While his own lawyer roasts him. Look, i get the defenses argument that you cant trust Michael Cohen because he hates donald trump, but, to be fair, everyone who has ever worked with donald trump hates donald trump. At some point, you have to be like, i think its trump. We also learned what the defense ordered for lunch today. 14 pizzas, four cheese, five pepperoni, four sausage and pepperoni, and one chicken, bacon, and ranch. No word yet on what trumps lawyers ordered. Boom, boom. Okay. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, it is, today, officially, i have triple sourced this, friday. She did. Yes. We did it. Friday, may 17th, everybody. We made it. Welcome to morning joe. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. And Associate Editor, the great euGene Robinson. Jonathan lemire going to hang his American Flag upside down because the red sox lost last night. I did text that to you last night. It wa
Thats absurd. Did anyone involved in the Trump Campaign have contact with russians trying to meddle with the election . Absolutely not. We dont know of any contacts with russian agents. Those conversations never happened. Lie after lie. Why would there be any contacts between the campaign . Why is a question that remains to be answered. What we know now is there were contacts between Jared Kushner by his own admission, not fake news, real facts. Jared kushner said he met with russians, he just didnt collude with them. What else did he say . Reporter he said he had four meetings with russians during the Campaign Season and during the transition. He did say he met with the Russian Ambassador at the Mayflower Hotel during one of then candidate trumps Foreign Policy speeches. Of course, he acknowledged being at that now infamous meeting at trump tower which donald trump, jr. Was promised dirt on the
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how many families have empty claire s at the table because of the consequences of these decisions. our guys did the right thing, military, cia, did the right thing. put a bad guy in custody. he is in tall ban takes over. jails open up. terrorists will be terrorists. how else do you look at the story. why are we finding out about this now by the way? is this shocking to you? did we not think the connection between the taliban with this guy? this to me is obnoxious we re hear about it now and it is obnoxious everything we were told within 24 hours of this attack turns out to be true. pete: our response was to kill innocent civilians accidentally. foreign policy types will say why would the taliban release isis fighters? they re at war with each other. why would that be in their interests?
republicans. he led the benghazi investigation. for him to come out and say that, he s well respected among the house republicans. he can t be dismissed as someone who is a liberal republican who doesn t like trump. i ve been talking to businessmen recently. i think on trade, they re rattled now by trump s policy. he s mexico. you fact checked it. when you take a look, mexico has an election coming up. the leading candidate is someone, a populist who is benefitting from mexicans unhappy. being attacked constantly by trump. trump could well cause a much more hostile mexican government to come into being in mexico than we ve had in the recent last couple of decades. that s a real consequence. that s not just lying, hate to say just lying but that s not just misleading the american people and getting something wrong. it s damaging our national interests. i think people are sensing that. i think foreign policy types in the republican party. i think it s a little bit
internationale. and this is the the stew, the media environment that trump and those passing this on to him live in. you know, i think look at the twitter account of donald trump s son, donald trump jr. oh, my look at that. i think you ll see, my guess is, a convergence between that and some of the more extreme things donald trump tweets. does it matter? even now, a year later, this is one of the raging debates among foreign policy types. i hear all the time the divide between the, don t pay attention to the tweets. pay attention to the policy. it s not that bad. the world hasn t blown up. versus the people who say, you want to know what this guy really thinks? we re deep into the world of right wing conspiracies about muslims. it s deeper. what he s doing, connecting the dots of extreme dots together