it is incredibly fooler to give voice to it, to pretend the sentiments have broader purchase. if you think they do, you re not representing the people you should be representing. in that district, he lost not only by 12 points in a very red district, but 8% of voters wrote in a protest vote. they couldn t stand this guy. we ve seen it on the republican side, when primary voters elevate bad candidates in places where they should win, like alabama. you can lose. the bloody tunic of the trump presidency. gene robinson, this is the central issue for many of the candidates, the 2020 election, still an election almost two years ago. regan and others sort of positioned themselves as these rapid defenders of donald trump. they tried to de-certify the results and keep joe biden from office. j.d. vance espoused the same argument. there is an interesting snapshop of the case in the state of
who, given his self-interest, should not be in the position of public service. you ll remember esper was fired by trump after the election was called in favor of joe biden. we reached out to trump s team for comment. nbc news hasn t yet seen a copy of esper book. he will be a guest on morning joe next tuesday. mike barnicle, fascinating, perhaps unsurprising revelations, but it joins the list of former trump officials who sort of found jesus when the book deal comes. mark esper, secretary of the defense, sits with the president of the united states, who proves by his utterances, is quoted in mr. esper s book, that he is unstable. as secretary of defense, he shuts up about it until the publisher hands him a check. these people ought to be banned
we ll show you what key senators are saying about the legislation and what the strategy is here. plus, whiplash on wall street. the dow suffers its worst day since 2020, erasing gains from the day before and increasing concerns a recession could be ahead. former defense secretary under president trump, mark esper, speaking out about the time trump wanted to launch missiles into mexico. we ll have the story from esper s new memoir as reported in the new york times. staggering. we ll have that and more ahead. joe is under the weather this morning. along with willie and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle and president of the counsel on foreign relations, richard haass with us. let s begin with the new reporting, that vladimir putin s most embarrassing loss to ukrainian forces came out of shared intelligence from the
look who is behind me. they had some duty to serve as a guardrail or barrier to these things. the next guy might say, yeah, donald trump, you can launch missiles into mexico and pretend it is not us. i think it is impossible to understand what it was like to be in the shoes of someone who was working directly under president trump. carol lee, there are now countless stories of people coming out of that white house with even worse revelations than the ones we saw out loud. you know, the president didn t have much of a filter at the time and said the most stupid and dangerous things right on the world stage. i think stunning the media and desensitizing his constituents to what our values are. i mean, this is a man who spoke openly about shaking down volodymyr zelenskyy for dirt on joe biden. so i do kind of i m kind of
the fact it s hard to believe election day is about seven months from now. you are the one person here hoop going to be on the ballot. talk about what david said about gas prices, about inflation, and that up against the fact that the numbers, job growth, wage growth, are pretty good, but is that what you rehearing? look what s happening in ohio. president trump talked about revitalizing the midwest. president biden is delivering $20 billion, 7,000 manufacturing jobs 3,000 construction jobs, of course people are hurting with gas prices. the president is releasing 180 million barrels of oil. talking about buying back into the strategic petroleum reserve, increase short-term production. that will address that. i m open to a federal gas tax holiday, open for the states doing that. we re doing everything we can to lower prices.