While his own lawyer roasts him. Look, i get the defenses argument that you cant trust Michael Cohen because he hates donald trump, but, to be fair, everyone who has ever worked with donald trump hates donald trump. At some point, you have to be like, i think its trump. We also learned what the defense ordered for lunch today. 14 pizzas, four cheese, five pepperoni, four sausage and pepperoni, and one chicken, bacon, and ranch. No word yet on what trumps lawyers ordered. Boom, boom. Okay. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, it is, today, officially, i have triple sourced this, friday. She did. Yes. We did it. Friday, may 17th, everybody. We made it. Welcome to morning joe. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. And Associate Editor, the great euGene Robinson. Jonathan lemire going to hang his American Flag upside down because the red sox lost last night. I did text that to you last night. It wa
It was a really busy week so lets get to some of the conversations you might have missed. I want to call this Session Therapy with hillary, if i may, because she is now going to she needs another role, therapist, i know a lot of people answer ask this question, so i want to ask for our viewers about, not just abortion, which i will get to in a moment, and womens right, but about former president , donald trump, who is in criminal court in New York City for this hush money thing. Meanwhile, the documents case is delayed. Meanwhile, georgia, what is going on here . Everything seems to be delayed and moving down the road, and there are even those who argue that this manhattan case, it is not as big, it is not serious and he might get off anyway, or not, and how do people manage their especially people who really love this democracy, who take it seriously . Take the words that you just said on hours show very seriously that you cant just sit back and let democracy come to you. But this is
i have to say that jared for people that know him, he s conservative with a small c. let s keep this in the middle of the road as much as possible. again, he s every experience i ve had with him, mark halperin, i know you have to, he s a leveling wind in there. and he s going to be an adviser to donald trump from outside. that s just a given. the question is how does that get handled? all presidents have outside advisers. jared doesn t have experience at this level but he didn t have experience at the campaign either and performed well there. he s also a relative. i thinthey need to be careful here about how they frame this. there s a reason why if you re in government you have accountability. ethics requirements and all that. they ll have to figure out how to make this work in a way that s transparent. we have a lot to get to. we have some really extreme or large reaction to the steve bannon pick we need to get to and leadership fights. not just for the republicans but for the
carl if you are right, there will be a leveling wind next year. you foe what, i remember talking to jeb bush in 93 saying how sad i was, if 94, how sad i was his father was beaten by bill clinton. it was the greatest injustice that happened in the history of mankind, and jeb said, you know what, because bill clinton won, we re probably going to tack back congress for the first time in a generation. he was right. and i got to say, this is what scares me about what republicans are doing right now. you ought to be scared. people understand it. but i m scared because i think they have unnecessarily hurt themselves. yep. i don t think they re going to be locusts descend frack the heavens. i think we will figure out a way out of it. it s an overreach. i think there will be senate candidates hurt next year. all right. we are so over time. thank you so much is there wait, we re not letting him go.
demagogic force. i got to stop here before we go to break and tell you the only reason ted cruz is in congress the only reason scott walker who is governor of wisconsin, the only reason why this faction and this tea party faction is as strong as they are is because barak obama got elected if 2008. i agree with you. absolutely. so you can t say he is the leveling wind to the tea party when barak obama s own extremism on the left caused the reaction that elected the tea party. these are, my friend the sons and daughters of barak obama. i think there is something to be said for that. the angry sons and daughters of joe mccarthy as well. i think you got to go back to t the analogy. i am the angry sons and daughters of bill clinton.