Joe On Virginia Shooting: Heated Rhetoric In This Country Must Calm Down | Morning Joe

REPUBLICANS, AND HE STILL HAS SOME OF THOSE.
>> THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT COACHES OF THE CONGRESSIONAL
BASEBALL TEAM SPEAKING YESTERDAY.
TODAY THOSE TWO TEAMS WILL TAKE THE FIELD IN A CHARITY BASEBALL
GAME MARRED BY VIOLENCE BUT PACKED WITH PROMISE FROM A
UNIFIED COUNTRY. A GUNMAN OPENING FIRE ON THE
REPUBLICAN TEAM'S PRACTICE FOR ONE OF THE NEW BIPARTISAN EVENTS
LEFT ON CAPITOL HILL. LAST NIGHT PRESIDENT TRUMP AND
THE FIRST LADY VISITED CONGRESSMAN STEVE SCALISE.
HIS WIFE AND ONE OF THE HILL OFFICERS SHOT IN THE SHOOTING.
JOE, BEFORE WE START OFF THE SHOW, LET'S TAKE IN A MOMENT AND
TAKE IN WHAT'S NOW A STORY THAT'S 24 HOURS OLD.
BUT I THINK REALLY IS HAVING AN EFFECT ACROSS THE BOARD ON THE
CLIMATE THAT WE'RE IN POLITICALLY RIGHT NOW.
>> I THINK SO. FIRST OF ALL, OBVIOUSLY OUR
PRAYERS ARE WITH STEVE SCALISE AND THE OTHERS THAT WERE SHOT
AND INJURED AND ARE STILL STRUGGLING AND WILL STRUGGLE FOR
A LONG TIME. I KNOW YOU MEANT TO SAY 24
HOURS. THIS IS ACTUALLY A STORY 24
YEARS IN THE MAKING MAY BE RIGHT.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" THIS MORNING EDITORIALIZED, AND I
THINK THEY GET SOME OF THEIR FACTS WRONG.
THE OVERALL CONCLUSION WAS RIGHT.
THE HEATED RHETORIC IN THIS COUNTRY HAS TO CALM DOWN.
WE'VE BEEN SAYING IT ON THIS SHOW FOR A DECADE NOW.
IT'S ACTUALLY THE PURPOSE OF THIS SHOW WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY
DEBATE OTHER PEOPLE AND GET ALONG AT THE END.
THERE HAS BEEN A DISCONNECT IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AND AMERICAN
CULTURE AND AMERICAN POLITICS. AS MIKE DOYLE SAID, DRIVEN IN
PART BECAUSE BY SOCIAL MEDIA, DRIVEN IN PART BY HEATED CABLE
NEWS, DRIVEN IN PART BY FAKE NEWS ON THE INTERNET, DRIVEN IN
PART BY HATE MONTHERS WHO ACTUALLY MAKE MONEY AND BECOME
FABULOUSLY WEALTHY CREATING CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT PAINT
THE OTHER SIDE AS EVIL. NOW, WE HAVE COME TOGETHER.
WE CAME TOGETHER AFTER 9/11. THERE WAS THAT BEAUTIFUL MOMENT
WHEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS TOOK TO THE STEPS AND I BELIEVE
THEY SANG "GOD BLESS AMERICA." AFTER GABBY GIFFORDS, YOU HAD
CABLE NEWS PRESIDENTS FIRING SOME OF THEIR MORE EXTREME
VOICES. I REMEMBER EVERYBODY, OVER AT
FOX NEWS ON THE RIGHT, MSNBC ON THE LEFT AT THE TIME, TELLING
EVERYBODY WE'VE GOT TO CALM DOWN, THIS IS FOR REAL.
THERE ARE GUARDRAILS WE HAVE TO PUT OUT THERE.
THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT,
HAROLD FORD. LET ME BRING YOU IN BECAUSE WE
WORKED TOGETHER, REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ON THE HILL.
YOU GOT ME IN TROUBLE THE FIRST TIME I MET YOU BECAUSE WE GOT
ALONG SO WELL. HAROLD AND I WERE ON THE
EDUCATION COMMITTEEMENT HE HAD A BIPARTISAN REFORM PLAN THAT THE
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS WANTED NO PART OF.
THEY WOULD NOT LET US BRING IT UP.
HE SAID, HEY, BUDDY, CAN YOU SIGN ON TO THIS?
LOOKS PRETTY GOOD. SIGNED ON TO IT.
THE LEADERS GOT ANGRY. THAT'S THE STORT OF THING THAT
ACTUALLY STILL HAPPENED BACK THEN, HAROLD.
I DO WANT TO SAY WE'VE BEEN HARD ON PRESIDENT TRUMP.
I WANT TO SALUTE THE PRESIDENT FOR WHAT HE SAID YESTERDAY, THE
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR WHAT THEY SAID YESTERDAY.
I SALUTE "THE NEW YORK TIMES." I SALUTE PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT AND
THE LEFT FOR TALKING ABOUT THE NEED DIALING BACK THIS -- WE CAN
DISAGREE. WE CAN EVEN FIGHT.
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY WE HAVE TO LET PEOPLE OUT THERE
KNOW THAT WE'RE ON THE SAME TEAM.
>> ONE OF THESE UNSPEAKABLE LOWS THIS MORNING.
IT'S GRATIFYING AN REFRESHING TO HEAR YOUR WORDS, TO HEAR JOE
BARDEN'S WORDS, THANKING DEMOCRATS FOR PROVIDING GIFTS
FOR HIS KIDS. I DON'T THINK EVERYDAY CONSUMERS
OF POLITICAL NEWS APPRECIATE THE KIND OF COMRADERY THAT EXISTS.
I APPRECIATE SOME OF THE THINGS SAID YESTERDAY BY OTHERS, THAT
WE'VE REACHED A TIME -- JOHN McCAIN IN '08 WHEN HE CHASTISED
HIS OWN SUPPORTERS MAKING COMMENTS ON WHETHER OR NOT THEN
CANDIDATE OBAMA WAS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES AND WHETHER HE WAS
A MUSLIM. SAYING THAT'S NOT TRUE, HE'S A
DECENT MAN. WE HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS
ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY. AS LOW OF A MOMENT AS YESTERDAY
WAS, IT WAS PLEASING TO SEE SO MANY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND
POLITICAL FIGURES RISE TO THE MOMENT.
>> MIKA, THERE'S NO -- WE CAN ALWAYS PRESS THE RESET BUTTON.
WE CAN ALWAYS MOVE FORWARD. I'M TALKING EVERYBODY FROM
PRESIDENT TRUMP TO THE MOST VILE PERSON THAT'S WHIPPING UP
CONSPIRACY THEORIES TO MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, THAT IT
MIGHT END UP KILLING PEOPLE. IT'S CRITICAL FOR THOSE MEMBERS,
FOR HOUSE MEMBERS TO ACTUALLY DO WHAT HAROLD AND I DID.
AND NOT ONLY FORM A FRIENDSHIP ACROSS PARTY LINES, BUT WHEN YOU
GO HOME TO TOWN HALL MEETINGS THAND SAY, WELL, HOW HORRIBLE IS
HAROLD FORD? ACTUALLY, HAROLD IS A GOOD
FRIEND OF MINE. I MAY NOT AGREE WITH HIM ON ALL
POINTS, BUT YOU ALL HAVE TO UNDERSTAND -- THIS IS WHAT I SAY
TO MEME IN MY TOWN HALL MEETINGS, WE'RE ON THE SAME
TEAM. WE MAY GET TO WHERE WE WANT TO
GO IN DIFFERENT PLACES, BUT WE'RE ALL AGAINST ISIS, WE ALL
WANT A BETTER LIFE FOR OUR CHILDREN, WE ALL WANT THE NEXT
GENERATION TO DO BETTER THAN OUR GENERATION.
BERNIE SANDERS, I PERSONALLY THINK BERNIE SANDERS' ECONOMIC
PATHWAY FORWARD WOULD BE DEVASTATING IF WE LET BERNIE
SANDERS DO EVERYTHING THAT BERNIE SANDERS WANTED TO DO, BUT
I LOVE THE GUY. I RESPECT HIM.
I LOVE HIS ENERGY, AND WE NEED TO WORK AND WE NEED TO BORROW
IDEAS FROM PEOPLE WITH WHOM WE DISAGREE.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE'VE GOT TO TELL OUR CONSTITUENTS NO, THEY
ARE NOT THE ENEMY. THEY ARE ON OUR TEAM.
THEY ARE AMERICANS. >> IT'S A COMPLICATED TIME,
THOUGH. I HOPE THAT THE RESET YOU'RE
TALKING ABOUT IS POSSIBLE. I'M NOT CONVINCED ACTUALLY GIVEN
THE DYNAMICS OF WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH.
>> MIKA, IT'S PROBABLY NOT POSSIBLE, BUT WE'VE GOT TO TRY.
WE HAVE GOT TO TRY. WE'VE GOT TO KEEP TRYING.
JUST LIKE AFTER -- I THINK IT WAS GABBY GIFFORDS, MEMBERS OF
THE HOUSE, REPUBLICANS SAT NEXT TO DEMOCRATS, DEMOCRATS SAT NEXT
TO REPUBLICANS. THAT'S AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO
SEND OUT TO AMERICANS, TO THOSE THAT DON'T HAVE THE GUARDRAILS,
THAT ARE DETACHED FROM REALITY TO N

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