weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. it is interesting that nikki haley, again, is bad lane along with ron desantis, chris christie for first place, for second place right now. there may be a pathway for her to win new hampshire. there may be new hampshire s interest in this year. you don t have a democratic race. so you have a lot of independents that aren t going to be splitting between republican and democratic voting, but she has right now, and, again i, know she s a civet boosted to the shull polls, i ve also filed enough campaigns. when people start talking about somebody, that s usually a leading indicator. you see polls go up, you but you look at the debate, the men screaming. you look at ron desantis and gavin newsom shouting at each other with sean hannity shouting in the middle. serious. there s a lot of men out there shouting. a lot of buffoon airy, a lot of really loud voices, and so, if politics is about contrast, then what a contrast and n
good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 8th. glad it s friday, but we do have a lot to get to this morning, willie. president biden is putting more pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to allow additional aid into gaza. we ll have more details on the first conversation between the two leaders in 11 days. a lot of questions. meanwhile, the president s son is facing several new tax charges. we ll break down the allegations against hunter biden. plus, a recap of donald trump s day in court for his civil tax fraud trial. he was there as the former president is now expected to be the last person to take the stand. that should happen next week. also ahead, a rare ruling in a post roe world. a judge in texas granted an emergency request for an abortion, but the state s attorney general is threatening to prosecute any doctor who treats the woman. we ll talk about that. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bur
i guess the question is, the people who took a flyer on donald trump in 2016 for all the reasons that jon just laid out because he was disruptive and overturn the tables in washington, what do they do is now his hard core support is not going anywhere. the hillary clinton hard core supporters aren t going anywhere in terms of democratic support. what about those people in the middle among those 77,000 votes who took a flyer on donald trump? i mean there s the million dollars question, right, is do they come back to support trump? and it s not rocket science here, the trump campaign is going to try to do everything it can to tar whoever the democratic nominee is to depress his or her numbers and then hope that you can get, you know, squeak by another electoral college victory. that s the game plan here, the ball game, and they ll have the resources do it. so these numbers, while probably depressing for the trump operation right now are definitely not the end of the story, we have mont
powell demanding that he cut interest rates when you can t find an economist who thinks that s wise. overseas what i see as the g7 meeting gathers at the ritz in france is increasingly a world in disarray. key allies to the united states are in trouble. we have japan and south korea. two critical allies in asia. who are withdrawing intelligence cooperation for each other, it s really very damaging to our security in asia. trump s done nothing about it. we have india and pakistan near what could be a conflict on their border because of the historic dispute about kashmir. again, donald trump has done nothing positive that i can see. where the heck is britain going? in all these ways it would be time for a president to go to the g7 meeting like this and be
sitting there and he sort of has the option of making a deal or not making a deal. does the administration see it this way and how do you think the president is going to tip which way toward his own political future or this sort of war against china that others in the administration want to wage? so i have no earthly idea of how to game theory donald trump heading into the election. i think certainly when i talk to people who are china hawks in the administration what they re worried about as they get closer to november 2020 the president panics and does a deal that they would see as weak with china in order to juice the economy and the stock market. right now, they re nowhere near that mindset but i think another way to look at it this is a way that people in the administration look at it who work on national security issues is that president xi is not in a