the conversation she may have messed. former republican house speaker and board member of the fox corporation, paul ryan, appeared on fox news earlier this week and, drumroll please, criticize donald trump and called him unfit for office. it s going to be a very close race under terrible choices were being presented with and that s what the primary voters selected and never regret the fact that s where we are. a lot of these folks who also shared your same concerns about donald trump that said, we are rallying around donald trump. you said though that would not be the case with you. he said he s a populist and an authoritarian narcissist. character is too important to me and it s a job that requires the kind of character he just doesn t have. that s pretty strong. that s the way i feel. i agree with that. i don t support biting either. i think his policies are terrible. i hate the fact that i have to write in a republican like i did in 2020. voted for him in 2016 hopi
summer. hey, do you work? what do you do? usually when an 81-year-old does that much traveling through europe, it s on a viking river cruise. [ laughter ] good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, june 13th. we re going to bring you the very latest from the g7 summit in italy. president biden is there meeting with world leaders and also talking support for ukraine. that s a top priority there. meanwhile, there s a lot happening today on capitol hill. donald trump will be in washington to meet with lawmakers from both chambers, setting up his first face-to-face with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in more than three years. it comes a day after a partisan vote in the house, holding merrick garland in contempt of congress. we re going to dig into all of that straight ahead. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former treasury official and economic analyst steve rattn
markets are up because of things happening around the world and action happening. that is a good thing. let s turn to los angeles where police have cleared out and shut down the camp set up by occupy protesters. they ve arrested dozens of people who still refuse to leave. about 1400 los angeles police officers moved in after midnight. the camp had been there a couple of months. 200 people arrested. police say the operation was mostly peaceful. another alleged victim speaks out about the child sex abuse allegations at syracuse university. mike lang is his name. s a former syracuse ball boy and he told cnn that the assistant coach, bernie fine, molested him. fine has denied the allegations but yet he has not been charged with any crime. he kept touching me. where? where did he touch you? in my leg and my penis. did you say something to him? yes. i said, bernie, please stop this because i m not that kind. i won t tolerate it. if you don t want me to come over he