beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho
let s get the pol poll up. this is rehearsal. katty kay, the paper of record in the new york post talks about the duke and duchess of hazard. oh, my, what will they say back home? i was rather happy i managed to get on at 7:00 because it gave me a line. i was hoping to avoid this conversation. no, never. which you covered very thoroughly at 6:00. not sure there s much to say. have we just left our empathy at the door in the studio of morning joe this morning? exactly. maybe they got some of the facts wrong. yes, they put themselves out there. they do all of these things. they put themselves in the public eye. but this guy s mother was killed in a paparazzi chase. yes. i think we can have a moment of empathy for somebody who was caught in a situation which clearly triggers very bad memories for him. we pointed that out earlier. we did. that s what i will say. a little bit of mockery on
biden. basically what you are seeing here with this poll is he has not fallen in third place. you see what happens when everything goes wrong. this pretty much is the best poll bernie sanders had seen maybe all year. bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. we have been talking about here slowly and steadily climbing up. first of all, liberal voters you can see here, warren now leading liberal voters ahead sanders and biden back being in third place and moderates and conservatives. this is biden s strength. he s leading but in this poll, he s barely leading among conservative voters. that s one problem. the other problem we have been talking about it all year and it reached a new heights in this pol poll, it is the age divide. voters over 50 years old, biden leads. under 50 years old, democratic
to see. and goes on to write president trump trails the top four democratic contenders, favorability rating is under water, the strong academy he touts is anything but. a lot of people are saying democrats are begging for wishing for recession. that s not true but what is true is all in the fox news pol poll. you see the problems they are. on the economy, donald trump said tax cuts would pay for themselves, instead he s exploded the deficit to $1 trillion in less than two years. the tariffs he admits last week by holding off on the new tariffs that they ve been hurting american consumers and he s trying to save christmas. when you look at last week on the day when the market tanked 800 points and last monday, at ten to 400, the signs are all there and you can see it. sandra: so you are saying goals, we have to make that realization. he did not have an admission
from the first gop debate with donald trump versus the rest of the party. check out this brand new cnn/orc pol poll out this morning showing trump in first place among republicans with 18% support, jeb bush following with 15%. well so much for the predictions made here on this program and everywhere else last weekend that trump s kban would implode after he insulted john mccain. it seems like he s doing better than ever. the new poll also shows trump is the gop s most wanted the candidate voters most want to see at the debate. he is guaranteed a spot on the stage. but what about the rest of the pack? fox news is holding the debate on august 6th and fogs is only going to invite the top ten candidates top ten in the polls. that means six will not make the cut. it s decision that s angered a lot of people including some of the candidates. they say fox is basically hoeing its own primary whittling down the field of candidates. fox says it has no choice. cnn is doing similar for its