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Tax cuts and deregulation. but his escalating trade war puts that at risk. he aspires to be ronald reagan, but his tariff folly echoes of herbert hoover. so much for "the wall street journals" support, joe. >> well its ben sasse talking about make america 1929 again, a great statement. and jon heilemann before we go to break, talk about the politics of this. who does he -- who does he think hes helping? does he think this is going to help him win in pennsylvania and wisconsin again? >> i think h...

That as well. but you know, jon heilemann, i love how people when they talk to you about the power of pardons and the power to indict a president, they speak in absolute terms just like i heard three, four, five months ago that it is impossible to indict a sitting president. the fact is, its not impossible to indict a sitting president. regardless of what the justice departments own guidelines are. you may break past those guidelines and this president may find himself indicted. the same thing w...

>> and governor, i have great respect for you, i have great respect for your tenacity, for the fact that you just dont give up. but rod, youre fired. >> thank you very much. >> welcome to "morning joe." its friday, june 1st, im kasie hunt, we are having some trouble with joes camera at the moment. so hopefully hell be with us shortly. willie is on assignment for "the today show," mika will be back on monday. with us we have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc, jon heilemann. the kids...

Everybody is not more concerned about this. yes, we were all offended, most of us were offended. certainly my friends were offended, but at the same time that infants were being ripped from the arms of their mothers, that ivanka trump was clueless enough to have a picture of her holding her baby and the first thing that would have to come to your mind is -- donald trump promoting a policy that rips babies out of the hands of their mothers. we all get that. but to get from that to what she said o...

For the "washington post" david ignatius. jon heilemann, where do you want to start here with these pardons? >> where do i want to start? kasie, kind of extraordinary. we alluded to this here in some of the footage at the top of the show. interesting, some of the connections between some of the people who the president has pardoned and who he is thinking about pardoning. they are connected in various ways through various people who have held the job who yently hold the job now as special prosecu...

Pop cull culture and politics, which is basically who we are right now. >> jon heilemann i was busy with my kids yesterday. i didnt see the story until late last night. my first reaction is wait, this has happened two days after roseanne? are the entertainment gods just -- putting a test out there to see how tone-deaf the left can be? how tone-deaf popular media can be? i will restate the fact that this was a taped segment. they taped it. they looked at it. they put it on the air. then after put...

Good comes out of this. but yesterday for anybody that has spent any time how north korea plays the united states and the west yesterday wasnt a surprise at all. weve always been concerned here. that theres been a belief inside the white house, even before they got sworn in, that history was going to start on january 20th, 2017. they were contemptuous of history. contemptuous of being told this is how history is unfolded in the past. they say you guys dont get it. everybody is getting it wrong. ...

>> again? >> it keeps happening. >> in this case its kim jong un moving that football. and president trump, not charlie brown, left swinging in the air. >> so many times before. >> as it has happened, sometimes before. north korea has done a 180. pulling the plug on meetings with the south and threatening to scuttle a planned sit-down with president trump. welcome to "morning joe," its wednesday, may 16, we have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and executive producer and co-host o...

University to get an extra $100 in his pocket. could this president possibly say, wow, maybe i can make an extra few hundred grand by getting these -- you go thats not possible. but then you go of course its possible. clearly none of us know the answer to that. michael, as i said, he, when i spoke to him yesterday, he said im still in a fighting mood, he said corey lewandoski got $2 million. whether or not we think its sleazy, the big questions are, did any of it go back to trump? and let us not...

That job and could squeeze the resources going to mueller. so senator blumenthal tells me he is working with a number of republicans on this. they think that it will bring more pressure to bear on mcconnell, because every republican you talk to, up on the hill seems to agree when you talk to them, that this investigation needs to continue unimpeded and at the same time, were seeing this escalating rhetoric coming not only from the president, but from everyone around him. from giuliani to now the...