twenty years. he spent millions on that.r tht, of course, they re all over the country. the lyndon johnson freeway in dallas, the famous edmundridg pettus bridge in alabama. edmund pettus was a politician in nineteen forty. now, some of these are usefuly r projects. it s nice theye to have bridgesi why are they named for politicians? this is money. it was appropriated for the infrastructure of our country not to build temples to the sleazeballs who run it.the sleeze how is this legal? apparently, no one has asked that question, so it is continued apace. the people in charge of the money are spending it to build temples to themselves. septembin september of 2018, tn governor of new york , andrew cuomooverno, changed thee of the tappan zee bridge. h do you think you did?ily. 20 family in 2017, cuomo pushed his legislators to name the bridge for his father. mario cuomo.xplici and at the bridge opening, andrew cuomo made explicit t politics. watch thihis brids bridge ist for my fat
candidates get in. you have nikki haley getting in, the second. mike pompeo definitely looks like he is preceding ahead with a run. what about tim scott? what about mike pence? what about ted cruz? i heard from an adviser to him that he is considering it, but he just isn t sure of the lane. i think that s the question that nikki haley has to ask herself. what is her lane in this primary? yeah. so many others that are talking about running. jonathan lemire, this is starting to take on the faint outlines of 2016, where you have washington republicans, even if they re trying to be trumpists, that are being critical of the edges of donald trump. yet, you look at you look at polls right now of republican primary voters. they are beyond extreme. the majority of them are beyond extreme. the majority of them believe that the election was stolen.
however, tom, congratulations on an incredible career. since we re off air next week, i d also like to pretape the following statement. tom brady, welcome back to the nfl for another season of exciting gridiron action. you still got it, baby. all right. at least jonathan lemire hopes it s for true. this time, it is for good. mike tirico from nbc sports joins us to talk about what s next for the football legend. morning joe is back in a moment. humpty dumpty does it with a great fall. wonderful pistachios. get crackin
belief. but my question that i had during reading it, and perhaps you can answer it, is why the focus on mormons? or was there a focus specifically on mormons? there is something typical of an affinity fraud, which is when an investment opportunity like this spreads through a community. because there is a higher level of trust, that scrutiny isn t there, right? you trust the person who you see at church every sunday, who lives in your ward, who you see at the grocery store. you don t expect to be taken advantage of by someone that you trust. it spread quickly through the mormon community for that reason. so this story, there s just so much in it, and i don t know if it has been optioned yet, but it should be. gambling debt was at the core of it. one of the perpetrators was badly in debt. as many as what his way of getting out of it.
said, you re making an eight-year decision. two years of campaign and six years of a term. most of us, i make a decision of what i m having for lunch. eight-year decision, think it through. i ll be candid. what i said was, i summarized the pluses and minuses of starting a new chapter in my life when i m still young and healthy enough to do it, and continuing now 30 years in elected office, from city council to 2024, my re-election. i assigned each position the new chapter and continued bible verse. the new chapter was from ecclesiastes, for everything, there is a time and a purpose under heaven. from galatians, you ll reap a great harvest if you don t give up. then i drove around the state in january and didn t think of my list of pluses and minuses. i thought about the two verses. i found myself kind of getting closer and closer. i think galatians is more in tune with me now than