i understand it. in fact, trump made the republican party the party of working americans in a way that probably hasn t been true for almost 100 years. yeah, because in 100 years, there hasn t been a politician who said, i m going to make this for third graders to understand what i m talking about. talking on that level? that was newt gingrich encouraging ron desantis to get on the level of third graders. i m not joking. you know, kind of like donald trump does. wonder what he means. this is a tough hurricane. one of the wettest we ve ever seen from the standpoint of water. rarely have we had an experience like it, and it certainly is not good. oh, my god. one of the wettest we ve had. good morning. welcome to morning joe. hope you ve had a good week. it is friday. friday, may 26th. let s bring in with us the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. the host of inside with jen psaki, jen psaki. she s a former white house press
incredibly important for policymakers and for washington. look, we ve got consumer confidence numbers tomorrow, i mean, they could be really rotten. we know that people feel terrible about where the economy is going, a lot of people feel like they are already in a recession already. terrible consumer confidence. we will get those numbers. on wednesday we have a federal reserve interest rate hike expected, we are expecting another 75 basis points. that s big. we saw that in june, 75 basis points that was the biggest move since 1994, we re expecting that again. why? because the fed is trying to tamp town on inflation. that s going to be incredibly important to watch. we will get the first reading on second quarter gdp that comes thursday and that s expected to be negative again and that would mean as you guys just said two quarters in a row of negative growth. that s a big slowdown from where we saw at the end of last year 6.9%. but gdp alone is not the only gauge of whether we
The latest developments in Fulton County county, the Election Interference case there in georgia, plus, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell addresses concerns about his Health Following two unsettling incidents where he froze up in front of reporters. And republican president ial candidate Chris Christie is now calling out fellow gop challenger ron desantis as the Florida Governor is slipping in the polls. Well have his comments for you straight ahead along with joe, willie and me, we have the hosts of way too early, White House Bureau chief jonathan lemire, white house editor for politico sam stein and former u. S. Attorney and senior fbi official, Chuck Rosenberg. Willie, sorry, joe. Yeah, i mean, lets get to baseball first. Lemire, you didnt stay up to see that atrocity last night, did you at the trop. The sox had tied it when i called it a day and checked the score this morning and threw my phone across the room. Geez. Tough loss. Sam, what about you . I did watch it. The sox we
worst-case scenario for the russians, i think. i wanted to bring up, gene, you ll remember, like david, you remember what russia was like in 90, 91, 92, 93. social anarchy. military anarchy. i ve said for quite some time, i guess because of my briefings on the armed services committee in the mid to late 90s, that the only thing i feared more than vladimir putin was russia after vladimir putin. well, i ll tell ya, prigozhin proves that. here s a guy that a few days ago, he said, we need to become basically more of a totalitarian state, and russia needs to be north korea over the next three to four years. exactly. for all of those people out there and, listen, i m not nominating vladimir putin for a nobel peace prize any time soon. i m just saying, it can always get worse. maybe that s the conservative in
as well. i think it s important we have a national dialogue about u.s. policy toward china and taiwan and make sure it is credible, durable and principled enough to stand up with tough decisions we may have to take in the years ahead. what is the benefit of her visit and does that outweigh china s promised reaction? well, china always promises to react to these things, right, and she would not be the first speaker of the house to visit, newt gingrich went there in the mid to late 90s and congressional delegations travel there all the time. one of my first trips to taipei was as congressional staffer. look, i think it s important that american officials get out to taiwan, get out to the region and visit and see what things look like on the ground and talk to our leaders, the leaders of our friends in the region and understand what they face. it helps them shape better policy back here at home. you served during a tumultuous time in the trump administration, you were fired in nove