. . . [applause] rachel: bravo. pete: bravo indeed. by jason nelson, today is national saxophone day. of course it is. pete: well-done, jason. will: he is in studio right beneath us. what a wonderful day to start the morning. rachel: i love that he wears shades. pete: no other way to do it. i don t know jason, but he cool. rachel: i met him in the green room. this is not the end of jason, we got him throughout the show. will: national saxophone day, your national anthem. we re two days out from the midterm elections. three presidents hit the campaign trail in pennsylvania, both former president obama and president biden campaigning for john fetterman at a rally and president trump putting on a rally as well in the state of pennsylvania, this for dr. mehmet oz. let s take a listen to obama and biden. fundamental rights are on the ballot. truth and facts and logic and reason and basic decency are on the ballot. democracy itself is on the ballot. the stakes are high. pres
democrats panic is muzzled if poll numbers stay. there are big events, including donald trump s sentencing coming up shortly. john heilemann, we ll talk again in a little bit on morning joe. thanks for getting up way too early on this friday morning from atlanta. morning joe starts right now. i ll fix the taxes. we have a thousand trillionaires in america, i mean billionaires. what s happening? they, in fact, pay 8.2% taxes. if they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers, they ve raised $500 million billion dollars, i should say, in a ten-year period. wipe out the debt. we can help make sure all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i ve been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do look, if we finally beat medicare after you rallied your supporters that da
The data they aggregate to provide to different people. look at mark zuckerberg he spent in the last cycle. these are big tech people with a lot of data, with a lot of power. what they know about voters at granular level is very, very valuable. we know what side of the scaled they are on. we know what side of the scale twitter used to be on. the elon musk layoffs, different groups inside of twitter had different responsibilities why it is so significant. the iron grip they had is loosening in one place. rachel: the most important thing about this guy he is a, not a republican this is a democrat. i want to put that in. he is a democrat. i agree with the policies of these liberals that are running this company but i m scared for the country. will: bring up the freakout over elon musk takeover. look at this, a letter from the u.n. human rights chief to elon musk. i write with concernp apprehension and digital public
i think it already has. john: like he never imagined. always great to see you. have a great weekend. jacqui: the supreme court is expected to make a decision on the case of a virginia high school and whetherhe equity-based admissions policies is discriminatory against asian americans. john: and freakout over elon musk s intent to buy twitter. wasn t it the same folks in favor of jeff bezos buying the washington post when he was the richest in the world? what is really behind the musk meltdown. welcome him as a shareholder but not a board member. something that so what does that mean like what twitter is doing and what it stands for.
we don t know that but we know we ll be listening. annie karni and governor ed rendell, thank you for your time tonight. both of you have a great weekend and a happy easter. thank you. you too. coming up the gop freakout over president obama s plan for iran. he s gearing up for a fight over war and peace and his legacy also. also this a man freed after 30 years on death row. how does this happen? and how do we stop it from ever happening again? when you think you are high and mighty and you re above the law, you don t have to answer to nobody. but i got news for you. everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to god. that s all i have to say. also think the fight over discrimination is over? think again. there s a new battleground tonight.