early on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. i don t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair, i can t speak to that. right. ouch. left hook. yeah. you know, also, i can t answer any questions about playboy stars. i can t answer those questions. oh, and i know nothing about having businesses that go bankrupt after you inherit $400 million from your father. i can t speak to blowing that money that quickly. can t speak to being creepy. come on now. come on. boy, that was quite the defense, wasn t it, willie? it was. it actually was the first time really with any strength we ve seen governor desantis speak out. i guess that was indirect. and amid some other things. it quickly spun to an attack on the investigation, an attack on the manhattan district attorney, as a soros-backed leftist, everything you expect, but he dipped his toe in the trump criticism. i saw it. let s hear
hold a second round of meetings today in moscow. look at that. joining us now, national security council coordinator for strategic communications at the white house, retired rear admiral john kirby. i assume that the white house is watching this closely. what is the white house s response to this meeting so far? we ve been monitoring as best we can. we re not in the room, so we don t know exactly what the leaders are talking about. we made clear one of the things we d be concerned coming out of the two-day meeting is a call for a cease-fire. we believe that would, at this time, ratify russia s conquest. we ve also been very clear that, while these two nations can certainly have bilateral relations, we don t view this discussion or this burgeoning closeness of these two countries as anything more than a marriage of convenience. president xi finds in president putin a useful foil for what i having or bristling or pushing