Into a political hack and claimed not to know that the acting ag had criticized the russia probe before being elevated to that position. Thats just some of what happened over the weekend. Welcome to morning joe. It is monday, november 19th. With us we have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and cohost and the executive producer of show times the circus, John Heilemann. Good morning. Associate editor of commentary magazine noah rothman, former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst Steve Rattner is here and washington anchor for bbc world news america katty kay. What a weekend of trumpisms and he took the trumpisms and some would say, no the me, but some would say he took crazy to 11 if we want to borrow parlance from spinal tap. Ten is loud, ten is crazy. He turned it up to 11 on the dial. Theres so much to go through here. A lot of disturbing things, a lot of things just showing a guy even more out of touch than usual, if thats even possible. Why dont we start
Season, let me say i wish the president and his family all the best, as well. But as we move towards the end of the year, now is the time we need to take stock of everything. How are we doing personally . How are our children and how are other family members doing . Are they thriving . Do we need more help in certain areas . Are they doing great in others, but might need just a little push some other direction . How are we doing as a country . And how are our leaders doing . You know, as we approach 2019, those of us who remain eternally optimistic about this Great Republic of ours have reason to be concerned. Little children continue to die in the custody of the u. S. Government. And remember, friends, thats our government. Thats your government and my government thats allowing little children to die while theyre being incarcerated because of a policy thats supposed to discourage people from coming. And thousands of children still remain incarcerated and still this holiday season, thi
Affairs reporter John Heilemann, nick cko con physical confis, heidi pryzbyla. We begin with President Trumps proposal to fund the wall. Apparently thats the only way to end the shut down, even though democrats are unitsed in opposition. It is trumps first public offer to democrats since the shutdown began on december 22nd. Now at 31 days and counting. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the proposal a nonstarter and said his offers of protection do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to peoples lives. Trumps proposal came a day after reporting that the Supreme Court is unlikely to hear the strae administrations appeal to a Lower Court Ruling that blocked him from shutting daca down manning it will stay in place for at least ten more months. Trump tweeted several times about nancy pelosi and told her to clean up the streets in san francisco, calling them disgusting. If a high school daca person were to accept this deal, in three years what would happen if that person i
New witnesses. But first, the man who is helping get the president to this precipice, Rudy Giuliani and i just wont stop talking. He wont stop. He cant stop. Rudy, its not good for you or those ukrainian guys you hang out with or the president of the zbluts United States. You need a lawyer actually. A new piece the new yorker reveals the remarkable admission from President Trumps personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, where he says that he needed former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch out of the way because she was hindering his push to get dirt on former Vice President joe biden. In the december issue of the new yorker, giuliani confirmed that he saw yovanovitch as an obstacle saying in part, quote, i believe that i needed yovanovitch out of the way. She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody. When asked about yovanovitch in an yf last night, giuliani confirmed he pushed her out but denied needing her out of the way. Now this hit piece, and its a hit piece. Of cour
Richard haass. White house reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire. Washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay is joining us. White house correspondent for pbs news hour yamiche alcindor. So the president was in cincinnati last night. I of course since the red sox have completely tanked and thrown in the entire season because dombrowski didnt want to buy a reliever the you two. I can watch the rally and i did. Very interesting. Ill talk about what i saw. I think hes now moving into this sort of new different sort of autocratic in waiting pose, but well talk about that in a minute. What did you see there last night . After two months of the political world focusing on the democratic debates in detroit, last night all eyes were watching the president. This was his first rally since the one a few weeks ago where the send her back chants broke out about the congresswoman omar, the somali born congresswoman who moved here and she cease a u. S. Citizens. As it turned