>>> THIS COUNTRY COULD BE TURNED DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
THE TONE. >> THE TONE IS USED A LOT THIS
MORNING AND SOMETIMES WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE SORT OF VICTIMS OF
THE TONE. >> WE CAN SET A TONE TO TELL THE
NATION WE SHOULD DISAGREE. BUT WE DON'T EVER DO THIS.
>> I'M GOING TO SAY I THINK THE TONE DOES NEED TO CHANGE.
WE'VE ALL BEEN REMINDED IN A REALLY HORRIBLE WAY ABOUT THE
NECESSITY TO MAINTAIN THE RIGHT TONE HERE.
>> BRING THE TONE OR THE RHETORIC DOWN.
>> TONE DOWN THE RHETORIC. >> TONE IT DOWN.
>> WELCOME BACK TO "A.M. JOY" IN A RARE DISPLAY OF BIPARTISAN
AGREEMENT, THAT COALESCED AROUND ONE TOPIC, TIME FOR A TOTAL
SHIFT IN THE POLITICS BUT SHORTLY AFTER THE SHOOTING CHRIS
COLLINS STRUCK A DIFFERENT NOTE FROM THE CHORUS BY PLACING THE
GAME ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ISLE.
>> I TRY TO LOOK FOR A SILVER LINING IN ANY TRAGEDY LIKE THIS.
I CAN ONLY HOPE THE DEMOCRATS DO TONE DOWN THE RHETORIC, THAT THE
RHETORIC HAS BEEN OUTRAGEOUS OF THE FINGER POINTING, THE -- JUST
THE TONE AND THE ANGST AND ANGER DIRECTED AT DONALD TRUMP, HIS
SUPPORTERS, REALLY THEN, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE REACT TO
THINGS LIKE THAT. THEY GET ANGRY, AS WELL.
>> COLLINS LATER WALKED BACK THAT STATEMENT EXPRESSING REGRET
FOR HAVING POINTED THE FINGER AT HIS DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES.
BUT HIS HEAT OF THE MOMENT REACTION UNDER SCORED THE TRUTH
IN WASHINGTON ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GOP'S LEADER IS A PRESIDENT
WHO A DAY AFTER THE SHOOTING WAS BACK TO ATTACKING DEMOCRATS ON
TWITTER. AND AFTER TRUMP'S SON AND SOME
OF HIS SUPPORTERS ON THE FAR RIGHT PILED ON WITH BLAME FOR
THE MEDIA, THE HOLLYWOOD LEFT AND EVEN SHAKESPEARE IN THE
PARK, IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR THE VERY REAL POLITICAL DIVISION
TO RESURFACE, THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING A REPUBLICAN STATE
REPRESENTATIVE FROM COLORADO USED THE INCIDENT TO SOICIT
DONATIONS. AND CALLING THE LEFT OUT OF
CONTROL AND UNAMERICAN. AFTER SHOW OF SOLIDARITY, HOUSE
MINORITY LEADER NANCY PELOSI HAD STRONG WORDS FOR OPPONENTS THAT
WOULD TRY TO POLL LITTIZE THE ATTACK.
>> THE COMMENTS MADE BY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES ARE
OUTRAGEOUS. THE DIGNITY OF THE JOB THEY
HOLD. BENEATH THE DIGNITY OF THE
RESPECT WE WOULD LIKE CONGRESS TO COMMAND.
HOW DARE THEY SAY SUCH A THING? HOW DARE THEY?
>> JOINING ME NOW, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST EVAN AND ERIC FROM
MEDIA MATTERS AND NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT KATE
DAWSON AND BUSINESS AND POLITICAL CONSULTANT.
WHERE TO BEGIN? I -- EVAN, I FIND IT INCREDIBLY
IRONIC TO HEAR REPUBLICANS FURROW BROW 'TIS K 'TIS KING THE
OTHER SIDE ON TONE. HE REMINDED US OF A CHIEF
ARCHITECT OF TONE. THIS IS MARK SANFORD.
>> I WOULD ARGUE THE PRESIDENT IS PARTIALLY, NOT IN ANY WAY
TOTALLY BUT PARTIALLY TO BLAME FOR DEMONS UNLEASHED.
>> NOT TO GO ON TOO LONG BUT LET'S LISTEN TO DONALD TRUMP
JUST TALKING ABOUT THE MEDIA. >> BY THE WAY, SOME OF THE MEDIA
IS TERRIFIC, BUT MOST OF IT, 70%, 75% IS ABSOLUTE DISHONEST,
ABSOLUTE SCUM. SHE'S BACK THERE, LITTLE KATY,
SHE'S BACK THERE. WHAT A LIE IT WAS.
NO. WHAT A LIE -- KATY TUR.
THIS SLEAZY GUY FROM ABC. HE'S A SLEAZE.
I HAVE A RUNNING WAR WITH THE MEDIA.
THEY ARE AMONG THE MOST DISHONEST HUMAN BEINGS ON EARTH.
>> ONE MORE. ONE MORE MONTAGE, ONE MORE
BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TONE AND TONE STARTS AT THE TOP, FROM
THE HEAD, DONALD TRUMP TARGETING PROTESTERS AT SOME RALLIES.
>> WHO IS PROTESTING? ANYBODY?
>> RIGHT HERE! >> GET OUT OF HERE.
GET THEM OUT. [ CHEERS ]
>> GET THEM OUT. >> HOW HOLD IS THIS?
GET OUT OF HERE. GET OUT OF HERE.
STILL WEARING DIAPERS. LOOK AT THIS KID.
IF YOU SEE SOMEBODY GETTING READY TO THROW A TOMATO, KNOCK
THE CRAP OUT OF THEM, WOULD YOU? I PROMISE YOU, I WILL PAY FOR
THE LEGAL FEES, I PROMISE. >> HOW IS IT REPUBLICANS HAVE
THE CHEEK TO BLAME DEMOCRATS FOR THE TONE IN WASHINGTON?
>> FIRST OF ALL, DONALD TRUMP ATTACKING KATY TUR, I'M WITH
TUR. I THINK THE TONE IS VERY BAD ON
BOTH SIDES TO THE '90s. I'M NOT CONDONING WHEN
REPUBLICANS SAID. IT'S ABSOLUTELY WRONG.
HOWEVER, DEMOCRATS THEMSELVES HAVE ALSO SAID SOME PRETTY
OUTRAGEOUS THINGS. YOU HAVE PEOPLE SAYING GEORGE
BUSH WANTS TO KILL PEOPLE OR WANTS TO SEND AMERICANS TO DIE
FOR OIL. YOU HAVE KANYE SAYING GEORGE
BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICANS.
YOU HAVE FORMER REPRESENTATIVE JOE GARCIA IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES SAYING THE GOP IS THE TALIBAN.
REPUBLICANS ARE NOT THE TALIBAN. WE DON'T WANT TO KILL THE POOR
AND MINORITIES. WE DO CARE ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE
BUT WE DIFFER ON POLICY AND I THINK IT IS A SYMPTOM OF THE
OVERALL PROBLEM. I THINK BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLE
NEED TO STEP BACK. I DO NOT DEFEND REPUBLICANS WHO
SAID THAT. I THINK WHAT CHRIS COLLINS SAID
IS WRONG. THE ONLY PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR
WEDNESDAY'S SHOOTING IS THE SHOOTER.
>> YOU USED MY LEAST FAVORITE TERM AND CHRISTENED THEM, BOTH
SIDES. BOTH SIDES IS RIDICULOUS.
FOR ONE THING, THE CRITICISMS OF GEORGE W. BUSH IS BECAUSE WE
WERE INVOLVED IN A WAR FOR WHICH THE PRETEXT WAS A COMPLETELY
FALSE MADE UP PRETEXT. SAYING THAT IRAQ WAS INVOLVED IN
9/11 AND SO I THINK THE ANGER AND CRITICISM WAS -- WAIT A
MINUTE, PEOPLE WERE BEING SENT TO DIE IN A WAR BASED ON
SOMETHING NOT TRUE AND GINNING UP AMERICA'S EMOTIONS ON 9/11.
ARE YOU SAYING THAT'S THE
EQUIVALENT, TED NUGENT ON BARACK OBAMA, SAYING HE SHOULD SUCK ON
MY MACHINE GUN. >> THIS DOES NOT JUSTIFY GOING
OUT AND SAYING THAT GEORGE BUSH IS MENTALLY RETARDED OR HAVING
CARTOONEST FROM THE P PITTSBURGH -- PLENTY OF
PROTESTORS ON THE LEFT SIDE HE WAS MENTALLY RETARDED AND
PAINTED AS A MONKEY. THE AGENDA IS SENSITIVE.
>> IF YOU'RE SAYING IT IS THE SAME THERE IS AN EQUIVALENT
BETWEEN HANGING BARACK OBAMA AND CALLING HIM A WITCH DOCTOR AND
HITLER AND SAYING HEY, YOU CAN'T CUT MEALS ON
INSENSITIVE. >> REPUBLICANS ARE EVIL AND THE
TALIBAN AND THEY HAVE A WAR ON WOMEN.
HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW WE CAN'T GET A BILL PASSED?
>> WHAT ARE THE BILLS YOU'RE ATTEMPTING TO PASS?
IS IT NOT CUTTING MEALS ON WHEELS, SESAME STREET AND GOING
AFTER MEDICAID THAT HELPS THE POOR?
I DO NOT SEE THE EQUIVALENT? >> WE HAVE FOX NEWS WALKING BACK
FROM THE IDEA, THE FAIR AND BALANCED SLOGAN BECAUSE THEY
SAID IT WAS THE SUBJECT OF RIDICULE.
IS IT BOTH SIDES OR EQUAL? >> NO, YOU DID A GOOD RUN DOWN.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE FOX NEWS. WHAT DID THEY SPEND THIS WEEK
DOING? THEY SPEND THE WEEK LAYING THE
PREMISE THAT TRUMP SHOULD HIRE -- FIRE THE SPECIAL
PROSECUTOR, RIGHT? THE ACTING FBI DIRECTOR WAS THE
QUOTE RINGLEADER OF THE CAMPAIGN TO OUST TRUMP.
SO NOBODY ON FOX IS TRYING TO STEP BACK FROM THE TONE.
NO ONE FROM FOX IS SAYING HEY, LET'S BE RESPONSIBLE AND THINGS
LIKE THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE
RUNNING ONTO THE STAGE AND SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK BECAUSE
THEY DON'T DISAGREE. REPUBLICANS ARE SO UPSET ABOUT
TONE, WHERE ARE THEY WHEN A REPORTER WAS BODY SLAMMED IN THE
PRIMARY -- >> PUTTING OUT STATEMENTS SAYING
IT WAS WRONG. >> I DIDN'T SEE IT.
REPORTER -- >> WHAT PLANET ARE YOU ON?
>> THAT REPORTER WAS RIDICULED DAILY BY THE RIGHT WING MEDIA,
BY A SISSY, BY FOX NEWS. >> SAYING IT WAS WRONG.
>> PAUL RYAN BARELY GOT UP ENOUGH COURAGE TO SAY --
>> SO HE DID IT BUT NOT ENOUGH TO YOUR SATISFACTION.
>> ABSOLUTELY. >> THAT'S OUTRAGEOUSLY
RIDICULOUS. >> LET LET GET MY OTHER TWO
GUESTS IN HERE. WE'RE FRIENDS SO WE CAN HAVE
ARGUMENTS. WE'RE GOOD.
YOU KNOW, IT DOES FEEL LIKE YOU'RE TRYING -- YOU HAVE PEOPLE
ON THE RIGHT, REPUBLICANS TRYING TO SORT OF MAKE THEMSELVES THE
VICTIM. THEY SEEM TO CRAVE THIS IDEA OF
BEING THE VICTIMS OF HATE BUT YOU DO HAVE BREITBART SAYING --
HAVING HEADLINES THAT FEMINISM MAKES WOMEN UGLY.
GOING AFTER BLACK LIVES MATTER, GOING AFTER BLACK PEOPLE AND
ESSENTIALLY PAINTING AFTER CONDITION AMERICANS JUST MASSIVE
CRIMINALS.N OBSESSION WITH THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY SAYING THEY
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROBLEM OF ELECTIONS AND CALLING PEOPLE
VIOLENT. THESE ARE THINGS WE KNOW HAPPEN.
WHY NOW ARE REPUBLICANS ATTEMPTING TO MAKE THEMSELVES
THE VICTIMS WHEN WE SAW DEATH THREATS ON MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
FOR PASTING UNIVERSAL HEALTH BILLS.
THERE IS A RECORD HERE. >> THE QUESTION IS WHY NOW ARE
REPUBLICANS TRYING TO BE KIND AND SENSITIVE?
>> NO, WHY ARE THEY SUDDENLY -- WHY IS TED NUGENT, WHY IS TED
NUGENT WHO SAID OBAMA SHOULD SUCK ON HIS MACHINE GUN WHO SAID
HILLARY CLINTON SHOULD BE HANGED, WHO SAID THAT IF BARACK
OBAMA WAS REELECTED, HE WOULD BE DEAD OR IN JAIL.
HE SAYS I WANT US TO CHANGE THE TONE.
REALLY? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, I GUESS
PEOPLE CAN ASK FORGIVENESS LATER.
>> HE DIDN'T ASK FOR FORGIVENESS.
HE'S ASKING THE LEFT TO CHANGE THEIR TONE.
HE DIDN'T ASK FOR FORGIVENESS. HE SAID THE LEFT NEEDS TO CHANGE
ITS TONE. >> WELL, WE'RE GOING TO SPEND A
LOT OF TIME ON TONE AND I'M GOING TO THROW THAT IN THE TRASH
CAN AND SPEND TIME ON PRIMARIES BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS IS
ABOUT. YOU GOT TWO BASIS ON BOTH SIDES.
YOU GOT A HARD LEFT BASE, HARD RIGHT BASE AND THAT'S WHO ELECTS
THESE PEOPLE AND THESE REDISTRICTING PLACES IN
CONGRESS. SO YOU GOT -- WHEN YOU'RE
SPEAKING WITH TONE, YOU'RE SPEAKING TO THE BASE.
THAT'S WHO IS LISTENING TO YOU. THAT'S WHO ELECTS YOU IN THE
TIGHT PRIMARIES. WE'LL SEE THE ONE IN GEORGIA.
I THINK REPUBLICANS WILL WIN BECAUSE OF THE DISTRICT.
THAT'S WHERE THIS TONE IS COMING FROM AND UNTIL YOU GET INTO THE
SUPPORTERS OF THESE INDIVIDUALS ON BOTH SIDES THAT ARE LOOKING
FOR THAT TONE AND THAT OUTRAGEOUSNESS AND NOT LOOKING
FOR THE PROSPECTS OF PRETTY GOOD LEGISLATION, I DON'T THINK
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A CHANGE. NOW, AS FAR AS HOLLYWOOD, TED
NUGENT, I DON'T THINK TED HAS BEEN ELECTED TO ANYTHING, AS FAR
AS THOSE ARE CONCERNED, YOU CAN'T CONTROL OUR CONDUCT AND
THE MANNERS WE HAVE, BOTH OF THOSE HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT THE
WINDOW IN POLITICS. MODERN DAY.
>> HE HASN'T BEEN ELECTED IN ANYTHING BUT SURE BEEN TO THE
WHITE HOUSE AND WELL OF CONGRESS FOR STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESSES
AND THAT'S WHILE HE WAS THREATENING THE PRESIDENT AND A
WOMAN WHO WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT.
SO I'M JUST GOING TO LEAVE THAT THERE AND GO TO TARA.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS IS ABOUT WINNING ELECTIONS AND
YOU'RE A POLITICAL CONSULTANT IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
YOU KNOW POLITICS AT THE END OF THE DAY ABOUT GETTING YOUR BASIC
SIGHT IN. THIS IS LITERALLY ABOUT EXCITING
THE BASE AND THE TONAL SHIFT ISN'T GOING TO CHANGE BECAUSE
PEOPLE FIGURED OUT THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT?
>> I THINK THE TONE IS GOING TO STAY THE WAY IT IS, FRANKLY.
AND I THINK HE'S RIGHT IN PART THAT YES, IT IS ABOUT SPEAKING
TO YOUR BASE, PARTICULARLY FOR REPUBLICANS WHEN DONALD TRUMP
CAME OUT, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE DID, MEXICANS WERE
RAPIST. IT WOULD DOOM HIS CAMPAIGN AND
SAW IT DID NOT DOOM HIS CAMPAIGN.
IN FACT, HE WENT ON TO BE PRESIDENT SAYING THAT IN OTHER
DESPICABLE THINGS LIKE THAT. CLEARLY, THE REPUBLICANS HAVE
REALIZED AND DONALD TRUMP KNOWS THAT THERE IS A CERTAIN LARGE,
VERY LARGE SEGMENT OF THE BASE THAT ABSOLUTELY WANTS TO HEAR
THESE THINGS AND AS LONG AS THEY CONTINUE TO HEAR THESE THINGS,
THEN THEY WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP IN THE
ABSENCE, IN THE ABSENCE OF REAL POLICY OCCURRING, IN THE ABSENCE
OF ACTUAL CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THEIR LIVES.
SO I THINK THAT THAT'S A REAL PROBLEM PARTICULARLY FOR THE GOP
WHEN IT COMES TO MORE MODERATE VOTERS.
I THINK AND ONE OF THE THINGS I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IS THAT
REPUBLICANS ARE USING THIS SORT OF TONE THING TELLING DEMOCRATS
TO WATCH THEIR TONE AS A WAY TO STOP VERY SHARP CRITICISMS OF
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE CRITICIZED.
DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE CRITICIZING A HEALTH CARE BILL THAT'S BEING
DRAFTED IN THE DARK THAT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO HAVE 23 MILLION
AMERICANS LOSE THEIR HEALTH COVERAGE.
DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE ATTACKING THAT.
DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE SHARPLY ATTACKING THE FACT THAT MULTIPLE
PEOPLE UNDER THE TRUMP -- IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAVE SOME
SORT OF CLOUT OF SUSPICION OF CORRUPTION AROUND THEM.
MULTIPLE PEOPLE, THIS EARLY INTO AN ADMINISTRATION, THOSE SHOULD
BE THINGS THAT DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE CRITICIZING.
DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE CRITICIZING A BUDGET THAT HURTS THE POOR AND
HURTS PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN LEFT AND ALREADY BEEN LEFT BEHIND IN
THIS COUNTRY. SO THIS SORT OF DEMOCRATS WATCH
THEIR TONE THING, I THINK IS MORE ABOUT TRYING TO SILENCE
DEMOCRATS AROUND ISSUES THEY SHOULD BE ADDRESSING.
>> I'M GOING TO GIVE THAT LADY THE LAST WORD.
[ LAUGHTER ] >> BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IN THE
INTEREST OF A POSITIVE TONE. ERIC, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
THE REST OF MY PANEL AND BECAUSE I GOT THE TIME SIGNAL.
>>> COMING UP, ONE OF TRUMP'S MANY LAWYERS IS SHOWING UP ON
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