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Biden would not be at the top of the list. he obviously would be formidable. the truth is none of us no, maybe they wont embrace socialism. maybe they will, they embraced trumpism. there is a lot of mystery to him and us where is the american party? none of us know at this point. >> they have to have a strong social media game at least. >> dont go anywhere. >> stay like this. >> stay exactly like this. dont move. >> you can stretch a little bit. >> you, too, can sign up for axios.com. >> "mornin...

Steve bannon, what hes been doing around the world. tell bus about that. >> this is juicy. after steve bannon left the white house, he left a couple of filmmakers travel with him around the world. the producer worked for him 15 years august. these producers turned out to be progressive and the film turned taught to be a damaging portrait. so we see steve bannon traveling to europe, traveling to france, to arizona, to texas trying to take his pugilistic, nationalistic brand global. and we get to ...

The new white house counsel, swan has been told, hired 17 lawyers for the counsels office. some are very experienced from the george w. bush years but didnt experience with what the clinton administration did with impeachment and republicans controlling the house. the person who experienced that, emmitt flood, the whoite house lawyer, the presidents impeachment lawyer tried to pass on lessons learned, talking to the come shop and other cabinet agencies what happens and how to deal with it. hes t...

Progressivism on the left. this is why you see the space, well hard to argue chicken and egg, the space for alexandria ocasio-cortez to introduce a green new deal and very sweeping new programs, even to entertain the idea of massive taxes about 70% on the ultra rich. >> heres the big question. are democrats going to look at these polls and take that into account come 2020? are they going to support a candidate progressive versus more center. >> embraces that. >> they already are. look at the can...

Axios.com. "morning joe" starts right now. >> im very prepared, ive been preparing for it all my life. its not like, oh, gee, im going to sit down and study, i know every ingredient, i know it every stat, i know it better than everybody knows it and my gut has always been right. >> my gut has always been right, thats president trumps take on his upcoming meeting in south america this week with chinas leader. the president also set to sit down with vladimir putin and saudi crown prince mohammed b...

Were going to show this all got started because of the steele dossier. the reason im intrigued by it, every time they have declassified documents, it turns out that the truth, the actual documents completely rebut their point. when we got a look at the fisa affidavit, it turns out that lo and behold, it was really all about george papadopoulos who you were talking about earlier, bragging about meeting russians who were talking about having e-mails. so im intrigued by it because documents and the...

So republicans in the trump white house apparently want to declassify and release that information that was used to get the surveillance warrant against him because they want to, i think, sort of further cloud the issue of why the fbi started investigating the trump campaign and russia in the first place. what was the basis for opening that investigation? and now this reporting at axios suggests that we should expect the president to order the declassification of those documents soon. and the ot...

Them, when it came to carter page, those applications did require the government, the fbi to spell out the basis of their ongoing investigation. and so republicans in the trump white house apparently want to declassify and release that information that was used to get the surveillance warrant against him because they want to, i think, sort of further cloud the issue of why the fbi started investigating the trump campaign and russia in the first place. what was the basis for opening that investig...

Pro-trump house republicans have been clamoring for him for a while now. they reportedly are about to get their wish. axios.com is now reporting that president trump is about to order the declassification of a batch of documents, quote, covering the u.s. governments surveillance of trump campaign adviser carter page and the investigative activities of senior justice department lawyer bruce ohr. carter page is the trump campaign adviser who came under fbi surveillance for his repeated contacts wi...

Kremlin, including one dramatic instance in which bruce ohr reportedly met with a russian oligarch named oleg deripaska and tried to convince him to become a cooperate were u.s. law enforcement against the russian government. the president has been sending angry tweets about bruce ohr for weeks now. last month, house republicans summoned ohr for closed door testimony. but now were told to expect the president to release classified information from ohrs, quote, investigative activities. joining u...