Claire McCaskill: 'What Trump said over the weekend deserves a headline'

>>> THINK OF THE IMPRACTICALITY OF THIS. I'M FAMOUS. I'M IN A PLANE. PEOPLE ARE COMING INTO THE PLANE. AND I'M LOOKING AT A WOMAN AND I GRAB HER AND I START KISSING HER AND MAKING OUT WITH HER. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF THAT HAPPENING? >> YOU KNOW, I'M AUTOMATICALLY ATTRACTED TO BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. IT'S LIKE A MAGNET. I DON'T KNOW. WHEN YOU'RE A STAR, THEY LET YOU DO IT. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING. >> YEAH, ON FRIDAY, DONALD TRUMP SUGGESTED NO ONE COULD BELIEVE HE WOULD JUST START KISSING A WOMAN. BACK IN 2005, HE ADMITTED TO DOING EXACTLY THAT WHILE NOT KNOWING HIS MIC WAS ON, SPEAKING SERIOUSLY TO SOMEBODY. I'M GLAD NIKKI HALEY SPOKE OUT. WE'RE ABOUT TO PLAY HER COMMENTS ABOUT TRUMP AND WOMEN. >> YOU'RE BEING SARCASTIC. >> SHE'LL SAY THE RIGHT THING. >> NO, SHE WON'T. >>> WELCOME BACK TO "MORNING JOE." IT IS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th. AL SHARPTON, JOHN HEILEMANN, AND JONATHAN LEMIRE ARE STILL WITH US. JOINING US, WE HAVE FORMER U.S. SENATOR CLAIRE McCASKILL WITH US THIS MORNING. >> MIKA, IT'S INTERESTING. >> LUCKY US. >> LUCKY US. LUCKY CHIEFS. YOU KNOW -- >> LUCKY? >> YEAH, EXACTLY. WELL, I MEAN, NOT LUCKY. >> BY A TOE. >> IT WAS A TOE. >> LET'S JUST SAY THEY'RE VERY FORTUNATE THAT THE REFS LET THEIR OFFENSIVE LINE HOLD AS MUCH AS THEY DO IN EVERY SINGLE GAME. WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A SECOND. >> PLEASE. >> LET'S TALK ABOUT DONALD TRUMP FIRST. AT SOME POINT, THE NFL HAS TO STEP IN AND TELL THE REFS, YOU CAN'T LET THE CHIEFS' OFFENSIVE LINEMEN ACTUALLY TACKLE NICK BOSA IN THE SUPER BOWL AND EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE GAMES THAT FOLLOW. ANYWAY, YOU KNOW, MIKA, OFF THE TOP, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ALL THE OUTRAGEOUS THINGS THAT DONALD TRUMP IS SAYING THIS WEEKEND. >> RIGHT. >> I'VE READ A NEWSLETTER THIS MORNING, READ OTHER THINGS WHERE THEY'RE GOING, OH, THIS IS WHAT THE LIBERALS ARE SAYING. >> RIGHT. >> THIS GOES TO THE WHOLE FALSE EQUIVALENCY, THE FALSE MORAL EQUIVALENCY. EVERYBODY IS SO DESPERATE TO MAKE THIS A NORMAL PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN INSTEAD OF A CAMPAIGN BETWEEN SOMEBODY WHO UNDERMINES, WANTS TO UNDERMINE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND ANOTHER CANDIDATE WHO DOESN'T. CAN I GIVE YOU A COUPLE QUOTES? >> YES. >> WOULDN'T CALL THEM OUTRAGEOUS. I'D CALL THEM DANGEROUS THREATS. >> THIS NEWSLETTER THIS MORNING THAT I WAS READING SAID, YOU KNOW, ONE SIDE, DEMOCRATS TALK ABOUT JANUARY 6th AND THE RIOTS AND ALL THIS OTHER STUFF. THEY'RE LED BY THESE LEFT WINGERS, RIGHT? >> NO. >> HERE ARE THE LEFT WINGERS THAT HAVE BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT THIS, JUST SO YOU KNOW. WHEN YOU'RE BEING LIED TO AND THERE IS THIS FALSE MORAL EQUIVALENCY, WE KNOW WHERE PEOPLE STAND. DONALD TRUMP'S DEFENSE SECRETARY MARK ESPER CALLED DONALD TRUMP A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. JOHN KELLY, HIS LONGEST SERVING CHIEF OF STAFF, SAID DONALD TRUMP HAD NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT FOR OUR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE RULE OF LAW. EVEN BILL BARR CALLED DONALD TRUMP A CONSTANT NARCISSIST. DONALD TRUMP'S OWN VICE PRESIDENT SAID THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE TO KNOW THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP ASKED ME TO PUT HIM OVER MY OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. ANYONE WHO PUTS HIMSELF OVER THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD NEVER BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HIS FIRST SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, JAMES "MAD DOG" MATTIS, "DONALD TRUMP IS THE FIRST PRESIDENT IN MY LIFETIME WHO DOES NOT TRY TO UNITE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. HE TRIES TO DIVIDE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE." HIS CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, RETIRED GENERAL MARK MILLEY SAID, "WE DO NOT TAKE AN OATH TO A WANT-TO-BE DICTATOR. YOU TAKE AN OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION. AND WE TAKE AN OATH TO THE IDEA THAT IT'S AMERICA AND WE'RE WILLING TO DIE FOR IT." NIKKI HALEY, WHO AT ONE TIME, NOT NOW, BUT AT ONE TIME SAID, "A TERRIBLE THING HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6th, AND HE CALLED IT A BEAUTIFUL DAY." CHRIS CHRISTIE SAID HE WAS JUST OUT FOR HIMSELF. HIS SECOND NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, H.R. McMASTER SAID, WHEN HE SAW THE ABSENCE OF LEADERSHIP AND WHAT THAT CAN DO TO OUR COUNTRY. JOHN BOLTON, ANOTHER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, SAID, "FOREIGN LEADERS THINK HE IS A LAUGHING FOOL." AND I COULD GO ON AND ON. ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI, A FORMER COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, "HE IS THE DOMESTIC TERRORIST OF THE 21st CENTURY." AGAIN, GO ON. ELAINE CHAO QUIT AFTER JANUARY 6th. AT A PARTICULAR POINT OF EVENTS, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTINUE GIVEN MY PERSONAL VALUES AND MY PHILOSOPHY. SO, CLAIRE McCASKILL, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT -- AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE NEED TO DO THIS ON THE MONDAY BEFORE. WE DIDN'T PLAN TO DO THIS BECAUSE THE DEBATE WAS ON WEDNESDAY. WE NEED TO DO IT BECAUSE WHEN YOU SEE DONALD TRUMP GOING OUT ALL WEEKEND -- >> IT'S TOMORROW. >> TOMORROW, I MEAN. GOING OUT ALL WEEKEND -- I'M REALLY FOCUSED ON IT. THE RED SOX LOST TO THE WHITE SOX YESTERDAY. HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO BE? ANYWAY, YOU LOOK AT WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS DOING ON THE EVE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. TALKING ABOUT VIOLENCE. TALKING ABOUT BLOODY DEPORTATIONS. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DEPORTATIONS, AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE BLOODY. TALKING ABOUT THE JANUARY 6th RIOTERS AS PATRIOTS, SAYING THAT HE IS GOING TO GET THEM OUT OF JAIL. MOCKING, ONCE AGAIN, NANCY PELOSI'S HUSBAND GETTING HIS HEAD SMASHED IN BY SOMEBODY THAT WAS SPOUTING TRUMP TALKING POINTS. WE COULD GO DOWN THE LIST. BUT HE IS DOING THAT RIGHT NOW. THIS WHOLE IDEA THAT WE SEE IN THE MEDIA, WELL, THE LEFT WING SAYS THIS. YOU KNOW, THE RIGHT WING SAYS THAT. THE FALSE MORAL EQUIVALENCIES, I THINK, ARE REALLY LAID LOW, THAT THIS IS A RIGHT WING AND LEFT WING THING. YOU SEE DICK CHENEY, LIZ CHENEY, AND ALL THESE GENERALS THAT WORKED FOR DONALD TRUMP SAYING THE MAN IS UNFIT TO BE BE PRESIDENT. >> I AM A LITTLE DISCOURAGED AS HOW THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS COVERING THE RACE, AS YOU ARE, JOE. LISTEN, WHAT HE SAID OVER THE WEEKEND DESERVES A HEADLINE THIS MORNING. IT DESRVES A HEADLINE. IT'D GET A HEADLINE IF KAMALA HARRIS SAID STUFF LIKE THAT. >> THAT'S FOR SURE. >> IT'D BE A BIG HEADLINE. IT WOULD BE A SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT. BUT BECAUSE WE'RE USED TO HIM BEHAVING LIKE A JERK AND, YOU KNOW, A SICK NARCISSIST, IT IS ALMOST LIKE EVERYBODY -- AND I'M TALKING TO THE EDITORS HERE AND THE HEADLINE WRITERS. THE EDITORS AND THE HEADLINE WRITERS NEED TO, YOU KNOW, GET A GRIP HERE, AND REALLY HAVE A GUT CHECK ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE WRITING THIS STUFF AND PARTICULARLY WRITING HEADLINES IN A WAY THAT IS REFLECTING WHAT'S GOING ON. I HAVE TO TELL YA, I HAVE TO POINT OUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN VENEZUELA. MOST AMERICANS DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW EASILY THIS COULD HAPPEN. LOOK WHAT'S GOING ON IN VENEZUELA. YOU HAD A GUY RUN FOR PRESIDENT WHO LOST BY HUGE MARGINS. WON'T RELEASE THE RESULTS AND NOW JAILED 2,000 PEOPLE WHO HAD THE NERVE TO SPEAK OUT FOR THE ELECTION RESULT THEY VOTED FOR. NOW, THE PERSON WHO IS ON THE BALLOT HAS FLED THE COUNTRY. THEY GOT ON A PLANE AND WENT TO SPAIN THIS WEEKEND. THIS GUY IS GOING TO HOLD ON TO POWER EVEN THOUGH HE LOST THE ELECTION BY A LANDSLIDE. BY FORCE, BY VIOLENCE, BY JAILING PEOPLE. THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE BUSINESS LEADERS ON WALL STREET THAT ARE FOR THIS GUY, NIKKI HALEY, SHE KNOWS WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN COUNTRIES WHEN SOMEONE DECIDES THE CONSTITUTION AND RULE OF LAW DOESN'T APPLY TO THEM. THIS IS A REALLY SCARY MOMENT. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LOOK AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON IN ANOTHER