Its time to turn things around. Lower your blood sugar with invokana®. Imagine lovingour numbers. Theres only one invokana®. Ask your doctor about it by name. Good morning. Its thursday june 16th in washington. With us on set in the d. C. Bureau, senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent why are you laughing . Senior. Senior. He is a senior. Hes graduating. For five years. Baccalaureate. Did you play the violin. Msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the Republican National committee Michael Steele and columnist and associate editor for the Washington PostDavid Ignatius. Msnbc Political Correspondent kasie hunt all on set with us. Lets talk about it. Last night we were able to attend an event in washington. In honor of Sandy Hook Promise. Of course, we cant believe the time has gone by. It will be three years, i think, december since the massacre in newtown. The families and some very generous people and some really smart people have put together and committed themselves to Sandy Hook Promise, which is
spreading awareness across the country and really trying to combat this problem of gun violence in a smart, peaceful way. Holistic way, not pointing fingers, trying to get solutions. The most remarkable thing is, again, one of the founders of it. Oh, he was told us back stage getting through it, he said what you do is you try to get out of bed. He was giving me advice. I was a little down. You figure out how to get out of bed. Then you try to make it to noon. Then after you fight youre way to get through noon, you think how will i make it through another day. You eventually get through another day, then you find out how to get to the weekend. After all that, you know you have to do something to make a difference, to go out and make sure the people you love his wife was the School Psychiatrist that ran toward the shooter to
try to save as many lives as possible. And thats what they are doing. They are making this unspeakable tragedy, just turning it into a promise, turning it into action. It was very inspiring. Really an honor to be there. Yeah. To politics now. Im going to dploet a little about polls drifting down for donald trump. We dont do that there. Everyone on the set, hes going to do well. They are not. Its his birthday. This morning marks the oneyear anniversary of Donald Trumps president ial campaign and on his 365th day as a candidate, he went back to his tried and true, which is pretty stunning. He insinuated, mika, actually, once again that president obama has secret ties to isis. Ive got to start with you as former chairman of the Republican Party. Why are you coming to me . Michael, were starting to see it. Were seeing polls collapsed. Were seeing out of wisconsin polls collapse, an endangered republican senator now down nine points in wisconsin, the same number of points you have donald trump down in wisconsin. This guy who was going to be a game changer. W almost won wisconsin a couple of times. Now hes doubling down, posting breitbart articles that he was right all along that the president is in cahoots with isis. How devastating is this . At this stage i dont know where you go from here because there really is nowhere to go. You need another candidate. Dont you have to condemn doesnt the Republican Party
im hearing more and more saying this is just not acceptable. In all honesty, has to make a break, a separation. The leadership wall has to be placed up, not just ryan and mcconnell but across the board. You saw yesterday in my state governor hogan, larry hogan come out and say i just cant get there. Youre having more and more governors begin to see that reality and speak to it. The party has to realize between now and the convention were still in june. I get that. At the end of the day. Too much damage. When you have the mexican judge remarks, the guy is from indiana. Hes now, donald trump, the republican presumptive nominee saying the president of the United States is in cahoots with isis, theres some things you cant walk back. Back to the massacre in orlando, donald trump stirred controversy for suggesting president obama had hidden motives in the fight against terrorism. Yesterday trump continued it
push the conspiracy theory. He retweeted this tweet. Quote, media fell all over themselves criticizing what donald trump may have insinuated about the president. Hes right. That tweet linked to an article posted on conservative news site breitbart about reported Obama Administration support for isis. The article is about a memo from august 2012 with concerns that terror groups might allegheny support through usa to syria among well publicized reasons u. S. Involvement. David ignatius, where do you begin with a major u. S. Candidate retweeting an article that actually says the president supports isis. The breathtaking thing was the comment itself suggesting really disloyalty in the United States, middle of a crisis, tourist attack, suggested that they in some way had been
involved. Then this memo. The memo describing the situation as of august 2012. It correctly states on the two sides of the conflict in syria, you have opposition groups backed by the United States, turkey, saudi arabia. On the other side you have groups backed by the regime, russia and by iran. Whats left out in this insinuation of hillary was backing isis was at that very time Hillary Clinton and the government was arguing for a cia program to arm and train the moderates to get out of precisely the situation the memo describes. I cant believe we have to debate the merits charged. Its actually i appreciate that. There is something completely surreal that weve gotten to a point that a leading presumptive president ial candidate accuses the president of being in cahoots with our foremost terrorist enemy here. Just think about it, step back and think, has this ever
happened in president ial politics. Its always bad, shot each other on the senate floor, but we have a president ial nominee accusing the president of being in cahoots with terrorists. Ive never seen anything like it before. What should the republicans do some the republicans should do what i told you to do last week. This is getting worse by the day. There has to be separation between the Republican Leadership, the republican rank and file and donald trump. You need to go back to your districts and you need to explain that if your supporters want to defeat Hillary Clinton and want to keep a Republican Senate and a republican house, something dramatic needs to happen quickly. Mika, this is getting out of control. Its not like we havent been talking about this day in and day out. Donald trump, for some reason
over the last few weeks has decided to throw this election. Again, you look at trump after manafort came in, after wisconsin, you look at what happened for two or three weeks. He ran a disciplined campaign. He delivered a half decent speech to apac, it looked like he was shifting into gear. The last two weeks have been absolutely colossal. Were going to show you numbers that show republican numbers nationwide have gone to record lows. People are saying, if you want to beat hillary come on. They have got to stand up to this. The numbers right now for the brand for the gop are at the level they were when i inherited the job in 2009. Were in that space again where 65 of the American People do not like the republican brand. Thats a major problem. This is the easy part, getting chased around on capitol hill by reporters asking about these comments i guess much
easier than throwing a giant party in cleveland to celebrate something none of these guys are able to get out of their mouth. Most amazing comment, john cornyn, number two Senate Republican saying took reporters he will not take a question on donald trump until after election day. The second most important republican that wont talk about his partys nominee. Im going to show you donald trump speaking to a packed house of 4,000 people at the fox theater in atlanta where he struck a defiant tone with his own party. The republicans, honestly, folks, our leaders have to get tougher. This is too tough to do it alone. You know what, i think im going to be forced to. I think im going to be forced to. Our leaders have to get a lot tougher and be quiet, please be quiet, dont talk. Just be quiet, to the leaders. Because they have to get tougher, they have to get sharper, they have toting
smarter. We have to have our republicans stick together or let me just do it by myself. Ill do very well. Im going to do very well. Okay. A lot of people thought i should do it anyway. Ill just do it very nicely by myself. I think youll have a good result. I think youll be happy. Donald trumps message to paul ryan as donald trump destroys the partys numbers, be quiet, dont talk. I think paul ryan, this is like you buying a lot of condos in 2007. He brought trump at the wrong time. He should have listened to Steve Schmidt and me, told you when to buy trump, remember a month and a half ago, its time to sell, time to sell the stouk. Telling the leadership, dazed ignatius, to not talk while hes
dragging everyone down in the mud. Theres always been a quality of narcissism about trump. This is about me. This is a person who has been in his own Reality Television show now for 20 years, and its hard for him to break out of it and be in the show with everybody else. The idea hes now in effect the leader of the Republican Party is staggering. Thats whats really sticking in the craw of people out there. Telling Republican Party leaders to shut up. I think they probably dont mind doing that because they dont want to talk about donald trump right now. Their house is going up in flames. They have no one to replace trump with. No matter how you cut this pie, youre still stuck with donald trump. This is not like 1925. Walking out of the convention with nomination. Who, joe . Mitt romney . Paul ryan . I dont think we want to go
there. What did italy not have in 1925, separation of powers, coequal branches, senate and house. Give me a name. Who is going to counterpunch donald trump after a year. Two names that need to stand up right now today with their entire group behind them, paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell. They are the highest ranking republicans in america. They need to stand up. I said they should have last week. The damage would have been a lot worse and trump would have gotten in line. They need to do it this week. Trump is only getting worse. Uncled get in line if they stood up. Cut bait on the president ial election. Abdicate that. He either needs to get in line or were going to protect ourselves. Kasie hunt, this guy not only contributed to Hillary Clintons
last campaign in 2008 as a democrat. Hes contributing to this Hillary Clinton president ial Campaign Making sure she will be elected president. Im sure the Clinton Campaign feels that way. Its hard to get them to say anything else at this point. Thats true. You were talking about trump and leaders but the first part of what he said there, saying im just going to have to go this alone, it seems like thats whats going to happen i think tells you a lot about private conversations that are going on right now between trump and the committee. He would not be out there saying Something Like that if there are not people in his ear saying you have to fix this. One of the hilarious new stories is from politico talking about private frustrations at the rnc that trump just wont listen to their advice. Private. Of course. Did you even need to write this story. Obviously trump is not going to be listening to reince priebus. Hes not listening to family members advice. Hes not listening to his campaigns advice. They are all begging him to become disciplined. They are all begging him to get off of twitter. They are all begging him to stick with the message. He is not doing it. Hes getting more out of control. I actually my latest feelings with people very close to him, they really dont get what the problem is, so i dont think they are desperately trying to pull him back. They get what the problem is. Thats what im hearing. Donald trump loves to read his poll numbers. Thats sort of what he does in his speeches. He can read these. New polling bloomberg shows Republican Party at an historic valley of favorability, just 32 . That is the lowest number since the poll began in 2009. That would be a great schtick for his speech. He can talk about what hes done to the party. By contrast democrats favorability at 49 . Meanwhile in wisconsin, a state that easily reelected Governor Scott walker during midterms,Hillary Clinton leads trump among likely voters by 9 points. He should read that one out loud. Down ballot senator ron johnson incumbent republican trails nine points. Were going to see that all across america. You talk about a leading indicator look at that, senators, United States senators, republicans, kelly ayotte, you know, rob portman, all across. If polls drive you, here you go. David ignatius, if im kelly ayotte and i know shes been pushing shes been pushing this hard. She was one of the first to speak out. Shes got to keep pushing and shes got to get ron johnson and shes got to get a lot of other republicans that are up that could lose, including john mccain, to say enough is enough. I was with senator mccain on stage tuesday night and we talked about trump and it was painful to be honest. Here is somebody in so many ways that stands against everything the nominee is saying. Hes running in a tough race. You saw him walking the line. Talk about polls, Washington Post has a new poll showing drump down 10 Percentage Points in one month, up to 70 unfavorability. If you look at the tabulations hes hurting with white liberals, men without a College Education. That hurts there. All the people he thought would be part of his coalition. I have to ask you about mccain. Mccain strikes me, if theres someone that would say, you know what, im not going to be with the nominee. Donald trump literally insulted his war service. Okay. He doesnt stand for any of the same values, whether its Foreign Policy, immigration reform, et cetera. So what is it that keeps john mccain tied to this anchor around this candidate. Two things. Fir, its a deep anger that
mccain feels toward barack obama. Mccain says to himself, if i had been president , thinking about syria, thinking about the disaster out of syria, i would have done something about this. That makes it hard for him. I think the other thing is mccain is in a tough race. You dont repudiate the top of your ticket if youre in a race like mccain is lightly. You can see that on mccains face. 32 , the Approval Rating flashed up for the Republican Party. 32 . Republicans are minus 17 now against the Democratic Party just in brand. The numbers are historically low. Combined with this idea that there are 55 of people in another recent poll that say they could never vote for donald trump. Including 65 of women. Never. You cant win a National Election in america with your numbers stuck like that. The other thing in that marquette poll, too, it shows a growing enthusiasm gap. Democrats are getting more
excited about voting in the fall. Republicans are getting less excited. Its a little bit down in the weeds. Normally numbers on people registered to vote versus people likely it show up, republicans have an advantage with likely voters. There are more democrats registered. Thats not the case here. Driving in the car, driving to work, were showing you definitely vote in november, enthusiasm gap. Republicans 78 minus 9, just in the past couple of months. They are bleeding. Bleeding support. I had a talk with Business Leaders in new york city yesterday. Also on monday night. Ive never met more people who are saying they may not vote, who voted in every election all their lives and who run companies and cant do it. If im the party, id say we want you to vote. We need you to vote for our senators, our governors, so write a name in for president if that fills the bill. But this is the problem the party finds itself in now with aNational Nominee that is losing traction with base voters, particularly white male voters, which is a real problem. Youve got to shore up to your point, joe, youve got onto shore up the rest of the down ballots, youve got to protect the senate and house races that could be on the bubble as well. Thats the problem they face right now because they are not doing that. All right. Still ahead on morning joe, joes exclusive interview with republican governor john kasich, secretary of Homeland Security jeh johnson. Senator joe manchin with his push for gun reform. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Im going to make this as simpl. You can go ahead and stick with that complicated credit card that limits where you earn bonus cash back. Or. You can get the quicksilver card from capital one. Quickson every purchase,mited everywhere. I shouldnt have to ask. Whats in your wallet . Real is touching a ray. Amazing is moving like one. Real is making new friends. Amazing is getting this close. Real is an animal rescue. Amazing is ov