that you might have missed. >> the hthousep of representatives passed a set of funding bills needed to avoid a partial government shut down. house speaker johnson said he is pleased with the legislation because it allowed him to make spending cuts. >> we also advanced as you seen the surgery cuts to some of the agencies that we believe are really overreaching. and have been turned in some ways against the american people. we are going soto cut 3% from doj, 7% from the atf, 6% from the fbi, and 10% from the epa. and that's a start. we have a lot more priorities and things we need to advance but the reality is we have to grow the house majority, take back the senate and win the white house and i am hear to tell you the reason we are optimistic is because we believe the things will happen in november. >> what happened to my former party. you got a speaker who bragging about defunding the police. he is bragging about defunding the top law enforcement agencies in america. he is bragging about defunding the agency that's responsible for stopping gangs. responsible for stopping terrorists and home and around the world. and he's proud of that? seriously? like a drug cartels he is bragging about that. >> s he is bragging about it in we are -- so, he is helping drug cartels like drug lords are thrilled to hear he is cutting funding for the law enforcement agencies and vladimir putin is thrilled to hear he stands in the way of helping ukraine defend itself. so mike johnson friend of drug car tals and putin, that's hard to put on a bumper sticker when you are running for reelection. >> won't pick up the bipartisan immigration reform to hurt the cartels and keep human traffickers at bay. >> the republican party inflicts a self-inflicted wound of falsely accusing them of being against him. >> lets bring in jeffries of new york. leader jeffries, thanks to be being with us. let's start with the cuts proposed in this funding bill do you think doj, atf, fbi, epa will we see the cuts in the end? >> well, we fought hard to avoid the type of dramatic cuts that the extreme maga republicans wanted to visit on the doj and the fbi and the atf whose primary job is to try to confront the massive amount of guns that are flooding our communities and resulting in people being killed and classrooms and movie theaters, and in malls. the type of so-called cuts that speaker johnson is talking about, largely cosmetic in nature. compared to what they wanted to do if they had their way which was to cut hundreds of millions of dollars if you can believe it, from the department of justice, or the fbi, or other law enforcement agencies. >> so, leader jeffries, do they not understand these are the agencies that crackdown on drug cartels. >> these are the very agencies that protect americans from terrorists whether we are talking about terrorists attacks in shopping malls or terrorists attacks in train stations, whether beer we are talking about terrorist attacks in airports. understand that or are they too stupid or fine with it. because donald trump wants it. it is like border i guess, donald trump says look fent knell let it flood and bloom it on me. the people are saying let hijackers have their way and drug cartels hehave their way because lsdonald trump told us do it. is that how congress runs now? >> seems to tbe the case in terms of whenever one is trying to figure out how to explain the unexplainable, the simple answer is always that when the low energy m-a-g-a king, donald trump says just, extreme maga republicans respond how high? that's icthe reason why and the continue to block a bipartisan comprehensive border security bill necessary to stand with our democratic allies, whether that's in ukraine or israel or in the defense of democracy and freedom we are continuing to see the republicans do the bidding of donald trump and undermined the best interest of the united states of america. >> so leader, what is it like listening to these republicans carp year after year after year about the need to pass a tough border security bill, and then a conservative like james langford gets together with democrats and house and senate gets together with the republicans and president and come up with toughest border security bill ever, and mike johnson and ma-g-a extremists, kill it. >> we clearly have a broken immigration system. and real challenges at the border. and under the leadership of president biden, partnering with house democrats, and senate democrats, and, of course, republican senators, like langford, we are ready, willing and able to try to find a way forward to establish a safe and strong secure and humane border while trying to also at the same time find legal pathways towards citizenship so we can continue to be a thriving nation of immigrants. that's a competitive riadvantag for us but again, republicans don't seem interested in solving problems on behalf of hard working american taxpayers. we need less chaos in washington, d.c. more common sense. common sense suggest we have to address the challenges in a bipartisan way. we are willing to continue to do that, we need partners on the other side of the aisle. >> leader jeffries, we just had the governor of new york here talking about crime in the subways and i know it's been brought out all over the country, that some migrants have engaged in crime. even i think it's been blown way out of the data that we have seen. but, even in light of that hype, you are telling me that what many concessions to the republicans to the border control bill, that in many cases, ththey represented and they written, that your conversations with speaker johnson dramatically changed when donald trump said no don't vote for the bill even though the bill had many of us questioning it and saying it was giving too much to the republicans. they wouldn't vote for their own bill under the orders of their presidential nominee to be donald trump? >> well, this is a group right now in terms of the extreme maga republicans where far too often facts don't matter. hypocrisy is not a constraint and believe shamelessness is a superpower and it's on issue after issue after issue. we will continue to do everything we can to put people over politics. and from the very beginning of the congress, we have said as house democrats we will find bipartisan common ground with our republican colleagues on any issue whenever and wherever possible in order to make life better for the american people. joe biden has led in that way. joe biden is going to continue to work towards building a healthy ngeconomy lower costs better paying jobs, and safer communities, and address the challenges at the border, but in a context of divided government, we need traditional republicans to step up, work with us, and reject the maga extremism that is poisoning the republican party. >> leader jeffries, good morning. your reaction we talked about something arearlier in the show hunter biden testified behind closed doors. couple weeks ago, he is bnow s to do so in a public setting in the house later this month. just give us your sense as to what your colleagues on the other side of the aisle are doing. >> well, from the very beginning, this effort to try to impeach president joe biden was clearly a directive that came from the former president donald trump of the united states of america despite the lack of evidence that there has been an impeachable offense. there's no evidence that a crime was committed and there's no evidence that president biden in anyway, shape or form had brocken the law. that was also the case with the homeland security secretary. this is just a political stunt to distract from the fact that this do nothing republican majority in the house has done nothing to address the issues of the economy, nothing on housing affordability, nothing on public safety, and nothing on national security, nothing on the border. and so they want to distract the american people. it's unfortunate and it's going to crash and burn because it has no basis, this impeachment inquiry effort in law or in fact. >> we have lots more to get to this hour. morning joe weekend continues after just a short break. conti after just a short break. >> woman: i have a few more minutes. let's go! >> tech vo: that's service that fits your schedule. go to safelite.com. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ starting a business is never easy, but starting it eight months pregnant... that's a different story. with the chase ink card, we got up and running in no time. earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase with the chase ink business unlimited card. make more of what's yours. some migraine attacks catch you off guard, but for me a stressful day can trigger migraine attacks too. that's why my go to is nurtec odt. it's the only migraine medication that can treat and prevent my attacks all in one. don't take if allergic to nurtec. allergic reactions can occur even days after using. most common side effects were nausea, indigestion and stomach pain. now i'm in control. with nurtec odt i can treat a migraine attack and prevent one. talk to your doctor about nurtec today. everywhere but the seat. the seat is leather. talk to your doctor alan, we get it. you love your bike. we do, too. that's why we're america's number-one motorcycle insurer. but do you have to wedge it into everything? 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that's silence of the lambs stuff. and hannibal lector. anybody know hannibal lector. we don't want them in the country. and terrorists are coming in at numbers we haven't seen in many, many decades. it's crazy what they are doing. doesn't make sense. what they are doing is they are poisoning our country by allowing people to come in by the millions. >> so that mysterious languages is spanish as long as we are cooking track. >> que pasa what did he say? >> what did he say? >> >> what is this on my plate. >> a fajita. >> oh. >> this is not. >> seriously. >> this is not different than his speech when it came down the escalator nine years ago. this is exactly the foundation of his presidential runs, and here he is again, sprinkling in hannibal lector and made the reference before suggesting central and south american countries are emptying insane asylums and sending people north and suggested people are coming from african prisons if you want dog whistle there too. he suggesting the kind of people who are coming into the country in his view, and maybe of his supporters, are not the kind of people we want here. >> yeah. languages from outer space. again, we said yesterday, he is not well. he is not doing well. but again, you know, we bring up ronald reagan all the time here and talk about reagan's farewell speech to america and reagan talking about how when we close the door to immigrants, we close the door to america continuing to thrive. said it all along i want them to come here legally. i don't want them to come here illegally. i always said that, i always will say that. i think we should have more immigrants, i think they should come here legally, but here's the thing, mike. president biden had that deal with con-- senator langford from oklahoma. one of the most conservative senators. they had the deal to do exactly that. they had the deal to do what republicans have been claiming they want done for years. and re-- donald trump right there the same donald trump talking about aliens and same donald trump talking about poisoning the blood of americans and same donald trump saying we are letting the terrorists in from african jails, and hannibal lectors, well, he is lying of course but if we were, just for argument sake, if we were, the only way they would be getting through now is because of donald trump. because donald trump said kill this bill. it will help joe biden if we actually shut down the border. and i will take the blame. so donald, we blame you. we blame you because it's your fault you said you would take the blame. and so, he kills the bill, and then he cynically goes outing out about how the boarder is opening, mike. i am curious, how many americans are too stupid to tie the the two things together? >> it's a good question. >> i mean i don't know the answer to that question. but let's stipulate immigration is crucial to the future of the country. it's been crucial to our country since the inception. the coverage of things like immigration is skewed. immigration and border is a difficult issue and it's a problem that needs to be addressed. as you pointed out, senator langford along with the cooperation of democrats in the senate and many republicans in the senate, came up with a solution. they had a solution donald trump knows it was a solution, and said no. we don't want that solution because i want to use it to run against joe biden this fall. the other aspect of this was the film clip we showed coming into the segment. and it gets to the way this election and these two men are covered. by major news papers. on sunday, "the new york times" what front page story about a poll that parts were devastating to the chances for joe biden to win reelection. on monday, on again on the front page above the fold they had another story about joe biden referencing the pole but referencing joe biden's age. why is it that they don't cover things that we just saw and heard, a man who is literally losing his mind in front of audiences coast to coast. his name is donald j trump. why is it that this is not covered in the similar fashion to the way joe biden's. >> it's a great question. >> is covered. joe biden knows how old he is. and joe biden does more in one hour in a day in the white house than donald trump has ever done in his presidency. and rev, i don't know about you, but i hate to criticize print media, i am a print media guy, but this is out of control. >> no, it is out of control, and it's really unfair to the american public who has to vote on the facts that are presented to them. and when you only give one picture, you are talking about biden's age, when trump is around the same age. and you are ignoring on the front page above the fold, the bladant racism because we are not talking about immigration alone with donald trump is talking about. we are talking about open racism. he's mocking spanish speaking people. he mocks africans and called several african countries s hole countries and hate. it's always antipeople of color. that ought to be on the front page. and then you have the nerve to let him say when he has an opportunity to speak of the grandeur and strength of the history of people of color he goes in front of a black conservative group and says you like me because of the mug shot i took. you like me because i have all the indictments. so he is running what he entered into politics he entered into politics on birthism denying a black president was born here. running on bias and racism that was always the major part of his campaign. and they will not write about that. they are telling us about one old white man rather than another old white man who is not only lost his mind, but when he had one it was bigoted. >> it is getting more bigoted. and angry, and the slurring of the words on the one hand, a family member should step? and i mean, this was my family member, i would be taking him to a memory care or something to get help. i am dead serious. >> it's sad. >> it's not a joke. >> it's really sad. >> but also this is all baked in. we have to two candidates that both have served as president. and you mention some things that happened during donald trump's presidency. i mean, start with charlottesville and list would last the whole show whether it's racist things, bigoted things, things he said and done towards women and his first trial the one that people say is less serious, is having sex with a persian gulf porn star and using campaign finance funds. i don't know, think it's pretty serious. if you broke the law you should innocent until proven guilty but if you broke the law it should be addressed. everything about this man is shocking and you have his record of four years in office. take a look at it. because it is telling us that when we are seeing now is not shocking. but it doesn't mean we shouldn't cover it. it doesn't mean that we should be desensitized and not notice that he looks demented and looks like he might be having a stroke. 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frozen embryos to children. supporters were hopeful it would be a short term solution allowing clinics in the state that halted the services to reopen for ivf. legislation does not define or clarify whether under state law frozen embryos created vivf do have the same rights as children. instead it protects doctors and clinics and health care personnel who provide i vf treatment and services by offering such workers civil and criminal immunity. late last month, republican senator smith of mississippi blocked passage of legislation in the united states senate that would provide federal protection for ivf. senator hyde-smith pointing out the alabama supreme court decision didn't ban ivf and argued the bill before the senate was a vast overreach. she said it was full of poison pills. molly, obviously, republicans know it's a huge problem for them. i mean there are moral options to abortion and there's not a lot around ivf or republican democrat, conservative, liberal issue. it's the miracle of life. >> one of the great scientific advancements of my lifetime. and i to two kids via vif and so did motorcycle pence that's probably only thing we have in common but yeah, this is a downhill for republicans to die on. no one in the world thinks five frozen cells is a person. like, if the math is not mathing. so i do think they have a real problem. i was really shocked at what you know there's just like the -- it's a case of republicans being bad at legislating. like, this didn't have to happen. they really set themselves up for this. and again, with the legislation that they passed, you know, they just said if you destroy an embryo you can't be prosecuted. they didn't say five frozen cells is not a person which i think you have now opened the door to a legislative nightmare and also a legal nightmare. you have ivf throughout the country. >> right. >> i was going to say the point you made is inconsistency in the bill which they don't say it's not life. >> right. >> because they know they would get in trouble with the base. so, without if they are not saying it, then we are to assume they think it is life. and so they are saying it's okay to destroy that life because it's politically and popular but the inconsistency across the board especially for those that say, life begins at conception. things get very, very muddled and look in the united states senate, and see republicans can't even pass a bill to protect ivf. >> yeah. and i mean, tammy duckworth immediately when this happened she came out and said let's codifying ivf but this is not controversial legislation. like, this is a popular thing. millions of dollars in this country are spent on ivf and doctors who do it, they are powerful group. >> but it points out the extremism of republicans' position. you look at overturning roe for decades, 70% of the americans told gallup they were against the overturning of roe, roe overturned republicans want to go after contraception. clarence thomas talked about going after contraception next and going after marriage equality. saying these none of these should be constitutionally protected. this is where the republican party is going. they are getting more and more extreme on all of these issues. >> and going after contraception is such a loser. i mean, this is nobody in the country is like we shouldn't have contraception. i mean, it's crazy. and they have opened the door to this with this idea of embryonic personhood. and now we are down a rabbit hole and it's just impossible to, you know, to stop. >> it is hard to overstate how bad this is for republicans. i mean, you look at this states they control whether it's florida six week ban, you look at what's happening in texas. and just extreme positions. you look at what's happening across the country, you know, you are in a very, very progressive judge when a statewide contest in wisconsin in large part because wisconsin republicans still embraced an 1849 total ban. that's how extreme they are. and it's why they are going to keep losing. >> and abortion rights are passing in places like kansas and ohio and it's -- we are seeing the crossovers sort of transcend in issues. leek i like i said there's a lot of moral debate around abortion but ivf it's like people who cannot have the miracle of life if you are the party of life, get the miracle of life people who created ivf won the noble prize for god's sake because it's one of the great innovations in human history. >> i would also say one of the things about abortion that we are seeing is that the people who are really having the haror stories coming out are not women trying to get abortions because there's an abortion pill it's women who are pregnant right who have had miscarriage and now need to take the abortion pill and doctors won't treat because they are scared of being prosecuted. and that's we are seeing it in texas. these are people they are not necessarily pro choice but don't want to bleed out when they have a 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nothing happened i had a talk with the boy. >> what about? >> it was a private matter. >> there are people who try to tell you the light in your heart is a weakness. >> i am concerned about the relationship between father flynn and your son. >>i don't know sister, you may think you are doing good, but the world is a hard place. i don't know you and me are on the same side. >> you have to stop this came nine. >> >> you can stop. >> how. >> confess and resign. >> you are attempting to destroy my reputation. >> i will doll what needs to be done. >> that's look at pulitzer and tony award winning play doubt a pairable which opens on broadway this thursday in the first in revival since the play's original run nearly 20 years ago. it starts liev describeer is and oscar and tony nominated actress amy ryan. the play follows sister the principal of a bronx catholic school in the 1960s. who suspects that the school's new priest father flynn, has sexually abused the first black student. and liev and amy join us. welcome to the show in this capacity. it's great to have you both. tell us about this version of doubt we have and also what it's like to work with amy, who i am obsessed with from only murders in the building and the office to name a few. >> well, amy and i have known each other since our early 20s. >> really? >> so it's treat to get to work together now. doubt is just a extraordinary play. i don't know what to say about it other than i think we have lost some ability to process nuance and complexity in the modern world, and think john's play is kind of champions that complexity. the idea that doubt can be a unifying concept. that i think it in many ways it speaks to the strength of our democracy. that, we are able to disagree with each other and yet still somehow make progress. but more and more we see people leaning into winning than progress, we see things falling apart. and that's, for me, there's so many extraordinary ideas and themes but that's one of the most powerful ones, how for instance, i think social media, you know, which is the algorithm is categorize for the purposech marketing demand that you are either red or blue or israel or palestine. and think that john adds nuance. john patrick shanley the playwright adds nuance. >> go ahead. >> you stepped into the role late because the original act ret cast had a health emergency. tell us about that to do so on an, sell rated timeline and take on a serious and heavy topic. >> yeah, it was very late evening sunday night phone call, and when i came around to it, monday afternoon, and i was rehearsing with liev and the rest of the cast the next day and running as fast as i could getting up at 5:30 a.m. to start cramming lines. and i remember saying please give me permission to be really bad don't worry yet. it was being shot out of the cannon. but this incredible cast, they were so patient and generous with me. and you know, they had lost their leading lady, but they put trust in me somehow, or they let me believe they had trust in me. >> must have been so helpful that you know each other so well for so long. that must have really helped in a time like that. >> it definitely helps, the familiarity gives comfort and this is the first time we are really working together, but, yeah, we have mutual friends and we have known each other and. >> no doubt about each other. >> no doubt i know his work. >> let's look now at the scene where sister begins to realize she cannot trust father flynn. >> may i ask what you wrote down with the ballpoint pen. >> nothing. an idea for a sermon. >> you had one just now. >> i get them all the time. >> how fortunate. >> i get them so i write them down. >> what he at idea. >> intolerance. >> would you like a little more tea, father. >> not yet. i think a message of the second council is that the church need to take on a more familiar face. reflect local community. we should sang song from the radio now and then. take the kids out for ice cream. >> ice cream. >> take them on a camping trip. we should be friendly. the children and the parents should see us as members of their family rather than emissaries from rome. i think the pagent should be charming like a community theater doing a show. >> but, we are not members of the family. we are different. >> why? because of our vows. >> precisely. >> i don't think we are so different. >> wow. >> you know what you were saying earlier about shanley's work written in 2004 at the height of the sex abuse scandal the catholic church was enduring and is still enduring today. i was thinking what you had just said ants number of times people say in life i doubt that. you know, just the word doubt itself and the word the way it plays not only in this though the theatrical work but the way it plays in our live. >> the one the things doug used the original director the first direction 20 years ago theyaed that part a parable to the title it's doubt a parable and he said the part of the reason they added that was because there was conversation amongst the people who were organizing the play and developing it that it spoke to the certitude going into iraq war and that thing about not being able to contain doubt, we had to make a definitive decision, and that the complexity of things and the nuance of things, is so important, we are allowed to -- we are allowed to doubt and that it's actually kind of wonderful unifying concept that red and blue meets somewhere in the middle, which in funny way, is doubt, i was human quality. and to do that, with such taughtness and humor and i am disreally, you know, thrilled that we are able to be a part of the play. >> before you go, if i could just touch on ukraine you have ukrainian roots and cofounded blue check ukraine. >> yes. >> and you wrote a piece for time. entitled ukraine is fighting for the same values americans hold dear. tell us about that and i will challenge you a little bit, do all americans hold the values dear? >> well, you know, this is my opinion, and you can doubt it if you like. >> i am not doubting it. i am asking. i do this four hours a day and i might have a little doubt. but i guess with that piece for me was thinking about my grandparents generation and what was important for them and generation of people who fought in the great wars and who defended democracy, and what's really at stake for people who think ukraine doesn't matter. that i believe that this is the front line of a -- of a war on democracy. and i think that we are a nation of grandchildren. and i think the opportunities that we have sitting around the table, i think we are provided by people who struggled to live the american way of life. and what is that? and when it's-- when it's at stake, what are we willing to do to defend it. if that means going to the ballot, absolutely you have to do that. for me, it's more than that. for me, it's defending a place where my grandparents came from, and the idea that they should be able to vote for their own leaders. they should be able to pray in their own churches and should be able to do everything in the way that we have been able to do everything in this country. and it's extremely important. and i think that is to some degree, i do believe they are fighting our fight. i certainly think that's what my grandfather would have thought. >> well, the revival of doubt a parable opens on broadway this thursday, and runs through april 14th at the todd aims theater in manhattan tickets are available now. costars liev schreiber and amy ryan, thank you both very much for coming on this morning. we appreciate it. don't go anywhere, we have a second hour of morning joe on this sunday morning coming up right after the break. ng up right after the break. ahhh! with flonase, allergies don't have to be scary. spray flonase sensimist daily for non-drowsy long lasting relief in a scent free, gentle mist. flonase all good. also, try our allergy headache and nighttime pills. before my doctor 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we will not. people will say that guy has a lot in him. he was wide-awake. seemed to relish the moment. did not seem to tire much and in fact, improved as the speech moved along. he showed energy and focus. blurred some words and thoughts, maintained a brisk pace. almost never spoke softly. sometimes he yelled. as if had been reading up on truman. growing democratic fears on the age and acuity. they succeeded. at least for a while, they said the democrats at the end of this speech were pretty much giddy. with us now, senate majority leader chuck schumer of new york. senator, i've been saying this morning, i've been in a few of these. i do not think i have ever seen any state of the union and all my time where one party was back on their heels as much as donald trump's mega party was last night. >> you bet. call me giddy, call me exhilarated. this speech showed that america is strong and joe biden is strong. you are right. one of the most fascinating scenes for me was of the republicans. they were not out there yelling and screaming. as long as she is the representative the republican party, impetuous, angry, pro- life, that's fine. let her be the face of the party. mainly, the republicans were sitting there looking at their faces. it was a great moment when he re talked about how president trump had lied about 9/11 and then looked at them and said you know that is true and they all looked down. they knew he was right. first, the vision for the middle class in america, this was a speech that a whole lot ha of detail. a lot of what i want to do and how i want to get it done. it also was a speech that showed joe biden as that fight in him. when he talks about the middle class, when he talks about the things he believes in, he has fight, he has strength. we walked out of that speech exhilarated. this is joe biden americans are going to see. now that the jump is the nominee, that's one part of thea face but joe biden is. he gets things done together with the democratic senate majority. the greatest two years we've had in a long time in terms of production for middle-class people for american values but that takes a lot of time and effort. now he's out there selling what he did, talking about what he wants to do and much more of a campaign mode, that is just fine. anyone who sat and listened to that speech knows that joe biden is going to win the election and have a great second term. i am excited. >> jonathan is here. he's got a question. >> i met january 6th, i said 9/11. >> jonathan, it really i was fascinating. seeing how the republicans looked down, i thought they were humiliated when he brought up january the sixth. because they know. mike johnson knows. got the power based on the why? again, the republicans look so weak last night. >> january 6, the violence happened in that very chamber. senator schumer, thank you for being with us this morning. there were a few points where the president really took the fight for republicans. two in particular right off the top. one was on ukraine funding saying vladimir putin is not going to stop with ukraine. and then secondly, trying to change it around immigration which, to this point, republicans had gotten the better of him. because republicans abandon the bipartisan deal, the white house thinks a chance to change the story as well. do you think what we saw last t night could lead to some legislative projects or do you feel better about the politics? >> frankly because democrats in the senate with joe biden's help, put together a strong bipartisan proposal. this is some left-wing proposal. it is endorsed by the wall street journal editorial page. right-wing conservatism in america. it is endorsed by the border guard union which is been extreme and right wing. it is endorsed by the chamber of commerce and until donald trump opened his mouth, it would've had to respond to the republicans and then he gave us a gift. he said i do not want to do it because i want more chaos at the borders of what will help me in the election. this is a man in a party said we should let it fester for another year so we map lyrical advantage. he had a resolution. he talked about it. he talked about the border guards. he talked about turning away the fentanyl from those machines that could detect them. he talked about things that we could do but in a strong way that vibrated with the american people. just as we saw in the third congressional district, we are now on our front foot, not our back foot. that is a major change and i give my senators a whole lot of credit for helping us make that happen. >> let's talk about the economy. right now, we just got a new report in. breaking news once again, the wall street journal reports 275,000 new jobs. you look at all the numbers, they are a story. the best jobs over the past three years, below 4% for the first time in 60 years. new business starts up. you look at manufacturing up. you been in politics a long time. how long does it take for the reality to catch up with the expectation? >> that is a great question, ha joe. the economy is always lacking indicators. it takes about a year for the reality to catch up with those views. they remember, they still remember when eggs were 4-5 dollars. when gasoline was 4-5 dollars. let's see if this sticks or is in a bump. once it stays for a while, which it will, inflation going on from 9% to less than 3%. ha that is all going to start sinking in. we are already seeing some of the senate races where the senate candidates are talking about this record and they are running ahead of the republican incumbents. it is a lacking indicator but i believe by september, the economy will be in people's minds are more favorable than it is today. >> we have a lot more to get to this hour. we have a lot more to get to after this short break. r this most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. ask about nurtec odt. here's to getting better with age. here's to beating these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need... ...without the stuff you don't. so, here's to now. boost. ♪♪ we're building a better postal service. all parts working in sync to move your business forward. with a streamlined shipping network. and new, high-speed processing and delivery centers. for more value. more reliability. and more on-time deliveries. the united states postal service is built for how you business. and how you business is with simple, affordable and reliable shipping. usps ground advantage. >> let me close with this. i know you do not want to hear anymore, lindsay, but i've got to say a few more things. i know it may not look like it but i have been around a while. when you get to be my age, certain things become clearer than ever. i know the american story. again and again i have seen the contest between competing forces in the battle for the soul of our nation. between those who want to pull america back to the past and those who want to move america to the future. my lifetime is told me to embrace freedom and democracy. a future based on core values that define america, honesty, decency, dignity, equality. to respect everyone. to give everyone a fair shot. >> we were just talking about how we soak this up. how he ad-libbed more than any other president and you were talking about the moment on c- span when jerry came up and said you put cognitively impaired. look out over the chamber and goes cognitively impaired. he was on fire and again, the best of republicans time and time again. how bizarre if you are sitting at home. this is the one political event you tune into. biden says we need to start stop smugglers from bringing fentanyl over the border that kills americans the vice president setting up. does he represented? it makes no sense to americans. by would you not stand? this is how stupid donald trump is clinically. there is a reason they have lost seven years in a row. he has painted them into a corner that they cannot get out of politically. >> the biggest job producers in my district. beau biden on the floor, to go back to that. how do you know what the speech did? one way, there main critique rendered. to all the can't do the job. on the democratic side, biden was on the floor after the speech till close to midnight. it was because the democrats were a combination of ruptured and energized but also relieved. there was a sense of they were nervous about the speech, they knew what the stakes were. the speaker had to the chamber. after the super bowl. the winning side doesn't want to leave the locker room after they win the super bowl. >> this is a snarky headline. he is alive. people will not remember the detail. questions about whether joe biden was up with this fight. this is the answer. the conservative post saying he is alive which is their way of saying that question is not put to rest. >> angry, bitter. that is so much better. incapacitated in some way, whatever the other words are they want to use. >> speaking to, i think he found that closing section just showed a way to make use of age. not run away from it. i think sometimes we have a relationship with our grandparents that can, sound or reassure us in a way that our parents can't. they've been around longer. they have seen ups and downs. they know things will pass. at the end, he really leveraged that to say i have been through these things. i have seen this contest between these very dark and light tendencies in american life. i can tell you what may be a younger person has not lived long enough to know that it's been a bleak era that we will defeat. >> let me say also, you can talk about grandparents and parents. let's just have a joe biden. i've known him a long time. this is the best joe biden. but also, this is joe biden who is gotten in trouble for talking too much, saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. for telling one too many jokes. getting angry one too many times. this is a joe biden, as an old man myself, after a while, the rough edges get rounded off. grandparents and parents. we could talk about joe biden past joe biden. i've talked to joe biden in private for decades. this is the best joe biden. >> i also think the people who have known them for a long time work for him like i did. this is how he actually feels about donald trump and the threat. for the first two years or so, he strategically was where republicans. some in the party were upset about that. doing that strategically and purposefully to get bipartisan legislation done. now he has unleashed. this is how we feels. this was political story. i don't know who wrote it a couple of weeks ago where he was talking about privately, the president talks about trump. and people were like that is not how he talks. that is how he feels about trump. what people saw last night was this visceral feeling of this threat and they chose strategically. you were talking about the beginning and the end. it was book ended by the threat. that was purposeful. >> can i say something else? 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with the cease-fire. i think we may have wanted it too much. maybe i read that. i think are not really interested. stay with me, richard. sometimes you have to listen to what i say. you do. >> what about hamas? i think hamas, we were talking about this before. it is hard to have the cease- fire with the terrorist organization. >> when you think about hamas, what do they do? they like having civilian deaths. in this case, what would be better than? >> to put the israelis in the situation where through our world showing palestinians, essentially, being attacked during the holiest month of the year. from hamas's point of view, why necessarily would a cease-fire now be desirable to see also, again, it underscores. hamas took hostages. this was not a sideshow. this was a central part of the strategy. they saw how much hostages matted. the idea that they're going to give up what they see as their biggest leverage, not going to happen. this underscores. this is a long war. this is not about to and whether you get a cease-fire. i think you're going to be talking about this not for weeks but months or even longer. >> what is next in the toolbox for the biden administration? not doing enough, putting enough pressure. started these air drops. they humanitarian aid were trying to get through and held up in the house of representatives. what my eisai tonight about it? >> the air drops are really a drop in the bucket. >> the most important thing is what the president says tonight. subsequent public statements. from real distances between the united states and israel. if you condemn the ongoing settlement which is foreclosing opportunities on the road. less and less territory to put into the palestinians. why wouldn't you do that? >> why wouldn't you do that? let's talk about the west bank. call the settlement what they are. illegal sentiments that have been going on for years. deliberately meant to undermine a two state solution. why shouldn't he say that in the clearest most unequivocal terms? >> he absolutely should. the united states has looked the other way too long and has been doing this. we should call it out for what it is we should also start thinking about ways to backup the words. the previous administration, we stop labeling goods coming out of the occupied territory. they come from israel. when we say that goods produced in settlements that are exported to the united states. why do we want to encourage them? either we don't send or say we can't use and population centers. when we start articulating the parameters of a peace plan and go to the united nations. for years and years, the fundamental document that guided peacemaking was resolution 242. when we updated? start articulating. bodily the parameters, the principles on both sides that shape the next era peacemaking? why doesn't the united states work with the saudis? jordan and other arab neighbors who want peace there and instead of just reacting and always voting no to somebody else's, put a tough one on the floor that we can vote yes for. >> to this point, the administration is simply not been willing to cross that bridge. maybe that will change. the president thinks has been decided for israel. >> of course, we can side with israel. this is about him holding on the power. if it had anything to do with israeli security, these extra steps i would be supporting them. this is not about israel security. this is about power and his security from prison. >> that is from the president, himself. maybe that will change. right now, though, the private pressure. he has not gone publicly like this. we should also note that the israeli government says the talks will pick up next week but that does not mean they will be in place for. can we ship to ukraine for a minute too. another topic. just yesterday, a russian missile strike came at more than 100,000 yards as well as the prime minister of greece. what is the present i need to say tonight? 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when i look at what is going on in the u.s., are there any other exciting trends that are happening with regards to democracy? >> broadly, no. specifically, there are these very intense battles like the one all over the place. it's not really fighting for its life in the general, local elections. very, very contested high- stakes like you have here. this question of who and what is the coalition on the other side is starting to form. >> this is so important. why is joe biden's approval rating so low? >> i know it's early but what are the threads that you are? >> brought anger at democratically elected incumbents. to some degree, does not always track how things are going domestically. in south africa where things are going badly, you also have the anc. might this power for the first time since democracy. this very broad anger at incumbent parties all over the place. >> makes it so fascinating. i will give you some good news. poland. here you had the party in power for 6-7 years. >> against all odds, he won pretty comfortably. was as pro e u.s. you can get. that really signals. i have been fascinated, jim, by maloney who was in the white house recently. if i am not mistaken, came from mussolini's party. mussolini's background. people were expecting her to torch but eat you and she has been a great friend of ukraine. she has been a good friend of the west. is she a liberal democrat? no. i wonder if in europe, there was not this poland understanding. poland, if you want your country to thrive, it helps to not be fighting the eu . >> i was only worried when she won. in 2015 thinking whoa, what is going on? is that a precursor to an authoritarian winning here? what she has with ukraine, the eu growing , she has moderated. >> we have a lot more to get to this hour, morning joe weekend continues after just a short break. break. here's to getting better with age. here's to beating these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need... ...without the stuff you don't. so, here's to now. boost. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement. with nurtec odt, i can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks, all in one. don't take if allergic to nurtec. allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. ask about nurtec odt. hey, dad. i got an a on my book report. -and i scored a goal on ashley. -that's cool. and i went for a walk in the woods and i didn't get a single flea or tick on me. you are just the best. probably because of that flea and tick medicine you've been ordering from chewy. we are very proud of you. you never stop surprising us, bailey. right? 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>> first of all, we have seen a big increase in labor supply that was enabling strong growth, increased in participation in the labor market. policies that the biden administration put in place during the pandemic served to ensure that those who lost work would not be permanently scarred as they were after the financial crisis in 2008. we directed enough money to state and local governments but they were able to keep employees on the payroll. with those programs, we got people back to work quickly and president biden has been focused on investing in our economy, putting me. rebuilding bridges and roads across the nation, expanding access to the internet, investing in industries of the future like semiconductors and clean energy and the incentives that of been put in place have generated $650 billion of private investment in manufacturing and clean energy. we are seeing areas that the country has not seen a lot of opportunity. we've seen great growth on the coast. country has not seen good jobs created. that has changed over the last several years. that certain private investment is also buoying a recovery. >> that is all the time that we have for this weekend. will be back tomorrow at 6 a.m. eastern for the start of a new week of "morning joe." until then, have a great rest of your weekend. weekend.