Can he Donny Deutsche. Best dressed is never me when donny is here. Author of the book a world in disarray richard haas, and columnist for Time Magazine eddie glod. Senior columnist at usa today heidi, Michael Schmidt with a bunch of whoppers out this week. He is the coauthor of one of those pieces we referenced this morning about the white house looking for leverage on muellers investigation. President trump eights Approval Rating is at 36 . The president is said to be laying the ground work to undermine special counsel tasked to investigate any links between the russian government and the Trump Campaign and any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation and any crimes committed in response to the investigation. According to the Washington Post, President Trump has told aides that he was essentially especially disturbed after learning that special counsel bob mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns. His lawyers are sending a message with j
Over to the fbi for a possible leak of his forms. We have president of the council offn Foreign Relations, richard haas, National Political reporter for nbc news carol lee, Political Editor for the daily beast and nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. Does anybody here know who Gary Kasparov is . Hes spent years speaking out against vladimir putin. He knows a thing or two about oug autocrats. Who do my supporters hate . He was responding to Donald Trumps tweets yesterday. It was as kasparov called it, an autocratic distraction, calculated red meat, a cynical attempt to distract, from his failure to get a health bill passed and the Ongoing Investigation closing in on himself on family. This morning the west wing continues to put pressure on the Justice Department with the Vice President now standing behind his boss as very public criticism of the attorney general. Vice president mike pence says time will tell whether Jeff Sessions has a future in the administration. The washin
Florida this morning, we are beginning to get a sense of the damage left behind by Hurricane Irma as the storm continues. Its assault on the southeast. It has weakened to a posttropical cyclone. Millions in georgia and South Carolina are without power and are cut off from their homes. In jacksonville, entire streets were swallowed by record flooding as heavy rain and storm surge hit the city t. Mayor and local authorities asked people to hang white flags outside their homes as a signal for help. Everglades city remains largely under water at this point. As of yesterday the main road in and out of Everglades City was still impactable for anything but a big truck or boat. And much of the florida keys remain cut off from the mainland this morning as the National Guard deploy search and rescue mission, Hurricane Irma made landfall in the keys sunday morning bringing 130mileperhour winds, according to department of defense, as many as 10,000 people who sided to stay and ride out the storms
Wounds. Its a very dishonest media, right there. I really believe they dont like our country. When one part of mamerica hurt, we all. When one citizens suffers an injustice, we all suffer. I went to better schools than they did. I was a better student than they were. We are one home with one flag. I hit everything, the White Supremacists and neonazi, i got them all. Kkk, i got them all. There is no challenge too great for us to conquer. The on people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself. Wow. Welcome to morning joe. You know, for over a year now there have been people that have been saying you should not try to figure out the president s mental state and if he has any issues, dont try to be a pop psychiatrist or psychologist but i can say safely, willie that he at least has in its most advanced form plet call schizophrenia. Thats just from three days. And the back and for the is insane. I think what we need to try to dig into today is, first of all, how much does
Her white house that way. I mean, we would be hearing it about it, well, nonstop from republicans who are going back three or four years still attacking Hillary Clinton because they dont want to look at whats happening right now in front of them. Welcome to morning joe. It is monday morning, february 12th. With us we have Political Writer for the New York Times, Nick Confessore, morning joe economic analyst, steve ratner, weve got president of the council on Foreign Relations and author of the run away best selling book a world in disarray coming to a food channel near you soon richard haase, and katy kay and heidi prisbella. Mika will be back with us tomorrow. Lets talk about john kelly and reports of the friction around the house that surround the chief of staff, john kelly, and his actions as they related to the resignation of white house staff secretary rob porter. Of course, over those allegations of Domestic Abuse. Tuesday night, kelly said he, quote, is proud to serve alongside