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Commentary editor and writer for the "washington examiner." thank you both for being here on a saturday night on a holiday. kelly jane, let's start with you. lawmakers are at home. some are on vacation. president trump keeps blaming democrats for the shutdown, saying essentially it's too bad but necessary to keep our country safe. you know, at the end of the day, it's easy to forget that there are actual human beings that are hurt by this on many different levels. do you think that is lost a little bit in what the president is saying? >> yeah, the optics here in washington, ryan, don't look th...

We'll have much more on that story in just a few moments. first, the trump media blitz, two more rallies this weekend makes four. count them, four for the week. add in the last minute white house events, the fox news interviews, and the occasional kanye west oval office rants ant superman and alternative universes ask you have a republican messaging machine no longer focused on the unifying aspects of brett kavanaugh. today the limelight now firmly back on the president himself. here to talk about whether that helps or hurts republicans just 25 days to the midterms, eugene scott, political rep...

Hamptons on fridays. and washington anchor for bbc news world news america, katty kay. and joining the conversation, we have white house correspondent for pbs news hour. and also columnist for the "new york times" brett stevens as well as commentary editor for the "washington examiner" and a visiting fellow at the american enterprise institute tim carney. so, let's talk about what we just heard. brett stevens, obviously, you have a balancing act for an awful lot of people that work for this white house who actually feel like sometimes they feel they need to leave, other times they feel they ne...

Welcome back to "morning joe." joining us now, commentary editor for "the washington examiner," tim carney. author and nbc news political news analyst, arnan giardadis. "the economist" new issue asks the question, what's become of the republican party. good to have you all here with us. john, you posed the question on the cover "the economist," so i'll ask you -- how different is the republican party today than say two or three years ago? >> i think it's quite a different party. donald trump's republican party today is not really a mainstream conservative party like conservatives in britain or...

>> only extras. you understand that. only extras. that's all we're talking about. these are people at the highest levels of professionals. i would. for additoina l training. thank you, thanks, guys, thank you very much. >> and that is president trump responding to some shouted questions there at the conclusion of his meeting with state and local law enforcement officials. asked again about his view, that part of dealing with this crisis may be to arm some teachers in schools. the president saying only experts there. i want to bring back tim carney who's the commentary editor for the washington...