that the midwest remits. alexi mccammond, thank you very much for joining us early, and thank you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. morning joe startis right now. we need to take this grief and turn it into action. i am a person of faith, i was raisin raised in the church if you are a person of faith and you want to give us your thoughts and prayers, we want them and we need them. our community is hurting, but we need policies in place that will keep this from happening again so that thoughts and prayers do not have to be offered to yet another community ripped apart by the savage violence coming from guns. that s democratic congressman morgan mcgarvy making a plea for action on gun violence after monday s mass shooting in louisville we re getting a look at the deadly confrontation between police and the gun nan we ll have that and the latest in the investigation ahead. trump on fox news making outlandish claims about his arraignment
he aspires to someone who has absolute autocratic control. and i think if we understand that for what it is, if he s confessed to it, what his inner desires happen to be, we understand this man is not being committed to democracy, as being kind of inspired by these folk who are willing to trample over basic norms and basic freedoms, and we have to understand him for who he is. and then try to understand why he s so attracted to so many americans at the same time you know, you re listening to donald trump there it struck me that in a way, in an odd way, he is running down the united states of america he s basically saying top of the line people who run russia, who run china, who run north korea, he s basically saying to people, you d be better off if you were living in beijing or moscow or somewhere in north korea than you would be living in chicago or gardner, massachusetts, or lafayette, louisiana you would be better off anywhere
was wrong when he was president in his assessment of these authoritarian leaders, so he has to say no, no, no, i still believe it you run through the list of what those people have done president xi who has crashed the chinese economy during the course of his covid lock downs is on the point of, you know, doing exercise where is he looks like he really might make a serious attempt on taiwan. president putin who has managed to expand nato s border by 800 miles with russia doesn t look like a very good strategic move, has lost hundreds of thousands of his own troops in ukraine in a war that it just hasn t won him anything, and perhaps the most startling at all is his assessment of kim jong un in south korea, he s totally dominant, and that he had inherited this but he has a very energetic, very smart people, he has a people totally oppressed by a police state and risk going into a concentration camp if they do anything in terms of trying to oppose him
in the biden administration, we brought home nine americans from venezuela. we ve already brought americans home from russia so we will find a way to do this and progress and you have a good team again, the state department s working hand in glove with the national security counsel. we re partnering with pretty much a broad group of people to include members on capitol hill, ngos, and of course, the family, the gershkovich family who i will be visiting in the coming days so mr. carstens, yesterday, the united states government declared the reporter wrongedly wrongedly detained what tools did that give you prior to him being labeled wrongfully detained? most importantly, it now obligates us by law to pursue his release. prior to that wrongful detention determination, we will check on citizens, of course, their safety and security is our highest priority, but once that determination is made, we are now legally obligated to seek
praises, and first of all, it s abhorrent that he s praising some of the most evil leaders on the world stage, and this is something that he did starting here in 2015 when he came on our show and talked about how great vladimir putin was and how horrible barack obama was, and when we said, yeah, but he kills journalists, he kills politicians, he said, well, we kill people too. again, there s something really screwed up in the way he looks at the world, and i must say, very disturbing for the cult-like followers that he still has that will worship a guy who worships the biggest tyrants on the globe katty kay, on top of that, donald trump is alone in calling vladimir putin very shrewd, very smart. the guy has wrecked russia s military he s wrecked russia s economy.