yeah. you hungry? hey, mom, can we get some meat loaf. chance, i m okay. i had a bite before i came over. thank you. jesse: that s usually when dad sits down and says son, it s time for you to get a life. right now there is one person who really needs to have that talk. and since his dad won t say it primetime will. hunter, it s time for you to finally grow up. believe us, this is coming from a place of love. because hunter is 53 and still clinging on to daddy. it feels like wherever joe goes, hunter follows. sure, it s nice have the kids around during the holidays. especially to help out with the egg roll at your house. but, easter is over, hunter, and dad has to get back to work. yesterday, joe jetted off to ireland but right behind it was you guessed it, hunter, and that six hour flight really put hunter in a hungry mood. listen. how are you? hungry. i just got about 10 pounds of [inaudible] are you kidding me? hunter usually pays for the big guy. it s
all. thank you for watching morning joe weekend. happy weekend everybody. it was a busy week, especially in maryland where republicans are wrapping up their annual conservative political action conference. donald trump is expected to be the big headline for the final day today, but many of the party s biggest names opted out of just it means there is a change including, not, they re a florida governor ron desantis senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, and house speaker kevin mccarthy, pretty big names. the conference was, once one of the biggest events for conservatives. so, what happened? we are happy. and here s what our panel had to say earlier this week. there is a way regan would always go, this is where every sort of conservative used to go, then at some point it became obvious that it was going forth and you would have it became a libertarian gathering, not republican or conservative, that is when you have ron paul and rand paul start winnin
were declassified. on that subject overnight, trump offered a, frankly, odd defense. if you re the president of the united states you can declassify by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it and there doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision. so when you send it, it s declassified. i declassified everything. he seems to be creating a new security category. declassified in his mind. more on that in a moment. in new york, trump, his children and empire accused of fraud over the value of his properties for more than a decade. the new york attorney general wants the trump organization dissolved. also trump is facing a new sexual battery lawsuit from eg carroll, who accused him of raping her in a department store in the mid 90s. genie thomas, wife of clarence thomas, has agreed to sit down for an intervi
as vladimir putin announced a major escalation in the war in ukraine. this all happening overnight calling up reservists and threatening a possible nuclear response as he suffers major setbacks on the battlefield, and in the geopolitical landscape. plus, the latest in the trump documents case as it goes before the special master, the former president s attorneys refuse to back up their claim that trump declassified the documents before taking them to his club in florida. we ll have the reaction from the judge and it is quite telling. also, the attorney general of new york is set to make a major aa nounsa-of- announce. we ll discuss what that announcement might be. and new developments in the story of the migrants flown to martha s vineyard with some sent to the massachusetts island now filing a class action lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. we ll have all of the details on that. with us, host of way too early, jonathan lemire. and former aide of the geo
category 4 storm leaving a huge path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, rescue crews have been busy trying to get people who decided to ride out the storm to try and save them. they re stranded now by rising flood waters and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida. at this hour, it still has more to go. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, september 29th. joe is off this morning. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. without power this morning, first light this morning will begin to show the damage in florida. that s right. that s when we re going to start to see the story of what happened last night, what happened overnight. tropical storm now ian downgraded from a category 1 hurricane. in just the last hour, but still wreaking havoc across florida as it made landfall as a