long. morning joe starts right now. are you ready? food for everyone. food for everyone. okay, that s great. he paid everybody. food for everybody. what a guy. he was arrested. what a guy. and released. he kept everybody s spirits up. by buying lunch for them. food for everybody. local cuban restaurant in miami. willie, that is so kind of him. maybe he has been misjudged after all. willie, what do you think? i think mika called this in real time and every day since, but i ll let you reveal the story. well, the miami new times revealed nobody ordered anything during his ten-minute stop, and trump didn t pay for anything. i don t think there was an offer to do so. yeah. willie, nobody ordered nothing. nobody paid for nothing. there was no paying. i know this is going to shock you, coming from donald trump, it was all a scam. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s friday, june 16th. along with willie, joe, and me, we have former aide t
reassure us on the military side. they re doing everything the meeting with bill gates is another signal.ested in is help for the chinese government. they don t want u.s. sanctions, technology restrictions to continue to expand. the expression these days, joe, is where we want a high fence around a small yard. that s what the treasury secretary yellen is talking about. the real debate in washington in the administration, how big should this yard be? how restrictive are we going to be on china? what xi jinping is worried about is we will be really restrictive on technology and the like going there, so that s what this is about. that s their agenda, economic. our agenda is ukraine and taiwan. very interesting, not quite ships passing in the night, but this is not a major breakthrough. this week, in russia s second largest city, the country is holding its annual gathering of experts for the st. peters petersburg economic forum. less than an hour, president putin is expected to speak.