unity. by the way, admiral, one thing that condi rice and bob gates have in common along with madeleine albright and so many others, they worked for dr. brzezinski in the carter white house. he did believe in surrounding himself with people with differing views, so thank you so much. ambassador michael mcfaul, david rothkopf and ed luce, thank you for being with us. ahead on morning joe, clint watts joins us to break down moves by the russian army amid reports that putin is shifting the focus of his forces. that is big news. plus, while president biden is calling out autocrats former president trump is praising them again. whoa. hollywood s biggest night gets chaotic with a slap that stole the show. come on, man. with everything that s going
putin, it is our fault, we have hemmed putin in because of nato, this, that and the other, and they re afraid we re going to invade them. the invasions out of russia only go one way. he s been invading, you know, putin has been invading, stalin invaded. you know, the soviets went into hungary in 68, czechoslovakia in 56. of course, they went into afghanistan. yeah, over the past century the invasions have all gone one way toward the west, other than hitler in 41. so suggesting that the united states or nato, the nato alliance wants to go into russia, it is absolute nonsense. they re the aggressors, as always. they are the invaders, as always. as dr. brzezinski, you know, always wrote, yes, they re paranoid but the question is why are they paranoid, because for
i was struck when president biden in warsaw over the weekend turns to poland s president and says, we brought you a brzezinski, we brought you the best. the fact there s a brzezinski in poland right now is an extraordinary turn of history. he is having a baptism of fire as an ambassador, and there couldn t be anybody better qualified in terms of being a polish speaker, of having lived in poland and with the brzezinski name in poland right now because the brzezinski name is another expression of the message in the speech that biden gave. i don t speak ill of fellow newspapers, but i have to say i thought the wall street journal saying republicans should be brought into the administration, well, we would have to narrow it down because which republicans? right. how many republicans are there available who have not
my brother about what is going on in poland, joe. but when i wasn t to be forced to think i call ian because he really makes me think and he s got a different angle toward this and they re both valuable. you know, i listen to both of them and actually they actually are a good synthesis of, if you read your father s writings, where your father would be. yeah. but, admiral stavridis, i too, while i m grateful for the wall street journal editorial page saying nice things about dr. brzezinski, i am not exactly sure how this war will end but i do know how history is going to look at what joe biden has done and i think he has been very masterful. i was hypercritical of afghanistan. i have been very critical of many of his domestic policies, but i will tell you, and i m curious and you know more about this than i do, but joe biden
jimmy carter at least had the hawkist bringing brzezinski as his national security advisor when they tried to exploit president carter s weakness. mr. biden desperately needs to diversify the advice he gets beyond the liberal internationalists who dominate his councils. better advice is needed because mr. bider is right that the russia president won t go away. it is my father s birthday and thinking about him a lot. my father, as you know, joe, educated me about democracy, but you also know it was his incredible strategic mind that really intimidated me intellectually. over the past few months i hear his voice in both of my brothers for the first time. i talk to them all the time now. mark, who is serving as ambassador to poland right now. ian, who worked for president