democrat crazed and irrational hostility. the mayor of doral, florida, said he was not initially notified to hold the decision there in the first place or the decision not to hold it there, believe it or not. officials in the area on the short list include locations in utah, hawaii. they said they didn t even get a call from the white house about hosting the summit there possibly as well. and with that, i would like to welcome in my panel. with me on set this hour, white house reporter for the associated press and msnbc political analyst john that lamere and nbc political analyst as well, and in washington, d.c., david farenthal. and from pbs newshour and nbc political analyst yamiche sindor.
big. viewers, you can sign up at signup.axios.com. that does it for us. i m yasmin vossoughian. morning joe starts right now. in fact, i m a legitimate whistle-blower. the president is the whistle-blower here. the whistle-blower here. the president of the united states is the whistle-blower. wow. i guess if you can t beat them, you join them? not sure about that strategy. good morning and welcome to morning joe . it is monday, september 30th. with us we have white house reporter for the associated press jonathan la mere, columnist for the washington post, u.s. national editor at the financial times, edward loose joins us and heidi will be here in just a moment. we ve got a lot going on, but why don t we start off with the poll. why don t we do that. if you want to understand the
don t want to have that extra diction which is what originate the these protests. but there s this double edge sword when america gets involved in some of these protests, having covered them overseas before, which is if you come out and lean too much in favor in support of the protests, the autocratic governments use that in their propaganda to say this is being fueled by america, we have to crack down and they see it as an interference. had is not the case with this president. the president is not making that calculation. he s not saying let s kind of support and do it gingerly and delicately. as abdicating america s responsibility for support of these protesters because he has other priorities with the chinese government. it s jonathan la mere, wonder if you could give us an update of what s happening on the ground today, what shape these protests are taking. but more than that, in terms of china s response. where do we see that escalating and how much of a concern for them is not
clear. there are many members of congress who went out against him who are no longer there. unless that dynamic has fundamentally changed in the american public s mind and maybe it will after another month of this but i don t think we re there yet and people at the white house don t think we re there yet. so they can t look at the senate or congress to solve this. lamere, give me 30 seconds. the president s well chronicled kind of deficit of feeling. does that play a part in this? that he is not as susceptible where empathy is concerned to some of these horror stories we re hearing, from the families of members of the coast guard having to choose between food and medicine and gasoline and housing? time and time again, the president has shown a lack of empathy. when it comes to say responding to a national disaster. we remember puerto rico when he
this but i don t think we re there yet and people at the white house don t think we re there yet. lamere, give me 30 seconds. the president s well chronicled kind of deficit of feeling. does that play a part in this? that he is not as susceptible or empathy is concerned to some of these horror stories we re hearing, from the families of members of the coast guard having to choose between food and medicine and gasoline and housing? time and time again, the president has shown a lack of empathy. we remember report puerto rico north carolina, the hurricane, the music. the boat. what we see now is more of the same. he s struggled to connect to regular people. he keeps claiming that federal workers are telling him that you