increasing inflation. well, it has the advantage of not only people being able to live longer and better and be able to perform their prescription drugs, but, guess what? it reduces the deficit $158 billion. [ applause ] don t forget that part to tell people. it s not just that you pay less for the drug. it means that the federal government isn t paying for the drugs for medicare. president joe biden in baltimore last night, debunking republican claims about the deficit and calling on democrats to remind americans what his administration has achieved over the past two years. meanwhile, on capitol hill, a hearing dominated by grievance politics, as attorney general merrick garland makes his first appearance before the new congress. he actually had insurrectionists. right. like, the guy with, like what is it, willie, the bird bone hands, like, doing the power to the people signal. the raised fist. that s right. raised fist of a bird. yeah. there it is. the
general election again. who could have ever seen that coming? don t want to take that chance. they do. they re going to take the chance because nobody has the strength, we ll just say strength. nobody has the strength thank you. to take donald trump on. okay. so they ll lose in 24. like they lost in 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17. are you picking up a trend here? i m feeling like we re going to go to break. nothing got done in block. no, we ve established that crazy is back. is back. yeah. and that the republicans lose. what do they learn from that? nothing. they double down. a lot of hot stove, hand on the hot stove 50 times. how many times do you burn yourself? ah, my hand. they keep doing it. skin graph, touch again.
insurrection against the united states government. and i do wonder, and i ve always wondered this, but why didn t they get investigated? why didn t members of the house that knew what was coming. remember the hours? the ones that gave the tours, the ones that wore the vests, the ones that brought guns january 6th because they knew there would be trouble, why didn t the justice department go after them? i still want to know. i said it after the day after, sort of screamed it the day after. why aren t these people who knew about the insurrection and were part of the insurrection, why haven t they ever been charged? it seems to be a good question. i mean, i understand there are a lot of people that think you should overthrow the federal government. apparently the 40% who still support donald trump. i mean, i think donald trump is going to win the republican
the longer you can do what, frankly, is a rose garden strategy. look at me governing. i m a great leader. i don t have to get in the mud with donald trump. polls show him trailing, so he ll have to get in the mud a little bit. for now, it is working. don t take risks. don t stand on a stage where he might get booed. and hand it over to donald trump and say, it s not actually that important. we ll see how national audiences respond to desantis once they get to know him. also, pompeo, pence, the like, when will they jump in, too? brandon buck, thank you so much for your insight this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. with the morning joe starts right now. i love your republican colleagues you have to work with, but the maga republicans, they re amazing. they re really amazing, their calculations. they say biden and the democrats, because they brought down the price of drugs, they re
nomination, which means the republican base supports the overthrowing of the federal government. election denialism. it s the same thing. if you overthrow if you want to overthrow an election just because your side loses. yeah. by the way, the more i see, the more i read, i talk to people, they don t care. they don t care that donald trump tried to overthrow american democracy. they don t care he tried to throw out a presidential election. they don t care that he wanted to terminate the constitution of the united states. this, democrats, is who you re going to face. yeah. and if he gets elected, you know, because everybody is talking about desantis. i don t see it. i just don t see it. i think desantis is going to melt if he goes up against donald trump on the debate stage. there s going to be a guy who, if he gets elected, bar the