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Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its thursday, august 2nd. And what a way to start the day. What a way. So, is it the official policy of the president or not . I think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. He was just venting. Just like a baseball game. When hes actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. Or Obstruction Of Justice. As brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. Talk about fake news. You talk about deep state conspiracies. You fire prosecutors and you have a were
trade agreement with us so that then when we go into the fight with china, about what they re doing to our goods, how they re stealing our intellectual property we re in a much stronger position. the danger here is trump is picking trade fights with our allies at the same time he s doing with china, which gives him much less leverage and leaves us much more vulnerable. the rest of the world could gang up on us. he s not getting the europe even union, angela merck toll join had nim a concerted no, that s when that comes home to roost with the allies, you need them in a trade scrap or going after terrorists they ll be less likely to put skin in the game. dealing with iran i believed it was a bad deal, but getting out of it now only isolates the united states more and there s nothing we can do now, willy, to get our european allies to at least stand at the side for a minute if we want to renegotiate certain terms that we may find
been one what has i do give him props for raising the bar for health care. i want to turn to the republicans. obviously, they are thick as theens everywhere you look. republicans drawing a line in the sand over the national debt ceiling, saying any vote to raise it must come with spending cuts, but when pressed by brian williams, the new speaker of the house couldn t come up with much. nim a program right now that we could do without. i don t think i have one off the top of my head. but there s no part of this government that should be sacred. well, without raising the debt ceiling, the u.s. could default by the end of march. which the white house says would be catastrophic. that s not necessarily unfair characterization, but the absurdity of using the debt ceiling as a political prop is
of government for the first nim a very long time. but he may end up staying on. or the president may ask bill daley. serious discussions and we ll see. we will know something by the end of the week i think, andrea. in fact, just common sense would indicate that this is not a trial balloon. that you don t disrespect someone as close to his white house as senior person politically and in the business world as william daley, bill daley, if you re not going to go ahead with it? it s more than just conversations. you know, it s pretty far along. you would not put his name out there, chuck. to speculate. yes. and you know when we talked, charlie, about this kind of change, yeah, the progressive/left wing of the party might not like it too much. he was with jpmorgan, before that one of the baby bells, but he is the brother and son of the