Another 400 people crossed in eight small boats. Today the arrivals are the first since saturday as bad weather made conditions in the channel largely impassable. The figures add yet more pressure on the Prime Minister, rishi sunak, stopping the small boats is one of his governments key priorities. Shadow financial secretary james murray told us the government must take action. What people want to see, though, is Real Solutions to tackling this problem and thats why weve said that we would go after the people smugglers, the criminal gangs who are bringing people over in the first place to make that we cut that to make sure that we cut that off at source. What we really needis off at source. What we really need is that kind of solution alongside need is that kind of solution al which now needs to be fixed. High street chain wilko has collapsed. The companys appointed administrators, after failing to secure a rescue deal, putting around 12,000 jobs at risk. The chain has been unable to f
At morning, and welcome to the Sunday Edition of Morning Joe Weekend. It was another fastmoving newsweek, and here are some of the conversations you might have missed. I have, for 6 months since people have been freaking out, i am telling you every time, talk to anybody whos running the campaign, the big part of the campaign. I dont know what they are telling you, what they are telling other people. They act ing like people are holding four aces. How about this . Thats pretty bad. Oh, yeah. Looks really tough. Yeah. Is as a criticism . No, im telling you. They know something that i think a lot of us dont know. They look at numbers, they see where things are going, they have a theory of the case, and when they realize donald trump is going to be getting into the race, they understand that you win politics by raising money. They understand Donald Trumps numbers are way down in every way, and fundraising, and they say, no, they are not. And as far as organization goes, we all know anybody
While his own lawyer roasts him. Look, i get the defenses argument that you cant trust Michael Cohen because he hates donald trump, but, to be fair, everyone who has ever worked with donald trump hates donald trump. At some point, you have to be like, i think its trump. We also learned what the defense ordered for lunch today. 14 pizzas, four cheese, five pepperoni, four sausage and pepperoni, and one chicken, bacon, and ranch. No word yet on what trumps lawyers ordered. Boom, boom. Okay. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, it is, today, officially, i have triple sourced this, friday. She did. Yes. We did it. Friday, may 17th, everybody. We made it. Welcome to morning joe. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. And Associate Editor, the great euGene Robinson. Jonathan lemire going to hang his American Flag upside down because the red sox lost last night. I did text that to you last night. It wa
Thank you. I want to thank everyone coming out today and those joining us this morning via cspan. My name is jamie horowitz, im on the Headliners Committee here at the National Press club. On behalf of our president , jeff, and our 3,000 members, were honored today to have mr. Walter shaub jr. With us. I want to say that yesterday as i was driving perhaps more accurately, stuck in washington traffic listening to radio news and despite all the drama going on about health care, i was taken by the fact that so many of the news stories had words like, emoluments clause, thics, rich peoples problems, legal precedent, those kinds of phrases in story after story after story. All those stories had to do with President Trump and his relatives. One had to deal with the new White House Communications director and the pending sale of his company to chinese investors. So the question today, are these just rich peoples problems or are they serious challenges to our democracy . Our speaker today hope
Former white house ethics director walter shaub outlined ways to strengthen executive ethics rules. He criticized the Trump Administration for not adhering to ethical norms that previous administrations have observed and what it might mean for the future. Jamie thank you. I want to thank everyone coming out today and those joining us this morning via cspan. My name is jamie horowitz, im on the Headliners Committee here at the National Press club. On behalf of our president , jeff, and our 3,000 members, were honored today to have mr. Walter shaub jr. With us. I want to say that yesterday as i was driving perhaps more accurately, stuck in washington traffic listening to radio news and despite all the drama going on about health care, i was taken by the fact that so many of the news stories had words like, emoluments clause, ethics, rich peoples problems, legal precedent, those kinds of phrases in story after story after story. All those stories had to do with President Trump and his rel