upside down american flag today. buy ten or more and receive an under-down bible absolutely free. give me cash. just give me money! good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, june 5th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire and mike barnicle is with you also off the top. u.s. correspondent for bbc news, katie kay. and richard hause is joining us as well for the conversation. when people see richard, they think we immediately why they come here and drives you crazy. right. i ll talk about it. you know? it will break. what? sometimes things get a little yeah. let s talk about india s elections. what? not what you re expecting! i got to say, whoa! you know? very few election results where you are surprised. i think poland was one of them last year, despite the fact that he had all of the disadvantages and none of the advantages. the only justice department basically controlled all of the levers of
so tom s dad was monty s actual he was his stepson, but his dad had died in 1914, so monty had brought him up. of course, gliply. hold on one second, let me write that down. do you have pictures of churchill the glory day of britain s exploits in the 20th century. and tom s dad was working for monty when he was off fighting the germans and sent him off to the front line, and richard, tom s dad, had got caught by the germans, sent off to italy and put in a prison of war camp, and spent a year walking down italy to escape from the prisoner of war camp and finally got reunited with monty s and monty s first words to him were, where the hell have you been, after not having seen his son for a yore. in monty language, that means, i
it reads in part, what was once a unifying symbol, there is a storefront for each date after all, is now alienating for some. it has made the celebrating of the fourth of july is strawberries and blueberries arranged into old glory celebrating a country that does not seem quite so indivisible and a flag threatening to fry. jason joining us now thank you so much for joining us today. i take personal offense to this because my family was rescued and world war ii from a japanese prison of war camp. my father remembers running towards flag in the philippines before moving to the u.s., getting a great education, and serving the flag in korea. we are seeing that flag denigrated by so many people on the left. this would not had happened ten or 20 years ago. what has changed? george doherty is like
to stop doing what they re doing. trying to do it alone hasn t worked. sanctions may be the best we have. when i hear the word sanctions, my attention also drifts to sudan, where the sanctions the president has until july 8th to decide on sanctions. president bashir is doing unthinkable things there as well. it s difficult to deal with them. i had a friend, he s dead now, who fought in the korean war. he was captured by the chinese. he was in an infantry unit. he said among his friends, among his army buddies, they swore that they wouldn t be taken alive by anybody unless they were totally incapacitated. but if they were captured, they wanted to be captured by the chinese. the chinese would put you in a prison of war camp, you would probably starve to death or die of infection, but the north
and frank luntz joins us. what do you think? good morning. i don t understand it. donald trump has always had a positive reputation for being candid for being willing to say things that nobody else would say, but, and i apologize for my voice, it s left over from yesterday, but the public doesn t want someone who spent five and a half years in a prison of war camp attacked and this is not about john mccain. i want to be clear. this is about every veteran who has served this country in battle and has wondered every day whether this would be their last. i don t think that trump understands that in the military when you when you commit yourself to defend youryour country, that is the ultimate sacrifice, and unless he apologizes then his campaign is doomed. i m not defending what trump said and i accept i revere