before you get the burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to a rocky start, crashing several times with the announcement delayed by the more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here, i think we are kind of melting the servers. let s see, so yeah. just to simplify. let s see. crashing, huh? i think we re back online here. great. all right. well, it s certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this stark announcement. oh, the technical troubles drew mockery on social media. president joe biden posted a link to his donation page, writing simply, this link works. and former president donald trump had a series of posts on truth social, calling the announcement fatal and a disaster. he also had one strange post where he wrote, quote, rob, my
i understand it. in fact, trump made the republican party the party of working americans in a way that probably hasn t been true for almost 100 years. yeah, because in 100 years, there hasn t been a politician who said, i m going to make this for third graders to understand what i m talking about. talking on that level? that was newt gingrich encouraging ron desantis to get on the level of third graders. i m not joking. you know, kind of like donald trump does. wonder what he means. this is a tough hurricane. one of the wettest we ve ever seen from the standpoint of water. rarely have we had an experience like it, and it certainly is not good. oh, my god. one of the wettest we ve had. good morning. welcome to morning joe. hope you ve had a good week. it is friday. friday, may 26th. let s bring in with us the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. the host of inside with jen psaki, jen psaki. she s a former white house press
poisoned an entire town in ohio, the transportation secretary, the man in charge of preventing train derailments, held a press conference attacking white construction workers because they re the problem. it s nineteen fifty two . our eight year old president , meanwhile, 80 years old, he seems convinced it s nineteen fifteen. and we re all living in rural alabama, burning crosses the front yards of terrified sharecroppers to amuse ourselves. we don t have tv. biden gave a speech the other day in 2020 three to denounce lynching as lynching is still happening in the united states . it s all seems a little delusional. so it was with a genuine relief that we saw today. one of biden s top cabinet officials, janet yellen, who runs the treasury department, signed off her twitter account. finally, leave washington and meet with actual flesh and blood human beings. who are suffering. and now what did she meet with them to prove her sincerity, janet yellen brought with her a
tornadoes in the last 24 hours and all of last year. this is rolling fork, mississippi, one county constable says the community is gone there and what s left? looks like a landfill. at least 24 people are confirmed dead 23 in mississippi , one in alabama and all of last year across the entire country. tornadoes killed 23 people, according to the national weather service. this is already exceeding that right now, state and federal leaders are already mobilizing help to the hardest hit areas. cnn s nick valencia is in rolling fork, mississippi. nick, tell us what you re seeing there. hey jim. we just got here on the ground and it is just, you know, it s awful. it s striking to see these images anywhere. you go in the country , but you know, our attention was certainly grabbed by the site here and just how much damage there is. throughout this town of about 2000 residents were in rolling fork. this is the mississippi delta and this here is one of the staples of the community. th
come up. it s going to to be bright all evening long. and today s faith and friends concert series we have the house fires here live. they ve been practicing, and it was beautiful. absolutely. rachel: yeah. we love having all this great music here on the weekends. we re not jealous of the week days anymore, now we have our music. pete: just co-opted it for six weeks. they are setting the house on fire here, it s a wake-up call. rachel: it s i awesome. there s so much energy in the green room. we can t wait to bring them out later in the show. joey: they sound so great. you go to concerts, that doesn t sound quite as good as the radio. that was beautiful. pete: very, very well cone. well done. we re one hour into a four-hour tour, one hour behind where we were yesterday. so you do the math of what that all means, i don t know. we re going to start with this, at least two people are kid in california dead in california as major flooding devastates entire communities. thousa