Also today, marks the 50th anniversary of robert f. Kennedys assassination. He was celebrating a win in the California Democratic primary, at the Ambassador Hotel in los angeles, only to be gunned down moments later. Welcome to this special edition of morning joe, its wednesday, june 6th. With us we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. Your piece in the daily beast is amazing, well be reading from it. Nbc News National political reporter, Heidi Przybilla is with us. And author and nbc news president ial historian Michael Beschloss joins us, the author of the forthcoming book president s of war. Out this october. Also with us, columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius. Good to have you all on board on this special morning. Joe . So much to talk about today. These two days always obviously collide together on our calendars. This year, a bit more focus on what happened ondown the 6, 1968. But lets start with what happened, on this day in
A discovery. This is earth shaking. Its far bigger than watergate. More troubling than the underlying crime in watergate. Whats the classic phrase . Fire in the hole. Fire in the hole we had no real idea what we would find inside. As it turns out, we havent found very much. I actually dont think it has any impact on the russia probe. This memo has frankly nothing at all to do with the special counsel. It seems, at least up to now, that weve struck out with the vault. Im disappointed about that, as im sure you are. Wow. Is the new republic put it, quote, it would be easy to compare nunes memo to opening al capones vault. Lets talk about that first of all. Poor geraldo. Youve got to have like Great Respect for a guy that would do that. I mean, on national television. Fire in the hole. Geraldo goes there, you know what i mean . Thats what we tell our kids to do, take a chance. Step out. Go big or go home. No. How often . Go big or go home. Just looking back at that footage, geraldo went f
University. Republican strategist and political commentator, and historian john meacham. Mika will be back with us tomorrow. Before we start this, mike, it has been remarkable, has it not, that there has been complete silence from donald trump when its come to Stormy Daniels from the beginning. I mean, you could go through all the people that have crossed Donald Trumps path over the last two and a half turbulent years in politics and there have only been two that he has not struck back on. V Vladimir Putin and Stormy Daniels. Hes afraid of both. You know, its odd, joe, when you mention the president s reluctance or his hesitancy to acquire new legal teams because of his own personal flaws, i guess. There was laughter around the table here when you indicated their appearance would preclude them from being hired but its not funny anymore when its considered whats going on with his failure to obviously as you indicated tweet about anybody he fears and he really fears whats happening. Yeah
He could exccompel him which could be even more interesting. I dont think he wants to. Yeah. I dont know if i told you but he went to princeton and he is a st. Pauls guy. He is a real smart fella. Hes super smart. Real smart, but i still if i were president of the United States and i had lawyers that thought i was too stupid to talk to Robert Mueller. Yeah. Id take it personally. You are like i have done all this stuff and they still think im too dumb. They think im a moron and i cant sit down just right across the table and talk to this guy. Thats what he does. He talks he makes deals. Thats what hes thats who he is. Right. Could you see that like the finale of the apprentice, them saying, hey, i want to talk to suchandsuch and Donald Trumps people like mark burnett did mark burnett ever whisper you better not sit across your table at the apprentice because you are too stupid. He would roll mueller. He thinks he can roll mueller but, willie, his lawyers all think hes dumb. They really
I did. Its time. Were looking at girls. Associate editor noah rothman is with us and columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post David Ignatius joins us from washington. We begin with breaking news, at least 21 people are dead, 43 others wounded after a double suicide bombing in afghanistans capital of kabul early this morning. Afghan Officials Say at least seven journalists are among those killed. Six are from local networks. One is an a. P. Photographer. Authorities also say that the second bombing was intended to hit the people rushing to the scene to help the victims of the first explosion. The attack occurred on the same street as the Afghan Intelligence agency and natos afghanistan headquarters and just 500 meters from the u. S. Embassy. Isis has claimed responsibility. David ignatius, 17 years later, the fighting continues in afghanistan. What is this white house what is the pentagon what are our allies planning to do as we move forward over the next 17 years . Well, f