national security, man, you get about one a year to where they re lying about something. and covering it up on the basis of national security. like the new one in this book that really grinds at me is the p.o.w., m.i.a. issue. as a military person, i served, myself, you re led to believe if you re captured the u.s. will do anything to get you home. not true. if you become a political liability, kiss your ass good-bye. they ain t coming for you. and we show that in the book. you believe that there is more to corporate and political decisions than the government wants us to know. why would the government want to keep so many secrets? why do they want to keep secrets? ask them. i mean, we pay for them. they should keep no secrets from us. they operate on my taxes. i have every right to know what they re doing with my money. don t i? of course. , li so, listen, you talk abo
not much. how you been? i m always good, you know? you staying out of trouble there? yep. you look like you lost weight. three pounds. i m about 160 right now. 160. don t look it, does it? i m like 172, 173. are you shaving yet? yep. they say we look the same. i don t see it. i don t either. hell no. i don t look nothing like that. ugly head. yeah. you be all right. ain t got much of a choice. i got to live with it, don t i? yep.
donald trump said that. i m sorry. welcome to morning joe. happy monday, everybody. the emmys were quite something last night. and john won finally. with us, john heilemann and professor at the university of michigan school of public policy, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. and former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, steve rattner. i say it better, don t i, steve? yes, you do. with like a purr in my voice. a lot of people trying to figure out how the debates are going to factor into the polls. we found out at least in first sketch in some of the national polls, which aren t really as relevant but they certainly talk about big trend lines. i m feeling a little bit
i don t give a [ bleep ] about you taking my stuff, huh? i ain t give you nothing but respect, man. i done told you [ bleep ]. tell me, all you got to do is don t get no respect. don t i? don t i? someone got upset from something we may have taken from him. we ll talk to him when he calms down. we ll handle it that way. i think i handled it pretty well. we ended up getting him out of here. hopefully it runs smooth tonight. coming up next on lockup:
you taking my stuff, huh? i ain t give you nothing but respect, man. i done told you [ bleep ]. tell me, all you got to do is don t get no respect. don t i? don t i? someone got upset from something we may have taken from him. we ll talk to him when he calms down. we ll handle it that way. i think i handled it pretty well. we ended up getting him out of here. hopefully it runs smooth tonight. coming up next on lockup: extended stay. the isu search pays off.