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As we look at america, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flame. We hear sirens in the night. Yow as we look at america, we see cities envelop and smoke in the plane we hear sirens and then i we see american hes dying on distant battlefields abroad we see americans painting each fighting Each Other, killing Each Other at home next ive gone, to stand and snakes like weve got some difficulties but it really doesnt matter with me now because ive been to the mountain where our prospects for peace in vietnam, but No One knows when peace will come Apollo Silva starts the final american push to the...

we appreciate it. stick around. we'll talk to you again in a few minutes on "morning joe." thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with us on this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. to do something with 50 votes is rough. to do small things with 50 votes is rough. to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes, republican minority, a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin, wow. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer after the senate passed a sweeping climate health care and tax bill, putting democrats on the verge of another majo...

Apocalyptic collapse. whereas, this appeared out of nowhere one evening. a press release out of manchin's office, quickly endorsed by schumer, then moved sumer quickly in a way that almost nothing does on capitol hill. the bottom line, people in the white house say this is no lucky break. this is the president putting out an economic theory. you heard him say in the state of the union, bottom-up, middle-out, not top-down. this is a vindication of slow patience, eye on the prize. >> wow. >> i mean, you know what, mike allen brings up lbj. katty kay, not a coincidence, lbj also a creature of the...

Presidents who have been in situations like this, bill clinton, for instance, who won re-election in 1996 by 10 percentage points over his republican rival, bob dole, was at this point in his presidency very weak. in fact, "time" magazine ran a cover story called, the incredible shrinking president after he had won the presidency in 1992 as sort of this relatively unknown democrat, he had a 36% approval rating in june, just four months after taking the presidency. voters thought he was too liberal, and so he pivoted to the middle. he scrapped his very ambitious healthcare plans, very progressi...

Optimistic. >> while trump doesn't have a very good historic sense about our culture or anything, i was wondering i'm trying to be really fine here in understanding this because i grew up lbj, and he used the power of the presidency, close certain naval bases and keep others open depending on who he liked that week. tell us the difference between that and what trump is doing, or what he's done here with ukraine? >> it's very different. first of all it's national security and foreign affairs, and secondly this is a case where congress specifically said that this $400 million and the javelin mis...