And youre in the situation room. We begin with a big day of primary voting within a bigger week of political maneuvering. Nebraska and West Virginia, another potentially close one in coal country. Both ted cruz and marco rubio made headlines today and well talk about that in the next two hours. That is coming up ahead. Well also be getting exit polling results momentarily. Stand by for that. Lets begin with jim acosta on Donald Trumps day in a crucial week ahead for him. Jim, where is the Trump Campaign focused right now as it moves toward tonights primary . Top aides expect him to move closer to the nomination. But the next challenge comes on thursday when hes set to meet with paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, other top gop leaders. Trump september out on tweet saying hopes to unify the party and ryan told a local Radio Station that he hopes the meeting begins process of getting everyone on the same page. So the Trump Campaign feeling that the healing has begun. Marco rubio says he doesnt w
Right now. In washington, tonight for my friend, chuck todd and welcome with 15 days to go. Donald trump and the Republican Party are facing a bleak reality and they are behind in nearly every National Poll and struggling in most Battle Ground states. The blame game has in some cases begun. Then there is trumps version of things today. Just in case you havent heard, we are winning. Were winning. Were winning. I actually think we are winning. We are winning this race. I believe we are winning. Trump tweeting we are winning and the press is refusing to report it. Dont let it fool you. Get out and vote. It is a tale of two realities. Heres Kellyanne Conway just yesterday. Where do you see this race right now . Do you acknowledge you are behind . We are behind. Donald trump is going to take the case tredirectly to the peo. Trump is also rejecting the polling reality of the race. Heres donald trump with one of the florida rallies that wrapped up a short time ago. The system is corrupt and i
Lies, and we will go through each and every one of them for you. Good morning, everyone. Its thursday, june 22nd. Welcome to morning joe. With us we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle, senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein, former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state department, solis jordan, jon meacham, and capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. And joe will be back tomorrow. Were going to get to the fact check of the president s rally in a moment. Theres a lot of work to do to get all of those facts checked, willie. Yes. There were quite a few doozies in there. Its kind of uncomfortable. Well its so uncomfortable to see a president i mean, can you remember having to go through lies after lies after lies from the president of the United States . Well, i know were going to talk about this in a second, but the one interesting thing is the one piece of legislation he can tout, which is the Health Care
Dictators, nor will Congressional Republicans punish him for it. Soy for the last two days hes born that out on the world stage, just after he was caught practically winking at russian president vladamir putin to refrain from tampering in our next election, he signals yet again hes good with the globes tyrants, tweeting like old friends do, an invitation to north korean dictator, kim jong un to shake hands and catch up at the Demilitarized Zone between north and south korea. If you do meet kim jong un at the dmz tomorrow, would you step across the border into north korea . Sure, i would. I would feel very comfortable doing that. I would have no problem. While the president has no problem with chumminess, for the rest of us, theres the question of how our political system even responds, a question made more pressing for Congress Ahead of special counsel Robert Muellers testimony next month. Will house speaker, nancy pelosi have what she needs to start an impeachment and will others have
In his response weighing into tonights debate. We kick off ed henry working the post at the spin room, ed. Shannon, two big headlines everybody is talking about. First of all, the party we saw last night and we saw it again tonight two. Again more candidates raising their hands saying they want to end private Health Care Insurance and medicare for all. They want the government takeover of health care. The other big headline, of course he dramatic confrontation between Kamala Harris and the front runner joe biden. It is not rocking him but it buckled him on the issue of race on the issue of why he was opposed to bus cities in the 1960s. Harris directed him and a flavor of what is happening in the spin room. We were told before the debate regardless of all that, joe biden himself would not be in the spin room spinning for himself but also would have aids here. They were here briefly in the beginning right after the debate ended at 11 00 p. M. Eastern time. They tried to tell reporters it