'Morning Joe' Rips Trump Administration's University Patent Proposal as 'Full, Blown-Out Socialism' | Video

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" panel on Wednesday tore into Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's suggestion that the Trump administration could take a cut of revenue generated by patents developed at U.S. universities, saying the move reeked of "socialism." Host Joe Scarborough led the panel's confusion in response to Lutnick's remarks, after he told Axios' Mike Allen on "The Axios Show" that "the United States of America taxpayer should get half the benefit" if a scientist at a university receiving federal funding develops a patent. "This is just full, blown-out . . .