early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. this isn t a question of vindication. it is not a question, as i stated before, about revenge this is a my position is that, at the end of the day, donald trump needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds if, in fact, that s the way that the facts play out that was donald trump s former fixer after wrapping up his testimony to a manhattan grand jury by the way, former fixer who went to jail, actually got convicted and went to jail for being part of this scheme that donald trump is now being investigated for. michael cohen spent two days on the stand answering questions about the hush money given to stormy daniels, the porn star. now, we re learning that she is talking to prosecutors also ahead, we ll dig into the new reporting out of georgia on another phone call the former president made to an election official there in the aftermath of the 2020 election. it s like the end of the hunt
on the republican side, david, i know you ve heard this, too, people going, donald trump, we re grateful for what he s done it s time to move on. yet, here we are in both parties. i suspect we re probably going to get a rematch of 2020, even though there are whispers in both parties about how they d prefer somebody else. right well, look, joe, i mean, you are right about the constant whispers that aren t always whispers, frankly. there s so much conversation about a desire on the part of voters in both parties i talk to voters about this all the time, even on the democratic side they re pleased with how biden has governed they think he s done an admiral job. yet, they keep talking about this idea that it d be great to have somebody who is just, you know, not 80 years old i hear the same thing but in a different way about donald trump. in that, even a lot of republican voters that wish he
better against ron desantis but doing worse in the general election david drucker, it s so a year before 2024, i find the most fascinating thing about this presidential race is you have the presumptive nominees in both parties. one, a sitting president, with people in their own party going, i like him. i m grateful for what he s done. i hope we can find somebody else. democrats are saying that about joe biden wherever you go. they do it every two weeks. they are not. they are not. they do it every two weeks. joe biden wins the midterms, and they finally stop. two weeks later, they re like, oh, we have to find somebody else. joe biden gives a great state of the union address, they re like, he s pretty good. two weeks later, they need to find somebody else. they need to shut up. mika, you know this is the reality. what s so fascinating is, i mean, that s been happening to biden his whole career he s been underestimated
testifying anyway. i think he s probably doing this just to say, i tried, then i was forced to testify. then he ll end up i tried to help the fascist, but i couldn t. david drucker, molly, thank you so much. tom, stay with us if you will. we re going to get your reaction to the new video showing that u.s. drone brought down by a russian fighter jet who apparently hit it accidentally no. trying to was it accidental yeah, it s russians learn to fly a jet. janet yellen prepares to testify before congress today amid concerns over two major bank failures. coming up in our fourth hour, award-winning actor steve buscemi is our guest you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back.
barnicle and we also have a packed hour ahead. staff writer at the atlantic, tom nichols is with us his latest piece says mike pence is warning us about trump, but we re too complacent to hear it. we ll just ask, why doesn t he say it on camera anywho vanity fair, molly, making the case why gop elites may be done with trump but he isn t done with the party last but not least, senior writer for the dispatch, david dru drucker. he explains why republican candidates might be making a mistake by bypassing the mainstream media. mike barnicle, let s first talk really quickly. jonathan lemire pointed this out. the most mets thing ever happened last night. jonathan, you want to take us through this the most mets thing ever happened last night. yeah, it s the world baseball classic under way right uerto rn