And to iran and to isis and and russia. And russia. And sure enough. Trump who mocked and ridiculed barack obama for, quote, creating isis, for abandoning iraq instantly, has done nothing but encourage our sworn enemies here. Exactly. Its fair to critique barack obama for what he didnt do in syria, but that was then and now is now. And now its mr. Trumps choices and tweets about mr. Obama seem a little bit thin and hes got to decide now what hes going to do. His rhetoric has been extraordinarily tough and you always get in trouble when your rhetoric outpaces your reality on your policy. If he simply does what he did last time a year ago, it seems kind of symbolic and token and ineffect chul. If he is going to use military force, does he use it mean i meaningfully. So these are some Big Decisions that will actually be quite revealing about mr. Trumps Foreign Policy. We were in a meeting with policymakers a month ago that represented parts of americas Foreign Policy community, people acr
His decision on whether the u. S. Will stay in the iran Nuclear Agreement. And a tease by President Trumps legal team. Reportedly picking the oneYear Anniversary of special counsel Robert Muellers appointment. To announce whether the president will grant investigators an interview. Today voters in a number of states head to the polls in primary elections and its the West Virginia gpa race that has republicans in washington very nervous. Can the very controversial Don Blankenship win the primary . And First Lady Melania Trump launches a new childrens wellbeing initiative called be best. But did she borrow from Michelle Obama again . With us to start things off, we have msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle. Pulitzer prizewinning historian and the soul of america, the author of the soul of the america the battle for our better angels jon meachum and elise jordan. Good to have you all on board. Joe, a lot going on. Kind of all over the map this morning. Yeah, all over the map this morning of co
Again . It keeps happening. In this case its kim jong un moving that football. And President Trump, not Charlie Brown, left swinging in the air. So many times before. As it has happened, sometimes before. North korea has done a 180. Pulling the plug on meetings with the south and threatening to scuttle a planned sitdown with President Trump. Welcome to morning joe, its wednesday, may 16, we have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and executive producer and cohost of showtimes the circus jon heilemann. It seems a little unfair to compare kim jong un to lucy. I didnt really like lucy. And Heidi Przybilla and Nbc News National Security analyst jeremy bash. I think its not like they had history to look at, right . How would they know . Let us hope that something good comes out of this. But yesterday for anybody that has spent any time how north korea plays the United States and the west yesterday wasnt a surprise at all. Weve always been concerned here. That theres been a beli
That was the part that was slightly pretty. He also continued to lie about amazon. Apparently angry that the man who runs it also owns the Washington Post. Meanwhile just this morning china strikes back hard in a brewing trade war which the President Trump claimed would be easy to win. Yeah, but the future is looking very grim right now because you know what, trade wars lead to bad things happening. The Dow Jones Futures down almost 450 points. And its again, theres nothing easy about it. What is easy though is calling out the lies the president s lies and theres no other word for it. I know that journalists and headline writers have been trying to figure out exactly what to call what hes doing, but willie, lets talk about amazon for a second and john roberts and the good people over at fox news in the afternoon went through this yesterday, a lot of other reporters did too. But shepp really broke it down. Donald trump lying about amazon by saying that the post office is losing money. W
Security analyst jeremy bash. Washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay, former chairman of the Republican National committee, Michael Steele and Nbc News National Political reporter heidi przybilla. And in new york the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. Mika is finishing up her Daughters College graduation events. But a big congratulations to amelia. Who is now a graduate of Johns Hopkins university. Hey. So big day. Plus more big family news. Jack scarborough turns ten years old today. Happy birthday, jack. Hes in double digits now, thats very big. Hey, richard haass, let me start with you. Lets just before we get into all the details the meeting that was going to be, but now has been called off at least for the time being, im curious in your Immediate Reaction. My Immediate Reaction is a positive one. You dont have halfbaked summits. You dont leap in to try to change headlines or the front page of the paper. He rushed in just for those, he ru