welcome to morning joe at 6:00 a.m. in the morning willie geist not with us today, trying to relive some of the more exciting mornings of the 70s yes, that s him on chopper 5 going across it is not. see the little chopper 4, i m sorry. get it right. in the 70s, we didn t really numbers didn t count channels didn t counfreelancersi and i were. you were just there. beautiful look at new york city over the morning. it s friday. yes thursday was a very rough day for elon musk. oh, i don t know about that $3 billion rocket exploded. i m going to question that framing. they get a lot of great data out of that. it exploded. but it was a planned explosion. no. it was they got what they wanted they got massive data. it was a step forward. it was an unscheduled disas disassembly, as they call it. i have had many of those. exploded. i ve had many of those. then he planned to make people pay for twitter verification his plan to do that bl
democratic governance and also mixed governance between democrats and republicans, didn t see an erosion of democracy, but deep red states did. since then, it s intensified in the trump era. you see this with judges for example, in mississippi, jackson, white republicans at the state level established a parallel court system to serve white neighborhoods, to overrule the black majority elected judges in a place that s 80% black. so you have these sort of parallel institutions being set up to usurp those elected by democrats. in georgia, you also have a measure that s been put in place to withdraw elected judges also, this has happened in florida, where governor ron desantis has removed a democratic prosecutor on a very flimsy pretext they re going against these sort of rule of law institutions with aggressive, new tactics, and they ve become laboratories of authori authoritarianism, instead of as was said in 1932, the state s role as a laboratory of
school, i want them to know how they voted on january 6th. in five or ten years, it will be hard to explain if you re not on the side of the truth. first of all, congratulations. second of all, what will you tell christian when he s old enough? what will you tell christian about donald trump? i will tell him he is the worst president the united states ever had. he was a liar and a charlotteton. and he was the most fragile ego i ever met. he gets more wounded and sad than anybody i know. i will tell him it was the moment i hope america hit the bottom of its slide towards authori authoritarianism. i hope he is proud of what i ve done. i m confident he will be. short of this thing really going off the rails, this thing being our country and this experiment, i think we re going to look back and say, that was a moment we might have flown too close to
oh, well, i mean i make the argument in my book that china has a system of patriarchal authori authoritarianism. it s very much all about male domination and the subjugation of women. there s a lot of misogyny and sexism. in terms of women s political representation, there has never been a woman on the standing committee of the politburo in the entire history of the people s republic of china. there is very little representation of women at the politburo, and even beneath the politburo in the central committee, there are very few women. in fact, there are fewer women today than there were in the past on the central committee. do you think there will ever be an investigation into the initial allegations as the outside world demands when it comes to peng shuai given how close the former vice president