Got on a tv show called shark tank that kicked the apprentices ass. Well those are some harsh words from mark cuban. You have sacrificed nothing. And no one. He said you have sacrificed nothing and no one. Well, who wrote that . Did hilarys script writers write it . The stewardship of this country needs to be in the hands of the person who has moral compass. Who can relate. Who has some empathy with
citizens lead. Didnt exactly get boring after the convention. Its august 1st. So if its august, what does it mean . Mika is in the south of france. So this year only two months. Shes actually not. Shes very sick. Not very sick but anyway, she cant talk so shell be in tomorrow, im sure. And manager editor Bloomberg Politics and the cohost with all due respect airs at 6 00 p. M. On nbc. How are you doing . Good morning, joe. Lots to discuss. Well have fun with video tape. We may be calling this show fun with video tape. Youll get what trump says about putin and hilary said about
emails. Its the warner walt episode. I was here last night myself splicing it and its going to be exciting. Also, the news and finance anchor at yahoo she has been in the south of france. Ive been on Maternity Leave. In the south of france. How do you handle that . Thats good. The kid speaks french though. And also the president of the council on foreign relations, the man that never sleeps. And washington senior Political Editor and White House Co correspondent for the Washington Post. How do you unwind everything that happened . I thought this entire weekend was just a disaster for donald trump. An absolute disaster and then i saw Hillary Clinton on fox news
sunday saying i never transmitted any classified material. You sat there going who is talking to her. Both of these candidates had horrible performances on the sunday shows. Well, she had an overall better performance. Parts were good but what she said about the fbi stuff is a little confounding. Trumps interview was one of the low points of his campaign so far. Theres a lot to unpack from it but he went into that in a confrontational way. But theres still questions. Saying he never met Vladimir Putin. And it was jerry ford, 1976. The russians arent in poland. Yes they are. Now its the russians arent in the withdrew crane. It was baffling. And take us through all of that. Donald trump is facing
criticism after his response to the parents of an american soldier killed in america. The parents of captain khan took to the stage at the dnc thursday night to condemn trumps proposals and statements about muslims. He said trump had sacrificed nothing and no one and questioned if he had even read the u. S. Constitution. The Trump Campaign responded saying captain khan was a hero to our country. The real problem here are the radical islamic terrorists that killed him. But it didnt end there with both speaking with the sunday shows. What sacrifice have you made for your country . I made a lot of sacrifices. I work, very, very hard. I created thousands and thousands of jobs. Tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. Those are sacrifices. Sure. I think theyre sacrifices. When i can employ thousands and thousands of people and take care of their education and so many things. Even in the military i was responsible along with a group of people for getting the Vietnam Memorial built in Downtown Manhattan which to this day people thank me for. Do those constitute the sacrifices that you were referring to . I appreciate his statement calling my son a hero. And making this clarification and statement. I appreciate that. But it sounds so disingenuous because of his policies. Because of his rhetoric of hatred of division of dividing us and thats why i emotions ploer him to read the constitution. Trump really gets pounded yesterday for talking about the sacrifices that he made almost in real time after making the
statements and it was stories on fire the rest of the day. The sacrifice he made was to make money. Thats what he was saying. He built businesses to make money and that was the sacrifice that he made. I dont see how employing people and paying for their health care is a sacrifice. It was a series of terrible missteps. Ill trying to think of a worse interview that i have seen. The closest is for Vice President ial candidate and i cant remember something this bad. The questioning of the wife for not speaking suggesting it was for their muslim faith and not being allowed to speak and then saying he didnt have the right to question his understanding of the constitution which is ironic because the constitution gives him that right to question it and then to suggest that he sacrificed as much as khan. It was baffling from start to finish and youre seeing a lot of republicans get very nervous about whats happening now. Getting incredibly nervous here. Were going to show it in a few minutes but what he had to say about yanking out the protection of ukraine from the gop platform. He seemed not to understand that the russians already were in ukraine and then just gave a nonsensical answer. How could a candidate be getting worse by the day. He seems to be operating in an alternate reality where some of the facts that are simply facts that have been individual wr video taped and documents dont exist. Theres been moments in this election where i felt like i have been catapulted back to the middle east where political candidates, politicians, sometimes operate in this
alternate reality where the facts dont matter. Where theres violence in their language and where nothing sticks because the bond between them and their supporters seems unbreakable because it comes from a sort of place of unquestioned loyalty that they have for the candidate or the politician but when it comes to ukraine and what mr. Trump said it is very troubling because as many people have remarked this is the language mr. Putin has used himself. He said it was the crimeans that decided for selfdetermination. Thats not exactly what happened and it raises a lot of questions about what is diving mr. Trump but theres an uncomfortable feeling when a candidate seems to be more in tune with the Foreign Policy of another country and it raises a lot of
questions about exactly what his Foreign Policy is going to be like and we discussed this plenty of times but what i find interesting is this constant interference of the russian aspect in this election. This system here or lets say this election so far has been unpredictable but its still within the parameters of what we have seen in previous elections with demographics and polls, et cetera. Once you have foreign interference of any kind this countrys system has not dealt with that in this fashion before. Its unbelievable and every day it seems theres another connection with russia or miscue, like saying he didnt know they yanked out the ukraine provision, at the convention, just the platform doesnt make sense. Also doesnt make sense for him to say yesterday that he didnt
know who Mike Bloomberg was and then he said yeah well you when golfing with him and he said yeah i hit it a lot farther than he did too. He had to throw that one in. How do you go one second. Yeah and i hit it further than he did. Last week in a press conference he said he didnt know putin. That came out of his mouth too after all the love fest between the two of them. Well roll the tape. So he also i guess, singled out khans wife. And got even lower. Telling the New York Times on friday that he wanted to hear her Say Something at the convex. He said you wouldnt have even let his son in america. He doesnt know that. I saw him. He was very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me. His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. Maybe she one allowed to have anything to say. You tell me but plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quite and looked like she had nothing to say. A lot of people have said that. In the Washington Post she explained why she was silent on stage writing in part, without saying a thing, all the world, all america felt my pain. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart and she said this to Lawrence Odonnell on the last word on friday. It was very nervous because i cannot see my sons picture and i condition even come in the room where his pictures are and thats why when i saw the picture on my back i couldnt take it and controlled myself at that time. It is very hard. Now to the russian part of the interview. Fighting allegations that the criminal might be supporting his candidacy, donald trump is denying a relationship with russian president Vladimir Putin despite earlier claims, a lot of earlier claims to the contrary. My head hurts right now. What exactly is your relationship have Vladimir Putin. I have no relationship. Do you have a relationship with Vladimir Putin or a conversational relationship . I do have a relationship and i can tell you that he is very interested in what were doing here today. Hes probably very interested in what you and i are saying here today and he will be seeing it in some form. I have no relationship with putin. But if you have no relationship with him why did you say in 2013 i do have a relationship. Because he has said nice
things about moee over the year. We did 60 minutes together. He was in moscow and you were in new york. Just so you understand he said very nice things about me but i have no relationship with him. When i went to russia with t the Miss Universe pageant he contracted me. What do you call a relationship. He treats me with great respect. Ive never met him. Youd know it if you did. Id think so. I was in russia, in moscow recently and i spoke indirectly and directly with president putin. Never spoken to him on the phone. I have never spoken to him on the phone. You did say on three different occasions you had a relationship with him and now
you say theres none. Whereon what it means by having a relationship. He was saying good things about me but i dont have a relationship with hill. I didnt meet hill. I vnlt spent time with him. I didnt have dinner with him. I didnt go hiking with him. I wouldnt know him from adam except i see his picture and i would know what he looks like. Wow, his memory is a little jumbled there. A reminder that in november, he claimed i have the worlds greatest memory. Its the one thing that everyone agrees on. And also described himself as having one of the all time great memories though he later claimed not to remember saying it. He told nbc news they tried to set up a meeting with putin during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant and what he meant by direct communication was a gift and a note from the president. That goes back to what kim was saying about leaders that theres a cut of personality they can say whatever they want
to say. Well if it werent for his fight with the khans over the weekend his failure to continue to say that putin was a better president than president balm ball would have been the dominant story of the weekend and right now the Trump Campaign is extraordinarily frustrated with the press. It was unbelievable. That was one of the worst interviews and the worst part of it is if he had just not gone on tv over the weekend everybody would have been talking about Hillary Clinton lying on Fox News Sunday. Obviously lying on Fox News Sunday and were going to play a clip of that in a bit but lets go to this. Lets go back to russia and you crane. How disturbing that a guy thats made a lot of money working for the russians in ukraine, how
disturbing that they rip out a plank of a platform that would protect ukraine from further russian invasion and then donald trump says there was never an invasion. And then said he didnt know that they had ripped it out of his plank and it didnt matter because the russians arent there and then he was told well the russians are there and he said im not there. Obama is there. What russia did in crimea and ukraine, more than anything else thats happened in decades represens a threat to what we say are the rules of the world and the basic rule of the world is you dont use military force to change boarders. That is thats essentially what the gulf war was fought 25 years ago. Thats the basic principle of how the world operates and russia violates the basic
principle of how the world operates and what they did in crimea and eastern ukraine. They sent forces not wearing uniforms over the border to destabilize ukraine and they raise questions at the same time about the integrity of Alliance Relationships is a Foreign Policy relationship. Americans for so many years, russia was enemy number one and it seems that many, at least donald Trump Supporters dont view it that way. Dont view putin to be a great threat to the u. S. The way they would isis or what have you so i think going after Cyber Security which is something that is porn in regards to our relationship to russia or ukraine and crimea
is something that Trump Supporters dont see as a big issue. And mitt romney said russia was going to be one of the greatest threats to world stabili stability. He played more into the Clinton Campaigns hands with these statements than anything he could have been doing. When he said, went on air and said we had nothing to do with this provision and the provision is cause for giving ukraine defensive weapon ri to push back against russian incursions and they removed it its just not true. My colleague has two rnc sources that said he was the Trump Campaign that pulled that provision out of the platform and this gets you to the point and its a difficult one for journalists including myself where we have to figure out whats true and whats not when it coming from the trump
campaign and this stuff. This seems to be completely out of thin air and made up and its tough to figure out how to treat Something Like this but all the evidence is lining up that theyre either sympathetic to the russians, have a different world view or something more than that. Well, and kim, it also comes down to again words meaning nothing in the Trump Campaign and donald trump himself, he just says whatever comes to mind and doesnt even care that theres a mile of video tape in his Rearview Mirror proving that what he is saying is just not true. Yeah and i think its a great point but its very difficult for journalists. Are we going to fact check every second of what he says . This election has been very, very difficult to cover one at
some point further down the line from that clip that you showed, joe, he also says well it all happened under obama anyway so its obamas president ball balms fault because president obamas Foreign Policy is weak but that feeds into another narrative which is incorrect. It isnt only under president obama that other countries challenged american power. Remember it was under president george w. Bush that russia went into georgia. That was in 2008. Under president reagan, israel defied the United States and went into lebanon. There were stair downs between american soldiers and Israeli Soldiers in lebanon so the idea that mr. Trump is going to bring back this time when america was never challenged by others is simply not a reality. Can i jump in . Because the mike pence statement to clean all of this up offered late last night says that his son died because of the policies
of Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He died in 2004. Barrack obama was a state senator in 2004. And mike pence voted for that war. Exactly. And donald trump supported it. The other point is what i found very troubling with the khan episode is that every time the familys name comes up mr. Trump and his surrogates bring up islamic terrorism and the insenuation that you must bring up terrorism is very disturbing. What he said that she stood there as a subdued wife and probably wasnt allowed to speak. Well she showed him that she could speak but saying all arab women are downtrodden, mr. Trump probably never met one because i can tell you theyre pretty fooisty. Thank you for being with us this morning. Greatly appreciate it. And still ahead on morning joe were going to get back to the video tape with Donald Trumps statements from sunday but up next, its her turn. The democratic nominee standing by her old defense. The one that the fbi has already told us just isnt true about classified emails. But first, here is a look at some serious flooding near baltimore. What are you looking at . Have you seen these pictures . Looks like a kid playing in their bathtub with with cars. This is downtown baltimore. Saturday night 11 00 p. M. This is maryland. Incredible stuff. They he had 6 inches of rain in 90 minutes and three inches of that rain fell in 30 minutes alone. They did the human chain to get that lady out of her car and she could have been someone that could have been in serious trouble. Two people perished in these floods. We he had a lot of thunderstorms and downpours and now we have a
loan thunderstorm on the jersey shore. This afternoon its so humid. Sunshine will pop up. Hit and miss storms. A slight chance of isolated flooding but nothing like there. We have a lot of flash flood warnings. This is life threatening stuff going on now through the heart of central missouri. A lot of reports of roads closed because of water on them and the heat wave continues texas through the middle of the country and well dodge those thunderstorms on the east coast come this afternoon. Washington d. C. , youre looking warm,