You know it was a rough primary and they got beat up but they went after me, too. And we beat them up and now they dont want to endorse and in some way almost like im running against two parties. Good morning, it is friday, july 1st. It is already july, everybody. It is already july. Breaking news. Breaking political news in just a second. Breaking news is donny is trying to look cool as a cucumber. I mean more like a chilled ice. Thats a nice tie. I bought it prebrexit. He goes to london to buy his
ties. Donny deutsch goes to nantucket. Donny is tonights guest host on all due respect. The rumors about willie and i, not true. Not true. You can read. How you doing, willie . Im great. Whats coming up this weekend on sunday today . Hows it working for you . Its going great. Will there be five tips for summer entertaining . Not much of that. Got a profile of ellie kemper. Like ellie kemper . This just now broke . This is actually because a lot of people will Say Something is breaking news and theyll put that banner down there and it will be like the sun came up yesterday, developing. This is actually breaking news
right here. See that right there. This just New York Times just broke this, willie. This is not just the sun came up. This is real breaking news. At this hour. New york times is reporting that Loretta Lynch plans to announce she will accept whatever recommendation and fbi director james break Hillary Clinton private email server. The paper says her decision removes the possibility that a political appointee will overrule investigators in the case. This Development Comes after criticism around the attorney generals meeting with former president bill clinton onboard her plane at a Phoenix Airport earlier this week, raising questions about what the two may have discussed after months of the Justice Department investigating use of a private server while secretary of state. Heres the attorney general defending her 30minute
conversation with the former president. Our conversation was a great deal about his grandchildren. It was primarily social and about his travels and he mentioned the golf in phoenix and mentioned travels to west virginia. We talked about former attorney general janet reno, who we both know. No discussion of any matter pending before the department or any matter pending before any other body. No discussion of again benghazi. So, anyway, mark halperin, what is interesting about this, not only did republicans come out and criticize her, but democrats did. Rolling their eyes. Shes not saying shes recusing herself, but ill follow the prosecutors. By the way, David Axelrod tweeting. I take Loretta Lynch and bill
clinton at their word. But foolish. Foolish. But i got to say this doesnt really fix the problem for people who are suspicious of the meeting because shes still the head of the Justice Department. She probably should have taken the step before. The other thing is she didnt admit it was a mistake. The white house didnt admit it was a mistake. This is an implicit emission it was an error. Ill tell you this. This is willie geist, unless Loretta Lynch knows something, this is bad news for the clintons because Rudy Giuliani worked with, is this guy a straight shooter . Oh, these hes a straight shooter. Whether the Justice Department will go after her if she has broke on the law. This guy is a straight shooter. I guarantee you, the clintons did not want to have that political protection removed
from them and jim cumy. They would have had a huge problem. Guess what, she wouldnt have been indicted. Willie . Attorney general lynch did the right thing yesterday. It took her a little while to get there. She didnt to the right thing by taking the meeting with president clinton. Mark and i were talking 30 minutes in the plane for a long time. A long time to talk about golf. It wasnt a fiveminute run in. You dont have to talk about it to talk about it. We know how these things go. Donald trump made a New Hampshire let donny jump in here really quickly because i know going back to when rfk ran the Justice Department. If anybody has questions about the Justice Department, you go to donny. Pete williams and i were talking about you were shaking your head like every democrat i talked to yesterday going, what are you doing . Hey, the secret password is
this. What are you doing . Just insanity. Look, this is not going to be a deciding factor in this election unless shes indicted but one more thing where people are going, do you guys just play above everybody else . We fill up space and we talk about this. At the end of the day people care about their pocketbooks. And it feeds into an existing narrative about the clintons. That the clintons dont need right now. Just like donald trump yesterday, mika, which is our next story. Acted in a way that fed into an existing narrative that scares the hell out of republicans and swing voters alike. Well have more on this Loretta Lynch story. The president ignored it. Dawned trump talked about it but well break back into that later. Donald trump made a New HampshireCampaign Stop where he spoke to a small audience from a loading dock beginning with some written remarks. But a few minutes into his
speech, trump reacted to the sound of a plane flying overhead. Oh, my he talked about mexico and trade. Mexico. I respect mexico and their leaders. What theyve done to us is incredible. Their leaders are so much sharper and its incredible. That could be a mexican plane up there. Theyre getting ready to attack. Its tourettes. Hes got political tourettes. Even the jokes have such a distasteful, hate mongring, fear. You are saying this about a guy you have known for a decade and like. I personally like him. Great dad, great boss and i think inside hes a good man. Hes playing this role that he doesnt have to play. It is a i dont get it. Maybe he doesnt believe in himself. Because usually people kind of blurt out things like that when theyre nervous. Maybe he doesnt believe he could just kind of hunker down and get serious. Really quickly. Weve all known him for over a decade. Hes not running for president. We can talk about this. Have any of you in 10 or 11 years heard him other the first rals racially insensitive unkind thing about anybody because of their race or because of their religion . There the only thing i could say i heard him say sometimes he can say color things about women. When you say off color, you mean talking about beautiful women. No, thats not even close to anything racist. Racist not. Thats why i ask the question
about race. I know somebody that is a hispanic who he didnt speak a word of english and he gave a job sight unseen to the guy and his kids have a College Education because of him. He likes the underdog. Thats whats so strange. The other level is, no, ive said those things in the past and people are telling me i cant and screw you, i can continue to say them. There is just this defiance. Willie, you know the guy, youve hung around with the guy. So, you know ive never heard the guy do anything. But talk kindly about people. I mean, as far as race goes, its not part of who he has been as a person and, yet, thats what hes leading with on the campaign trail. By the way, this doesnt make it better. This actually makes it worse that hes cynically using these
racial undertones to rye to win an election. I dont know him terribly well, but i never heard him say anything approaching the things he said on the campaign yesterday. Yesterday was another case of a throw away line. He heard the buzz in the air and when he put it together with all the things he said in the campaign. Its not a throw away. Building walls and keeping people out and talking about mexico in a derogatory line. I grew up in an intelligent and brilliant family and those lines always come out of my mouth. Not those involving race, but just to fill nerves. When you dont feel like you measure up. You dont feel like you can hunker down and get into the conversation, you become the comedian. The family diplomat. I mean, im relating a little but, but im not running for president of the United States. Im just trying to figure this out because the potential was
there. He did it. He defied all odds. Potential even with this. Hes in half the swing states. I mean, even with this. Not a good time not to be confident. Another incident where trump took question. Here, two exchanges. Notice two completely different reactions. Somebody said something offensive about israel and he defends israel. But then somebody says something about muslims and he seems to embrace it. Take a look. While wasting military in the middle east on behalf of zionist israel. Thank you. Le all right, well, let me ju tell you that israel is a very, very important ally of the United States. And we are going to protect them
100 . 100 . Theyve been our most reliable, its our true friend over there and were going to protect israel 100 . That was a tough question on israel. That was nasty. Whoa. Just to quickly. Homeland security and jobs. Why arent we putting our military retirees on that board or in tsa . Get rid of all these we need the veterans back in there to take it . They fought for this country and defended it and theyll still do it. Thank you. You know, we are looking at that. We are looking at that. We are looking at a lot of things. Yeah. I tell you, his temperament when he was taking questions there was the best its interesting the fox poll coming out and saying 89 of people think hes hot headed. Clearly not a good thing for president. But his response to israel was
much more. But then you heard, obviously, the second one. Clearly, an attack on muslims and he said, oh, i understand that. She was talking about he said hes looking into that. When i see a moment like that and reminded 2008 john mccain, who you remember well, when the women in the audience there was all this heat around president obama being a muslim and he grabbed the mike out of her hand and said, no, maam. We can have disagreements, but ware not going to slander him by making things up that are not true. Hes not going to lose one voter by acting civil. By not respecting people in regards to the god they worship. No intellectual conversation. As a firsttime candidate for
anything. He still has the mentality, the reflexes of the guy rupping to be the republican nominee. He is engaged in cautious reaction to things that he thinks might create a problem for him, which is important. If hes trying to keep the base together. But he needs to be thinking with different impulses and hes never been a general election candidate in his career. Also never had to think twice about anything in his career. People who work around him. This is a guy going through life since a time he is a kid other than when he went to military school. I do what i want and im smarter than everybody in the room. He made a speech yesterday and he talked about trade and talked about jobs and actually some meat in there. Here we are sitting at 6 00 in the morning and overshadowed by a couple incidents with people in the crowd. All right, still ahead in morning joe. Maybe youll find somebody to balance him out on the Vice President ial ticket. A leveling win stabilizing force. Calming influence. Two people at the top of Donald Trumps vp list. Well have that. Plus, former director of the cia and nsa. Retired general Michael Hayden will join the conversation and u. S. Ambassador nick burns will also be our guest. By the way, you have been calling Newt Gingrich like before the first since the funeral. Since Nancy Reagans funeral. All right, but, first, heres bill karins with a check on the forecast. You dont want to see anything in his eyes. The twinkle. The shine. Im talking about bill karins. Oh, no, thanks. Theres a twinkle there. Give a good weekend. The weekend forecast is good for most. But friday night the worst in the northeast. First what happened in vegas. Picture the heat and the strip. How about this in vegas yesterday. Thunderstorms dumped a lot of
rain and dealt with flash flooding in the region and theyve dried out since then. No injuries, no deaths reported, thankfully. Lets get to the forecast for the difficult travel as we go throughout the afternoon. 41 Million People at risk of Severe Weather, including new york city, washington, d. C. , philadelphia, baltimore, richmond, all the way back up through new england. We could see few isolated tornadoes this afternoon with the strong thunderstorms and those will cause significant airport delays late today into early this evening. Keep that in mind for your travels. The rest of the forecast today, scattered storms in florida. As we go through the holiday weekend, worry about flash flooding, especially as we go through the middle of the country. Thats where the problems are going to be. Saturday and sunday. By the time we geet the fourth, well watch the midatlantic region. Overall, a pretty warm forecast and most of the Severe Weather will be today and the northeast. Over the weekend, i do not expect a lot of new york city wait wa
waking up to a decent start. Strong thunderstorms are in the forecast. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Rylinks brd network that gives 35,000 fans a cutting edge game experience. Or the network that keeps a leading hotel chains guests connected at work, and at play. Or the it platform that powers millions of ecards every day for one of the largest greeting card companies. Businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink. My cousins wedding is c ming soon. I like the bride more than the groom. Turquoise dresses. So excited. Did all her exes get invited . No ones got moves like uncle joe. When its go book on choicehotels. Com for instant rewards like gift cards, plus savings of up to 20 . Book direct at choicehotels. Com its kind of hard to smuggle you into nantucket. You can dress that way. I was not invited to joes sons wedding. Well talk about the possible reasons. What are you talk about . They would not have let you come into nantucket. Youre not desirable. Sounds like a universal thing with donny. I just, i just actually described how his neighbors feel about him. Have you seen his master bedroom. I sent a nice cheese platter to the kids. Thats great. They love it. Im going to go back to the news. Donald trump has formally started vetting perspective president ial picks. At the top of the list, former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich. And new jersey governor Chris Christie. The Associated Press is reporting that both received paperwork in the last 24 hours. While ging rich has criticized some of trumps comments, christie is drawing attention as one of his most trusted advisors behind the scenes. Christies job approval is at low. Including just 48 of the states republicans. Trump yesterday declined to say whether christie was one of the names at the top of his list. For scott brown, Chris Christie, both well known here. Are they on your short list . They are both good guys. I dont want to say short list. They are both good people. Scott was early supporter and chris was after he got out and certainly people i want involved. Another rumored candidate, indiana governor mike pence said yesterday that he is under consideration. He and trump have not talked about it. We dont need to see. Just says he hasnt talked to
him. So, we all sort of think that, we saw how good Chris Christie was on the campaign trail. But as far as Newt Gingrich goes, it seems like rumblings for some time have suggested that he has the inside track on this job mark halperin. Ill be straight forward about my reporting sources who differ on some areas. Fair amount of agreement of all the people donald trump is asking for opinions, lots of people close to him are telling him dont pick Newt Gingrich. That means hes going to do it. But that he is drawn to gingrich as a possibility. Why . He likes his experience and his toughness and he thinks hes a big pick. A big, bold pick. So far in this campaign has donald trump ever taken good advice . They have taken advice from people close to him. No, he hasnt. Heard some teleprompter speeches. Thats not on his own. I have always, i have thought for a long time that hed pick chr christie based on process of elimination. In his mind, my brand is the right brand. Im doubling down on it. Im not going to pick somebody that will off set me. Ill pick a duplicate version of myself. Thats why he picks Newt Gingrich. Or christie. Gingrich is far more volatile. Than Chris Christie is. They both have that attack dog, nasty, in your face bluntness that would be a brand extension instead of a brand but gingrich also a creature of washington. He said he wants somebody that understands how washington works. You cannot find somebody on paper who can better understand
washington than a guy who has been speaker of the house. And you have to do the background betting. But, no, everything about the controversial became nothing right here. Gingrich has a lot of things in his background that are problematic, as are christie. A lot of things in his background that troubled him. Then theres the political bet. Thats where trump is using his own instinct. Trump has a huge problem with women voters. Chris christie and to a greater extent Newt Gingrich do not help with that. The political question of who will actually help you. Once you get past the question of qualified, i think hes largely what will rely on his own instincts. Willie, if you want somebody who is an attack dog on the campaign trail but focused that can prosecute your case, all