italy. and we ll recap an eventful day on capitol hill where senate republicans blocked a democratic led bill to protect fertility treatments for women. and the former president was also on the hill for the first time since his supporters attacked the capitol. we ll go through trump s meetings with top republicans in both chambers. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 14th, flag day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for being with us. and we ll begin this morning in italy where the second day of the g7 summit is under way, and in just moments president biden will hold a joint appearance with italy s prime minister, leaving president biden and the other g7 leaders will meet with pope francis. following that gathering the president will depart italy and head to california where he has a couple of major fund raisers. during yesterday s events the president and his ukrainian counterpart, volodymyr zelenskyy, signed a ten-year bilateral security agreem
and some words of unity as trump works to bring the grand old party together 144 days until the november election. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. moving forward from those meetings on capitol hill with house and senate republicans, the nation s 45th president is focused on key issues shoring up his allies as he is also dealing with a little bit of unfinished business. in those meetings yesterday trump reportedly called those pursuing him at the justice department dirty no-good bastards and called president biden a dope. here he is after those meetings. there is tremendous unity in the republican party. we want to see borders. we want to see strong military. we want to see money not wasted all over the world. we have great common sense. a lot of very smart people in this room and a lot of people that love our country. harris: and now we ll hear from some lawmakers who were with him. i think he recognizes now, having been through a few elections,
in trouble in the first place. jimmy fallon upstairs last night. good morning. tuesday, june 4th. politico s jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post and analyst for msnbc, eugene robinson. vanity fair writer and host of the pod cast the fast politics, molly jong-fast. president biden made his most candid comments yet about trump s criminal conviction. in off-camera remarks, biden told the audience a convicted felon is seeking the office of the presidency. the president added, quote, as disturbing as that is, more damaging is the all out assault donald trump is making on the american system of justice. . biden is reported to have said, something snapped in this guy of the election and it is literally driving him crazy. biden went on to call trump unhinged. maybe a private preview, joe, of where we might see president biden go publicly as the campaign rolls out, now that donald trump has been convicted on 34 f
class= nosel > artwork and his name. he seemed content. during one of his mental health evaluations, he told doctors, this is the happiest i ve been in my life. i m happy as a clam, to be honest. i really am. be honest. i really am. jr. who four decades after shooting an american president appeared at peace with his past. that s all for this edition of dateline. # thank you for watching. . good morning. and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a busy week, so let s get to the conversations you might have missed. you can t gag a nominee. can you imagine you are running for office and not allowed to talk. when that ndhappens, we are no longer s democracy. and we are not ppgoing to let that happen. and i know a lot of republicans want retribution and want to do that we are rigoing to see what happens. donald trump is ratcheting up threats to prosecute his rivals if reelected following his conviction on 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money
the biden approach is more multilateral, internationalist. with india, for example, in addition to the straight one-on-one stuff, they focused on the quad, which is japan, australia, india, and the u.s., and trying to build that up into a kind of more formal, sustainable force. he s the list, if you look back at the stuff they rolled out at the bilats between biden and modi, they have a long, long list of things that they have tried to put on the table, to bring india closer to the u.s. you re quite right, that s a key, strategic player in managing china. of course, the president expected to underline the importance of american alliances around the world during speeches to commemorate the 80th anniversary of d-day this week in france. time s cover story featuring president joe biden goes on sale next friday, june 14th. the title, if he wins.