Robinson. You went to the game . Didnt you richard . Good to see you do investigative journalism, mr. Scarborough. I love people that root for the underdog and youre a yankees fan. Only in new york is a team thats 31 games above. 500 the underdog. Willie, you tweeted something out last night, which is pretty astounding, about just how well the yankees are doing and what do you say . Yankees would be in first place by four, five games in most divisions . Yeah. I think four out of the other five divisions up by at least six games and in some divisions seven or eight games. Yankees, 31 games over. 500 and ten games out of first place because red sox after winning last night are 51 games over. 500. Michael kay said in the yankees broadcast only the second time in baseball history a team has been at least 35 games over. 500 and trailed by ten games or more. Go back to 1906 or something to find another situation like this. Fact of the matter is, the red sox of a historically great team on pace to maybe set the record for single season wins. And as i say, you know, if theyre handing out rings for whos best in august, the red sox win it. There you go. Im not sure what that is. What was that . I dont know. But another great game last night for the red sox. Seems like every game is like a playoffs game. I do remember, though. Ive got a really good friend who is is a cleveland fan. While they were rolling up 23 wins straight i think in august last year, i kept thinking, you know what . Its a fivegame series, and then its a sevengame series. Dont leave it all in august and september. Anyway, you know, willie, well get off of baseball for a second, but well, everybodys looking at the gaudy stats that the red sox are putting up, and looking at whats happening in the American League east, we know what the yankees and red socks, theyre going to get to the playoffs. The shocker. Have you watched whats happening in, with houston . In houstons division . The as keep winning. Yep. They are only one game behind houston now. Yeah. The as, they have won four in a row. Houstons lost five in a row. Here come the as and seattles good, too. A good division. The problem for the yankees, well end up in a onegame playoff for the wild card. You can win 102 games have a great season and it comes down to one pitching performance on one night. You dont have a good one, youre out of the playoffs. If youre lucky. You have to get there first. Yankees could win over 100 games and not even make the wild card game. A possibility. Theres something seriously wrong with that. Lets not rule out the mets. Seasons not over, its a very plucky team. You know . Only 16. 5. We all need to go to citi, and Gene Robinson just thanks god there is a team to cheer for in washington and he doesnt have to pull for the Baltimore Orioles still. 49. 5 games out of first place, gene . Yeah. The orioles the orioles are just nothing this season. On the other hand, my washington nationals, who are usually one of the best teams in the regular season and then fizzle in the playoffs apparently have decided to do it the other way around this year. And so which doesnt work, because you dont get to the playoffs, get to the postseason, but, you know, what was it . Last night that one of the starting pitchers, gio gonzalez gave up a tworun home run tore a pitch to a pitcher . Come on. Off our starting pitcher in the rotation. So you guys, you babies, yeah, cry about, oh, were only 31 games over. 500. Joe, whats the latest hockey news . Yeah. Yeah. Were not talking hockey until midoctober. Hey, so willie, lets i think weve gotten under genes skin. Lets go on with the news. Yes. Looks exhausted wondering why he came at 6 00 a. M. To talk about this. I always root for the underdog. So the mets are my team this time. There you go. Until they go up. The mets. Joe, i swear richard and i will not hyping the seize ton jinx it. We wish only the best for red sox nation. Why you tweeted yesterday, give the rings out at yeah. No. It doesnt work that way. Red sox fans, as you know, you know, are a little superstitious. With 161 games in a 20game lead, i still would say 162 games played every year. Red sox fans talk about that. And the playoffs. Get into the news. Latest russia probe, 58 of americans believe the investigation into russian efforts is a serious matter while 37 told cnn that they think its a way to discredit President Trump. 70 believe President Trump should testify under oath in Robert Muellers probe. 25 say he should not. 56 feel the president attempted to interfere with the investigation and 30 say he has not done that. While a majority, 56 , think the things the president has said publicly about the investigation are mostly or completely false. 37 feel he has been mostly truthful when talking about this. So, joe, nearly 6 in 10 Americans Still despite the president and his administrations efforts to undermine bob muellers investigation believe its a serious and worthwhile matter. Yeah. The numbers are striking in so many ways and donny deutsch, talk about the president s attempt to brand Robert Mueller, to discredit Robert Mueller, to tarnish his brand. I do think, and greg from the Washington Post pointed this out. What i believed from the beginning. That donald trump shocked so many people in Mainstream Media. Shocked so many people across america in november of 2016. Everybody getting angry if you even suggested he had a chance of winning. He shocked them so much that now they think that that he can politically hes always playing the long game. Hes always got a rabbit in his hat. Hes always got the ace of spades up his sleeves. Hes always going to win. Not the case. The guy has a 39 Approval Rating in gallup, and time and time again you look at this poll. If this were an election between bob mueller and donald trump, mueller has won in a landslide in every single category. Hes won a landslide and mueller hasnt even had his day in court literally and figuratively yet. This 60 behind mueller is where trump at the only moment who the megaphone. What happens when the report comes out and we know there will be a lot of things in there. No, no. Yeah. Mueller hasnt said a thing. Just gone to work. He hasnt leaked to the press. He hasnt held a press conference. He hasnt tried to brand donald trump in any way whatsoever, and yet 56 of americans say that most or all of what donald trump is saying about this investigation is a lie. About the same number say hes trying to interfere with the investigation. About the same number are saying that this is a very serious, serious investigation. This is not a close call. The majority of americans, by almost 20 , are on muellers side, and not trumps. Let me give you another 20 . Dotted line to a quinnipiac poll. Voters that strongly approve or disapprove of trump. 38 approve. Almost 50 disapprove. A 20 swing in the passion number. That two things are linked, i think. Trump shows who he is, what hes worried about without hesitation pup see the omarosa thing. Im sure well get into that later and now the mueller thing. Hes panicked. You see it. He knows whats there. And say its an election mueller versus trump. Mueller is at 60 and has not come to the podium yet. Yeah. Hasnt come up to the plate. Reverend al, when donny starts talking about that number, about intense support or intense disapproval, we all know thats what drives elections. Especially what drives an election in off years. Even in an offyear special election in alabama, it was black voters across what politicians called the black belt of Central Alabama that turned out and helped elect a democratic senator for the first time in a quarter century. And i think that what were seeing here, whats surprises some, going back to your statement about how Mainstream Media was shocked at his winning. So they dont want to get caught off guard again. What amazes me is that trump does not seem to have the capacity to grow at all to try to appeal to a broader base. Hes sort of convinced himself that if he stays around 36 , 37 thats enough, rather than to grow and even attempt to expand his base. So when you look at the black woman turnout that you mentioned in alabama, rather than he try to address concerns of people that are passionately against him, he calls a black woman a dog. So i mean, the biggest instrument to limit him has been him. He goes in a room with foreign leaders and looks like he doesnt belong in the room. The way he could combat a lot of these polls is by becoming what he was elected to be. He has acted in many ways like he certainly was a mistake that was made clearly i believe thats the case. So so reverend al, you bring up a great point. We had three, four people, really, here that knew donald trump pretty well for a decade before he even ran for president. You, me, donny and willie. I think the Biggest Surprise because i know i always knew that donald trump was, one, always just interested in, you know, winning, whatever it took to win. That hed do whatever it took to put together a Winning Coalition. And, two, i knew the guy was insecure. He craved attention and he wanted to be accepted into the community. He always felt like he was never getting the respect he deserved, almost a Rodney Dangerfieldtype character in manhattan. Rev, donny and willie, i think the big effort shock for me is that hes decided to stick with his 33 solution on this, and not try to gain that acceptance. Not try to build the coalition, but just narrowing it down to the smallest, most hardcore group of supporters that cannot carry him this fall, and cannot get him reelected. I think youre right. I mean, all of us have come from wherever we started, and said, if i ever can get a big platform, this is what im going to do, and usually try to make it bigger than ourself, if were going to last. Hes not been able to do that, and i think that shows the real limits of this man, and maybe his insecurities were wellfounded. Donny, joe and i talked about this a lot. Weve been surprised that hes not been the dealmaker he claimed he would be on the trail. I thought he would come in as a lifelong democrat, by the way, get nancy pelosi, Chuck Schumer in the room and say lets make some deals. I want it hang things on the wall. Show people the things ive done. In fact, as joe bo burrowed in on the people that elected him. And big show, audience, im going to say, calm down. Donald is all about being loved and got his 40 now. Hes going to turn and be ronald reagan, have everybody. Thats what he wants. Clearly, hes on the opposite end. Interesting anecdote somebody told me at his country club in bed minister and trump was about to walk into the room and some of the secret service guys came up, when you see the president , say positive things, pump him up. Fluffers in the room, in effect. I just said that word. Didnt i. Metaphorically, of course. The point, donald trump is at the point hes so fragile and cannot ever, ever be in any interaction, any exchange in any room thats just not pure lionization, canonization, and it defies any left brain logic. Got those people. Let me get those other people. Hes built so frach gily, he ca only exist in his own universe. Basically pillowed around by that 30 . He admits it. Said about omarosa, terrible about her job, but said good things about me so i kept her around. And records show President Trump struggling to gain approve until Job Performance with negative Approval Ratings in double digits in all three polls. Upsidedown according to quinnipiac in cnns poll upside down 11 points and down 17 points in the gallup poll with a 39 rating in their weekly tracking poll. If the kwai the quinnipiac poll whether they liked trump as a person. 31 say yes. 59 say they dislike him. The president s twitter habits, 26 believe he should continue tweeting while 66 think he should stop. Heidi, talking about this yesterday. With a Strong Economy, unemployment at 3. 9 you would expect President Trump to be up over 39 , 41 locked in almost from the beginning. Talked about that yesterday, willie, so i took, an attempt, to look closer at these numbers and i saw a real danger zone within the numbers, which was the question about what hes doing for the middle class. Remember, this was the whole premise of his campaign, was that he was going to buck the establishment. That he ran against them to elevate the needs of the forgotten man. According to the polling by a margin of 58 to 38 , he has not done enough to help the middle class, and those white voters without College Degrees among them he is now evenly split. There is no advantage for donald trump now in this quinnipiac poll along white voters without College Degrees. Thats notable and speaks directly to the debate you were just having about President Trump as a dealmaker. So were now a year and a half into this presidency that was premised on helping the forgotten man. And we all saw from the very beginning what happened with donald trump. He may have come in with the best of intentions in terms of helping the forgotten man was immediately coopted by that very establishment in terms of the agenda pushed through congress. There was no infrastructure plan. The hope among schumer, why he kind of held back initially, hoping that maybe the president would come to him and nancy pelosi and do revitalization of american infrastructure and cut a big deal with them. There was none of that. There was no compromise to bring Better Health care thats cheaper and that covers everyone. There was go back to the old playbook of tax cuts for the rich, and tax cuts for the rich that are even more skewed than those under reagan and bush. So i think that is why youre seeing these numbers move the way that they are, because a lot of these people, i just have this feeling that they are not their allegiances are very shallow. The reason why President Trump won the midwest was not because they all loved him so much. It was because the democrats didnt turn out, and now youre starting to see those intensity numbers really move. Well, and youre right, heidi. Its not because they love donald trump so much. Weve commented at the time that donald trump, like, only 35, 36 of americans found donald trump to be honest and trustworthy. In the 50s found him to be a liar and dishonest. He just happened to be running against somebody who actually had lower hon effort and trustworthy numbers than him. Pretty remarkable. Gene robinson. I want to followup on what the rev and willie and and we were all talking about, donny, talking about it. About knowing this guy for ten years. Uhhuh. And this is the bizarre thing about it. He talked about fundraisers for Chuck Schumer. Nancy pelosi. I mean, he was a democrat. Behind closed doors wasnt even posing for anybody, he gave a ton of money to the dnc. He gave money to rahm emanuel. He did all of these things that would have allowed him to make that turn, like i think a lot of those democrats believed that he was going to make. Again, he was always broodi ibr publicly, shallow, always insecure, but i think everybody assumed, and it was a pretty good calculation that those very quality would make him want to be beloved so much that hed rather have a 50 Approval Rating than the 39 Approval Rating, but every step of the way he has chosen the narrow cast. Just called a black woman a dog. He calls latinos breeders just this year. Mexicans rapists during the campaign. Black countries and majority black continent shole countries. He is done everything he can do to trap himself in the 30s. Yeah. I mean, you said something earlier thats absolutely right. I mean, whenever i write really anything about donald trump, some people, democrats, write me and say, you know, no. Dont write that. Dont say that. Thats just what he wants. This is all a trap somehow. When, no, its not. Its not. Its just hes not he did just, you know, take a fall down the stairs as part of some sort of evil plot, and, you know, i think the answer to the question that you guys are posing is clearly that hes not fully in control. I mean, hes not in control. Gene, these ive got to say, really theres the guys not right. Uhhuh. You know hes not hes not acting logically. Uhhuh. And i dont know how to say without people saying, dont act like youre a doctor. Im not acting like im a doctor, ive known the guy ten years, though. Nobody rationally behaves this way, unless they want to get wiped out in elections. Unless he want to have 38 , 39 Approval Rating. Right. As a matter of politics, as a matter of the numbers, this is an insane way to behave and then other things. The way these sort of what i suspect were sort of deeply buried prejudices have come out, about latinos, about africanamericans, about women, certainly, the way he treats women, but those are things that, know, an adult in control of himself manages to bury. Manages to realize that theyre not appropriate. Certainly not appropriate to sort of trumpet the way he but he cant control those things. They just sort of erupt out of him. He learned to do one extraordinary thing during the campaign, which is the sort of stream of consciousness rallies in which for a segment of the electorate, they are catnipped. They are amphetamines. They are whatever you some kind of drug that really pump people up. And thats really what he knows how to do. So thats what hell continue to do, and it turns out the or 60 more and more, but this is not just all some die dol abolical. This is a man out of control. 39 , 40 , you lose elections. Dont worry. Hes not going to sneak up on you like he did before. You know, mika and willie and i and Mark Halperin said he had a chance to win the last two weeks. Didnt think he was going to. A chance to win, and seriously, you would have thought we said locusts were going to be descending from the heavens and eating the flesh other every human being in america. Im here to tell you now a 40 president loses midterms and 40 president doesnt get reelected. Aint going to happen. But reserved