beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho
afghanistan. the republicans, in an odd way, know how to handle the media better than the democrats do. they immediately it s elite media. people nod their heads and say, that s right. most people have no frame of reference for the media, especially print media today. yeah. they go along with it. the interesting thing to me about the coverage of biden lately in polls, you have the poll numbers a couple weeks ago which showed he might as well not run for anything ever again. he s in terrible shape. he s going to lose. yeah. that feeds into the, he is too old, too frail, followup stories. go find me a story about an 81-year-old man, fully briefed with knowledge and facts about everything global. getting on a plane, flying to tokyo, getting off the plane, presiding over a series of meetings, crisp with the facts and everything like that, the direction of the country in the
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