Hillary clinton meets with Foreign Policy and National Security experts in new york including former cia director David Petraeus and former Homeland Security secretary janet napolitano. She will have two surrogates on the campaign trail for her today, bill clinton in nepolitano. Thats a wrap for us on this friday. Im alex witt and morning joe starts right now. Libertarian president ial candidate gary johnson was on the msnbc and he had little trouble ask answering a basic question about syria. What would you do if you were elected about aleppo. About . Aleppo. And what is aleppo . Youre kidding. No. Aleppo is in syria and the center of the refugee crisis. Okay, got it, got it. Aleppo. I thought you said a leopard. I was like what do i do about a leopard . Praeb run away from it. Lets talk about this syrian town of alpo thats where they make the dog food. Next question, please. Good morning, it is friday. Whos glad its friday. September 9th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set we have legendary columnist. Heres the problem. No, heres the problem. Yeah, you think hes really legendary. Have you seen his wife . Yes, matter of fact if anybody wants to understand why mike sits here and has the woman behind him no, hes the man behind the woman. Basically number two was named one of top 50 women ahead of beyonce. If you understand why mike twitches. I love this. Is that about right. Plus, she gives me an
allowance. How did you score that, by the way . Hes legendary, but shes above. Okay, veteran admin donnies here. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent bethany post samstein. Youre not willie geist. I look over there and all of a sudden a beard. I appreciate that. I was a little nervous about coming on. And in washington, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and associate editor at Washington PostEugene Robinson. Gene has a great piece. Who is the guy with the beard sitting next to hes so cute. A hipster from waynesburg. A couple days of growth. Its not that bad. Just two days. You have one of those incomplete beards. Thats not nice. Thats really not mice. Actually, really not nice. Perfect. Thank you, i appreciate that. We have a lot to get to. I think were hearing now, i think were hearing some strength from Republican Leaders who finally realize we can finally come to termsswith the fact that we can be strong and speak out strongly against the republican nominee given all the incredibly Dangerous Things he said. Donald trumps renews praise came under criticism yesterday as Hillary Clinton laid down a challenge for republicans to rebuke or stand with its comments. If he says great things about me, ill say great things about him. He is very much of a leader. Isnt that a terrible thing, the man has very strong control over our country. Now, a very different system and i dont happen to like the system, but certainly in that system, he has been a leader. Far more than our president has been a leader. What would Ronald Reagan say
about a republican nominee who attacks americas generals and keep praise on russias president. Every Republican Holding or seeking office in this country should be asked if they agree with donald trump. Okay. So, what you first saw was donald trump. One of his many disturbing comments that show up lack of knowledge and lack of depth on anything, including the important, complicated relationship or lack there of with russia. So, finally then clinton challenging republicans to do what they need to do. What somebody needs to do is speak up to what is wrong. Paul ryan finally found his way to a microphone and im thinking. I havent seen this yet, but im thinking he directly addressed donald trump finally. Take a look. I read the little snippet. Let me say this about vladimir
putin. He is an aggressor that doesnt share our interests. Celebrating the sovereignty of neighboring countries. Certainly appears he is conducting in statesponsored cyberattacks on what appears to be our political system. That is not acting in oour interests. And that is anned aversarial stance. Are you concerned, though, of donald trump praising Vladimir Putin . I made my points about putin clear. Im not going to sit up here and do the fit for tat what donald did. That is not my job. I am not going to be are you still voting for him to be commander in chief . Ill leave it at that. Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton was praising Vladimir Putin, they would literally run her out of the couple. Interesting listening to trump
with putin. That is the kind of leader he wants to be. I think he wants to be a dictator. I think there is an envy there. Nicolle, you put your hands to your face. What a disappointment. I reached out to republicans yesterday and from the, you know, from what is left of the establishment and they just said this is just so stunning. I called one former adviser mitt romney and said im having a wake. I said, what happened . He said, no, for the go op. I reached out to three people in the trump camp and i said, what is the deal . I think hes strong, not good. I dont believe you. I believe thats what you think he should think but i dont believe thats what he thinks. He doesnt believe hes strong but bad. Hes strong full stop. One thing about donald trump, he shows his hand. And this is a man who looks at that and goes that is what a
leader is. By the way, he is in control. He controls the media and hes a dictator. It is stunning. We need to step back here because part of this is not just trump. Part of this is about obama. A lot of this putin praise started in 2014. You can go back and find quotes from Rudy Giuliani at this tame. This is before trump jumped in saying Vladimir Putin is what a leader should be. Hes authoritative and taking very direct stand on the geopolitical stage and he is running around obama. Those are quotes from Rudy Giuliani at the time. I think a lot of this because people on the republican side dont like obama. They think that best on the international stage. Now, of course, some of the ties mike pence yesterday. Mike pence. Do you have that sound bite . I found that to be stunning. This is trumps running mate. Thank you, mike. Lets show that right now. I think its inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a
stronger leader in his country than barack obama has been in this country. And thats going to change the day that donald trump becomes president of the United States of america. Like to know what trump thinks about adolf hitler. Gene writes in Washington Post hes a dictator. Donald trumps raging ego mania and donald trump mentioned in the commander in chief forum that putin called him brilliant. What he meant is you a bright, shiny object. That is different. He didnt say that. He didnt. Anyhow, gene, you write this. The most revealing moment in the president i president ial candidatess first joint forum came when donald trump told the world he admires Vladimir Putin. Never mind he invaded ukraine and seized crimia. Never mind that he supports the
butcher Bashar Al Assad in syria. Never mind that so many of his political opponents end up murdered or imprisoned. Putin, you see, once paid trump a compliment. Its not about immigration or foreign pall or or making America Great, again. Whatever that means. Its entirely about trump and his raging egomania. I think eugene nailed everything right there. I really mean it, everything. Gene, you go ahead. It is, no, its all about trump. And, i mean, you dont even have to step back to look at this right. Vladimir putin. Mike pence says hes a strong leader. Shame on mike pence, who i thought was an honorable person and a dedicated conservative and i cannot believe he said what he said yesterday. I mean, yes, hes a strong
leader in this country. He controls the media. He kills journalists. He kills political opponents. Yeah, so, sure, he controls his country in a way that maybe donald trump wants to control the United States. For some reason, all these insipid, dangerous blurts are accepted. I dont know if everyone because they heard this white noise from donald trump for so many months that we just take it for a grain of salt. Mike barnicle i agree with you and i heard pence saying what he said. Something inside me died even more. I mean, do you agree . I mean, you know, supposedly he was the more reasonable of the two of them on that ticket. Nicolles point is great. Senior strategist made the point that if barack obama had said any of this stuff in 2008, every single republican would have called to renounce his comments, but literally leave the president ial race and maybe
resign from the senate. Its remarkable how you can change your tone when your candidate you guys, i saw senator corker here this week and i thought he was more forthcoming as of late. They cornered him yesterday and went even further and john mccain was literally, you know, running from the cameras. But in the elevator before hitting door close, that putin is a thug and a criminal and a killer. The moderate Republican Party to the degree that it has stood for anything over the last 20 years has stood for everything that putin is against. Theyre standing for weakness now. They cant say what they need to say. I agree with you. If you take the week in its entirety, i thought clinton had a great day yesterday. She got herself on offense on this point about putin. I think she sort of alwaysed a vnss her cause when the republicans split apart and this point for putin, phrase the
party almost to the degree that the muslim man did. In terms of what she accomplished yesterday. Just calling about the generals. I feel like people didnt even have a beat to dig in. Which generals . Who is he talking about . They have no answer. And i think to the degree that nothing has changed in a long time in this race. To the degree that suddenly could change, if republicans forced answers on some of these claims. Ask you a question, when trump praises putin and talks, do you think donald trump understands the true role and limitations of the executive order of the president of the United States . No clue. He certainly doesnt understand the commander in chief role. He doesnt understand that the commander in chief has control of the american military. He doesnt understand that. He doesnt understand the way the system works. Theres so much that he doesnt understand that he doesnt even understand that. Thats the challenge for Hillary Clinton, as we move on here. Because this is a woman who is,
you know, whether you agree or not with her policies incredibly prepared for the office of the presidency and has prepared for this campaign and has a website and policy papers that are just, people argue she has to sort of try because theres so much information because shes so prepared. What shes trying to do and what you see her struggling with is having to dumb herself down to deal with this idiot on the other side. And its even harder because its like how do you even what floating, shiny object do you attack that comes out of his mouth. And instead of talking how do you debate someone like this . Matt lauer found it. And i just want to Say Something about people who think they know how to moderate commander in chief forums and have all these
things to say about what happened the other night. In a short amount of time to try to catch all the ridiculous things that came out of Donald Trumps mouth and follow up, youd end up having three hours. Bob woodward came on our show in washington and was very critical of me and joe. You need to ask him the tough questions. The montage of our town hall compared to a competing networks town hall and how many tough questions we asked him and how many follow ups we asked him. He doesn answer. It seems to be okay with the American People. We told bob, he doesnt answer. Well show you. Donald trump will be on next hour, you take it away. And bob sat there completely at a loss trying to get this guy to answer anything with anything truthful as he just threw crap against the wall. Just out of his mouth, out of no where. And the follow up for even bob woodward. Think about that. Think about that for a second
was difficult. He was just absolutely. After the interview he looked at us and just put his hand in the air like, okay, i get it. Its actually, its how the American Public is ingesting this information because donald trump has the ability to make it sound credible because he can use facial expressions or use his talent of being on tv to make stupidity sound credible. We have to be smarter as viewers. You just hit it. Theyve accepted him. They have accepted him. He asks the question. People beat us up for grading him on a curve. He goes to mexico and takes a stage. Thats not our judgment. Thats what the public sees. And this connect on a gut level. Thats his thing. And, plus, this is a cosmetic medium television. You sit there and youre a guest in their homes and theyre watching this thing on the tv
screens. The way you get criticized is to literally about every 45 second you would have to look at him on a tv set thats in peoples homes and say, donald, thats a lie. Thats a lie. Or what you said, i mean, do you think donald trump knows about aleppo . All i thought about with gary johnson, donald trump, meet mike barnicle. I will take the under. There is no chance he knows what aleppo is. This will be an i. Q. Test for the American Public. Or a gut test. Like mika said, theyve accepted him. Just take it all and then you have people going, you need to ask the questions. I think the frustration that people have, i think the frustration people have is that in that forum, for instance, five or six instances where he said something that in any other instance where any other candidate would have been considered a crippling statement. Wait, frame that. Tell us again what happened. Explain to our viewers. If they missed it. An old tweet that he had put up and i forget the year he put it. 2013. It essentially said that what do people expect when they integrated the armed forces. Men and women. Women get raped because men and women are together. Matt lauer read that back to him and he said that is a correct tweet. That is a rejectively thing to say. Then he started talking glowingly about a mexican official having left the government. He is glowing about how he got mexican official fired, essentially. Of course, he reversed himself yesterday tweeting it was a shame this guy left. Y these things in their own right would have been problematic for another candidate and for trump because it happens so rapidly and all the time, we move beyond it. The other frustration that people have and you can call it legitimate or not, these things happen. On the other side, legitimate questions, but people obsess over email protocol and thats legitimate. Totally legitimate. When you step back and say were having a debate over email protocol and on the other hand youre seeing someone literally cozy up to Vladimir Putin and say he wants to fire all the generals. How do you weigh these two things against each other . What he did about the intelligence briefing to somehow suggest and twist. That was reprehensible. The scary thing is i was watching that thing. Trying to lens it through an entire country watching it and what people respond to. He was like this. That is what people are. They dont even hear this. Hes banging on the table. Thats what people respond ta. The issue dealing with him and interrogating him and however you want to call it, you
are literally sitting opposite a tsunami of lies. Just for the record, matt lauer exposed everything the other night, including what to you expect when men and women get together. Well, women are going to be sexually assaulting. Donald trump was saying that was a good statement. Just think about this pause it was put out there for the American Public to see and, poor Hillary Clinton, trying to figure out how to deal with this. Like how to dumb herself down and respond to these things. This is a nightmare. She did a good job, though, yesterday. She adapted. This is a nightmare this is the candidate. Im sorry for anybody Still Standing on the side of donald trump you are going talose in the long run and i dont really understand how you can live with yourself and how you can see that this isnt a very big mitam mimistake. I dont understand it. If he is a democratic candidate, and he is a democrat, i mean, it
would just be a simple decision. Im confused. I really am. I have lost faith in washington. Anybody see giuliani last night . Well get tato giuliani. The fallout right here on our set and Mike Barnicles legendary. Sorry, mika. The always outspoken dallas maveric mavericks owner mark cuban joins us. Lets say he and donald trump had an interesting history on social media. Later, new York City Police commissioner bill bratton joins us this as this weekend we mark the 15th anniversary of september 11th. Well talk to him about the city, safety and much more. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. If y have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, and youre talking to your doctor about your medication. This is humira. This is humira helping to relieve my pain
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