brutal job, even if you win re-election, even if your bill clinton or george w. bush or barack obama, those are eight miserable, eight tough miserable years. yes we reward him in many ways. but with the 24/7 news culture, three hour tv shows like this talking about politics all the time, twitter 24 hours a day. facebook 24 hours a day, if you re donald trump and you can walk away to your first love which is making money, why not do it? you ve become somewhat convincing on this subject, joe. i ll say that i don t think not that i have inside information i don t think it crossed president obama s mind that strongly maybe i shouldn t run again. because he had a deep feeling and conviction for what he was doing for the country, for history and what he believed in. i m not sure there s a deep belief in many things that trump
senator jeff merkley of oregon. thank you for being with us. you said something that caught my attention about donald trump and his selection for the supreme court. you believe that the president of the united states shouldn t even be able to nominate a justice at the supreme court at this point because he s under investigation. explain that. well right now there s this enormous conflict of interest in which the president is under investigation yet he s nominating an individual who will essentially play a significant role in questions like can the president pardon himself or can the president fire the special prosecutor. it isn t so much that he can t nominate but i don t think it s appropriate for the senate to proceed with these hearings until this investigation is cleared up. senator, this is walter isaacson. you ve been talking about a resolution dealing with putin,
preferences. a sane republican would be good. a sane republican. we ll write that down. you sort of expanding it. narrowing your opportunity. thank you, bill for being with us. still ahead on morning joe president trump says he would most likely meet again with north korean leader kim jong-un and eyeing a second summit with vladimir putin. we ll bring in a member of the foreign relation committee next on morning joe . and we promise to get jeremy peters here as well. he s got a great new piece reporting on what today s politics is doing to families and communities. you re watching morning joe . we ll be right back.
what about you? are you finding dinner with friend in mississippi a little tougher? well, specifically with my family, i just heard from so many of them. they are sick of talking about donald trump period just because he s sucked up so much of the oxygen justin national conversation. while george w. bush was president he might not have been universally popular but it wasn t the singular obsession of the country to dissect george w. bush every second and it wasn t with barack obama either except maybe over at fox news. jeremy s report is very important because he s identifying something that i ve seen over the course of the last two years, doing focus groups with lord ashcroft polls and that s just the rupture that this election has had on friendships, on family, how people feel very silenced about their political views especially if they are a trump supporter that they can t necessarily share those views because of the
various people wrote after they fired comey, explaining what trump was saying. there are differences between them. it seems to me the issue about indictable offenses has already been resolved. mueller is not going to and has told the president s lawyers in a couple of different ways that he does not plan to charge the president with a crime. but in his report to rod rosenstein, it seems like he wouldn t spend this many hours with people if he weren t going say what behavior you found that was troubling. it may be that this troubling behavior, potential of obstruction of justice is criminal, it rises 0 that level and he ll lay out the evidence for rod rosenstein to decide should you refer this to congress. that s the remedy in our constitution. is it serious enough that you have to let congress resolve this? right. okay. all right.