upside down american flag today. buy ten or more and receive an under-down bible absolutely free. give me cash. just give me money! good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, june 5th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire and mike barnicle is with you also off the top. u.s. correspondent for bbc news, katie kay. and richard hause is joining us as well for the conversation. when people see richard, they think we immediately why they come here and drives you crazy. right. i ll talk about it. you know? it will break. what? sometimes things get a little yeah. let s talk about india s elections. what? not what you re expecting! i got to say, whoa! you know? very few election results where you are surprised. i think poland was one of them last year, despite the fact that he had all of the disadvantages and none of the advantages. the only justice department basically controlled all of the levers of
empire still as the preeminent power in the world, russia, maybe even nazi germany or some version of nazi germany in place for many, many more years if not decades. katty, so fascinating to hear michel describe fight, the discussion between churchill and fdr in cairo over whether or not to do this and how to do it given that churchill had spent so many years writing literally love letters to fdr to court him, bring him into the war, and ultimately pearl harbor gets the united states into the war, but that relationship so central to the story. so central. and none other relationship between an american and brit was that between patton and field marshall montgomery, who was actually my husband s grandfather. and i wanted to ask you about that relationship, because i think when eisenhower appointed montgomery to be the architect of d-day, it didn t make patton very happy. actually, they hated each other.