Michigan school of public policy, former democrat tick columnist harold ford jr. And chris tip anderson, columnistened new poll numbers on the president we will get to and paul ryan as you know still seems to be like staying right in a very, very clear lane away from criticizing the president. Frame the morning for us. Well, you know, first of all, you talked about the sweet smell of tax cuts. We had bob corker on several kwooex weeks ago, even before his feud with President Trump. He was talking about how this was going to make trying to Pass Health Care look like a spring picnic and bob corke will be on today, hes sounding the alarm on the hymn. He wants tax cuts to pass. But at the same time he knows they will try to close 4,000 of loopholes, lots of luck. We will be talking to bob corker there. Mika, i think barnacle and willie would both agree, the most important story out there was an incredible world series, mark barnical, it was a homerun derby. It was like a midsummers treat at the all star break except this was in october. Exactly right a. Midsummers treat. Thank god for baseball, it rescues us once again from our reality headlines last night. Dodgers versus astros, the dodgers manager makes a mess of the game taking his daughter out in the 4th inning. Tworun home run. Dodgers and astros back and forth for the 8th, 9th, 10th inning. They come back short in the bottom of the 11th. The series tied at one. Man. Mika what are your thoughts . I just, i dont know. Its a great game. Someone has no rooting interest in the series, you want a good series, it looks like its shaping up to be that way. Houston has had a nice year, its tough to see. Why would he take that picture out in your estimation . Baseball is now a sport. Its so infused with stats. More than any other sport. You have stats for everything. The spin rate on a baseball t. Percentage of curves they can get a hitter out. Sometimes you get so wrapped up in the data that you are given that you dont take a look out with your eyes and see the human being on the mound. They kept him in. He goes to his bullpen, crushes his bullpen, has to bring if maybe the best relieve Ken Lee Jansen in, in the 8th inning instead of the 9th inning and boom. Its really. Mika, you know, its a lot like this show, you save the matrix for everything. You know, its like willie and i are working ten hours agree dand its all about numbers, its all about data, we dig into the da that. Every question thats asked. Every segment that comes up, its saber matrix for television. I cant believe how long you guys go on and on about this. I wish we had a camera on mikas face when we were talking, there was physical pain on mikas face President Trumps job approval numbers have taken hit. It fell to a new low to 38 approve. Down four points in september. Trumps disApproval Rating hit a new high of 57 . He has seen a dip among his core supporters, there has been an 8point drop among whites and ep van gel cal voters and 6 drop among other three groups, conservative, men and white voters, stop me whenever you want to. Still. Ill actually stop right now go to kristen, yeah, you do polls all the time. Again, trump voters still supporting about 87 . Republicans still support him for the most part. These numbers are still only, but man is he bleeding independents and of course this is a low for fox news poll. He was at 32 in a poll earlier this month, gallup. They usually have around 36, 37, 38 t. Base is holding but hes losing everybody else, isnt he . Reporter i think people are looking for the win. You told us there was gentleman to be all this winning, where is the when . For the most part, trump voters dont hold him responsible for that. They look at capitol hill. They look at democrats, they look at congressional leaders. They say this is whats causing the winning to have not happened in the way we promised. Voters who were not trump voters, maybe were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he didnt participate in the last election. They are now wondering, where are the wins. So thats why this tax reform question is so interesting. Because its a chance to get something threw congress, the chance to find an issue that republicans are fairly unified on. It could give the president that kind of a win. Yet from my vantage point, it doesnt seem the president is as focused as he is on say a fight with a gold star family and things like that. I think thats what you are seeing in these number, voters saying, wheres the win . And, of course, that is so critical, willie, for the president to be focused if he wants to pass tax reform. He thinks it will be easy, as bob corker will be telling us when he comes on the show and other senators that i have been talking to have been saying, theyre trying to close loopholes like trademarks of dollars in loophole, k street is going to swarm all over this place, will you have republicans in these bucklings, he said, this is going to be tough. You need a president that is focused nonstop, thats bringing people in, thats explaining not just bringing them in, going you are beautiful. This is great. This is the greatest bill ever. Explain, hey, listen, this is what will be tough. This is what you can tell your constituents, if you pass your tax reform, x, y, z will happen. He was never able do that on Health Care Reform who will believe he can do it on tax reform . He said on his trip last night, we will get tax reform by the end of the year, he has to have something open the board, he can go back to gorsuch. That was a big win driven largely by Mitch Mcconnell. We can dispute some numbers, harold, but he and not republicans, the reason a lot havent crossed him in a way bob corker, jeff flake and john mccain have, they also feed something to go back to their voters and constituents and say you voted us in, were doing it, otherwise that i dont have much to show, its not just the president. I would agree with all you said, there is a long tradition in politics, campaigning one way and governing another. To a large extent, both of the parties, most are struggling with it. Jeff flake was defeated in the occupation senate 12 years ago, they both campaign in ways they are not governing. You have a group of republicans who campaign on antiimmigration, antithis anti. That that group of people now want to see republicans deliver. They want a toy riev and govern differently. Democrats have it on their side as well, obama wanted to close guantonomo bay and do some things, have you this collision of reality, its campaigning and governing. Its a level were talking about here with this president. Hes confronting it. Now you have u. S. Senator versusing conscious calls saying i cant live up to or better live down to the way that i campaigned 12, 16 years ago. So when these realities collide, this is what you get. Hopefully it signals there will be an upending with the way parties operate and there will be more adherence to the way you campaign, which may make campaigning more honest Going Forward, thats what i hope comes out of this honestly republican senator jeff flake of arizona says he hopes his rejection of President Trumps falsehood and reckless attacks will be a tipping point. But for most members of his party it was another day. Trump tweeted and in interviews, flake and bob corkers colleagues, once harsh critics of trump agreed. The president has his own way of communicating. Look, its worked. Hes getting things dodge. He done. Hes performing. Hes not a cookie cutter. I think the republicans need a leader who takes the reigns, so long as his goals are the same and they are. I try not to make it about personalities or, you know, someone saying someone has less than a perfect character than they do. Thats a little of the pot calling the kettle black as we tend to think, oh, somehow, you know, im so perfect that i can criticize another persons character. One of the things the media missed on all this they keep saying senator so and so is a conservative, why is there such a disagreement . Because we made this about personality and less about policy. I think its unfortunate the nastiness that pervades washington right now and the political battles of personality that consume seemingly every minute of the Media Attention, and an awful lot of the time and energy here in this town. Its like youre back in junior high. I really dont care who passed the note to the cute girl in pig tails. We got a job to do, dam it. And so all of this nonsense i got nothing to say on it. Everyone shut up and do your job. So joe, i feel like id rather hear from you, the republican turned independent, because i dont think its going to carry much wake coming from me. But i feel there is such a disconnect here at the three gentleman we just heard from are putting massive blinders on and disregarding behavior that defies humanity. Were not talking about bickering here, are we . Well, we actually heard, willie geist, tvs willie geist, the last gentleman who spoke today donald trump would have us believe reading about his father in the papers released on the jfk asass fakes, if you believe donald trump, ted cruz father. Right. Had something to do with the jfk assassination. Ted cruz wife derided by donald trump as being up attractive. Ted cruz insulted time and time again by donald trump and him trying to sort of paint everything with a broad brush is sad. First of all, you wonder why he doesnt feel the need more to defend his family. How he does that, thats up for ted cruz to think about. Jim imhoff said the president has his on way of communicating. Yes, he lie, yes, he says hes going to strip licenses from news outlets with whom he disagrees, he uses stalinist phrases and calls the press the enemy of the people, calls other people the enemy of the people. He actually questions the legitimacy of the Judicial Branch and specific federal judicial judges. If barack obama had done any of these things, jim imhoff would have held eightyear hearings on it. So. Yes, he does have his own way of communicating and imhoff says it works. Actually no, the president has record low Approval Ratings. The Republican Party has its widest split in the generic ballot theyve ever had with the Democratic Party and congresss approval is sitting at 14 and almost a record low there. What he says said is patently false, jim imhoff. There is no reason to follow this guy. He se destroying the republican part party. If you just, as i said before, look at the data. Jim imhoff, he said, maybe we do better, hes talking about flake and corker. Maybe we do better, the people that dont like him, talking about trump, leave and replace them. Thats him saying few dont like what the president is doing, maybe you should follow jeff flake out the door . The striking aspect. We showed three United States senator, jim imhoff, rand paul and cruz and ted cruz. The striking thing about the three of them is they are so filled with fear, the fear of getting tweeted against the fear of the noise, of the bannon wing of the Republican Party. I mean its as if they are in a house thats on fire and they dont sense that the fire is eventually going to get to the room that theyre in. Kristen, in the polling that youve done with regard to donald trump, to the president of the United States, and his status with the elderly people, with independents, with whomever, does the issue of incompetence ever come up . Because that would seem to be his true weakness in the long run, incompetence the fact that they cant get anything done with him as president . I think for voters that already didnt like donald trump, that sort of baked into the cake for them. For voters who did vote for donald trump, again, youve seen a handsful of them bleeding away, which is why his approvals used to be north of 40 are south of 40 , but among Republican Voters and the times of voters that senior imhoff or cruz is talking to, those comments they made are the sorts of things i will hear in focus groups from Republican Voters, that they just want to see things get done. That they get that the president tweets and they dont really like it. But you know what, i want to see things get done. In their perspective, theyre not, you dont really hear people say, well, there is a coequal branch of government. Senators have every right to speak their mind. They want to see things get done. They view it as a distraction, they dont think the as far as making these comments are having any everything on changing the president s behavior so whats the point of it . Which i think is an interesting architect. Right. I believe if you disagree with this president. Speak out by all means, i think its also valid to say if you speak on the senate floor and give a speech thats love they the president doesnt change his behavior f. You havent changed the minds of the people in your party, eight distraction . I think its a fair question. So the vulnerability you pointed to its okay if things get done. What if things dont get done, how quickly does that go down . Is. Reporter i think if we get to the ends of the year, oba obamacare is in place the wall is still fought built, i do think you will start to see more folks going okay, okay, maybe its not mostly the president s fault, but he needs to do Something Different if he want toss make this work. And that may be when you see those numbers get closer and closer to the mid to low 30s now to a story that protect overnight involving someone you see around this table every day, cnn is reporting allegations regarding our friend Mark Halperin over a decade ago, unnamed sources detailing unwanted advances and inappropriate behavior. Hal person apologized for the pain his actions caused and said i will take a step pack from my daytoday work while i properly address the situation. We will be following this story as it develops. Im sure we will be talking about it again when we know more about it still ahead on morning joe the chaerm of the Foreign Relations committee, bob corker joins us, Senate Democrat chris coons, who is warning that republican jeff flakes exit from the senate should scare democrats and the chairman of the House Freedom caucus, congressman mark meadows will be our guest as well. But first, bill kierans, with a check on the forecast. Bill. Reporter good morning to you, mia, a heads up to the northeast and the midatlantic. If you have weekend plans sunday, we have a big storm coming. First getting to the current storm which is still soaking areas from connecticut up through maine. This has been like a 24hour rain event. It will continue through the day today. Heres 5 00 p. M. Still raining from albany up through burlington, hit and miss showers as the steadier rains come to an end, i dont think we will get flooding the only exception, if maine, the leaves come down, the other area of interest. There is associated. This is the origins of our big sunday storm in the northeast. Right now, its a tropical disturbance off anything raunic. Im not concerned it will become a Tropical Storm or a hurricane or anything like that. The thing that is important all of that moisture and rain is in south florida on saturday and then it gets drawn right up the eastern seaboard as we go through sun. This will become a pretty big storm over new englanded on sunday, gusts maybe as high as 60 miles an hour and threetofive inches of rain. In the mountains as much as six inches of rain. We will have possible Power Outages and tree damage as we go into sunday into monday in the northeast. Keep that in mind for your week plan. Washington, are you looking to avoid that big storm on sunday, probably rain food, today looks like a gorgeous day, though, you are watching morning joe. Well be right back. Zplmplts accused of obstructing justice to theat the fbinuclear war, and of violating the constitution by taking money from foreign governments and threatening to shut down news organizations that report the truth. If that isnt a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president , then what has our government become . Im tom steyer, and like you, im a citizen who knows its up to us to do something. Its why im funding this effort to raise our voices together and demand that elected officials take a stand on impeachment. A Republican Congress once impeached a president for far less. Yet today people in congress and his own administration know that this president is a clear and present danger whos mentally unstable and armed with Nuclear Weapons. And they do nothing. 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Joining us from seoul, south korea, kir simmons reporting from inside north korea. Here, defending is jim mattis is arriving today, whats at stake with this trip . Reporter yeah, a lot. A great deal. Actually, hes really going to have north korea the top of his agenda with three u. S. Carrier gripes now operating in the region and general joint chiefs general dunford was expected to arrive here just in the past few hours t. President , of course, as you say, due to come to the region next month, so i mean is this the most intense region in the world right now . Yes, absolutely it is, mika, we spent a week in north korea and the insights that we gained by having that time there were really a platform for us, i got to say,