Pets. Can you even remember a time when something like that would have been disqualifying . Because i cant anymore republicans now elected trump three times. Democrats lost to him half the time. This election is still inexplicably close. Unfortunately, some americans watched that and thought, i dont like how kamala laughed when he called immigrants dog eaters. That wasnt very president ial. Wow. That sums it up. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is monday, september 23rd. With us, we have the host of Way Too Early, white House Bureau Chief at politico, jonathan lemire. Nbc news national Affairs Analyst and a partner in chief political columnist at puck, John Heilemann. Good to have you with us this morning. We have six weeks to go until Election Day. Theres new Nbc News polling out showing a major shift in the 2024 race. In the latest survey, Vice President Kamala Harris leads former president Donald Trump by five points, 49 to 44 , among registered voters nationwide. Although, that result is
by 11 of the 31 members of the alliance. uk prime minister rishi sunak is expected to urge nato allies to learn the lessons from russia s invasion of ukraine and invest more in defence. joining me now is hugo brennan, research director at the risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. good morning to you, hugo. so, just talk us through the level of defence spending going on at the moment. because this has been a contentious issue for years within nato, hasn t it? it very much has been, yeah. i mean, the first thing to say is the question of who foots the bill to pay for the alliance? as you say, that s long been a question mark. you ll remember back to 2019, when donald trump made it very much top of the agenda. and again, it s going to be in this latest nato summit. as you said, we re expecting some sort of agreement that will make it a requirement for nato member states to spend at least 2% of their gdp on defence spending, which would build on that 2014 agreement you r
Not so fun. Hours from now, former President Trump will be sitting in a manhattan courtroom as his Hush Money Trial is set to resume. This as the judge overseeing the case has yet to rule if trump violated his gag order. In washington, d. C. , the Supreme Court will hear Oral Arguments over trumps claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution in the d. C. Election interference case. Plus, arizonas Attorney General has charged mark meadows, rudy giuliani, and other key trump allies, as well as 11 socalled Fake Electors with state crimes after they attempted to keep trump in power following the 2020 election. I dont know. Did you see that coming . I did not. I didnt see that coming. I really didnt. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, did you see that coming . Not this one. I mean, we suspected it was coming sometime, but didnt see it coming yesterday. And some boldfaced names apparently among the group of aides to donald trump. Giuliani, meadows, eastman. Yeah. Apparently a
leave nato, saying, we foot the bill, at the end of the day no one else is putting any money in the pot. and this could become an issue going forward, couldn t it, depending on the outcome of the us election next year? firstly, eah - election next year? firstly, yeah - as election next year? firstly, yeah - as you election next year? firstly, yeah - as you say, - election next year? firstly, yeah - as you say, it- election next year? firstly, yeah - as you say, it is- yeah as you say, it is complicated. it s a question of prioritisation. if you look at european states, governments are trying to tackling high inflation. it s a tough sell to electorates to say actually, we need to curb spending on education or health and put it into defence spending. certainly pre russia invasion that s changed things a bit, as you said, with nearly all member states increasing their defence spending, with the germans introducing a 100 billion euro fund to fund the german military, aiming