Martin Sheen: Biden's legacy has grown enormously

Actor Martin Sheen, who played President Jed Bartlett on 'The West Wing,' joins Morning Joe along with actress and author Melissa Fitzgerald to discuss 'What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service' along with the legacy of the show. Sheen also discusses Biden's legacy and his recent meeting with the president.



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[Navigator]

WOW! “Dear Father, let our country awake.” Touched my spirit… thank you. 🗳💙🇺🇸

[teresalegler]

Beautifully delivered. Well done Mr Martin Sheen.

[mvann]

Martin sheen still has it! So nice to see him.

[Rebeccacp]

We need your spirit President Bartlett! A super smart balanced kind ethical honest and fair president.

[qlybhsp]

‼️this is the character and intellectual side we have been missing. THANK YOU ‼️‼️

[bookwoman]

Martain Sheen playing President Bartlett on "The West Wing" does bring hope. I love that show. Thank you for having MS on to continue the joy that so many are feeling today with the Harris/Walz ticket.

[jacksonj]

Martin Sheen / President Bartlett has always been my dream standard of what a President should be.

[Northcountry]

Martin, America and the World Needs MORE of You 💙🇺🇸 With Much Respect 🇨🇦

[CherylB-vp]

WOW! From memory! Pretty impressive memory and speech!

[reginashaw]

Powerful wonderful speech... Vote 💙💙💙💙💙💙

[virginiaconner]

Loved watching The West Wing. So well written, and brilliantly executed by the massively talented Martin Sheen and all the many people in front of and behind the cameras.
Yes, Martin Sheen, YOU are a lighthouse!!❤❤

[babesimmons]

Mr Sheen has always been a faithful Democrat Champion!

[MarJo]

President Joe Biden is the FDR of our time !! Honor, Nobility, Humility, comes to mind when it comes to our President Biden.. One of the greats !!

[Ajaxx]

Great show the West Wing, and Actor Sheen

[betsykeating]

The West Wing is incomparably great…service at its best. And the current ticket is striving towards this.

[joycewilson]

I did love that show so much. It was a weekly civics lesson accompanied by juicy story lines. Thank you Martin and Melissa for this book.

[youtube.youtube.]

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 1913. It was an exceptional acheivement for any non-European at that time. When a heart pours a call for an opportunity to change while using the praising words for their faith in humanity, it sounds beautiful.

[equalityforall]

Mr. Sheen reminds me so much of Martin Luther King Jr.
He has an incredible talent for reciting poems and showing his sheer passion for them.
Do it more often please!

[jeffreyenglish]

I think I’ve binge watched the entire West Wing series at least a dozen times. Some of Bartlett’s monologues have actually been quite useful in my real life. I have always known that our government does not hold up to the ideals of government depicted in the show. But I sure wish it would.

[Margaret-ux]

Thsnks! We surely need his oration at this crucial sensitive, fragile moment, in our political history! .