other day. his basic answer was, you know, alliances in an alliance, you talk to one another. allies talk to one another. they didn t talk to us. a whole lot of this could have been avoided if they d simply done that. it didn t happen during the trump administration. my god, it didn t even happen when de gaulle was running france. a man who decided at times to be neutral in the cold war. right. tell me, jonathan, what is the make-good? the white house has to do a make-good for france. yeah. is anybody talking that way over there? is anybody talking that way at the state department? because let me get to the end of this for them, if they don t know, they ve got to do a make-good. obviously, washington has money. let s figure out how to do a make-good because we screwed up. we went behind their back. if this was so obvious, we should have been able to say, you know you re not getting the
it ll take long, long time for the submarines to be built and show up there. they re quieter than your lobster boat and have great range. not greater range than my lobster boat but greater range than what the french were building. you didn t just find out a week or two ago. you ve known it for a long time. you talk to the french, two things. why couldn t the french be part of the new grouping? australia, united states, and the united kingdom. bring the french in. there are no hard set rules. that s what i don t understand. when you go into a deal, your goal is to make everybody a winner. there is no reason why the united states and australia, who, by the way, a remarkable ally, this is all on us. there s no reason why australia, the united states, even great britain couldn t sit down with france and say, listen, they don t want your subs. let s figure something else out together. because what we re facing with china is so important. we can t have any space between
leader. always the charmer. there is news. we re not going to lose this. will you commit to making sure there is a peaceful transfer of power after the election? we have to see what happens. oh, a cliffhanger. will the president of the united states let democracy run its course? we ll find out on the next depressing episode of this week in covid history. seems like last year. good morning. welcome to morning joe. wednesday, september 22nd. things look different. history being made this morning. this is the first well, this is the second time that we ve been in this studio since willie, i guess moon landing. it looks a little well, third time. the suez crisis, number one. yeah. the moon landing, number two. then we were allowed back into