good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, may 16th. ahead this hour, the latest developments from ukraine following new russian missile attacks overnight. the strikes come as the ukrainian president is touring europe, looking to restock his army s arsenal. plus, the durham report was supposed to vindicate donald trump of his alleged ties to russia, but now that it s finally out after four years, there s not much in it that we didn t already know. we re going to go through the findings just ahead. we ll also have an update on the debt ceiling talks ahead of a high-stakes meeting at the white house. also today, just ahead now, arnold schwarzenegger joins us live from austria, where some of the world s top climate activists and leaders are meeting right now. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay is with us. and columnist and asso
about diversity over that round of words. that is a basketful of words. trey: save you the trouble of looking that word up, it is a superficial cover. it is her way of calling senator scott a token. what she has done that too in the past. your appointment is seen by some as a member of progress. others have called you a mere token, elevated only to show that the g.o.p. has gotten the diversity. i do hope that as a senator, you will prove those who called you a token wrong. trey: for a party and a media, a client who loves civility and public discourse and ruling out the hot political rhetoric and finding some unity, she has a really weird way of showing it, like ignoring policy debates and engaging in personal attacks. if she knew anything about tim scott, she would understand full well why he would be participating in a press conference on the minimum wage. if she knew anything about tim scott, she would understand why he is frequently front and center in major policy
are people is this a uniquely republican phenomenon or democratic fundraising groups doing the same thing? millions of americans being scammed every day by these calls? sadly, this does happen a lot. there s been a number of cases the justice department charged as scam packs. operations where people are saying they re raising money, sometimes just for a cause or saying, i m raising money for bernie sanders or donald trump. they take the money, and then instead of spending it on politics, they pay themselves, use it to pay fundraisers. they pull it out of politics instead. the crazy thing i learned is that the campaign finance system is not built to police that. it s built on the assumption that if you re raising money for politics, you want to spend it on politics. if you take it and remove it from politics, give it to yourself or pull it out, the system is not built to stop that. doj has been working to catch up. every case they find, you say, wow, it illuminates the huge world