talked about before. and while he was in the middle of meetings, people would be texting their sources at newspapers. there is no doubt that this is the leakiest white house in modern american history. there were stories in the last couple days about the art of the trump leak where the leakers, heidi, were telling reporters, i think jonathan swann at axios had one where they disguised the way they talked. they knew how to phrase when they re talking to a reporters to make it sound like somebody else. there s apparently an art to this in the white house. an art that s been perfected. look, i talked to a white house official about this last night, guys. i don t know what more they can do given that if the reporting is accurate many staffers are already being subjected to their phones being cob fnfiscated, sweeps. at the end of the day, they still get to go back on to the
i think lindsey did, not to his face. not to the president s face. that was the time to do it. don t tell reporters. stand up and tell the president to his face that s out of line. your staff member, you need to let your staff member apologize and you need to apologize. it didn t happen. still ahead on morning joe, two new angles in the bob mueller investigation. bloomberg s shannon petty piece is along with us along with axios s mike allen. what better time to plug our amazing morning joe newsletter straight from the devil. information on how to subscribe son our website or if you don t like reading, like the president, check out our pod cast. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. growing up, we were german. we danced in a german dance group. i wore lederhosen. when i first got on ancestry i was really surprised that i wasn t finding all of these germans in my tree. i decided to have my dna tested through ancestry dna.
isn t going well, we re going to go, if this isn t going well, we ll just walk. which kind of tough talk bluster. you feel on some level like the north koreans are like, you know, okay. we can walk, too. we can walk first. you re already laying the table down or setting the predicate for walking. why not let them know we can do that, too. joining us now from capitol hill, white house correspondent for bloomberg news, shannon petty piece and cofounder of axios mike allen. you write in your new piece for bloomberg news, quote, president donald trump and his legal team are planning to use the one-year anniversary of this week of robert mueller s appointment to ratchet up pressure on the special counsel to close his investigation. trump and his lawyers are trying to set up the milestone on thursday as a turning point in their campaign to end mueller s probe into russian election meddling and obstruction of justice. rudy giuliani s trump s personal lawyer said tuesday in an interview.
jobs and other things that, again, let s do what we can to help those that are hurting right now. right. but we need to have an economy that s looking forward. congressman, tim ryan, thank you very much. thanks for being on this morning. still to come on she show, axios got a firsthand look at the trump campaign s plan to get the president re-elected in 2020.
blankenship responding to president trump s call for his defeat in today s republican u.s. senate primary. joining us now, national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc steve kornacki. editor in chief of axios, nicholas johnston and political reporter for nbc news and msnbc, alex us. the story that s emerging in the last couple of days is in west virginia. it s the late momentum that blankenship has in this race. a three-way race, when you look at the public polling, it looked like he had faded back to third place, ten days ago. it looked like the effort from the republican establishment to suppress him was working. what s happened since then? he s dominated the coverage the last week of the race. he had a stylistically well received debate performance that got him some attention. the comments about cocaine mitch, the comments about his