ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskiy. the president pushed back and attempted to deflect blame on his political opponent. it doesn t matter what i discussed, but somebody ought to look into joe biden s statement because it was disgraceful where he talked about billions of dollars he s not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. somebody ought to look into that. today former vice president joe biden responded to the president s comments. trump s doing this because he knows i ll beat him like a drum. he s using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. everybody looked at this and said there s nothing there. this is an ever-moving story. liths go to hans nichols at the white house. hans, what is the latest? reporter: back from his golf course. they had a late night last night
get one of our latest smartphones included. that s right, only $40/line for four lines and smartphones are included for the whole family. what i don t about this argument right now, what i don t like about it at all is that we are more worried about winning an argument than winning an election. and i think how we win an eection is to bring everyone with us. that was senator amy klobuchar urging her fellow democrats to focus on beating president trump in 2020 rather than arguing amongst themselves over policy. and senator klobuchar joins us now. good morning. thank you. i know you had a late night last night after the debate. yes. they were celebrating that nothing went wrong. that was a good thing.
that 22,000 person rally in oakland. so we re seeing a lot of people respond not just with vice president biden but also the issues of the national security threat donald trump poses to america and the world. so we re feeling very good especially about the response we re seeing from the early states. lily adams, we know you had a late night last night. thank you for making time for new day. great to talk to you. just a little while ago president trump had a moment on stage side by side, joking about the russian attack on the u.s. election. we will bring you that moment next. this is the ocean. just listen. (vo) there s so much we want to show her.
we had such a late night last night and i m looking for someone here. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s friday, may 17th. along with joe, willie and me, we have nbc news national reporter heidi pryzbyla. joe, get over here. joe is tardy. joe scarborough, rush chairman. nice to meet you. we don t want him. joe scarborough. glad to meet you. can you come sit down? a funny story about this jacket. the fireside chat. so larry mize very upset because i won in 87. sit down. people don t know the rest of
the washington post , eugene scott. he had a late night last night. i saw you on cas kasie dc. i appreciate you getting up for us. sure. the president basically with his tweet threw his son donald trump jr. under the bus. how do you see it? what s the significance of the tweet for donald trump jr. and for the narrative about what happened at the meeting? i think the biggest issue is the impact it has on the presidency and campaign as a whole. the president, of course, was not attempting to throw his son under the bus. he was attempting to protect his son, but in the process he seems to admit more clearly than he ever had before that the primary focus of the meeting was not on learning about how to change adoption policy in russia, but to get information from a foreign government, one that s an adversary of the u.s. government, to use against an american in an election, and no lawyer would have given him any advice suggesting that this was