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Abusing staff, the presidents doctor for v.a. secretary reacts to new allegations against him. the president cabinet insists the president is not naive when it comes to north korea. well talk with david ignatius about that and what look like a new iran deal. "morning joe" is coming right back. people said it just made a mess until exxonmobil scientists put it to the test. they thought someday it could become fuel and power our cars wouldnt that be cool? and thats why exxonmobil scientists thin...

>> jeffrey sacks, you want the president to follow his instinct, to go with his gut and to leave syria. youve been very critical of american foreign policy towards syria for some time, including the encouragement of many of the forces that were rebelling against assad that have launched the civil war. talk about that. talk about how this began and where we are now. >> well, we actually launched the war in effect in 2011 because americas regional allies all wanted assad overthrown. and so, back i...

Our primacy. its been a very prickly relationship. the french famously disagreed with george w. bush about weapons of mass destruction in iraq. opposed the u.s. invasion of iraq. that criticism from france looks better, i must say, with the passage of time. but at the time it led to a real crisis, and you remember people were boycotting french restaurants and calling french fries freedom fries to show how angry they were at the french. it was all kind of crazy. misfiring of a traditional relatio...

Want to have a very, very strong -- we want to leave a strong and lasting footprint. and that was a very big part of our discussion. >> thats the president speaking yesterday at the white house. joining us now professor and director of the center for sustainable development at colombia university, economist dr. jeffrey sacks and columnist for the new york times and msnbc contributor brett stephens. brett, let me begin with you. macron comes to america trying to convince president trump to stay i...

Entertaining negotiation with the north koreans. so with this president you never know. i mean, i argued strenuously against the iran deal back in 2015. i think it has critical, critical flaws, including allowing iran to continue to field and test ballistic missiles. the real question is whether he can renegotiate the agreement. the iranians say they are flatly against it, but my colleague tom freedman pointed out, the iranian economy is in free fall and we learned with the obama administration ...

>> they wont be restarting anything. they restart it, theyll have big problems. bigger than theyve ever had before. you can mark it down. they restart their nuclear program, they will have bigger problems than they have ever had before. >> as far as syrias concerned, i would love to get out. i would love to bring our incredible warriors back home. theyve done a great job. weve essentially absolutely obliterated isis. with that being said, emmanuel and myself have discussed the fact that we dont ...

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Jackson. >> and the president defending him, but saying i would understand if he didnt want to go through this process. lets set this up. theres new fallout over frumps nominee for secretary of veterans affairs, dr. ronny jackson, a navy admiral and white house physician is facing allegations of over-prescribing medication, drinking on the job and creating an unprofessional work environment. democratic senator, john tester, the ranking member on the veterans affairs committee spoke to those alle...

A surprise to certainly people inside the obama administration. who have been defending him even through some pretty rough waters over the last six months. >> a complete surprise, joe. youre absolutely right about that. and there are some suggestions behind the scenes that there may be people with axes to grind. but on the other hand the sheer number of allegations has really taken senators in both parties, by surprise. including john tester, who you saw there, the democrat, top democrat on this...