that the midwest remits. alexi mccammond, thank you very much for joining us early, and thank you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. morning joe startis right now. we need to take this grief and turn it into action. i am a person of faith, i was raisin raised in the church if you are a person of faith and you want to give us your thoughts and prayers, we want them and we need them. our community is hurting, but we need policies in place that will keep this from happening again so that thoughts and prayers do not have to be offered to yet another community ripped apart by the savage violence coming from guns. that s democratic congressman morgan mcgarvy making a plea for action on gun violence after monday s mass shooting in louisville we re getting a look at the deadly confrontation between police and the gun nan we ll have that and the latest in the investigation ahead. trump on fox news making outlandish claims about his arraignment
he aspires to someone who has absolute autocratic control. and i think if we understand that for what it is, if he s confessed to it, what his inner desires happen to be, we understand this man is not being committed to democracy, as being kind of inspired by these folk who are willing to trample over basic norms and basic freedoms, and we have to understand him for who he is. and then try to understand why he s so attracted to so many americans at the same time you know, you re listening to donald trump there it struck me that in a way, in an odd way, he is running down the united states of america he s basically saying top of the line people who run russia, who run china, who run north korea, he s basically saying to people, you d be better off if you were living in beijing or moscow or somewhere in north korea than you would be living in chicago or gardner, massachusetts, or lafayette, louisiana you would be better off anywhere
he lost more money, according to the new york times studies of irs files than any other american in the 1980s, i believe it is. 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. so, yes, he knows something about getting an inheritance and losing it. but, now let s go to the bizarreness of donald trump praising some of the worst tyrants in the world and the worst leaders. he really wants to hold xi up as a model, when xi had a totalitarian lockdown of china literally, a totalitarian lockdown of china during covid, far past what the united states did. wrecked his economy. wrecked his relationship with the rest of the world. they re only reopening now he praises kim jong-un, a
countries handle kidnappings by nation states. let s just look at what s happened in america over the past few months. we ve had a wnba player traded for a merchant of death. a lot of critics of that trade said that it would encourage future kidnappings now we have a wall street journal reporter and word that other war criminals or merchants of deaths may be traded here as well in china, china has been holding mark sweden for over decade now, wron wrongfully holding him but i suspect that if he ever gets out, there will be a trade there for somebody who has broken international law what does britain do what do other countries do in this case? and compare that with the united states if we keep doing down this path. of course, we have conflicting values one is, don t negotiate with