aside and focus, especially if he had no relationship as he claimed, and focus on putting the country first. what do you, howard, think avenatti s end game is? you talk about having respect for him, not wanting to be on the other side of a courtroom, doing battle against him. the fact he talks about the president resigning, that s political. that has nothing to do with stormy daniels. it is political. you know, obviously i think some reputation building is going on here. i ve been thinking about this, this week. the only guy that knows how to handle trump in this country is jeff bezos. trump went crazy, foaming at the mouth on twitter about bezos. bezos has not responded to him at all. the only guy with dignity in this whole mess is bezos. the rest of them are all down in the gutter playing who knows what. it s just ridiculous. what about and susan is exactly right. why aren t we talking about north korea? that s serious. and that s actually something i hope trump succeeds in
buried. he has been working on dirty ads, dirty opposition research with donald trump for a long time. he has information and evidence that he can and will use against donald trump if he needs to. part of a conversation with representative israel. the president s tweet storm yesterday is sparking debate about roger stone. the new york times reporter maggie haberman is claiming in a back and forth on twitter mr. trump has been afraid of stone, quote, for years. let s bring in former dnc chairman howard dean, the former governor of vermont and republican strategist susan delpercio. do you think the president is afraid of roger stone and, if so, what would he be afraid of? i think roger stone is a known kind of dark-ops guy, plays fast and loose with the truth. when he gets his sights on you,
that s according to people familiar with the conversations. porter resigned after reports of domestic abuse and allegations by his two ex-wives came to light. one story included a photo with one of his ex-wives with a black eye. porter denied the allegations but people familiar with the conversations tell the times the president s calls with mr. porter have increased in the last few weeks as the number of people he is close to in the white house has dwindled. the president told advisers he knows he can probably not bring mr. porter back but he has made it clear he misses the staff structure mr. porter helped build and implement and susan, yi, yes in america everybody is innocent until proven guilty, but in the case of rob porter there s been no pushback to
hardly wait to punch back, president donald trump has been uncharacteristically quiet about stormy daniels, at least in public. meanwhile, the president is still struggling to hire new lawyers while reportedly dismissing others over poor chemistry and their appearance. it all comes as much of the world, including the united states, finally, finally takes a hard stance against russian aggression. good morning. and welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday. we have mike barnacle, we have the chair of the department of african-american studies at police ton university, eddie, and richard haass, susan delpercio and pulitzer prize winning historian john meachum. meek ya will be back with us tomorrow. before we start this, mike barnacle, it has been
morning, the table he put up was absolutely devastating. 11 senators gone. nine governors gone and 987 legislative seats gone, that is a record that we ll have to dig deep to undo, and it s not going to be fixed inside the beltway unless the dnc can get outside the beltway and that s why am a little concerned about it. very quickly. susan, i ll let you answer this. what do you expect from the president tuesday night? i expect broad strokes and a little bit of reflection on the campaign which are both unfortunate. he needs to turn to policy leadership, and unfortunately, i don t think we re going to see that. it will be interesting to see how the congressional republicans respond to that. as always, good to see you both. susan and howard, thank you so much. enjoy your sundays. thanks a lot. donald trump tweeting the oscars is past prolog.