find enough votes for him to win the state in 2020. turns out, trump may have tried to pressure the governor of arizona, as well. plus, florida governor and 2024 candidate ron desantis facing new pushback after his campaign released a video mocking donald trump s past support for lgbtq issues. what transportation secretary pete buttigieg had to say about that. also this morning, what we re learning about a mass shooting in baltimore yesterday that left two people dead and more than two dozen injured. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, july 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. alongside the bbc s katty kay. joe, mika and willie all have the morning off. we are glad you re starting your way with us. with us, we have former white house director of communications to president obama, jen palmieri. the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politics nation, the reverend al sharpton. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. good morn
withdrawal and before. all the evidence coming back remember what i said about afghanistan? i said al qaeda would not be. i said it wouldn t be there. i said we d get help from the taliban. what is happening now? what is going on? read your press. i was right. yeah, joe biden defending his position there. but, you know, you look at the situation in afghanistan, marc, and it s kind of it stretches plausibility to say mistakes weren t made at some point during that evacuation process. well, a couple things on the report and on biden s comments. you know, first of all, i think those comments, i would hope that he d want to take that back. the idea that somehow al qaeda is gone from afghanistan and the taliban is a solid counterterrorism partner, i mean, that defies a lot of the facts on the ground. and it s almost this reflexive, defensiveness that occurs with the administration. now, to give the administration some credit, this report was much more critical of senior
to represent the state of washington in congress. he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. so no one is being punished for this once again. what does that tell you? it tells us pretty much everything we need to know. i think from the onset here, it s evident that the dod, the military had no plan to withdraw, and they have really been throwing a tantrum ever since. that s evident in the way that the withdrawala went great and that we had this narrative that the taliban is one of two things. they can be our new counterterrorism partner with that will become to transfer more wealth, or that the taliban cannot be trusted as the strike is proven and now we need to go back in. this over the horizon capability that joe biden talks about and i think there is some validity to, it s not a boon for the military industrial complex. when they were looking at the strike criteria for this strike it was win-win for them. if it went well, it proved that the taliban could be partners, if
we have to go back and. they re is no accountability an there is no actual onus on them to perform. guys like mckenzie continue to talk about this stuff like it s another day at the office. he did that after this 13 soldiers were killed. he said these things happen. the bad strike that killed more women in children, that s another thing that happens. zero and countability and it needs to end. it s the lying i think that the most corrosive. if you re drone strikes the wrong target in innocence are killed, and you admit it, and more in their death, and apologize, hold the people who made the mistake accountable. i think everybody understands, but if you like, if you pretend the vaccines work really well when they don t commit if you pretend there s a secondary explosion when there wasn t, then no one believes you at all. do they not see this? they are too far in their ow worlds with their individual desire to continue the war or t pursue whatever course of actio they want either fin
he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. so no one is being punished for this once again. what does that tell you? it tells us pretty much everything we need to know. i think from the on-site here, it s evident that the dod, the military had no plan to withdraw , and they were really been throwing a tantrum ever since. that s evident in the way that the withdrawal went great and that we had this narrative that the taliban is one of two things . they can be our new counterterrorism partner with that will become to transfer more wealth, or that the taliba cannot be trusted as the strike is proven and now we need to go back in this over the horizon capability that joe biden talks about and i think there is some validity to, it s not a boon fo the military industrial complex. when they were looking at the strike criteria for this strike it was win-win for them. if it went well, it proved that the taliban could be partners, if it went bad, then zero well