at every single stop now, reporters are looking, is he interacting with the crowd? is he take shaking hands, tae staying long enough? if you re advanced staff, you have to stay at least an extra 30 minutes to show, hey, he likes people. i saw tweets, what pizza is he having? is he talking to voters? do we have a timetable as to when other candidates will jump in? rumors about tim scott, mike pence and others. i think tim scott will come in. may 22nd is the date where they re circling. you ll see his super pac get bolstered. mike pence also in the next month. those are the two main candidates. national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson covering a lot of ground. thank you for being here. thank you for all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent year. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, focus the election on
weather looks good. the tanks are flowing in, the training t morale. i think the ukrainians are going to have a very good spring, these two scorpions in a bottle, the wagner group and the russian military, that s got to be keeping putin awake at night. if you re the head of the wagner group, stay in ranch houses. don t go three, four, five, six stories. you ll fall off the balcony. i want to ask about a cease-fire between the israelis and the palestinian fighters. nobody is talking about this, unfortunately. few people are still talking about it. tony blair is still obsessing over peace there, but a lot of the sunni arab states moved on. they made peace with israel. at times, i must say, in talking to them off the record, they re openly contemptuous of the palestinians, saying that they