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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 ....
Joining us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief for politico, jonathan lemire. and former congresswoman and now analyst, claire mccaskill. willie? the florida governor jumped into the presidential race during an audio stream with elon musk, hampered by technical glitches. international correspondent gabe gutierrez has more. reporter: after teasing a run for months with stops in iowa, new hampshire and a high profile overseas trip. you can see the brighter future. reporter: florida governor ron desantis is diving into the presidential race in a highly unconventional way. in addition to a new add, an audio only announcement on twitter spaces with billionaire elon musk that appeared to have technical glitches. we have so many people here, i think we are kind of melting ....
Blows, and others go with a choppy twitter space feed with elon musk. no video. i thought, yes, this is amusing. it was supposed to be a finger in the eye to the establishment. we re not playing your game. we re not doing it the way it s been done. we re a different campaign. i ll sit down with elon musk and do it on twitter, and that backfired. it ll matter for, what, 24 hours, and then he steps out there and becomes a real candidate, mika. we ll see if he can do it. yeah, it s the long game. we ll be watching. along with joe, willie and me, we have the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politics nation, reverend al sharpton. former white house director of communications to president obama, jen palmieri. and nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann. they re both co-hosts of showtime s the circus. before we get to politics, reverend al, she was electric on stage, ahead of her time, simply the best, tina turner. talk about her passing, what ....
Wait, i m so uncomfortable right now. yours does not. per my conversation with kim jong-un of north korea, soon to become my friend. i m going to let that sit right there. okay. that s one of those if a relative posts that, you send somebody to the house, just to check in. at this point, you need to intervene. you need to help. somebody has to step in there. meanwhile, a senior ron desantis official said, governor desantis broke the internet. that should tell you everything you need to know about the strength of his cancandidacy. desantis also tried to spin the technical difficulties as excitement for his campaign. that was during a fox news interview last night. we had a huge audience. it did it was the biggest they d ever had. it did break the twitter space, and so we re really excited with the enthusiasm. but ultimately, it s about future of our country. did willie say desantis spokesperson said ....
For a lot of voters. he has to get past that. it seems to be a fear they all have, to confront donald trump. somebody has to do that. that s how you win a campaign. the other folks sitting at the table will tell you that. when you re in second, third, fourth, fifth place, you have to go after the guy in first place. they all appear to be afraid to do that. i think with desantis, it is starting to come across a little bit, or a lot bit, like he is empty. he has all this bluster. look at me, i m the authoritarian governor of this one state. when push comes to shove and he is announcing, he is afraid to call donald trump out. he s afraid to say what has to be said. i don t know how you win like that. yeah, i totally agree. former chair of the new hampshire republican party, jennifer horn. as always, thanks so much for being with us. thank you. rev, i wanted to follow up on what willie said. ....