Shortly to address whats taken place over the past 24 hours. Here are the tweets from the president of the United States posted yesterday i heard poorly rated morning joe speaks badly of me, dont watch anymore. Then how could low i. Q. Crazy mika along with psycho joe came to maralago three nights in a row around new years eve and insisted on joining me, she was bleeding badly from a face lift. I said no they stayed home to lay lou and i called and asked them to come in this morning to address this, to talk about the tweets and the reaction to them so they agreed to do so. They will be here at the top of our 7 00 hour before they do go away for the holiday weekend. Thats coming up in less than one hour. I asked mika to come in in particular because she does not need me or anyone else here to defend her, trust me, as anyone who knows her knows. Mika is smart, shes strong, she makes people in power uncomfortable and she fears absolutely no one. Youll be reminded of all that when mika and joe join us at the top of. Hour. Right now weve got Donnie Deutsche with us. I had a little work done and i just am a little selfconscious about it. What did you do, a little lift . Just a little eye thing. Im a little sensitive to it. Washington anchor for bbc, katty kay. I dont know if the shade stay on the whole show. Former white house aide our friend john meacham in nashville and from usa today, heidi pryzbyla. Joe and heidi have posted an oped in the Washington Post. People can read that in a few minutes. Just your initial reaction from what you saw yesterday from the president. Its really hard to see this as anything other than sexist and vicious. He was incredibly personal. He used the office of the presidency to launch an attack against a television anchor who every morning does her job. And he did it in a way that was vindictive and bullying and its very hard, even republicans i think would agree with exactly everything ive just said, most of them. Its very hard to conclude anything else because it shows us an awful lot about his temperament and the way he criticizes those who goes after people who he feels are critical of him. Youve been critical of a guy youve known for a long time in donald trump, now President Trump. Were you surprised by what you saw yesterday . No. First of all, he picked the wrong schoolyard to come into, i have to tell you this. Im not an employee of nbc so im going to go thug here. Im sorry. Because a friend of ours, shes a good woman, shes a great mom and hes a pig. Hes a vulgar pig. And i find whats eironic. Michelle obama says when he goes low, we go high. You guys take the high road, ill go local. His physically disgusting to look at. So beyond the fact hes obviously not well, the misogyny, the vulgarity, the stupidity, hes not mentally okay. This is what we have to stop paying attention to it and hes disgusting to look at. Its irrelevant on so many levels. No, enough is enough with this disgusting, vulgar man. And to talk about women that way and the irony is that you physically look like you do beyond the stupidity of it, youre a pig, you are a bully and you are doing Disgusting Things to this country. But, donnie, doesnt it lower again the des course whiscourse said about his physical appearance . It absolutely does. Maybe its time we all stop tippy ttip y tippy towing toeing. Hes disgusting to look at. I probably wont be on this show again. Put the shades back on. Not much surprises me given his lack of integrity and inseemingly but to launch an attack like that on a woman just because you dont like what shes saying about you and theres something about smart, strong, substantive women that really gets under Donald Trumps skin. And to just make up this complete, strange lie which is quite creative. I sit by mika and if shes got i dont know wo gotten work, i want to know who her surgeon is because there was no indication whatsoever. The New York Post writes, stop, just stop. Trump faced widespread condemnation from his own party. Senator Lisa Murkowski tweeted just stop it. Republican senator ben sasse he writes please just stop. This isnt normal and its beneath the dignity of your office. It went on like this all day. Congresswoman barbara comstock, the tweets went too far, please stop. The president of theins ought to be modelling the best of behavior, he should be an example for children, he should be an example pore all of us. This is maddening. Its maddeningly frustrating. This is beneath the dig fnity o the United States, at least it should be, and its a distraction and it starts to undermine the president s ability to get his agenda done. This is not about policy, its about a person. I want to help him, tweets like this are inconsistent with the greatness of the country and the office. Its hard to figure. Its just im just embarrassed. I mean, embarrassed isnt the right word. I just regret it. It doesnt astonish me because it isnt the first time that hes attacked various people that he has disagreement with. But so im not surprised but im disappointed. Obviously i dont see that as an appropriate comment. Look, what were trying to do around here is improve the tone and the civility of the debate and this obviously doesnt help do that. The reaction from democrats and republicans. You saw a lot of republicans in there alike. It was a swift rebuke of what he said. You hear frustration in his voice. Theyre trying to get things done in health care. Were talking about the travel ban. There a lot of things happening in the world that deserve the attention of the president and this is not one of them. You wonder how his supporters will react and, donnie, i thought you were right. Youre justified in your reaction. If you disagree with someone on television, then state the issue, lay out why you disagree, lay out the policy ju justifications but to go after somebody, i wont even dignify the words, everything donnie said, repulsive, unjustifiable, childlike and reprehensible. What have we become as a nation if hes not condemned by the people who put him m officin of. It says more about us than it does about him if hes able to get away with this. Im eager to see what the poll results may show. Im interested to see how his supporters, be it networks, groups of people, how they respond to what he did yesterday. There are no words and i thought donys physical reaction was more than justified this morning. John meecham, weve heard from some of the extremes anyways, support from some of those who said he had a right to hit back. You heard it from the white house that says he hits back when hes hit. Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying it was a threat, he hit back. Youd think that morning joe was a sovereign power. Are we on a watch list . How does this work . To me what links this and what makes this significant beyond the sovereign power is the question of fear. He fears people who are intelligent and who dont approve of what hes doing. And Mika Brzezinski is one of the most fearless women ive ever encountered and hes one of the most fearful men i can think of in our public life. Bullies are those who are insecure so he punches when he feels cornered, when he feels that the world, of his own construction, but when even the world of his own construction is not a congenial place for him, he punches and lashes out. And i think that that has important public implications. This is someone who is going to be dealing with, with all respect to the work a lot of us do, you know, we dont have Nuclear Weapons and there are people out there who do. And if he is this fundamentally insecure that he would violate what was the few norms that were left for him to violate, i mean, its kind of impressive there that hes managed to ten to go lower and lower, so there is a superlative involved, its a worrisome thing. Your question about whether his supporters will condemn it, no, theyre not going to condemn it. Theyre going to see this network and this broadcast as part of the problem. And the key thing about a president , and i know willie was waiting for this, i was thinking about Lyndon Johnson last night, which i know willie was, too. We were thinking Andrew Jackson but okay. But johnson said that the presidency makes a man however small bigger and a man however big is never big enough to meet the demands of the office. And on those two counts, on the first count, i dont think johnson quite anticipated trump. Hes a small man who has not been made larger by the office and we need someone who is economies rat wi commensurate with the job. Im not tacking about people who voted for him, im talking about republicans in washington who would have said enough is enough, i cant stand by this president. Did you feel any change yesterday . We heard the sound bites and we we heard them before and its been back to business a few days later. But were in the middle of health care but will it impact that . I just want to go back to the white houses explanation is that he is punching back ten times harder. Well, so does my 6yearold. That doesnt mean its president ial or good for the country. Joe and mika have been very critical of him and harsh on him sometimes in this show, but there are many president s who have come under stinging and even unprecedented attack. Think of what bill clinton suffered on fox news during the impeachment. By the way, by a couple of men who were having their own affairs at the time, or george bush who was mocked as stupid or barack obama and the whole birtherism at the time that sean hannity offered to fly the obamas back to kenya, if you remember that. None of them struck out even remo remotely like this because they knew it would diminish the presidency. If we havent been hit already, well be hit soon as a bench of media leads from an echo chamber. So i wanted to read something from a real person, who is my father. Hes as far removed from d. C. As possible. He a retired mover and onetime Police Officer and hes been watching all of this and he knows that mika recently lost her father so as a father he wanted to me to read this. Mika, why is it that trump is always commenting on how he sees women . Maybe women need to start speaking out about what kind of a man they see in him because these attacks end quote. Because these attacks really do seem to be especially harsh on women. Joe and mika have been harsh on trump but why is the venom always reserved for the woman . Joe as a fellow republican, his remarks can be even more stinging and yet he went after mika. Thats an interesting point because there is a trend weve noticed and our producers have noticed, joe will Say Something very critical to the president of the United States and the hit comes against mika. Mikas critical, too, she said some things that obviously got under the president s skin. But we notice joe says something and its mika who gets hit on it. He has a classic bully tactic. We knew it when we were dmids school. Somebody who is in a position of power and who wants to attack the weakest member, will go after the person they perceive as being weaker. And i think in the president s mind sometimes that, is just all women, that somehow he sees women as being weaker than men and he goes after them particularly. Weve all become arm chair psychologists, which we never thought we would do under this presidency. Does he fear women, does he fear strong women . He did the clearly the same thing against megyn kelly. He has something with women bleeding, some weird if you were winning a major corporation, youd be fired. In the private sector, youd never get away with it. We do not hold or president to the same standard as we hold grade school children. The president has so much time to tweet. If he was tweeting as much about policy as he was media, as he was spending as much time making the country great again as he focusing on his animus toward the media, mean he would have already meecham said one thing about Lyndon Johnson and how the presidency makes people bigger. I think the real concern and the reaction to this has been huge around the world, everybodys been watching this the last 24 hours, is that it made the presidency smaller and made was office smaller. Made the office of the presidency smaller. And not just that, hes making america smaller. And i with these tweets, the reaction has started to be not, oh, my god, this is all a joke but really sad. I was the dad of three daughters and i loved what heidi did. We also forgot that on top of this, mika lost her dad a few weeks ago. The women of america have to start taking some accountability here. You have daughters. If you are a trump supporter, how do you look at your daughter with a straight face and still say i believe in this man . It time you know, this is, as you said, if youre a dad, if youre a mom, theres a cowardice, a misogyny, we say look in the mirror. But weve known this, it was the megyn kelly attacks, the access hollywood tapes and 53 of women still voted for donald trump. Mika spoke at 4 00 and made a plea to the people working inside the white house. She was the former white house communication director for george w. Bush. Heres nicole yesterday. Theres a single press strategy for this white house, its called an apology. As a woman who was fortunate enough to work in the white house as a public servant, all the women collecting paycheck, you should all go on the record and condemn your bosss comments and work behind the scenes to educate him about just how offensive they are. Three, as someone who once probably called myself a republican, the party will be permanently associated with misogyny if leaders doesnt sta doesn dont stand up and demand an apology. At a mother of a son, i ask all women how they plan to raise good men if the most powerful man in the world gets away with this. Thats my girl. Women inside the white house in particular coming out and contract sizing the women publicly are about zero. We saw what Sarah Huckabee sands are said yesterday and it was more lies. She said on this show we disparage her and we disparage here lies and she stand at the podium when shes never incited violence when hes encouraged people to punch protesters. Until this white house stops lying, were going to keep calling you out on it. He is doing this because he says hes being criticized. I remember being at the white house when president clinton was in office. It was a very tough time for him. He was on the front of the paper being vilified, whatever you think about it, and i walked up to him and i said how are you doing . He said im great, i wake up every day and im president of the country. It my job to protect this country. It says more of us about people today if we allow him to get away with this. Hes made the presidency smaller. If we allow i thought nicole said it best. If we allow him to get away with this as a country, as a nation, it doesnt say as much about him as it does the country how we are regarded around the globe. I cannot wait to hear the woman who was the greatest defender not only of herself but the things she cares about and believes in, mika do it. But who are we as a nation to allow this fella to get away with this. Joe and mika will join us at the top of the hour, about 40 minutes from now. They posted a piece to the Washington Post that begins to explain the way they felt. Heidi, i know you have to run. You want to give you the last word here. If theres any good that can possibly come of this, it is taking a magnifying class to the fact that this president is using the bully pulpit to fight but it not to defend the country, its being used for personal attacks. They are not to push agenda items that are going the lives of the American People or the forgotten man. Joe and mika just showed that hes tough, hes smart and hes a fighter and thats what it American People voted for. Joe and mika will join us live at the top of the hours, 7 00 eastern time, about less than 40 minutes from now with their reaction to all of this. Also ahead this morning, republican congresswoman lynn jenkins who called out the president for himself tweets. Andrea mitchell and wall street journal reporter with a bombshell report about michael flynn. Plus the implication of the travel ban and the future. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Teachers, keep on teaching a happy birthday, sweetie oh, millies. 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Green mountain coffee. Welcome to holiday inn whether for big meetings or little getaways, there are always smiles ahead at holiday inn. President trump today attacked msnbc morning joe host on twitter saying she came to maralago three nights in a row around new years eve and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a facelift. I said no. This brings us to a new segment called i cant. I mean i cant. This has been i cant. Joining us now, president of the council on Foreign Relations, author of the book a world in disarray, richard haas and Washington Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms Washington Bureau chief. Not just this tweet but what do our allies see when they read Something Like that . This is the 21st equivale equivalent century equivalent of a white house statement. These are in many cases friend and allies who have made the strategic decision to cast their lot with us, put their security in americans hands. Hes made all sorts of public statements questio