i understand it. in fact, trump made the republican party the party of working americans in a way that probably hasn t been true for almost 100 years. yeah, because in 100 years, there hasn t been a politician who said, i m going to make this for third graders to understand what i m talking about. talking on that level? that was newt gingrich encouraging ron desantis to get on the level of third graders. i m not joking. you know, kind of like donald trump does. wonder what he means. this is a tough hurricane. one of the wettest we ve ever seen from the standpoint of water. rarely have we had an experience like it, and it certainly is not good. oh, my god. one of the wettest we ve had. good morning. welcome to morning joe. hope you ve had a good week. it is friday. friday, may 26th. let s bring in with us the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. the host of inside with jen psaki, jen psaki. she s a former white house press
disaster. the epa says it has not detected any contaminants in the town s drinking water and says tests have shown the air is safe to breathe. but, you know, many residents in east palestine and other nearby towns, they re concerned about the potential long-term health effects. this town is going to need long-termest thing term testing. there s a lot of people who don t want to stay and really can t blame them. a major concern for me would definitely be the water. i think they should have dredged the creeks that are going out because, you know, it s spreading into other communities. arthel: garrett tenney is live in east palestine, ohio, with the very latest. garrett? reporter: yeah, arthel, that is such a tough question that a lot of folks are naysing now. facing no. with so much uncertainty about what the future of this town looks like, do we stay or do we go? to answer that question, it s going to take some answers, and some of those answers are going to take time.
his hand. one of the things he did after taking control is use the anti-corruption agency, the ccdi, which i write in my book, he used that as a way to consolidate control. he sent antihfanti-corruption inspectors to clear out all sorts of corruption, abuse of power. at a time, there was a view that corruption was an existential threat to the party. there was, i think, a genuine attempt to deal with this problem. at the same time, there was a sense xi jinping was using this for control. he wanted to make the bureaucracy afraid of him. it was a way to consolidate power and implement his polities from a top-down approach. so we just saw footage there of president xi standing with president putin, and there s been an awful lot of tea leaf reading here in washington about how the war in ukraine is impacting president xi s thinking as it relates to his own desires.
that makes the notion of a conflict much more troublesome both in terms of impact on the people involved and in terms of managing it from a policyr of view. mike,t( as you have been talking, we aree1 showing pictus of president xi standing in solidarity with president putin. their extended visit in moscow, what shouldxd americans make of this, to be seen with president putin a year into the invasion of ukraine where the west is on the side of ukraine and funding and backing president zelenskyy while russia is attacking civilians, attacking infrastructure. what does this mean for our relationship withe1 e1china? xi jinping si] embrace of vladimir putin is not going to help t(china s relationship wit the united states. the chinese and the ñrrussians, think, see themselves asñi alli in trying toxd counter and push back against what they see as the oku.s.-led world order, and while we don t know a lot of
protects ukraine s sovereignty. arthel: finally, why is president xi standing by putin? well, look, i think that he sees a successful russian incursion in ukraine as demonstrative of the fact that the allies won t really respond effectively in a way that the allows their adversary, the side that s being invaded, to win. he sees this in a lot of ways as a test case for taiwan and to see whether the u.s. will do what it takes to defend taiwan, and what he sees as the answer to that question is, no. arthel: jamil jaffer, thank you very much for joining us. a take care. thanks, arthel. arthel: eric? eric: arthel and jamil, memphis police are searching for people of interest many in connection to a shooting that wounded 11 people in two separate locations early this morning. officers first arrived at the scene at a local nightclub called live lounge, and they found multiple victims with gunshot wounds. officers then heard about another shooting less than a