coast, we ve talked about how there is a new realization, it seems, over the past 24 hours, that far from being the perfect launch for donald trump s 2024 campaign, that this warrant, this search actually may turn out to be far worse than any of trump s allies suspected in the early part of the week. you brought up an example, i would lover for you to bring it up again for our friends on the west coast just getting up. but if you look at new york times and the washington post, and in both of those places, you have people close to donald trump telling republicans, you might want to step back a little bit, this is about to get really bad. well, i think a couple of things happened yesterday, joe. number one, the fever pitch of the anti-law enforcement rhetoric that we saw both from i will say importantly both from elected republicans, and from the right-wing fever swamp in the media over the course of these few days since the search of mar-a-lago, reached a pitch that was,
coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. it is the top of the fourth hour of morning joe. the last hour of the week and what a week it has been. john heilemann is still with us. it is been absolutely crazy. and we re going to get to an awful lot this hour. we re going to get an awful lot this morning and i think we re going to start and i don t know maybe as we look at new york city, maybe we start by me putting my mic on. that would help. maybe that is how we start the hour. i don t know. i don t know. you got it. is everything you look good. it s okay. all right. we can go. john heilman. you re still here, thank god. thank god. i m here. i m here and i have my mcon and everything, joe. that is fantastic. with your time life plate behind you. i love it. and so john, it is very interesting and you brought this up last hour for people that are just waking up on the west