is in this battle with marjorie taylor greene. maybe i can be the peacemaker because they will inherit the eart h. we ll see. now we ll also hear from house ways and means cmi chairman jason smith. earlier today, his committee released bombshell testimony from not one but two irs whistleblower. now, based on their serious allegations. get this payons, get close atte. it appears the department of justice, she thought it was corrupt, even more corrupt. thi this is a corrupt organization. they wennizationt to great lengs to protect joe and hunter biden from eved r facing criminalchar charges. despite what is a mountain ogesf damning evidence, according to these whistleblowers, the irs recommends se felony taxns charges against hunter after they uncovereder get this, $8.3 million that he took in that was mysteriously excluden d from hunter biden s tax returns. now, that income cam reture fori entities in ukraine, romania and china. that sraine, romania a only thr. what about russ
long. morning joe starts right now. are you ready? food for everyone. food for everyone. okay, that s great. he paid everybody. food for everybody. what a guy. he was arrested. what a guy. and released. he kept everybody s spirits up. by buying lunch for them. food for everybody. local cuban restaurant in miami. willie, that is so kind of him. maybe he has been misjudged after all. willie, what do you think? i think mika called this in real time and every day since, but i ll let you reveal the story. well, the miami new times revealed nobody ordered anything during his ten-minute stop, and trump didn t pay for anything. i don t think there was an offer to do so. yeah. willie, nobody ordered nothing. nobody paid for nothing. there was no paying. i know this is going to shock you, coming from donald trump, it was all a scam. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s friday, june 16th. along with willie, joe, and me, we have former aide t
he stated he pled the fifth under the advice of counsel declining to answer the questions. this striking legal development, which we ll get into comes just two days after august 8, 2022 when the fbi searched a former president s home. both developments show the depths of donald trump s legal problems. neither means that he is in a legal sense guilty of anything to be precise. both mean that the concerns about donald trump s guilt about law breaking, about criminal evidence and criminal activity stretch from the highest levels of the doj to a separate new york probe to inside donald trump s mind. only he can make the decision that he made today. and let me tell it to you in plain english, it s a right he can exercise, but he made the decision, donald trump did that he faces a higher risk by testifying truthfully in the new york probe, which he chose not to do than by pleading the fifth, which he chose to do. it is a legal but a controversial move, which he has probably derided
,that they lied to the american people every single day, day in, day out, week in, thek out, month in, month out for three long years. they ve never corrected the record. they dreears never, you know, pd to change their practices and they all got away with it. t and all the people that use the dirty dossier, even for pfizer, warrants to spy on people. they all got, you know, no no penalty, no consequences at all whatsoever. that should bother every american. your thought s? oh, it absolutely does. and the fact that the mediath is also complicie fadia is at, s bothers me even more because i expect more out of the media that s supposed to be a watchdog and protect the american people. but the way that i thinktchdog e going to beat all of this is at the ballot box. so we better get work and we better work on our election strategy, make them pay their that sd make tere. what wd to come out in force and say, you lied about our guy. one, two, three, four, five, six times. now you re hiding
testifying against trump are all people donald trump hired. how would he hire an administration? right. this next reporting raises the question, though comical, of mitt romney and others in the republican party who have asked the question as to, like, why? why did he hold on to these classified documents? one week after the latest indictment of donald trump, there is new reporting that would poke holes in one of the former president s defenses. despite claiming earlier in the week he, quote, hadn t had a chance to go through all the box s he took with him to mar-a-lago, former white house aides tell the new york times that trump was unusually attached to those boxes and their contents. throughout his presidency read that line again. and after leaving office. are you saying he was unusually attached to the boxes? attached. others get unusually attached