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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...

From the economy to immigration? >> of course. the president needs to talk about immigration it's so important and being a border state i know that he is not just going to talk about the economy because not going to cover the economy. we have already seen that they don't care about the american people and how well the american people are doing. they care about sinking donald trump. last night this so-called blue wave was a blue puddle. can you imagine how much better we would have done if covered president trump fairly it would have been devastating to the democrats. they need to hold on to th...

Doesn't have the right to appoint anyone else basically. >> by nava nominating kavanaugh first, he demonstrated that if you are a bush person, he went to the right schools, you could be characterized as a preppy. think what they will do to the next units to the right. he can just say look. it's not her, it's not anybody. it's just us. 98% of that small rubric of 10% now say, you know what, i don't have any choice. it's eitherbr scratching on the supreme court door, or, i never will get tired. of watching the video. there is something that is so poetic about that.ti but i'm sorry, i'm just goin...

He's taught at harvard for less than a decade. more than 800 harvard law school alumni signed a letter calling for the school to rescind kavanaugh's lecturer appointment. aidan ryan, nice to see you. tell me how this all unfolded because my first thought when i saw the news was, wow, the vote to see if he's on the supreme court has not happened and, bam, he's not teaching. what happened? >> this has been an ongoing issue really since the sexual allegations against judge kavanaugh first emerged. in august i reported a story, there were two letters, one opposing his nomination, and one supportin...

Went on fox news last night to defend his integrity. so i think that thursday is going to be critical but it's critical for the republican party here because women are watching. >> yes, and maya, in his opening statement, when judge kavanaugh first went before the judiciary committee, he said the supreme court must never be used as a partisan institution. yet he goes on fox news, he asserted himself in the most public way into what has become a political war. so did he help himself at all last night? if this is a preview of what we're going to see on thursday, how do you think he did? >> first...