right. so you give me the time on the other side. odd because it was one of the few times i could not see it. oh is it really. is that what we re saying? i was late one time in all the years i ve been together. all right. now a lot of it s all right. so out your awesome show and i will pick it up where you left off. i m laura ingraham. this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. we re going to bring you voices from inside tonight s twitter announcement from ron desantis. david sax, who actually moderated the event along with congressman thomas massie ,he participated as well. he ll be here. plus, you re going to hear from newt gingrich, charlie hurt, raymond arroyo. they re going to compare previous presidential launches and tell you how this one stacked up. but first, as you might have guessed, desantis launches. that s the focus of tonight s angle. now it s quiet. let s see. so we all look so just to simplify. all right, great. so let s see. crashing her
i understand it. in fact, trump made the republican party the party of working americans in a way that probably hasn t been true for almost 100 years. yeah, because in 100 years, there hasn t been a politician who said, i m going to make this for third graders to understand what i m talking about. talking on that level? that was newt gingrich encouraging ron desantis to get on the level of third graders. i m not joking. you know, kind of like donald trump does. wonder what he means. this is a tough hurricane. one of the wettest we ve ever seen from the standpoint of water. rarely have we had an experience like it, and it certainly is not good. oh, my god. one of the wettest we ve had. good morning. welcome to morning joe. hope you ve had a good week. it is friday. friday, may 26th. let s bring in with us the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. the host of inside with jen psaki, jen psaki. she s a former white house press
Down. Sounds seedy and weird, of course it is. Still not the strangest thing happening in washington right now. Tonight we have more on the ongoing saga of the trump dossier. Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have launched a probe into former National Security advisor susan rice. In the very final minutes of the obama administration, just afternoon on Inauguration Day 2017, rice sent herself an email on the white house computer system. In it she describes a meeting she had attended just two weeks before on january 5th. At that meeting were president obama, Vice President joe biden, fbi director jim comey, deputy a. G. Sally yates and susan rice herself. According to rice in this email, obama instructed the officials in the room to consider Withholding National intelligence from the Incoming Trump administration in case they were compromised by russia. In other words, almost two months after the president ial election, barack obama viewed trump not as his democratically elected
democrats are encouraged in rural counties to come out and vote in state legislatures, that could have an impact on, obviously, congressional racs and even the white house. that s something, obviously, democrats are focused on as they head into 2024. all right. politics reporter for axios, eugene scott, thank you. have a great weekend. this is the week in many ways the republican primary really began with governor desantis jumping in the race, tim scott, as well. others, mike pence, chris christie expected to join in in recent weeks. the campaign is heating up. but the attention right now is the debt ceiling, deadline less than a week away. negotiations likely to ramp up later today. thank you, all of you, for getting up way too early on this friday morning. have a great weekend, everybody. he talks at a level where third, fourth, fifth grade educations can say, i get that.
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