of the election and about the result of the election. he is making claims that are dangerous, completely false, and doing so with an interviewer who is not an interviewer at all. this was not hardball, not even softball. this was tee ball. maria bartiromo once a feared and acclaimed journalist known for working the floor of the new york stock exchange, forcing ceos to tell the truth, now sits behind a desk and invites the president to lie and lie and lie. to do it for more than half an hour, to do it 26 days after the election. 22 days after fox and all of the other major networks called the election for president-elect joe biden. you might have thought after a week or after two weeks the president would start to accept the reality that he lost. you know, he hadn t given any interviews for three weeks. he had not even called into fox & friends or newsmax. it was a good deal that he gave had interview. his very first television interview since the election. i would tell you
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
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