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Putting republicans on capitol hill and even some people who are trying to help him get his agenda through who are working with his administration behind the scenes to try to accomplish all of this he is putting them in a very difficult position here because i thinky all do really want -- they are invested in the system that has been built and they don't want to see all of these pieces shattered this way. chuck schumer wants to get stuff done but the climate this is creating, the temperature, i keep feeling like there's no way it can get any more intense, but it keeps rising. and at this point...

Will go through. it's fairly certain that supreme court nominee will go through sooner or later. and what our story talks about we spent some time with chuck schumer and his frustration with that, his plans to try to overcome it and rebuild the party both from within and without. that is the question i think that really is on people's mind this morning. >> michael, there has been some made of the relationship between schumer and trump. we had senator schumer on our show on inauguration day. he downplayed it and said i know him from around new york. is there a personal relationship that can cov...

Joining us now from washington, deputy managing editor of "time" magazine michael duffy. the magazine's new issue asks the question, do democrats matter? and takes us inside chuck schumer's plan to take on president trump. also at the table we have nbc news correspondent katy tur. good to have you on board. quite some times we are living in right now. michael, first of all, let's go right to the heart of the matter in terms of the cover of "time" magazine. you ask the question do democrats matter. why do you ask that question? >> it's just a distilled version of the question you and joe were t...

2018 in the mid terms. maybe that is the case and that certainly could happen. we are too far out to predict that. but what we saw over and over again on the campaign and i think we will continue to see is that every time we have said donald trump cannot do this, he's proven that he could, because he has a staunch, loud and unmovable base of support who believes that the problem is not within him. the problem is everybody else. >> katy tur, thank you very much. michael duffy, thank yous well. we will be looking for the new issue of "time" magazine and steve bannon is not on the cover. but chuc...

>>e look back and think could bernie sanders have won? quite possibly. we revisit this campaign. >> it was rigged! >> you think this time around if there is still an economic populace move she has a good shot. >> coming up we will take a closer look how chuck schumer commands his caucus including the fact he has a flip phone and has memorized the phone numbers of 47 of his members! "morning joe" will be right back. >> does he manually dial the numbers? what if we could stop the next