Morning Joe - Morning Joe 10/11/24

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

Obama mocks Trump while campaigning for Harris in Pennsylvania

I don't want more division. And I'll tell you what else I don't want. I don't want his negativity. I'm sick and tired of it. I'm sick of it. The dude's a whiner, right? As we'd say to our kids as they were growing up, don't be a whiny pants, right?

I got a message to Donald Trump. Stop talking America. Stop it. Cut it out. message to Donald Trump, stop talking America. Stop it. Cut it out. Cut it out. Right? Cut it out.

Because hear me on this. This is the greatest country on earth. He better damn well start acting like it. In this country, in this country, we value our freedom. We cherish our democracy and we love this country. I mean, the whole country is going to be like, you want to know the truth? It'll be like Detroit. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she's your president. You're going to have a mess on your hands.

No, no, no, sir. You're in Detroit. Did anyone tell him? Was that his team going? You're talking to the Detroit Economic Forum and you're bashing Detroit. So what you just saw there was Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania telling Donald Trump to stop, you know what, talking the country. And then there he goes again, former President Trump doing just that, disparaging Detroit yesterday in Detroit. We're going to have more of Trump's rambling speech in that battleground state. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Arizona hoping to keep that state blue in November. And Donald Trump wasn't the only former president holding a rally yesterday.

Barack Obama campaigned for the vice president in Pittsburgh, delivering a brutal takedown of the Republican nominee. We'll have the big moments from that speech as well. Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Friday. Anyone glad it's Friday? Willie, are you glad it's Friday? Yes, of course. October 11th, along with Willie and me, we have MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan.

She's a former aide to the George W. Bush White House and State Department. Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and associate editor of The Washington Post, Eugene Robinson. Managing editor at The Bulwark, Sam Stein. And co-host of The Weeknd on MSNBC, Simone Sanders Townsend. Joe is traveling right now for an interview with second gentleman Doug Emhoff. We'll have a little bit of that later on in the show. But Willie, we start, of course, in the hard hit areas in the south that have really, really suffered through not one but two hurricanes for some parts. Yeah, we've had now about 24 hours of sun to look at this and see what the damage that was wrought by Hurricane Milton.

Residents of Florida picking up the pieces this morning after that path of destruction battered the state before moving offshore yesterday. So far, at least 14 people are dead, six in St. Lucie County after dozens of tornadoes tore through the region, bringing punishing winds, heavy rain and flooding. Officials say the death toll is expected to rise as they're able to get out and check on some of these areas. Aerial footage of the aftermath reveals the extent of the devastation. Here you see flattened communities overturned, boats, roads overwhelmed by floodwaters. Rescue and recovery efforts continued yesterday across Florida, with first responders saving more than 500 people trapped by rising water at an apartment complex in Clearwater. In Tampa, a 14-year-old boy was found floating on debris before rescuers pulled

him out of the floodwaters and safely into their boat. A boat captain was found clinging to a cooler in the Gulf of Mexico, 30 miles off of Sarasota, was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Florida officials say the captain survived a nightmare scenario. Right now, more than 2.6 million customers remain without power across the state of Florida. President Biden spoke again with Governor Ron DeSantis

and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell about the devastation, reiterating he will provide federal support to speed response and recovery. Several organizations across the country are accepting donations to help affected areas by opening shelters and providing relief and food services, Among them, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and AmeriCare. So it was a massive storm. But as we heard yesterday in those early hours, dodging a bullet, a lot of people would say they didn't do that. But Tampa was the big concern, a major metropolitan area that looked to be in the direct path. The hurricane took a little bit of a turn and maybe spared Tampa that big damage and storm surge that they were so worried about.

And what was incredibly surprising was the powerful tornadoes that broke out inland and really just ripped houses apart. And we'll get to more of that a little later. Also later, the continued pushback to Donald Trump's lies about the federal response to these storms and how those lies are impacting the people who are the very people who are suffering right now. So we'll cover that angle as well. But back to politics. Former President Barack Obama campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris for the first time last night, the former president headlined a rally in Pittsburgh where he criticized and relentlessly mocked Donald Trump. There is absolutely no evidence that this man thinks about anybody but himself. I've said it before.

Donald Trump is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago. You've got the tweets in all caps, the ranting and the raving about crazy conspiracy theories. You've got the two-hour speeches, word salad, just, you know, it's like Fidel Castro. It's just on and on. Constant attempts to sell you stuff. Who does that?

Selling you gold sneakers and a $100,000 watch and most recently a Trump Bible. He wants you to buy the word of God, Donald Trump edition. Got his name right there next to Matthew and Luke. Reason some people think, well, I don't know, I remember that economy when he first came in being pretty good. Yeah, it was pretty good, because it was my economy. we had had 75 straight months of job growth

that I handed over to him it wasn't something he did I had spent 8 years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time so just in case everybody has cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time. So just in case everybody has a hazy memory, he didn't do nothing except those big tax cuts.

As I recall, Donald Trump was president for four years. And if rounding up and deporting millions of desperate people and building the beautiful wall didn't matter whether some of those folks you rounded up were women and children, if that's the answer to everything, well, why didn't you solve the problem? Why were the number of immigrants basically the same when you left office as when you took office? I'll tell you why. Because he didn't have a real plan. He had talking points. He had concepts of a plan and the plan was mean and ugly so gene robinson that's barack obama last night uh in pittsburgh state they have to win the harris campaign and people wondering how and when will they use the former president obama and that's that's exactly where you want to use him in the state of pennsylvania if the harris campaign that's where you want to use him in the state of Pennsylvania. If the Harris campaign, that's how you want to use him, which is kind of free form, mocking Donald Trump, which he's done a lot.

He did it, remember, in his convention speech back in Chicago, talking about those terrible sneakers, the Trump Bible, which, by the way, we learned this week is made in China. But we can talk about that later. How effective is Barack Obama and how much do you expect to see the Harris campaign use him here in these last couple of weeks? Well, the man can talk, right? I mean, he gives a great, great speech. And that was really it was it was entertaining. It was informative. And I think for Democrats in Pennsylvania, which is ground zero right now, it was it was inspiring. I mean, they need to get Democrats out to the polls. And and who who better to do that than Barack Obama? And I just cracked up when he you know, it was that was my economy, that line. But sort of reminding people of recent history and how little Donald Trump actually accomplished as president is just a useful thing to do.

And Obama, you know, you see why he is unanimous first ballot hall of fame of politics for all time. Right. Because you can see what a massive political talent he is. Yeah. And at the same time, I believe it was 2016, he was doing this and the strategy of the campaign ended up having a bad outcome. But there's no question, Simone, that former President Barack Obama is able to deliver a message about Trump that doesn't appear to be breaking through in any other way, like actually saying, truthfully, he is lying about this. He is lying to you about this. He is lying about legal migrants, Haitian migrants in Springfield.

Sometimes it's frustrating. That'll be an understatement. To see that not break through with especially Republicans or just decent human beings who should be able to see the difference between right and wrong. Barack Obama, with joy and with humor, is able to sort of get through to an audience that it's not OK to lie. It's not OK to sell the presidency. It's not OK to be a narcissist and to have the reins of the presidency and on and on and on. Where in what swing states in what counties do you think this message has the potential for really breaking through? Where should he go? Well, I think it is indicative of where he was just last night. And let me back up and say that there was a to your point about how they're good

Republicans and whatnot. And yes, very decent people. Like, I don't know where we how we got to this point that Donald Trump has people believing that just because they don't agree with you ideologically, that they are the opposition. Former President Obama in that speech, I said he has like a four minute riff where he's like, I'm not doing this for applause. Like, when did this become OK? Right. I tweeted it out last night. And that is he's he's having a conversation not with Democrats there. Right. But with moderate Republicans, independent voters of which there are some real independents out there in the country, especially in Arizona. And he

is very popular with that demographic as well. Oftentimes, President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama talked about it. Oh, they can rally the base. And yes, that is absolutely true. But they are also very good and still very popular and have very high numbers with some of these more moderate individuals and independent

voters. I will say, I think that there's a mixture of, he has to talk to those folks and you got to do, because this is a turnout election. Yes, it is. You got to turn out the base. You got to turn out some people that aren't the base. Okay. The Kamala coalition is a broad one. I was struck by his conversation with his off the record stop that was very much so on the record with black men and men talking to men again. I just think the frankness of which President Obama

addressed many things yesterday is that the Democrats should have been doing for a while. Like I have we in circles will say, yeah, this was Obama's economy. How is Donald Trump just taking credit for it? But yesterday you heard Obama say this was mine. Yeah, I did that. Right. So, Elise, what's the reasonable argument for Republicans who are supporting Donald Trump at this point? But there's a chance you can. I mean, it's country over party. I want to talk to you about the reasonable Republicans who are perhaps. Oh, come on, Liz Cheney. She's she was she went over to the other side when she did the January 6th, which she's not. OK, she's about as Republican as you want an insurrection.

Yeah. OK, that's fair. I think that's fair, you know. But I mean, to me, it seems you got to be kind of honest about where we are. OK, Kamala Harris is not going to be great from your point of view because you're not going to have all the policy agreements that you would have perhaps with a real republican nominee but you don't have it in donald trump he's not a republican he was a democrat he's donated to kamala harris and look what he has done take a look at what he has said and take a look at what he has done and ask yourself, how do you rebuild the Republican Party beyond this person? If you can't say out loud, I can't accept this narcissist who lies and hurts people. But inside you're feeling that way. What's the argument to reasonable Republicans that you can do this? You could

actually vote for Kamala Harris and actually believe that that is a path to the Republican Party ultimately rebuilding itself, having a chance to unleash itself from the chains of this cult leader. Right-leaning voters who are considering Kamala Harris need to know that she's not a radical liberal. And I don't think that the Trump campaign has managed to paint her as a radical San Francisco liberal. And that's what they were trying to do from the onset. They haven't had much time and they haven't really been able to do it. And I think that if you're willing to bridge the Democratic-Republican divide, you're worried about Trump's stability. And it

comes down to a values argument. Do you trust this person? Is this someone these kind of values that you want your children? The argument that Liz Cheney very eloquently has been stating and it's, you know, how it goes. This is not about politics. It isn't about ideology anymore. It's about basic American values. And that is how she's going to woo those right leaning voters. So like, let's look at Trump on the stump right now. Here he is more of this performance at the Detroit Economic Forum where he was bashing Detroit to Detroit. And I don't think he knew he was doing that. So that's another issue. Like what? I don't think he knows what he's talking about. If he does, you wouldn't. Would you insult a city to the city? Sam Stein, I'm going to get to you on the other side of this. Take a look. We are the piggy bank that everyone wants that someday we will continue along the path we've been. Really's been an amazing path it's been a horrible period

of time but almost the last four years we will be i will tell you that uh if i get elected we will be a piggy bank stronger than ever before but we will be a fool no longer i have more complaints on grocery the word grocery you know it's sort of a simple word, but it sort of means like everything you eat. The stomach is speaking. It always does. And I have more complaints about that bacon and things going up double, triple, quadruple.

They built a very big plant. Many countries, they do that. And then all of a sudden, you hear that they're leaving Milwaukee or they're leaving wherever they may be located. It's very sad to see it. And it's so simple. I mean, you know, this isn't like Elon with his rocket ships that land within 12 inches on the moon where they wanted to land. Or he gets the engines back. That was the first I realized. I said, who the hell did that? I saw engines about three, four years ago. These things were coming,

cylinders, no wings, no nothing. And they're coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace with a circle. Boom. Reminded me of the Biden circles that he used to have, right? He'd have eight circles and he couldn't fill them up. But then I heard he beat us with the popular vote. I don't know. I don't know. Couldn't fill up the eight circles. I always loved those circles. They were so beautiful. They were so beautiful to look at. In fact, the person that did them, that was the best thing about his, the level of that circle was great. But they couldn't get people, so they used to have the press stand in those circles because they couldn't get the people. Then I heard we lost.

Oh, we lost. No, we're never going to let that happen again. But we've been abused by other countries. I mean, I wouldn't even call that the weave. I would not grace that with the phrase word salad. That just made no sense. And I just don't understand anybody right now who could watch him talk and say,

yeah, he definitely makes more sense than the alternative. Like all these people, I was watching the news yesterday, flipping around and hearing hosts whining, Kamala Harris needs to do more. Okay. More than everything she's doing. Fine. Give me your ideas. But what? I mean, watch the alternative for two minutes. Grocery, the stomach is speaking, Elon's rocket ships, cylinders, circles, beautiful circles. What the hell? I mean, that's like an epic weave that he talks about, but his weaves aren't brilliant. You know what he's doing? He's getting through the moment as an aging bullshit artist. Okay. He's just getting through the moment and insulting Detroit to its face. And you're right, Simone, there is racism in there. There's always

a tinge of racism in everything he says. Oh, he thought, he thought he was speaking to white people and they didn't live in Detroit. He thought he could trash. That's my estimation. It's a developing nation. Let me trash Detroit because y'all must live in the suburbs. Let me tell you something. There's something wrong with people who can watch that and

think the alternative, Kamala Harris, isn't more articulate, more prepared, more experienced, more able to. And when I say articulate, that means actually deliver a message to the American people on a certain policy. You know, she can. If you can't believe it and this is your choice, you're lying to yourself and you're going to ruin this country. That's your, it's going to be on you. It's going to be on you because there's no way you can watch that or any of his speeches and get anything out of it except for a hateful,

racist, bigoted, tired, aging, branding, I wouldn't say genius, branding obsessed narcissist. So, Sam, with that, tell me, though, how how Kamala Harris appeals to reasonable Republicans, but still excites the base. I think it's possible, but I do think it's going to involve reasonable people stepping up for this country. But I I think there's a reason that Kamala Harris continuously tells people to watch Trump rallies. And I also think there's a reason that Donald Trump refused to do a second debate with Kamala Harris. Oh, God, no, we can't do that. I think when the contrast is made apparent and when people see Trump, and I watched all, God knows how long that was,

hour and 30 minutes of talk, 30 minutes of questions yesterday. I mean, what we just played was, you know, just part of it. I mean, at one point he said the problem with tariffs is that the word doesn't have a good PR agent. I thought that was a weird one. So your question is difficult, though, because on the one hand, you know, the easiest way one thing, uh, which is he floods the zone.

And by that, I mean, he's constantly in our living rooms, on our TV sets, he's cocooned in conservative TV, but he does a lot of events. He knows that he just needs to pump out a lot of this BS and that makes it hard for other things to break through. It also kind of, uh, makes us, uh, desensitized to what we see and when we see it. And I think that's the challenge for Harris is how can you break through. It also kind of makes us desensitized to what we see and when we see it. And I think that's the challenge for Harris is how can you break through that? How can you put a good contrast forward? And she's done it to a degree. I think she's getting sharper and she's doing more media. And this last week has been good for her to get out there and do these types of events. She's just got to keep it going. All right. We're going to talk more about this.

Still ahead on Morning Joe, President Biden has some strong words for Donald Trump. Get a life. We'll show you those new comments. But first, our next guest is asking the question, why aren't hurricane impacted states trying to extend voter registration? We'll talk about that next on Morning Joe. And as we go to break, Donald Trump appeared on Wednesday's episode of the comedy podcast Flagrant. There, the hosts laughed out loud when the ex-president struggled to defend a rambling answer, which he chalked up to. Oh, no. Here he goes again, doing a weave. I actually mentioned Air Force One. It was Air Force One was there. So I mentioned Air Force One. And then I said how I got $1.6 billion off the price of Air Force One.

But then you have to come back to the story. Where was Air Force One taken? So anyway, I do a weave. I call it the weave. And some people think it's so genius. But the bad people, what they say is, you you know he was rambling yeah it's not a round but there's no rambling this is a weave this is a good name i'm not sure that's another name we had fake news we came up with lots of names yeah but the weave is i think we should make the weave

a part of that stable yeah you're really waiting to answer my question twice i don't even want to know the answer anymore. Let's weave back to his question. President Biden continued yesterday to criticize former President Trump for his disinformation about the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. It's bizarre. They've got to stop this. I mean, they're being so damn un-American with the way they're talking about this stuff. Mr. President, have you spoken before President Trump at all? Are you kidding me?

Mr. President Trump, former President Trump, get a life, man. Help these people. Help these people. A message from President Trump, from President Biden to former President Trump. And here's Fox News host Neil Cavuto on his program yesterday, taking on the former president for lying about hurricane relief. We also get a lot of misinformation, don't we? We get people who who say in North Carolina that if you're a Republican, you're not going to get help. If you're a Democrat, you'll get help. I would imagine that does a huge disservice to people working together and scares the bejesus out of others when they believe it. Absolutely. I mean, one of the things I worried about the false claim that was going on, for example, that had people believing that if you got $750 in immediate help that you were never going to get anything else.

You know, what if somebody hears that they believe it and then they don't apply for more aid that they could absolutely qualify for? So, you know, there are real costs and real consequences to that misinformation. But Donald Trump said that about North Carolina. Republicans not getting help. Democrats getting help. That was Donald Trump said that about North Carolina, Republicans not getting help, Democrats getting help. That was Donald Trump. And these monies that you get from FEMA, that $750 was money up front for people who can't access ATM machines, that kind of thing. So it wasn't just a one shot. That's it. It's a way for people to get hands on cash they desperately need. Not not not the the only money they will ever get or hope to get. But that kind of misinformation gets out there. And whether it's perpetrated by a politician or someone you think is of somewhat

of note and authority, it is wrong and it is bull and it cannot be tolerated. That is Neil Cavuto talking to his audience on Fox News yesterday, Gene. And it remains extraordinary, something we've been seeing all week that you've had the president of the United States, governors, senators, many of them Republicans, we should point out, and even the congressman there in Western North Carolina, having to go out and say to their voters, to the American people, for those who need help after these storms, no, the government cannot control the weather. No, the government cannot engineer a hurricane and send it only to a red state or only to a district that supports Donald Trump.

It sounds laughable, but because Donald Trump and his acolytes have so, so distrust, think fake news, deep state, don't trust anything except me. Some people hear that and believe it. Yeah. I mean, the thing about controlling the weather, we have Marjorie Taylor Greene to thank for that, because she apparently actually does believe that the weather can be controlled by them, whoever they happen to be, which is insane. But this is what the Republican Party has come to. The Republican Party lost its mind some years ago and is like clinically insane. hurricanes says that FEMA is doing a good job, that aid is being distributed, you know, as best it can be. And they're having regular conversations with President Biden. And that is the reality. Yet Donald Trump paints this totally irresponsible and dangerous picture that is harming relief efforts. And some people believe

it. And will the fact that it was denounced and debunked on Fox News, will that make a difference? I hope so. But, you know, they'll probably just see Neil Cavuto as part of the conspiracy. I don't know. It's actually come to that. Well, I mean, yes, it has. It's come to Fox News hosts having to say, wait, wait, wait, wait. This is all a lie. But just think about like who who would support someone who takes advantage of disasters that are of catastrophic proportions. People's homes have been ripped up. Entire towns have been turned into mud. And Donald Trump is lying about it for his benefit. It's sick and twisted, sick and twisted like, but on not the level of telling Republicans

not to pass the immigration bill so he can use it for his own election. I mean, the man believes in nothing but himself. Hurricanes Helene and Milton could end up having significant impact on the November elections, as well as Florida and Georgia have yet to make voter registration accommodations for their residents in the wake of those powerful storms. Former litigator and MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin is looking into that part of the story, and she joins us now. Where do things stand? Well, Mika, over the last couple of days, there have been court hearings because plaintiffs in both Florida and Georgia, led by the NAACP in both places, have fought to extend those voter registration deadlines in both Florida and Georgia. Those deadlines were Monday and two different federal courts denied emergency relief in each of Florida and

Georgia. In one of those cases, the Florida case, the co-plaintiff was the League of Women Voters. And when the hearing ended, I got on the phone with its co-president, who told me aghast that one of the reasons the judge ruled against them was that he said, if you were evacuating, you could avail yourself of digital registration. You could even sit in the car in the passenger seat and register as you are driving away. And for the millions of people who are watching this show, who know somebody in one of these southern states who was affected or themselves was affected by the hurricane, that's just not compatible with their reality. Survival is the first thing on these

prospective voters' minds. And while these states have made a number of accommodations to existing voters, prospective voters and allowing them to avail themselves fully of the period to participate was not something they were concerned with at all. In fact, Ron DeSantis said the other day people could register even today. He said that Monday at a press conference as he was announcing states of emergency in the wake of Helene and in preparation for Milton. I know. I know. I did. I did. I did voting rights work for a very long time. I'm not a lawyer, but I used to work for lawyers. I was a spokesperson. And it just you also need to mail it in most places when you register online. Just to be clear, that means you need to print. You need a stamp. But, yeah, I can find that in the middle of a hurricane. Lisa, this is not North North Carolina, Florida and Georgia.

Some places very hard hit all places where they've denied to extend. South Carolina extended its vote. A judge independently. So what is the discrepancy here? I know in Georgia today at 2 p.m., there's another hearing. And I think the NAACP has said that while they may have lost the battle yesterday in their court hearing, they think they may eventually win the war and they may get deadlines extended in Georgia. So let's start with Georgia. First of all, that 2 p.m. hearing actually was yesterday, the second of two hearings. So they have a loss in the district court.

Whether or not they'll appeal remains to be seen. Let's move to North Carolina, though, for a second, because North Carolina didn't extend their voter registration. But of course, there's another lever for North Carolinians to to use. You can do same day voting in North Carolina. You can walk into an early voting place in between October 17th and November 2nd. You can simultaneously register and vote. And that's why the five person North Carolina Board of Elections said we're not going to extend our voter registration deadlines because there's another opportunity for folks.

But South Carolina, the judge there is nobody's idea of a crazy liberal. He was appointed to the bench by Governor Henry McMaster, And he is the same person who upheld the six week abortion ban in his state of South Carolina. And yet last Friday, he said, you know what? The right and fair thing to do here is to extend that deadline by 10 days. So whether you're registering by mail, in person, online, we're going to do that for everyone for 10 days. That's the right decision here. And yet, for partisan reasons, it appears that other officials don't want to do it. I think the statement yesterday that Josh McCoon, who's the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party,

gave on Twitter, says it all. He called it a bogus lawsuit brought by Democrats in order to jam through thousands of their own voters and voter registration. I can't imagine anybody wanting to use a hurricane for their own selfish partisan purposes in this way. What people were trying to do was just ensure what Republicans want, election integrity, free, full, fair elections for everyone. And yet to have to litigate this and then to lose is really what my grandmother would have called a Shonda. Is there even enough time to litigate this, though, before the election? Well, I think, you know, we've been through these hearings in the district court, certainly through expedited appeals they could. And I don't know whether the plaintiffs will

continue to fight this. But that's an I mean, that's an interesting question. It remains to be seen whether they can get this done before the election and give people enough time to register so that they can receive, for example, absentee ballots. Right. The accommodations made in some of these states allow people more time to request their absentee ballot, more time to deliver their absentee ballot. They can have it sent to a newer temporary address. They can drop it off somewhere other than where they were supposed to drop it off originally. And yet we're still talking about young people, old people in particular who are not particularly mobile, who need some outreach by groups like the NAACP or the New Georgia Project who do voter registration and mobilization. Those are the people who are going to be left behind here. And I'm just really grateful to all of you for talking about this this morning because it's an underreported aspect of the

impact of the hurricanes on people's real lives. We'd appreciate if you follow it for us and come back. MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin, thank you very much. And coming up, former President Barack Obama is calling out black men who are hesitant to vote for Kamala Harris, saying it's because she's a woman. We'll dig into those comments as our next guest argues black men are waiting for a Democratic Party that delivers for them. Morning Joe will be right back. Oh, for3 tonight. In the air to center field. Judge has it lined up.

And the Yankees are on their way to the LCS. New York Yankees wrapping up their AL Division Series in four games on the road against the Kansas City Royals. Yankees ace Garrett Cole stepping up big time in a big moment, holding the Royals to just one run over seven innings of work last night. The six-time All-Star scattered six hits, struck out four batters before handing the ball to the New York bullpen for the last two innings. That bullpen extending the scoreless streak by Yankee relievers to more than 15 innings this postseason, which is huge because they've been a little shaky this year. Meanwhile, Juan Soto, Gleyber Torres, John Carlos Stanton each drove in a run. The Yankees beat the Royals 3-1, clinching a spot in their fourth AL championship series in eight years,

though haven't been in the World Series in 15 years. The Yankees will host the Cleveland Guardians or the Detroit Tigers in game one on Monday night. That is because the Tigers could not finish off the Guardians at home in Detroit in game four of their ALDS last night. Guardians pinch hitter David Frye launching a go-ahead two-run home run in the seventh inning. Huge. Then he bunted in an insurance run in the ninth to lift the guardians to a 5-4 win series now shifts back to cleveland for that decisive game five tomorrow night and tonight the los angeles dodgers host the

san diego padres in a decisive game five of their nlds the winner will advance to face the new york mets in the nl championship series so sam ste, this is your chance to say something nice about the New York Yankees who got the job done. Aaron Judge hit last night. Garrett Cole pitched last night. The bullpen performed last night. They're finally finding this World Series form, Sam. Go ahead.

Oh, yeah. No, I'm so proud of you guys. Just a little franchise that could, making it back to the ALCS. I'm really excited for you guys to fall on your face again before the world series. Another one. I actually think it's going to be very interesting. I have my money now on a subway series.

Wow. I mean, that was what, what was the year we had a lot, the subway series was a 2000, 2000. Yeah. 2000.

Yeah. With the Piazza stuff. I mean, that was great. I think the Mets are like the great we had the Subway Series? Was it 2000? 2000. Yeah, 2000. Yeah. With the Piazza stuff. I mean, that was great. I think the Mets are like the great story of the playoffs. Gene and I were talking about this. The playoffs have been incredible. Like, just incredible. Every game, so much drama.

It's really a remarkable thing. The problem is they're on too late in the night for old people like us. But I've been really enthralled with baseball this postseason. Yeah. I stayed up to watch it last night. and i think it's showing on my face this morning we can be honest about these things mine too uh gene yankees win last night but now this other series detroit had a chance to finish it at home last night they've had an incredible run here late in the season they do though pitch in that decisive game five. Maybe the best pitcher in baseball in Tarek Skubal. They've got a chance to kind of be the spoiler here in this playoffs.

They can. And, boy, Skubal has been unhittable. I mean, he is just amazing. And Detroit really is the little team that could, right? I mean, that's a bunch of kids and rookies. And, you know, they called up half the team midway through the season. And they're just playing, they've been playing lights out. The Guardians are a more complete team, a more powerful team, have much better record for the,

for the year. And they'll, they'll be playing at home. So, you know, it's tough for the year, and they'll be playing at home. So, you know, tough for the Tigers, but, boy, they're a great story as well. They're kind of the mitts of the AL right now. What did you say? How about that suicide squeeze? The squeeze. I know. The Guardians. Whoa.

Old school stuff. You don't see that very often. I like them taking the chances they're like. Yeah, a lot of times in the playoffs it's who's hot, and right now it's the Tigers. They're OK. They get Scooble in game five. They would have liked to have won last night. And on the other side, as you say, it's the Mets. So we'll see how this all plays out. Turning now to NFL's week six kickoff in Seattle last night, the Seahawks hosted the 49ers on Thursday night football. Niners never trailed in the game as Brock Purdy threw for 255 and three touchdowns, including a 76-yard catch and run by Debo Samuel.

He still got that burst. And a pair of touchdown catches by tight end George Kittle. Fullback Kyle Juszczyk had a late touchdown as well. 49ers send the Seahawks to their third consecutive loss. Final score there, 36-24. had a late touchdown as well. 49ers send the Seahawks to their third consecutive loss. Final score there, 36 to 24. Still ahead this morning, award-winning comedian Larry Wilmore joins us for a preview of his new comedy tour. Plus, we are less than a month away from the election, and New Yorker Susan Glasser wants to know, is it time to panic yet? We'll talk to Susan about her

new piece when Morning Joe comes right back on a Friday morning. Donald Trump intends to end the Affordable Care Act. Now, Arizona, I was a member of the United States Senate during that time. But during that time when he was president and kept trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, and I'm going to tell you about one particular night, which has a direct connection to all of you. So that one night, it was late, late, late in the night. They were trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act again, and it required one more vote to keep it intact.

And that vote was the late, great John McCain. A great American, a war hero, John McCain. And I'll never forget that night. So we're all standing in the chamber, and we're waiting. a great American, a war hero, John McCain. And I'll never forget that night. So we're all standing in the chamber, and we're waiting. And then, you know, in the Senate chamber, there are these big wooden doors. And it was like out of a movie. The wooden doors broke open.

And John McCain came walking into the well of the United States Senate and said, no, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't. Vice President Kamala Harris speaking in Arizona last night, one day after early voting began in the state. It was her second time visiting Arizona in just two weeks. There have been a lot of folks saying, does she need to do more? Every minute of every day, she's doing something, whether it's Howard Stern, The View or interviews. What is it? Call your daddy? Yeah. Apparently that's for young people because my daughters know all about that. But I mean, she's trying to reach in all corners. And here in Arizona, that sort of nod to John McCain was very effective, very effective,

not just for her, but down ballot. Ruben Gallego, congressman who is running for United States Senate against Kerry Lake, who has Kerry Lake, who has trashed John McCain and his family. That is a very important nod right there in the state. And, you know, what I just saw in that, that was Vice President Harris and her element. You know, this was to me, she must have said to the staff, I really want to tell this story. Yeah. Because just describing to people, bringing people into the room. And I do think that that's important because still as she's campaigning, voters are still getting to know her because two months ago she was not the Democratic nominee.

And so what she has been able to do in this time is remarkable. Yet every single day between now and Election Day is going to matter as people are voting because there are still gaps, Mika. I don't know why the gaps exist. OK, we can do a whole focus group and have a whole analytical discussion post-election about the gaps. But there are gaps and there are still some voters that are like, I don't know. But then again, there are many voters who are fired up like those folks in that row. And that story, she's saying a lot of different things, including I can do hard things. I can, I mean, she's, what she's saying is that she honors someone who steps up and does the right thing in the moment, no matter, you know, no fear of favor. Can I just say when we went to when I worked for the vice president, we went to Vietnam.

She made it a point to stop and visit the marker for Senator McCain and lay flowers. We were literally in the middle of the rain. And I was like, oh, she's going out there in the rain and we're going to wait. She took an umbrella, her and the silk press and went into the rain because it was that important to her to pay homage to him. You know, that's at least real quick. I mean, the Arizona voters, the McCain voters that she was trying to appeal to, she's got to get those to win.

Yeah, I got to bring it in coming.