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
Manus welcome back. A great job in lima, francine. Coming up, we will be joined by a Renowned Harvard University professor and author, neil ferguson. Francine we will be talking about his new book. The killer question will be what would Henry Kissinger do if he was focused on china right now. Oil, andof china, speaking of oil, breaking news from the iea. From breaking news switzerland it is important because it i effect ubs and Credit Suisse. This was a left finance ministry has Just Announced it will require the countrys biggest banks to have capital equal to about 5 of total assets, after Credit Suisse and ups sought to win easier terms. This is according to people familiar with the deliberations. The decision would mimic the u. S. Leverage ratio for its biggest banks, which exceeds the 3 minimum set in a global agreement by the barca committee. That is according to the people. The swiss government will also align its calculations of the with the method employed in the united states,
Certainty and predictability. Thats the best way to make business decisions. Having the president make this controversial announcement, then indicate right away they may or may not be committed to it is not the kind of certainty Corporate America is looking for. Those are some of the broader impacts. Whats the potential impact inside his own administration, and for his own Press Secretary who has to go out and defend a policy shes not sure is etched in stone . Obviously shes in an impossible situation. I think what it does inside the white house, its corrosive to any effort to put in place a process to make decisions. Because people know that the Decision Making process is precarious at best, that theres never a final decision thats made and theres an opportunity to influence it at a variety of junctures or to go in and intervene with the president at the last minute. It means theres no coherent process in place and the result is you have decisions that are halfbaked at best. This has
Collaborate with moscow to beat Hillary Clinton . As one of the first witnesses to flip against the president , Michael Flynn has been cooperating with federal investigators for over a year. In fact, he appears to be so valuable as a witness that the special counsel delayed his sentencing four times. As a former top adviser to the president , both on the campaign trail and in the white house briefly, flynn was in a position to know firsthand about any collaboration, collusion with the russian government, which could include a quid pro quo for sanctions relief. In fact, flynn came to the campaign with his own connections to vladimir putin. In 2015, there he is, he famously attended a dinner with the russian autocrat to celebrate the kremlins staterun news network. Theres something to celebrate. Anyway, flynn pleaded guilty last year to one count of making false statements to the fbi. After lying to investigators about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador. Specifically, flynn to
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