The special primetime hour of morning joe with two days until the midterm elections. Early voting has already started, and now it is a final sprint to the finish. Trying to take control of the house and senate, and the future of president agendas. The issues that are driving the vote, it abortion, crime, how much power trump republicans still wield over the gop. In many ways, democracy itself is on the ballot with Election Deniers in multiple states poised to could take control over the next president ial race is being determined. Were digging into all of it with reports from key battlegrounds with an allstar political panel. Along with joe, lori, and me, we have Nbc News National Correspondent and Executive Editor of the weekend. John heilemann, he is cohost of showtime, former u. S. Senator now on nbc news and msnbc news political analyst. Claire mccaskill, the host of the msnbc of politicsnation, and president at the National Action network. And former White House Press secretary je
ugh. woke. no, no. don t pay attention. it s all just nonsense. don t get caught up. this too shall pass. wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. are you even woke? woke culture is garbage. oh, god. so much yelling. so much fighting. this is where woke goes to die. getting critical race theory out of our schools is a matter of national survival. aren t things bad enough? do we have to fight about this word? woke. woke. woke. you are so woke. you woke the sleeping giant. critical race theory is bigoted. it is a lie. and it is every bit as racist as the klansmen in white sheets. okay. i m going to wade in and try to explain woke. all right. open my eyes. take a deep breath. oh, no. i m in arizona. all right. this is where we re at in america, everybody. we have a new enemy and it is woke. not the word. the idea. actually also the word. maybe mostly the word. putin ain t woke. he is anti-woke. i want florida to be known as the bri
Against him, then she did. Mika, hold on. Hold on. I have a list. Im so shocked. Im so shocked. Okay. We want to hear your list. Its a list. Im checking it off. Okay. She wouldnt run against him, then she did. Three months ago, he was too unhinged to get a drivers license. Now yeah. Now, nikki haley will vote for donald trump for president of the United States. Good morning, everybody. Willie, this is one of those, im shocked, shocked. Shes done this over and over again, right . Yeah. I will say, lets just say it off the top, this happens in politics. I mean, you know, people say nasty things about other people when theyre running against them for president. In the primary. Then they come together. I do think, though, everybody has to make a choice. In 2024, you know, nikki haley could have made the choice that a lot of conservative republicans have made. Im going to be talking to Charlie Sykes about that in a little bit. That is, you know what, stay conservative. Dont go along with th
President trumps Hush Money Trial. He laid out tons of evidence during his testimony including tapes and emails and photos and calendar events. Impressive. One of trumps lawyers might win a case. Well, outside the court defending trump, he made a fraudian slip. Lets pray for our other side on this shameless prosecution. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, may 15th, along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of Way Too Early Jonathan Lemire. You know how long it took us to book him . Years to get stephanopoulos and longer to get Jonathan Lemire. He just wandered . He is a chief columnist. How do you like it . I love it. Dont give me a hard time. Ive been in this seat at least three and a half minutes. Three and a half minutes yeah. Early. Right, you were. Early. Yelling there is that. Im shocked. Im shocked that john couldnt modulate his voice. I usually do that on good morning america. Heilemann is here. Author of the book how the right lost its mind Charlie Sykes
it would be outrage. it s insulting and shows what he thinks of us and he does think of us. i come from new york like he does. every chance he got including central park five he supported the criminalizing of plax. he called for the death of five innocent black men. that s what he thinks of us. the irony he has someone sitting there applauding it. while would you tell president- elect benefits have benefited under your four years in office. he cannot say that because it didn t happen. as you look at that scene yesterday. barbershop set up in donald trump not there calling in on speakerphone and saying what he said yesterday, what you see in that? what i like to say is not appropriate for national television so i will say this. and reverend churchman is sitting there. what i see there is folks love to throw the term pandering around when it comes to democrats and black voters. what donald trump is doing is a level of insult and pandering and out not sure about who he