Nothing wrong. How could this be . Now we know how it is. Because these people fixed it. Thats how it is. Read this, if youre not disgusted, and you dont demand that the Justice Department begin this investigation, and suspend the one of the president and all the people that have been tortured by it. I believe that Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions have a chance to redeem themselves and that chance comes about tomorrow it doesnt go beyond tomorrow. Tomorrow, mueller should be suspended and honest people should be brought in, impartial people to investigate these people like strzok. Strzok should be in jail by the end of next week. Rudy giuliani, i mean Rudy Giuliani is shaming himself as usual. Rudy giuliani is making a fool of himself. Rudy giuliani is lying to the American People. Rudy giuliani is, is trashing the entire fbi because of a couple of fbi agents who were fired last year. Rudy giuliani is no fool. Though he plays one on television. He knows that fbi agents also during the campaign were trashing Hillary Clinton in new york. It was a common occurrence. Rudy giuliani, unless hes a fool also knows that while barack obama was president of the United States, c. I. A. Agents regularly trashed barack obama. I know because they trashed barack obama to me. Fbi agents did the same. Guess what, during the buildup to the gulf war you know who the c. I. A. Agents and fbi agents trashed . George w. Bush. You are all are acting like such snowflakes its as if the Prime Minister of canada said something mean to you, youre asking like its the first time its ever happened. A Phony Investigation . Let me hold up lots of papers, rudy thimpgs youre too stupid to not be like brought into this tizzy, because he holds up lots of papers. If you read this. Because ive writ tn down here. Youll find out that theyve already in this Phony Investigation of Rudy Giuliani, have already been 13 russians indicted. Thats a hell of a Phony Investigation. 13 indicted by americans in a grand jury overseen by an american judge. 13 russians indicted. Oh, an additional russian indicted. Oh, wait, hold on a second, this information that im reading here that you should be blown away by also shows that the man that ran Donald Trumps National Security agency, indicted. Pled guilty in this Phony Investigation and is now cooperating with federal authorities. But wait. Theres more. The man that donald trump said was running his natural security team. Head of Foreign Policy. George papadopoulos he told the
Washington Post, indicted, pled guilty and is now cooperating with feds. Boy, thats some Phony Investigation. But wait, theres more. One of Donald Trumps top Campaign Managers during the 2016 campaign has pled guilty. And is now cooperating with authorities. Why, thats some funny witch hunt. Oh, wait, theres more. Paul manafort, the man who is running the campaign, jon heilemann, the man who donald trump said he had to get on board, so he could win the republican nomination, is going back into court today, hes been indicted by a grand jury of americans, of americans, with an american judge, listening in, been indicted and man ffrt is going to go to jail today. Now i dont know who is stupid
enough to listen to Rudy Giuliani and believe Rudy Giuliani. But im asking, if you are stupid enough to believe that, ladies and gentlemen, then im going to ask my judge to get your phone number and cast you in i had okayidiocracy ii. Because i dont believe theres anyone that stupid. Well unfortunately, whether you call them stupid or not, this you have to be stupid with 20 indictments by americans dude, im with you. By american grand juries, you have to be stupid and also im sorry, but didnt the fbi help elect donald trump . Thats, you know i think thats the most frustrating thing. That the very, the very breach of protocol of james comey, had him send out a letter, ten days before, when the fbi was sitting on that information for 20 days
from peter strzok that we did not know about that donald trump and his allies are going to seize on and talk about all day long today in which strzok said in some tone that we cant tell either with the tone of intent and seriousness, or a throwaway line. Who knows. Let me ask you this let me ask you this, this is for the stupid people, who actually believe this. I got to say some of you people tweeting yesterday stop shaming yourself. Just stop shaming yourself. Youre embarrassing yourself because the bottom line of this report was that james comey elected donald trump. Let me ask you something, if you get a text message from somebody who works for me i sometimes do. And they say the sun rises in the west, but you dont get that text message from me and you know that i know the sun rises in the east. Are you going to freak out . Are you going to call me up and then when i actually tell you yes, the sun rises in the east, are you going to be freaking out
about the people who work for me . Are people that worked for me in congress . Or does what i say matter the most . You actually have the guy running the fbi, that threw the election for donald trump and yet a couple of subordinates that are making out are texting each other, stupid nasty things. I said more than that. Its not even that i think that comey i dont even believe that comeys intent was, and theres nothing in the Ig Report That suggests that his intent was even to throw the election for donald trump. But the reality of it is, theres no theres no demonstration in anything thats been written here that strzok actually did anything after sending this text to accomplish what he said he was going to accomplish. The fact that the ig says absolutely willie, no documentary evidence, no evidence of any kind. Again if you look heres a quote and i know you guys would love to hear it im going to say is it just for you, our review did not find documentary or
testimonial evidence directly connecting the views of these employees to specific investigative decisions we reviewed. In fact if you look at the record, willie, in fact what happen happened after those Text Messages were sent, james comey launched the greatest October Surprise in the history of American Politics and it ripped to shreds Hillary Clintons campaign. And that is the headline out of the Justice Departments ig report. It says as jon says about as predictable it could get that Rudy Giuliani and the white house would seize on these texts from lisa page and peter strzok, that they believe shows corruption inside the fbi and corruption now with the Mueller Investigation because they worked on it. Although last summer immediately when he found out, Robert Mueller threw them off this investigation. So Michael Schmidt one just quickly just to say this, just talk is cheap, you know, talk is cheap. Any investigation in any circumstance that we can have. People talk, they say stuff all the time. The question in this report is, whats the noise, whats the white noise among various employees, various people in the fbi and what was the action . What actually occurred as opposed to what were people saying in what did comey do as opposed to what did some of the staffers say. Protocol in a way that destroyed Hillary Clintons campaign ten days out and Everybody Knows it. The ig report calls james comey insubordinate, critical not just of the two letters on the eve of the election, but also the july press conference, they said it was inappropriate that he didnt need to come out and make public statements about that youve combed through this thing. With a are your headlines from The Ig Report. If you didnt like comey before, youre not going to like him now. But its a judgment question, theres nothing new in this report that shows that comey lied that he distorted anything. So in terms of a witness, he hasnt really moved that much. Hes incredibly important to the Mueller Investigation. He is the central person in the obstruction question. The firing of comey, asking comey to end the investigation. We dont find comey to be a liar. Back on your point, the president s lawyers told mueller in january that he believes he has the power to end any type of investigation. He uses his power to pard ton do that as well. If he thinks this is a witch hunt and he looks at this document, he does have the power to call Rod Rosenstein or call Jeff Sessions and say put an end to this. If rudy is saying that, why doesnt the president do that himself. He controls the executive branch. You know why he doesnt . He knows it would be Obstruction Of Justice. He knows that his Campaign Manager who he said was critical for him getting elected, getting the republican nomination, is being marched into court today. But its not Obstruction Of Justice if he has his lawyer out
there, saying the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney general its all Obstruction Of Justice. Its all Obstruction Of Justice and the fact that more people arent shocked and the fact that the republican party, susan, that is just lost its soul, i mean paul ryan, my god, asked about this, he trashes the entire fbi, as shameless as he is. Asked about the epa director, he said, duh, ive been too busy to pay hes been too busy to Pay Attention . My dog could tell you half of the things that pruitt has done. Its see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. And that really started with speaker ryan when he allowed those confidential memos or anything to be released to memo form that was probably out of the, out of committee, he let nunes do that, that was probably the beginning of the end of that. What i think were Going Forward looking at The Ig Report and the way Rudy Giuliani tied it into
mueller and to other things, is that this now is actually all playing into Donald Trumps hands, because people arent able to process all of these things. We also have the Attorney General of new york come out with an indictment against Donald Trumps charity. How many, its hard to count, how many criminal charges could the irs bring against donald trump because of those that is it should be noted that this wasnt criminal. This is on the civil side. And there are tons of issues on the taxes. Because he used some of those Foundation Expenses to cover businesses, i wonder if that really opens up an avenue to explore his tax returns. And if the new york ag starts going into his Business Tax Returns thats going to be a whole different situation for trump and how it plays into the Mueller Investigation. So watching paul ryan, who ran as mitt romneys Vice President ial running mate its hard to remember. Served as speaker of the
house, seemed to be a leader and a good man, is really a heartbreaking political decline. And thats saying it nicely. Heres his statement in part about alleged bias at the fbi. I know that the fbi is home to many dedicated Public Servants and director chris wray now has an enormous responsibility to earn back the Publics Trust in this institution. Willie, i think paul ryan needs to understand, the public does trust the fbi. Its just the president of the United States that doesnt trust the fbi. Paul ryan knows that. Its syncophants and lackeys on capitol hill who are trashing the fbi every day. Paul ryan is helping the president with the notion that the fbi is corrupt. Your love of country is coming through today. Coming through for the United States of america. You mentioned the epa stuff, its staggering, he said he
hadnt heard of any of the scott pruitt scandals. Director Christopher Wray seemed to agree with how much The Ig Report actually impugned the entire fbi. Lets see. The ig report makes clear that weve got some work to do. Lets also be clear on the scope of this report, its focused on a specific set of events back in 2016, a small number of fbi employees connected to those events, nothing, nothing in this report impugns the integrity of our workforce as a whole, or the fbi as an institution. Christopher wray is out there standing alone. I said he agreed, he disagreed with what paul ryan said. To take up for the fbi. Hes Donald Trumps appointee, right . Trump appointed him. Im write rite about that. Donald trump appointed him. Donald trump talks about this
hold on, let me go through the democrats, Christopher Wray, no hes a republican. Donald trump appointed. The Attorney General is, no, way, Jeff Sessions he appointed, Rod Rosenstein, no, hes a republican, too. Rod rosenstein is a republican, too. Theyre all republicans. Jim comey . Republican. Jon meachum, how you doing this morning . I tell you what, jon . Anything going on up there . You have an Ig Report That comes out. And it is completely twisted by the president of the United States. They try to pick two people, two underlings, who were idiots, texting each other. And saying horrible things about donald trump. Just like fbi agents and c. I. A. Agents said horrible things about barack obama, especially the new york office. Just like c. I. A. And fbi agents said horrible things about george w. Bush in the leadup to the iraq war. There was a civil war inside the c. I. A. About george w. Bush. There were constant leaks against george w. Bush. Starting in the fall of 2002. These things happen, jon. And youve got Rudy Giuliani with his bulging eyeballs, acting like a snowflake, like this is the first time that this has happened in any bureaucracy. Its happened in the state Department Since Thomas Jefferson walked in there. Yeah. Actually you know he started, jefferson started a newspaper to fight hamilton while he was in the state department. I think three things happened this week that are hugely important. That we will actually look back on as we dot history of this era. One is we have yet another affirmation of why donald trump is president. And jim comey for all of his
service to the country, bears a good bit of responsibility for that fact of our National Existence right now. And thats a hugely important thing we should stop. Judge walsh, back in 19 92, came made an announcement that he was reindicting Casper Weinberger in the last minutes of the Bush Clinton Perot race. Thats paint ball, it barely left a bruise this is serious, the other is that the Attorney General of the United States decides bizarrely to invoke Holy Scripture to talk about the one of the most striking Human Rights Abuses that our government has been part of in a very long time. And thats just you know, shakespeare said the devil can quote scripture to his purpose and we saw that this week. And the third thing is bob corker of tennessee who is on his way out, used a really
important word about the republican party. Cultish. He said that the party is becoming a cultish thing. In regard to trump. And you saw that with the Sanford News In south carolina. You saw it with paul ryan. And youre going to see that text message which could stop him. Which can could be the twisting in the wind phrase of this whole scandal, is going to live forever on the right wing. The question is that right wing going to be the 35 that was always with joe mccarthy . Or is it going to be closer to 45 or 48 . This is really a war for that 13. Jon meachum, well stop him, turned into, we elected him. Well elect him. No, we elected him. James comey elected him. The ig report shows they had, the Abedin Wiener emails for a
month. They sat on it. If this that letter had been sent when they were reviewing them, then Hillary Clinton most likely still would have won the election. They were dropped when all of these women came out on Sexual Harassment charges on donald trump and i said and i think it was like probably a month, month and a half beforehand. I said you know if they had dropped these ten days before, said it in realtime if they had dropped these ten days before, he wouldnt recover from it. So comey drops a letter ten days before. And im sorry, i dont know Whats Going On in james comeys mind, i know hes a showboater, but anybody that knows anything about politics knows, you drop Something Like that ten days before theres no recovering. Its, you know, in a different way, its like the
2000 election. A compelling case could be made is that the reason that george w. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 was the thursday or friday night before the election, the news of his d. U. I. Came out. And you know, that the bush people will tell you that it lost, they thought, maybe three or four million votes among particularly religious folks who were so tired of political figures not seeming to be what they were. And bush had to dig out of that. So youre right, anything that happens in those last hours, and the larger issue you raise, were in a real stress test here. Is can the public separate the tech, a stray text message from an fbi agent, from the larger question, the 13 indictments and more coming . Or will Rudy Giuliani
successfully obfuscate everything into one big miasma in which the trump base becomes so impervious to reason that even when theyre hit over the head with it, they cant find it. We had times when evangelicals were so shocked and stunned they wouldnt vote for a man who had a d. U. I. Back in college. And now payoffs to porn stars and grabbing them by the whatever. Locker room talk. You go on and on. Attacking people viciously. Ripping babies from mothers arms at the border. That only makes evangelicaling love him even more. What do they say, joe . We elected a president , not a saint. Michael, this ig report it seems to me is yet another political Rorschach Test for our tribal times is that supporters of
Hillary Clinton will see rightly will in here, that james comey put his thumb on the scale and perhaps prevented her from becoming president and Trump Supporters will listen to what Rudy Giuliani and the white house say is look theres corruption, theres corruption inside the fbi, therefore mueller either out to go or if he stays, you ought not listen to what his conclusions are. On either side if you want to understand this report, you want to understand what happened before the election, you have to look at the incredible nuance of this. The complexities of individuals sending politicallytinged Text Messages and not executing things in an investigation that are to that end. And that is a very difficult thing for people to get their heads around. And especially in these times with both sides hitting it. I dont think anyone is going to look at it with clear eyes. And until that happens, no one will be satisfied with the 2016 election. Especially the left. Michael schmidt. Thank you very much for being on this morning. Still ahead on morning joe whats going to happen today
with manafort . With manafort . It looks like you know, pretty strong case that the government has, i think more importantly than that, it shows how aggressive muellers guys are being. And it just makes you wonder what else theyre doing. If theyrele to be this aggressive with manafort on this type of issue, and throw him in jail, what else is going on . What about in the Southern District of new york, a lot of talk that the president s former lawyer is going to start cooperating with the feds . I think that Michael Cohen has an enormous amount of pressure under him. As someone who i spoke to who deals with all this craziness said the guys who talk the toughest at the beginning are often the first ones to go. And michael talked pretty tough at the beginning. Well still ahead on morning joe, we circle back to where we started, the white house pretending it is not responsible for its own Policy Of Separating Immigrant children from their
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you immunity from arrest and prosecution. Bringing children with you doesnt guarantee you wont get prosecuted. I would cite you to the apostle paul in his clear and wise command in romans 13, to obey the laws of the government, because god has ordained the government for his purposes. I can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law, thats repeated a number of times throughout the bible. However hold on, jim if youll let me finish. Im not going to comment on the attorneys specific comments that i havent seen. Thats not what i said, i know its hard for to you understand, even short sentences i guess, but please dont take my words out of context, but the separation of illegal alien families is the product of the same legal loopholes that democrats refuse to close, in these laws are the same that have been on the books for over a decade and the president is simply enforcing them. Lets see, so the game plan at the white house we saw there is one, you lie about what the law is and what the law isnt. When questioned about your lies, and the misquoting of the bible, you insult a reporter. And then you quote the bible again. You know its interesting, jon meachum, youre of course the biblical scholar here. What were talking about children if they want theres so many bible verses that completely contradict the actions of donald trump and his administration, joevangelicals know it if theyve actually read the bible lately. You could go to luke 17 where jesus says it would be better for millstones to be hung around their necks and they be thrown to the bottom of the sea, if anyone were to cause a little child to stumble. I mean the sermon writes itself. And you can even be out in time to have 14 stanzas of just as i am and get to Morrisons Cafeteria by 12 05. Nothing better than morrisons. The cube jelly . Jello . Heres another one from the psalms, put not thy trust in princes, full stop. This is a totally elective problem. The Attorney General has created here. Why is the apostle paul being invoked here at all . I just dont understand it. And i believe firmly as you know, and you do, that you cant separate religion from politics. This is just at a moment when are just as divided as we are, and we werent in, and the administration seems to have such a hard time with the
fundamental issue of accuracy and truth, i would stay as far away from the bible as possible. Yeah, just stay away from it. Dont throw jesus under the bus on your immigration policy. Or a Refugee Policy. That is antiamerican. The Refugee Policy is antiamerican. Again, i believe in strong borders. I want to be tough and stop illegal immigration. But like a lot of other people, i dont that have that position, i dont want little children ripped from their parents arms, i dont want them marched off to quote showers. On our Refugee Policy, again, if theyre quoting the bible, im sorry, youd say in court, the Attorney General opened the door, let us walk through that door that he opened. What is one of the first stories that we are taught as children
in Sunday School or in Vacation Bible School . Its the story of good samaritan. And what does jesus say on the sermon of the mount . He talks about not loving your friends, he says even the sinners do that. Love your enemies. Thats the central premise of the new testament. So if the Attorney General wants to open up the bible and Start Talking about it, i guarantee you, hes got, jon, a losing case. One of the things that i think, another one of these big generational questions is going to be, what do, when Evangelical Christians who support the president actually have a reckoning, which presumably they will. Will they have to ask themselves is, was the Supreme Court worth it . Was that Seat Worth It . No, it was not. Thats the bargain they made. They sold their souls for a seat on the Supreme Court. You can look at the history,
jon, as i know you do, the church when it was being persecuted by rome, and the roman empire, grew. When the roman empire swallowed up the church and it became actually a Status Symbol within the roman empire, within government, to become a christian, thats when the church got corrupted. Its also when the roman empire began to fall. Since were on this dorky subject, and i know this will upset mika that im going to throw in something dorky and surprise you. But the original image of the wall of separation between church and state, the original image, was partly from roger williams, the founder of rhode island. The idea was that the wall was not to separate and protect the state from the church. But the church from the state. That ultimately, temporal power corrupts spiritual authority. This is our own version of paradise lost. We have seen what the angels have said. Next segment well see what the devil says, playing that role for us, donny deutsch. Well be right back. Your Brain Changes as you get older. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. My secret visitors. Appearing next to me in plain sight. Hallucinations and delusions. These are the unknown parts of living with parkinsons disease. What stories they tell. But for my ears only. What plots they unfold. But only in my mind. Over 50 of people with parkinsons will experience hallucinations or delusions
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children. And i drifted on to the news. When you physically see whats happening down there. I want to you picture this if youre a parent. The refugees show up, they separate the moms the kids are indoors 22 of 24 hours a day with five other kids. Literally, we have become the bad guys. The wonderful thing about america has always been, susan, in other countries, you, the sins of your parents pass on to you. And a lot of times they pass on either culturally or legally. Maybe, the idea of Debtors Court and. But we dont do that in america, one of the wonderful things, that we dont pay for the sins of our fathers, we dont pay for the sins of our mothers. Were given a fresh start in america. These children are being made. These infants are being made to pay for the decisions of their
parents. And whats even worse is, is the only thing thats going to move this administration from this horrible policy, that they are enforcing that is not the law. Is that its going to take something happening to one of these children. Thats going to scare them. And unfortunately it already happened. We in the United States are ripping children out of parents arms. I understand that and theres obviously a lot of psychological issues there and theres the drama alone, trauma alone is a lot. But what im talking about to move this administration is, were going to see criminal activity, theres already talk that some of these places, especially where children who are a little older, who are 12, 13, are sleeping next to grown men. There are a lot of problems in the investigation into those things. Were going to have to wait until these things come out to see if the administration acts. I dont know what else does it. I dont know if there is, if i shouldnt, if im not allowed to do this. They can tell me afterwards. Im not allowed to do this. But you know we went over to paul weiss a couple of days ago. A Great Law Firm in new york city, theyre known for their extraordinary pro bono work. Working with indigents and working on big causes. I would love to see some of the biggest, best law firms in america just send one of their lawyers down to mccallum, texas. Flood the zone. People could go in there and just start representing one by one by one by one, these people who have had their children ripped from their arms. I know in america there are good people. I have seen law firms do extraordinary things. Without expecting anything in return. This is whats needed there right now. During katrina, i saw people come in from all over america, good people come in from all over america and try to help the
people of new orleans. Help the people from mississippi gulf coast. This is whats needed right now. Somebody needs to organize this. And get the best and brightest lawyers that they can. Get them down to the border and do just what the gore and the bush team did in 2000, fly 737s of lawyers into a place and make a difference. Its a great analogy. When you think about it this way. Its something that causes your stomach to turn. Were seeing pictures of a humanitarian crisis in america thats selfimposed. By policy, were imposing a humanitarian crisis on our own country intentionally. Not through a natural disaster, but through an act of government. When you think about it, it boggles the mind. There are great Legal Aid Services down there, nonprofits doing the work and theyre part of the reason that light has been shined upon this. I agree with you. We could use the correct term is like humanitarian. We, the United States of america, our country, right now as we speak, when people who are running from oppression, trying to keep their daughters from becoming sex slaves, slaves, we the United States are pulling crying children, infants from their parents and putting them in a separate room for a month. You used the Shower Analogy which is politically incorrect thats what theyre saying. Theyre saying theyre taking them to showers and never seeing them again and mika this is not just a liberal conservative right versus left issue. There have been good conservatives, Rock Rib Conservatives like Erick Erickson and others saying this is not who we are. No, its not. And looking at this report that was reported on msnbc last night, rice, the largest immigration legal service, its a nonprofit in texas, saying there are parents who have been waiting four months
postdeportation for the u. S. To return their babies. They skype once a week with their eightmontholds who have been effectively kidnapped by the Trump Administration. Just kind of look at what happened just yesterday with the Attorney General quoting the bible on this. You have the White House Press secretary lying, calling it a law, saying its biblical and n not its not. And this is more than tone deaf. Because not only is this a story about who we are and redefining who we are in the worst way, this is a story about women and their vital role as mothers and when you have babies being taken away from their mothers you have to ask why the counselor to the president who was brought in to help the president perhaps create good policies surrounding women, parental leave, domestic
policies that are important to women in this country, you have to ask why ivanka trump is so tone deaf to post a picture about her special day yesterday with her daughter. Again, just missing the mark every step of the way because this is about who we are as a nation. Its also about women and their vital role as mothers. Were losing every, every step here. Were losing a sense of who we are. And its wrong and we need people in there with stronger voices. Well get to mike allen in a moment. Also coming up, the president is pressing ahead with a summit that he really wants with Vladimir Putin. Morning joe is coming right back. Neutrogena®. And my brother ray and i started searching for answers. vo when its time to navigate inhome care, follow that bright star. Because brightstar care earns the same accreditation
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been thrown at us this week. But what matters . What will we remember ten years from now . Well remember we have further evidence of why donald trump is president and it had to do with the punditry of the fbi director who decided to guess that Hillary Clinton was going to win and he wanted to protect himself in the fullness of time and Richard Nixon after 1960, which was such a narrow race, said that everybody when you have a race that close everyone has 25 theories and if its that close any one of them can believe right but were pretty close on this one and were in an era that is always going to were going to talk about as long as the english language is spoken and we have a new insight as to why its here. Jon meacham, thank you, the book a run away number one bestseller. Great fathers day gift. If you love your father you will buy the Soul Of America. Its important bibly liicall one of my favorites came from Brother Pat Buchanan when i asked him on air, why Didnt You Challenge illinois because kennedy stole illinois. Pats response . Because we stole kentucky, joe. I love pat. Still ahead, new legal troubles for the president and his family. The new York Attorney Generals Office is suing the Trump Foundation alleging vast illegal activity. The Washington Posts David Fahrenthold has been reporting extensively on the matter and will join the conversation. Plus, member of the Senate Judiciary committee senator Richard Blumenthal joins us to react to the new ig report. Morning joe is coming right back. Lets meet, only at a sleep number store. Welcome back to morning joe, its friday, june 15. Donny, what are your plans tonight . What are you doing . Dinner or anything. You going to the hamptons . Im going to hampton. By helicopter or car . Youre worth 400 million. My brother was in town, hed never been, he wanted to go. I said george, its friday, well never get there. Now if you were donny deutsch, youll take a helicopter. Do you really fly a helicopter . Answer the question honestly. I think modes of transportation are not necessarily a relevant discussion. Come on. Helicopter or seaplane. Theres many different ways to the hamptons. When was the last time you were on the l. Ichi. E, donnie . Donny . Ellen did this with bill gates. How much does a gallon of milk cost . A gallon of milk i would say quart of milk, any quantity of milk. 3. Depends where you buy it, too. Have you ever seen donnys refrigerator . No. Its incredible. Have you seen it . Yes, i have. Why have you seen donnys refrigerator. I cant get into that. But if you go into donnys house, everything is labelled. Hes got like a kato kaelin figure in his house. All the clothes are labelled in the closet. Everything is labelled . Are you kidding . And when you get to the refrigerator everything also has a label. So. Like this is milk . This is the eggs, this is the milk. Am i right . You need help knowing what the milk is . 2 milk, whole milk. Im going back to the bible. Are you ocd . Is this an ocd thing . I feel very personally exposed right now and im a very organized person. Hes very organized. I dont know how to respond to this. Others say there is so much in my house i have, five dogs, three children and a couple jean michele basquaits on the wall. In all of the labelling, its a very organized house, extraordinarily nice, beautiful home, beautiful art, incredible thing. But among all the labelling, the most incredible something that when you see donny there holding his Starbucks Cup which his kay
kato kaelin guy has gotten him from starbucks the Starbucks Cup is labelled what does it say . Whatevers in it, vanilla half caf its brewed at home. Its in a Starbucks Cup, donny. Its a cup like this. Thats a Starbucks Cup thank you for making my point. So donny and heilman are also still with us. And joining the conversation we have former Justice Department spokesman now an msnbc justice and security analyst matt miller. Apologize here for donny. Like i walked into a reality show and i have no idea Whats Going On what if i reveal matt miller is donnys kato kaelin. Weve learn how old the other half lives. How is everybodys salary . Is everybody doing okay on this
set . All these poor people im surrounded with . Your skinny jeans are too tight. Squeezing the circulation to his brain. And other places. Go ahead, read the news. Its hard but i people going to. What happened . This is three or four minutes into the show. President trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani, we dont think hes well but thats besides the point. Hes calling on the Justice Department to immediately suspend Special Counsel Robert Muellers probe that has indicted 20 people, 14 russians and most of the people that ran Donald Trumps campaign in 2016 and now he wants to launch an investigation of the investigators. Giulianis statement came after the dojs Inspector General report on the fbis investigation of 2016 president ial candidates. Hours before extrump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort heads to court this morning for a bail hearing over witness tampering claims, he pleads not guilty to charges including fraud and money laundering. Rudy giuliani insisted he was speaking for himself but his demand coincided with other trump allies claiming the report had bearing on muellers legitimacy even though mueller removed agent peter strzok last summer when he learned of the antitrump Text Messages to strzoks lover, fbi attorney lisa page. We supplied 1. 4 million documents and who are we supplying them to . People who have already concluded to frame donald trump, agents who started a phony russia investigation. Thats the whole core of this. Thats why the investigation should be suspended. And i am talking for myself now, not the president , but i believe he would agree with this. Very Serious Investigation has to be done of the fbi agents at the top by fbi agents who are honest in order to prosecute them. I believe that Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions have a chance to redeem themselves and that
chance comes about tomorrow. Doesnt go beyond tomorrow. Tomorrow mueller should be suspended an honest people should be brought in, impartial people to investigate these people like strzok. Strzok should be in jail by the end of next week. So let me ask you, matt. He wants to suspend let me get this right an investigation that has already into russian meddling that has already indicted 13 russian nationals, three russian companies, the man that flew around with the president the most during his president ial campaign. The man that everybody said he trusted the most, that he spent the most time with and who became his National Security adviser busted, he pled and hes cooperating with the feds. This investigation also got one of the top people in the campaign whos already hes already busted, pled, and is now
cooperating with federal authorities. The man that donald trump said was one of his two most important Foreign Policy advisers during the campaign busted, pled, investigating with federal authorities, the man donald trump said he needed to run his campaign as Campaign Manager because it was the only way he would become the republican nominee, busted and is now going into going to be fraud marched into court this morning. I mean, hes lied time and time and time again and chances are good hes going to be going to jail. The list goes on and on and on. We have 20 people who have been indicted. Again, not indicted by bob mueller, indicted by grand juries that are filled with americans. Just like giuliani and others
that are on voting roles. Theyve gone in, weve heard they are very serious, they take their job seriously. Weve heard this from people who have been before grand juries and they are the ones who have indicted the russians and members of Donald Trumps campaign and here you have Rudy Giuliani by the way, im sure the yankees would like him to take off the World Series Ring definitely. Shaming himself, shaming the people of new york, shaming anybody who believes in the rule of law saying no, lets investigate the investigators and end this investigation because its getting a little close to home. And again what drives me crazy about yesterday is people are going look at these four or five people sending Text Messages. That happened in the fbi in new york, people attacking hillary, happened in the cia always. This has always happened and yet the big picture they seem to miss from this ig report is that comey held on to the most damning evidence of all so he
could drop a letter ten days before the election and actually destroy Hillary Clintons campaign. Talk about purposefully not seeing the forest for the trees. Yesterday was a low point. There have been so many low points for republicans and Rudy Giuliani and clowns on the hill. Yesterday was one of them. I think for a while now weve seen two tracks marching forward. One is reality and the reality is bob mueller where you see new indictments, in guilty pleas coming out of his probe coming time and time again. The other track is fantasy and over the last 24 hours we saw the difference. In this ig report we saw the reality which is for all the president s claims, for all his attacks and lies about what the fbi and Justice Department was doing, their actions in the 2016 campaign helped his campaign, did not hurt. The other reality we see from that ig is that there was no evidence that anything peter strzok said about donald
trump and he also said things about Hillary Clinton, he attacked eric holder, bernie sanders, their actions did nothing to hurt him and all of the actions of the fbi helped h him. So were going to see this fantasy coming from the president for a while. At the end of the day you may see Paul Manafort in jail. Hes going to go in court today and may have his bail rejoked by the end of the day. That will put more pressure on him. You see Michael Cohen getting much, much closer indi indicted. The attacks will get worse before they get better. They are desperate. They know hes coming close. And just this morning a few minutes tag president is tweeting fbi agent peter strzok who headed the clinton and russia investigation texted to his lover lisa page in the Ig Report That, quote, well stop Candidate Trump from becoming president. Doesnt get any lower than
that. President Trump Goes On Writing The Ig Report is a total disaster for comey, his minions and sadly the fbi. Comey will now officially go down as the worst leader by far in the history of the fbi. I did a Great Service to the people in firing him. Good instincts he says of himself. Christopher wray will bring it back proudly. By the way, ive just had information sent to me, alex and jack saying the low point, perhaps it was 1964 when j. Edgar hoover sent a letter to Martin Luther king and said to kill himself or he would have his sex life exposed. Maybe lower. Remember, joe, history started january of 2017. And also since it started then donald trump himself will not admit that james comey, who he loathes, is the reason why hes president of the United States. The ig report again for those
that are just tuning in and for those of you too slow to actually operate household appliances, the bottom line of this report is that james comey and fbi agents held on to evidence of Anthony Weiners laptop for a month, said they didnt have time to look at it so they waited a month and then sent that letter ten days before the Election Guaranteeing that it would destroy Hillary Clintons campaign. Willie that is, bottom line, if were looking at what ultimately happened after some Text Messages were sent, thats what happened and it accrued solely to the benefit of donald j. Trump. And The Ig Report, 500 pages of it, goes incident by incident including the july 2016 press conference where it wonders allowed in this report why the head of the fbi is announcing Charging Decisions that dont belong to him. And trashing Hillary Clinton. And trashing Hillary Clinton
and then the two letters in the days before the election. Theyre making the case without saying explicitly that he put his thumb on the scale for donald trump. He absolutely did and not just what he did with Hillary Clinton. Theres an email in this report he sent to jim clapper and john brennan, that comey sent on october 5 that is really its kind of hard to read because he talks about why he wont sign his name on to a report or statement from the Intelligence Community saying the russians are interfering with the election. Not a statement saying Donald Trumps campaign is under investigation. Doesnt mention donald trump at all, just a statement talking about russian interference, he wont do it because he thinks its an October Surprise and the American People will react to it unfairly and it would be unfair to the campaign. Contrast that to how he acted with Hillary Clinton sending that letter 11 days before the election. Theres no way to justify that. And i think if you step back and say why do these two things happen, why is he worried to stick his thumb on the scale in One Direction to help Hillary Clinton but not worried to stick in the other . Because of the pressure he was
getting from one side. He was getting attacked from republicans on the hill. Let me say this very quickly. Within a month 40 of americans are going to think bob mueller said we need to stop him. Thats the scary thing. Especially if they listen to a couple of whacko voice who dont want the truth to get out there. Mike allen, its pretty remarkable and we heard it after the election that on election day there was only one campaign being investigated. James comey bent over backwards to make sure that nobody heard about the russia investigation because it would be considered an October Surprise but he threw the most damaging October Surprise in the history of
modern American Politics on Hillary Clintons campaign ten days before the election and how donald trump or anybody, giuliani or any of those clowns that are Holding Press Conferences on capitol hill Attacking Comey as being an agent for Hillary Clinton, how they can do that with a straight face defies logic. And donny is making me feel very selfconscious about my jos a. Bank trousers. Et tu, brutus . Mike, were the people of the people and to jump on this juggernaut of hate, im very surprised. Mike allen, go ahead. So i have a prediction for you and exactly because of the circumstances you talk about. You talk to former federal prosecutors, they would tell you they think around september 1 there will be a pause in the comey investigation but hard to
see how he wraps it up by september 1 and every federal prosecutor in creation except for james comey knows that when somebody is on the ballot and when there are ballot issues you dont keep that investigation live and hot through the fall through the heat of campaigning. So why wont donald trump fire bob mueller . I think its been explained that bob mueller is 14 moves ahead of him. The second he does that, referrals to attorneys general, you have the formerize in not with a sweet plea deal with bob mueller but having to face conspiracy to kidnap from the pennsylvania ag, you have possibly the kushners and others
being indicted by the new York Attorney general. Theres a long list of charges that could be brought against a lot of people and they wont be as careful as Robert Mueller. Maybe charges brought under seal. I suspect bob mueller has a lengthy plan for what to do if his investigation is shut down that includes copies of evidence stored somewhere else, not just in his office in case the fbi were to come in and seize his files. Indictments either ready to go or already filed and just not yet unsealed. Theres no good way for him to fire his way out of this problem. You cant fire everyone in the Justice Department. You need a new Attorney General who would not just fire people but go down and say in this case. But matt lets underline this point. The worstcase scenario for donald trump is not that federal charges are brought against these people. Do something that requires mueller that requires his information to state attorneys general. His Pardons Dont Touch The new York State Attorney general, his Pardons Dont Touch The illinois Attorney General. Some of these issues have touched upon them and suddenly donald trump and everybody else is just sitting there waiting to see how long if they get arrested and indicted and tried and charged theyre going to jail in a state prison and nobody can pardon them. Thats true for his associates who have legal problems. Im not sure its true for the president himself that he has specific legal problems on a state level that bob mueller could refer out. Maybe something related to his
foundation. But i dont know. Let me say, donald trump worked a good bit in new jersey and new york state. We always heard it would go back there. And atlantic city. Another Big Development yesterday, new York Attorney general Barbara Underwood filed a lawsuit against President Trump, his three eldest children and their charity which alleges the Trump Foundation engaged in Persistently Illegal Conduct claiming trump repeatedly misused the Nonprofit Organization to pay off his businesses, creditors or pay off one of his clubs to stage a multimillion dollar give away at his 2016 campaign events. The lawsuit alleges they coordinated illegally with the Trump Campaign on an impromptu fundraiser in 2016 as trumps gift a fox news debate. Lets bring in the reporter
whose articles in the Washington Post helped lead to this lawsuit. David fahrenthold joins us from washington. Ive heard there could be civil ramifications for these activities. Possible Election Law Violations. Trump and his three older children being barred from being on any nonprofit in new york state. Whats the bigger challenges that trump and his lawyers are going to be facing. Well, the immediate one is going to be that trump faces penalties of 2. 8 million, possibly more, maybe double that depending on what the judge says to impose so theyll have to fight this in new york state court, fight this lawsuit and as you said fight this idea of a ban so theyre thinking about applying a remedy to small time
scammers, people who scam their Breast Cancer charity. And on his children . The ban on him will be ten years and his children one year. They were the directors of the foundation making sure their father didnt spend the money, it turns out the Board Of Directors hadnt met since 1999. So when you start using your foundation improperly for a fundraising events that benefits your president ial campaign in 2016 doesnt that bring up federal Election Law Violations as well . The new York Attorney general said we exhausted our statutory authority, we dont think we have the authority to bring criminal charges in new york state, with eck bring a civil action and theyve referred the same violations to the irs and federal Election Commission so it would be up to one of them or both of them to look and decide if there will be a criminal action. One key thing in this memo is that if you were a tax lawyer you noticed was this the bar for prosecuting somebody for a tax
crime is it has to be a willful violation. You have to know the law is and break it any way and in this lawsuit yesterday, new York Attorney general says trumps violations of the law were willful in this case so she believes it got over the threshold. Whether the doj will see it the same way, we dont know. David, you track closely the foundations money during the 2016 campaign. Including as mika mentioned the january, 2016, when President Trump skipped the debate to hold that veterans event. A televised veterans event. Wheres the crossover in this lawsuit with that night. This actually this lawsuit does a good job of getting behind that night so to start out, one of the bedrock things about nonprofit law in the u. S. Is that you cant use a taxexempt nonprofit to help your Political Campaign and she shows trump handed his nonprofit, his taxexempt nonprofit over to his campaign then. The nonprofit served as a Collection Point for the money he raised that night and then
the nonprofit allowed Corey Lewandowski, trumps Campaign Manager, to tell them when are you going to give the money out, to who and what amounts . Lets do it on stage with a big check at Trumps Campaign rally so the Foundation By Law Independent of the campaign became basically one arm of the Trump Campaign and she spends a lot of time describing how intertwined they work. Did you ever find where that money went . I know you were trying to track it. It took a long time to track it. Trump gave out some of it to individual charities, he would go in iowa and give out a big check during the middle of a rally to a local Veterans Charity but then iowa ended and he stopped giving out money and it took months and badgering from me before we figured out what became of the rest of it. We were told by Corey Lewandowski, look, trump promised to give away a Million Dollars of his own money, Corey Lewandowski said, in may of 2016, trumps giving it away, i cant tell you where it went but trust me, hes giving it away. It turned out that was false. It was only after we raised more
questions that trump gave it. You hear the word foundation, a foundation means other charitable i have a Million Dollars that i want to give away to children. Donald trump, you take it and decide how its going on. So think about what he was doing because its not a foundation. He was taking other peoples money that was meant for children and firefighters and cancer and said im going to pay my legal bills. Think about the mind that does that. Donald trump has been known in new york as the least charitable human being of any wealthy guy. He has never given a dollar of his own money to anybody. Ill give one fact thats never been out there. That Foundation Money, Donald Trumps kid went to my kids baron went to the same Upper West Side school, a very privileged school. He Gave Foundation money as a donation to an Upper West Side school that is a 50,000 a year tuition school. So other peoples money that they thought was going to charity. He was donating to hiss sons private school, a very
privileged private school. Thats where that Foundation Money was going. Basically buying good grades for his kid at the school. Wow. David fahrenthold, thank you. Well, know, im sure his not that, hes just not thats just not where that people thought the money was going to be paid. Not fair to say. Really . Its just another layer. Matt miller, thank you very much. Mike allen, thank you as well. Happy Fathers Day Joe and the dads. Happy fathers day, mike and really quickly, i know weve got to go but youve been writing about tariffs and writing about how thats messing up the International Order economically. Whats Donald Trumps thoughts about how its going . The president doesnt care about messing up the International Order. We call this Donald Trumps i mean it moment. These tariffs he threatened are now going into effect. Joe, you know this, theres one thing that trump has been
consistent about for 30, 40 years, that is he thinks the u. S. Is being ripped off. Hes been insistent on this. The Great Oval Office scene where he said bring me tariffs to his aides, gary cohn resisted, just bought time, bought time. Now time is up. A twist in this, though. Our reporting shows if china helps with north korea he could pull it back so there is always with trump a possible exit ramp. Speaking of fathers day, joe and willie have great insight on their great dads on knowyourvalue. Com, thank you for doing those. You can find that and a lot more at this web site that really provides a lot of resources for women especially. Still ahead on morning joe, from the Senate Judiciary committee, democrat Dick Blumenthal joins the table. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Youve got to get in there, like. This thing is like. First kid ready here we go by their second kid, every parent is an expert and. More likely to choose luvs, than first time parents. Live, learn and get luvs
[ speaking korean ] that is at the 22minute mark of a 42minute north korean Propaganda Video shown on state media showing behindthesceneses style footage of kim jongun in singapore and you saw the president there. Is he saluting a general . He was, returning the salute, yeah. Joining us now a member of the judiciary and Arms Services Committee Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal of connecticut. That is a good question willie just asked you in the break. Where to begin . Your response to The Ig Report and also Rudy Giulianis version of it, response to it. Were in the beginning of the renewed assault on the special
counsel and theyre going to use an aggressive one. Very, very aggressive and obviously distorting and selective approach those three words, ill stop it are going to be heard again and again and again and the call by Rudy Giuliani to Imprison Peter Strzok is part of a Concerted Campaign which has been continuing to diminish the credibility and legitimacy of the Special Counsel. But here is one of the most important facts about that report, there is no evidence that whatever that detracts from the critical importance of that special investigation. In bias in the Clinton Investigation and none, despite 74,000 Text Messages and all the other bad stuff that should in any way provide an excuse for suspending or ending the Special Counsel investigation. Can the Special Counsel withstand these assaults . Especially when there is a powerful and extremely forgiving megaphone that they are using through fox and specifically hannity to distort the facts and spread a narrative that perhaps may not reflect the truth about this investigation . The Special Counsel certainly can withstand this assault ifs supported by people who are willing to take a stand and speak out. My republican colleagues among them. Were going to have a hearing on monday about The Ig Report and i will be very, very interested to see whether my republican colleagues many responsible and concerned about the kind of demagoguery were seeing out of the white house, they have a responsibility to step forward. Now is the time of reckoning. Your former life, Attorney General, if somebody had said to you hey, theres a rich guy getting other Peoples Charitable money, taking charitable money he was given and using it for his own personal needs, what would you do as an Attorney General . I would do what my very distinguished colleague Barbara Underwood has done. Shes a career prosecutor, by the way, not a political appoint qu appointee and i would go to court. You made the point a very good one earlier that this protection of donor funds is one of the fundamental responsibilities of any state Attorney General. The only difference with Donald Trumps foundation is that the violation of trust is so blatant and big in its magnitude and so really just arrogant in its flouting of trust responsibilities. When people contribute to a
foundation they are doing it to advance a charitable cause, not the selfdealing or selfinterest that donald trump used his foundation to do. Would you assume you would get jail time for that . He would conceivably receive jail time and he in a generic sense, someone committing this kind of crime, in the false statements that were made either to the irs or to the federal Election Commission or to state or federal governments, false statements to any agency or violation of law. Senator, i want to ask about whats happening on the border, what we see in these images of parents being separated from their children at the border and placed into these detention for facilities for Young Children and boys and girls. First question to you. Jeff sessions and Sarah Sanders said yes that theyre merely following the law. Is this the law that parents and children must be separated . It is not the law most definitively and emphatically it is not the law and this kind of
spreading of propaganda and demagoguery is a real disservice to the law. There is no legal requirement that they separate children from their families, it was not done under the Previous Administration and there are ways to avoid it, among them providing decent legal advice and places for these people to stay so that they are not separated from its inhumane. Ive been to the border, ive seen these Detention Facilities and the harm theyre doing is unforgivable and illegal. Its a policy Attorney General sessions announced on the border where he said you may be separated for your children under this zerotolerance policy. Youve used terms like hideous, noxious, cruel, antithetical to our values, you say its a betrayal of American Values so what can be done to stop it . We have the information, were watching the images everyday,
people are angry and want to know whats being done. We have legislation we proposed in the United States senate led by a number of us, including Dianne Feinstein and others who have been involved for some time. Obviously the chances of legislation are slim in the immediate future but some of my republican colleagues are troubled by these images of children ripped away from their parents. I am heartbroken by those images as are many of my republican colleagues and the purpose is simply as general kelly has outlined it a tough deterrent. Thats his words. And your republican colleagues use that argument, that its a tough deterrent, the ones who support it . The ones who support it say that it is a deterrent to immigrants coming to this country. Remember, theyre coming here to escape murder, torture,
persecution. If you talk to a number of these people, in fact virtually all of them, they are coming here for the classic reasons that americans welcome. My dad came here in 1935 to escape persecution in germany. He had not much more than the shirt on his back. He spoke virtually no english and this country gave him a chance to succeed. He would be sent back to germany. Just about all of our families would have a story like that. We all have an immigrant story. As a matter of fact, my fathers first generation here, my grandfather had to send for his wife and children to come here and that it does affect us all. Another thing that affects us all is that North Korea Summit was just five days ago. Weve seen the tv spectacle come and go and videos come and go,
what have you seen that we have to look at Going Forward. I think Going Forward in my world most important for this coming week is to make sure we protect the Special Counsel and equally so the Deputy Attorney general because he controls thes per strings, the scope of authority, many of the practical issues that will determine the success of the Special Counsels investigation and the image that was on the screen just a short time ago about the guilty pleas, the indictments, the remarkable progress the Special Counsel has made, i think, should sway all americans to understand that were talking real crimes, guilty pleas, convictions and potential prison time, this investigation must go forward. Senator Richard Blumenthal. Thank you and thank you to your father and so many of our dads. Coming up, the president cut short meetings with allies last week to meet with north korean dictator kim jongun. The new yorkers Susan Glasser says he could do something similar to nato allies in july in order to meet with Vladimir Putin. Well get susans new reporting on this ahead on morning joe. Tell your doctor if you have an infection, experience frequent infections or have flulike symptoms or sores. Liver problems can occur with entyvio. If your uc or crohns treatment isnt working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. Entyvio. Relief and remission within reach. And were committed to improving every ride. T to you starting with features designed to make it easy for your driver to find you. Taking the stress out of pickups. And were putting safety at the heart of everything we do. With a single tap, were giving you new ways to let loved ones know youre on your way. Uber has new leadership, a new vision and is moving in a new direction. Forward. Another antiwrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. Neutrogena® rapid Wrinkle Repair works in just one week. With the fastest Retinol Formula to visibly reduce wrinkles. Neutrogena®. Im not for russia, im for the United States. But as an example, if Vladimir Putin were sitting next to me at a table instead of one of the others and we were having dinner the other night in canada i could say would you do me a favor . Would you get out of syria . Would you do me a favor . Would you get out of the ukraine . Get out of ukraine, you shouldnt be there. Just come on. Now i think id probably have a Good Relationship with him or id be able to talk to him better than if you call somebody on a telephone. I will tell you as an example, if he were at that meeting, i could ask him to do things that are good for the world, that are good for our country, that are good for him. Its very interesting, donald trump had that one on one conversation with Vladimir Putin at the g20 last year when he went off by himself, wouldnt
let any of his american aides go so they could have a secret conversation. And you foe what happened after that . Vladimir putin not only stayed in syria but 20 russians attacked americans and unfortunately for them put themselves right in the line of special Special Forces gunfire. The crimeans want us there, because donald trump was putins parrot at the g7 saying, well, you know, crimea, they wanted to be invaded . So he stayed in syria, stayed in crimea, stayed in ukraine but for that he gets into the g8. I guess thats how that works and he continues if you believe the people that are running the president s Intel Committee that he appointed that Vladimir Putin
is still trying to influence the 2018 campaign and interfere with american democracy. Thats happening right now despite the fact that donald trump talked to Vladimir Putin at the g20 last year. Its very interesting. Im not sure why putin would listen to him at the g8 when he obviously didnt listen to him unless donald trump listened to Vladimir Putin and thats why he continues to refuse to only criticize two people. Vladimir putin and stormy daniels. The only two public figure donald trump has not attacked since being president of the United States. Powerful people. The way you flipped out like that, i got it now. Sort of an ellory queen episode from 1978. Columbo. Does anybody ellory queen . President trump gets a Second Chance for a sit down with Vladimir Putin. In the words of one administration official, there is no stopping him. Well explain that next on morning joe. Its gone. Thats why you need someone behind you. Not just a card. An entire support system. Whether visiting the Airport Lounge to catch up on whats really important. Or even using those hardearned points to squeeze in a Little Family time. No one has your back like American Express. So no matter where youre going. Were right there with you. The powerful backing of American Express. Dont do business without it. Dont live life without it. With my bladder leakage, the products ive tried just didnt fit right. They were very saggy. Its getting in the way of our camping trips. But with new sizes, depend fitflex is made for me. Introducing more sizes for better comfort. New depend fitflex underwear is guaranteed to be your best fit. Joining us now, staff writer at the new yorker, Susan Glasser. Her later letter from Trump Washington writes this about the potential of a trump meeting with Vladimir Putin as early as this summer. Quote, negotiations with the kremlin have been under way for weeks. Theres no stopping him. The Senior Administration official familiar with the operation said he is going to do it. He wants to have a meeting with putin, so hes going to have a meeting with putin. The remarkable thing, at the beginning of the administration, one of trumps people called and asked me, this is just when the russia news was blowing up at first, hey, we are thinking of having a summit with Vladimir Putin. This was late january, 2017. My response was, are you kidding me . It has been a singular obsession with donald trump since hes
been sworn in, isnt it . He proposed this to Vladimir Putin in the famous, do not congratulate phone call, which he congratulated putin. He then invited Vladimir Putin to the oval office. The white house did not put that out in their initial readout of the phone call. The kremlin announced it to box him in. Trump pursued it ever since with all the drama, through the trade war, the rifts with allies. This is something the president made very clear to his team he wants to have happen. You know, while all this other drama has been playing out behind the scenes, they have been negotiating over the venue. Putin said, by the warks i dont want to come to washington, according to my source. He said, lets meet in a third party country. First, trump didnt like that idea. Now, trump seems to have accepted the idea and will add it on to his europe trip,
potentially, as mika noted, really, really further upsetting nato allies. It is something you dont do, meet the russian president before you meet the nato allies. After you would have a united front and something to talk about. It was clear over the last few days how much President Trump enjoyed his summit with kim jongun, the pageantry of it. I guess my question is, the summit with Vladimir Putin, does he have a goal or an agenda beyond having another pageant with a world leader . Well, i think thats the interesting question. You know, the fear among russia in and out of government with whom i spoke is he doesnt have a goal beyond the summit. Clearly, trump never let go of the idea of a grand reset in russia relations, a grand new bargain with putin. Congress tried to tie his hands on sanctions, but that, of
course, is top of Vladimir Putins agenda. I think trumps advisers, you know, he has real hocks on russia surrounding him and john bolton and mike pompeo. They have a tricky job ahead of preparing him for a summit in the sense putin is going to want things trump is inclined to give and congress isnt going to be happy about it. Look how they swallowed the reversal of many other positions. Its not clear to me, what, if anything they would do about a deal putin and trump cut together. Susan, how concerned do we have to be that after the g7 summit, our allies were concerned about how they were treated. Do we have to worry they are concerned about shared intelligence with putin and what they are willing to give up and how we keep ourselves secure . Look, i think that people should realize that trumps obsession with putin and his
critique of our allies is not just economic. Its not just his trade tariffs against allies or his tough words with the canadian Prime Minister, justin trudeau. He is obsessed with the idea on security, our allies are ripping us off. This statement about the g8 and having russia back into it, this is the most proputin policy move President Trump has made in his year and a half. People havent focused on it because understandably, theres many other things to focus on. It was a jaw dropper. Last friday, actually on this show, when trump came out and said that. It was like a bombshell. Where did that come from . I was told by a Senior Administration source that it came from literally out of the blue. It was never discussed as a policy move inside trumps government. A wrecking ball. The new yorker, Susan Glasser,
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fbis investigation of 2016 president ial candidates. Hours before extrump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort heads to court for a bail hearing over witness tampering claims, he pleads not guilty to charges, including fraud and money laundering. Giuliani says he speaks for himself. He claimed the report had bearing on muellers legitimacy. Even though mueller removed agent peter struck last summer when he learned of antitrump Text Messages to his lover, fbi attorney, lisa paige. We supplied 1. 4 million documents. Who are we supplying to . People who concluded to frame donald trump. Agents who started a phony russia investigation. Thats the core of this. Thats why the investigation should be suspended. Im talking for myself now, not the president. I believe he would agree with
this. Very Serious Investigation has to be done of the fbi agents at the very top, by fbi agents, who are honest in order to prosecute them. President trump has said over and over again to me, i did nothing wrong. How could this be . Now we know, because these people fixed it. Read this, if you are not disgusted and dont demand the Justice Department begin the investigation and suspend the one of the president and the people tortured by it. I believe that Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions have a chance to redeem themselves. That chance comes about tomorrow. It doesnt go beyond tomorrow. Tomorrow, mueller should be suspended and honest people should be brought in, impartial people to investigate these people like struck. Struck should be in jail by the end of next week. Rudy giuliani is shaming
himself, as usual. Rudy giuliani is making a fool of himself. Rudy giuliani is lying to the American People. Rudy giuliani is trashing the entire fbi because of a couple of fbi agents who were fired last year. Rudy giuliani is no fool, though he plays one on television. He knows that fbi agents, also during the campaign were trashing Hillary Clinton in new york. It was a common occurrence. Rudy giuliani, unless hes a fool, also knows while barack obama was president of the United States, cia agents regularly trashed barack obama. I know because they trashed barack obama to me. Fbi agents did the same. Guess what . During the build up to the goal four, you know who the cia agents and fbi agents trashed . George w. Bush. You are all acting like such snow flakes. Its as if the Prime Minister of canada said something mean to you. You are acting like this is the
first time its ever happened. A Phony Investigation. Here, let me hold up lots of papers. Rudy thinks you are too stupid to not be like, thrown into this tizzy. If you read this, if you read this, i have it written down here, if you read this, you will find out that they have already, in this Phony Investigation of Rudy Giuliani have already been 13 russians indicted. Thats a hell of a Phony Investigation. 13 indicted by americans in a grand jury overseen by an american judge. 13 russians indicted. Oh, an additional russian indicted. Oh, wait. Hold on a second. This information im reading that you should be blown away by shows that the man that ran Donald Trumps National Security agency, indicted. Pled guilty in this Phony Investigation and is now
cooperating with federal authorities. But wait. Theres more. The man that donald trump said was running his National Security team, head of Foreign Policy, George Papadopoulos pled guilty and is cooperating with feds. Boy, thats some Phony Investigation. But wait. Theres more. One of Donald Trumps top Campaign Managers, during the 2016 campaign has pled guilty. He is now cooperating with authorities. Why, thats some phony witch hunt. Oh, theres more. Paul manafort, the man running the campaign, john heilemann, the man donald trump had to get on board to win the republican nomination is going back into court today. He has been indicted by a grand
jury of americans, of americans, with an american judge, listing in, been indicted and manafort is going to go to jail today. Now, i dont know who is stupid enough to listen to Rudy Giuliani and believe Rudy Giuliani, but im asking, if you are stupid enough to believe that, ladies and gentlemen, then im going to ask my judge to get your phone number and cast you in idiocracy, too. I dont believe theres anybody out there that stupid. Hannity. Well, unfortunately, whether you call them stupid or not you have to be stupid with 20 indictments by americans, american grand juries, you have to be stupid. Also, im sorry, but didnt the fbi help elect donald trump . You know, i think thats the most frustrating thing. The very the very breach of protocol of james comey having sent out a letter ten days before when the fbi was sitting on that information 20 days and helped elect donald trump. Theres no doubt theres an audience out there of americans, other americans who find Rudy Giulianis arguments persuasive. There are. We see it in the polling. Then they are ignorant of the facts. Im not sticking up for them, just making a point. Theres no doubt the argument the way giuliani reacted, the way the administration is reacting and donald trump will react over the course of the next 24 hours, if not sooner, all of it, the reaction of the report was predictable. The reality of course it is. Of course it is. They have a responsibility. I had to sift through reports yesterday until i got to the point where the ig yes. Oh, by the way, the ig found out that comey held the information a month longer than he should have to elect donald trump. The biggest take aways from the report, out of 500 pages, the biggest take aways are theres one text message from peter struck we did not know about that donald trump and his allies are going to seize on and talk about all day today which struck said in some tone, which we cant tell, the intent and seriousness, we dont know. Let me ask you this. This is for the stupid people that actually believe this. I have to say, also, some of you people tweeting yesterday, stop shaming yourself. You are embarrassing yourself. The bottom line of this report was james comey elected donald trump. Let me ask you something, if you get a text message from somebody who works for me i sometimes do. Okay. And they say they say the
sunrises in the west but you dont get that from me and you know i know the sunrises in the east, are you going to freak out . Are you going to call me up and when i actually tell you, yes, the sunrises in the east, are you going to freak out about the people that worked for me in congress . Or does what i say matter the most . You actually have the guy running the fbi that threw the election for donald trump, and yet a couple subordinates making out are texting each other stupid, nasty things. More than that. Its not that comey i dont believe comeys intent was and nothing suggests the intent was to throw the election for donald trump. The reality is he threw the election for donald trump. Theres nothing that struck did anything after sending this text to accomplish what he said he was going to accomplish. The ig says they have
absolutely, willie, no documentary evidence, no evidence of any kind. Again, if you look here is the quote. I know you would love to hear it. Im going to say it for you. Our review did not find evidence connecting the political views of these employees expressed in Text Messages and instant messages. We reviewed, in fact, if you look at the record, willie, in fact, what happened after those Text Messages were sent, james comey launched the greatest October Surprise in the history of American Politics and it ripped to shreds Hillary Clintons campaign. That is the headline out of the Justice Department ig report. As john says, as predictable as could get that Rudy Giuliani in the white house would seize on the texts from paige and struck that shows construction inside
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bible, you insult a reporter, then you quote the bible again. Its interesting jon meachum, you are a biblical similar here. Theres so many bible verses that completely contradict the actions of donald trump and his administration. Evangelicals know it, if they actually read the bible lately. You could go to luke 17 where jesus says it would be better for mill stones to be hung around their necks and they be thrown to the bottom of the sea if anyone were to cause a little child to stumble. There are literally this sermon writes itself. You can even be out in time to have 14 stances of just as i am and hit morrisons by 12 05. Nothing like morrisons, the cube jelly. Here is just another one from the psalms. This is an elective the Attorney General created here. Why is the apostle paul invoked here at all . I dont understand it. I believe, firmly, as you know and you do, that you cant separate religion from politics. This is just at a moment when we are just as divided as we are and we are the administration has such a hard time with the fundamental issue of accuracy and truth. I would stay as far away from the bible as poszabl potsd po. Dont throw jesus under the bus. I believe in strong borders. I want to be tough and stop illegal immigration. Like a lot of other people, i dont want little children ripped from their parents arms. I dont want them marched off to, quote, showers. Also, on our Refugee Policy, again, if they are quoting the bible, im sorry, but as you say in court, the Attorney General opened the door. Let us walk through that door that he opened. What is one of the first stories that we are taught in children in Sunday School or in Vacation Bible School . Its the story of the good samaritan. What does jesus say on the sermon on the mount. Not loving your friends, even
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rosenstein and wray. This stuff better be prosecuted now. Lets investigate the investigators. Thats actually a challenge for you, for not being able to tell the truth. Speaking of which, here is donald trump outside the white house. Well see what happens. Michael cohen may cooperate with investigators. Are you concern snd. I have nothing to do with that. Mr. President , have you spoken with Paul Manafort . Have you spoken with Paul Manafort . A democratic friend. Thats a democratic friend. Democrats change the plan. All right. So, so, willie, that was all a plan. Yeah. A planned walk. He tweeted 40 minutes ago. Megyn kelly from fox when she did the long walk. Was that 2012 . It was good. What was that . Remember that long walk . I remember that walk. They were saying mitt romney was going to win. Hes copying. The president tweeting maybe ill have to make an unannounced trip down to see them. You dont think they were there know thg wing this was go happen . Not at all. Lets bring in msnbc chief legal correspondent, ari. Ari, its really hard to be surprised nimanymore by what ru giuliani says. He talked about, a couple weeks ago, the president of the United States being able to assassinate jim comey and not be indicted unless he was driven from office. Now, hes talking about the imprisoning of jim comey and other fbi agents. On the same day that Donald Trumps Campaign Manager is going to be imprisoned, most likely, because of witness tampering. An Ig Report That shows james comey actually, and the fbi sat on emails long enough to actually do the most damage to Hillary Clinton and help elect donald trump. I dont know where to start. I guess i have to ask, at 8 30, what i asked this morning at
6 00. Who, exactly, is stupid enough or ignorant enough to believe anything that he is saying now . If you actually read or for those who have ears that can hear, The Ig Report actually shows how comey helped elect donald trump. You have been hitting it on the head. There is an increasingly loud chore rus of things coming out f the white house that is typical of a Banana Republic and the misuse of government resources. The threat, as you say, of violence or jailing or the abuse of the criminal justice process against enemies. Some of this already happened, if you look at the targets of officials like Andrew Mccabe, then you have the rare silence, cat got your tongue mr. President. This long report, he didnt know what to say about it all
yesterday. They have been waiting for it forever. The president says nothing, until this morning when he retweeted fox and friends six times. Thats a lot of retweets for him, which suggests he didnt read the 500 plus page report. Its possible. Hes a reader, you know. High reading skills. He doesnt like reading. Its hard for them to get we know about that from mar than his staff. Can i ask you lawyer questions. You guys are both lawyers. Fake ones. Just focusing on a very specific thing. I think many people from all persuasions find the peter struck message to be troubling. I think a lot of people now, if you look at jim comeys behavior think jim comey made a lot of mistakes. Clearly. Hillary clinton mad at him. Republicans mad at him. Its a bias toward comey than his rectitude than a Political Party or candidate. When Rudy Giuliani goes on television saying peter struck should be in jail, jim comey should be in jail. Is there a law Rudy Giuliani could recite for them to be prosecuted . For instance, with Rudy Giuliani, somebody could piece together a case for him obstructing justice, trying to get in the way, sending signals to stop people from testifying against the president. We could make that argument. Is there a law to cite, that giuliani could cite under which they could be prosecuted . No. Your question drives a distinction here, criticism of behavior, the preden sudential. He could be removed. No crime whatsoever. That goes to the power of words. If i could involve donny deutsche, is that all right with you . Yes, sir. I just want to make sure you are on camera for this. I look at donny and i say, i say this jacket is so loud it makes me want to throttle your neck. If i say that to you, imagine someone said that to you. It might be a rude thing to say. I would say it. I would take offense. In some workplaces, they would say dont talk to donny like that. Itis a terribly objectionable jacket. But, that is a long ways from the type of behavior and conduct that would be required to make an assault or battery case. I think thats Whats Going On with peter struck. He wrote things he shouldnt have, but whats amazing, there werent findings of misconduct
or action of fbi activity, based on what he said. He was still thrown out. The ig could not find evidence there was any, any impact in the investigation. Certainly, if you look at it, certainly, again, the end of that investigation had the fbi sitting on emails for a month. Yeah. A letter that could not have been timed better for donald trump and steve bannon than it was and the Trump Campaign knew it. They said it in realtime. This is going to help us win the election. All those things are true. This is not about the facts and ins and outs of the report. This is about what trump, the white house and giuliani can do with it. What they have in the 526 pages is focus on texts from five people they believe shows it was a compromised investigation. The thumb was on the scale. This is not correct. Somehow, for Hillary Clinton, despite what you laid out. This is softening the ground for what mueller comes up with. To go back to the Banana Republicism, theres a symmetry to Rudy Giuliani and others around her having yelled lock her up to yelling lock up peter struck and comey. They do the same thing over and over again. Go to imprisonment of our foes. While they have yelled that, the only person, today, looking at getting locked up in a valid Legal Process is Paul Manafort, who may move from two ankle bracelets to pretrial investigation. At the same time, mika, they were chanting lock her up, you had one general who would become Donald Trumps National Security adviser who was saying anyone who pleaded the fifth or anybody
being investigated by the fbi was obviously guilty. You also had the spokesperson, the current spokesperson, Sarah Huckabee sanders talking about the investigations against Hillary Clinton, as evidence per se, of her guilt. Flip it around. Its all true about donald trump now. A Russian Investigation going on by the fbi before the election but never surfaced. Comey didnt want that to surface. He said it would be tipping the scales of the election. And we have children locked up at the border. Paul rayyan hasnt paid atn to the scandals involving e. P. A. Administrator, scott pruitt. If he missed the pruitt scandals, he gets another chance this morning. Two more are breaking right now. That is next on morning joe. Youre headed down the highway
house Speaker Paul Ryan says he hasnt heard much how could he . How could he. Hes the third ranking officer in america. The scandal is engulfing e. P. A. Administrator, scott pruitt. Ryan was asked about the controversies during the week at a News Conference yesterday. Take a listen. Frankly, i havent paid that close attention to it. I refer you to the overseas e. P. A. Im glad with the regulatory position they have taken. I dont know enough about what pruitt has or hasnt done to comment. John heilemann, how does any human being say that and keep a straight face . Well, obviously, its a lie. You know, i guess you could take
the posture im retiring and focused on wisconsin matters, i dont watch television. If you are going to find another way to talk about it, at least if you dont want to comment, theres Something Better than my head is in the sand and im out to lunch. It looks like a lie. He looks like an idiot. Why would he lie . I dont know. They all lie. They are not running for reelection, corker, flake, gowdy. Not paul ryan. Paul ryan not running, but not liberated to speak the truth. Much has been made of the numerous investigations, the work he is doing, scott pruitt, as e. P. A. Administrator. He is expected to send President Trump a detailed proposal to scale back an obama era regulation for water pollution. It is widely expected to be one
of the agencies most significant rollback efforts. Pr pruitt and the agency expected to gut an obama era rule to reduce climate warming pollution from vehicle tail pipes. Pruitt celebrated this. Where is he sitting . A birthday prez sesent to th president. Thats the e. P. A. Administrator in the big chair. Think paul ryan didnt see that . Another piece on pruitt. For aides life is part of the job. The times reports senior Staff Members frequently felt pressures by pruitt to help in personal matters and do special favors for his family according to to interviews for current officials who served as aides to pruitt. Mr. Pruitt, who had a clear sense of entitlement in the words of one of them indicated
he expected matters outside the per view of government. Aides also told the paper that pruitt made it clear he had no hesitation in stature of a cabinet member to solicit favors for himself. He expected a certain kind of living. What . It takes you to the ritzcarlton lotion. The new headline from the Washington Post that pruitt and his family received rose bowl tickets from an energy pr. Joining the table, ceditor fr womens website, bustle. Going to star in the reboot of single white female with mika. Mika didnt understand the reference. I havent seen it. You havent seen any of the
g godfathers either. Paul ryan says he doesnt want to weigh in on pruitt and children being separated from parents, he said you need a piece of legislation to make sure that stops happening. That is simply untrue. This has stemmed from trump policy that could be overturned tomorrow and we could reunite these children with their parents, but hes acting as if you need legislature to make it possible. He knows it is not true. Why do you expect this of paul ryan . He is a guy leaving town. What is he afraid of . It comes down to a question of how you define legacy so for some legacy can be defined by policy. He could have taken this opportunity to go through Something Like immigration reform. Instead, it seems based on what we have seen this week, the maneuvering around immigration, he is trying to preserve a
political legacy y his caucus gets reelected and remain in power. Its the only possible explo nation. He has nothing left to lose. Look at the legislation. Theres the good legislation which republicans arent going get behind and the compromised legislation among republicans. It takes dreamers, this would have been the sixth anniversary of daca. They are using dreamers as leverage for things like slashing illegal immigration and spending more money on border security. We have asked a couple democrats, we had senator blumenthal on and said what can be done to stop whats happening with the pictures we are seeing from the border day in and day out. He shook his head and said we cant get anything through. Without the republicans, we cant get anything done. Its a tough deterrent. They like what is happening in that new policy on the border. To echo the analysis, paul ryan did say he is against this, as if hes just some random person in the Comment Section of an article. He is the speaker of the house. If hes against it, do something about it. This is not an ideological issue. Because donald trump is not an ideological president , but egotistical one, its why some republicans at least said the right thing that you dont want to use child abuse and childhood trauma as a tool of u. S. Government policy. Thats not something the American Government stood up and said was a goal for a very long time. You have to go back to another era. Here we are. This is what is happening. It points to your question before. The reality, paul ryan, back when he was a staffer in the house was one of the guys for trying to figure out a humane,
sensible immigration reform. His whole history has not been on restrictionist but moderate republican side. Going back to his time as a staffer and a few years ago, he was in that category. How is he now in this position with all the Political Freedom in the world defending this policy . It makes no sense other than to think he has been hollowed out in some way at the core of his character and being. I really dont know what else it could be. I mean, unless they are threatening him in some way. I have to ask because we really, we do know him. This was a good man. Its staggering to me, but incredibly depressing. Here is sorry. Who are we tossing to . Oh, President Trump. Good this is him on fox and friends, talking about The Ig Report. I would bet if you took a poll in the fbi, i would win that poll by more than anybodys ever won a poll. But, the top people were horrible. You look at what happened. They were plotting against my election. Probably has never happened like that in terms of intelligence, in terms of anything else. But they were actually plotting against my election. The headline right now but im actually proud because i beat clinton dynasty. Right. I beat bush dynasty. And now i guess hopefully im in the process of beating very dishonest intelligence. The headline right now from the wall street journal, doj clinton report blasts comey and agents but finds no bias. The end result was wrong. There was total bias. When you look at peter strzok and what he said about me. When you look at comey, all his moves. I guess, you know, its interesting, it was a pretty good report. And then i say that the ig blew it at the very end with that statement. Because when you read the report, it was almost like comey. He goes point after point about
how guilty hillary is and then he said but were not going to do anything about it. The report, The Ig Report, was a horror show. I thought that one sentence of conclusion was ridiculous. The democrats by the way are very weak on immigration. If you notice when i came over, they were all saying about separating the families. And thats a democrat bill. Thats democrats wanting to do that and they could solve it very easily by getting together but they think its a good election point. A lot of lives there. Thats objectively untrue. Thats absolutely untrue. The Trump Administration policy. And you just heard the president of the United States calling The Ig Report a horror show. Hes Milling Around reporters right now after appearing on fox and friends. And spreading lies. All i would add theres no other way to put it. Michael more yo horowitz, in
releasing a part early to deny Andrew Mccabe his family pension, thats never been done in that way before, that was all pursuing trump tweets. Then you see you get blasted by him anyway on national tv the day after the report. Its always a lesson about trying to meet halfway with donald trump. And on immigration, you know, look at this legislation, look at what republicans are proposing in the way of people being able to bring their family to the United States. It tells you everything you need to know about where they stand on family integration. So that was the president of the United States just moments ago. Lying to reporters and the American People. Alicea menendez, thank you very much. Lying once again, i should say. Up next, well try to sum up the week that was. Morning joe is coming right back. It was here. I couldnt catch my breath. It was the last song of the night. It felt like my heart was skipping beats. They said i had afib. Whats afib . I knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. I needed answers. My doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. Oncedaily xarelto®, a latestgeneration blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. Warfarin interferes with at least 6 of your bodys natural bloodclotting factors. Xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical factor. For afib patients well managed on warfarin, there is limited information on how xarelto® compares in reducing the risk of stroke. Dont stop taking xarelto® without talking to your doctor, as this may increase your risk of stroke. While taking, you may bruise more easily, or take longer for bleeding to stop. Xarelto® can cause serious, and in rare cases, fatal bleeding. It may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines. Get help right away for unexpected bleeding or unusual bruising. Do not take xarelto® if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. Before starting, tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures and any kidney or liver problems. Learn all you can to help protect yourself from a stroke. Talk to your doctor about xarelto®. To help protect yourself from a stroke. Ordinary stains say they 2 can do the job, s. But behr premium stain can weather any weather. Behr premium semitransparent stain and sealer, overall 1 rated, weathers it all. Find our most advanced formula exclusively at the home depot. At bp, everyone on an offshore rig depends on one another. Thats why entire teams train together in simulators, to know exactly what to do before they have to do it. Because safety is never being satisfied. And always working to be better. Enforce the law. We are going to enforce the law. We are enforcing the law. Please dont lie to the American People. It was not true when Sarah Sanders said there is a law requiring immigrant families to be separated at the border and it still wasnt true when she repeated it a half dozen times. That policy belongs to the trump white house. And as the Washington Post describes it, any claim otherwise is, quote, violently divorced from reality. As we wrap up this friday edition the morning joe, a quick look back at the week that was. If we can even try and put it into words. We learned from the Washington Post that a bored President Trump demanded to his aides that they push up the timing of the carefully orchestrated singapore summit. Saying, quote, were here now, why cant we just do it . There was still plenty of time to meet and greet military officers responsible for north koreas oppressive regime. Even saluting generals. To watch north korean state
television, which the president views as more favorable to kim jongun than fox news was to him. Perhaps trump overlooked the fact they would be quickly killed for not supporting the dear leader. He was impressed with the dictators bodyguards, wondering aloud if they could take on his chief of staff, marine general john kelly. It all followed the president s campaign to readmit russia to the g7, noting the people of crimea probably wanted to be taken over by Vladimir Putin since they share a common language. For his 72nd birthday, the president was gifted a new water regulation by his embattled epa administrator, complete with this Oval Office Photo open that will likely be news to paul ryan who apparently doesnt follow what scott pruitt is up to. And Rudy Giuliani, the president s legal representative, called for an american citizen to be locked up, despite not being charged with a crime. So before we go, does anyone want to try and add some final thoughts to that . Well, that was fun. Its not not fun. Uplifting week. Scott pruitt does capture a lot, in that he both wants the fancyist lotion, but doesnt want to help anyone have clean water. Thats a real balance to that. I think the spokesman is citing law, which is false, but even if there was a law justifying taking babies out of mothers arms in the United States and putting children in camps. This is us. This is the United States were talking about. I think the best thing we can do to end the show today is to quote the president. And something he just said moments ago that really sums up everything weve seen this week. Willie. You just mentioned the president s affinity for kim jongun. He just said in an interview moments ago. He called him a strong leader and said the following, quote,
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