Massive demographic changes have been hoisted upon the American People. And theyre changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us dont like. From virginia to california, we see stark examples of how radically in some ways the country has changed. Now, much of this is related to both illegal and in some cases Legal Immigration that, of course, progressives love. And since this is the last speech that i will give as president , i think its fitting to leave one final thought. An observation about a country which i love. It was stated best in a letter i received not long ago. A man wrote me and said, you can go to live in france, but you cannot become a frenchman. You can go to live in germany or turkey or japan, but you cannot become a german, a turk or japanese. But anyone from any corner of the earth can come to live in
you know, guy vinson, a strong conservative voice, wrote this on twitter overnight. As conservatives we should not fear or bemoan demographically shifting electorate. Its our task to make our cause relevant and accessible to more people. Including those who may not initially be natural allies and make them secure in the confidence that our ideas are better. You know, jon meacham, i remember in 1999, george w. Bush, a man who i disagreed with many of his policies, with his spending. George w. Bush quietly and publicly told republicans in no Uncertain Terms, im running in
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. That people who have been republicans for longer than 30 minutes seems to me need to fight for that part of their party, or say goodbye for a very long time. Were going we have susan del percio, Donny Deutsch, Gene Robinson with us as well and well stay on the spirit of the discussion, willie geist. Michael gerson has a really good piece out in the Washington Post about the politics and then well get to some stunning new details pertaining, some of the core proceedings with Migrant Children and families seeking asylum. First, willie, the politics at play. Speaking of george w. Bush, Michael Gerson was a speechwriter during both of his terms and new topic on the Washington Post titled the only way to save the gop is to defeat it. In it he writes, in november Many Republicans leaners and independent will face a difficult decision. The National Democratic party under nancy pelosi and charles e. Schumer doesnt share their views or values but sprt a rolling disaster of mendacity, corruption and prejudice. What should they do . Vote democrat nick their house race no matter who the democrats put forward and vote republican in senate races with mainstream candidates, unlike, say, Corey Stewart in virginia. Why vote havestrategically, ame is in the midst of an emergency. Gain control of the house not the senate, a check on the president without becoming a threat to his best policies from a republican perspective or enable to enact worst policy. The house will conduct real Oversight Hearings and expose both russian influence and administration corruption. Under republican control important committees such as Chairm Chairman devin nuness committee has been pathetic tools of the
balances, but as weve been saying here all year, gene, the Founding Fathers they foresaw a corrupt tyrannical president. They never foresaw an obsequious congress, legislative branch that would lie down and simply rubber stamp all of the worst proposals of this, of a tyrannical president , and whatever want to define donald trump, he is not madison and jefferson and franklin and washingtons idea of a president. No. No. Hes clearly not. You know, i think the founders would be shocked that congress hasnt acted, not just to investigate this president , probably to impeach this president. Remember, they were revolutionaries, and they absolutely specifically planned for this sort of moment, and
this congress is beyond neglect. Its beyond its beyond pathetic, really. I think its a crime against the constitution that theyre not fulfilling their duty even to investigate, protecting the president from exposure of his corruption. Theyre enabling this president who and lets be certain what the contrast is. You heard that Laura Ingraham quo. Doesnt sounds like or smells like White Supremacy, thats what it is, pure and simple. And this is a president who is encouraging that, and to saying nothing of all the other things that this president does that are just beyond the pale. I agree. Vote democratic. Yeah. Michael gerson mentioned Corey Stewart in his piece. The republican nominee for the u. S. Senate in virginia, and is responding after a video surfaced from his 2017 Virginia Governor campaign in which he praised the confederacy for rebelling against the union. This is a state of George Washington and Tom Jefferson and James Madison and james monroe. Its a state that the founders a state of a Declaration Of Independence and the constitution, but its also the state of robert e. Lee and sahl jackson and j. B. Stewart. [ applause ] because at the base of it, virgini virginians, we think for ourselves, and if the established order is wrong, we rebel. Question that in the revolution. We did it in the civil war, and were doing to today. Doing it today. Stewart who grew up in minnesota. Of course he did, by the way. And moved to virginia. Of course he grew up in minnesota. Theyre always the worst. Late 20s. Transplant. Hey, im a rebel. Facing incumbent democrat tim kaine. Responding saying, unlike wimpy tim kaine, really . Virginians have a Warrior Spirit and a rebel heart and in a tweet yesterday that stewart has since deleted he attacked Michigan Democratic candidate for governor Abdul El Ssayed a is commie. Oh, my god. These people wheres he coming from . Minnesota. Minnesotans are usually nice people. But hes not. He should go back. I dont think they want him. Playing a tough southern jon meacham. Oh, lord. Yeah. I i dont know where to start except unfortunately you can find far too many examples of posers. This guy posing as a southerner, as son of the confederacy, but all of this talk from Laura Ingraham to Corey Stewart overlooks one small detail of American History. That Many Americans said the same ignorant thing hundreds of years ago, and 150 years ago when the irish came. They said the same ignorant things when the germans came. They said the same ignorant things when the italians came to america in respect have been a small segment of nonothings who have been saying ignorant things about immigrants coming to this
country for over 240 years, and yet, you know, i ticked off a list of a couple of days ago of immigrants, their families that came recently and transformed Silicon Valley. If we had donald trump and Corey Stewarts view of america, then you wouldnt have had steve jobs over here. You wouldnt have had the founder of google over here. The founder of yahoo over here. The founder of reddit over here. The founder of ebay over here. I mean and if we want to go back a few years, even Albert Einstein might have ended up in a Nazi Concentration Camp with Donald Trumps view on immigration. Yeah. Its extraordinary that were still having this conversation in 2018, but were going to have to keep having it again and again. The talk about the confederacy
and the talk about secession as a successor to the revolution, i find, as a southerner, abhorrent. The south, the civil war, lets just say it quickly here, was about the institution of slavery. It was about the perpetuation of that institution. It was a struggle to end the journey, enshrined in the preamble of the constitution towards a more perfect union. Those soldiers took up arms against the constitution of the United States, and would have ended the Great America experiment that led to, say, victory in world war ii nap led, to say, victory over soviet communism in the deadliest potential struggle in Human History. Over the 40 years or more of the cold war. It was if anyone doubts that, and so and start tweeting you know, we can talk about this for the rest of the year, but
thats what it was about. And when people try to appropriate it, and were approaching this is the weekend of the anniversary of the terrible violence in charlottesville. Where the president of the United States one year ago, you may remember had a hard time figuring out which side of the argument he was on. Neonazis and klansmen or the people standing up for the america you just described. And that is one of the many reasons we have a crisis in the moral leadership of the country. And Donny Deutsch, the hypocrisy, of course, as always, when it comes to donald trump is just staggering. Here this guy has been fighting against, Chain Migration. Oh, my god. The most evil thing of all time. With Chain Migration you bring in ms13 theyre going to come up, shoot up your neighborhoods, go to the malls shoot up your white malls and go to your white high schools and shoot up your
white you know, of course, as weve said before, ms13 accounts for far less than 1 of the Illegal Immigrants that come to this country, but Chain Migration must end my lord. Now my lord. Writes donald trump. Except for the fact, donny, his inlaws have been trying to get into the country on Chain Migration. And yesterday melania trumps parents became u. S. Citizens through how does he miss that . Through the same Chain Migration route that donald trump has been demonizing for a year now. Yeah. Of course, theres the rules for all of us and then theres the rules for donald trump. This is hypocrisy, there needs to be a new word beyond has peypocrisy
sdib th describe that. Oh, no. On a Major Network and says that, basically make America White again. Her whole argument beyond being reprehensible and completely counter to what were about is also false in the sense of that our Shifting Demographics has very little to do with immigration and the reality is actually as of 2007, every year babies born in this country, whites now are the minority. Its happening in this country. Its not about, oh, people are poring on the borders as we speak. Its who we are now. You cant put the genie back in the bottle nor should we. Thats who we are. Donald trump, once and for all, we need to look at what his slogan make America Great again means. We know what it means what it meant. Make America White again. Thats what that slogan always was. The dog whistle was there, and the fact that now 18 months into his presidency that we have people like Laura Ingraham blatantly as gene said, theres
no soft bigoted, racist comments. Guys, whether you like it or not we are a mosaic. Its not changing. Its who we are. Even if you built the wall, which is not going to happen, its who we are and thank god its who we are. And alex, if you can get that Ronald Reagan clip again that we started the block with. Well get it to end the block. There are a lot of conservatives that have claimed to be disci e disciples of Ronald Reagan and this has actually been happening for years now. People run around quoting Ronald Reagan, and temperamentally, ideologically its in every way possible they are, in fact, the antithesis of Ronald Reagan and are against everything Ronald Reagan stood for, and you certainly could talk about big government. The fact that these socalled conservatives in congress along with donald trump have passed
the largest Spending Bill ever. Have the largest federal debt ever. Exploded the deficit, the yearly deficit. Have been more fiscally irresponsible than any congress in u. S. History, and yet and yet still claim the mantle of reagan while being demagogues. Do we have that to run . Mika, lets go to break on it and ill tell all of my conservative friends, take a good, close look at what Ronald Reagan said, because its very telling. He didnt say this in, like, june of 1986. This was his Farewell Speech to america. Still ahead on morning joe what do we have, mika . Well tell you about a mother and daughter deported to el salvador, but a judge steps in
and orders the plane turned around nap story is coming up. Youre watching morning joe. And heres reagan. And since this is the last speech that i will give as president i think its fitting to leave one final thought. An observation about a country which i love. It was stated best in a letter i received not long ago. A man wrote me and said, you can go to live in france, but you cannot become a frenchman. You can go to live in germany or turkey or japan, but you cannot become a german, a turk or japanese. But anyone from any corner of the earth can come to live in america and become an american. The staff needs to know, they will theyll drop everything can you take a look at her vitals . Share the data with other specialists yeah, im looking at them now. Theyll drop everything hey. Take care of this baby yeah, that procedure seems right. That one too. At t provides edge to edge intelligence. It can do so much for your business, the list goes on and on. Thats the power of. When your patients tests come back. Are you ready to take your then you need xfinity xfi. . A more powerful way to stay connected. It gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most Wifi Coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. Its the ultimate wifi experience. Xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. New Court Filings show hundreds of Migrant Children still remain separated from their parents. Of the 2,551 separated from their parents at southern border 559 still are in government custody. 386 have parents who already have been deported, and officials have heard from 299 parents in the last week. However, they dont have any information for 26 parents and still have not file add plan to reunite any of the 559 remaining children with their families. Meanwhile, a federal judge In Washington ordered a plane carrying a mother and daughter to return to the u. S. While their Deportation Hearing is underway. U. S. District judge Emmet Sullivan called the removal pretty outrageous and threatened to hold Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions in contempt. Aclu attorneys were notified of the woman and her daughter during recess and requested the judge delay the deportation. Upon arrival in el salvador the pair was sent back to texas, according to dhs. Gene robinson, a Floob Pproblem persists despite all the media on this childs separation. Still hundreds of children without their parents at the
border. This is a crime. This is really a crime that has taken place. Call it kidnapping, call it wafr y whatever you want. Beyond outrageous that 559 children remain separated from their parents and that the government knows where, apparently, nearly 300 parents are, and have spoken with them, but has no plan to reunite the children with their parents. How can that be . How can that possibly be . And i believe, i hope, that since this administration wants to behave in this way, i hope other jumps, perhaps the judge in san diego in charge of that case, acts the way judge sullivan did and says, wait a minute. We have laws in this country. And those laws are going to be enforced, and im going to start
holding people in Contempt Of Court, in criminal Contempt Of Court, which is where they are. Thats the situation now. This is just outrageous. And i guess case by case theres Legal Recourse, when we know of a case, susan, but to put this in pretty plain terms, it appears our government has gone rogue with hundreds of children. Kidnapped them, is currently abusing them and in this case decided to deport one and remove the child in the middle of a hearing. It doesnt feel this Doesnt Feel Normal, and this feels illegal, and definitely unamerican. It absolutely is, mika. On top of that we