Yeah. Thank you. Of course no, no, its absolutely not. Right. See, right there, you saw that its pretty easy. Its just a no. Absolutely not. Crystal clear answer from former Trump National security adviser h. R. Mcmaster. He knows the answer. So well, he should. Right. He should know the answer. I mean, hes a National Security adviser. Right. And of course the answer to this, lets be very clear, has always been the same. Yeah. Its been unambiguous and aim sure theres nobody, mika, on capitol hill that would have any problem answering that question. Right. So lets see how republican Senator Cory Gardner handled a nearly watch this, hes going to just say no. Nearly identical question. Do you believe its appropriate for the president of the United States to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival, yes or no. Look, this is what were going to get into. The Senate Intelligence committee is having a bipartisan investigation. Unfortunately what weve seen say political process take over. But the question is is it appropriate for a president to we are going 0 have an investigation to ask a Foreign Government investigate. Its a nonpartisan investigation. Oh, and it went on like that for four minutes. Its been that kind of week. Is it okay to throw somebody in front of a bus as its speeding down fifth avenue . Were going to have an investigation, its become very political, this question, because it was a democrat that was thrown no. Its not about politics, cory, and you know its not. Listen, i know youre running in 2020. We understand that. But the answer is no, its not appropriate. Its never done. Its not supposed to be done. This is black and white. It cant be that hard. Yes, no. All right. Its not that hard. I tell ya, its also not hard explaining to your constituents, hey, im going to support this guy when he supports the people of colorado. Im going to vote for this guy when he votes, when he has issues that hes pushing for the people of colorado. But, no, im not going to allow him to do things that actually weaken america and im not going to do things that no other commander and chief would do because it undermines this country. Its very simple. And theyre going to all pay. Listen, mark it down, theyre going to all pay for this. Well, i think politically theyre going to get voted i think the country is too. Theyre going to get voted out of office. Welcome to morning joe, its friday, october 11th along with joe, willie and me we have donny, super tan, usually tan. What is that . Usually tan this morning. Its a spray tan. He looks good. I dont like the mental image already. Spray tan, does that go all over . Hes not really orange like somebody else. So can we so can you guys zoom in . Im going to ask willie, zoom in on donny, if you will. Im just curious, willie, is this guy a character from the first, second, or third austin powers movie . Oh my god. Youre a gold member . Joe, first of all, i have a certain splender that i know throughout these people. I just like to lay low. So youre actually youre very attractive, donny, you dont need to do the extra stuff. Youre actually going with the white collar thing like its 1986 and you know the billionaires boys club. In many of our viewers out there stop me and say, donny, i love the way you dress. So im just telling you what the people say. People speak, joe. You speak and then the people speak and im ail m man of the people. Former treasury official Steve Rattner is with us. I can just say he knows how to dress. Im jealous that donny is known only by his first name. But the ten minutes than fold that you got it. If you want to be youre ratner, charts. Fun fact too, Steve Rattner, spray tan head to toe this morning. Thats where im at in my head and i cant get it out. I cant unsee it. Ive had a couple of melanomas. Stop. When i go south we dont want to hear this, grandpa. Come on. He always tries to make it sound like a medical reason that i needed to spray tan his whole skblod sa body. Save that for your aarp article. What do we have. Msnbc political analyst eugene robinson, and not digging the white collar thing either. Guys i toi too, i think the wa dresses, ive had people stop any overseas and tell me i love the way donny dresses, but not the white collar. Usa today upon columnist and former Senior Adviser for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee kurt joins us this morning. Kurt. All right. Really quickly, mika, before we jump in. I know you want to talk baseball so lets briefly talk baseball. Willie, it took a while for order to be restored in the universe but it was, in fact, restored. Houston astros is the best team in baseball, closed out a really gutsy, really impressive tampa team last night. Great effort by the rays, great season for the rays, it was just gerrit coles too good. The astros ace pitcher. They put four runs on the board in the first inning and was going to be hard to climb out of that hole for the rays. They fought for the whole game. The astros win now and the inevitable is here, yankees, astros. Two best teams in the American League all season long. Everybody had been pointing to this since spring training and now its here. Should be a great epic season, the one break the yankees did get is that now those two ace pitchers verlander and cole had to go deep into that previous series so we dont see them in game one. Should be great. Well, yeah, its a tale of two leagues. The American League you have the two best teams possibly in all of baseball making it through. And the National League you have two two underdogs. I mean, atlanta had a great season this year, fell apart last game. That was an incredible series. So you have the cardinals coming through and my gosh, the poor under achieving in october dodgers once again left at home. It actually you got to hurt for them, theyre such a great team. But and who beat them . Who beat them . Gene. Who beat them, joe . Gene, you gotta let me get its all about pacing, my friend. I was about to tell you. Lets try this again. Youve got to feel really sorry about those dodgers being sent home yet again. But let me bring you in gene robinson, because i know youre a big mets fan. Thank you. I just have to say this how exciting for so many reasons, but also you nats fans are an especially bitter lot. How exciting for you that bryce harper is in philadelphia watching this glorious occasion unfold. That just warms every heart in the in the washington metropolitan area. And also that the monkey is off the back of the Washington Nationals finally. They have great regular seasons, usually they get into the first round of the playoffs and they lose. And this time they broke through and, boy, what a break through it was. This team never quits. This team can never be counted out. You know, down 30, down 31 with two in the eightenih innin and this is a special team. Watch out. Watch out for them. They really are. They really are. Hold on one second. Yeah. Da, da, da, thats our little espn and e moment. Weve done nine moments of that, lets go to the news. Lets please go to the news. By the way, mika, that was an espn thing. Ill explain that to her, joe. Explain to her. Lets go to the news. Okay. Stop us if youve heard this before, but yet another new poll shows a majority of americans support House Democrats impeachment inquiry into President Trump. According to a new npr pbs news hour poll 52 of americans said they approve of the house inquiry into trump. Thats up three points since last month. 43 disapproved. 49 said they support the impeachment of the president , 47 are opposed. Americans in this poll are divided. 48 to 48 on whether they support the Senate Voting to remove trump from office. Good lord. These are thats high. Thats high. Thats high, yeah. Willie, were going to keep going, willie, but lets look at those numbers. Keep those numbers up on the screen. If youre driving in listening to us, driving into work, 48 of americans support donald trump being removed from office. 48 oppose. Gosh. But, willie, were within the margin of error again. This is about the third or fourth poll where half of americans, 50 of americans, soon a majority of americans support donald trump being impeached in the house, convicted in the senate, and removed from office. Yeah. This is staggering. And these questions, joe, are making the leap not to do you support an impeachment inquiry. Weve seen support for that. This question here, the one on the screen is do you support the Senate Voting to remove President Trump from office . In other words have you seen enough all ready to believe that donald trump should be removed from office . 48 say so. Yesterday we had the fox news poll that showed 51 of americans supported that idea. That led to donald trump writing sort of a breakup tweet with fox news yesterday before perhaps getting back together with fox news at his rally last night. But he sees these polls, especially the fox news polls, and there are enough of them now, theres a Critical Mass of these polls that you cant dismiss any one or the other as an outlier. 68 of americans said its not acceptable for a president to ask Foreign Countries to investigate his political rivals. 68 . Hey, cory, thats the answer. Only 26 say its acceptable. Almost 60 say they do not trust the administration very much or at all. 40 say they do trust the administration a great or a good amount, joe. I wonder who that 40 are. So anyway, Donny Deutsch, it seems that donald trump is having a problem with republicans over the kurds, there seems to be sort of a real riff there. Hes sort of throwing fox news under the bus. He doesnt like data that comes from fox news that actually its polling. This is eight pollsters by the way. Had he liars going out theres a liberal firm no, its the same group of people who were saying that only 40 supported impeachment a month or two ago. But, donny, hes throwing fox news under the bus, hes throwing republicans under the bus, hes throwing the kurds under the bus, and, and, wait for it, wait for it, hes throwing Rudy Giuliani under the bus. Youll have to ask rudy. You got a buddy whos in jail right now who heard that, right . Youre going to have to ask Michael Cohen about that. Now were hearing youre going to have to ask rudy. Well get to thesers to, but my god, two of rudys associates who also were close to donald trump in jail. I mean, and now rudy is having to face some pretty tough questions himself. You know, if you know donald trump, there isnt anybody he wouldnt throw he would throw his family under the bus. Well of course. I dont say that kwibly. He would be the last man standing until they carry him out. Two points, first of all, i think its important that the democrats, this new rudy story, theres so much to unpack there. But the good news bad news is the democrats continue to move forward on impeachment is they cant lose that onesentence strategy. The more this thing airs out, if you will and fans out, you start to in a strange way it gets worse but it also dilutes the simple onesentence message the president seeked a foreign power to get dirt on his opponent at the expense of our National Security. We cant still lose that one headline. Thats critical for the democrats. And i want to also go back to one point you made earlier, joe. I dont understand how somebody like a mitt romney does not come forward. It is such an obvious thing to say. Right now you would be an American Hero and you can say, look, ive supported the president s policies and this is painful, but i work fofr the voters and the constitution. It astounds me as a branding guy that none of these people get that. Its not even brave. Hasnt mitt come forward . I mean, in a more meaningful way, to stand up oh, so when you want him to so you want mitt romney when hes saying that what the president s done is wrong and despicable, you want him carrying a blowtorch and just spraying anybody, is that what you want, donny . No, i do hes one of the guys thats come forward. Stand corrected on mitt romney. But my point is even just saying this wrong. What is wrong with saying and he does not belong in office . What is wrong with somebody taking that leap . When its so obvious . Of course its wrong. I mean, i dont think you get points for that at this point. But, to me, hes the one guy thats bullet proof. What would americans think if he stood up and said, look, this is not working. This is not working. People would line up behind him. Republicans would line up behind him. I dont know about that. The thing is, though, donny, that heres the thing. Not everybody just has a constituency of the 12 or 13 people that work in their Upper East Side mansion like you. Joe, no. So joe, no poor donny. Voters im just saying you do have to bring people along. Its not just, you dont start at zero and go to a hundred miles an hour. I know heroes do. You want mitt romney to carry that blowtorch. Heroes do. Actually Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of the civil war, not to get too deep, at the beginning of the civil war said, you know, slavery, if i can say the union and keep slavery, then lets keep slavery. He didnt really believe that, but he knew had he to bring the north along. And he said it was all about saving the union. We have to save the union. Then eventually he moved when he thought that people, ready. Then he kept moving until he knew he could get to emancipation. Mitt romney, gene, correct me if im wrong, mitt romney has stepped out there about as strongly as i think he can politically right now. Hes called it disgusting. I dont know the exact words. But it is it is a two, three, four, five, sixstep process, especially bh wh especially when you have people who support somebody, you want the facts do the talking and you follow the facts. I mean, just the objective truth is that rom nip has gone further out than any other republican senator at that point. He just has. He has come out and, you know, and he uses the entry words, right . Deeply disturbing and appalling and that thats the beginning of what i hope is the progression you talk about, joe. But, you know, people like cory gardner and Susan Collins and joni ernst are going to continue to come under pressure from their constituents and from reporters who are going to keep asking the question over and over again for four minutes, if necessary, continue pressing. And theyre going to have to come up with better answers than than gardner did. Look, the political reality is theyre still all petrified of donald trump tweet storm. And romney is more immune to that than most of them because the people of utah are really not trumpists republican, theyre conservative republicans, but hes probably one who has the least to worry about from his republican constituents, i think. All right. You know, willie go ahead. Just really quickly to willie, there was an event last night, willie, where the president got out and said a few things, was little unbalanced. George conway said, the husband of one of president s top aides said he appeared to have severe personality disorders that were on full display. Out of respect to the family and his loved once, were not going to be showing that speech. We actually think he would and im hoping that he can he can get some care and get some treatment because once again, it seems that the president of the United States is detached from reality and not well. Well, consider what hes up against now. Rudy giuliani, two of his buddies, businessmen, were arrested. They were walking on to a plane bound for europe. They were intercepted on the jetway and brought back and arrested. Thats happened to us before, by the way, will. I it has and i was hoping you wouldnt bring that up. Its not fun. Its not fun. Three years later we finally get out of turkey. Well talk about that next block. Go ahead. The backdrop of this is he got questions on his way out of the white house about that. Who are these two guys . I didnt really know them. There might be a picture of me with them i didnt really know them. But the indictment says theyre the gobetweens. Theyre the answer to the question of who may have been paying Rudy Giuliani to fly all over the country. There were questions in ukraine they could get rudy in touch with the people to find the dirt on the bidens. Can we go back to the last picture . That guy on the right, he dresses like donny. Go ahead. Joe, joe. Oh my god. You and i, pal, lets go to the school yard, all right, because youre going hard today. Come on, its fun, donny. By the way, i love the leafs behind you since youre the autumn of your life. I think it all [ laughter ] joe, i dont think its nice that youre mocking cancer, joe. I talked about melanoma and you mocked it. I think that thats make meg sad, i just want to say that. Can i go back seriously to the romney thing . I think were saying the very just give me 30 seconds. I think were setting a very low bar. I didnt mock cancer i he was making fun of you. You were talking about your girlfriend mellanomia. I just want to goo ba back . Really quickly. Were setting a low bar when somebody said its long. Leaders go further than that. I dont agree with you. I think if mitt romney stood up and said we need to think where were going as a country and about this mans leadership, i do not think to your point earlier, i think people would line up behind him. Thats what leaders do. I said my peace and im not going to wear this shirt anymore. I want it go farther because did i see a good bit of that rally last night and i dont think we should show. But for the reasons you said, you get the feeling the guy is kind of unhinged and desperate. He is just saying stuff and flailing out in ways that are even more crazy than what he normally does. And the stuff he said about the bidens, you know, the words he used. Yeah. Its all pretty disgusting. It was really disturbing stuff. Were going to actually get to the giuliani story after a break. I love it. Tom winter, nbc news tom winter will join us as well as dave ehrenberg. So well have that after t