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
The base? i know it s going to pass, so i can afford to scream and yell about it. and we don t default as a nation. it is all virtue signaling, because maura, they did this in 2017. they did it in 2018, they did it in 2019. and by the way, those first two years, they run the house, they were in the senate, they win the white house. they ran the senate and the white house, guess what they said? we can t build a wall. a wall won t do any good. you can claim under a wall, you can climb over a wall. lindsey graham, john cornyn, i could go down the list. they had the vote, and none of them wanted to build donald trump s wall, because they said, it s a stupid idea. also when they had the power, they said, it s a stupid idea to hold america hostage. and i know you are getting nervous right now because you are afraid that tj s going to
And what has happened here is, there is a confidence. it s not a sure thing, but there s confidence on both sides that the votes are there and they will get this across the finish line. it will be close, but they will get it done, and that allows base for the outrage. that allows republicans on the fridge to throw a fit, throw the press conference to try to raise the money off of it where they can satisfy there can situate and went right to the mattresses for this thing even though they know it will pass, and the nation will not default, which will be catastrophic for everyone. i do think as soon as this is done in the next couple of days, washington is going to turn the page on it as fast as humanly possible and move onto the next thing, because there really are no winners here. they just need to get it done. i would say this, president biden can again say to the american people, it s a bipartisan thing, we got it done, we are governing with some confidence. this morning, they say t
Is now. i mean, desantis what does he need to do here? to try to reverse that? part of that is going to have to be taking on trump more directly than we just saw. just watching him campaign out there, he s an extremely awkward campaigner so far. to your point, he could get better. he needs to either get a lot better really quickly, or, you know, alternatively, he can kind of stay away from those big rallies that donald trump is, you know, that is his signature. maybe desantis cannot go head- to-head with donald trump kind of holding court. that is donald trump s specialty. so far, i don t see how he s going to compete against trump on that level. desantis seems to be best at a quick jab and retreating, coming out with some extreme policy that the base may like, like the six week abortion ban, then kind of retreating. but the more he s in front of
Through 2021. never paying for any of the tax cuts, never paying for any of the spending. four years of donald trump, nearly $1 trillion was added to the deficit, largely because of those tax cuts you are talking about. here, republicans are truly, any theatrical way, setting their hair on fire because there might be some addition to money added to snap, for example, or benefits for people in this country. kevin mccarty says, i cut more than $1 trillion out of the budget over a decade. this is a good deal that we ve negotiated. i guess the question is, is this all signaling to the base? are these people pounding the lectern and saying, this is the worst bill i ve ever seen? one congressman said, if you vote for this, the republic will never be the same. suddenly, fighting religion on the desk now the joe biden is on the office. is that all just a signal to