Right about that. Earlier this morning the president of the United States publicly hounded natos secretarygeneral, repeatedly disparaged germany and wondered aloud why america should be responsible for protecting europe against russia. Vladimir putin wants donald trump to break from American Allies. A few hours ago, that is exactly what he got. Wow. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, july 11th. With us, msnbc contributor mike ba ba ba barniccal. And David Ignatius, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt and former u. S. Ambassador to nato and former state Department Spokesman nicholas burns, professor of diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy school of government. Great group to start with this morning, and, wow, what a start to the trip. What a start to the trip. And lets just play the clip. Heres donald trump actually doing exactly what Vladimir Putin would want him to do. Good morning. In many countries, they owe
done more damage to the bbc, certainly in my lifetime and i m 56 years old. i“m certainly in my lifetime and i m 56 years old. i m not sure he is leaving behind a great legacy. he is leaving behind a great legacy. he is leaving behind a very bad legacy. the bbc will move on. richard sharpe will be nothing more than a footnote. he has done some damage in the short time he has been imposed, but this not, i believe, cause lasting damage to the bbc. if something good comes out of it, for example he is not a political appointment or hisses if it is if his replacement is a political appointment but the long term effect of the scandal around richard sharpe or do some good in the long term. thank you very much forjoining us here on the bbc. this is the day that the bbc chairman has resigned. we have heard from a lot of bbc
that s going to suffer. donald trump will move on. he ll either get reelected or won t. in two years or four years he s got. but the republican partiy has t figure out how it rebuilds itself after this trump dumpster fire of a press conference on something that is so fundamental to the constitution. i guarantee you that if they were barack obama standing in the well of the garden making an announcement declaring an executive emergency on something that everyone in the country knew was not an emergency, it wouldn t be hair on fire. there would be petitions of his removal from speaker republican speaker, whoever that happens to be and mitch mcconnell. that s the fact of this. they have dumbed this thing down to the point where they re accepting of anything that comes out of this president s mouth. why? because they re afraid of him.
shocked by politicians in washington who act like the reality they re living in today will forever be the reality. donald trump will leave office at some point, and when he does leave office, these republicans are going to have a hell of a lot to answer for. i remember during george bush s second term criticizing his foreign policy and criticizing his deficit spending, and the massive debts he was racking up, and conservatives were attacking me. suggesting i wasn t sufficiently conservative, two, three years later. suddenly bush leaves town, and they have to defend all the things so that s why barack obama got elected president and there were 59 democrats elected to the united states senate. history moves on. donald trump will move on. all of this will be mud on their face they will have to deal with for a very long time. yeah. and they re all looking at
once you have that internal coordination, the russian embassy in washington will be add vised that those families have 72 hours to leave. so by monday morning, they ought to be out. theoretically, they could say no, but they re going to leave. so russia will respond. how big of a loss will that be for the u.s.? it s significant because it s a disruption in operations. you have to anticipate you can refill that over time, but that s a lot of expertise and people. compared to the u.s. military, intelligence services are very small. and losing dozens of people at a time is a huge blow. but it s tit for tat that we ve seen and we awill move on. donald trump releasing a statement saying it s time to move on. how does vladamir putin, i don t know if enjoy is too strong a