welcome to morning joe at 6:00 a.m. in the morning willie geist not with us today, trying to relive some of the more exciting mornings of the 70s yes, that s him on chopper 5 going across it is not. see the little chopper 4, i m sorry. get it right. in the 70s, we didn t really numbers didn t count channels didn t counfreelancersi and i were. you were just there. beautiful look at new york city over the morning. it s friday. yes thursday was a very rough day for elon musk. oh, i don t know about that $3 billion rocket exploded. i m going to question that framing. they get a lot of great data out of that. it exploded. but it was a planned explosion. no. it was they got what they wanted they got massive data. it was a step forward. it was an unscheduled disas disassembly, as they call it. i have had many of those. exploded. i ve had many of those. then he planned to make people pay for twitter verification his plan to do that bl
everything, and as mika pointed out, on, you know, terrible things happening in classrooms that are not happening, that have never been happening. exactly so they build up these st strawmen and performatively knock them down. maybe there s a segment of the republican base that just loves it and it makes them really enthusiastic, and the rest of the country shrugs and then votes the other way. well, more morning papers straight ahead this conversation brings us to our next guest. professor of history at rice university and presidential historian doug brinkley. associate processor in global politics at university college london, brian kloss. brian, your latest piece for the atlantic is entitled, the red states experimenting with authoritarianism. you write, in part, quote, beyond attacking elections or trying to interfere with their results, republicans are testing out different ways to wield
but the president is about to formally announce he is run ning for re-election next week. the team will announce as early as tuesday according to three sources familiar with the plans. tuesday is the anniversary of biden s 2020 campaign announcement what do you think of that, m mika well, i thought all along he would do it, and i think he has to do it i think that s how he feels. yeah, gene robinson, i ve given up on guessing. yeah. of course, taking the president at his word that he was thinking about moving forward. at the same time, i got good friends who have been very close to him for a very long seem who have been telling me all along they don t think he is going to do it. yesterday, i got a call. it s so funny how this works i got a call in the early afternoon from somebody really close going, i just don t think he is going to do it. a couple minutes later, we get this news from nbc, three sources saying he is going to
trial, even though team trump was trying very hard to delay that, making issues about the jury, the location anything they could to push that off. yeah. i think that actually, mika, could be the dark horse of all these cases, at least in my conversations with some of trump s lawyers who are specifically involved in the e.j. carroll case. this is a concern for them trump has a lot of different concerns right now i think the d.a. s case is at the bottom of that list, sort of mirroring voters concerns, but we do know that, right now, trump was supposed to appear in the carroll case that d been postponed temporarily. but this is someone with a myrrh r myriad of legal exposure on his plate right now. jackie alemany of the washington post, thank you for coming on the show great to see you. coming up, a leading
and forced to make these statements under oath live, and we re going to settle. to be cynical about the big picture, the big picture may be they pay a lot of money to dominion, maybe to smartmatic, but, one, it seems to be tax deductible so it s not quite as large as everyone thinks, and their business model still goes on as mika said, they have a huge vi viewership the next time they promulgate the big lie but know not to denigrate a company. they can do the same thing but not be subject to a lawsuit. andrew, in your latest piece for the atlantic, titled, when the media bow to trump. you write, two of the top news stories in recent weeks, the manhattan district attorney s criminal indictment in the people of the state of new york versus donald trump, and the three-quarter-billion dollar