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senate majority leader chuck schumer was caught on a hot mic telling the president the senate race he's most concerned about, and also, willie, in that moment, he showed joe biden his socks. there's some political cartoon socks. there was a lot going on on the tarmac. good morning, and welcome to "morning joe." it's friday, october 28th. along with willie and me, we have former white house press secretary jen psaki, and jonathan lemire, and eugene robinson joins us along with presidential historian, jon meacham, his new book is titled "and there was light," abraham lincoln and the am...

Okay. that didn't happen. vice president humphrey who lost by this much to richard nixon didn't put a bunch of election deniers on the ballot for 1970 in order to stage a comeback in 1972. everything i just said is unfolding now. and what happened in the 1850s was not just a clash of policy but a clash of fundamental understandings of reality, of identity, of power, and that had to be adjudicated by the sword. i don't think we're there, but i don't think we do ourselves any favors by pretending that this is somehow just all going to work out. part of what i admire so much about liz cheney is i...

Is this a common aspect, or is this an exceptional, extraordinary loser in the system? >> no. it's actually fairly common. often losers inspire new groups of people to get vinvolved in politics. she brought aloft new people into the process. that's pretty typical. let's think of one of the most famous failures, george mcgovern in 1972. everything thought it was a disaster, what good came out of the mcgovern campaign? what that campaign did is create the new democrat coalition. he said, we've got to bring in women, minorities, one of the first candidates reaching out to gays. that coalition, re...