long. morning joe starts right now. are you ready? food for everyone. food for everyone. okay, that s great. he paid everybody. food for everybody. what a guy. he was arrested. what a guy. and released. he kept everybody s spirits up. by buying lunch for them. food for everybody. local cuban restaurant in miami. willie, that is so kind of him. maybe he has been misjudged after all. willie, what do you think? i think mika called this in real time and every day since, but i ll let you reveal the story. well, the miami new times revealed nobody ordered anything during his ten-minute stop, and trump didn t pay for anything. i don t think there was an offer to do so. yeah. willie, nobody ordered nothing. nobody paid for nothing. there was no paying. i know this is going to shock you, coming from donald trump, it was all a scam. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s friday, june 16th. along with willie, joe, and me, we have former aide t
youngstown, jd vance got back on stage and started shaking his hands, taking pictures saying aren t we having a great time here tonight? all the former president s men. jd vance, herschel walker, adam laxal, it s an odd ball field of maga candidates running this year with our democracy on the line. congressman tim ryan, who walloped the hillbilly elegy hedge fund guy on the debate stage last night, joins me live. also tonight, our reedout democracy defending has a warning about the infiltration of election deniers as poll watchers and judges and what needs to be done to fight back. plus, new developments in the trump documents case. the doj filed its response to trump s request for the supreme court to intervene. we begin tonight with what mitch mcconnell euphemized as candidate quality. just a few months ago, the republican party was crowing about a red wave. today, with a month left, the election really is a jump ball. honestly, though, if you look at the field of r
surrogate, bob casey, about the candidate s debate performance. how, mr. fetterman, do you propose doing that, to make it more affordable for families? i just believe, making it it costs too much. i believe providing the resources to reduce the tuition to allow families to be able to afford it. for dr. mehmet oz, new questions about abortion rights. i have been in the room when there s difficult conversations happening. i don t want the federal government involved with that at all. i want women, doctors, local political leaders, leading the democracy that s allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. i will be joined by meet the press host and nbc political director chuck todd with what pennsylvania voters are telling him today. reports from michigan and nevada, two other key battlegrounds in the 2022 campaign. here in pittsburgh, all the talk today is about last night s big senate debate matchup. the one and
headed near a pride event that was happening here at this park and in other parts of downtown here in this town. and they said, you know, they had riot gear with them, including shields and smoke bombs and some weapons, although not firearms. the men were apparently standing outside of the truck when someone spotted them. they all had the same clothes on, so someone said they looked like a little bit of an army, according to a witness. that s how police were alerted that they were in town, and i should mention, this group is familiar to us because they are an offshoot of a group that was at the charlottesville deadly unite the right rally that white supremacist rally in charlottesville that ended in the death of heather heyer who was run over by a man who also subscribed to this group. so this group was a splinter of that after what happened in 2017, the publicity was so high, they changed their name from american vanguard to patriot front. the leader of american vanguard bec
Just beautiful. willie, we ve been talking about how there s been sort of, just skort of a leaking of support, bit by bit. mitt romney never supported donald trump, never close to it. still, republicans speaking out against him is a rare change. romney has done it more than most. still, when we comes out, when mike pence is moving away from trump the way he has the last three days, other republicans are speaking the truth about how it is bad for people to steal nuclear secrets from the united states government, we are seeing a bit of a trend line here. yeah, without question. another why for mitt romney, as he is asking why, why does it always fall to mitt romney to be the republican in the senate to criticize donald trump? you re seeing more of it, as you point out. our colleagues at nbc news have a new story out of the state of nevada. adam laxal, who ran for senate, the attorney general said plainly, he can t win here.