forcing the president s hand, joe, to engage her, to have her come back and talk to the senate. so they are going to lead here, although i have to tell you i still have caution flags up about all of this because in the end all of the foreign policy ask not dictated by the united states senate, it s dictated by the president. i think the last point that was made about where this president ultimately wants to go, he likes that club, he wants to be a part of, with putin and mbs. he s sorry he missed out on had a high-five and that s something i think that we need to be concerned about because the president sees foreign policy as just another transaction and that for the senate could be the longer term problem. joining us now at the table charlie sykes, conservative commentator, msnbc nbc contributor, also the author of how the right lost its mind. are they getting its mind back watching these senators react? it does seem like what s it going to take?
would be convicted in 30 minutes, guilty. there s no way that anybody with a straight face could say there s any question about what has happened. so, heidi, you also had republican from alabama richard shelby coming out, highly critical. of course, rand paul, still critical. are the republicans going to continue to press the president forward? it certainly looks like they are not backing down. what s the future look like? first of all, as it relates to mattis and pompeo, this is the slippery slope that you go down when you go back to russia and you allow the president to doubt our u.s. intelligence services, that there is this pressure on everyone around him to go along with it when it comes to other matters as well, but to your specific question, we ve sat around this table so many times, joe, or me on remote and you ve asked when are republicans going to stand up to this president. we re seeing it. we re seeing it in realtime. this vote like the senator told us earlier is going
prosecuted, it s disgraceful. five people around her have been given immunity to include her former chief of staff. when you have given immunity, that means you ve probably committed a crime. let s put those clips into perspective. michael flynn could still get locked. roger stone is pleading the fifth and a long-time trump executive was granted immunity. we re going to get to that and the fury on capitol hill over the white house s whitewashing of a journalist s murder. the administration gave one story. the cia gave another. and it s being described as the difference between darkness and sunshine. welcome to morning joe, everyone. it s wednesday, december 5th. with us, we have msnbc contributor mike barnacle. yeah. married to number eight in global finance, by the way, we ll get to that. columnist and associate of the washington post, david ignatius. formerer u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama advance along with joe, willie
it, you know, listen to what they said. there s zero question of what mbs did, that he s complicit in murder. there s still a question of what the united states does about it. saudi arabia is bigger than one person. and there s a real should we send a delegation to see the king? i know we have to go to the next block, but let me ask you really quickly, how much oil do we get from saudi arabia and how much oil do we get from canada? there is such a gross misunderstanding of that among the american people. we don t need saudi arabia s oil in the way that we did when we were growing up. we used to be terrified that we would lose that. that said, joe, it s important that we not have another failed state in the middle east. so somehow i think we need to deal with this in a way that helps saudi arabia become more stable, not less so. do the saudis understand post trump that there will be no dealing with mbs?
good to have you both with us. what s the free for all, jim? it looks like you re going to have 30, maybe 40 different democrats that are going to decide in the next three or four weeks whether they re going the run. joe biden might be the most qualified, but everything thinks they have a legitimate shot. bernie sanders telling people he s going to have a much bigger campaign than he had the last time around. you ve got biden making it clear he would like to run. bloom berg could spend $1 billion or $2 billion on himself if he decides to jump in. you have two people in colorado, senator bennet saying he might jump into this race. you often have a lot of candidates running, but you don t often have 30 or 40 candidates running. it s freezing things in the democratic party base donors don t know where to go. staff doesn t know where to go. these candidates don t even know if they could field a staff of advisers that are confident and experienced if they decide to jump in. in this crazy