sox and yanks a game or two out of the wild card, and the orioles have the fewest losses in baseball. richard, it was my suggestion to spend another hour talking about the yankees, but i m told we have to move on. we mentioned that hour-long pretaping on fox news yesterday that former president trump had. he weighed in on ukraine. well, he was also asked about taiwan. take a look. should the u.s. help defend taiwan if it means going to war with china. i don t want to say it because if i m in the position of president, i don t want to say what i m thinking. you know, i just if i answer that question, it d put me in a very bad negotiating position. with that being said, taiwan did take all of our chip business. you know, we used to make our own chips. now, they re made in taiwan, 90%. advanced semiconductor chips, 90%. if they china goes in there, they ll turn the world on and off, isn t that right? if china takes taiwan, they ll turn the world off
essentially, you have to explain. there s got to be a narrative. there s got to be a story. we ve come out of covid, and here are the things that have gotten better. we re doing these things to deal. everyone is dealing with weather-related things. connect that with climate change. essentially explain what it is, the investments we re making in the country. essentially, you have to have a narrative that the american people buy into, and i don t think the biden administration yet has constructed a narrative that people understand and say, okay, i get it. i can support that. the white house acknowledges they need to do a better job of making this case. the re-election campaign isn t going to ramp up for many months, we ll see the president try to do it with official events, including a couple this week. coming up here on morning joe, we ll go through the big shakeups inside the ron desantis campaign that it says has nothing to do with the florida governor s lagging poll numbers.
dangerous things, there are going to be real-world consequences. people are going to be hurt. they re going to listen to this guy for health advice and will end up dying. this is why we have to take this seriously and not brush it off, oh, this is some crazy guy getting attention. no, words matter, and they have to be treated with severe consequences. kurt, words matter and, as you said, this isn t something in isolation from robert f. kennedy jr. yet, he gets about 15% or so of the votes of democrats looking at the primaries next year. of course, he has a famous last name. but his views have been widely reported. what is the nature? what should we make of the appeal that he has among a significant fraction of democratic primary voters? yeah, listen, i think there s a lot to be said for having perhaps the most famous last name in democratic politics, at least in modern times. there s going to always be the