mike, all you have to do is listen to dr. fiona hill in her testimony. she made a point in her opening statement a couple paragraphs in to say your ukrainian conspiracy they re requires garbage. i study this stuff for a living, it was russia, it was russia, it was russia. and what happened? we just saw it. yeah, that s what happened. so, susan page, i don t know about you, but i sit here nearly every day baffled, really baffled in wonderment as how so many people who you would expect more of, like senator kennedy like we just saw, steam sell the seem to sell their souls to a lie, to a myth, to a conspiracy from donald trump and who handcuff themselves in history and for now and forever. i no longer know what is going on in washington, d.c. you re there each and every day. i understand your charge with writing now most every day. but do you ever pause to wonder about the same things that i
well, sir, she s a woman, we have to be nice. this ambassador that, you know, everybody is so wonderful, she wouldn t hang my picture in the embassy, okay. she s in charge of the embassy. she wouldn t hang it. it took like a year and a half or two years for her to get the picture up. she said bad things about me, she wouldn t defend me, and i have the right to change an ambassador. let s put to the side she s a woman, we have to be nice for just a moment to go on and say lawyers for yovanovitch say the president s claim is false stating that the embassy in kiev hung the photographs of president trump, vice president mike pence, and secretary of state mike pompeo as soon as they arrived from washington, d.c. in 2017, the washington post reported that nearly eight months into trump s term the pictures were not being displayed in thousands of federal buildings because the government publishing office had yet to set of images from the white house. jeremy bash, i ll kick this one to you
uniform code of military justice. look, mike, fundamentally in the military it has to be grounded on discipline. it has to be grounded on uniformity, that s why people wear a uniform, that s why there s a hierarchy of rank. that s why when a commander gives an order he or he had can be assured that down the line, down the ranks individuals will follow that order. fundamentally we need that when they re sending people into the most dangerous, difficult situations. part of that discipline, i would say at the core of that discipline is the court s martial process or in the navy s community bringing someone to admiral s masses. the military takes discipline very seriously and if you step out of line you re going to face consequences. now, when the president or any civilian commander reaches in and says i m going to offer my own discipline or sweep aside the discipline of the military, that undoes the whole system and undermines the commanders. it s not a pro military thing to do. in fact
deal, but a white house official told nbc news last night, quote, we have to see the offer first. but the washington post bob costaed costa posted a tweet last night saying a person close to the president considering taking a deal it just so happens to coincide exactly with the law sean hannity cited at the top of his show last night. it s so weird. how interesting. these things are like, whoo, major coincidences, right? it s governing by talk show host. mike barnicle, at the end of the
i want us to do this together. i really do believe my slogan, stronger together. we re only getting stronger together. we truly are stronger together. stronger together. stronger together. stronger together. is that a 2016/2020 mind meld. donald trump at his rally last night in el paso borrowing from his rival s campaign slogan. the republican national committee later posted the comment on social media focused on the words stronger together which former hillary clinton staffers and others quickly noted was the democrats 2016 campaign theme. hey, whatever. good morning and welcome to morning joe . it s tuesday, february 12th. along with joe, willie and me we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. associated editor at commentator