you know, the last 24 hours, if you need a contrast, i don t think you could find anything more stunning. if you follow the news, on the one hand, you have biden at normandy giving a compelling speech, seeing the faces of those heros, those 98, 99, 100-year-old men from the greatest generation, and you feel the greatness. then you listen to donald trump s interview yesterday, hearing him talk about what s wrong with this country, the hate, the venom, the self-obsession, the revenge. then you have republican lawmakers booing capitol policemen, turning their backs on them. one party is about darkness, grievance, negativity, and self-loathing, and the other party is and will be throughout this campaign about positivity. i think there s a real contrast there, and i think you ll see that through the campaign. at this very moment, president biden getting ready to
To the trouble with addiction. msnbc political analyst molly jong-fast. thank you for joining us this morning. we really appreciate it. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this friday morning and all week long. morning joe starts right now. leaders from all around the world visited normandy today, including president biden, canadian prime minister justin trudeau, and the king of world war ii, tom hanks. once again, these vets did an incredible service to their nation. they made joe biden look young. president turned on the classic biden charm, telling one of the veterans, god willing, we ll see you at the 110th anniversary. that s awesome. the 880th anniversary is today, and the youngest one of those guys is 96th. by the 110th, they ll be that s awesome. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, june 7th.
Biden campaign is betting on the debate to change the trajectory of the race, believing americans will hear trump talk about revenge, how it is justified, and be repelled by it. my question to you, donny, is their bet right? this is a static race to this point. for the most part, we can say, it s close, but trump has had narrow but consistent leads in most of the battleground states. do we think this argument here, frankly, this dangerous argument of revenge, will change their minds? i think two great things happen as a result of the trial for the biden campaign. one was the guilty verdict. two, this has put trump on a path that this is all he can talk about. you never hear the words inflation, immigration, or crime or any of the talking points he would usually use. he is consumed with this now. i think even now, we re a week or eight days out of the trial, this is all he can talk about.
That. will america always be there to the degree it has been there? in this moment, we are marking the anniversary of america s finest, most extraordinary moment on the continent of europe, there is concern that this may not last. let s see what happens in the november election. even if it s not donald trump who gets elected in november, we ve seen a very real demonstration of the degree to which the president of the united states, joe biden, even if he wants to help a european nation like ukraine, is hamstrung by people in his congress who don t want to do the same. america s role in europe at the moment is very much under scrutiny by europeans, and that meeting, i think, was an important meeting. the symbolism of that meeting is important, not just for europe to see but for americans to see, that america s role in europe in defending the security of america is still alive and well. despite recent russian successes, president biden and his team much more comfortable talking about uk
let s remember, president biden going to visit tomorrow the battle of belleau wood, where former president trump during a visit in 2018, according to former general kelly, his chief of staff, was quoted as saying, these are losers and suckers, people who have died for the country. donald trump did return to the campaign trail yesterday for the first time since he was convicted of 34 felonies last week. in phoenix, arizona, a state trump has not visited since 2022, the former president focused more on the past than the future. of course, complaining about all the perceived injustices he says have been inflicted upon him over the years. i just went through a rigged trial in new york. nobody has ever seen it because they know it was rigged. the election was rigged the last time, i will tell ya that. they don t like it. they say, oh, please, don t say that. i did much better than i did in