All right. There you go. That is mayor pete getting a standing ovation on fox news, a forum Elizabeth Warren wants nothing to do with. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Its monday, may 20th. Im in washington today. Ill be interviewing nancy pelosi for a headliner special that will air later this summer, but we will bring you some of the interview tomorrow on morning joe. With us, columnist for the Washington Post, David Ignatius, politics editor for the daily beast, sam stein, former direct ooor for Hillary Clintons president ial campaign, Adrienne Elrod and katty kay is with us and msnbc contributor, Mike Barnicle up in new york. Joe, my daughter and i watched that town hall and thought it was Pretty Amazing what happened last night. Well, the reaction to mayor pete has been remarkable, especially for a nation that has learned to become very cynical of politicians of all stripes. But you could see the response on twitter, you could see the response hear the response from friends and neighbors just like after his announcement and its quite unlike anything that i know that you and i have ever seen. You know, as you know, mika, i only can tell three kind of stories, either baseball stories, Winston Churchill stories or rock n roll stories. And looking at mayor pete last night and once again seeing this remarkable response, i was reminded of one of the most famous lines by any rock critic in Music History and that line was i have seen the future of rock n roll and it is bruce springsteen. John landow wrote that in 73, 74. Well, ive seen the future of the Democratic Party and its mayor pete. It may not be in 2020, perhaps its in 2024 and beyond, but this guy is going to play an Important Role in the mainstreaming of the Democratic Party for many years to come. And believe you me, that is exactly what he does, regardless of ideology, mayor pete main streams a Democratic Party much in the same way nancy pelosi fights every day to make sure that her house caucus does the same and that joe bidens doing on the campaign trail today. I find him to be a really exciting candidate. During that town hall last night on fox news, 2020 president ial candidate mayor Pete Buttigieg slammed two of the networks most prominent primetime hosts for comments they made on air. And he also dismissed the tweets of the president. Especially when you see what goes on with some of the opinion hosts on the network. When you have talker carlson saying immigrants make america dirty and laura ingram comparing Detention Centers with children in cages to summer camps summer camps . There is a reason why anybody has to swallow hard and think twice before participating in this ecosystem. Even though some of those hosts are not always there in good faith, i think a lot of people tune into this network who do it in good faith. There are a lot of americans who my party cant blame if they are ignoring our message because they will never hear it if we dont go on and talk about. So its why whether going into the viewership of fox news or dem gographically going into places where people havent gone much, we have to reach out. How would you handle the tweets and the insults and all that. The tweets, i dont care. We need to change the channel from this show that hes created. Its the nature of grotesque things that you cant look away. No defense of tucker or laura ingram there. As for the aforementioned tweets, President Trump weighedhouweighed in hours before the town hall criticizing fox news, tweeting fox is moving more and more to the wrong side and they just want in. They forgot the people who got them there. Fox senior news analyst britt hume defended the event responding to trump writing, quote, say this for buttigieg, hes willing to be questioned by chris wallace, something youve barely done as soon as youve been president. Oh, and covering candidates of both parties is part of the job of a news channel. Wow. Joe . Mika, that reminds me about when donald trump wrote about bleeding badly from a facelift or calls me psycho joe. People are like how do you do it . We dont care. You have to see it as sort of a carnival or a side show. Some candidates get so jum supsd enraged. Mook barnicle, in those two answers he responded in the most powerful way anyone can respond to donald trump, not by fear, not by being angry, which we do from time to time, but by laughing at him. Its grotesque, its a side show, i dont care. Lets get on with the business of getting working americans back to work and getting them good jobs with good pay. You know, joe, if we were running, if you and i were running petes campaign, mayor petes campaign for president , you might be tempted to tell him just to show those clips repeatedly, the ones that we just showed because they show a calm, direct, composed delivery common sense to voters. And the reaction with the crowd was clearly obvious. And thats one of the reasons that hes doing so well, i think. He delivers information in a calm, direct way that very few other candidates do. And he has the correct answer to the president ial tweets. Who cares . You know, the tweets are so voluminous and so predictable, who really cares . And i think he triggered a lot of reasons for people tho think about him as a president ial candidate. But those who were not thinking about him from the fox audience, theyre going to be thinking about him today. David, youve sooneen a few president ial candidates. I wonder whether where mika and i are being a bit excessive in our praise of mayor pete, but ive seen a lot of candidates, i think this guy, i almost called him kid because hes like 20 years younger than me, i think this i think this kid is special i do think theres something about this guy that separates him from the thousands of politicians that you and i have seen over the past few decades. Hes unusually smart. Really, hes a brilliant guy. Evokes Barack Obamas raw intelligence, but he just got this way of seeming to break through the conventional things that politicians say. It just sounds real when he says it. That long pause and then i dont care when hes talking about the tweets. His description of trump, that hes mesmerizing in the way that grotesque things are. I dont know that ive heard a better description of what it is that makes the whole country watch this guy through his antics and taunts, a better account than that. Well see. Its early in the campaign. He is distinguishing himself from this very large field in part because he seems to be speaking so directly to people and lets see if he can sustain it. Well, Adrienne Elrod, lets talk about the reality here. This is a young man with incredible, diverse experience, incredible education, speaks up to eight languages, served our country abroad and has this pastoral demeanor that really makes him stand out, especially among young people. But the africanamerican vote polling shows hes got nothing and he cant win without that. Thats exactly right, mika. Hes got some work to do in that community. But hes got plenty of time here. Really . Its mid may but hes got nine months until the the South Carolina primary. I love that hes going out to audiences that frankly a lot of democratic challengers, candidates are too afraid to go in front of. We learned in 2016 in Hillary Clintons campaign, 20 of fox viewers are democrats and 10 are independents. The way he did it with chris wallace, who is a very fair host compared to some of the others on fox news, is a good cue for him to follow. I wonder if he can make up enough ground with the Africanamerican Community. One of them is hes been the mayor of south bend, indiana. Its not to say he cant develop the ties but hes starting from a position of intense weakness in that part. But i think what he does have, which is think is separating him is not just elg maybe i think mostly politics is about reaction to the moment. Barack obama was a reaction to george w. Bush and donald trump was a reaction to barack obama. I think what mayor pete to some degree of success is hes been a reaction to donald trump, someone who is incredibly willing to engage multiple audiences. Hes not conventionally hes made it a part of his message, someone who is definitely of the politics of the moment but the politics of the future and theres been a lot of success in terms of fundraising and polling data. I dont know if that translates into concrete democrat being party institutionalist success. He has to staff up, use that money, spend it wisely and get into the africanamerican and elsewhere. So joe biden kicked off his president ial Campaign Saturday with a rally in the heart of philadelphia. Biden spoke to the crowd of thousands about party unity, as well as continuing his push to look beyond the democratic primary field and toward the general election fight against President Trump. I know some of the really smart folks say democrats dont want to hear about unity. They say democrats are so angry that the angrier a candidate can be, the better chance he or she has to win the democratic nomination. Well, i dont believe it. I really dont. I believe democrats want to unify this nation. Thats what our party has as been about. Let me tell you something. The single, most important thing we have to accomplish to get this done, is defeat donald trump. You know, katty kay, lets look at the two candidates that weve heard perhaps the most biden and mayor pete, both positive messages, both messages of unity, not the angry, you know, we hear that the Democratic Party is an angry leftwing snarling party thats lost their minds in trying to somehow get even with donald trump. Boy, all weve heard is a positive message. And im not so sure thats i mean, were an exhausted nation. I even talk to Trump Supporters who say he just exhausts me, ive just had enough. I cant handle the tweets. I wonder if this is not the message that all americans are readied o. Where trump does badly against a democratic i think last youre going to put me on a debate stage with him . Im tough enough to tack him on and dismiss him. I felt for all of a long time of all the democratic candidates, the one who seems easiest aracking he has this ability to tack trump on it and joe biden has the africanamerican vote hereby particularly has women africanamerican votes, people just poll at less than 1 with africanamericans. Hes got to do something there, he could bring in young voters, help out in the midwest. It was interesting, bud jej got the headlines and hes still he didnt really have an answer to it. Yep. Andy needs o i seem to tem a lout sore johnson j you dont win on the coasts, you win in the central time zen. But another thing he said, though, was his pem tra mont every night. And who i think of that when i hear even Trump Supporters saying, god, im just so exhausted by this man. And i wonder whether its a sheer exhaustion that at the end of the day will make voters turn on lebs you really put kwr fing on its huge out there because in a sense if you talk if you lead a fairly normal life, you get the sense that he has narcotic s. E. Major prt of thats not the language people expect from the president of the United States. Every election is i think a lot of people are going to be looking for then, and they say lets settle down and calm this country down. Lets deal with health care, instead of arguing and fighting all the time. Lets deal with the economy with pay and equity. And people like joe biden, people like mayor pete okay, these guys are where i am on this. Were going to have more 2020 news just ahead. Senator Kamala Harris is rolling out a new policy proposal this morning that were going to dig into. The conservative congressman called President Trump lets go to bill karins to check on the forecast. Bill . 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Mount kilimanjaro, yes or no . Yes. Yes. No, no, no. David ignatius, you know and you knew and loved dr. Brzezinski and im all for this daughter mother bonding experience but what would dr. Brzezinski say if mika said, hey, dad, i for my 52nd birthday, i decided to march up mount kilimanjaro. I can only imagine, but he did prize the things that people did that were hard. Oh, yeah. The quality of people that made them tough is what he loved the most. Thank you. He knows im tough. Hed have appreciated you getting out of cell phone range. Oh, my god, i cant do it. Over the weekend how about a different mountain. Alex suggests mount airy lodge. Why dont up just relax . You are in extraordinary shape. Mika has started running again like five and a half miles a day. I do. Shes in great shape. She even asked me if i was interested in going. I wouldnt get i would say see you soon. He can wait at base camp and make tea. Meet her at the helicopter, joe. Be standing there smoking a cigar. Back to politics. Ill have big macs shipped in to the top of kilimanjaro. No. Over the weekend, a member of congress became the first member of his party to call for impeaching President Trump. Congressman justin amash writing attorney general barr has deliberately misrepresented muell muellers report. 2, Pres