conversations we all have. maybe out loud they say they like donald trump, but behind the scenes, they re praying for an alternative for someone else to emerge. the prayers aren t being answered. the sense we had in watching it in milwaukee, and it was echoed by my conversations i was having over text and in person, it felt like everyone there was competing for the scraps while the guy who was at the front was eating at the main table. i think that it is really hard to have a debate that feels untethered from the reality of the polls and the state of the race. it is hard to take it seriously because trump is so far ahead. he doesn t have to face his opponents. some people said, look, it was a great thing for all those people because they weren t able to be deterred from their message by trump who sucks the oxygen out of the room. they were able to get a good look from the american public. fine. but there is still the reality that he is the person leading the pack. i do think the one
leader. speaker. sorry, to be the speaker. what happens is then, it sends a message that it is chaos. that s what donald trump brought in from day one into washington. they operate on fear and chaos and will continue to do so. he seems to be at least continuing to try to leverage it in a positive fashion. susan, thank you. treat to see you on set, in person, finally. msnbc political analyst susan del percio. thank you, guys, for getting up with us way too early on this friday morning. morning joe kicks off right now. terrible experience. i came in, i was treated very nicely, but it is what it is. i took a mug shot, which i never heard the words mug shot. that wasn t they didn t teach me that at the school of finance. i have to go through a process for election interference. you know it better than anybody, you cover it so well.
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go to trial as early as next summer. donald trump is the only defendant. it s less complex. they re ready to go. so this is going to get real rather quickly. just back to the fulton county, the mug shot situation, i think what s so interesting about what happened last night is that, you know, the fulton county sheriff, an elected democrat, told our blayne alexander that he wasn t sure until the last minute, really, whether he was going to go forward with that mug shot. as you ll recall, in all the other bookings, two federal and one in new york, authorities determined that they didn t need to do a mug shot because the purpose of a mug shot is to, you know, be able to publicize a person s image if they flee. that wasn t going to happen here. besides, there are a million and a half photos of donald trump. so the federal government, the marshals use an existing photo. in the end, the fulton county folks decided to treat him like any other defendant in that