President biden challenged former President Trump to two debates, and trump accepted. Oh. Yeah. Trump agreed. He said, ill be there, assuming its okay with my parole officer. The first debate will be next month, which is the earliest a president ial debate has ever been. If were being honest, an early bird debate feels right for these guys. Boom, just like that, headtohead, toe to toe, mano and mango. Trump posted, just tell me when. Ill be there. Lets get ready to rumble rumble . Ive seen your rallies. I think you mean, lets get ready to ramble. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, may 16th. I just have to ask, the Question Alex asks, why is it not friday . How is it not friday, guys . Its thursday. Were grateful that god has given us another day to come in and be together. Im very grateful. Were close to friday. Were not at friday. 24 hours, itll be friday. A lot to talk about. We have White House Bureau chief for politico, jonathan lemire. We have john heilemann. Ma
On internationally in israel. Our top job as a country is making sure we are strong at home while standing for our allies in israel. We have to approach this cool, levelheaded rationality. We have to stand for israels right to defend its own borders while making sure we avoid broader, regional conflicts and world war iii that would not advance americas interests. Most importantly of all, eagle pass on our southern border, still processing what i saw down there. Making sure we protect the homeland. Last weekend i was in pittsburgh on our northern border. I am alarm that no one is talking about this. We have to protect our own homeland in this country now more than ever. Border defenses are absolutely lacking. 70,000 special interest aliens coming to this country from countries with islamic ties. Cyber defenses, Nuclear Missile defenses all of which are lacking here at home in our homeland. That has been on my mind since we were on the southern border earlier today. We are in the middle
[applause] we are getting the youth involved in the campaign. Doing a great job traveling in different parts of the country for us. I wanted to share with you immediately getting into what matters right now. Lets start with whats going on internationally in israel. Our top job as a country today is to make sure that we are strong while standing for our allies in israel. I think their way we have to purchase is cool, levelheaded, calm and rational. We have to stand for israels right to defend its own borders. While making sure that we avoid broader regional conflict in world war iii that when it advance american interests. And most importantly of all, and i say this coming to you today, right now, where i flew here from, was eagle pass on our own southern border still processing what i saw down there, making sure that we protect the homeland right here at home in the United States of america. Last weekend i was in pittsburgh, New Hampshire on our northern border. Earlier today on our ow
You come together in this fight, i can promise you that americas days are yet to come. Thank you very much. God bless you. I appreciate it. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you so much. Round of a. [applause] we are getting the youth involved in the campaign. Doing a great job traveling in different parts of the country for us. I wanted to share with you immediately getting into what matters right now. Lets start with whats going on internationally in israel. Our top job as a country today is to make sure that we are strong while standing for our allies in israel. I think their way we have to purchase is cool, levelheaded, calm and rational. We have to stand for israels right to defend its own borders. While making sure that we avoid broader regional conflict in world war iii that when it advance american interests. And most importantly of all, and i say this coming to you today, right now, where i flew here from, was eagle pass on our own southern border still process
Jordan get congress back to work. This will all monday night. We go to New Hampshire and live coverage already in progress. You told me that you are able to recertify as a green beer a with bun leg and i cant tell you how impressive that is. Tell us about your experience with some of your teammates. So, just to clear, i didnt lose my leg. Its not with me anymore. And i got hurt and hard to be hurt when you are hyper focused. And six andahalf years. And pain went up and function went down and in 2014, it led us to amputation. My wife is a 20year veteran and there was a whole lot more to do and wasnt as dark and lot more light. But i tell you what i understood, easy to be resilient when you are with resilient people. As a green beret, we call quiet professionals. When you are silent. We didnt talk about what we were going through and cost our friends our lives. And i am grateful for the opportunity for the lessons i learned. And we have to use our voice. We got two. He worked as recruite