board. mike allen, thank you for that, and enjoy your weekend and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this friday morning. morning joe starts now. let me say that i not like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function and i will now be gently reentering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the pacific. and i am returning to my plan, and i will be offering this government nothing but the most fervent support. like cincinatus. that was boris johnson giving his farewell speech but he s now back in the fold now that liz truss has resigned. hardly knew ye. back in the states it s been more than a week since the january 6th decided to subpoena the former president. we re going to go through why donald trump has not been served yet. and the investigation into the capitol attack is in need of serious funding but there s not a lot of time to make that happen. we ll explain. plus presi
approach against china s expansion. so the costs of these deals in the long run, aren t they usually pretty devastating against the countries that break international norms? absolutely. it s one of the things that makes a pariah a pariah. look at the countries involved in this sort of stuff. it s china, russia, north korea, iran. that s not exactly a group you would want to be a member of. this is the pariah international, and this is one of the ways they define themselves, and whatever the details of particular exchanges. in the long run, the damage this does to relationships, economic ties, diplomatic ties is enormous, so on something like this, you know, we can argue the details of letting this bad guy out, but does this fundamentally change anything about russia s relationship for the better with the united states, with europe. does it advance russia s goals with ukraine? absolutely not.
complicates things on many levels? look, it shows again, how dependent russia is on help from the outside, how weak their own military is. they re working together on energy issues. look, it s this is a pariah international. these are countries, iran, russia, north korea, and others who simply are total pariahs. they don t want to change the world we live in. they want an alternative, and there seems to be no rules, as if one needed it. this is yet another argument why it makes no sense to resurrect the 2015 nuclear deal with iran because what it would do is remove the sanctions from iran. they could do more of this sort of thing. they could do more of this anywhere in the world. we think of iran as a regional country, and obviously it is for the most part. also, in this day and age, medium sized countries can have global reach.