doc ronnie johnson. everybody know the congressman from texas? he was the white house doctor. no, actually, they don t know him. they don t know ronnie johnson. who is ronnie johnson? nothing like mocking your opponent there is a randy johnson. mental acuity when messing up the doctor who administered your test who is sitting in the audience. person, man, woman, horse, ronnie johnson. the name of trump s former white house position turned u.s. congressman is ronny jackson. wait, what? not johnson. what? good morning. welcome to morning joe. that s confusing. monday, june 17th. what else is new, right? with us, we have nbc news national affairs analyst and a partner and chief political analyst at puck, john heilemann. pulitzer prize winning writer and analyst eugene robinson. peter baker. symone sanders townsend. thanks to all of you being in early on monday morning. john heilemann. right. i m new at this politics thing, but i m guessing i
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Recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Just leave it this way . Alright. David i dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. In how do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David you actually started out, you wanted to be an actor, and after a number of years you abandoned that. Have you ever thought that, you know, the country and the world has now missed having another de niro or pacino by your not being in the acting world . Leslie no, i think it was a great benefit to america that i decided to give that up and go to the other side. I think fairly early on and i was smart enough to realize that probably three or four or five years into my acting career, that i was sort of a mediocre actor. I was also tending bar more than i was acting during those years. And i looked around, and i said, you know what, th
Scalise was at the event to talk about his faith and how it played a role last year when he was shot while practicing for the annual republican baseball game. This is an hour and a half. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. [applause] mr. President , good to see you. I want to tell you a story about this wristband that i wear every day. On it are the words of the golden rule. Practice the golden rule every day. The golden rule is a statement made by jesus, recorded in the sermon on the mount and the gospel of matthew. It is translated in various ways but it goes Something Like this do unto others as you would have done unto you. After a local event, a physician in my hometown of st. Petersburg, florida came up to me and handed me one of these. I put it on and i wear it every day. I do so to remind myself that even in this noisy, conflicted , and acrimonious world of politics that we want to treat everybody the way we would like to be treated. I hope you will all ta
Vast majority of caucus members and my guess is a lot of other members as well. Maria president trying to make it shut down this morning as he attends the National Prayer for us to washington. We will bring you his remarks live at 8 00 a. M. Eastern. Join us for the National Prayer breakfast this morning. The political turmoil. Take a look at yesterdays performance. Things calm down before the close for the dow still traded better than 500 points after the 20point decline yesterday we are looking at another decline at the start of trading this morning. 75 points lower right now. Three points on the nasdaq and seven a quarter quarter lower in the s p 500. A big day for earnings among the top names. Cvs, kellogg and viacom for the big one we watched this morning, twitter up 14 cents per share. We bring you those numbers as soon as they come and for the quarter of three quarters of 1 . Europe this morning stocks are lower. Down almost 1 as was the cac and the dax and germany done better t