Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190209:04:52:00
Candidate of the week who dominated the ratings and was leading until trump came along and just began to dominate everything in that party. >> you're so right. that's the way it felt in real time. jon meacham, let's speak to your bailiwick, does history give us any -- is it the celebrity? it is the big populist? is it the kind of enter unifying? >> i think it's a really interesting question whether any of those standards really apply in an age where donald trump is president. have all the traditional understandings of how we handicap these races gone away? they certainly should create humility...