facing blowback for defending putin and touting his government as maga favorite tucker carlson, of course, faces his own outrage over that controversial interview, tonight there s now damning new evidence on how putin s spies are trying to infiltrate american politics again and he s specifically using spies and lies to align with some republican efforts to damage president biden. this plot sounds familiar it s because russia operates ongoing plots like this. many countries do, but one difference which i ll get into the top story is how warm a reception putin keeps getting from some american politicians on the news. here s the news, from the fbi and doj investigation, the indicted operative who was feeding lies about the bidens to the fbi who was cited by the republican party s ongoing biden s investigations, well, that indicted individual says himself he got his materials from russian intelligence. now this is the operative and former fbi informant alexander smirnov recently
day one. he wants to round up people because of the way they look. he wants to bend to the government of the united states to his will, just like vladimir putin did to russia. jesse: democrats are now the boy who cried wolf. if it were a white man shooting, we would know. well, we don t know. that s how we know it s not a white man. i can tell you that much. is the media high deb jesse: is the media hiding black shooters? sometimes, the rules and laws get in the way. it s the things the democrats use. jesse: primetime thanks craig the stuffer could be right. plus, happy presidents day. what was abe lincoln famous for? lincoln logs? [laughter] jesse: happy presidents day. i am working, you are not. i m not mad about it. president john quincy adams once said if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. since the days of george washington, american presidents have led americans into doing g
bill was approved loaded with far-right social issues that has almost no chance of passing the senate. we ll take a look at the looming showdown over funding the military. also ahead, we ll dig into brand-new reporting that special counsel jack smith is now putting pressure on a worker inside the trump organization who is connected to the classified documents investigation. meanwhile, trump s top republican challenger in the 2024 race is almost shaking up his presidential campaign staff. a prove which governor ron desantis team says is not related to his lagging poll numbers. plus, a perception versus reality problem for president joe biden when it comes to the economy. we ll break down the polling that s not lining up with the latest economic data. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, july 17th. i m jonathan lemire back from europe. i m in for joe, mika and willie. we have a great group assembled on this monday. the president of the national acti
around the corner. ainsley: change in the lineup, we will have sean on to talk about that. brian: he is still at 9:00, it is people around him. ainsley: that s right. how it is affecting his life. steve: you are absolutely right. laura gets to go home early. ainsley: right, and she has younger children, be home for late dinner and put them to bed. steve: why haven t you done the dishes? that is our house. the republican party. you have republicans lined up and we were telling you how it seems like everybody, except donald trump wants donald trump to debate. donald trump says i m sitting on big lead, why let other people take pop shots at him. we ve learned all those people there have had to declare how much they hauled in over the last quarter and donald trump hauled in 17 million, nearly all transferred from another committee and doesn t commit until early in july and doesn t know where the money came from. ainsley: he was on with maria and said they know where
and welcome to morning joe: weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. let s begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trump s presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitution s foreign cause. the report finds from 2017, to 2019 alone, trump s businesses received at least seven point $8 million from 24 in governments. most of that money? according to the report came from china! whose government allegedly paid more than five and a half million dollars to rent out trump s own properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia where, trump visited on his first foreign trip as president paid his business is more than $600,000. the. information stems from documents obtained from the trump s fo