International council of funk songs, if you watch donny deutschs political show, you will lose inches from your waistline and it reverses after three viewings, male pattern baldness. It will change your life, it will improve your backhand and ensure the Boston Red Sox do not give up three runs to the lowly white sox in the ninth inning. Enough about that. Donny, you went into your branding factory and came up with the title saturday night politics. Number one, it tells people where to go. And it gives the vibe of the show. Politics with a little saturday night barb. This is the first i think official morning joe spinoff. If you guys are all in the family, im like the jeffersons ou jeffersons. Saturday night politics does not tell me where to go. We have mayor pete in the first show. Really . What does this mean Going Forward into the election . I start out every show countdown to the president ial election. Were going to have a lot of nonpolitical people talking politician. My friend steve madden who 20 years ago went to prison, i put him and Michael Cohen together to help him through this and were going to talk about that. Were going to watch the show. You dont have to do the whole thing here, don. Im intrigued. I actually might watch it. Barnicles showing up to help me out. By the way, one correction. We actually have had a spinoff already. Csi new canaan. It was a short run on fox but it was fascinating. We have republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del percio. She has already said for a variety of reasons she refuses to ever appear on donny deutschs show. And former chief of staff to the dccc, former director of communications for Hillary Clintons 2016 president ial campaign, Adrienne Elrod and she will have to make that decision on her own about donny. Happy birthday, willie thanks, mika as you know, willie, we back in ancient times you would often have the jester of the court write a song for the king. Sure. And i we did something yesterday for mika and that was so nice. Thank you, everybody. Oh, no. We wanted to take it up a notch and make it even more special. Well, for willie. Here it is. Oh, no. Happy birthday happy birthday, willie happy birthday, willie happy birthday, willie happy birthday thats good. Thats good. Happy birthday, willie. 14 seconds you put into that means the world to me. Thank you so much. It was from the bottom of our heart. Was that from the iphone this morning or how did you do that . Voice notes . Im very emotional about it. I cant really talk about it right now. But what i can talk about, willie, is, i mean, donald trump, donald trump has made so much fun of beto, hasnt he . Maybe somebody here has, too. But donald trump has mocked and ridiculed beto. Lets face it, hes had a really, really rough start to the campaign, right . Mmhmm. Look at this. Look at these polls right here. Came out beto head to head wow beating donald trump. All the things that he said about the blue shirt wearing, arm waving hands all over the place, standing on every car that he sees, standing on lunch counter, beto orourke just absolutely thrashing donald trump by ten points, 52 to 42 joe biden up by 6 points, 51 to 45, sanders up 6 points, 50 to 44, harris up 4 points, 49 to 45, mayor pete, who half the country dont even know yet, even he is beating donald trump 47 to 44 and Elizabeth Warren is in a statistical tie with donald trump. Thats right, donald trump, the woman youve derided as pocahontas and made fun of for the past several years, shes tied with you. But as you peel back the numbers, willie, on a lot of these polls, one of the most interesting was a q poll that came out and had a gender gap that is just insurmountable. 34 of women, only 34 of women support donald trump. 62 disapprove. Im not good at math but i think that is close to 28 , a jend are gap of 28 . That is remarkable. And if it stays that way, donald trump is going to get trounced. Thats even worse if that held up, joe, thats even worse than the gap he had with Hillary Clinton among women. Think about that for just a moment, the woman who could have been the first female president of the United States, thats a terrible number. If you go back to that headtohead poll, whats fascinating is beto is beating the president by ten points, which is pretty astonishing, but beto has to get to that race. Hes polling at 4, 5, 6 in his own primary. Joe bidens whole argument so far has been to go directly to the president and say im the one who can beat him. Well, that may be true, but it turns out there are about seven other people who could make that case as well at this point in the race anyway. So i think joe biden is going to have to go on something on more than just electability, though a lot of people think they can beat him. Turns out at this point, just about everybody running against donald trump could beat him on the democratic side. Adrienne, you look at those numbers as a key player in the Democratic Party, what do you see . I see a president who is in deep trouble, joe. These numbers are terrible. This is may before the Election Year in the off year and hes in the mid 40s. You never want to be in this position if you are an incumbent, no matter if youre sitting in the white house, or in any other position in government in elected office. You never want to be in the mid 40s at this stage of the game. So these numbers are great, the methodology of this polling, of this particular poll was spot on. There was a wide swath was voters. There are some polls that people are criticizing the methodology but the methodology of this particular poll was spot on. If i was donald trump, if i was brad pascal, if i was part of his team id be very nervous right now. A lot of his supporters on talk radio in the rnc have been whistling pass the graveyard talking about how Donald Trumps opponents are too weak, americans dont want to be socialists, even the guy who has been screaming for 20 years, i am a socialist is ahead by like five or six points right now. Its very interesting. They think they can disqualify their opponents. What they dont understand is those 34 of women that say theyre going to vote for him and the 62 that say i mean, those numbers are pretty locked down. Theyve been consistently that way for some time. Donald trumps going to have to do Something Different this time. Disqualifies his opponent, which is what the pundits all say he has to do, wrong. Hes not going to be able to do that in sufficient enough numbers. Hes going to have to figure out how to grow his base, something hes never done before, something thats going to be difficult and thats his challenge over the next year. Well, and its going to be a very difficult challenge to meet because what we saw in 2018 were women were coming out to vote, especially suburban women and. Women. And they were coming out and you saw the results in 2018 that was just as much about donald trump as it was for the candidates they were supporting. Now, donald trump has basically limited his strategy. Hes not going to be able to grow his base much anymore. All he wants to do is basically suppress the other vote like he did last time, and he will go to that name calling and hopefully he will hope that people just wont turn out to vote and that his base will come out Even Stronger numbers than they did in 2016. I dont see it being successful, but then again, i was wrong in 2016. Donny, it just wont work because, guess what, donald trump kept saying drink my coke, this is better than new coke, drink it, its the best thing youve ever had. You drink this, it will all the things that your show is going to do, it will make you a better person, it will save america and then you drink the coke and you find out theres racoon pee in it. Oh, my god joe good morning, america. But you cant step back from that. And thats what he doesnt understand. Running a second time is far different than running the first time. So Donald Trumps going to be trying to point to everybody else out there. It doesnt work. Second time around now. This reelection for a president is it is a referendum on that guy right there. Did he do a good job or do you need somebody else . Has he exhausted you by his hatred . Has he exhausted you by his bigotry . Has he exhausted you by his tweets. Do you really want to take a chance on another four years . I think people look at the coke, the new flavored coke and say, you know what, ill just have some water. Joe, thanks for the tease from my show because we have a whole racoon ing segment on my show. Thats why i did it. The other thing trump doesnt have going for him, hes not running against Hillary Clinton. That was the epicenter of the perfect storm for trump, he ran against a candidate that people pushed away from. The most important stat today is not even in that last cnn poll, its the first par as far as the 30point gender gap with women because youre not overcoming that. Having said that, i want the democrats to be very, very, very, very skeptical about that poll. When i see a poll that says Elizabeth Warren would beat donald trump today, i dont believe thats true. If tomorrow people went to the polls, i dont know if that would willies point is the rig point, we dont have to run against trump now because everyone will beat him. Wrong. The message is still why are we better than trump. Its good news for the democrats but for me its concerning news because the worst thing they can do is in any way, shape or form feel confident. Mika, the thing that pundits need to take note of, everybodys upset and enraged by what barr is doing, what trump is doing, hes getting away with this, hes getting away with that. We learned in 2018 in the historic midterms, the biggest lost ever for the Republican Party in terms of votes, the biggest loss in the history of the United States, you get away with nothing. And donald trump didnt get away with that then and hes not getting away with lying about the Mueller Report now. Barr is making things worst, lowest rates ever in the Morning Consult poll. Youre going to see after this performance by barr on capitol hill, youre going to see those numbers sagging even more. So i get that, i agree with you. I also think were in a new phase where you can take nothing for granted right now because some things have slipped by, have happened, have started passing by before our eyes without without any guardrails. But yesterday we saw something from nancy pelosi who has been very measured, meshyaasured wie concept of impeachment, measured with the president but a leader. But we saw something a little different, a little bit nancy pelosi, the leader, turning back into nancy de lahandra from baltimore. Take a listen to how she described the way barr perform when he was testifying on capitol hill. Madam speaker, did the attorney general commit a crime . He lied to congress. He lied to congress. If anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. Nobody is above the law, not the president of the United States and not the attorney general. Being attorney general does not give you a bath to go say whatever you want and it is the fact because you are the attorney general. So, mike, i love that nancy pelosi just told the truth right there, didnt say, well, weve had some people, well, you know she said he lied. He did lie. He lied to congress. Weve got at least one solid example of it that any of us would be thrown in jail. Correct. For berge perjury. Wed all be in jail. He may have lied to chris van hollen. Just depends how to grand jury would look at that but we would still at least be sent to a grand jury for saying what he said to chris van hollen. On the matter of the utmost public importance, the undermining of the Justice Departments purpose for selecting a special counsel in the words of Robert Mueller himself. So he has committed perjury. And i personally believe they should start looking into impeachment an impeachment inquiry if the rule of law means anything at all. But im watching these pathetic hacks on the right, some of whom used to have respectable careers, theyve turned themselves into nothing more than trump enablers talking about how what barr did was correct. You look at him lying before congress and match up what these pathetic hacks are saying about barrs lying and what they said about bill clintons lying in 1998 and 1999 and suddenly theyre sounding an awful lot like the man who said it depends on what your meaning of is is. They are engaging in legalistic semantic games, the likes of which william f. Buckley attacked bill clinton supporters for doing in 1998. Well, you know, theres a couple of things going on here, joe, that are of interest. One is weve been talking about for over two years, how is it that so many people with past qualifications, past examples of character and leadership checked all of that at the door and go into just total succumbing to donald trump. Its a mystery as to how many people who know they will be tainted by trump by their association with him, just dive into the tank for him. The other aspect of it is unwittingly or wittingly but probably unwittingly what bill barr has done and what the white house has done, what emmitt flood did yesterday with the release of a letter which was a political document more so than it was a legal document, is that they keep this story going. They keep it going. Theres going to be more hearings, theres going to be months of hearings. Instead of sitting back and saying the thing is over and responding with candid truth, the attorney general chose to, as you indicated and as many have indicated, as nancy pelosi just indicated, he lied repeatedly. Hes going to keep this story going. This story is not going to go away for a long time now. Well, i actually think shes laid down a marker. Adrienne and susan both rapid fire real quick, whats next for democrats when the speaker of the house says he lied and thats a crime. That seems to be a marker of how to move forward. Adrienne. You think shes made it very clear based on her comments yesterday what the path forward is. Well see if impeachment does take place. At the very least, there should be be a censor regulation. If there are not any repercussions based on the way the Trump Administration has handled a litany of issues, especially a. G. Barr going in front of the committee this week and lying, then what are we going to do . Its going to set a precedent for future leaders and future Administration Officials that, hey, we can get away with anything and theres not going to be any sort of repercussion. And just to follow up on that is what are you going to do today, speaker pelosi, because thats where we are. Were at a point where empty chairs and Fried Chicken is not going to cut it. As adrienne said, you take away politics, you have a constitutional responsibility. Move forward with the impeachment hearings now to show donald trump that youre not going to be rolled over. That is where she is. Because eventually theyre going to have to get to some form of hearing, bring in mueller, start the hearings, get it wrapped up and have a vote by the senate on the end of the year and then can you focus on 2020. Because this drip, drip, drip and no strong action i think is really hurting their case. Meekika, i dont see how sper plea pelosi can do anything but proceed to impeachment. And kasie hunt gets credit for asking a direct question. That was a big marker. I can find you at least two dozen republicans saying during bill clintons impeachment that he is the top Law Enforcement officer in the land and we cannot allow the top Law Enforcement officer in the land to commit perjury. I agree. I agreed. But ill tell you whats even more serious when you have the attorney general, the top lawyer in the land who is responsible for deciding who the federal government is going to indict and who theyre not going to indict, who theyre going to investigate and who theyre not going to investigate. He lied. Correct. Not to a grand jury but to a coequal branch of government. I can think of few things that would undermine the credibility of the attorney general and the Justice Department for which he works than committing perjury in front of americans while testifying to a coequal branch of government. Its as bad as lying before the United States supreme court. I got to say again, a lot of democrats didnt like hearing me say this. I think you need to make him take a pass on impeaching donald trump. I think at this point its a political battle between the legislative branch and executive branch, fight that out, let the voters decide. In this case, mika, i dont think the house has any choice. They have to impeach an attorney general who was caught on tape in front of the American People on april 9th lying under oath to congress, committing perjury, which, yes, even in the age of trump is still a crime. So mark my words, nancy pelosi laid down a marker yesterday that this is where it all stops, this is where theyre going to push back. And well watch that play out. Other stories were following this morning, the senate yesterday failed to override President Trumps veto of a bipartisan resolution, which would have ended all u. S. Military participation in saudi arabias devastating war in yemen. The war has resulted in widespread civilian deaths including tens of thousands of children and has caused catastrophic famine and a humanitarian crisis. U. S. Involvement has not been expressly authorized by congress. In a statement explaining his veto, the president said in part that the resolution is a, quote, unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities. The bipartisan bill twice passed the senate and the house passed the measure last month after passing a similar resolution in february. It was the first time a resolution to end military action under the war powers act of 1973 reached a president s de desk. One of the victims of tuesdays shooting at the university of north Carolinas Charlotte camp