republican strategist susan del pierce owe, president of the council on foreign relations richard haus, and capitol hill correspondent casey hunt. also with us professor of international politics at the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts university daniel dressner. author of the pook the death of expertise, tom nichols. and bill crystal was the editor at large of the weekly standard. looking for a jb now. yeah, taking it easy. showing up here on morning joe. just drifting around. we re glad to have you. a life of leisure. not at all. hard a the this point. john heilemann, you want to get
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him. and the one that did, senator corker trying to introduce legislation to kind of curb his unilateral trade actions were shot down by members of his own party who were silent and even the senate majority leader who said the corker legislation was an exercise in futility. so yes, if you re trump s political team, this is great news for you. hree journalists who with we pay attention, john heilmann, jonathan lemire, ashley parker, our thanks for tonight. and coming up, why hillary clinton s e-mails will emerge tomorrow as all over again. we ll have that when we come back.
john heilmann, veteran journalist and psychology enthusiast, i note the president went after us, nbc and cnn particularly today. and gave us that rare enemy of the people stamp of approval. what is his mindset returning from what he saw as a spectacul with kim jong-un, coming back to what he knows exists. and remember, i keep reminding everyone, he knows what was in his lawyer s office. yes. well, and i will point out, the one thing most aut that tweet, we were also supposed to be distracting from the quote, deal with north korea. i don t know what the deal was since nothing was given from north korea to the united states. it wasn t really a deal. in any case, look, the predent has part of the reason, if you want me to play psychologist, i m happy to. you invited me to, so i will. part of the reason the president put so much emphasis on this north korea summs because
to fulfill their role as a check on the executive branch. we continue to act here as if all is normal, as if all parties are observing norms. even as the executive branch shatters them. robustly trafficking in conspiracy theories and attacking all institutions that don t pay the president obedience. our justice system, the free press, the list is getting longer. we demearselves and our proper constitutional role when we act like we work for the president, that we are only here to do his bidding. especially now. john heilmann, jonathan lemire, ashley parker remain with us. and john, i m going to posit a theory to have you kick it around, that this may be the most normal thing donald trump does as president, that under fdr, under lbj and richard nixon, you had to stay in line. and you were called out if you