that s how the leaders we look up to became the leaders. i think what happens with prophets and heros, they become larger than life. we think they have qualities that are beyond us. and so then what we do is we follow them. when we follow them, we give up the hard work of working on ourselves. we don t see joe, that martin luther king exhibited the courage that is in me. that this person revealed a kind of character that i m capable of demonstrating in my own life. instead, we have this longing. if only we had fdr today. if only we had dr. king today. no, we need you. part of the challenge is to rid ourselves from being, you know, engaging in supplication, from being fans in the pews, to pastors. as opposed to being in the journey. being in the journey. so this book is a radical call for every day, ordinary people, to take control of this
rural hospitals are savaged by the cuts donald trump and republicans have brought to medicaid. nursing homes are paid through medicaid. hospitals are shutting down your people may have to drive 45-50 miles to get healthcare because republicans have been on a mission to cut medicaid for years. yes. and you have a situation where what you are highlighting, joe, is there are two things that happen when you elect someone to be president. you elect the person, donald trump and you elect a coalition of interest. that is the thing to think about and all of this stuff. you will get donald trump and you will get a coalition of interest that for instance want to salvage american healthcare.
arizona. if this ban stays in effect, as extreme as it is. we re still waiting to see. we re still concerned. clarence thomas, of course, in overturning roe v. wade wrote in a concurring opinion that we have to look at not only things like same-sex marriage, also the right to contraception. right. and you have ivf in alabama. the senate and washington, the u.s. senate, republicans are blocking an attempt to make ivf protected. so, again, this is impacting women s healthcare and for women who consider themselves to be pro life, who miscarry, and yeah, it s really terrible. we have lots more to get to this hour. morning joe weekend continues after a short break. is never easy, but starting it eight months pregnant.. that s a different story.
michigan, wisconsin pennsylvania. it is an organization trying to placate donald trump and pick up cash while they are doing it. i think a lot of their time is focused on keeping mr. trump happy and when you are doing that, you are not putting together a winning campaign. we have a lot more to get to this hour. morning joe weekend continues after a short break. good, real food is simple. it looks like food, it smells like food, it s what dogs are supposed to be eating. no living being should ever eat processed food for every single meal of their life. it s amazing to me how many people write in about their dogs changing for the better. the farmer s dog is just our way to help people take care of them.
campus. i feel as though people are weapon icing anti-semitism. demonstrators telling us that they plan to keep the protest going despite the police presence. do you feel the administration has clamped down on students and faculty members? 100%, yes. the near city mayor saying that police made more than 100 arrests on a campus severely divided. nbc reporting from columbia university in new york. joe, yesterday, you saw another case out of several in recent weeks were heads of schools and chancellors and administrators have said there is a line between free speech. we have allowed you to protest and to go to certain places. we have opened up dialogues on campus and have given you a place to have debates. when it comes to harassment of jewish students or interrupting the operations of a class or a speaker or people moving to the campus, we are now saying, you