sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so
Take one. Is it that he doesnt want to take one or doesnt have enough on the president . I think that well, it could be both. Like i said before, ive had plenty of clients who have taken plea deals that swore they werent guilty. Apparently, he hasnt come to the amount of money its taking to defend himself or to the pressure to lie or simply maybe hes just saying he doesnt have anything to do with it and hes that does it for me. Im david gura. Going to toughen up and i would ill be back on Saturday Ask Sunday at 2 00 eastern time. Try and bring in as much in the meantime, you can find me information that it is the, on instagram and on twitter at quote, be unquote, witch hunt, and my client is being offered david gura. The news continues right now up because of the polarization with my friend and colleague, of the politics. But thats not really going to fly in a court of law. Yasmin vossoughian. Yasmin . Lets talk about who has david, that is quite a roster accepted a plea deal. Rick gat
the servers. reporter: desantis now seen as republican front runner, former president trump s, toughest opponent. five years ago, trump s endorsement critical to desantis victory in his first run for governor. he counted it in this campaign ad with his kids. make america great again. reporter: the relationship souring after desantis landslide re-election win, he argues he is the best pick to take on president biden. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years. stood for what is right. reporter: details how a super pac plans to do it. $200 million operating budget that includes hiring 2,600 field organizers by labor day. but desantis trails trump by more than 25 points in many polls. now, in the state both men call home, a scramble for gop primary voters. we met this trump supporter,
cohen of tampering with the tape and we have discussed that earlier. so it makes sense for him. but for manafort, and i m not an of his conversation with attorney, but the facts seem president trump. their relationship souring even very stacked against him. more now that their legal teams so i think he s a goner in this case. i mean, this is a documentary are officially servivering ties case. i think he s in trouble. and shutdown dejavu. it s not a pr strategy. the president threatens to shut this is a defense strategy. down the government if congress you re going to spend a lot of time arguing motions about how doesn t meet his demands for much information you can get in immigration reform. that hammer expected to fall 37 days before election day. and ready for battle, everybody. about the politics in this case, because your main thing is going president trump says he s going to hit the campaign trail six to say that the witnesses, the investigators, are bias, right? days a week
but it s not just that, chris. it s some of the comments he has made about women. it s really surprised some of the female staffers here, in some instances talking about the fact that women are more emotional than men during the rob porter scandal. of course he is the staff secretary who was ousted after allegations by two ex-wives of abuse which he denies. but john kelly talking about the fact that he hopes his reputation can be restored. that s another moment that really roiled some of the female staffers here. so what you re witnessing, chris, is the president s relationship with his chief of staff, this very critical relationship souring. i spoke to one administration official who said, look, the bottom line here is that kelly s influence and his standing has been diminished in recent months, chris. let s put all this together. gene, you re the editor of fame. you know how to edit a piece. the fact that he calls the president an idiot puts him in the same category as don regan, m