in a year and a half come down. it s amazing. taking her meals at the top of the building out of isolation. i ll just wait until you guys are done. i m not talking about the jars. really, do we have to have these two back together again. we got to the jars. can we just say, our baseball teams suck. we need to start following like the milwaukee brewers. let s go to the central time zone, they can t be any worse than they are right now. the division is over. yankees lost again last night, 9 1/2 out. red sox lost, ten out. seattle, oakland, toronto. then we re playing one game to get into the playoffs. we re all sitting on the titanic. we can be thinking we re going to hold on. it s too late. the surging toronto blue jays look far better than the yankees or red sox. the red sox concluding on a nightly basis. that one game playoff if it were to happen, it would just be a race to the bottom, frankly. before i say this about your yankees, let me say this, the bo
on their tinder profiles. you re going to come on! it was a picture of me! i was literally in a best buy yesterday and, yes, it was very strict. mask guidelines may be getting more confusing, even as the pandemic shows signs of abating. for the first time, covid cases are down in all 50 states. now the biden administration is poised to send more vaccines overseas to countries that are desperate for them. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s monday, may 18th, along with joe, willie and me, we have chief white house correspondent for the new york times, peter baker. white house correspondent for politico and co-author of the playbook, eugene daniels. he s also an msnbc contributor. and former democratic congresswoman jane harman of california. she s a distinguished fellow and president at the wilson center and author of the new book, insanity defense: why our failure to confront hard national security problems makes us less safe and what a really important
it would be funny, but it s all true. along with willie and me, we have co-founder of punch bowl news, jake sherman, an msnbc political contributor. white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire, and founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, and author of how the right lost its mind, which is a question we need to answer today. charlie sykes. joe will be back tomorrow. but we ll dive right in. after being ousted from republican leadership, congresswoman liz cheney is vowing to keep up the fight to break former president trump s grip on the gop. house republicans voted behind closed doors yesterday to remove cheney as conference chair for telling the truth in a meeting that lasted less than 20 minutes. according to a source in the room, cheney spoke to her colleagues before the vote saying in part, we must be true to our principles and to the constitution. we cannot let the former president drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to u
nation, reverend al sharpton. good to have you onboard. here s the deal, everybody. wait a second. willie, did i miss anything? i just got here. let s get you miked up. he s putting his tie on. it s just did i miss anything? did we talk about your birthday, willie. i really wanted to make it to your birthday. i was like uncle billy and i had a string right here. i missed your birthday. you know, i didn t get a lot. what i got myself for my birthday was the second shot of moderna, so i m fully vaccinationed, which is the best possible birthday case. it was about 18 hours ago that i got the shot and i feel good today. good for you. a great example. everybody needs to get vaccinated. willie s always a great example, except when he isn t. he s adorable. willie, we ve got some good news. sal called me. seems like that odb is opening up. and i mean nobody. a lot of diseases go through that thing even at the best of times. typhoid fever do you guys kno
hopes eakin, he was chief economist of economic advisers under president george w. bush. peter, i have to turn to you first, how is the white house spinning this? we will be hearing from president biden at 11:30 today. so you will get the first formal reaction when he speaks then. but based on my conversations there, i think it s likely the president will use this as a window to try to reinforce the argument he feels the american jobs plan needs to be passed going forward, insisting neareds needs to be done. officials insist that all along they knew this recovery would happen with b.i.p. s and starts and would make the case that the american rescue plan, coronavirus relief plan with nearly $2 trillion was so crucial here. i suspect they will say things like a lot of work is now beginning to happen. just this week they were accepting applications for the restaurant revitalization fund. that s close to $29 billion. that money begins going out over the course of the next coup