Thanks for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. Dont go anywhere. Morning joe starts right now. I think the three of us talking about a peaceful transfer of power speaks to the constitutional integrity of our country. In this is an unusual thing. We are both trying to come back to normalcy, deal with totally abnormal challenge and make a more Perfect Union. It is an exciting time. Approximate. We have to listen to folks that we agree with and folks that we dont. One of my fondest memories of the inauguration was the grace and generosity that president bush showed me and laura bush showed michelle. And it was a reminder that we can have fierce disagreements and yet recognize each others common humanity. And that as americans we have more in common than what separates us. Thats really moving. Really moving. Former president s bush, clinton and obama. A primetime inaugural special. Willie, this went on throughout the day. I mean, look at this. These families, they re
Republican party. We would get wiped out. And it would take generations to overcome a trump candidacy. I hope the republican senators know that. It is a reality. And it will not help the country, the most important thing. Impeaching him after he leaves office will be disastrous for this country and our party so in 2016, senator graham said electing donald trump would destroy the republican party. Now he said convicting him would do the same. Its interesting because lindsey at one point had said maybe a week ago, week and a half ago after the riots, after we find out the rioters were coming to kill mike pence Vice President of the United States and coming to kill nancy pelosi. We have news they were minutes away. Possibly seconds away seconds. From getting mike pence and doing serious bodily damage to him, possibly killing him, his family. And now lindsey is saying, wait a second. Dont impeach him. Please dont peach him. After mike pence and nancy pelosi and other members of congresss l
Because its unbelievable. Seriously had the his lawyers end up in jail. His fixers end up in jail. At least hes got that u. S. Ambassador behind him. No, who the Trump Administration ordered to keep quiet is expected to testify this week. Thats bad. And trump orders the withdraw of all remaining u. S. Troops from Northern Syria forcing the kurds to make a deal with russia backed bashar al assad. Morning and welcome to morning joe. Its monday, october 14th. With us we have White House Reporter for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire. National Affairs Analyst for nbc news and msnbc john heilman, hes the cohost. And executive producer the circus David Ignatius. And White House Correspondent for reuters, jeff mason joins us this morning. You know, john heilman, it really is its just remarkable, this guy is making Richard Nixon look like a choir boy. You have Donald Trumps Campaign Manager in jail. Will probably be there for the rest his life. His First National security adviser admitted
scrambling to write briefs. i think the only question is this going to go to a divided supreme court to decide what kind of documents are released and what kind of power this impeachment inquiry has. nicholas johnson in d.c. for us. we re going to be reading axios a.m. in a bit. you can sign up for the news letter by going to signup@axios.com. morning joe starts right now. the notion that you can withhold information and documents from congress no matter whether you re the party in power or not in power is wrong. respect for the rule of law must mean something irrespective of the va sis attitudes of political cycles. wow. yes. willie and i were just saying that. you know, i ve got a great idea. this is my great idea, mika. yeah, yeah, yeah. you always have the good ones.
series pushed all the way to game five. today is a great day, joe. you ve got two sudden death games going on, a big one out in los angeles. nationals versus dodgers. strasbourg versus walker, two of the best pitchers in the game. the astros being pushed to a fifth game. their two top pitchers won t face the yankees in the first two games of any series. good morning, and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday mika, i got to tell you also. what about the polls, have you seen the polls? i have polls to show you, yes. there s a quinnipiac poll out right now like the wall street journal nbc news poll, the washington post poll, we re into the 50s now with people wanting this impeachment inquiry to go forward. i wish you could read some news and let us hear about that. right, we ve got joe definitely here, willie and me and mike barnicle.