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What i'm saying is think smart about this. what is driving the crisis? the crisis are our efforts in mexico and in columbia. therefore, rerouting all the drugs into central america and it's that drug trade and the violence that results from it that is causing these families to want to flee where they are coming from. i mean, you might have said the same thing if i said ten years ago here, isn't it time to decriminalize marijuana, you would have called me a typical left wing socialist then. so far, i think it's working out. i'm only asking whether we are ready have that conversation. okay? up...

People go to look at their chances to on be president. >> it's pretty nice to be asked. if you're really awful, no one is asking. >> welcome to "morning joe." eugene robinson and jeremy peters is still with us. here on the set, former mccain senior campaign strategist and msnbc political analyst, steve schmidt. nice to see you. >> that christie guy is back. and hillary is back in the news. you got a lot of stuff to talk about. mika is going to take us overseas first. >> i am. we have breaking news to begin with overnight. before we get to politics, we will start with the five-hour humanitarian...

American politics. >> is it like parties are often in a situation like this? >> what is usual about it for republicans is there is no dominant national leader. not surprising some of them are there but nobody has transcended in that field at all. >> right. >> so when you look at the field right now it's as wide open as it has ever been for on a republican nomination in the modern history of the republican party. >> and, yeah. like steve said, you knew mitt romney was going to get -- i mean, it always made everybody angry, ron paul saying how do you know he is not going to win? i know he is not...

John meechum in nashville. is there a danforth there? >> no. he's in st. louis. >> okay. >> there's only one danforth. >> sure. wow. julie pace in washington. >> one meechum in tennessee. one danforth in missouri. >> joining the table former mccain senior campaign strategist and nbc political analyst steve schmidt. >> we're going to talk about races in second. it will be an important race. same thing with new jersey for presidential politics. also in alabama, extraordinarily important race. john, i want to go back. let's talk about what we touched on for a minute or two. >> yeah. we had mike a...