you. Steve, i dont trust him to get the right truck. I know. Im going to pick out the truck. Can we practice again. Car czar. 1986 all over again. You help him pay for it, too. In washington senior Political Editor sam stein. Sammy. In los angeles thats it . Managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and cohost of with all due respect that airs at 6 00 on msnbc, mark halperin. Editor bill kristol. Never saw this coming. Literally. I never saw this coming. I think bill needs to take a vacation. No, like a long one. Not that theres anything wrong with this he hinted over the weekend of the possibility of a Third Party Candidate to rival donald trump. Now, remember, it was the possibility of a Third Party Candidate to rival donald trump. Right. Thats got to be someone big. Big and aggressive, has that talent to punch back. Now we know who this person might be. Mark halperin, john heilemann, i love the guy, hes a great guy. Hes been on our show. No. His name is hes conservative writer david french. Who might you ask is david french. Hes an attorney. Staff writer for national view, great writer, great guest on this show also. An iraq war veteran awarded a bronze star. Hes a man of character. He wrote a piece about Libertarian Party saying the short case for him is pretty compelling. Last week french wrote an article, mitt romney, run for president , youre the only man that can save us from future
calamity. I know for a fact an awful lot of republicans are throwing in with donald trump. Thats the key of the mitt romney choice. You give people another option. You hear all the time, if youre not voting for donald trump, vote for Hillary Clinton. False. What if youre not voting for donald trump, youre voting for someone you actually believe in, actually respect, and will actually do the right things for this country. Mitt romney tweeted hes not going to run. I know david french to be honorable, pat racket person, i look forward to following what he has to say. When asked about the possibility of third candidate entering the fray, what did he say . Donald trump wasnt happy. Donald trump quickly called out bill kristol. Kristol, the last one. Remember, he said trump will not run. The guy is not a person. I blame you. Why do you put the guy on television . Hes on different shows. Hes got no credibility. Sounds like hes going to put somebody up. Hes going to find an indy. These guys are losers. Hes trying to drive you nuts. If they do an indy, i dont think anybody with a reputation would do it because they would look like fools. What youre going to do is you lose the election for the republicans, and therefore you lose the Supreme Court. Bill kristol is a loser. His magazine is failing as you know. I dont think it even survives. What do you think, mika. You know, it sounds like this gentleman is really impressive. Great guy. I think bill kristol has got to stop sort of im trying to think of an uncrass way to say this. How about digging, digging the hole. Hes been wrong. Hes been wrong about trump. If youre going to get behind someone who can really rival trump, you need to get behind someone who can really rival trump. Im sorry, i dont mean to be is it mitt romney, mika . Who is it . Its got to be somebody who can handle it. Obviously youve seen men of great character who cannot handle this person. Its got to be someone the Koch Brothers would consider seriously funding. That, too. The person has to be a draw in a way thats galvanizing. Ask mark halperin. Mark halperin, you and john broke this. We all know, love, respect david french but does 99. 9 of america know who he is . Hes got a good name, david will go against two goliaths,
donald trump and Hillary Clinton. Put a finger on what a lot of political pros want at a minimum, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. Theres obviously an appetite of romney getting a fifth of the vote without getting in the race. Theres an appetite. David french is the answer to who was bill kristol tweeting about. Is he the answer to the question who can step into the vacuum now and be a real force in this race . Hes got good conservative credentials. I spoke to him i believe for the first time yesterday on the phone. Is he super charismatic . Does he have the capacity to take on trump and clinton in a way thats beyond symbolic . That remains to be seen. First hes got to show he has Financial Support to get on the ballot in states an these a tall order. Did french when you spoke to him confirm hes going to get into the race or is he still thinking about it . In other words, is this a bill
kristol idea or something hes been working on. French has been part of the discussions citing romney to get in. Loose discussion, political operatives, people like governor romney, bill kristol for sure, talking about who will do it. They certainly wanted someone to do it. I wont say its david french by did he fault but certainly he wasnt the first choice of bill kristol and misses elements. We talked to one person, were looking for someone famous, super wealth y, so they can selffund, like ross perot and has public office. David french has zero of that. Something a lot of conservatives want. Someone on the ballot, they can writein if they dont want to vote for donald trump they can feel good about. David french has those credentials. He does not have some of the traits clearly youd want to take on trump and clinton and
gary johnson shaping up to be a fourway race, if french makes the race. He would comment directly. We understand hes pretty seriously thinking about it and certainly the person bill kristol was tweeting about over the weekend. Here is the thing, were going to move on. I just want to say one thing about this whole third party thing because i listened to what you had to say yesterday. One thing we have to bear in mind, this conversation about french or libertarian is all oriented having a true conservative that dont want trump to vote for. In order to get into the house of representatives, which is the end game here, you dont have to just win a few states. You have to make sure Hillary Clinton doesnt get 270 electoral votes. Its not obvious putting up a true conservative is going to do anything other than split the conservative vote, taking votes away from her somebody you have to have the ticket thats going to take states that barack obama won four years ago to keep hillary
clinton under. It got to be someone so exciting we would spend 22 minutes of our first plok and have alex yelling at us to go to break and were not. Instead, donald trump super charged. News conference designed to calm reporters setting the record straight on fundraising for nonprofits. Those calm reporters . Yes. That is what the future looks like if donald trump wins president. Its going to look like britain parliament. Insults flying left and right. Right and left. Trump defended the months its taken to release the money saying the groups had to be vetted saying he neither wanted to be vetted nor hostility from press reports. Ive been thanked by so many Veterans Groups throughout the United States. One gentleman called me up recently crying that out of the blue he got a check for 100,000. Ive been thanked by so many groups, Veterans Groups. I wanted to keep it private. If we could i wanted to keep it private. I didnt think it was anybodys business if i want to send money to the vets. Ill say this. I raised close to 6 million. It will probably be over that amount when its all said and done. As of this moment its 5. 6 million. On behalf of the vets, the press should be ashamed of themselves. They are calling me and they are furious. I send people checks of a lot of money. Im going to give you the names right now, which is what you want. Instead of being, thank you very much, mr. Trump, or trump did a good job, everyone said, who got it, who got it, who got it and you make me look bad. Ive never received such bad publicity for doing a good job. Im the only one in the world have 6 million for veterans, have uniform applause by Veterans Group and end up being criticized by the press. By the way, most of that went out very early just so you under. A lot of these groups getting
vetted by when you pay the money out they need government documentation, they need a lot of different things. Trump read off the names of the group and how much each got. Associated press first to report many went out may 24th. Thats the same day Washington Post ran a critical story questioning how much money trump had actually raised. Nbc news now confirms a third of the total, 1. 9 million, has only been disbursed in the last week. One, 75,000, a group with an f rating according watchdog group. The group in michigan has been criticized in the past for spending less than half of incoming donations on veterans. No comment from either foundation or the Trump Campaign. Before we go on, couple of things. First of all, he raised money
for the vets. Took him a while to get it out, according to some of these focus reports but he did raise money from the vets. I can say from our personal experience with donald, known him over a decade, any time we ever asked him to help any charities, americares, can you come . Write a check . Sure, what do you need. 25,000. Boom, 25,000. It took many weeks for it to go through. Its a process. He said well do it. David axelrod was on the air here for the cure, shaved off his mustache. We called donald. Donald, can you call in, give dave 100,000 . Sure. Ill do it. Thats a fact. Privately. Sometimes do it privately. Sometimes took a little while for the check to go through and everything as far as the whole process goes. Just calm your self down, thats just a fact. This is i know there are groups that would not take his money. Iva refuses to take his money. Other wouldnt take it. It took a while to get there. Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle. Hillary clinton attacked him. Hillary can raise 6. 5 million for vets than attack them. As secretary of the state around the world. I take your points. Whatever the merits of the situation are to conduct a press conference like that. I thought the press conference was way outofbounds. He was calling reporters sleazy. We havent gotton that part of it yet. Fair enough. Im talking about as far as lets talk about the facts if he was upset, i could see saying, hey, i raised 6. 5 million, willie, and im getting slammed by the press. He did drag his feet. You wonder why it wasnt more transparent. At the end of the day he raised the money. He got the money out of there. It a lot of money, changed the lives of an organization. A small group, upstate new york, a Million Dollar check that changes everything for them. Lets say that. The question is would all that money have gone out had Washington Post and others harassed donald trump. Some of the money went out before may 24th. But the day this story was posted, last tuesday, according to the press that money went out. Would all that money have gone out . The problem is with the Trump Campaign. Not that trump, 6 million, this is the greatest thing ever. Its that anybody thats walked in and seen trumps organization of its him, a handful of people. Thats it. They are blowing and going a million miles an hour. They have 1,000 things going. This i think this calls out just how disorganized the whole operation is. They are moving so fast, there wasnt anybody going, okay, we need to disburse this. Seriously, they have five or six people. Its outrageous. Youre having all these events every day and all the other stuff going on. Where most organizations at this point have 100, 200, 300 people in them, they have five or sick. Everything you said is accurate. It points to one of the problems that donald trump now faces with regard to this story, and it is this. When you approach donald trump for cure, or america cures, youre approaching donald trump himself. He makes the decisions, he writes the check. Boom, here is the check. This occurred during the context of the president ial campaign. Thats how it began. He wont participate in the debate, so he had his own fundraiser for veterans but it
was part of politics and embroiled im sure there were like a Million People involved in putting together the telethon he had for veterans. Right. So here we are and the Washington Post does finally force him to write the checks. But i think that i think that lets assume, as joe said, sometimes it takes him a while. He might have eventually gotten around to writing the checks. Im not sure writing of the checks, Washington Post, sequence of that will ultimately resonate. I think whats going to resonate with the American People is the press conference. Absolutely. Sam stein, were going to get to the press conference next. It showed donald trump at his thin skinned worst yesterday. Again, ive been talking for sometime how we need to make the turn being general election candidate. He actually keeps moving further and further away from that point every single day. The last two or three weeks have been horrifying for anybody who
believed that the fall in early spring was donald trump playing a game and then he was going to take that wicked turn he told me he was going to take. Its not happening. Hes getting more com p battive, more thin skinned, worse on the trump instead of better. For a while there, you got the impression viewers were watching and probably sympathetic to trump. Here is a guy who raised 5. 6 million, 1 million on his own. No one made him do it. He did it on his own. There were criticisms for it. There were reasons for the criticisms. The vast majority of americans are like whats the big deal. He made the money. Then he went on an incredible tirade to the media for holding him basically accountable for his word. The most remarkable thing during the press conference, they asked him, smg how you would act as
president , in a president ial press conference. He said yes. That gives a window into what kind of presidency he would have, one thats very chaotic, combative, bristles at the very tiniest of press accountability. Thats a scary thing to see, he cant handle the most limited scrutiny he made. Let me just say right here, its not about the press, being whiners, its about the guy behind the podium. Is he going to do that next time he gets upset because somebody in Great Britain says something to him or france or allies . Thats the question. Its not about the press. The irony is he has that press conference at trump tower. Its based around charitable cricks. Okay . Yesterday at that press conference he gave a charitable contribution to Hillary Clinton and its called temperament. I dont know about that. I disagree. In the general election i
completely agree. I disagree. I remember reading about Ronald Reagan, mark halperin, Ronald Reagan back in 1965 had gone out, and it was one of his first public performances and he got angry. All his advisers got around him and said if you do that again, were going to all walk on you. That might work in primaries. Thats not going to get you elected governor of california. Reagan was a master at temperame temperament. When you get to a general election running hot, hard to see how anybody will help him. Particularly this is what the clinton people will go after, he doesnt have the temperament to be president. Often things happen on television. People, pundits say things about trumps behavior. This will be disqualifying and it hasnt been. This is one where i think all of us agree, the high degree of likelihood, if trump continue to behave like this, he will turn
voters off that he can get. Whats strange is weve all seen trump show different temperament. He could have responded to those questions. He had the facts largely on his side. Willie is right, some of the money came in late. He raised a lot of money. He could have turned every one of those questions into a gracious recitation of the facts saying people just calm down, here are the facts, the money, the problems. Instead and laughed about it. Exactly. Let me get this straight. You guys are attacking me for raising 6. 5 million for vets. Show of hands, how many people in this audience have raised 6. 5 million for vets. He could have turned it around. Its something hes not doing for some reason, mika. Weve seen it. Hes become more thin skinned. Hes become more angry over the last several weeks. I dont understand why. You may think thats going to help in the fall, i think we need to show more of the press conference when we come back. Okay. Still ahead what were you going to say . You disagree. I do. Im the one hold out at the table. I think this does not hurt him. I think the press takes itself just a little bit too seriously. They are used to