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Facts and it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think and that is the -- that is our job -- rob: there you go. morning joe coanchor making the claim after the show's discussion on the president and the media. she's now back-tracking, i said it's the media's job from keeping president trump to making up his own facts, not that it's our job to control what people think. that brings us as look who is talking, mika said exactly what she was really thinking. >> well, michael famous...

Better address the challenges they have every day. >> can you explain to somebody that works in manhattan in sort of the national media complex -- >> bubble. >> can you explain to them why someone would vote for barack obama in 2008 and 2012 and then vote for donald trump in 2016? >> wages. pensions. benefits. the economic anxiety. i'm one that thinks that going back to probably the 2006 election, maybe even before that, that all of these elections have been who can better help me economically other than '04 when we were just on the heels of the war. so i think these have all been economic ele...

Big-money people. he's going to have to work hard to make up ground. he needs an early start and get the attention before anybody else is out there. >> joan, all of these radio people -- rush limbaugh the head of the party and everybody else how do you explain that? and what impact will they have on the primary voters? >> i think they're helpful for sure, but i think a lot of mainstream republicans have complained a while, usually quietly because they are afraid of rush limbaugh but they're afraid of this media complex that runs the republican party right now. they don't have to get elected. a...

Where there's a clinton there's a controversy. where there's a controversy, there's an investigation, does the country really want this? i think that that is their strategy. >> sure i don't doubt that might be part of their strategy but the reality is this is so familiar now. i mean for some of us who have been in this -- since we never got the apology from the "new york times" on whitewater in 1992 this week has played out exactly like that. i think people are understanding what this is. i think that they understand that the republicans are desperate, they tip off a newspaper, get a false sto...

And i think this notion that, you know, the rich who live very well and drink that scotch tend to be on the republican side. but we used to have property requirements to vote. and it was a great democratic d democratic advance that we got rid of them. and it's astonishing 200 years later that there are some people out there who want to bring back those old days which in my view weren't the good old days. >> wow. e.j. dionne and angela rye. thank you for your time tonight. have a great weekend. >> have a great weekend, reverend. >> thanks, reverend. coming up, it's being called a suspicious o...