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2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham released his findings yesterday, a 300-page report. and in it, durham, who was first appointed by that attorney general william barr in 2019, accuses the bureau of acting negligently but did not reveal any bombshells, as many republicans had long claimed he would. durham found no evidence the justice department and the fbi conspired in a deep state plot to investigate trumps ties to russia in 2016. in addition, durham did not recomm...

♪♪ good morning. welcome to "morning joe." this morning, a debt ceiling deal seems to be on the right path. house speaker kevin mccarthy had a much more optimistic tone yesterday while answering questions about the negotiations. well have those comments for you. it comes as president biden is busy with world leaders at the g7 summit in japan. the group just announced a new round of sanctions for russia, aimed at closing loopholes moscow has been using since the start of the ukr...

Appearing to be, except to a small sliver of the base of voters for on desantis, a colossal mistake is now money and jobs are not coming to florida because of the fight with disney. >> yeah, the obvious hit on desantis for this entire presidential primary campaign is that he represents big government. he represents anti business. he represents telling people what they can read and what they can learn and all the stuff that he thought was going to beat the ticket to his oval, as it turns out, he ...

>> and so matt lewis, obviously there is some virtue signaling to a certain portion of ronda sanders voters support, his base, but in the big picture, this remains absolutely confounding, this decision to go and fight with the largest private employer in your state, this icon that is transform the state of florida brings obviously all of the tourism and money that comes with it. to pick this fight because his feelings were hurt the disney criticize a piece of legislation he put forth last year. ...

That disney was abandoning florida, and one desantis was taking his hit, where was bob iger? he was at the cannes film festival. he was standing next to harrison ford at the indiana jones five premiere and got a standing ovation. that happen in the same moment. bob iger won this round, to be clear micah, and this seems like such an unforced era. and republicans attacking desantis here for undermining the whole credo the gop is being the party of business, and instead, trying to intervene with go...

I think youre absolutely right. if your entire modus operandi is to fight something that is two feet in front of, you to be reactive to the online politics of the moment, and to live in a conservative echo chamber, then it becomes increasingly hard for you to appeal beyond that echo chamber. this disney fight is just proof of it. if you saw the reaction to it online after the news, the reaction from conservatives online was actually quite, they were cheering on desantis. they said, who needs the...

But something would help boost him and elevate him as a real fighter fighting and winning the cold war. and it just didnt work out the way that he planned. and now it has escalated, and it is becoming a quagmire. i dont know how he gets out of it. he is now fighting a two front war, really a three front four. hes got disney, he has gavin newsom, and he has donald trump. everybody is criticizing him. and look, when does this end? he can do this forever. there could always be a big project that di...

Different times trump has lost for the republican party, but rhonda santos is not batting 1000 in the state of florida. how does he move beyond that onto the big stage? >> well look, i think he probably actually is correct in the sort of broad generalization of the race that he and trump are the most likely to win, and then of the three, he trump and biden have the most likely chance to win the general. but there is one sort of major caveat and there that i think goes into it. we were reporting ...

Disneys parts and experiences division said that the decision was based on quote, changing business conditions. the billion dollar project wouldve brought 2000 jobs, 2000 jobs to florida from california. a spokesperson for the governor response in new york times with an email questioning disneys commitment to the project and criticizing the companys financial situation. california governor gavin newsom posted on twitter that the doors open for disney to bring this jobs back to a state that repre...

Have the information on this, but i would be surprised if he would come to the night states as well to explain directly to leaders what is happening and what their plans are, the next steps forward. obviously, the expected counteroffensive whenever it comes, and if ukraines not making announcement on this, what date the russians should be ready. but when it comes, its going to be important. we dont to read too much into what happens at the end of it, because even if it is wildly successful beyon...