Willie, i think its really important that were responsive to orur fans. Do you remember the family that moved to the marshall islands. He listens every morning. He was watching the what are you talking about. Well, we have 73 million on Armed Forces Radio every morning. And sometimes were like santa claus, we go around and give gifts out. And so little johnny army brat. Great kid. We love him. A little nuclear problems but hes working through it. But hes a huge green day fan. And so we promised him that on because he loves insomniac, all the great albums. That you would play it for him. Do you have a favorite green day album . I think inso many knee being a so manyinsomniac. But anyway, this is for you, johnny. This is green day for you. This is just for you. Maybe if you would arrive a little bit more on time we would notice that were wearing the same color and then you wouldnt have to do a strange open to the show like this. Dartmouth man. We had a great day there. We went there a couple weeks ago. He probably slept in that. I did. I got no problem i love college gear. And people always say did you go to dartmouth. Yes rks i did and i got this looks comfortable. It is comfortable. Well get morning joe gear just like this. Hey, by the way shes trying to start the show. I was just trying to get the news going. But thats okay. Its hard for me willie to think back to somebody that has been as bold in his announcement that hes run for president of the United States. I guess reagan in 1980 with the statd statue of liberty behind him, jon huntsman a 30mileperhour current swept the entire family into new york harbor. That was sort of encouraging. But lincoln chafe, yesterday, i gasped. Sgchlt gall dang it, that guy went there. Stuck his flag in the sand. One of his opening lines as he announced his campaign i said this here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Lets join the rest of the world and go metric. Sweet jesus. A bold endorsement of the metric system on the first day of the campaign. Sweet jesus. Where were you when you heard the metric speech . Where do we find such men. Well hear an official announcement from jeb bush. I hope hes wearing green for littlejohnjohnny. We have political news. What took you so long . Oh, my lord. This is a negative about our president and i can wait. I didnt want a negative story about a president. Thanks. President obama is now viewed less favorable than former president george w. Bush. In a new poll the expresident received a favoritable rating from a majority 52 of americans compared to 43 who see him in an unfavorable light. That puts bush in a better position than president obama whose numbers are even at 49. Their predecessors bill clinton and george h. W. Bush both received positive feelings from 64 . I mean to explain, bill clinton did knock over a bank last night and that helped his numbers. Also more and more americans are pes missionsimistic about the president s handling of isis. A 14 point swing against the white house since february and president secretary josh earnest had this reaction. The president is not designing our strategy around this military conflict based on monthly poll numbers, but hes doing it based on the National Security interests of the United States. And thats what will continue to guide our strategy thats why the president continues to believe its not in our best interests to essentially reinvade iraq to try to solve this problem. So hes at 49 where they dont look at it in terms of Foreign Policy. Fair answer. But what does this mean . Well, it means absolutely nothing. Then well move on. I saw some programs that had this on last night, obama and popular uhe lar blah, blah, blah. In this day and age, if youre at 49 , pat yourself on the back. I think those numbers are extraordinarily high. I say extraordinarily high as divided as the Political Class is in washington, d. C. George w. Bush would love to have a 49 Approval Rating seven years in after all the divisiveness. And president obamas successor, if he could be 49 seven years in, they would take it. Willie, the spin on this that somehow the president s numbers are dropping and blah, blah, blah. I mean comparing him to george w. Bush doesnt really matter. Thats like comparing a guy that has to go out and box in the boxing ring with somebody that boxed 20 years ago. Its irrelevant. When i looked at that number i thought 49 is as high as weve seen in a long time for president obama. To me the number that jumped out was bushs 52 because he was so low when he left office. But as you say, hes been gone a long time, not under the spotlight. Memories fade. The presidency is romanticized. So im in the as stunnot as stunned by those numbers as most people. Bush has kept his mouth shut. Hes shown the class of his father. I wasnt a big fan of george w. Bushs policies. He did some things right. But he was a Big Government republican. I thought he hurt the republican party, con stefsh differenceservative movement and the country. But as an expresident , hes shown a lot of dignity and kept quiet. To me the more interesting number was the second one which was 32 of americans approve of the way the president is handling the fight against isis. And if you look at inside the cnn poll as well, when you combine the fight against terrorism and the fight against isis americans are really concerned about this issue and Foreign Policy will be at the center of this campaign. I was talked to go a top democratic yesterday over lunch, huge fundraiser, and he was talking about the president s Economic Policy. We were having debates over it. And then we turned to his Foreign Policy and he just gasped. Foreign policy is an absolute wreck, a nightmare. The situation is vexing and every day there is a headline im looking at the first paper, isis making political gains, new york times. Secretary of state tony blinken praised for kiting fighters but his comments were not supposed to be made public and the remarks come months after the pentagon said body numbers were not relevant. And David Petraeus is offering a grim picture of the current u. S. Effort to defeat isis. Isis clearly is a threat to the United States, to our allies and partners around the world and of course very much in the region. Instability, violence and so forth and indeed far beyond just iraq and syria. Its the into north africa, even trying to recruit in afghanistan and pakistan. Are we winning or losing at this moment . Well, these are fights where if ear not winning, youre probably losing because time is not on your side. And we are not winning. Well, its arguable now in rag. Iraq. We will win again. I do think iraq can be handled, i think it can be kept intact. We have do more in syria. This is already a long war. Its become longer because of the advent of the Islamic State and we have to recognize that and we have to be in it. When questioned about David Petraeus why was the government pushing him around instead of saying will you please put on the uniform and go back over there, this is a guy that did more to bring peace to iraq than anybody else. We had you know one journalist after another journalist that covered iraq talking about how in 08, 09, 10 they would have they hated americans and they hated george w. Bush but they would have put statues up of David Petraeus all across the country because they saw how much he did to bring stability there. When you have somebody its incredibly complicated. There were issues about information being released inappropriately. I mean, thatswill yeah do you want to win a war or do you want to try to make a political point. I want to win a war. Its not about politics. It really was about politics. I want to win a war. Give him a slap on the wrist, accepted him on his way and then get him back in there helping us win a fight. His insight is valuable. This is a guy who took a country that was in absolute chaos and came up with a strategy to bring peace to iraq. The tact that were not using him actively reminds me of george w. Bush ignoring Colin Powells advice after colin powell fought the same war this iraq. He was given a relative slap on the wrist for leaking that material. Probation and a fine. So hes out there. If you want to consult with him maybe they are and we dont know about. But i think they would be wise to ask what he did right in iraq for that period of stability. There is a lot to cover including interesting polls on inequality and how much people care about that issue. And look at i care about it. Look at the front page of the wall street journal, america is in search of its pay raise. Wages are still stagnant and its maybe what these candidates want to find a way to effectively hone in on. I know that youll go to the weve got to raise the minimum wage argument out of that. Thats one. Thats not what i was thinking. Thats the wrong way to look at it even though you can be better than nothing. You can be in support of raising minimum wage. We have to figure out a way to create policies that help grow jobs. And you look at connecticut, they passed that budget and the budget is higher taxes, it will drive more businesses out of the state, that will lower revenues. Which will mean they will have wages lowered which means that they will have to go bag and raise even higher taxes. Its a vicious cycle. So are the Big Companies going to leave . We shall see. They passed a compromise late last night which was deplorable. But well see what happens. Everybody goes lets go ahead and force minimum wage hike. That short circuiting an entire process that creates this false sense of security and ends up hurting companies lower. There are companies willingly raising their minimum wage even shall to 15. And thats the way it should be because its another market pushing them to do that. Last night the l. A. City Council Passed a 15 minimum wage for city workers and a year later Small Businesses will have to follow. So well have a Good Laboratory to see if it works. Other cities are doing the same thing. So its time is coming. It is. And by the way, if cities can raise minimum wage to 15 and then we look at the economy a year or two years from now and theres been no impact in fact its been a positive impact respect ill be ill be the first to cheer. Right now we have a pretty tough economy and hiking 15 an hour has real world impact on a lot of these small which is owners fighting to keep their doors open. These candidates can impact this conversation for sure. Six months after he launched hisrdhis rd hisrdrd president ial exploratory committee, jeb bush announced that had his decision will come on monday june 15. You cant read this straight. So im going to. Yes, i can. You cant handle the truth. No. Its just that hes giving himself time i want the truth. Now you cant handle it. A spokeswoman tells the Tampa Bay Times that the great governor picked Miamidade College as the location and the nod to his passion mika i believe he has passion for education policies. This gets me a little emotional. For education policy. Rick perry, another guy we love around this set, will launch his second bid for the white house in a few hours. All right. Thats good. I love that guy. Willie do you not love rick perry . . Hes on our show tomorrow. Hes a nice guy. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton is headed on perrys home state of whats that about . Well, there is bernie, maybe but we have to get a team going. Omalley. We have chafe talking about the metric system. What else do you need . You got a socialist running. You have to love that. A socialist democrat running. Thats your dream. Id like to see biden jump in. I would love to see joe biden jump in. I know its a very poor time. John kerry ought to consider it. Yes, he should. Apparently hes working around the clock right now. I think john kerry should run for president. I think, you know the more the merrier. I wish al gore would consider jumping back in. Come on now. You dont like al gore because he had a beard . Are you a beardaphob . She hates the environment. Hillary will call for early voting. Why does mika hate well, everybody . I dont. I want to see hillary get better. And she doesnt get better if there is no one really, you know you dont seem to like jeb, you dont lying hillike hillary. You are a grumpy gus. Who is the one democrat youd love to see jump in other than Elizabeth Warren biden . Yeah. I would. Id love to see him jump in. Id love to see john kerry jump in. Real experience. Real ideas that actually some of his ideas never came to pass but turned out to be right. And this is someone who really could inject into the conversation about Foreign Policy and Economic Policy some perspective and experience that would apply. Imagine this, if you had the Democratic Party that had Hillary Clinton, joe biden, john kerry and al gore running can you take al out, put elizabeth in. Why take al gore out . The guy won the popular vote in 2000. Hes younger i believe that Hillary Clinton. So it seems to me thats the best way for the Democratic Party to come up with a really strong candidate. Can you imagine that that . Four democratic giants on the stage there. She has the potential to get really good. But she needs that she would get great if she survived that. That would be best for the democrat being party 37. Coming up on morning joe, Lindsey Graham will be here onset. 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The anthrax was also sent to australia. The anthrax was also sent to canada canada. And the anthrax waskorea. Most being teated are d. O. D. Employees in south korkorea. Pentagon says the investigation is under way to determine the scope of the problem, but warns it could expand in the coming days. My hope is that they will take Homer Simpson off the anthrax shipping line. Unbelievable. Who was this the mail room that day . Some of those packages were sent fedex. True story. Associated press, nearly 33 million americans, 14 of us admit they have drinking problems or have had them recently. According to a new government study. Findings also show majority have not sought treatments. Problems can include suffering frequent hangovers, drinking that causes performance problems at home or on the job. Nearly 69 of americans admitted to i think it is percent. 69 million it turns out. My lord. I thought that was low. 69 million americans admitted to suffering from problems at some point during their lifetime. Thank you very much. Showtime set to launch a streaming service, initially available on apple devices for a monthly fee of 11. And later on nonapple devices. It will include unlimited on demand access to showtime original series and movies. Hoe show showtime hjoining hbo trying to stay relevant. We talked to four or five people that we were with and nobody goes home and turns on tv. They turn on their tivo or apple tv. Hbo to go. Showtime to go. Netflix. I mean, the entire well, people have been predicting for 20 years that tv would get unbundled, the idea that you have to buy this whole package and now its happening. Like a dam breaking. I cut the cable cord. I just use netflix, amazon. Com. I have my hbo now. What about morning joe . And you can actually watch those things online now. Its great. You can schedule when you want to watch stuff. This is what i said about a month ago. That the kids the kids, just like ten years ago, they stopped putting in hard lines into homes. Used to be every apartment, house, first thing youd do, call the pow every, theer, cable, phone company. Very few people do that fp. Really . My kids dont do it. Your kids dont have cable . Dont have cable. They find it online somewhere. One actually went out and got an antenna so they can get the over the air for stations. But they dont understand w