florida governor ron desantis in iowa yes today, not mentioning donald trump by name, but still taking a few swipes at him. i think he was. we will show you what else he had to say about the front runner in the race for the republican nomination. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, may 31st. good to have your with us, along with joe, willie, and me. member of the new york times let s show jonathan really quick. okay, go, go. okay. we done this before. can we stop for a second? tj, i am scratching my face. you want to go to me now? and also, this historic day leave him alone. let s do jenna. hold on. cover me for a second, tj. okay. oh, we ve got jen. see, she can t even mess up! now now. good morning. okay. is my collar straight? thank you. let s actually get to work. hold on. when we do get to work, it s going to be a lot of fun, because i m going to get the yankees in a second, but these republicans will donald trump
right. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire, professor at princeton university, eddy jr., former white house director of communications to president obama, jen palmary, co-host of showtime s the circus and member of the new york times editorial board mara gay. joe will join us in just a bit. willie, we have a lot to get to. i know we re not starting with this, but rudy giuliani was sued. did you hear about that? i did. there s some explosive and wild details that are coming out of that lawsuit that i think we re going to be talking about in just a few minute. do want to ask you first, though, jonathan lemire about this latest debt ceiling meeting at the white house the big four getting together, some glimmers of optimism. i guess we re grading on a curve here, though, based on there being no optimism out of the meeting a week ago. that june 1st date that secretary janet yellen has been warning about for several weeks is inching closer. what came o
weight, my weight, my phone rang during the show. that is 70 me. but it won t happen tonight. you know, lawrence, it has been a long week. it has, and that neil is going to join us tonight to talk about the supreme court decisions, and i need this. because i like neil gorsuch s. i don t know the difference between nitrous oxide and whatever the other thing is. which chris hayes and you both explain beautifully and i have already forgotten. but ■çhe is going to take me through it again. he is the guy to have. it is a big day at the high court, i will be watching. thanks, alex. have a great show. thank you. okay, 24 hours later, if you re ready for some calm analysis about what we all saw last night this is the place to be for the next hour. the very first thing you need to know about what we all saw last night is that most voters didn t see it. it was the lowest rated presidential debate in a very long time. it had the smallest audience of any first presid
that is that is our show for tonight. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, alex. you know it is friday night when i have not remembered to turn off my phone. weight, my phone rang during the show. that has happened to me but it won t happen tonight because it s fixed. it s been a long week. it has, and we are going to talk about the supreme court decisions and i need this because i don t know the difference between nitrous oxide and whatever the other thing is and so, which chris hayes and you both explained beautifully but neil is going to take me through it again. he is the guy to ■çhave. it s a very big day at the high court. i will be watching. okay, 24 hours later, if you are ready for some calm analysis about what we also last night, this is the place to be for the next hour. the very first thing you need to know about what we also last night is that most voters did not see it. it was the lowest rated presidential deb
Are on fire. the boston red sox collapsing. i said the yankees were going to beat us by about 20, 25 games this year. i m putting it up to 25 this year. but the yankees on the west coast, you guys are on fire. yeah, they re beating up on the mariners and seattle. aaron judge in another home run last night. he s up to 18, leading the american league. he s missed 11 other games of a hip injury, so he s only paid in fortysomething games and has 18 home runs, just plain incredible defense. underrated in right field, so they are playing well, but they are s bill, you know, still three, four games the orioles and the raise. that division is brutal. the yankees now i think of the fourth or fifth best record in baseball, and they are in third place in their own division. but they are really playing well. they are playing great. let me just say, the red sox may be in last place, but we