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Joe Scarborough

lines on the record: 58
first: 2021-01-14
most recent: 2021-01-14
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I went and explained it to my people. And David, I've always had a saying in politics, nobody stops you when you're going 90 miles an hour. And so you talk about Mark Sanford. You talk about Jeff Flake. You talk about all these other people. And yes, I mean, they're all friends of mine. But you know what? I remember when I went after the NRA the Monday after Newtown. And I never write anything down. You're going halfway. If you're going after the NRA, you have to go after the NRA. And it was a great point. And I think that's something I wish that”
2021-01-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 425 — Joe Scarborough · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you either control the base or your base controls you. I mean, and I was the first Republican elected in my district since Reconstruction. It was a very conservative district, though, and I held a lot of town-hole meetings. I did a lot of things that even my mother, I remember when I took the lead in renaming the Justice Department after Bobby Kennedy. My mother was quoted in the newspaper saying, well, I must have done something to Joey when he was young. And he's trying to get back at me now. But I could take unpopular decisions. I was a champion for banning offshore oil drilling in the Gulf Coast. I did it.”
2021-01-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 425 — Joe Scarborough · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When he was Speaker of the House and was the most powerful Washington, most powerful Republican in Washington, D.C. You know what happened to me, David? I got, you know, I got elected with 80% in the Republican primary because I went around and I held 100 townhome home meetings and I explained why we needed to remove Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House. And people said, okay, I get it.”
2021-01-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 425 — Joe Scarborough · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it happened time and time again. And see, Dave, what I didn't understand this, and you understand this because you're a practitioner. I've always said, you know, there were lanes. There's so many lanes. And there was always that lane for somebody to stand up and be the anti-Trump in the Republican Party, to speak out against the insanity, to sound more like, you know, Russell Kirk and Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher than Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler. But no Republican chose to take that track. I think Liz Cheney has belatedly decided to take that track in 2020, whether you're talking about COVID or whether you're talking about the ceiling of the election. But she's really one of the first other than Mitt Romney to do that. And it's obviously disappointing, especially since this should be so easy to do. And I know I went after Newt Gingrich.”
2021-01-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 425 — Joe Scarborough · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I say on my show all the time I'm a Baptist, I'm a big believer in deathbed conversions. And I would rather have a Republican converting at the 11th hour than not. At the same time, I'm a little irritated when I hear Ben Sass trying to take the moral high ground when he kept his mouth shut before his primary was over.”
2021-01-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 425 — Joe Scarborough · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're all cynical. They're cowards and they're all cynical. There are no true believers. None of them believed that federal courts got it wrong 62, 63, 64 times. They all understood that Rudy Giuliani would give press conferences and make bizarre claims. Lynn Wood would make bizarre claims that all make bizarre claims outside of court, but they never sign their name on any pleadings that alleged widespread fraud because they knew if they did it in a federal court that they'd be sanctioned and might even be disbarred. I hope some of them still will be disbarred. But it was just complete cynicism, but also complete cowardice. I must say, you know.”
2021-01-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 425 — Joe Scarborough · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“for asking a question about healthcare. And they stood by Donald Trump when he was praising that. Fascists language, when he used fascist language against women of color who were American citizens, members of Congress telling them they needed to go back to where they came from. Time and time again, you and I could both come up with a hundred examples of where Donald Trump repeatedly said something that was horrific, acted like a fascist dictator and Republican congressman, Republican senators, and Republican commentators went along with him.”
2021-01-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 425 — Joe Scarborough · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's a bit of a, you know, my feelings are mixed, obviously. I was horrified like everybody else at what happened last week. Couldn't believe that what I was seeing on television, but at the same time, like so many other things in Donald Trump's America, it's shocking without being surprising. This is where the Republican Party has been going for four and a half years. I think Democrats would say it's probably where the Republican Party's been going for the past 40 years. I would take exception with that. But when you have a president who in 2016 said in August of 2016 that if people didn't want Hillary Clinton to appoint federal judges, they could implement the second amendment solution telling people to shoot Hillary Clinton and Republicans stood by Donald Trump. Republicans stood by Donald Trump when a Republican congressman beat up a”
2021-01-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 425 — Joe Scarborough · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source