joining us this hour. happy halloween. t my costume is perfect. i know.os thank you. nailed it. i defy anyone to ever surpass my childless old white lesbian costume.as i know it s my greatest n contribution to our culture. if you ever want to buy one, i recommend just xeroxing a photo of this screen. anyway, happy halloween. his name is jair bolsonaro. and he just did something nobod has ever done before. jair bolsonaro is the very trumpy, very, very far right president of brazil.ry and in brazil, if you are lucky enough to get elected president, and you run for re-election, you win re-election. y no brazilian president running for re-election has ever lost. before jair bolsonaro. it was close, but he lost this weekend. first brazilian president to ever lose a bid for re-election. now, i mentioned that he s trumpy. i one of the ways in which he is trumpy is that he s had a hard core base of supporters who thought everything he did was great, but everybody else thought he was
His company a few weeks ago. There were huge financial penalties he was ordered to pay in that case. He is going to appeal the judgment, going to appeal the ruling in that case. But he in the meantime has to put up a bond while he files that appeal. We have been watching this because the amount of the judgment against him was so e huge, the bond he has to put up is huge, roughly a half billion dollars. So his lawyers told the court as the deadline for filing the bond, for posting the bond approached, his lawyers told the court that they had been unable to obtain a bond. They said they had reached out to 30 Different Insurance Companies but nobody would help him post a bond of that size. At that point, it looked like new yorks attorney general, who brought this fraud case in the first place, the a. G. Might be about to start seizing trumps Bank Accounts and seizing his properties to secure the judgment. But then, you may recall, there was sort of a lastminute f reprieve for trump. A new
We arranged for all of that to happen in that hour as hazing for you. Youre in the frat, dont worry. Thank you, rachel. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. Right off the top, there has been Breaking News in the last hour or so. In a couple of the legal cases involving former president donald trump, one of these we have been watching for a few weeks. He lost a big fraud case against his company a few weeks ago. There were huge financial penalties he was ordered to pay in that case. He is going to appeal the judgment, going to appeal the ruling in that case. But he in the meantime has to put up a bond while he files that appeal. We have been watching this because the amount of the judgment against him was so huge, the bond he has to put up is huge, roughly a half billion dollars. So his lawyers told the court as the deadline for filing the bond, for posting the bond approached, his lawyers told the court that they had been unable to obtain a
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President biden challenged former President Trump to two debates, and trump accepted. Oh. Yeah. Trump agreed. He said, ill be there, assuming its okay with my parole officer. The first debate will be next month, which is the earliest a president ial debate has ever been. If were being honest, an early bird debate feels right for these guys. Boom, just like that, headtohead, toe to toe, mano and mango. Trump posted, just tell me when. Ill be there. Lets get ready to rumble rumble . Ive seen your rallies. I think you mean, lets get ready to ramble. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, may 16th. I just have to ask, the Question Alex asks, why is it not friday . How is it not friday, guys . Its thursday. Were grateful that god has given us another day to come in and be together. Im very grateful. Were close to friday. Were not at friday. 24 hours, itll be friday. A lot to talk about. We have White House Bureau chief for politico, jonathan lemire. We have john heilemann. Ma