on this. ross always seems to hang on. i can t tell if this one is different. we felt like we had to report it because we are hearing the president is making calls. good to see you up and early this morning. sure thing. jeff, specifically wanted to thank you. he was like, let me say thanks to hans. vice president mike pence is calling the conditions at the border, quote, tough stuff. he made the trip to facilities on friday with republican senators in an effort to defend the trump administration s handling following reports of inhumane conditions. according to the washington post when reporters toured the mcallen facility before the vice president, the men being detained screamed that they had been held there 40 days or longer, some cases, they said they were hungry and they wanted to brush their teeth. the post says it was sweltering
arrangements. the four targets were congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez who was born in the bronx and tlaib of michigan, and congresswoman khanna and omar who was born in somalia. many people came out in defense of the house speaker. nancy pelosi being one of them. here is her quote, he reaffirms his plan to, quote, make america great again has been about make america white ago. our diversity and unity is our power. she went on to say, i reject president trump s zen phobic comments. he should work with us for human
of staff for, quote, explicitly naming out a woman of color. saying i don t believe she is a racist person but her votes are showing her to enable a racist system. declining to respond to her view of the tweet of congresswoman jefferys. however hard way confirmed to vox the tweet was sent inationnally. ocasio-cortez chief of staff responded writing, this tweet was in response to someone else s tweet where they specifically responded to represent davids. why did you leave that out. i have known senator davids for a long time. i m glad that she ran.
the administration had no strategy for what came after the withdrawal and quote, no sort of plan for reaching out to partners and allies. that memo was written after then foreign secretary boris johnson who was now the front-runner to become the next prime minister visited washington in a failed attempt to get trump to stay in the landmark agreement. coming up, axios mike allen has a look at the 1 big thing. coming up on morning joe, the growing challenge, more on the new poll numbers showing trump is facing head winds against potential challengers to win re-election. plus, president trump digs in in a growing condemnation over his racist attacks against four congress women of color telling them they should go back to the countries they came from. 2020 hopeful mayor bill de blasio, independent senator angus king will both join the conversation as morning joe is just moments away. conversation s just moments away.
country. he revised several policy proposals to better delivery on that responsibility writing in part we all need to know our own story as it relates to the national story much as i m learning mine. it is only then i believe that we can take the necessary steps to repair the damage done and stop visiting this injustice on the generations that follow ours. all right. a british newspaper has published more of the leaked diplomatic cables which reveal former british ambassador sir kim darroch s blunt views of president trump and the administration. and one of them deals with president trump s controversial unilateral decision to withdraw the u.s. from the 2015 iran nuclear deal. according to the mail, the ambassador said that trump s decision was made to spite president obama writing it was quote, an act of diplomatic vandalism seemingly for ideological and personality reasons because the accord quote was obama s deal. ambassador darroch alleged that