I quote, im going to do for the country what i did for my business. So lets take a look at what he did for his business. Hes written a lot of books about business. They all seem to end in chapter 11. Welcome to morning joe. Great to have you with us. Willie, quite a day yesterday back and forth between Hillary Clinton, also donald trump. Interesting, yesterday, donald trump had a Rapid Response to hillarys attacks in realtime. I wonder if this may not be campaign 2. 0 but start of the campaign in earnest. Has he a small group that will react rapidly. Today is the big hillary speech he had planned just after orlando postponed. Hes going to respond to what she said yesterday and go after her in a larger way. Mika has the day off. Nicolle wallace isser. Managing he hadder of post with all due respect at 6 00 p. M. , Mark Halperin. Legendary. Its time to stop. I think its time. Senior Political EditorWhite House Correspondent for Huffington Post and new host of way too early. Occasional host. Im trying to sign him up for way too early. Its the hour you have to wake up. Youre soo good. 2016 campaign turned into good oldfashioned attack politics with Hillary Clinton and donald trump trading blows realtime. Today donald trump will deliver a speech critical of Hillary Clinton. He tweeted ill be making a big speech for failed policies and bad judgment of crooked Hillary Clinton. It will follow Hillary Clintons speech. She took on trump yesterday on his economic proposals. You might think that because he has spent his life as a businessman hed be better prepared to handle the economy. Well, it turns out hes dangerous there, too. Just like he shouldnt have his finger on the button, he shouldnt have his hands on our economy. Liberals and conservatives say trumps ideas would be disastrous. The chamber of commerce and labor unions. Mitt romney and elizabeth warren. Economists on the right and the left and the center all agree, trump would throw us back into recession. He calls himself the king of debt. His tax plan sure lives up to that name. According to the independent tax policy center, it would increase the National Debt by more than 30 trillion over 20 years. Thats trillion with a t. And how would i pay for all this debt . Well, he said, and i quote, i would borrow knowing if the economy crashed you could make a
deal. Either like he said you know you make a deal before you go into a poker game. Well, actually its not like that at all. The full faith and credit of the United States is not something we just gamble away. That was entirety of the speech. Perhaps most notable was the sudden emergence from realtime Rapid Response as joe mentioned. Truch has been criticized in the past for not quickly and directly pushing back on clintons attacks against him. Yesterday trumps camp sent out Rapid Response email while clinton delivered her attack lines. Sent out a tweet that did not exactly sound like trumps other tweets. Hillary says this election is about judgment. Shes right. Her judgment has killed thousands, unleashed isis and wrecked the economy. No crooked hillary, no
exclamation points. Also announced launch of new website, lyingcrookedhillary. Com. Not up but expected to be rolled out over the following days. What do you make of this. Big speech, Rapid Response. Some of those numbers the last couple of days in terms of fundraising, ad spending or lack thereof in battleground states pretty staggering. Pretty staggering. A loftus around the table were pretty stunned yesterday when you saw ohio and pennsylvania still pretty much a draw despite the fact donald trump has been playing horribly playing the game of politics horribly the last few weeks. Yesterday made it even more fascinating that you actually did have a Rapid Response from donald trump and his team. Mark halperin, before we talk about the Rapid Response, lets talk about Hillary Clintons speech. Lets talk about the discipline of the campaign we talked about in contrast to donald trump in the past before yesterday. She was talking a lot about
debt. It matches up with the 30second commercial thats going all over the swing states they are targeting right now where donald trump is bragging about loving debt. He loves debt, king of debt. When you cant pay it, you negotiate well. This is a very coordinated message like Foreign Policy is coordinated and it has one bottom line to the American Voter, that is donald trump is temperame temperamentally unfit to run your economy and donald trump is temperamentally unfit to have his finger on the button. She delivered that yesterday pretty well. She did. Thats the message, take it from 20,000 to 30,000 feet. Trying to give election referendum on donald trump. You saw in 2004 george bush win reelection. 2012 barack obama win
reelection. Trying to deflect scrutiny, its the most effective thing the Clinton Campaign is doing right now with their advertising, her speeches, their dealings with the media, social media, their surrogates. They are trying to get all the focus on donald trump. Of course hes given them a lot to work with not just over the years but in the context of this campaign when he said things that lend them selves to put in 30 second ads and web videos. We saw Rapid Response from campaign. Today we get big speech when he says for sometime. Do you think hes been humbled at all in things hes seen. Poll in battleground states are helpful to him. In terms of fundraising and balancing ground state advertising, what are we going to hear from him today . I think that we will see i would never use the word humble and donald trump in the same sentence but i think well see a post wisconsin donald trump. This has been the equivalent of that kind of blow to his
confidence and his inevitability. Post wisconsin what did we see . He stuck to the teleprompter. We romanticized a little bit. Not like he became an elevated statesman. He did lean more on the traditional tactics than shoot from the hip weve seep in the last few weeks. I dont think we should celebrate what is normal, it is normal for candidate to give a speech and have surrogates. What Hillary Clinton is doing is only stunning in contrast to the other side. Whats the worst thing you can do to donald trump, humiliate him. Last few weeks she started mocking him and i think thats whatted helped bring about this change. I did an interview once with howard dean. Howard dean was talking about in
the primary he knew he had to change and become something more of an establishment figure. He had been insurrectionist, given barn burner speeches. He knew he couldnt do that, make the switch, loved the adoration and applause of audiences. When i watch donald trump i think about that. I wonder if hes able to go without adoration and love and response to the audience enough that he can become in the eyes of other voters a president ial figure and im not sure. Joe. Willie, one of the great challenges for donald trump right now is exactly that. Donald trump will move on issues. He tried moving on the muslim ban about a month ago and then he got criticized on twitter. He tried moving on the nra issue last week after orlando saying 85 of americans, if youre on a watch list, you probably shouldnt be able to go in and buy a gun. He then backed up over the weekend after he got attacked on twitter. This has happened several times for him. Again, addicted to the adoration of small primary audience. Small, thats a relative number, 30 million. He needs 65 million to win. Right now hes addicted to that and hes got to figure out whether hes willing to cross them on some issues and put up with the pushback hes going to get on social media. Talk of a new day started two days when he let go of Corey Lewandowski two days ago. The power center shifted to trumps three oldest children more comfortable as strategist Paul Manafort and priebus. Top trump communication staffer hicks was with them. Telling buzzfeed her presence,
quote, was about letting the world know donald trump personally supports corey. Buzzfeed supports lewandowski said trump plans to add 100 to 150 staffers in the next few days and the shift is winning praise on capitol hill. Changing the tune of senator bob corker who was dismayed by trumps tone just last week. What is kind of exciting is it appear to me that they are moving in a very different direction than they have been moving in. Ive got to say thats pretty exciting to think about. Mark halperin, i dont say this sarcastically. The bar is low for donald trump. Its been hard for him to slide under it day after day after day after day when it comes to getting republicans on capitol hill aboard. Somebody like bob corker, a very serious man, is trying to give
donald trump the benefit of the doubt as are all republicans on capitol hill. So this shift comes really at an extraordinarily important time for he and his campaign. It does. Youre right. With the exception of people who are in the never trump category still, they are looking for much to get on board. They recognize the convention is coming. Even if they dont think trumps chances of winning the election are great, its better for the party for everybody to be on board. Candidate focus on win rather than answer for donald trump. So they define down what they expect from the campaign. The reality is, look, we can talk about fundraising and opposition research, so much to analyze every day in the campaign, trump needs to restore republicans at a sense that he can win or at a minimum that he can conduct his campaign in a way that wont hurt down ballots, going on the offense against Hillary Clinton and does it well will have that effect,
more republicans like corker will say, this is our nominee. Lets encourage him when he does it well. Mike, i heard you say wow there. What was your wow about . What bob corkers definition of exciting. Super exciting 100 new staffers holy cow. Its such a low bar. The current staff breakdown is 685 hillary staffers, 69 trump staffers. Adding 100 to 150. Thats exciting. Wake up early for that one. Geez. Dont be so in a bubble that you dont understand the voters watch out. That is not one of his political liabilities. His liabilities right now are in the category of racism scandal every 10 days the members have to rebuke him for. He doesnt have a problem with voters because he only have 100 staffers, voters have no idea why you would need 600 staffers. There is a lot of literature about this, about whether it
actually matters to have Television Ads up. Literature. Poly sci literature. Hemingway rolled over in his grave. Thats assuming each side has basic parity, one side spends money adding staffers and so does the other. This does matter if one side doesnt do it. Im a campaign operative, i hear you. Voters arent saying he only has 150 staffers hes going to lose. Voters adopt know or care how many you have in your headquarters. Joe, how much do you think right now all involved, you just referenced this a few minutes ago. Donald trump has today, and has always had since he began this campaign, almost like an addiction to the crowds that he speaks before. Its like they are a narcotic for him. You wonder now if he can kick that habit. Use a teleprompter, be more professional, can he kick that
habit he has with 14, 16, 18 Million People who are attracted to him . It depends. It depends whether he wants to be president of the United States. Donald trump understands at this point that he has to change. He understands intellectually at this point what hes doing is going to lose the presidency to Hillary Clinton. He does understand that. Hes listening to his family. Hes listening to people who are close to him, and hes acknowledging, yes, i understand things have to change. He thinks the media is being unfair to him. He thinks hes getting a bad rap, but he understands what hes done. He understands that hes blown the last four or five weeks and he understands that things have to change quickly but believes he can do it between now and the convention and can reboot this entire campaign during the
convention. And who among us are in a position to secondguess whether, willie, thats the case or not. But it does at the end of the day come down to whether he can discipline himself and become the type of candidate at least his operation seemed to be where he was tweeting out a tweet with exclamation points and calling Hillary Clinton crooked hillary and slamming her hard on policy. It makes less to voters. It matters to the fundraising base he desperately needs to flock to his side right now if theres any chance of stopping Hillary Clinton from being the 45th president of the United States. He did take some steps. He started lyingcrookedhillary. Com and questioned her faith which is something were going to talk about next. The latest from donald trump taking on Hillary Clinton. Plus trump supporter dr. Ben carson joining our conversation and number four democrat in the house, congressman javier and friday Bernie Sanders on set. First bill karins has a look at the forecast. Hi, bill. Today can be a dangerous day. We havent had many dangerous tornado days this spring, unfortunately we could this evening. Trailing thunderstorms and big storms in central illinois. Right now between peoria and springfield, a lot of lightning with them. Hundreds of lightning strikes over the last hour. Thats waking a lot of people up early in central illinois. For today this is round one. Round two is this afternoon. This is the bulls eye, this area of red with the orange surrounding it. Thats the strong risk and enhanced risk of severe weather. 61 Million People are in the risk of severe storms. The worst of it will start in areas of iowa, southern wisconsin, northern illinois. This is our greatest tornado threat. Peoria, quad cities and chicago and kankakee as we go through the evening. Then a damaging wind threat Northern Indiana and ohio late this evening. Probably right into the overnight hours. This is the map that shows the tornado threat and greatest threat this 10 risk here of ef2 to ef5, strong tornado, most deadly northern illinois, southern wisconsin later on this afternoon. More like around 4 00 p. M. To 8 00 p. M. This evening. New york city, new england is looking just fine. Theres big storms yesterday down around d. C. Youll get a break for more storms later this evening. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. When a moment turns romantic why pause to take a pill . Or stop to find a bathroom . Cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. Tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas for pulmonary hypertension, as it may cause an unsafe drop in Blood Pressure. Do not drink alcohol in excess. Side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. To avoid longterm injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. If you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, or any symptoms of an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. Ask your doctor about cialis and a 200 savings card. Jump 50 feet over the rapids and i crash land. Check out my scar. Theres nothing there you didnt jump the creek theres a new neosporin antibiotic that minimizes scars. New neosporin plus pain itch scar
donald trump in manhattan yesterday where he met with a group of evangelical christian leaders. Willie, can i ask you a question here . Sure. Im a little insulted. I mean, this is maybe the first meeting of religious leaders in 10 years where you and i havent been invited. We usually lead the procession
in. Why do you think we were snubbed this year . I think we were blackballed after the incident in venezuela. You know what im talking about, a couple years back, you and me. You dont think you dont think they saw pictures on instagram. In venezuela we worship differently in venezuela than we worship other places. I wish they would stop being so phobic. In a video of the meeting with donald trump yesterday provided by pastor e. W. Jackson we should know supported ted cruz in the primaries, trump appears to directly question Hillary Clintons faith. Hillary in terms of religion. Shes been in the public eye for years and years, and yet theres no theres nothing out there. Its going to be an extension of obama but its worse. With obama you had your guard up. With hillary you do not and its going to be worse. We havent seen exactly what was said before the shot, part of the assertion republican candidates beliefs are examined more closely than those of democrats. This not the first time Donald Trumps has raised doubts about an opponents faith. Hes done for barack obama, mitt romney, dr. Ben carson and ted cruz. To the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of cuba. Remember that. Im presbyterian, thats down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. Seven day adventists i dont know about it. Hes a choke artist. Are we sure hes a mormon . Im not sure. He choked. Asked to clarify trump told nbc, i dont know much about it. Somebody asked me the question. I didnt bring it up. Somebody asked me the question. According to nbc, nobody asked
the question. Trump won a standing ovation for his pledge to appoint prolife justices to the supreme court. Fox News Reporter sterns noted there was no mention of jesus. Some leaders held out suppor