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Community leaders, i was at the award leaders yesterday in philly, standing with them in the crowd, he had a gospel chorus came on and sang, the lead singer that did the "star-spangled banner" was an african-american woman. i know he's a white guy but he wants to be a champion of the black community. ironically, a 76-year-old white guy but that's where he's comfortable. >> you know, mika, that's one of mayor pete's biggest challenges is the fact that joe biden right now is doing extraordinarily well among black voters. i want to follow up on what chris said about dr. jill biden. one of the thi...

Good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it's monday, may 20th. and i'm in washington today. i'll be interviewing speaker nancy pelosi later today for an msnbc headliner special that will air later this summer. but we will be bringing you some of the interview tomorrow on "morning joe." and with us now, we have columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," david ignatius. politics editor for the daily beast, sam stein. former chief of staff to the dccc and former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton's presidential campaign, adrian elrod. she's an msnbc contrib...

It's grotesque, it's a side show, i don't care. let's get on with the business of getting working americans back to work and getting them good jobs with good pay. >> you know, joe, if we were running, if you and i were running pete's campaign, mayor pete's campaign for president, you might be tempted to tell him just to show those clips repeatedly, the ones that we just showed because they show a calm, direct, composed delivery common sense to voters. and the reaction with the crowd was clearly obvious. and that's one of the reasons that he's doing so well, i think. he delivers information in ...

Of reasons for people tho think about him as a presidential candidate. but those who were not thinking about him from the fox audience, they're going to be thinking about him today. >> david, you've sooneen a few presidential candidates. i wonder whether where mika and i are being a bit excessive in our praise of mayor pete, but i've seen a lot of candidates, i think this guy, i almost called him kid because he's like 20 years younger than me, i think this -- i think this kid is special! i do think there's something about this guy that separates him from the thousands of politicians that you a...

Child killed and then emerged again in 2015 with the death of his son beau. it's that youauthenticity that been one of his strengths in politics. and this is a challenge for him, is he going to rally a part that is increasingly younger, that is looking for something new. he appeals to the people who have been in washington for decades. that's not necessarily where the party is going. does he provide enough of a contrast to donald trump generationally and so forth. at the moment he's starting strong and he's the person to beat. >> nor candidate getting a lot of attention is mayor pete bu e butt...