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We hear you. And we stand with you. We are steeped in the good evening, america. Im katie britt, and i have the honor of serving the great people of alabama. But tonight, ill be auditioning for the part of scary mom. And ill be performing an original monologue called, this country is hell. You see, im not just a senator. Im a wife, a mother, and the craziest [ bleep ] in the target parking lot. First and foremost, im a mom. And like any mom, im going to do a pivot Out Of Nowhere into a shockingly violent story about Sex Trafficking. And rest assured, every detail about it is real, except the year, where it took place, and who was president when it happened. And tonight, i am not just responding to the State Of The Union, i am also selling these bejewelled cross necklaces. Kitchens are where families have the hard conversations, like the one well have tomorrow about how mommy freaked out the entire country. To the American People who are struggling right now, know this, we hear you. We see you. We smell you. Were inside your kitchen right now looking through your fridge. And whats that on the top shelf . Migrants. I think that analogy went well. Wow. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is monday, march 11th. I dont know which katie britt was more like katie britt, but that was incredible. With us, we have the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. U. S. Special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and msnbc contributor and the author of how the right lost its mind, charlie sykes. Boy, do we need charlie. First, can we talk about the 96th annual oscars . They were held in hollywood. Oppenheimer came into the night with 13 nominations and ended up with the most wins, including best picture. Best actor for Cillian Murphy. Supporting actor for Robert Downey jr. Emma stone won best actress. The oscars also featured showstopping performances from singer Billie Eilish and actor ryan gosling. Both performing songs from the barbie soundtrack. At the end of the night, jimmy kimmel took a minute to read former President Trumps reaction to his hosting. I just got a review, and has there ever been a worst host than jimmy kimmel at the oscars . He was trying too hard to be something he is not and never can be. Get rid of kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up by cheap abc talent. See if you can guess which former president just posted that On Truth Social. Anyone . No . Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching. Im surprised youre still isnt it past your jail time . Oh, my. Here we go. Thats the thing, he just doesnt i guess he doesnt understand. He just keeps walking into traps. He keeps again, its like an old fighter thats past his prime. The things that may have worked, that may have been disruptive six, you know, 2016, Everybody Knows thats coming. Hes the butt of the joke for millions of people last night. Two things can be true. While he keeps losing and having problems along the way, especially legal problems, hes developing a whole, new bench, a new generation of young, i would say, republicans, but i think trumpers. Its safer to call them trumpers. Yeah. Who lie like he does. They dont care. And who will lose. Like katie britt. Well get to that in a minute. Yeah. But theyll lose, too. This is the pathway to loserdom. Weve been seeing that over the weekend. Youve been sewing the reaction to bidens state of the Union Address. Youve been seeing really stupid reactions from people who said he was going to be asleep. Now, its like, hes too jacked up. Oh, like, thats all Certain Networks had. Which do you want . Exactly. Want him to be okay. Yeah. Nearly 33 Million People watched, and they can decide, President Bidens state of the Union Address on broadcast or Cable Television thursday night. A marked increase from the year before. In the wake of the president s wellreceived speech, the Biden Campaign hit record fundraising numbers. In the 24 hours after bidens remarks, his Reelection Campaign raked in 10 million. That is the largest 24hour haul the campaign and its affiliated committees have seen so far. This weekend, the president kicked off his post state of the Union Campaign tour with a stop in philadelphia on friday followed by a rally in georgia on saturday. His campaign also released a new political ad that leaned into the president s age. Take a look. Look, im not a young guy. Thats no secret. But heres the deal, i understand how to get things done for the American People. I led the country through the covid crisis. Today, we have the strongest economy in the world. I passed the law that lowered Prescription Drug prices, caps insulin 35 a month for seniors. Four years, donald trump tried to pass an Infrastructure Law, and he failed. I got it done. Now, were rebuilding america. I passed the biggest law in history to combat Climate Change because our future depends on it. Donald trump look away the freedom of women to choose. Im determined to make roe v. Wade the Law Of The Land again. Donald trump believes the job of the president is to take their after donald trump. I believe the job of the president is to fight for you, the American People, and thats what im doing. Im joe biden. I approve this message. Can we do one more take . Look, im very young, energetic, and handsome. What am i doing this for . All right. That ad, of course, will be running in critical swing states like president and georgia. Charlie, you look, and weve been talking about our former party, about the excesses of the former party. I really, again, have talked about all the State Of The Unions ive been in, political campaigns i followed or been through. Ive just never seen a contrast this striking. Its almost like seven, eight years of corruption and extremism and lying caught up to republicans all in one night. So visualized in one night. It seems now, biden has the wind behind him. Yeah, oddly a biden skeptic, but that was very, very good. The mood and narrative have changed in the last week. A week ago, you and i were sitting here discussing the freakout of the democrats, about joe biden. Think about where were at. Just a reminder how fast things move in politics. So you had a good few days for joe biden, including that ad and some of the interviews hes given. Also, the trump vp audition not going that well. To mikas point about the republican bench, were kind of seeing where this party is going this next generation. As they try to channel their inner donald trump, it has really not gone well, has it . No, it really hasnt. You know, we were mika and i were talking, i had told her i met katie britt down at the s. E. C. Championship game. Really liked her a lot. Met her family. Down to earth. I said, you know, didnt seem to be trumpy. Seemed to be like a traditional republican, which made a lot of sense. She worked for richard shelby. Just had a great five, tenminute talk with her. Then, you know, it was a lot like elise stefanik, who we had a great talk with when elise first came into congress. I said, oh, my gosh, the future of the Republican Party is strong. Yeah. Again, shes reasonable. The antithesis of donald trump. Young, smart. Boy, somebody that the party can get around in the long run. But, Jonathan Lemire heartbreaker. Yeah, man, both of em. Well see what happens with katie britt. Unfortunately, she doubled down this weekend on the story that was a lie. I hated to see that. I was hoping shed come out and say, hey, you know what . Im new to this. Didnt do as well as i could do. You know, sorry about the story. It happens. She could have moved past it, but i guess shes going to double down. But, on the biden side, man, theyve got to be they have got to be so excited. The speech, not only did he prevail, he humiliating all of his critics. For all the world to see. Raised tons of money. Over 30 Million People watching that. Now, joking about his age, which is exactly what people have been telling him to do for some time. He does it well. Yeah, first on britt, the story you mentioned, she told us the terrible story about a Sexual Assault involving a migrant. She suggested it happened during President Bidens term. It happened over 20 years ago when george bush was president and also happened in mexico. She doubled down on it in a fox news interview over the weekend. We should give credit to Scarlett Johansson, who savaged her on saturday night live. Watch this, joementum. The best Fundraising Event came after that speech. Then he hit the road, in georgia over the weekend. New hampshire today. Michigan and wisconsin later this week. Hes ramping up the travel here. The campaign fully engaged now. They do, i cant tell you the number of democrats ive spoken to in the last three days or so who feel much better about things. They also point to polls that show biden getting a bump in the last week or two. Some coming before the State Of The Union. I expect the numbers to go up in the days ahead. They have so much more money on hand than trump does. Trump using his cash for his legal bills. They feel good about the contrast. They feel good about the story they can tell, where they are versus where trump is. That ad is the latest. It wont be the last. It is the latest to take on the age thing head on. They know its an issue. They know they can diffuse it. They think it is a problem for trump, too. Speaking of contrasts, you had joe biden after his incredible state of the Union Address talking about his accomplishments and all the positive things he was able to get done in the wake of the Trump Presidency. Coming into the white house literally barricaded after january 6th, and being able to move forward, persevere, and pass countless legislation, even Bipartisan Legislation thats improved the economy. This is a fact. Again, about the American People. Exactly. So you have all those messages resonating after the speech as he goes out on the Campaign Trail. Meanwhile, donald trump is at maralago hosting hungarys autocratic Prime Minister viktor orban. Quote, to discuss a wide range of issues affecting hungary and the United States. Orban, who has close ties to russian president Vladimir Putin, has refused to provide any aid to ukraine while seeking to turn his own country into an illiberal state. Trump has repeatedly bragged about having orbans endorsements for his 2024 campaign. At a dinner friday, he fawned over the hungarian leader. There is nobody thats better, smarter, or a better leader than viktor orban. Hes fantastic. [ applause ] as you know, the Prime Minister of hungary. Does a great job. He is a noncontroversial figure. He says, this is the way its going to be, and thats the end of it, right . Hes the boss. Hes a great leader. Wow. Katty, again, ive been warning that he keeps bringing up viktor orban for a reason. Brutal. Viktor orban who brags about getting rid of western style democracy, who brags about being an illiberal state, who has arrested and jailed competing politicians, members of the press, driven them out of the country, has actually bugged the phones of Rival Politicians and journalists. You name it, hes done it. This is who donald trump admires. He says, hes noncontroversial because he says what he wants, and he gets it done. Hes the boss. Trump, of course, said that in the most admiring of ways. Thats what america looks like under Donald Trumps second term if we take them at his own words, right . Yeah. I thought that line about, hes not controversial because he says what he wants and gets it done. Hes the boss, was so reflective. Projection, confession. You know, that was confession of what donald trump would like. Viktor orban is proud of the fact hes made hungary what he calls an illiberal democracy. Oo im not sure whether those two things can be possible together. How do you have a democracy that is illiberal . That goes against the strain of democracy. Anyway, thats what hes done by packing the courts with his cronies, weighing in on judicial cases, by making it incredibly difficult for journalists to do any kind of independent reporting. They are told by their editors what facts they can report before they actually are allowed to write their articles. Thats the kind of state that donald trump down there in maralago in that speech seems to be admiring. It is also the state, you know, Tucker Carlson went to viktor orban to kind of pay homage to his leadership. There is a strain there in the Maga Movement that clearly admires those illiberal democracies, autocraticleaning countries. Its tied up with russia. The eu had to lean very heavily on viktor orban, basically threatening him with other punishments if he didnt go ahead and agree to an eu package of aid to ukraine, because he didnt want to. He didnt want to get in the way of something with Vladimir Putin. Its a circular movement to what donald trump is doing in maralago, Tucker Carlsons Visit To Moscow and victor orr pan, and orbans relationship with Vladimir Putin. Well, you have in donald trump a guy who said hes going to terminate the constitution. Hes going to be a dictator on day one. He would like to execute generals for not being lackeys, for treason. Said he could use s. E. A. L. Team six to execute his political opponents and not be arrested. And you go through all of this long list. You go through his presidency and things he said and did in his presidency. You dont just have what he is saying. You have now a record. Well, and even in his presidency, the last two weeks, he said he wanted to he was demanding that his attorney general arrest joe biden and joe bidens family because he was behind in the polls. Said he should send him to jail. You have all this happening. We talked about the young republicans who, unfortunately, have had their bearings, like, twisted by this. To become unrecognizable. And you look at i saw Vaughn Hillyard interviewing people at trump rallies, talking about civil war, saying that if they didnt win this time, they were going to use violence. They were going to take over State Legislatures. They were going to take over courts. They were going to come to washington. They were going to take over washington. Charlie sykes, this is not a test run. This is a guy thats told his followers, if i win, im going to be a dictator, and his followers are all in. Again, charlie, how perverse, that it is people i went to church with, evangelicals, a lot of them that seem to be swept up into this totalitarianism, this authoritarianism, and also small government republicans, Tea Party Types that wanted small government. Theyre now begging for an autocrat, for a tyrant, for a dictator. All of this is happening in broad daylight, real time. Theres no secret about it. As katty mentioned, he is leaning into his embrace of illiberal authoritarianism. Speaking of the younger republicans on the bench, people like nancy mace now who are forced to go out and justify the fact that this illiberal authoritarian who is talking about civil war is also been found liable for rape. You begin to put together this picture, what republicans are embraing right now, what they are endorsing, and what donald trump is bringing into this campaign. Because donald trump is not going to get better. I think throughout 2024, what youre going to see is his inability to restrain. Hes up there on stage at maralago talking about, you know, hes not controversial because hes the boss. He says something, and its over. This is clearly something that he admires. This is clearly something he as aspires to. Its alarming. People are saying, youre engaging in trump derangement system. No. Listen to donald trump. Listen to what hes saying. Listen to what his supporters are saying on a daily basis. Its not a secret. Well, he is preparing everybody for what hes going to do. When he says, you know, he talking about terminating the constitution, talking about being a dictator day one, talks about executing generals, talking about Media Outlets committing treason. When he argues in court he can execute political opponents using s. E. A. L. Team six and he cant get in trouble for it, when he says that in court, yeah, hes telling people what he is going to do. Yet, these younger republicans just fall in line. Theyre going to lose. Theyre going to destroy their careers. Yeah, you look at nancy mace. Even after donald trump is found liable for Sexual Assault and a judge says, really, he raped e. Jean carroll. And there are other women who accused him of rape. Right. There are other deals that have been struck that, actually, the alvin bragg case, they want to bring forward to show that this is a pattern of behavior. 91 counts, okay. Then a Sexual Assault. Then fraud. Im sorry, i want to go over his legal challenges. Continue. Ive just got to say, i was speaking specifically of nancy mace. A judge talks about donald trump raping a woman. Because she has no choice but to blindly defend donald trump, she defends a man that a judge says is a rapist. Does it without apology. Again, youve seen like, we talked about katie britt, but i could talk about marco rubio. Once one of the most promising stars in the Republican Party, was called the future of the Republican Party by time i think it was. Now just a shell of his former self politically. You look at all these people. Rand paul criticizing donald trump. You know, ted cruz. We could go on and on. They just all fall in line. Its sad, and its pathetic. Theyre all going to lose. Its just like, trump is going to lose again. For some reason, they cant pull out of this political death spiral. Right. We should show the nancy mace exchange at some point. She accuses the reporter of shaming her. Well, when all he is doing is asking, actually, she tell the truth for once about donald trump. Still ahead on morning joe, the latest in the ongoing war between israel and hamas. What President Biden is saying about his frustrations with net Benjamin Netanyahu. The Prime Minister is responding. Youre watching morning joe. We have a lot to cover today. Well be right back. 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He knew what i meant by it. So whats the come to jesus part . What tough love are you going to give to the Prime Minister . Whats happening is he has a right to defend israel, a right to continue to pursue hamas, but he must, he must, he must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken. Hes hurting, in my view, hes hurting israel more than helping israel by making the rest of the world it is contrary to what israel stands for. I think it is a big mistake. I want to see a ceasefire. What is your red line with Prime Minister netanyahu . Do you have a red line . For instance, would Invasion Of Rafah, would you have urged him not to do . It is a red line, but im never leaving israel. The defense of israel is still critical, so there is no red line im going to cut off all weapon so they dont have the iron dome or weapons. But you cant have 30,000 more palestinians dead as a consequence of going after this. Theres other ways to deal, to get to, to deal with the trauma caused by hamas. Meanwhile, netanyahu is rejecting the president s criticism. He told politico he is doing what the people of israel want. The Prime Minister also vowed to defy bidens socalled red line with rafah, saying israeli troops will still move into the Southern Gaza city. Joining us now, columnist and Associate Editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. His latest piece is entitled, the white house tries to steer israel back onto a twoway street. Is it possible . Yeah, at what point, david . I keep weighing for this suez moment. You know, ike stood up to the brits and said, you cant do this anymore. This is not helping you. Its not helping the United States. Its going to cause bigger problems down the road. At what point do we reach that . Because this is pretty much unsustainable diplomatically. Unsustainable in the long run militarily. Unsustainable politically for the israeli people. Im not even talking about the United States. I guess i guess there are a good number of people in israel that either dont know or dont care the longterm damage Bibi Netanyahu is doing to the country. But we can. As their chief sponsor, at some point, theyve got to stop killing palestinians or we have to have the suez moment with them. So, joe, the hope was that by today, the beginning of ramadan, we would have a truce. Wed have a sixweek pause. And wed have a gradual deescalation of tensions in this war, much more humanitarian aid and sort of a sigh on all sides that the war was moving into a different phase. That hasnt happened. So i think we are now very close to the kind of confrontation you describe. We have a president of the United States saying to an israeli Prime Minister, youre hurting your country more than youre helping it. Pretty strong language. Biden has suggested that if israel goes forward with its plan to try to attack the four hamas battalions still in the city of rafah along the egyptian border, it will not have u. S. Support. Exactly what biden meant by a red line wasnt clear in his interview with our colleague, jonathan capehart, but it seems to suggest that the u. S. Might withhold weapons or make weapons conditional. I know thats what the discussion in the white house has been. Were getting really close to the kind of break that you talked about earlier, that i want to say is unprecedented since the days of suez. It would be a huge step for an american president to take. I think the measure, joe, will be whether the israelis do, in fact, move over the next week against rafah. If they dont, that means they will have heard the message. Theyll be holding back pending, i guess, the ceasefire finally coming through and calm finally coming to the battlefield. Again, you look at the images that continue to come out. You look at, you know, Nick Kristofs column yesterday. Oh, my. The Text Messages. The images of a 10yearold boy starving to death. This has gone on and on. We, of course, remember the horrid images of october the 7th. Let me say right here, it is why hamas cannot continue. It is why Hamas Forefitted its right to run gaza ever again. Well but two things can be true at one point. The second thing is, Israel Cannot continue moving in the direction theyve been moving over the last few months. So thats my question for david. Because when you look at the famine that is happening in gaza, you look at the life just slipping away among the palestinians by the day, and as joe said, children starving to death, and the suffering is beyond anything we can explain, is this what the people of israel want . Especially given how the Israeli Government has handled october 7th from the start . So, mika, these images are excruciating. I think any person of goodwill watching them has growing difficulty. Its wonderful that the United States has finally moved with both feet into the role of providing humanitarian assistance. The air drops are just the beginning. The significant move will be the maritime deliveries. Much more assistance can go in. Then the demand that israel open new crossings so trucks can roll in, and it is near Famine Situation now, and it can be eased. For me, having stood at the edge of gaza city in the first month of this war when the israelis first allowed journalists to go into gaza and watched a line of palestinians as long as i could see Marching South from gaza city toward what they were told was safety in rafah. The idea that the million Palestinian Refugees in rafah will now have to flee again because theres going to be an assault on rafah toward god knows where is just a painful thought. The images of those faces of people leaving in desperate fear, now having to leave again, too much. Really, i do think this question, To Go Into Rafah or not, is a critical one. Biden made it his red line. Lets see if he can make it stick. David, im struck by how many people say to me that they dont really understand whats happening in gaza. Theyre not seeing the images. This is not like a famine thats happening in ethiopia where it is broadcast back into peoples living rooms every evening, just because we dont have International Crews and journalists there. I wish everyone could read Nick Kristofs piece. Yeah. Do you think if there was more awareness of what is happening to women, children, babies, pregnant mothers, and how little food they have, then minds would change in this country and things would move a little faster and bibi would have no choice but to move faster himself . I think minds are changing in the United States. All over the country, you see protests. You see effects in the primaies in michigan, other demonstrations that the images are getting through in the u. S. The question is whether theyre getting through in israel. Whether israelis feel, as President Biden is demanding, feel a sense of responsibility for civilian casualties in gaza. To date, there hasnt been much sign that there is that concern. Thats a big change. Israelis are still focused, understandably in many ways, on what happened to them october 7th. But they are responsible now for this territory. They have knocked over the government of hamas, and the people there and their suffering just feeding them every day is something israelis have to realize. They now have the principal responsibility for it. David, furthering your point there about how israel doesnt seem the population doesnt seem particularly impacted by whats happening in gaza, talk about what is the latest in netanyahus political standing at home. Here in the states, theres a lot of questions as to how long he can hold on. Those in the Biden Administration privately suggesting theyre looking at what a postnetanyahu israel could be. They also acknowledge they have no idea when thatll happen pause because Benjamin Netanyahu keeps the war in place and, therefore, his power. Whats your sense on how long netanyahu can last . He is a political survivor. He is a survivor. Boy, is he making those skills obvious in this conflict. In a sense, i think netanyahu believes that if he can show that hes standing up to an american leader who is trying to push israel around, that will be popular with his countrymen. He has been extremely unpopular. Poll numbers down around 20 . He has been far behind benny gantz, his principal challenger. The point i think netanyahu is trying to make to biden is, theres no difference between him and Gantz On Whether to assault rafah, for example. They both agree it should be done. Israelis agree. They want to end the war with a win for israel. They want the hostages back, but they also want to win the war. I think the administration understands that if they push netanyahu in the wrong way, theyll end up adding support for an otherwise very unpopular leader. There are all kinds of scenarios people discuss in washington for how elections might come, how a new government might arrive, that could work better with the United States. I do think over the course of this year, you are going to see elections and a new government. The question is, will it come before another catastrophic stage of this war or after . Well, and, again, lets just, again, keep score here with netanyahu. Mister, you know, im the toughest guy on hamas. This is a guy in 2018, along with trump, knew the sources of hamas illegal funding and decided to do nothing about it and let the funding continue. This is a guy who just a couple weeks before the october 7th attacks had his people in doha, and qatar said, asked, the Israeli Government, netanyahus government, should we continue Funding Hamas from qatar . Netanyahus government, yes, continue doing that. This is a government, netanyahus government, that had the Terrorist Plans for a year beforehand. Got multiple warnings. No, they had a whole document, 40page document. Right. Explaining what would happen. Yeah. I dont know, was it because it was women who came up with the document . But they were ignored. You take that. You take the warnings right before the attack. There were a group of Hamas Terrorists mobilizing by the wall. They were getting rid of their sim cards. They were obviously getting ready to attack. They did nothing. Then, and then the attack. One hour. Two hours go by with hamas raping women, setting them on fire, burning elderly people, shooting parents in front of children, shooting children in front of parents, doing the most ungodly things. One hour goes by, netanyahus government does nothing. Two hours goes by, Benjamin Netanyahus government does nothing. Three hours goes by, netanyahus government does nothing. Four hours goes by, netanyahus government does nothing. Five, six, seven, eight, some ten hours. How big is israel . Let me tell you something. On 9 11, three minutes after the first planes attack, First Responders were there. Three minutes. Within an hour from across the state. Netanyahus government waits six, seven, eight, ten hours . They wont explain why they waited so long while they knew this was going on. They let the killings continue. They let the rapes continue. Why they didnt mobilize. They say, lets wait until after the war is over. Okay, mr. Netanyahu, why did you tell qatar to keep Funding Hamas three weeks before hamas killed more jews than at any time since the holocaust . Netanyahu said, well have to wait until the war is over to talk about that. Okay, well, why didnt you do anything when you knew in 2018 the sources of hamas illicit funding, why didnt you and trump do anything in 2018 to cut it off . Netanyahu says, well have to wait until the war is over to talk about that. You see what happens. When the war is over, he understands hes out of a job. He actually, like trump, has to face some music in court. So the war just goes on and on and on. And the United States i agree with joe biden the United States needs to always defend israel, but we dont have to defend netanyahu. We dont have to watch as netanyahu destroys one of our closest allies in israel. We dont have to stand by and do this. Let me tell you something, we did this to britain in the suez crisis in 56, despite the fact britain was our closest ally on the globe. Just a decade earlier, the both of us had won world war ii together and pushed back nazism. Ike did it because he understood that britain was going down a road that would end badly for them. We have every right to do that here. We need to do that. Not just to protect the United States reputation across the globe, but i will say, in this case, more importantly, to protect israel. Israels reputation here in the United States, across the globe, with our allies, so they will continue getting support into the future. Right now, mika, they are moving in a dangerous, dangerous direction for israel. Yeah, thats why i ask, if this is what the people of israel want in their leadership. Especially the parents of hostages. The Washington Posts david ignatius, thank you very much. Coming up, republican senator katie britt of alabama responds to questions about her extremely misleading that wasnt her. Response to President Biden. That was Caitlin Clark. Oh, shes amazing. I dont think katie britt picked up a basketball over the weekend. Dont mix them up. Anyhow, her response to President Bidens state of the Union Address. Also ahead, iowa superstar Caitlin Clark helps the hawkeyes make their case for a number one seed. Thats her. Well bring in espns Pablo Torre As March Madness approaches. Plus, Roger Bennett joins us with highlights from Manchester City and liverpool. You heard screaming yesterday, didnt you . I heard screaming. Yeah. Morning joe is back in a moment. This looks like an actual farm. It looks cute on the app. [farm animal sounds] meanwhile, at a vrbo. When other Vacation Rentals arent what theyre cracked up to be, try one where you know what youll get. Ive struggled with generalized Myasthenia Gravis. 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Saying she couldnt believe that this happened in the United States of america. But the abuse actually happened during president george w. Bushs administration, clear nearly 20 years ago. And not in america, in mexico. She was asked about that yesterday on fox news. Did you mean to give the impression that this horrible story happened on President Bidens watch . No, shannon. Look, i very specifically said, this is what President Biden did during his first 100 days. Minutes after coming into office, he stopped all deportations. He halted construction of the border wall. To be clear, the story you relayed is not something thats happened under the Biden Administration, that particular person . Im well, i very clearly said, i spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked when she was 12. Charlie, there is nothing clear about it. The entire again i dont know how you walk that back. The response. Stuff happens in politics. Bad speeches are made. You know, it is always better to say, man, i blew that one. People will forgive you for it and will even like you better for it, for saying, boy, man, i just wow, was i off on that. Im so sorry. By the way, i told a story, and i conflated some facts and issues and dates. Im really sorry for that. I hope you understand my bigger point is that the Biden Administrations policies from day one have been disastrous. She could have said that. But, again, i dont know who is advising her, but to double down after that performance, the wrong thing to do. Own it like biden is owning his age. Yes. But in maga world, you can never apologize, right . Correct. Being a republican these days is never having to say you are sorry. That was not just misleading. I mean, that was a purposeful lie. I think were seeing this again and again. Look, we know that part of the narrative is that joe biden is weak on the border and, as a result, were being subject to all of this Migrant Crime. You have elon musk over the weekend tweeting out a bogus meme about, you know, Illegal Immigrants who are committing crimes, and joe biden is giving them awards. Then you have katie britt coming up with this gruesome and grizzly story that has no relation whatsoever to whats happening on the border. Now, somebody had to know that. Somebody had to recognize that this was a problem. She goes ahead with it anyway. Maybe figuring nobody would figure it out. Then when confronted with it, she gives that complete nondenial denial. Look, one of the obvious questions is, if, in fact, this is a terrible, terrible problem. If there are examples of Migrant Crime, then, you know, why do you have to make up the ones that did not occur . These are realities. This is something the Biden Administration is going to have to deal with. But it is interesting, would be interesting to know, who advised katie britt on the drama . Who advised her on the lies to give . It didnt do her any favors at all. No. You know, it is interesting you say that. Again, thats a question of a couple of people who know her and i were talking this weekend. We were like, who advised her . What happened . Again, shes a very likable person, charlie, if you talk to her oneonone. Very likable. Has been very likable. No nonsense. Again, worked for richard shelby. She doesnt come naturally from the maga wing. Charlie, who advised her . Who told her this was the right thing to do . Its crazy. Well, i have no idea. I will say that Scarlett Johansson had a tougher job than you might think. How do you do a parody of what is a Parody Itself . You played a bit from katie britt, and it is hard to outdo House Strange that was, the overacting. Again, this is maybe its the curse of the State Of The Union response. It seems every politician who does it falls flat on their face. Yeah, clearly, this wasceived f and it is funny. But the lie about the migrants, i think, is important, because this is going to be a massive theme in 2024. There will be caravans. They will try to take victims and exploit them politically. Theyve done in the past, and theyre going to do it. So you can see that these are not just oneoff gaffes. No. This is part of a narrative that they are trying to craft. She fell flat on her face, you know, on a very, very big stage here. Well, she said the crazy thing is, you know, they have these lies before Migrant Carave coming up with leprosy. It never works. 2018, they lost. 2020, they lost. Tried it in 2022, they lost. Its a loser because people understand theyre lying. Think of the Point Charlie just made. The situation is so horrific and unspeakably bad, they had to make up, they had to make up a story that they attached to biden instead of telling the truth about it, that it went back to george w. Bush. The situation is so horrific that they put off an opportunity to deal with it. They killed the lankford bill that the president offered them. That would have closed the border. Then got on National Television and lied like a rug. Yeah. Charlie sykes, thank you very much. Oh, were going to do a little sports now, i guess. Were following nfl Quarterback Updates ahead of wednesdays start of the new league year. After a rough ride with the denver broncos, and i talked about him a good bit over the last year, Russell Wilson is reportedly set to sign a oneyear contract with the pittsburgh steelers. Thatll be fascinating. The ninetime pro bowler and onetime super bowl champ tagged the Steelers On X in a hype video for his 13th nfl season. New england, the patriots appear to be Trading Mac Jones To Jacksonville for a Sixth Round Pick. Jacksonville, trust me, they got a great deal there. Tampa bay, the buccaneers are bringing back Baker Mayfield on a reported threeyear deal worth 100 million. Baker is like cher and cockroaches. Theyll survive nuclear blasts. Add Baker Mayfield to the list. Lets bring in pablo torre from pablo torre finds out. Ive said from the beginning that Russell Wilson was treated like dirt in denver. Im glad hell get to play for a great coach, a great organization. Should be fun to see what happens in pittsburgh next year. Yeah. You have been Russell Wilsons biggest defender in the national media, including sports and politics on the list for a long time, joe. Now, it is a different thing for him, right . Hell be a backup. He is going to be a backup to kenny pickett, who is the steelers quarterback. Russell wilson has a pr problem. His Football Skills have aged so hes not the player he used to be. In terms of what he can do, the standard of success is changing, right . You know this. When you become a backup, your job is not to mess things up. Your job is to go in in injury relief. Russell wilson in pittsburgh, the biggest question, when does he unveil the pittsburgh accent . When does he say yins and go rust belt . That is wilsons general m. O. , try to acclimate to the new climate. This is different from seattle on the political front in that sense. You nailed it, the russ belt, i love it. Ask lemire, who is fidgeting by now. Very fidgety. Lets have the conversation. Lemire. Lemire woke up at 1 00 p. M. To do this show because of the time change. 1 00 a. M. Feels like 1 00 p. M. Start of Daylight Saving time sa punishment. Lose an hour after sleep. Then this, john. Heres what ill say, i think mac jones will have another moment in the nfl. He was done a disservice by Bill Belichick and his coaching staff. He didnt have an Offensive Coordinator the next year. It was a toxic situation. Belichick lost confidence in jones. Jones played poorly this year, no doubt about it. It is disheartening they could only get a Sixth Round Pick for him. Thats what is sad to me. Yeah. For someone who a couple years ago looked like he was going to be potentially an nfl star, at least a solid starting quarterback. Thats gone. The pats had to move on from him. The situation was not going to be repaired. Theyll probably draft a qb at the third pick. For mac jones, i still think, and i know joe agrees with me, he could have a moment in the league some year. He is an alabama guy. The s. E. C. Is underlying this conversation with joe. I want to point out, there is a sliding door timeline here, right . If mac jones is drafted by the 49ers, as was rumored, he is a very different guy right now. He is piloting an offense. Instead, he went to the latter days of Bill Belichick. No weapons. It was rough. No receivers. Look, the patriots have a new head coach. The thing you need, of course, from that publicfacing perspective is a new quarterback. If youre signaling this team is different, youre looking for the face of the team to change, theyre going to draft a new face now it looks like, and theres some really good quarterbacks to be selected. Mac jones will be apparently back in his hometown of jacksonville, which i didnt know until he got dealt for the Sixth Round Pick. It is a little sad but good for him. College basketball. Caitlin clarks gamesealing threepointer in overtime helped iowa to the third consecutive Big Ten Tournament title last night. Iowa might have also secured a top seed in the upcoming ncaa tournament for just the third time in program history. The First Time Since 1992. Very exciting. Shes amazing. Pablo, shes made liars out of the writers of family guy. People are watching Womens Basketball. Yes. Theyre watching it in droves. You know, this is the best this is not just the best story in sports right now. This is the best Television Show in sports right now. These games, Caitlin Clarks games at iowa, and this is her winning the Big Ten Tournamly S Second Half and overtime. These shows are being watched more than wnba games, more than Mens College Basketball games, more than nba games. Thats amazing. She has 4 Million People watching her last week. The thing about her, and this is the biggest compliment i can pay an athlete, shes not just the alltime leading scorer in College Basketball history. Shes someone we should not be grading on any kind of curve. We tend to do that sometimes unconsciously, condescending to the womens game. It is nice theyre doing this, finally. What shes doing beyond the points is shes proving shes one of the greatest entertainers in sports. She has a showmanship, an arrogance, which plays as a confidence in a sincere way. When the spotlight is brighter, weve seen it with michael jordan, tom brady, derek jeter, i give her the same compliment. The spotlight goes on, she gets better. Thats what is incredible about her. You look at the threepointer she made from basically half court to beat pete maravichs record. Extraordinary. Yes. Pablo, stay there. All right. This is ghostbusters, where we cross, actually cross the streams. Were going to do it with Nbc Sports Soccer analyst and cohost of Men In Blazers roger bennet. Roger and pablo, you dont think it should work together. You know what . It doesnt. Its like resees. I love surprise in the morning. Team mika. Exactly. Thank you. Roger, mika, unfortunately, we actually we had a lot of people come over to the house yesterday to watch the game of the year. Yeah. The match of the year. She loves it. Trying to rest after a long trip. Mika is trying to rest after a long trip, but shes hearing a lot of screaming, mainly from me. I wont bring Jack Scarborough into this. Jack is very nice. A game that i must say, i was really surprised, liverpool dominated. I had not seen man city stretched like that in quite some time. Dont smirk, roger. You know in your evertonian heart, its true. I was just thinking of mika just being the great host with the sacrifice you made, mika. Lets relive the memories. The Premier League crashed toward its finale. You can roll the tape. Ryan gosling energy and all the hype of a mike tyson heavyweight clash. The future of democracy depended on this outcome. Legally being liverpool supported by joe. Facing abu dhabis Manchester City. Jurgen klopp about to retire. Pep guardiola. This is coach k and dean smith. A giant care bear. Manchester city scored first. Nba set play with screens and picks. First blitz, city. Liverpool, tenacious. The goalkeeper took it out. Alexis mccallister made it 11 from the penalty spot. At the death, city almost stole it. Goalkeeper playing it cool, like he got it. This is a tight one. Itll go down to margins, like empires that won and lost by inches. There is pacino and de niro, acted out by men who pushed the entire world of football to new levels because of the rivalry. Neither of them ended up in first place because in the other big game of the weekend, youve got the l. A. Rams owned arsenal football club. Their fans deserve joy, too. Tempted to keep up with liverpool and city. Taking on brentford. With this opener, declan rice getting his meaty london forehead. From Caitlin Clark logo range, pablo. Stroke of halftime. Arsenal goalkeeper aaron ramsdale, this is hard to watch. It all went a bit katie britt. In agony, as his attempt to control the ball really turned into the equivalent of a Kate Middleton photo shoot. Anxiety for arsenal football club. Hearts are resilient. In the 87th minute, if you can use your head, while all of you are losing their heads and blaming it on you. Arsenal, 21. Talk of the table, joe. This title race, three teams separated by one point, ten games to play. Its really the most exciting title chase since football was broadcast in the United States. With the world in the state it is, we need this kind of joy, joe. Yeah. Of course, we do need this joy. And city going up against arsenal next. Thats going to be fantastic. Im going to come around, mika. Im not invited, but im going to be coming around. No. Ill bring you my onion dip. Okay. That is something. Thank you. Sports analyst and host of Men In Blazers, roger bennet, thank you. Pablo, back to you quickly. If you or lemire want to comment on the game, we can. Or go straight to baseball. I think baseball. Baseball. John lemires misery is on order here, right next to the onion dip. I mean, should we talk about how the red sox might finish last in the a. L. East for the Third Straight year . They will finish last in the a. L. East for the Third Straight year. Little to no suspense there. The last few days, they lost a starting pitcher. Ucl. They have not signed a free agent. Nope. Rumors that Jordan Montgomery still not doing that. They do seem destined for a lastplace finish. Red sox owners spending far more resources on liverpool. It was a great game. My boys and i were watching. Who is Counting Payroll . Spring training is here. Theres not much excitement among red sox fans. Give us a quick take, the other story lines throughout baseball. We should talk about the a. L. East, though. Simply as an organization. Joe, this is the s. E. C. Of major league baseball. Its officially happened. This is a division. Its loaded. It is insane. So the only joy i had as a born and bred yankee fan last season was, of course, the red sox were beneath us as we were having the worst season in my lifetime, right . Just eking out an 8280 record. Not making the playoffs. Now, the expectations, talk about The Big Picture here, the expectations are the yankees need to win this world series. We got juan soto to solve of the problem of, okay, not enough offense. Gerrit cole won the cy young last season. We have the pitching and the hitting. Can we beat, if we can skip past the orioles, the rays, the bluejays, which is not easy, but lets do it for a second, can we beat the dodgers . The dodgers are the world series favorite. Mookie betts playing shortstop. Yoshi yamamoto, highest paid in this position. Ohtani, yamamoto, the guys in l. A. , theyre doing what the yankees used to do. Im clinging to the shreds of My Childhood Ego in a way that hopefully brings us a world series again. It is really sad. I feel sad. I understand the dodgers are the new yankees. Wasting all that money. Not winning world series. The yankees are the old yankees, too. You know, thats the thing about baseball. Spend all the money, and you end up with, like diamondbacksrangers. The world series is march madness now, for better and for worse. It has. Mainly for worse. Espns pablo torre, thank you so much. Thank you, pablo. Thank you, joe. Thank you, mika. Mika, were going to get to news. We need to get to politics. Really quickly, i want to talk about what happened. You were talking about recovering from just an extraordinary trip. Yes. With your 30 50. The 30 50 summit in abu dhabi. Adrienne elrod is on this hour. If we both look completely exhausted, it is because we just got back. But we are also exhilarated. I thought to myself, how do you top last year . We did it, right, adrienne . We had 400 women or over 400 women from 46 Different Countries. We came together at what is really a turbulent time for women Around The World, whether it is reproductive rights here in america, the wars in the middle east and ukraine, famine, global upheaval. We took on all of these issues with the crossgenerational, multicultural summit that looked at these crises from every angle. We had experts and conflict resolution, Mental Health, money experts, like susie orman talking to the audience, tech leaders, nobel prize winners, world renown artists. It was a remarkable event. Life changing for everybody who was there, whether on stage or in the audience. Well have a preview later in the show and more highlights throughout the week. Sounds great. Lets talk a little politics over the weekend. Absolutely. I was watching that, too. We brought up nancy mace earlier. Yes, republican congresswoman nancy mace of South Carolina got into a Heated Exchange with George Stephanopoulos Sunday Morning Show when he asked how she can support and endorse donald trump who was found liable for sexually abusing writer e. Jean carroll in civil court. Mase, who revealed in 2019 that she was raped as a teenager, avoided answering the question by accusing stephanopoulos, over and over again, of trying to shame her. Take a listen. Im not going to sit here on your show and be asked a question meant to shame me about another potential rape victim. Im not going to do that. It is not about shaming you. It is a question about donald trump. You are shaming me. Youve endorsed donald trump for president. Right. Donald trump has been found liable of rape by a jury. Donald trump has been found liable for defaming the victim of the rape by a jury. Its been affirmed by a judge. It was not a Criminal Court case, number one. Number two, i live with shame. And youre asking me a question about my political choices, trying to shame me as a rape victim. I find it disgusting. This is why women wont come forward. Women wont come forward because theyre defamed by those who perpetrate rape. Theyre judged and shamed. Youre trying to shame me this morning. Im not shaming you. I called you courageous. Took me 25 years to tell my. Im asking youre shaming me for my political choices. Why did you endorse someone who was found liable for rape . Answer the question. It was not a Criminal Court. To sit here and ask me as a rape victim, to try to shame me for my political choices, is wrong. I think it is offensive. You can repeat that again and again. And im going to. And ive done nothing to shame you. It is offensive. What you are doing is defending a man who is found liable of rape. I dont unction how you can do that. Not in a Criminal Court of law. It was not rape. She made a mockery out of it. Pull up the Washington Post headline. In fact, it has been shown to be rape. The judge affirmed it was, in fact, rape. Donald trump was found to have committed rape. Thats a fact. That is a civil judgment, not a Criminal Court. Theyre two very Different Things and you know better. I just showed you the facts. You know better. Youre very comfortable with what donald trump has done. What you have done is offensive to women who have been raped. Well let the viewers decide about that. It is not offensive. Shes not shamed because shes incapable of shamed. Although she tried to shame e. Jean carroll. My god. Well, trump continually tried to shame e. Jean carroll. Again, i guess this is a woman who was jeering hunter biden when he tried to show up and testify in public. Yeah. Ultimately, the private testimony went badly. She was acting like an eighth grader, screaming at him. I just wonder shaming him. How stupid, Jonathan Lemire, she thinks people are. How stupid . Thats the thing. Again, whether it is bad acting, whether it is lying about a story that happened when george bush was president and trying to attach it, all these years later, to joe biden, and then going on tv and lying about it, like, i just maybe after a while, republicans could figure out why they lost in 2017, lost in 2018, lost in 2019, lost in 2020, lost in 21, lost in 22, lost in 23. Because they think, they think that everybody is so stupid that they can do that sort of routine where she knows, she knows she is defending, she is endorsing, she is all behind a man who a judge said raped another woman and then defamed her. Talk about shaming a woman if shes socon concerned about rape victims being shamed. What about what donald trump does to his rape victim . Judge said she was a rape victim. Day in and day out, constantly shaming e. Jean carroll. So much so, the jury had to come back a second time and make the penalty so bad that maybe he would stop shaming a rape victim. Thats who nancy mace aggressively endorses instead of a woman who saved her political life in South Carolina. Yeah, trump went after e. Jean carroll again over the weekend, and theres some chatter that maybe she should file another defamation lawsuit. She should. Yeah, it is bad acting. Really, its bad faith. What we saw from representative mase, it was, indeed, though it is impossible to shame her, it is twisting what George Stephanopoulos said, and hiding behind something, of course, that was truly terrible that happened, in order to defend her support of donald trump. This is what were seeing more and more from republicans, where its not just that theyre trying to lie for political points. Theyre detached from reality. There are consequences here. In that moment, maybe they can blast out a Fundraising Clip and make a little money. Maybe in the deep red districts, theyll get a little more support. But theyre talking to a smaller and smaller slice of the electorate. I think americans on the whole are tired of these lies, tired of the chaos, tired of the ugliness. That was on display thursday night in the State Of The Union. President biden repeatedly heckled from the crowd. That didnt play well with most americans who do want to see still, even in this day and age, some decency in our policies. Yes, were a deeply polarized country, but this election, elections, after year after year, are still decided by the voters, as small as they may be, who are in the middle. The independents, the swing voters. This is the thing that repulses them. Its part why republicans have been on such a Losing Streak here. Theyre making no effort whatsoever, joe and mika, to grow their base of support. Theyre talking to die hards who are more and more passionate, but there are fewer of them. With George Stephanopoulos, what you saw, katty, before we expand the conversation, nancy mace, who has openly spoken about a terrible experience, weaponizing it against George Stephanopoulos, which seems beyond twisted, but, again, this is trump world. This is a man who has been accusd of rape several times other and has other accusers that hes bought off. That is an allegation that might be brought into the case against him with stormy daniels. On top of it, said on tape that he enjoys and can grab women by their genitals, bragged about it, then doubled down on that in his deposition when he was sued by e. Jean carroll. I think anyone who knows George Stephanopoulos knows that he is one of the least likely people in the world to try to shame somebody who has suffered that kind of awful experience. Thats not the way george carries out his journalism. Hes fair. Hes honest. It was a legitimate question. I wonder, you know, if nancy mace had been asked about any other politician, i dont know, if this had been a question about a democratic politician, would she have been so offended by the question . Its hard to know. I mean, youre right, the from the democrats political point of view, the more they can point to the extremes of donald trump, the more they can point to the extremes of Marjorie Taylor greene, as she was performing in the state of the Union Address, thats where they feel they can remind people about the choices that are at stake in november. The whole idea of trump amnesia, as it is being called, when donald trump mimics joe bidens stutter in front of an audience in georgia. How many suburban women voters in all those cities we keep talking about, in detroit, philadelphia, georgia, are going to listen to that and think thats the behavior they want to endorse and give their vote to . The Biden Campaign thinks it can just let trump be trump, be the most extreme version of himself, be the most obnoxious version of himself, and thatll help them in november. Over the course of this weekend, we saw the extreme elements of maga behaving in the way the Biden Administration hopes is going to remind voters whats at stake, what the choice is. Lets bring into the conversation former senior aide to both the biden and clinton campaigns, adrienne elrod. And Associate Editor at the Washington Post, jonathan capehart. The host of the Saturday Show and the sunday show, weekends on nbc. Jonathan, you interviewed President Biden over the weekend. Lets show an exchange about one of the bigger moments from the State Of The Union. Take a look. You were once the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee. I was struck by your direct comments to the Supreme Court, who are right there in front of you. Am i right in thinking that you view the Roberts Court as a political bodies and the conservative majority as politicians instead of jury . No, look, i think they made the wrong decision. I think they read the constitution wrong. I think they made a mistake. I was bug blunt. Part of it, remember, what they said is its up to the states to decide. Thats what was said. Its no longer constitutional guaranteed principle. They used the phrase that women can vote and can change if they want to. I found that somewhat insulting, the idea they dont think they can. Women are speaking out. They spoke out in 2022. They spoke out in 2024. This is what is going to happen. I was making clear, women speak up. This is going to change. If you give me a congress thats democrat, were going to change it back to roe v. Wade. Jonathan, curious, your overall impressions of the president . Look, my overall impression of the president is he feels liberated. Liberated in the sense that, you know, he had to do the state of the Union Address. He came out of that address, you know, firing on all cylinders. He feels liberated now that he gets to go get out on the Campaign Trail and prosecute the case against donald trump while, at the same time, telling the American People, heres what ive done that you might not even know about. Heres what i want to do with a second term. Please, get out and vote and give me a second term. In The Grand Scheme of things, i cant do what we need to do to get the country forward if we lose our democracy. One of the first questions i asked him when we had a little, quick meeting on air force one, i just looked at him and said, youre having a good time, arent you . He said, yeah. He loves campaigning. He loves getting out being able to get out of washington, get out of the bubble, and get to talk with the American People. Also, as we saw during his state of the Union Address, he liked the back and forth and the jousting with Jeering Republicans like congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene. Overall, i think the Joe Biden We Saw in the well of the house for the state of the Union Address, the joe biden i saw on saturday at the various events that i followed him to, were going to keep seeing that on the Campaign Trail. I think that the horrible poll numbers were now seeing in march, i think theyre going to tick up. I think in the end, folks are going to like the cranky grandpa President Joe Biden better than the one who stayed behind the white house walls all these mons. It is interesting. Everyone was saying, well be sleepy joe. When republicans said, oh, he was too aggressive. They called him jacked up. Every host along the line were using the same words, like they had a memo. Same talking points. From trump. Im wondering, adrienne, weve talked sometimes on this show, and i know mika and i talked to you offline, about the fact that the joe biden that we see oneonone is far different than joe biden weve been seeing on tv. That seems to have changed with the State Of The Union. You look at jonathans interview. You look at even the 30second ad. Its far more relaxed biden. Im ccurious. Youre seeing onair what people have been talking about behind the scenes for some time. Im wondering what happened. What switched . Was it a Campaign Turning on . What was it . I think it was a couple things, joe. First of all, as you and mika know, President Biden has been telling a story for the last few years about the Major Economic bills hes passed, some of the huge successes hes had as president legislate i havely and how the successes are translating into big wins for the American People. 15 million jobs created, you know, record unemployment. We could talk about the accomplishments forever here. What doesnt always happen, you dont have the platform in which to translate the policies to the American People. Even though President Biden, the administration, has been talking about these policies, he really had the chance last thursday night during the State Of The Union to lay out all of his accomplishments, the things he wants to do in the future in a second term, and then also how those accomplishments are impacting the American People in a way where you had so many people tuned in. Millions of americans tuned in. He was able to really get his message across. He did it incredibly effectively. Of course, as weve been talking about, as you all have been talking about, in contrast to people like mtg, who showed up in full red maga regalia, looking completely silly in the audience. Something else i loved that President Biden did, he loves talking about some of his major eeconomic policies. Then reminding the audience a lot of republicans in the room who didnt support his policies go back to their districts and talk about, oh, the Infrastructure Bill and how this is helping everybody in my district. Even though they voted against it. He loves to take that to them. The bottom line is, he knows he had a good week. He was able to get his message across effectively because millions of americans were tuning in. Of course, he followed it up with a great interview with capehart. 30 million ad guy thats only going to increase in the key swing states. He had a great week. He had a great fundraising week. Think were going to see more of that going forward. Meanwhile, donald trump had viktor orban at maralago. What a contrast. Jonathan capehart, the war in gaza is obviously a political Sticking Point for the president. People voting uncommitted as sort of a protest to whats happening to palestinians. Lets listen to part of your conversation about that. Youre heading to michigan where, you know, on the Campaign Trail, probably in the next few days, where more than 100,000 people voted uncommitted in the primary to protest your handling of the situation in gaza. Some have said theyll never vote for you. One told the United States, and im quoting, as bad as mr. Trumps rhetoric was and putting the ban on the muslim countries, he wasnt actively aiding a genocide. Those are tough words. What is your response to the widely shared sentiment . It is not widely shared. You make judgments youre not capable of making. Thats not what all those people said. What they said is theyre very upset, and i dont blame them for being upset. There are families there. There are people who are dying. They want something done about it. Theyre saying, joe, do something. Do something. The idea they all think it is genocide is just not that is a different situation. Look, i can fully understand, cant you . You have a Family Member there, families, coming from a family that is still isolated there and may be victimized. It is understandable they feel that way. Thats why im doing everything i can to try to stop it. Jonathan, i dont know how many of those voters would vote for donald trump, even if theyre angry at President Biden, but they might stay home or vote for a third party candidate. Its still going to cost President Biden votes. I think he might be underestimating some of the anger there. There are a lot of people using the phrase genocide to describe what is happening there. Talk to us, though, for a little more about your conversation about this piece of it. The domestic concerns, yes, but also, as we played earlier in the show, Biden Drawing a red line for netanyahu. It seems that relationship is coming to a breaking point. Yes. So, you know, this is where the president and i disagreed, as you saw. It is a widely shared sentiment. How the president and the white house the white house understands this is a big problem, and the president understands that this is a big problem. Thats one of the reasons why he is going to michigan and one of the reasons why he said he is trying to stop the carnage in gaza. But in the motorcade, on our way to the venue, to the rally that he had in atlanta, there was maybe 20 to 30 Protesters Holding Signs and holding the palestinian flag, waving signs at the motorcade as it entered the property. There is no getting around oh, and also during the rally, there was someone who, you know, yelled out, free palestine and was hustled out of the venue. So the president and the Administration Knows that there are people who have a lot of problems with this. He was quibbling with me over the use of the word genocide. Back to your bigger question about the relationship between the president and Prime Minister netanyahu, it is really frayed. That was one of the reasons i asked the question. Do you have a red line . The last few weeks, we have seen, you know, secretary blinken, Vice President harris, the National Security adviser, jake sullivan, all say things in public about what theyd like to see israel do, what they would like to see happen in gaza after this war is over. Only to have their suggestions and their pleas slapped back publicly by netanyahu. When i asked the president , whats your red line, and not give some thing, but then ask about the Invasion Of Rafah, which netanyahu says hell do despite the president urging him not to, the president said, yeah, thats a red line. Then the president is trying to make a distinction between netanyahu and the state of israel. I asked a question which should get more attention, would he go back to israel for the sole purpose of going to speak to the knesset, the Israeli Parliament . He said flat out, with no elaboration, he said, yes. When i asked, well, who gives that invitation . Is it the Prime Minister . Is it the israeli president . He wouldnt get into it. But he wouldnt get into it in a way that led me to believe that perhaps these discussions are actually happening, that it could we could possibly see the president go back to israel and talk to the israeli people, basically leapfrogging the Prime Minister and talking to the israeli people about what should what should happen in the aftermath of the war. One more thing about i left out in my first answer, because when you were talking about how republicans were come plaping complaining the president was jacked up during the state of the Union Address, one of the things the president said to me was, every time trump says something, he, meaning the president , gets juiced up. It just gets him going. Thats also one of the reasons i think were going to see more of, as im calling it, cranky grandpa joe biden. Not sure about the criticism of being jacked up because jacked up joe seems fine with it. Hes got a lot of energy. Probably a little anger toward these maga republicans who are ruining the country. Yeah. Jonathan capehart, thank you very much. Thanks, mika. Great job there. On the heels of sweden joining nato last week, we are seeing a major test of the alliances strength. There is a growing competition playing out between russia and the west in the arctic, where u. S. Marines are training right now. Joining us from alta, norway, Foreign Correspondent josh lederman. Tell us about these training exercises. Reporter mika, if you take a look at where we are standing here, north of the arctic circle, this looks nothing like the dry, hot desert climates of the middle east where the u. S. Military has really been focused for the last several decades. That is starting to shift. There are some 20,000 nato troops who are training here in the nordic region, including from sweden and finland, the two newest nato members. I spent the last three days embedded here with the u. S. Marines who are part of this training. Heres what we saw. The frosty arctic is the new battleground in a Military Competition between russia and the u. S. The u. S. Marines and a dozen Allies Joining forces for war games in northern norway, as part of the largest nato exercises since the cold war. Theyre practicing storming a beach from the sea and the air as they work to defend nato territory from any threat. Ill continue maintaining the airway, and ill grab a leg. Reporter in this mass casualty drill leaking. Reporter languages blend together as american and norwegian troops work shoulder to shoulder. These war games taking place not far from russias border on natos Northern Front line. As global warning melts sea ice, the u. S. , china, and russia are seeking to expand their foothold. For the Marines Ts A Sharp Shift after decades fighting in the hot, dry climates of the middle east. Range of fire reporter after a rocky journey through the mountains, we reached marines dug in on the mountainside. At night, the temperatures can drop below zero. We had marines never in the snow before coming to norway. Reporter repelling an invasion by a major hostile power from the east. Multiple vehicles. Reporter moscow is watching. Norwegian officials detected russian vehicles nearby spying on the exercises. Is it easier to hide in snowy forest than, for example, in a desert . Id say it depends on the conditions. On a day like this, theres snow tracks that would be left. If it was a snowstorm, the snow tracks would rapidly be closed. Reporter these marines spent nearly two weeks here, sleeping up to six to a tent. Boiling water. Praying in the snow. Amen. Go in peace. Serve the lord. Reporter Lance Corporal corey from massachusetts joined the marines a year ago. First time touching a ski pole, was here. I fell in love where skiing. Reporter howd it go . I fell a lot. But, you know, i had fun. Biggest smile on my face. Reporter a forceful message from the u. S. And its allies. Anywhere we go, i know we can fight. I know we can thrive. Reporter mika, the war in ukraine clearly forms the backdrop for what were seeing here. In fact, the norwegian military officials told us before the war in ukraine, russia had five times as many troops near the border as they do now because theyve had to divert the forces farther south. At the same time, they say that the norwegian officials tell us that there have been changes in russias behavior, including what they are seeing along the border. Electronic warfare. Jamming. Norwegian troops have been approached by russians here in norway. I spoke with the assistant commandant of the u. S. Military, general mahoney, about why this region is so important. Heres what he told me. With the u. S. , russia, and china competing in this region, how crate critical is the arcti natos defense . It is absolutely critical. Not only because of its unique challenges in terrain and weather, but the opening of the arctic as far as maritime waterways and lines of communication make it that much more important. The old adage, if it is valuable, its worth defending. Reporter one person clearly on the minds of these allies in Northern Europe is donald trump. In fact, one norwegian official told me that one of the u. S. Military officials here felt the need to bring it up himself, to reassure the norwegians that despite what trump has said about inviting putin to do whatever he wants, that the u. S. Is going to stay committed to nato and to the defense of this entire nato region. Mika . Nbcs josh lederman, thank you very much. Reporting from alta, norway. Thank you. Still ahead on morning joe, well show you more from President Biden and former President Trumps duelling weekend rallies in georgia. Ahead of that battleground states president ial primaries tomorrow. Plus, the u. S. 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As our next guest reports, it is a precarious position that puts American Service members in new and uncharted territory. Joining us now is New York Times pentagon correspondent helene cooper. It seems precarious. As if it could go in the wrong direction really fast, but in others, helene, this seems exactly like the biden foreign policy. Supporting israel against hamas, but also making sure innocent civilian life is preserved. Hi, mika. Thanks for having me. Its a really weird thing, especially if you talk to some people at the pentagon. Even if you draw the lens outward, theres a certain moral ambiguity between the u. S. Providing israel with the bombs to that it is using to lay waste to ve to gaga waste to ga, at the same time the u. S. Set up, is conducting air drops. Air force planes and c17s have been dropping thousands of readytoeat meals on gaza. For the past more than a week now. Army corps of engineer troops are busy at work. Theyre going to be deploying soon to build a floating pier that is going to be used to stab into the sand at gaza to allow ships to bring small boats to bring food and aid into gaza, as well. All of this is because, well, obviously, it is because of the war that began with the october 7th attack, hamas attack on israel. It is also because israel has not been allowing food and aid to get into gaza. You have this weird thing where the u. S. Is doing something on one hand, and something completely different on the other. Itd seem to be in conflict with each other, particularly if you talk to any Aid Organization and the pentagon acknowledges this, the Biden Administration acknowledges this, that the best way to get aid into gaza would be by road. Even the stopgap measures the Biden Administration has now approved and that President Biden spoke of during his state of the Union Address are that, stopgap. Itd be a lot faster and more effective to get aid coming by road. Israel has been blocking that. You have the extraordinary lengo get around a blockade in place by our own ally, who we are providing with weapons to bomb gaza. Its kind of a strange headturning thing. Yeah, it is strange. What more do you know about the details of how this seaborn aid effort will work . How many trucks can get in every day . How are they going to secure the aid as it travels through gaza . A lot of gaza is bombed out. You cant roll off a tanker and start driving wherever you want to. Do we know the details of how this is going to work . Most critically, i guess, how quickly is the aid going to be able to get to people through this pontoon . Its not coming fast. Its going to be between a month to two months before people will die. You can see this starting to work. Even though the u. S. Troops are already deploying to the region. Theyre going to be in the mediterranean where theyre going to build this floating pier. There is a floating dock theyre going to build, then a pier theyre going to stab into the sand. Pentagon press secretary pat brider said on friday the hope is, through this, theyll be able to deliver, once its up and running, up to 2 million meals a day. Which is still not that much. The problem that the Biden Administration is facing is that you have a looming famine that is being predicted in gaza. Gaza, the residents of gaza at this point in time are on the brink of starvation. Most of them are surviving on one meal a day, possibly less, which is not enough to sustain an adult. A child can probably get by on that. Adult is a lot harder. There is worry this will not be enough. The army corps of engineers, the 1,000 troops deployed to do this cant get it up and running as quickly as the need demands. There is going to be it is basically one big u. S. Ship thats going to be used to build the floating pier. The hope of the pentagon and President Biden both they there wont be any american troops on the ground. They still insist on that. Youre looking at different organizations who would actually be doing the aid. One organization that the pentagon one pentagon official mentioned to me is the world central kitchen thats managed by the washington, d. C. , chef, jose andreas. Hes been very quick to deploy food and food tents and food banks to stress regions. He was in ukraine. Hes been in gaza. The hope that they would run small boats from the ships to the floating pier to the sand, and then youre looking at the issue of getting this aid then in through trucks. Israel, the point is to one of the things they want to do is israel would be looking at the aid to make sure it didnt include guns or ammunition to hamas in cyprus, in the port city of cyprus. Before it even gets to the ship, it is a very intricate and kind of interesting process theyre setting up. New york times pentagon correspondent helene cooper, thank you very much for your reporting. Coming up on morning joe, the u. S. Beat expectations again with the addition of 275,000 jobs last month. Acting labor secretary julie su joinings us to talk about the state of americas workforce. Morning joe will be right back. For people who feel limited by the unpredictability of generalized Myasthenia Gravis and who are antiachr antibody positive, season to season, ultomiris is continuous symptom control, with improvement in activities of daily living. It is reduced muscle weakness. And ultomiris is the only longacting Gmg Treatment with the freedom of just 6 to 7 infusions per year, for a predictable routine i can count on. Ultomiris can lower your immune systems ability to fight infections, increasing your chance of serious meningococcal infections, which may become lifethreatening or fatal, and other types of infections. 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A host of the red carpet coverage laverne cox speaking with nominee jodie foster. Lets talk about 50 over 50. We at the forbes know your value in abu dhabi. Its the 30 under 30 listers meeting up with that 50 over 50 listers from Around The World with amazing guests giving advice and addressing the problems that are facing women Around The World. We had personal finance expert susie orman speaking to 400 women from 46 Different Countries including middle eastern audience. She shared her best advice for securing a brighter financial future. Let me tell you why im giving this to you. Mika, you have done something that has changed this world. You are on a voyage to make women throughout the world know their value. You have made my life. Thank you. That was nice of susie but she captivated the audience giving them incredible advice. For some of the women in the room, advise they never considered before. We took network to a new level at the summit and heard from a Multicultural Group of women about maximizing the relationships and impact from former president to ceos to actresses, authors, leaders in tech and Mental Health. 3050 was a time to address our times look for support and solutions. I sat down with music legend shania twain who remains the topselling country pop artist of all time. She was also the recipient of the know your value award and the International Womens day gala on friday. She talked about with the summit meant to her. 430 50 2024, you have thrown yourself into it. Youve interacted with everyone. Danced on the tables. Had the desert party. Im curious how the experience has been for you . This experience has been a gift as a human being. I know im here representing the arts but i am saying as a person, i have never been surrounded by such a concentration of brilliance, experience and intentions that are so united. This expense has filled me up with inspiration. Im going back to my studio and ready to write so much music. Im getting on a flight on 2 00 a. M. And i will start with lyrics on the plane. I would say to everyone in this room, continue lifting each other up. Continue to share your stories. Your differences. May we recognize how different we are from each other and appreciate and learn culturally in every way and walk away with more compassion and understanding of each other. Most of all, know your value to yourself and to one another. We will be showing you all week why shania twain and susie were saying those things. For full coverage of the 30 50 summit go to the website. We cant wait to show you more interviews from the event. Including former liberian president , and actress and many more. A dream, you were there part of the team making this event happen. It was hard to not get taken in how incredibly powerful this threeday event wise. Reporter you know you showed the big names. Shania twain who has overcome diversity. Grew up in a difficult circumstance. Was inspired by the women she met. Susie orman who has reiterating your message of Financial Independence and taking care of your own pocket book. And the former president of liberia. You had an incredible conversation with her. We heard from women may not be as high profile as the ones i mentioned and you highland but women who have overcome their own id. Adversity in difficult situations. Most of us may not be able to imagine. Who have risen to the occasion and speaking their truth and making sure that people understand women across the world understand you can come dish overcome difficult situations. 103 an expert from your speech you gave friday night at the gala which was inspiring. You said perhaps thats why i feel so fortunate we will be honoring the work of two Nobel Peace Prize winners, a holocaust survivor, environmental activists and artists whose life story who has shown resiliency and the power of the womans spirit. We heard from a holocaust survivor and rabbi. She spent the first two years of her life and no 80 years old. As you remember, she spent the first two years of her life in a tunnel with her mouth taped shut because her parents were worried if she was crying they would be found and they would be murdered by the. We heard from another woman. Shes a Nobel Peace Prize winner who was held captive from isis for a year and are using her story to help other survivors of isis captives and trying to help other women who have been in those situations overcome the challenges they face. An Incredible Group of women who came together under a shared common purpose which is female resiliency, female empowerment. Congratulations, mika. You and the forbes team crushed it and could not have been more proud to be part of this special threeday summit. We will show you everything. It was this incredible woman on stage where shania twain and the holocaust survivor truly connect did on why the truth is so important. Moments like that were abound for three days straight. I didnt know we could top last year but we did. We are growing and making women stronger Around The World. Thank you for being there. We will turn to other news but have more on 30 50. The labor market remains strong as of february jobs report showed 275,000 jobs were added last month. Joining snow is the acting secretary of labor julie su. Madam secretary, what do we make of these numbers. They seem to be Getting Better. What are the current concerns that keep you up at night looking ahead in the next six months . Thank you, mika. This was a stunning jobs report. 275,000 jobs created. At the same time that the Unemployment Rate remains under 4 for the 25th must straight. Thats two years and running. Its the longest stretch of unemployment this slow in 50 years. Labor force participation remain steady which means people are in the labor market and looking for jobs and finding them. This is work. Its progress. It was not promised and many people predict it that we would not have this recovery. Weve seen wage wages go up that workers need to do well. We need to keep up this process until every american feels it. Madam secretary, tell us more about that wage increase which i know you say is so important. Tell us about what kinds of jobs are these . What sectors and do they include the manufacturing room that President Joe Biden promised . The february jobs report showed growth in a number of industries. Thats another part of why this is a strong resilient economy. Its not just one industry. It was health care, hospitals saw big growth. It was restaurants and bars. Social assistance, government group. Its broadbased recovery. What we are seeing are wage increases over the year is over 4 . That means real wages are growing. They are beating inflation. Thats more money in workers pockets. Thats a good thing. We want to keep on seeing that kind of strength for working people so when you get home from work you put your keys down and actually have more you can spend on the things you need and the things you want. In terms of manufacturing, since the president came into office, theres been 700,000 jobs created in that industry. This is part of his commitment to rebuilding america. Investing in america. Bringing manufacturing jobs home. Investing in our infrastructure. Thats not a word for him. Its hundreds of thousands of roads and bridges. All of those are creating good jobs and union jobs in communities that need them the most. Acting labor secretary julie su, thank you for coming on the show. Our third hour of morning joe continues right now. Mr. President , enough is enough. The free world deserves better. It doesnt have to be this way. We all feel it. We hear you. And we stand with you. We are steeped in the blood of patriots. We are here because they stood back up. Good evening, america. My name is katie brace. I have the honor of serving the great people of alabama. Tonight, i will be auditioning for the part of scary mom. I will be performing an original monologue called this country is. You see, im not just a senator. Im a wife, a mother and the craziest [bleep] in the target parking lot. First and foremost, im a mom. Like any mom, i will do a pivot Out Of Nowhere into a shockingly violent story about Sex Trafficking. Rest assured, every detail about it is real except the year, where it took place and who was president when it happened. And tonight, i am not just responding to the State Of The Union. Im also selling these gorgeous cross necklaces. Kitchens are where families have the hard conversations. Like the one we will have tomorrow about how mommy freaked out the entire country. The American People who are struggling right now, know this. We hear you. We see you. We smell you. We are inside your kitchen right now looking through your fridge and whats that on the top shelf . Migrants. I think that analogy went well. Wow. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is monday, march 11. I dont know which katie britt was more like katie britt but that was incredible. With this we have the host of way to early jonathan lemaire. Your Special Correspondent for bbc news and ms cnbc contributor and author of the book how the right lost its mind, charlie sykes. We need charlie but before to public ticks, can we talk about the oscars . The 96 annual oscars were held last night in hollywood. Oppenheimer came into the night with 13 nominations and ended up with the most wins including best picture, best actor for Cillian Murphy, best supporting actor for Robert Downey jr. , emma stone won best actress for her role in poor things and best supporting actress one davine joy randolph for her role in the holdovers. That was amazing. The oscars featured showstopping performances from Billie Eilish and ryan gosling. Both performing songs from the barbie soundtrack. At the end of the night, Jimmy Campbell took a minute to read former president Donald Trumps reaction to his hosting. I just got a review. Is there ever been a were supposed and jimmy kimmel at the hot oscars. Is opening was less than average person trying to hard to be something which he is not and never can be. Get rid of Jimmy Campbell and replaced him with another washed up a cheap abc talent. See if you can guess which former president just posted that On Truth Social . Anyone . Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching. Im surprised is an it passed your jail time . Okay. I guess he doesnt understand. He keeps walking into traps. He keeps again, its like an old fighter that is past its prime. The mate that have worked and disruptive 2016, everything everyone knows whats coming. Hes the butt of the joke for millions of people last night. Two things can be true. While he keeps losing and having problems along the way especially legal problems, hes developing a whole new bench, a whole generation of young, i would say, republicans but think its safer to call them trumpers who live like he does. They dont care. Like katie britt. Will get to that in a minute. They will lose also. This is a pathway to losing. Weve seen that over the weekend. You been seeing the reaction that biden said at the Union Address. Hes to jacked up. Do you want him to be okay. 33 Million People watched and they can decide. It was on thursday night. A marked increase from the year before. In the wake of the president s well received speech, the Biden Campaign hit record fundraising numbers. In the 24 hours after bidens remarks, his Reelection Campaign raked in 10 million. Thats the largest 24hour hall the campaign and its affiliated committees have seen so far. The president to off his post state of the Union Campaign tour with a stop in philadelphia on friday followed by a rally in georgia on saturday. His campaign also released a new political ad that leaned into the president s age. Take a look. Im not a young guy. Thats no secret. Heres the deal. I understand how to get things done for the American People. I led the country through the covid crisis. Today, with the strongest economy in the world. I passed the law that lowers Prescription Drug prices, cap insulin for 35 a month for seniors. For four years, donald trump try to pass in Infrastructure Law and failed. I got it done. We are rebuilding america. I passed the biggest lot in history to combat Climate Change because our future depends on it. Donald trump took away the freedom of women to choose. Im determined to make roe v. Wade the Law Of The Land again. Donald trump believes the job of the president is to take care of donald trump. I believe the job of the president is to fight for you, the American People and thats what im doing. Im joe biden. I approve this message. Can we do one more take . Im very young, energetic and handsome. Why am i doing this . That add will be running in critical swing states like pennsylvania and georgia. Charlie, you look weve been talking about our former party and talking about the axis of the former party. Ive talked about the State Of The Unions ive been in. Political campaigns ive followed or have been through. Ive never seen a contrast this striking. Almost like seven, eight years of corruption, extremism and lying all in one night. It seems now biden has the win behind him. That was very good. Also think about how the mood and narrative has changed in the last week. We were sitting here discussing the freak out of the democrats about joe biden and think about where we are at. As a reminder how fast things move in politics. You had a good few days for joe biden including that add in the interviews hes given. Also, the trump vp edition not going so well. About the republican bench, we are seeing where this party is going this next generation. As they try to channel their inner donald trump. It has not gone well, has it . No, it has not. We were talking but i told her i met katie britt at the sec championship game. I really liked her a lot. I met her family. Down to earth. It didnt seem to be trumpian. She seemed to be a regular republican. Had a great talk with her. It was a lot like elise the phonic. We had a great talk when she first came into congress. The future of the Republican Party is strong. Shes reasonable. Young, smart. Somebody that the party can get around. Both of them we will see what happens with katie britt. Unfortunately, she doubled down this weekend on this story that was a lie. I hated to see that. Someone should come out and say, you know what, im new to this. Didnt do as well as i do. Sorry about the story. It happens. She could have moved past it but i guess you will double down. On the biden side, theyve got to be so excited. The speech. He accumulated dish humiliated all his critics and raised a lot of money. Over 30 Million People watching that. Joking about his age which is what people have been telling him to do for some time and does it well. First on katie britt. The terrible story about a Sexual Assault involving a migrant. She suggested it happened during President Joe Bidens term. It happened over 20 years ago when george w. Bush was president. We sought Scarlett Johansson savage are on saturday not live at the top of our show. As for biden, they had a well received speech watched by a lot of people. A fundraising blitz. Best 24 hours of the entire Campaign Came after that speak. He then hit the road. He was in pennsylvania on friday and georgia over the weekend. New hampshire today. Michigan and wisconsin later this week. Hes ramping up the travel. The campaign fully engaged. I cant tell you how Many Democrats ive spoken to in the last few days who feel better about things. They point to polls that joe biden getting a bump in the last week or two. Some of that before the State Of The Union. I suspect those numbers will go up. They have more money on hand that trump has. Trump using his cash for his legal bills. They feel good about the contrast. They feel good about the story they can tell where they are versus were trump is. The ad is the latest and not the last to take on the age thing. They think they can diffuse it and think its a problem for trump also. Speaking of contrast. You had joe biden after his incredible state of the Union Address talking about his accomplishments and all the positive things he was able to get done in the wake of the Trump Presidency coming into the white house barricaded after january 6th. And move forward, persevere and pascal was legislation. Even the partisan legislation that has improved the economy. This is a fact. About the American People. Youve got those messages after the speech as he goes on the Campaign Trail. Meanwhile, donald trump is at maralago hosting hungarys autocratic Prime Minister on friday. To quote, to discuss a wide range of issues affecting hungary and the United States. He has close ties to Vladimir Putin has refused to provide any aid to ukraine while seeking to turn his own country into an illiberal state. Trump has bragged about having his endorsement for his 2024 campaign. Fond over the hungarian leader. Theres no one better, smarter or a better leader than victor or von. Hes a noncontroversial figure. This is the way its gonna be thats the end of it. Hes the boss. Hes a great leader. Ive been warning of that. He keeps bringing him up for a reason. He brags about getting rid of westernstyle democracy who brags about being in a liberal state. Who has arrested and jailed competing politicians, members of the press. Given them out of the country. Hes bulked the phones of Rival Politicians and journalists. You name it, hes done it. This is who donald trump admires. He says hes not controversial because he says what he wants and gets it done. Hes the boss. Trump said that in the most admired of ways. Thats what america looks like under donald trump second term if we take him at his own words. That line about hes not controversial because he says what he wants and gets it done and hes the boss was so reflect the. A confession that was total projection what donald trump would like. Hes made hungary what he calls a liberal democracy. Im not sure if those two things can be possible together. How you have a democracy thats illiberal. Thats what hes done by packing the courts with his corneas, weighing in on judicial cases by making it incredibly difficult for the journalists to do any independent reporting. They are told by their editors what facts they can report before they are allowed to write their articles. Thats the kind of state that donald trump in maralago in that speech seems to be admiring. The state that Tucker Carlson went to viktor orban to pay homage to his leadership. Its tied up with russia. The eu had to lean heavily on viktor orban threatening him with other punishments if he didnt go ahead and agree to an eu package for eight ukraine. He didnt want to. He didnt want to do something that would get in a way of Vladimir Putin. You see these things are linked. Its a circular movement we see from what donald trump is doing in maralago, Tucker Carlsons Visit To Moscow and Viktor Orbans relationship with Vladimir Putin. You have in donald trump a guy who said he will terminate the constitution. He will be a dictator on day one. He would like to execute generals for not being lackeys. He said he could use a team to execute his political opponents and not be arrested. You go through all of this long list. You go through his presidency on the things he said and did. You dont just have what hes saying. You have a record. Even in his presidency where the last two weeks he said he was demanding his attorney general arrest joe biden and joe bidens family because he was Getting Better in the polls. We talked about the young republicans who unfortunately have had their bearings twisted by this to become unrecognizable. You look at and i saw von hilliard in avoiding people a trump always talking about civil war saying if they didnt win this time they were on the use of violence and take over State Legislatures and take over courts and come to washington. They were going to take over washington. Charlie, this is not a test run. This is a guy thats told his followers if i win, it will be a dig tater. His followers are all in. How perverse that its people i went to church with. Evangelicals that seem to be swept up into this totalitarianism and also small, republicans and governments. Who now are begging for an autocrat. For a tyrant, a dictator. All of this is happening in brought daylight in real time. Theres no subtlety. Theres no secret about it. Hes leaning into his embrace of illiberal authoritarianism. He says it out loud. Now speaking of the younger republicans on the bench. Youve got nancy mace were in up and justify the fact that this illiberal authoritarian in his talk about civil war is also been found liable for. You begin to put together this picture. What republicans are embracing. What they are endorsing what donald trump is bringing into this campaign. Donald trump is not going to get better. I think throughout 2024 what you will see is his inability to restrain his itch. Hes up there on stage at mara lago talking about hes not controversial because hes the boss. He says something and its over. This is something that he admires. This is clearly something he aspires to. Its alarming. I know people who say you guys are engaging in trump to range syndrome. Listen to donald trump. Listen to what he is saying. Listen to what his supporters are saying on a daily basis. Its not a secret. He is preparing everyone for what he will do. He talks about terminating the constitution. He says he will be a dictator on day one when he talks about executing generals who are insufficiently loyal or finding Media Outlets guilty of treason when he talks about the things hes doing. When he argues in court that he can execute political opponents using Seal Team Six and he cant get in trouble for. When he says that in court, hes telling people what he will do. These younger republicans fall in line. They will lose. They will destroy their careers. You look at nancy mace. Even after donald trump is found liable for Sexual Assault and a judge says he e. Jean carroll. There were other women and other deals that have been struck that the prosecution, alvin bragg case. They want to bring forward to show this is a pattern of behavior. 91 counts. The Sexual Assault and fraud. I want to go over his legal challenges. Speaking specifically of nancy mace. A judge talks about donald trump a woman and because she has no choice but to blindly defend donald trump. She defends amanda the judge says is a. Does it without apology. Talk about katie britt but also marco rubio. One of the most promising stars in the Republican Party was called the future of the Republican Party by time. Now just a shell of its former self politically. You look at these people. Rand paul who criticized donald trump. Ted cruz. We could go on and on. They all fall in line. Its sad and pathetic. They will all lose. Trump will lose again. For some reason they cannot pull out of this political death spiral. We should show the nancy mace exchange. She accuses the reporter of shaming her. 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Shop now at sleepnumber. Com President Joe Biden is offering some sharp criticism of israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handling of the war in gaza. After his state of the Union Address the president was caught on a hot microphone voicing what appears to be frustrations with the Prime Minister. Take a listen. I told him, and dont repeat this but you and i him on a hot microphone here. Over the weekend, President Joe Biden was asked about the comment and his relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an individual with jonathan capehart. That was an expression used in the southern part of my statement. A serious meeting. Ive known him for 50 years and he knew what i met by it. Whats the come to jesus part . What tough love would you give to the Prime Minister . Whats happening is he has a right to defend israel, a right to pursue hamas but he must, must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost. Hes hurting, in my view, hes hurting israel more than helping israel by making the rest of the world its a big mistake. Once see a ceasefire. What is your redline with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . Do you have a redline . For instance, would Invasion Of Rafah which urged him not to do be a redline . I will never leave israel. The defense of israel is critical. Theres no redline. They dont have the i dont to protect them. You cannot have 30,000 more palestinians dead as a consequence of going after its. Theres other ways to deal with the trauma caused by hamas. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rejecting the president s criticism. He told go hes doing with the people of israel want. The Prime Minister vowed to the fight President Joe Biden so called red line with rafah saying israeli troops will still move into the Southern Gaza city. Joining us now is the comments and Associate Editor for the Washington Post. His latest piece as the title the white house tries to steer israel back onto a twoway street. Is it possible . At what point i keep waiting for this moment where i stood up to the brits. You cant do this anymore. This is not helping you or the United States. Its going to cause bigger problems down the road. At what point do we reach that . This is pretty much unsustainable diplomatic you. Unsustainable in the long run voluntarily. Unsustainable politically for the israeli people. Im not even talking about the United States. I guess there are a good number of people in israel that either dont know or dont care with the longterm damage that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing to the country. We can. At some point, you have to stop killing palestinians are we have the have the suez moment with them. The hope was that by today the beginning of ramadan we would have a truce, a sixweek pause. We would have a gradual De Escalation in this war. Much more humanitarian aid and the ward was moving into a different phase. That hasnt happened. We are very close to the kind of contestation you describe. Weve got the president of the United States saying to an israeli Prime Minister, you are hurting your country more than you are helping it. Pretty strong language. Biden suggested that if israel goes forward with this plan to attack the four hamas battalions in rafah along the egyptian border that he will not have u. S. Support. What President Joe Biden met by a red light was not clear with our colleague. It seems to suggest the u. S. May withhold weapons or make weapons conditional. I know thats what the discussion has been. We are getting close to the break you talked about. It would be a huge step for an american president to take. The measure will be whether the israelis do in fact move over the next week against rafah. If they dont, that means they would have heard the message that holding back. I guess the ceasefire coming through and calm coming to the battlefield. Again, you look at the images that continue to come out. You look at the column yesterday. The Text Messages coming out. The images of the 10yearold boy starving to death. This has gone on and on. We remember the horde images of october 7. Let me say. Its why hamas cannot continue. Its what hamas has forfeited its right to run gaza. They have forded their right to ever run gaza again. Two things can be true at one time. The second thing is Israel Cannot continue moving in the direction theyve been moving over the last few months. Thats my question for david. We look at the family thats happening in gaza and you look at the life slipping away among the palestinians by the day and as joe said children starving to death. And the suffering is beyond anything we can explain, is this what the people of israel want especially given how the Israeli Government has handled october 7th from the start . Mika, these images are excruciating. I think any person of goodwill watching them has growing difficulty. Its wonderful United States is moving with both feet into the role of providing humanitarian assistance. The airdrops are just the beginning. The significant move will be the maritime deliveries. And the demand that israel open new crossing so trucks can roll in. Its near Famine Situation. For me having stood at the edge of gaza city in the first month of the war when the israels allowed journalists to go into gaza and watched the light of palestinians as long as i could see Marching South from gaza city toward what they were told was safety in rafah, the idea that the million Palestinian Refugees in rafah will now have to flee again because there will be an assault on rafah tour god knows where is a painful thought. The images of those faces leaving in desperate fear now having to leave again. Too much. I think this question To Go Into Rafah or not is a critical one. 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Did you mean to give the impression this horrible story happened on President Joe Bidens watch . No. Look, i specifically said this is what President Joe Biden did during his first 100 days. Minutes after coming into office, he stopped all deportation, halted construction of the border wall. The story you relate is not something that happened under the Biden Administration . That person . I clearly said i spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked when she was 12. Charlie, theres nothing clear about it. Again, listen, stuff happens in politics. Bad speeches are made. Its always better to go out and say i blew that one and people will forgive you for it and even like you better for it. Saying i was off on that and im so sorry. By the way, i told a story and inflated some facts and issues and things and im sorry for that. I hope you understand. My bigger point is the Biden Administrations policies from day one she could have said that. I dont know whos advising her. To double down after that performance. The wrong thing to do. On it like biden is owning his age. Yes. You can never apologize in the modern world. Being a republican is not saying you are sorry. That was not just misleading. That was a purposeful live. We know that part of the narrative is that joe biden is weak on the border and as a result we are being subject to this Migrant Crimes. Youve got elon musk tweeting out a bogus meme about Illegal Immigrants who are committing crimes and joe biden is giving them awards. Katie britt coming up with this gruesome and grisly story that has no relation whatsoever to whats happening on the border. Somebody had to know that. Somebody had to recognize that this was a problem. She goes ahead with it anyway. Maybe figuring no one would figure it out. When shes confronted with it, she gives that nondenial. One of the obvious questions is if in fact this is a terrible problem, if there are examples of Migrant Crime then why do you have to make up the ones that did not occur . These are realities. Something the Biden Administration has to deal with. It would be interesting to know who advised katie britt on the drama. Who advised her on the lies to give. It didnt do her any favors at all. No. Thats a question that people who know her were talking this weekend. Who advised her . Shes very likable. You talk to her one on one very likable. No nonsense. Richard shelby who she worked for. Who advised her . Who told her this was the right thing to do . Its crazy. I have no idea. Scarlett johansson had a tougher job than you may think. How do you do a parody of what is a parity itself. You played a bit from katie britt. Its a hard to outdo how strange that was. Maybe its the curse of the State Of The Union response. Every politician that falls on their face. 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Austedo xr were following some nfl Quarterback Updates. After a rough ride with the denver broncos, Russell Wilson is reportedly set to sign a oneyear contract with the pittsburgh steelers. That is going to be fascinating. The ninetime pro bowler and onetime super bowl champ tagged the Steelers On X in a hype video for his 13th nfl season. The patriots appear to be splitting with mac jones. Jacksonville got a great deal there. In tampa bay, the buccaneers are bringing back Baker Mayfield on a reported threeyear deal worth 100 million. Baker is like cher and cockroaches. They will survive a nuclear blast. Add Baker Mayfield to that list. Im excited about all of these things. First of all, i said from the beginning that Russell Wilson was treated like dirt in denver. Im glad hes going to get to play for a great coach, a great organization. Should be fun to see what happens in pittsburgh. You have been Russell Wilsons biggest defender. Hes going to be a backup to kenny pickett, who is the steelers quarterback. Russell wilson is a guy with a pr problem. His Football Skills have aged, so hes not the player he used to be. But in terms of what he can do, the standard of success is changing. When you become a backup, your job is not to mess things up. The biggest question is when does he unveil the pittsburgh accent . When does he start saying yinz . This is a very different climate than it was in seattle on the political front. Ask lemire, whos fidgeting by now. Im very fidgety over here. Lemire woke up at 1 p. M. To do the show because of the time change. The start of Daylight Saving time is a punishment. I think mac jones is going to have another moment in the nfl. He was terrific as a rookie with the patriots and done a disservice by Bill Belichick and his coaching staff. It was a toxic situation. Belichick lost confidence in jones. Jones played poorly this year, no doubt about it. It is disheartening they could only get a sixthround pick for him. It looked like he was going to be a solid starting quarterback. The pats had to move on from him. Theyll probably draft a qb at that third pick. I still think he could have a moment in the league. Hes an alabama guy. I want to point out there is a sliding doors sort of timeline here. If mac jones is drafted by the 49ers, as was rumored, hes a very different guy right now. Instead he went to the latter days of Bill Belichick. It was rough. He had no ceasefires. No ceasefires n if youre really signaling that this team is different, youre looking for the face of the change to change. There are some really good quarterbacks to be selected. Mac jones will be apparently back in his hometown of jacksonville. Lets go to College Basketball. Caitlin clarks game ceiling threepointer in overtime helped iowa to its third consecutive Big Ten Tournament title last night. The First Time Since 1992. Shes amazing. Shes made liars out of the writers of family guy, because people are watching Womens Basketball and theyre watching it in droves. This is the best Television Show in sports right now. These games, Caitlin Clarks games at iowa this is her winning in overtime last night. These shows are being watched more than not just wnba games, more than Mens College Basketball games, more than nba games. She had 4 Million People watching her last week. Shes not just the alltime leading scorer in College Basketball history. Shes someone we should not be grading on any kind of curve. What shes doing is proving shes one of the greatest entertainers weve seen in sports. Every big moment, she is clutch. She has a showmanship. She has an arrogance which also plays as confidence in a sincere way. Weve seen this whether its tom brady, derek jeter, i give her the same compliment. Coming up, well break down the oscars when morning joe comes right back. E oscars when comes right back i was stuck. 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Yesterday he was hosting at his club victor orban, who says he doesnt think democracy works. Called him a fantastic leader. I had dinner last night with a great gentleman from hungary, Prime Minister of hungary, victor orban, very, very tough. Some people dont like him because hes very tough. Instead of celebraing the contribution of immigrants to america, donald trump calls them a poison. The plunder of our cities, the sacking of our towns, the violation of our citizens and the conquest of our country. Theyre conquering our country. These people are conquering our country. Theyre horrible people. Wow. [ laughter ] why dont you just stand up and say, i want to lose . You mock a guy stuttering. Let me just say again, if you talk to Small Business owners, restauranters did you see the new unemployment numbers . You talk to people who run Hardware Stores on main street, they tell you we could use some more workers. Unemployment is lower than its been in 50 years now. The agony of our people, unemployment lower than its been in 50 years. The sacking of our towns, im not exactly sure. Crime near a 50year low despite some judges that are too liberal who wont do what theyre supposed to do when repeat offenders keep coming in. Thats not the rule. Its more the exception. Donald trump hates america. The praising of orban, heres a guy who hates democracy, who loves illiberalism. Joining the conversation we have peter baker and tyler pager. His latest reporting is on those dueling trump and biden rallies in georgia over the weekend, just 70 miles apart. But in terms of tone and outlook, thousands of miles apart. Tyler, the thing that every politician wants is a good, clear contrast. Thats what campaigns are about. Ive got to say donald trump and the freak show that was on the floor on State Of The Union night, for a lot of people in the Biden Campaign, its lining up pretty nice. Donald trump, for some bizarre reason, moving into the general election, telling romney republicans we dont want you, telling nikki haley republicans youre traitors, we dont want you. Hes boiling down his support instead of expanding it. Ive got to believe the Biden Campaign likes how this campaign is lining up. Yeah. After a lot of months of anxiety about bidens launch, the last few days have gone according to plan. Weve seen reporting that the Biden Campaign raised 10 million in the aftermath of the State Of The Union. So theyre quite can thrilled with that contrast. You know they started with that state of the Union Address where biden performed, surpassing expectations. I talked to one voter at his event outside philadelphia who was so nervous about bidens speech that she did not watch it in realtime. She was worried he would have a gaffe or stumble. It started there and continued to the weekend. I was in atlanta with him, where he gave a very tight 20minute speech, sharpening attacks against trump. Thats what the Biden Campaign wants. They want an election of a binary choice between trump and biden. They feel that the contrast is much further apart in terms of message and tone. I think well continue to see biden deliver that same message as he goes to New Hampshire and then michigan and wisconsin later in the week. A lot of relief and excitement in the biden camp and also among the donor class and voters, who were quite anxious. Its too early to see any movement on the polling front, but i know there will be a lot of anxious democrats waiting to see how much the ball has moved after a successful few days. Anxious democrats, theyre always anxious. Peter baker, youve reported on it. Democrats time and time again underestimated joe biden, time and time again think hes too old. Then South Carolina game. 2022, there was going to be a red wave. Hes too old, hes tired. All these people were lining up to replace him after the red wave that never happened. Its remarkable weve now had two State Of The Unions where democrats were very nervous. Joe biden, once again, outperformed them, had a great weekend, great fundraising total and got pretty funny 30second ads out there. Seems to be a completely different tone than we saw a week ago. Biden people knew that if its a referendum on biden, he loses. The polls have been very clear. There are more americans who disapprove of his performance than approve of his performance. The challenge has been to remind americans why they voted for biden in the first place in 2020. A lot of people who have drifted away from biden are independents or democrats who arent going to vote for trump. The question is whether theyre going to come back to biden. The Biden Campaign has presented that contrast in a sharper way that will hopefully, in their view, resonate by the fall, so when these voters come back to the ballot box, trump scares me or im worried about trump. Thats the choice they want to present the american public. If they think its a referendum on trump, they feel like theyve got a good chance at winning. The guy acts like a 5yearold. Hes making fun of somebody because of stuttering. Look what hes been doing for the past signature years. Its all about anger, rage and dividing america. Maybe people thought katie britt was trying to get on lifetime tv. Like, is donald trump trying to get a job at what are those medieval places people go . Medieval times maybe donald trump is trying to get a gig at Medieval Times. The sacking of the city stop, stop. Plunder it. Seriously how stupid can you be . Im not sure. He is that stupid. That was not a full house at maralago. There was a lot of echoing in the room. Not a big crowd. He usually has the room packed, doesnt he . Not this year. Peter baker, youre also writing about President Bidens foreign policy. And this interesting parallel of providing munitions to israel in support of their pushing back on the aggressor hamas, but also providing food and aid to the people in gaza, the innocent civilians caught in the middle of this. While it actually does represent everything biden stand for in his foreign policy, it is a very delicate balance. How long can he navigate it this way . Its a good question. Obviously its something nobody is satisfied with right now. People are very concerned about civilian casualties and the humanitarian crisis in gaza. They see these air drops and even the temporary pier as temporary stopgaps. As a matter of substance, as a matter of actual numbers, its hard to match the trucks that can come in if the land route is open. Air drops dont match whats not coming in on the ground. President biden is looking at whats happening there and seeing the destitution, deprivation and feeling pressure here at home from his own party to do something. Where they want to go is to find a way to get to a ceasefire and a deal on hostages. We saw a lot of pressure over the weekend in his relationship with Prime Minister netanyahu. After the state of the Union Address where he expressed sympathy for palestinians, he was caught on a hot mic saying hes going to have a come to jesus meeting with netanyahu. Prime minister netanyahu pushed back of course in that interview with politico. Its unclear where it goes from here. Both Prime Minister netanyahu and President Biden have very different points of view about where this war should go and very different politics at home. The biden camp has momentum right now. They feel good and they expect a bounce in the polls soon accompanying this. Peter just outlined a worry spot abroad in gaza. Special counsel robert her testifying about his report into the mishandling of classified documents. The white house believes there were some gratuitous and hurtful comments about the president s memory, declaring him an old man. Take us behind closed doors here. What does the white house plan to do tomorrow in response to her . I think theres a lot of frustration on this that will bubble over. Particularly, theres some concern within the biden operation that this hearing will come just days after biden had that Strong Performance at the State Of The Union. Tomorrow the hearing this report the special counsel wrote that biden was a wellmeaning elderly man with a poor memory. Thats a concern for biden supporters, for the Biden Campaign. That will be on display again in realtime. Its unclear how much robert hur is is going to get into this report past special counsel hearing. The special counsel has largely deferred to the report and explained the process. Well see both criticisms from republicans and democrats, republicans for hur not pursuing charges and democrats potentially going after him about what the Biden White House said are gratuitous comments. Obviously democrats have made clear they dont want to play up these accusations too much to give robert hur an opportunity to expand on what he put in that report. I think well see some real Rapid Response from the Biden Campaign and the white house trying to push back against republican allegations and criticism of the president. But it is quite the onetwo punch from the State Of The Union to reverting back to conversations about the president s age and memory. Obviously a hearing on capitol hill televised puts that right back in the center. Youve done a lot of reporting on the white house strategies when it comes to donald trump. In what is expected to be a tight election, its thirdparty candidates that could be a wildcard in this. Whats your reporting on how the Biden Campaign is going to deal with Robert Kennedy jr. Or cornell west . Do they have plans . The thing to watch right now are these three big blue wall states, michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. Will those independent candidates get on the ballot there . Ive heard democrats say if you see those independent candidates on those ballots, theyre in real trouble. It gives an outlet to people who arent happy with biden but would never vote for trump. There is polling suggesting that Robert Kennedy jr. May take more from trump at the moment than from biden. Thats possible. But even a handful of people to cornell west or especially the nolabels candidate, that could make a big difference. In florida in 2000 ralph nader won 90,000 votes. You could see how much a thirdparty candidate can make a difference in these swing states. What is the Biden Campaign doing about it . I havent heard much about it. Obviously they need to find a way to diffuse these candidates. Thats a big concern right now among democrats across the country. Peter baker and tyler pager, thank you very much for your reporting. Congress is advancing legislation that aims to crack down on tiktok. The bill calls for the chineseowned Parent Company bytedance to divest itself of the app. If not, tiktok will be banned from all u. S. Web hosting services and app stores. The full house is set to vote on the measure on wednesday. President biden has said he would sign the measure if it passes both chambers. Donald trump told Andrew Ross Sorkin that tiktok is a National Security threat, but said banning the app would boost support for facebook, which he says is, quote, the enemy of the people. Lets bring in andrew and see if he ch actually survived that interview. You missed it earlier, but we played clips from donald trump this weekend where he appears to be trying out for Medieval Times talking about the sacking of our cities. Its all exciting if youre a Medieval Times actor. You heard about the enemy of the people. He also called the press criminal this is weekend. Hes on a roll. Hes channelling orban all right. Lets ask about tiktok. What is the likelihood that both houses of congress and joe biden will sign a bill to ban tiktok unless they divest themselves from interests that are controlled by the Chinese Communist party . I think increasingly high. You really do have this bipartisan support and the president supports it too. We put the question to former President Trump about this. He was the one who began this effort, calling it a National Security risk, only to change his view in the last several weeks, in part, maybe because President Biden is now on sides with him, if you will. If its a National Security threat, its a National Security threat. If its not, its not. There is still a fair debate to be had about that. You can think about it in a broader context. Would we let a foreign country, an adversary, own Television Affiliates around the country . We probably would not. Under that pretense, you could suggest maybe this is the right decision. Having said that, its going to take a long time. Im sure certain things will go to courts and other things. Theres also, by the way, a huge protest vote from so many people around the country who are tiktok addicts, who love tiktok. By the way, tiktok made a push out to its users on that front, which is also something that i think offended a bunch of people in washington just to show the power of tiktok as well. I mean, would we allow the Chinese Communist party to run one of the Major Networks . No. Would we allow the Chinese Communist party to own a cable news site . You just go down the line. Those organizations can be sued. In this case, though, its even more dangerous, i believe, because youre talking about algorithms, algorithms that push certain political views towards younger americans, towards less educated people, towards those that the communist Chinese Party i cant believe im even saying this. The Chinese Communist party has an open door into millions of americans phones and theyre feeding them propaganda pushed by algorithms that we dont understand. If you really look at the algorithms pushing people beyond polarizing them, one of the reasons i think President Trump is in favor of keeping tiktok in service is because it is pushing a lot of content towards people to suggest that President Trump is the right choice and President Biden is the wrong choice, and that is one of the republicans he is all of a sudden a fan of tiktok. I think that plays a huge role in this. Fascinating. 2016, Vladimir Putin wanted to have a big influence in the election, did it through, of course, lies and disinformation. Now trump wants the communist Chinese Party. He loves xi. Even during the early days of covid, he said xi is so transparent, the American People thank you, president xi. Now hes telling president xi, have the communist Chinese Government have even more power. By controlling the minds of our youth, controlling the minds of uneducated americans. Its fascina fascinating. I know im going to get cancelled for saying this. Oh no. Theres one point that is worth making. It is not yet clear there is direct evidence that even if tiktok is pushing more President Trump stuff than President Biden stuff or whatever it is, that the Chinese Government itself is the one that is deciding that the algorithm is supposed to do that yet. The truth is, if you talk to National Security experts, they would suggest its not clear that theyre pushing one thing or the other, but they could. Its the possibility more that they could rather than they do today. I think thats one of the reasons that content has become so polarizing, is because people are lingering on it. Any time you linger on any video on tiktok, the algorithm says you like this, were going to show you more of it because youre going to stay on this platform longer. This concern goes well beyond the 2024 election. Its a concern i had well before the 2024 election. You have the communist Chinese Party that has a vested interest in algorithms pushed by tiktok to American Youth that twist and distort their views on things. Look whats happened with israel and hamas and all the false videos, everything that the Chinese Communist government was pushing through tiktok on younger americans. There have been articles detailing it in full. Mika, again, why does donald trump want the communist Chinese Government to have this much control over our youth . Its a fair question. Seems to be part of some sort of strange plan. Andrew ross sorkin, thank you very much. Still ahead on morning joe hello, emily. Well, a bit of a frosty hello. Not at all, no. Im just happy we can finally put this barbenheimer rivalry behind us. Thats right. Ken and kitty leaving all that fodder in the dust. And the way its turned out wasnt that much of a rivalry. So just let it go. Its true. You guys are doing very well. Congratulations. Thanks. [ laughter ] you know, i think i kind of figured out why they call it barbenheimer and why they dont call it oppenbarbie. Why. Because you were riding barbies coattails all summer. Thanks for kensplaining that to me. Mr. I need to paint my abs onto get nominated. This is insane, emily. This has got to stop. We have to squash this. Barbie star ryan gosling and oppenheimer star emily blunt about the rivalry of last summers top blockbusters, next on morning joe. Blockbusters, on morning joe. So this is pickleball . Its basically tennis for babies, but for adults. It should be called wiffle tennis. Pickle yeah, aw whoo these guys are intense. We got nothing to worry about. With e trade from morgan stanley, were ready for whatever gets served up. Dude, you gotta work on your trash talk. Id rather work on saving for retirement. Or college, since you like to get schooled. Thats a pretty good burn, right . Got him. Good game. Thanks for coming to our clinic, first ones free. So fun. Ryan gosling performing im just ken at the academy awards. It was oppenheimer that was the big winner of the night, taking home best picture and stars earning best actor and best supporting actor respectively. In all, the film won seven awards, the most of the night. Meanwhile e emma stone won second best actor award of her career and davine joy won best supporting actress for the holdovers. And you actually saw most of those movies. I have. Lets bring in Matthew Belloni and chloe melas. Thank you so much for being with us. Matthew, we heard the back and forth on the barbenheimer rivalry. There is no doubt that another massive night in awards season for oppenheimer and how exciting for christopher nolan. Also Cillian Murphy had a great night all around. Yeah. I think this show will be remembered for two things. One, the oppenheimer dominance. This has been predicted all the way back in july. This movie was the favorite in july and kept the momentum all through awards season, which you rarely see. Second, i think it will be remembered for the ken performance. Thats the moment that went viral of the night. Those two things really encapsulated movies in 2023, barbie and oppenheimer. Ryan gosling, the guy should just host the oscars. There are so many great moments from him. If youre on youtube for more than three or four seconds, youll see the back and forth with him and one star after another through the years, whether its brad pitt or others. Man, he really owned that moment. Also, emma stone, a bit of a surprise. Man, she wins it again. Yeah. That was the big question of the night. The other races were pretty much decided. People knew who was going to win. It was between emma stone in poor things and Lily Gladstone in killers of the flower moon. Poor things had momentum with the academy. It won a lot of the crafts awards like costume design and production design. Once they got to her, it was a coronation for that movie. Poor things started out as kind of a favorite of the academy and it won a lot of baftas at the british awards. Then it got to the oscars and i believe they ended up with five wins. Certainly a huge night for oppenheimer including Robert Downey jr. s first victory. His acceptance speech was darkly funny in some ways. It really was the speeches. You needed your kleenex right next to you. It started with davine joy randolph saying thank you for those that took a chance on me early on in my career. She was fantastic in the holdovers. She studied at yale, oxford. She has been working on this craft for 37 years and finally recognized. Yes, Robert Downey jr. Saying thank you to my terrible childhood and then the academy, in that order. The awards season in general has not really focused on politics so much even though were gearing up for this general election. You havent heard much about ukraine and israel and gaza, but you did last night. We had Jonathan Glazer addressing the israel hamas war head on and talking about gaza and the Inhumane Treatment of the people there. He said i wish to be able to exchange this for russia never attacking ukraine, never attacking our cities. He said he would trade his oscar in exchange for peace. Then you had people wearing red lapel pins calling for a ceasefire. The show was delayed because of protests on the streets right outside of the dolby protesting the war. It didnt take over the entire night. Then you had kimmel come out and call out trump. The audience thought it was funny. Four of the winners from last night were recent guests on our show. For oppenheimer i chose to shoot large format film, imax film. We want to put that story up on the biggest screen possible, bring people together and have them go through this mans extraordinary experiences. To the academy, just to say movies are just a little bit over 100 years old. Imagine being there 100 years into painting or theater. We dont know where this incredible journey is going from here, but to know that you think im a meaningful part of it means the world to me. Thank you very much. I think resentment underneath it perhaps, the fact that more people arent familiar with who he is nowadays i dont think would sit well with him. What we do is meaningful, and the stuff that we decide to make is important. It was an absolute gift. I didnt expect it. I know the way chris works and what hehe level of excellence he demands. We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb. I would like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere. He hides just to catch some connection under the bombs falling. It was terrible, but there was always a feeling of importance because people kept telling us, please show to the world what is happening. Probably i will be the first director on this stage to say i wish i never made this film. I wish to be able to exchange this to russia never attacking ukraine, never occupying our cities. Oh my god, that was the director whose film 20 days in mariupol won for best documentary. Before that was was christopher nolan, Robert Downey jr. And Cillian Murphy. Lets talk about a movie that after it first came out, i got several calls from very powerful people in hollywood saying, ive just seen one of the most extraordinary films. It was Martin Scorseses killers of the flower moon. This was months before it came out. The buzz was just overwhelming. We interviewed martin here. Im sure he believed as did Lily Gladstone and a lot of people believed it was going to do extremely well during the awards season. It didnt. What happened . That is one of the big mysteries of the season is the lack of support for killers of the flower moon. I really think the length was an issue. Most filmmakers would like their films to be 3 1 2 hours. They cut them back. Scorsese didnt. It felt for a number of voters like a slog. Its an amazing movie, but most people edit, and he did not. Leo dicaprio did not show up last night at the show. The big one they had was Lily Gladstone against emma stone and they lost that and ended up with nothing. We the famous best picture mixup one year, the chris rock slap. Reviews have been mixed for jimmy kimmel. Give us a big picture about this moment in oscars, which benefitted this year for the first time in a while with big hits being nominated. It felt deeply personal. Last night just felt like an ode to hollywood filmmakers. You didnt have that booming voice of god. You had more smooth transitions. It felt more modern. What was really great is they brought out the former winners in the acting categories to present these. Jimmy kimmel, yes, some of his jokes were clunky, but he is a safe choice for the academy. This was one of those nights where it wasnt a 10 out of 10, but it was close. They were saying they were going to end on time at 10 00, and it ran over even though they started an hour earlier. They still could not manage to keep the show within three hours. It still ran long, but thats the oscars for you. Every year. A lot of really big personalities that sometimes wont stop talking. Im looking at you, mika. Chloe melas and Matthew Belloni, thank you both very much. Our next gust was hired by Donald Trumps 2020 campaign to find voter fraud. Ken block joins us with the data that shows why trump lost. Were back in a moment. Why tru. Were back in a moment this is our future, ma. Godaddy airo. Creates a logo, website, even social posts. In minutes how . A. I. impressed ay i like it who wants to come see the future . get your Business Online in minutes with godaddy airo hi, im david, and i lost 92 pounds on golo. Get your business my life partner connie and i were in really rough shape regarding our health. And our doctors told us that we needed to lose weight. I saw a golo commercial and i thought, we really need to try this. As the weeks went by, the weight came off. We learned to make healthy choices and be supportive of each other. Together, weve lost 170 pounds. Golo worked for us. Since losing weight on golo, im feeling grateful and hopeful about the future. energizing music the polls are all rigged. Lately they havent been rigged because im winning by so much. The radical left democrats rigged the president ial election in 2020 and were not going to allow them to rig the president ial election in 2024. Hes so transparently stupid to say the polls are only rigged when im behind. When im ahead, the polls are accurate. I dont know how stupid he thinks his people are, but i will say one of President Bidens, i think, most important lines, if you actually believe in this thing we call democracy, which donald trump doesnt and victor orban doesnt, one of the most important lines is, you have to believe in democracy even when you lose. That was a line even mike johnson had to clap for. Its so sick that you have donald trump and his extreme followers saying, if we win in the polls, then well accept it, but if we dont, well start a civil war. Again, you look at some of the clips that Vaughn Hilliard had at a trump rally, its frightening that there are people out there who say weve win democratic elections or we go on a rampage and start killing state legislators and members of congress. They tried it january 6th, and theyre saying it to an open mic in 2024. I was so embarrassed for the republicans during President Bidens speech when he was talking about january 6th. I just dont understand. Were really going to argue this . I dont think so. Same people who were fearing for their life and hiding. Nearly four years after the 2020 president ial election donald trump is still claiming, without evidence, that the vote was rigged against him. Joining us is ken block, an Elections Technology expert, who was hired by trump. Its the trump 2020 campaign to find voter fraud. His new book entitled disproven, my unbiased search for voter fraud for the Trump Campaign. How interesting. Its such an important book. Thank you for writing it. It reiterates what 63 federal courts found and the United States Supreme Court as well. Talk about this process. The Trump Campaign hired you, said find voting irregularirreg. I was asked to data mine for voter fraud to look for dead people casting ballots, to look for people casting ballots in two different states, the same person taking two bites of the apple. We found some, but not nearly enough to have caused a change in the election results. By the way, i didnt think i was going to find substantial evidence of that kind of voter fraud, and i told the campaign before i signed my contract with them that i would be surprised if we found it, but i would do my best to look. Much more importantly were the claims of voter fraud that other people brought to the attention of the white house that came to the campaign, the attention of the campaign and the attorneys i reported to in the campaign did their due diligence. They didnt want to be part of a lawsuit that had a foundation of false information. I of false information. I looked at probably 15 to 20 different claims of voter fraud, and for each and every one of them, i was able to show and prove why those claims were false. Ken, as we gear up for kind of the next round of this, and there is again the possibility that after the next election youll be called up perhaps it wont be you anymore since youve written this book, but somebody is going to be called up and asked, can you troll through this because we dont believe the election was fair and it was stolen from us. What can we do in the systems to prevent this from happening whenever theres a close election in the u. S. , now that the kind of taboo is being launched that you dont have to accept the election result. Are there things we can do to tighten this system up . Very much so. We conduct our elections as if we lived 100 years ago. Yes, we have computers and things in play now, but each state handles its own voter registration. The states do not in total cooperate with each other to make sure that duplicate registered voters dont have active registrations in two different places. Some states do a good job of removing deceased voters from the rolls. Others do an absolutely terrible job at it. So the unevenness of the way our elections are implemented from state to state to state really mean we dont have great election integrity. Now, a lot of people use the word election integrity. What theyre really talking about with slightly hidden intent is election denialism. Im not talking about that. Im talking about the need for us to have a cohesive election, especially for congress and president ial elections where our elections are conducted similarly in the states, and i can give shocking examples of how a voters experience can be different from state to state and sometimes county to county in our country. Ken, congrats on an important book here. We just, as we came into this block, its very clear donald trump is going to do this again. If he were to lose, hes going to claim there is voter fraud. Hes going to make wild accusations with little to no proof. Yes, there will be people like you who step up and try to find it, but a lot of his supporters arent going to believe that. What are some of the things we right now, before the election, can do to safeguard the ballot box but also change Public Perception of whether these elections are free and fair . It will be very difficult to change Public Perception in the short amount of time we have between now and the election, especially when President Trump is still messaging furiously about the nature of our elections and his contention that the elections were fraudulent. I wrote this book for a couple reasons. I wrote it because i knew my materials had already shown up in the january 6th deposition transcripts, and all my materials had been subpoenaed by both jack smiths investigation in d. C. And fani willis in georgia. With this information being in the public sphere, i felt it was very important to talk about it with the right framing, my framing about what it meant, how it came about and, most importantly, a thorough explanation for all these claims of fraud that were false. Just because we have many, many, many claims of fraud, that doesnt mean theres fraud. The claims have to have some basis in truth, and i have yet to see any claim of fraud based on data that was true. And all the other claims we hear are just hearsay. The new book is entitled disproven my unbiased search for voter fraud for the Trump Campaign. The data shows how we lost and how we can improve our elections. It goes on sale tomorrow. Ken block, thank you very much for coming on the show and thank you for providing the book. We appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Coming up, well dig into why the princess of wales, Kate Middleton is apologizing for a family photo thats causing a lot of controversy. Well explain next on morning joe. Woman i have a few more minutes. Lets go tech vo thats service that fits your schedule. Go to safelite. Com. Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. Kayak. No way. Why would i use kayak to compare hundreds of travel sites at once . Kayak. I like to do things myself. I do my own searching. It isnt efficient. Use kayak. I cant trust anything else to do the job right. Aaaaaaaahhhh kayak. Search one and done. Rsv is out there. For those 60 years and older protect against rsv with arexvy. Arexvy is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. 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The Associated Press noted, quote, the photo shows an inconsistency in the alignment of princess charlottes left hand and the princess of wales responded this morning writing on social media, like many amateur photographers, i do occasionally experiment with editing. It wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. This was the first photo of kate that the palace has put out since she had unspecified Abdominal Surgery in january. Katty, your thoughts . Is there anything more you can add to this . We still dont know how sick she is. No. This didnt go as planned, right . It was put out to coincide with british mothers day. They hoped this would reassure the British Public that kate is well, she had her surgery and her recovery is on progress. Its been taken up with this firestorm. Theyve had to issue this apology. Its about trust, right . Trust is the currency of the realm at the moment. This doesnt go well with trust with the British Public. A lot of questions about people not seeing her as much. And charles. Well have more on this tomorrow. That does it for us this morning. Ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. Right now on ana cabrera reports, the intenifying race for the white house. President biden on a Campaign Swing this week as hisiv