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
Them into some deep, dark, dangerous places that in part leads to january 6th and the point we make in the op-ed is somewhere in our political space we have to be able to step back and have a conversation with the american people about what they need in order to live a good life, a fulfilled life, and find some room in our political dialog for that bigger, broader, more spiritual conversation. i know that that kind of seems like a silly, frivolous thing on a day like today where we re just trying to keep the government open and operating, but if we don t have the bigger, deeper conversation about meeting with the american people, government is going to become more and more irrelevant. that s the point i m making in that piece. i wrote it with a harvard philosopher who has become sort of a friend and adviser of mine as i try to think about these bigger questions. actually, the word for today, ephemeral, actually fits in well here. because actually it doesn t seem silly. what we re tal
Ceiling until july 2021. eliminating any chance of an ugly battle before the 2020 election. and willie, again, you have chip roy talking about a reckoning. there s going to be a reckoning. and the other guy malodorous. ephemeral. talking about one of the biggest abominations. do they not understand that you can literally google stuff, i will say stuff, you can literally google stuff, in three seconds, and find out that donald trump said that the debt ceiling was sacred. you can find out that they blew a hole in the debt ceiling three times when they ran washington, d.c., and the fact that they actually attached the massive spending bills to the debt ceiling to try to force people
Half or so. one interesting footnote though is that kevin mccarthy s future, he did place a rule in order to win the vote from all these hardliners that one person can raise his or her hand and they, i want a vote of no-confidence and move them out of the place. their threat to do that seems unlikely, but these that s what these people are talking about with this ephemeral, malodorous legislation. that s kind of the question, is how far do they want to take the outrage show, as it were. the outrage circus. do they want to stop it? or do they want to take it all the way to kind of come for speaker mccarthy seat? we don t know, but hopefully for the sake of the country, we can actually focus on governing and move forward without too much. we shall see. and still ahead on morning joe hold on. i made a promise on ephemeral guarantee. i m sticking with this one. the yankees last night, they
To vote for the debt ceiling. three times. these guys, i mean, why didn t they say it was malodorous and ephemeral then, first off, because ephemeral is not used correctly there, why didn t they talk about a reckoning when donald trump did it three times? here as kevin mccarthy says, you actually have cuts. yeah. $1.5 trillion in cuts over ten years is where it sits right now. that s what kevin mccarthy is saying. i made a deal with the white house. i got some things that we can agree to. i got some things that we even like. we had to give up a few things, because as they all should know, that s how things work in washington if you want a deal. it s like the members are not standing on principle but trying to speak to their voters and says baste and show they re putting up a fight even though they know they didn t do this when donald trump was in office and donald trump s administration added $7.8 trillion to the national debt