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MSNBCW Morning Joe April 30, 2018
I did. Its time. Were looking at girls. Associate editor noah rothman is with us and columnist and associate editor of the
Washington Post
David Ignatius
joins us from washington. We begin with breaking news, at least 21 people are dead, 43 others wounded after a double suicide bombing in afghanistans capital of kabul early this morning. Afghan
Officials Say
at least seven journalists are among those killed. Six are from local networks. One is an a. P. Photographer. Authorities also say that the second bombing was intended to hit the people rushing to the scene to help the victims of the first explosion. The attack occurred on the same street as the
Afghan Intelligence
agency and natos afghanistan headquarters and just 500 meters from the u. S. Embassy. Isis has claimed responsibility. David ignatius, 17 years later, the fighting continues in afghanistan. What is this white house what is the pentagon what are our allies planning to do as we move forward over the next 17 years . Well, for the moment im sure the answer is to stay the course and not panic. But the inability to secure the capital and these areas of kabul are supposed to be the most secure. These are streets ive walked down. Theyre extensively checked. And yet year after year its not possible to keep infill traitors with bombs from these areas. Im sure thats deeply, deeply worrying. We have an outstanding commander in kabul who has been fighting this war off and on for i first met him 2006 or 2007. And if anybody knows the terrain and the conflict, its him. But he just is struggling with a stalemate in which security in key areas like this is penetrated regularly. This is a particularly horrible kind of bomb. Sometimes referred to as a double tap where they try to get the people who are coming to take care that leads to worse loss of life. This illustrates something i want to note in a day when were talking a lot about journalism, the face of our business is not the white house
Correspondents Dinner
. Its the young men and women who are in kabul everyday covering this story, risking their lives everyday. This could happen any day youre there and they do it faithfully with great professionalism. People need to remember when theyre getting into serious discussions about journalism, the young men and women in ka l kabul. Well get to the controversy. Big talker. Big talker over the weekend. In a little bit. But theres actually news to cover first. For mika and me, at least, that was our thought going into the white house
Correspondents Dinner
. We havent gone in a while. Dont knock those that do go. We didnt go this weekend. But these are really serious times. And people are doing extraordinary work. And journalists across the world are more in danger today than they have been in quite some time. And theyre doing extraordinary work. So, why do you not have an awards show . Why dont you just reward the people who are doing the most extraordinary journalism and have an inspiring speech and be done with that because this is what journalists do. Yeah. All around the world 50 journalists were killed around the world last year, some 250 journalists are in prison for doing their jobs. The number of journalists who are being put in prison for propagating what is being called by authoritarian regimes fake news is on the rise. I think youre right the white house
Correspondents Dinner
ought to be a celebration of those people and the work they do rather than the navalgazing event where we look at ourselves and become the headline. Every time we talk about ourselves, were not doing our industry any favors. We should not be consuming hours of news time talking about ourselves and our own industry. We should be honoring those people around the world, seven more have been killed, local journalists in afghanistan this morning. We should be honoring those journalists around the world who are giving their lives in the pursuit of trying to tell the truth. By the way, let the great comedians perform somewhere else. On netflix where we watch
Dave Chappelle
. Im like you, i havent been for years. I would rather spend my saturday night with kids. Well get to that conversation in just a moment. Were going to talk about that more and theres a little bit of a debate going on. Turning now to the latest out of the
Korean Peninsula
, following fridays historic summit with south korean president moon jaein, north
Korean Leader
kim jongun is vowing to shut down his
Nations Nuclear
test site by the end of may. According to moons office and north korean state media, kim also says that he will open the process up to foreign experts and journalists from south korea and the
United States
. North korea last used the site during last septembers test of a
Thermo Nuclear
bomb and reports indicate that the site partially collapsed rendering it unuzable
Going Forward
. North korea also says it will alter its time zone by half an hour to align with south korean standard time. President trump addressed the developments out of the
Korean Peninsula
alongside german chancellor
Angela Merkel
on friday and during his rally in michigan on saturday. Lot of very positive things happened over the last 24 hours. Were in total touch with both north korea and south korea. Were speaking very much with south korea and with north korea. The relationships are building and building strongly. And this will be a great thing for the world. Oh, i dont think hes playing. No, i dont think hes playing. And you know, its never gone like this. Its never gone this far. I dont think its ever had this enthusiasm for somebody for them wanting to make a deal. Yeah, i agree. The
United States
has been played beautifully like a fiddle because you had a different kind of a leader. Were not going to be played, okay . Were going to hopefully make a deal. If we dont, thats fine. This isnt like past administratio administrations. Were not going to play games. Im not going to give you whats actually going to happen because we dont really know. Im going to tell you one thing, were not playing games. And i remember was very rough three, four months ago. Thats very nice. Thank you. Thats very nice. Nobel. I just want to get the job done. I had one of the fake news groups this morning now, they were saying what do you think
President Trump
had to do with it . Ill tell you what, like how about everything . Actually sounded like they were saying nobel. They were talking about no tell
Michael Cohen
and the fifth amendment. David ignatius, lets go back to the time zone change plan. Giving up a site that partially collapsed. Im not being a skeptic, suggest this has gone farther than anything else has gone in terms of negotiating a final agreement that will get the job done is hard to say. Of course, nobel prizes were handed out for what happened in 1994 and it ended up that the 1994 plan in the
Clinton Administration
only provided more cover for this regime. Do you see anything developing that would suggest an end game that is going to be different . These are preliminaries. Theyre confidence building measures. Nominating yourself for a
Nobel Peace Prize
is unusual. I think its a mistake to minimize the importance of whats happening. Right. Or to say that
President Trump
hasnt had a role in it. He chafes at this idea that hes not being given credit. And he does deserve credit for seizing the moment when it arrives. We dont know where that moment is going. I just would stress for viewers that the driving force in this story is this really quite unusual and surprising young north
Korean Leader
kim jongun who it was easy to take him less than seriously given the way he looked and acted, but he has had for the last couple years, if you look carefully at his speeches and statements an idea that north korea would push to get
Nuclear Weapons
. Im sorry to say they do have
Nuclear Weapons
and then would pivot towards negotiation, towards working on its economy, towards turning to the west. Hes done exactly what he said. He laid out the script in a speech on january 1 and hes been following it, helped along by south korea. So i think its great that
President Trump
sees that moment and engaged in and properly but skeptically doesnt know whats going to happen. But the process is a good one. We now know the right questions to ask. What are the traps and the things that might not work out. But, you know, lets see. Lets see what happens. And see encouragement from the president. You heard the president on stage talking about fake news. There is now a controversy brewing over the choice of entertainment at this years white house
Correspondents Dinner
in washington over the weekend. Most notably, the comedian
Michelle Wolf
s routine which as the nok times frames it opened a divide over the limits of comedy under a president who rarely hesitates to attack the press. The biggest dividing line surrounded wolfs comments about
White House Press
secretary
Sarah Huckabee
sanders. Graced with sarahs presence tonight. I have to say im a little star struck. I love you as auntd lydia and the hand maids tale. Mike pence, if you havent seen it, you would love it. Every time sarah steps up to the podium, i get excited because im not really sure what were going to get. You know, a press briefing, a bunch of lies or a divided into softball teams. I actually really like sarah. I think shes very resourceful. Like she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like maybe shes born with it. Maybe its lies. And im never really sure what to call
Sarah Huckabee
sanders, you know . Is it
Sarah Sanders
. Is it
Sarah Huckabee
sanders. Is it cousin huckabee. Is it antihuckabee sanders. Whats uncle tom but for white women who disappoint other white women . Oh, i know, aunt colter. Lot of other raunchy statements as well. Many people are calling on the
White House Correspondents Association
to apologize to the press secretary. Here is the president of the
Correspondents Association
margaret reacting the morning after the dinner. It was a great honor to be able to preside over last nights dinner and to represent all the journalists who cover the white house. My aim and the way i sought to put together the program was to build a spirit of unity in that room. My only regret is that. Also released a
Statement Last
night saying, quote the program was meant to offer a unifying message about our congressmen commitment to a vigorous and free press while honoring civility, great reporting and scholarship winners not to divide people. Unfortunately the entertainers monologue was not in the spirit of that mission. President trump who skipped the dinner tweeted, quote, the white house
Correspondents Dinner
was a failure last year but this year was an embarrassment to every associated with it. The filthy comedian totally bombed, couldnt even deliver her lines much like seth meyers weak performance. Hes still obsessed onset meyers. The
Association President
said she and the incoming president are, quote, committed to hearing from the members on the format of the dinner
Going Forward
finally. There is so much we can unwind here, but lets not waste too much time. Okay. Charlie sykes summed up one of the biggest
Dumpster Fire
days in twitter history yesterday when he said and its only thing i tweeted other than being very excited about the homeland finale starting. The lack of self awareness is jarring. Yeah. So i was on vacation last week. I deleted my twitter app from my phone, unplugged and turned it on on sunday. No. I have to do that for my job. It was like walking into a bar fight. I had no idea why everybody was at each others head. Revolving door, turn right around and walk out. You should have went back on holiday. I almost did. I feel like thats what people who dont saturate themselves in the news cycle. We might overinflate. Its a tough room, its a tough business. I understand the pressure she was under. That wasnt my cup of tea. Its art. I dont like judging art like that. By the way, as my law professor always taught me about the first amendment, its time, place, manner. For instance, if they had invited linny bruce to come speak during, you know, the early kennedy years, they would get lenny bruce. You couldnt be shocked. He did what he did. Or did
Dave Chappelle
at the end of the
Clinton Administration
. He would have said things that nobody what were they thinking . Its not on the artist. Its not on the comedian to change their act. Right. Dont invite her or dont invite lenny bruce or dont invite
Dave Chappelle
unless you want them to do what theyre going to do. Thats whats most striking about this. The white house
Correspondents Dinner
, distinct from the association. The association does very good work protecting journalists from an adversarial institution in the white house. The dinner on the other hand has been a problem for the institution of journalism for years. Wasnt recognized under the
Obama Administration
when they would hobb knob with celebrities. Now its overtly hostile and it demonstrates the biases that are inherent. And hypocrisy. And hypocrisy. Of course, all this comes when yesterday on twitter theres so many people that supported donald trump, were so shocked and stunned and deeply saddened by what happened. But as your fellow traveler said about trumpkins. They probably should put a big mirror up in front of them and look at the person theyve been laughing with and supporting for some time. In march of 2016, donald trump retweeted a photo of ted cruzs wife heidi comparing her to a photo of melania. And in december 2017, this trump tweet about senator kirsten jill brand would come to my office begging for
Campaign Contributions
and would do anything for them. In june 2017, trump tweets at mika attacking her intelligence, attacking her appearance. Are these comments attacking everyone from
Miss Universe
to a gold star mom to rosie odonne l odonnell. The very last question, i know that person, that person was a
Miss Universe
person. And she was the worst we ever had. The worst. The absolute worst. She was impossible. She was the winner. And she gained a massive amount of weight. And it was real problem. He said you wouldnt have even let his son in america. He doesnt know. He doesnt know that. I saw him. He was, you know, very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me. His wife if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say. You tell me, but plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quiet. And looked like she had nothing to say. A lot of people have said that. Rosie odonnell is disgusting, both inside and out. You take a look at her, shes a slob. She talks like a truck driver. If i were running the view i would fire rosy. I would look her in the fat, ugly face of yours, youre fired. Rosy is a very unattractive person both inside and out. So, we could get into the birtherism and get into the insults about its flabber gasting. It goes on forever and ever. In fact, the
New York Times
compiled a list of 446 people, places and things that donald trump has insulted just on twitter just since he took office 15 months ago. So really, mika, the criticism from
Trump Supporters
is rich. I must say, there were quite a few people that ive noun and ive considered friends for some time saying they were shocked and stunned and deeply saddened and they were so shocked by the personal insults that they left early. And then they went to afterparties and had a great time there, but these friends of mine for 20 years certainly didnt call me up and say, hey, joe, were thinking about you. So sorry he attacked your fiances appearance. Yeah. Hey, joe, were sorry that donald trump said youre a murderer and you had to explain to your 9 or 14yearold boy. I understand it. Im a big boy. I didnt bitch about it at the time. But these people so shocked and stunned and deeply saddened that a comedian did what comedians do and yet they just apologized for donald trump over and over again and kept their mouths shut, what a joke. That is rich. And you had concerns. I did. I have always about the dinner. Ill say that, you know, given what we just the montage that we just displayed, i dont think that the media at any point right now should be stooping to the same level. Or choosing an entertainer who would stoop to the same level. Having said that, she was very funny. I would watch her netflix special and i thought that a lot of her jokes, though some of them were really raunchy probably were very funny. But there now, why . Who didnt predict it becoming a huge problem having a comedian who is a little edgy coming into the white house dinner when the press is under fire by the president himself. We have to hold ourselves to a higher standard. I think its really having it both ways to have this woman at the dinner and then apologize for it. You own it,
Washington Post<\/a>
David Ignatius<\/a> joins us from washington. We begin with breaking news, at least 21 people are dead, 43 others wounded after a double suicide bombing in afghanistans capital of kabul early this morning. Afghan
Officials Say<\/a> at least seven journalists are among those killed. Six are from local networks. One is an a. P. Photographer. Authorities also say that the second bombing was intended to hit the people rushing to the scene to help the victims of the first explosion. The attack occurred on the same street as the
Afghan Intelligence<\/a> agency and natos afghanistan headquarters and just 500 meters from the u. S. Embassy. Isis has claimed responsibility. David ignatius, 17 years later, the fighting continues in afghanistan. What is this white house what is the pentagon what are our allies planning to do as we move forward over the next 17 years . Well, for the moment im sure the answer is to stay the course and not panic. But the inability to secure the capital and these areas of kabul are supposed to be the most secure. These are streets ive walked down. Theyre extensively checked. And yet year after year its not possible to keep infill traitors with bombs from these areas. Im sure thats deeply, deeply worrying. We have an outstanding commander in kabul who has been fighting this war off and on for i first met him 2006 or 2007. And if anybody knows the terrain and the conflict, its him. But he just is struggling with a stalemate in which security in key areas like this is penetrated regularly. This is a particularly horrible kind of bomb. Sometimes referred to as a double tap where they try to get the people who are coming to take care that leads to worse loss of life. This illustrates something i want to note in a day when were talking a lot about journalism, the face of our business is not the white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a>. Its the young men and women who are in kabul everyday covering this story, risking their lives everyday. This could happen any day youre there and they do it faithfully with great professionalism. People need to remember when theyre getting into serious discussions about journalism, the young men and women in ka l kabul. Well get to the controversy. Big talker. Big talker over the weekend. In a little bit. But theres actually news to cover first. For mika and me, at least, that was our thought going into the white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a>. We havent gone in a while. Dont knock those that do go. We didnt go this weekend. But these are really serious times. And people are doing extraordinary work. And journalists across the world are more in danger today than they have been in quite some time. And theyre doing extraordinary work. So, why do you not have an awards show . Why dont you just reward the people who are doing the most extraordinary journalism and have an inspiring speech and be done with that because this is what journalists do. Yeah. All around the world 50 journalists were killed around the world last year, some 250 journalists are in prison for doing their jobs. The number of journalists who are being put in prison for propagating what is being called by authoritarian regimes fake news is on the rise. I think youre right the white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> ought to be a celebration of those people and the work they do rather than the navalgazing event where we look at ourselves and become the headline. Every time we talk about ourselves, were not doing our industry any favors. We should not be consuming hours of news time talking about ourselves and our own industry. We should be honoring those people around the world, seven more have been killed, local journalists in afghanistan this morning. We should be honoring those journalists around the world who are giving their lives in the pursuit of trying to tell the truth. By the way, let the great comedians perform somewhere else. On netflix where we watch
Dave Chappelle<\/a>. Im like you, i havent been for years. I would rather spend my saturday night with kids. Well get to that conversation in just a moment. Were going to talk about that more and theres a little bit of a debate going on. Turning now to the latest out of the
Korean Peninsula<\/a>, following fridays historic summit with south korean president moon jaein, north
Korean Leader<\/a> kim jongun is vowing to shut down his
Nations Nuclear<\/a> test site by the end of may. According to moons office and north korean state media, kim also says that he will open the process up to foreign experts and journalists from south korea and the
United States<\/a>. North korea last used the site during last septembers test of a
Thermo Nuclear<\/a> bomb and reports indicate that the site partially collapsed rendering it unuzable
Going Forward<\/a>. North korea also says it will alter its time zone by half an hour to align with south korean standard time. President trump addressed the developments out of the
Korean Peninsula<\/a> alongside german chancellor
Angela Merkel<\/a> on friday and during his rally in michigan on saturday. Lot of very positive things happened over the last 24 hours. Were in total touch with both north korea and south korea. Were speaking very much with south korea and with north korea. The relationships are building and building strongly. And this will be a great thing for the world. Oh, i dont think hes playing. No, i dont think hes playing. And you know, its never gone like this. Its never gone this far. I dont think its ever had this enthusiasm for somebody for them wanting to make a deal. Yeah, i agree. The
United States<\/a> has been played beautifully like a fiddle because you had a different kind of a leader. Were not going to be played, okay . Were going to hopefully make a deal. If we dont, thats fine. This isnt like past administratio administrations. Were not going to play games. Im not going to give you whats actually going to happen because we dont really know. Im going to tell you one thing, were not playing games. And i remember was very rough three, four months ago. Thats very nice. Thank you. Thats very nice. Nobel. I just want to get the job done. I had one of the fake news groups this morning now, they were saying what do you think
President Trump<\/a> had to do with it . Ill tell you what, like how about everything . Actually sounded like they were saying nobel. They were talking about no tell
Michael Cohen<\/a> and the fifth amendment. David ignatius, lets go back to the time zone change plan. Giving up a site that partially collapsed. Im not being a skeptic, suggest this has gone farther than anything else has gone in terms of negotiating a final agreement that will get the job done is hard to say. Of course, nobel prizes were handed out for what happened in 1994 and it ended up that the 1994 plan in the
Clinton Administration<\/a> only provided more cover for this regime. Do you see anything developing that would suggest an end game that is going to be different . These are preliminaries. Theyre confidence building measures. Nominating yourself for a
Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> is unusual. I think its a mistake to minimize the importance of whats happening. Right. Or to say that
President Trump<\/a> hasnt had a role in it. He chafes at this idea that hes not being given credit. And he does deserve credit for seizing the moment when it arrives. We dont know where that moment is going. I just would stress for viewers that the driving force in this story is this really quite unusual and surprising young north
Korean Leader<\/a> kim jongun who it was easy to take him less than seriously given the way he looked and acted, but he has had for the last couple years, if you look carefully at his speeches and statements an idea that north korea would push to get
Nuclear Weapons<\/a>. Im sorry to say they do have
Nuclear Weapons<\/a> and then would pivot towards negotiation, towards working on its economy, towards turning to the west. Hes done exactly what he said. He laid out the script in a speech on january 1 and hes been following it, helped along by south korea. So i think its great that
President Trump<\/a> sees that moment and engaged in and properly but skeptically doesnt know whats going to happen. But the process is a good one. We now know the right questions to ask. What are the traps and the things that might not work out. But, you know, lets see. Lets see what happens. And see encouragement from the president. You heard the president on stage talking about fake news. There is now a controversy brewing over the choice of entertainment at this years white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> in washington over the weekend. Most notably, the comedian
Michelle Wolf<\/a>s routine which as the nok times frames it opened a divide over the limits of comedy under a president who rarely hesitates to attack the press. The biggest dividing line surrounded wolfs comments about
White House Press<\/a> secretary
Sarah Huckabee<\/a> sanders. Graced with sarahs presence tonight. I have to say im a little star struck. I love you as auntd lydia and the hand maids tale. Mike pence, if you havent seen it, you would love it. Every time sarah steps up to the podium, i get excited because im not really sure what were going to get. You know, a press briefing, a bunch of lies or a divided into softball teams. I actually really like sarah. I think shes very resourceful. Like she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like maybe shes born with it. Maybe its lies. And im never really sure what to call
Sarah Huckabee<\/a> sanders, you know . Is it
Sarah Sanders<\/a>. Is it
Sarah Huckabee<\/a> sanders. Is it cousin huckabee. Is it antihuckabee sanders. Whats uncle tom but for white women who disappoint other white women . Oh, i know, aunt colter. Lot of other raunchy statements as well. Many people are calling on the
White House Correspondents Association<\/a> to apologize to the press secretary. Here is the president of the
Correspondents Association<\/a> margaret reacting the morning after the dinner. It was a great honor to be able to preside over last nights dinner and to represent all the journalists who cover the white house. My aim and the way i sought to put together the program was to build a spirit of unity in that room. My only regret is that. Also released a
Statement Last<\/a> night saying, quote the program was meant to offer a unifying message about our congressmen commitment to a vigorous and free press while honoring civility, great reporting and scholarship winners not to divide people. Unfortunately the entertainers monologue was not in the spirit of that mission. President trump who skipped the dinner tweeted, quote, the white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> was a failure last year but this year was an embarrassment to every associated with it. The filthy comedian totally bombed, couldnt even deliver her lines much like seth meyers weak performance. Hes still obsessed onset meyers. The
Association President<\/a> said she and the incoming president are, quote, committed to hearing from the members on the format of the dinner
Going Forward<\/a> finally. There is so much we can unwind here, but lets not waste too much time. Okay. Charlie sykes summed up one of the biggest
Dumpster Fire<\/a> days in twitter history yesterday when he said and its only thing i tweeted other than being very excited about the homeland finale starting. The lack of self awareness is jarring. Yeah. So i was on vacation last week. I deleted my twitter app from my phone, unplugged and turned it on on sunday. No. I have to do that for my job. It was like walking into a bar fight. I had no idea why everybody was at each others head. Revolving door, turn right around and walk out. You should have went back on holiday. I almost did. I feel like thats what people who dont saturate themselves in the news cycle. We might overinflate. Its a tough room, its a tough business. I understand the pressure she was under. That wasnt my cup of tea. Its art. I dont like judging art like that. By the way, as my law professor always taught me about the first amendment, its time, place, manner. For instance, if they had invited linny bruce to come speak during, you know, the early kennedy years, they would get lenny bruce. You couldnt be shocked. He did what he did. Or did
Dave Chappelle<\/a> at the end of the
Clinton Administration<\/a>. He would have said things that nobody what were they thinking . Its not on the artist. Its not on the comedian to change their act. Right. Dont invite her or dont invite lenny bruce or dont invite
Dave Chappelle<\/a> unless you want them to do what theyre going to do. Thats whats most striking about this. The white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a>, distinct from the association. The association does very good work protecting journalists from an adversarial institution in the white house. The dinner on the other hand has been a problem for the institution of journalism for years. Wasnt recognized under the
Obama Administration<\/a> when they would hobb knob with celebrities. Now its overtly hostile and it demonstrates the biases that are inherent. And hypocrisy. And hypocrisy. Of course, all this comes when yesterday on twitter theres so many people that supported donald trump, were so shocked and stunned and deeply saddened by what happened. But as your fellow traveler said about trumpkins. They probably should put a big mirror up in front of them and look at the person theyve been laughing with and supporting for some time. In march of 2016, donald trump retweeted a photo of ted cruzs wife heidi comparing her to a photo of melania. And in december 2017, this trump tweet about senator kirsten jill brand would come to my office begging for
Campaign Contributions<\/a> and would do anything for them. In june 2017, trump tweets at mika attacking her intelligence, attacking her appearance. Are these comments attacking everyone from
Miss Universe<\/a> to a gold star mom to rosie odonne l odonnell. The very last question, i know that person, that person was a
Miss Universe<\/a> person. And she was the worst we ever had. The worst. The absolute worst. She was impossible. She was the winner. And she gained a massive amount of weight. And it was real problem. He said you wouldnt have even let his son in america. He doesnt know. He doesnt know that. I saw him. He was, you know, very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me. His wife if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say. You tell me, but plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quiet. And looked like she had nothing to say. A lot of people have said that. Rosie odonnell is disgusting, both inside and out. You take a look at her, shes a slob. She talks like a truck driver. If i were running the view i would fire rosy. I would look her in the fat, ugly face of yours, youre fired. Rosy is a very unattractive person both inside and out. So, we could get into the birtherism and get into the insults about its flabber gasting. It goes on forever and ever. In fact, the
New York Times<\/a> compiled a list of 446 people, places and things that donald trump has insulted just on twitter just since he took office 15 months ago. So really, mika, the criticism from
Trump Supporters<\/a> is rich. I must say, there were quite a few people that ive noun and ive considered friends for some time saying they were shocked and stunned and deeply saddened and they were so shocked by the personal insults that they left early. And then they went to afterparties and had a great time there, but these friends of mine for 20 years certainly didnt call me up and say, hey, joe, were thinking about you. So sorry he attacked your fiances appearance. Yeah. Hey, joe, were sorry that donald trump said youre a murderer and you had to explain to your 9 or 14yearold boy. I understand it. Im a big boy. I didnt bitch about it at the time. But these people so shocked and stunned and deeply saddened that a comedian did what comedians do and yet they just apologized for donald trump over and over again and kept their mouths shut, what a joke. That is rich. And you had concerns. I did. I have always about the dinner. Ill say that, you know, given what we just the montage that we just displayed, i dont think that the media at any point right now should be stooping to the same level. Or choosing an entertainer who would stoop to the same level. Having said that, she was very funny. I would watch her netflix special and i thought that a lot of her jokes, though some of them were really raunchy probably were very funny. But there now, why . Who didnt predict it becoming a huge problem having a comedian who is a little edgy coming into the white house dinner when the press is under fire by the president himself. We have to hold ourselves to a higher standard. I think its really having it both ways to have this woman at the dinner and then apologize for it. You own it,
White House Correspondents Association<\/a>. You invited her. We should be honoring journalist. Maybe have a more serious dinner. Maybe have someone like a gold star mother up there, something different. Maybe this would be the year for something different, but i really thought the pain of the people on stage when
Sarah Huckabee<\/a> sanders was being made fun of, everybody felt pain for her, she felt pain and it really bothered me. Theres big controversy about whether or not her appearance was being made fun of, come on, stop it. Dont even. Here is some more hypocrisied. She looked pained. Do we really want to be laughing at that . Its not funny. Hypocrisy from the left also suggesting that her appearance wasnt brought into it. Again a lot of people i respect. We can debate. We can look at the words and debate. Theres no debate. Everybody that was in there, everybody that i talked to so many people that have so little use for donald trump, who have contempt for donald trump all felt uncomfortable, all said inside that room that it was obvious that you could talk about picking the softball teams, as
Maggie Haberman<\/a> brought up. The hand maidens tale. Lets look at a picture of who she was referring to yesterday and you tell me if this was just about her personality and character or how she looked . The attacks an actress who is dressed to look drab. But here is the thing, i think at this point you have to look at the whole thing and think whether or not it was a good choice, but this was a win for trump. So, if you didnt want this to be a win for trump, you gave them one in a big way. I have covered
Sarah Huckabee<\/a> sanders. I have been extremely critical. And i think women should be able to be critical of other women equally as they are to men. Im all for that. But i think that this was over the top. Yeah. Look, mika, actually the joke was about lying and not her looks. I think the reference to aunt lydia was reference to the character on that show. Thats my opinion. It was veiled. Sure. Everyone can see it a different way. Everyone was in pain on the stage. Can you agree . What i will say is this whole event has become problematic. It is not journalistic. It is a celebration of the wrong values. Right. And if you invite a comedian to it, you are putting the entire press core on the hook for whatever that comedian says. You are. Yeah. And its pointless. And ive watched this stupid theater play out year after year and this year we have the most powerful man in the world, the president , and the party that controls every institution in washington playing that theyre victims of a comedian. Right. Im sorry. I dont care if youre victims of a comedian, but i do care that she becomes a standin for the work that my colleagues do in the white house as a lot of good and hardworking people who work everyday to bring the truth to their readers and their viewers. I want to see that celebrated as it should be. You look at i wasnt there but you look at the twitter feed after it and were living in such a time where people are so divided already that all i could see during the course of yesterday was women being pitted against men, black against white, republicans against democrats. Its not the job of journalists to bring us all together, but that dinner exceeded on playing on multiple divisions and multiplying. It was a wonderful two days for donald trump. Yeah. We shouldnt be talking about a
Charity Dinner<\/a> as though it was a political victory for one party or another. There was a time in living memory we could take ourselves a little less seriously in a room full of colleagues. Actually not right now. I think right now we need to hunker down and get to work. I would say the times for a long night of partying and making fun of ourselves and raunchy jokes is not now at all. I was horrified by it because we were actually undermining ourselves. I agree with you. I think the hyperplitization of events like this which used to be expressly apolitical is a dispirting development. And inevitable. Another thing that john said was nobody is going to remember this in two weeks. Now
Michelle Wolf<\/a> will because i think it was a big night for
Michelle Wolf<\/a> and she spoke i talked to a lot of people the next day not involved in politics and they were saying did you see this joke. They were coming up showing me
Michelle Wolf<\/a> on youtube. Yeah, thats pretty funny. Again, david, its all time, place, manner. By the way i would love to hear what david thinks. David, its not the comedians job to change her act. Nope. As she said in the middle of her speech, i guess i didnt do
Much Research<\/a>. Here you have journalists not doing
Much Research<\/a> on
Michelle Wolf<\/a>. Maybe they did. And what she does. But the part that was the most jarring for me and why they really need to stop bringing comedians in was the part where she did again, shes doing her job. Her job is to be edgy. Make us think. When she said how poosh r is donald trump is so poor. You have the scene where the journalists were answering pow poor is he, basically taking part in a bit that was intended primarily to humiliate donald trump. I just none of us here think that believe that journalists should put themselves in that position. I think mika said it right. Its a time when we should hunker down and get to work. We do need to understand that journalists, our professional is not popular with too many americans. They dont trust us. They think were the people who put on tuxedos and go to fancy parties and laugh at jokes that are mocking people in the administration. And that image is a dangerous one for us because the country needs to believe not in this press core or any other but in the first amendment, in the right to say and think what you believe. The idea of finding a comic who is going to say acceptable jokes what a nightmare. Lets cancel the dinner rather than do that search. But i think mika has it right. This is a period when we need to do our jobs and be seen to do that. The country says, boy, im glad theyre out there doing the tough work. Im glad theyre telling me the things i need to know. By the way, mee karks the press has been trying to figure out all the hand ringing about why people think that were not straight forward. Right. We dont get it right, that were biased against people in middle america. I challenge anybody today to find the monologue during
Barack Obamas<\/a> eight years as president where a comedian went after barack obama 1 100th of the way every comedian is going to go after donald trump or george w. Bush or george h. W. Bush or
Newt Gingrich<\/a> or any other republican of prominence. It is unbalanced. Thats just the way it is. Hold the damn awards show. Reward people like
Maggie Haberman<\/a> and josh dossy. And theres seven journalists that just got killed in afghanistan. Theres seven journalists that just got killed in afghanistan. We dont have to like be entertained at the end. We can just celebrate one night a year. I agree. Still ahead on morning joe, two new developments in the russia probe. The lawyer who met with don jr. Tells nbc news shes more linked up to the kremlin than previously known. Plus well talk to a member of the
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Trump Campaign<\/a> was in contact with russia when the
Hillary Campaign<\/a> wasnt even in contact with michigan. Democrats are harder to make fun of because you guys dont do anything. People think you might flip the house and senate this november, but you guys always find a way to mess it up. Youre somehow going to lose by 12 points to a guy named jeff pedofhile nazi doctor. There were funny jokes. In a dark bar at a comedy club, the whole thing would have been pretty hilarious. Or sitting in a lazboy watching it on netflix. Shes really good. Shes hilarious. There were some really offensive jokes about abortion, about
Southwest Airlines<\/a> but guess what the thing is as a comedian thats what you do. You take chances. You bomb. What about
Southwest Airlines<\/a>. Were not going to do that. Awful. If youre not offending somebody at some point exactly. After
Stephen Colbert<\/a> bombed in the room as badly as he did, and he did bombed in the room, they had rich little the next year who bombed in the room because he went the other way. Dont go either way. Lets watch some on netflix. Lets celebrate the great journalists out there putting their lives on the line. I was corrected. He was very polite because
Jonathan Wald<\/a> is an honorable man, very polite. He reminded me of a democrat getting absolutely screwered. David ignatius, you were probably there. Oh my god. You dont want to remember the don imes attack of bill clinton and hillary and peter jennings. It was that actually was perhaps even more vicious than that. Im sorry to say or happy to say, im not sure which, that i havent been to that event in forever. But the point of these comedy routines is to be mean. I mean, so a nice comedy skit, whats the point of that . I think this particular moment as weve been saying, we keep telling ourselves, this is not a normal moment. We have president who is attacking our profession and we just set ourselves up saturday night for all the people who think were the people in tuxedos who have snide comics. We couldnt have painted a worst picture of ourselves. And who are disconnected. I remember katty and what happens is you make the very people youre lampooning sympathetic figures. Thats correct. I remember ran against a guy in congress but i was really running against bill clinton. I loathed bill clinton, everything about what he was doing in the white house. I remember looking at that, come on. Come on, man. Its too much, don. Too much. Yeah. Actually you know what, i went into labor during that dinner. I was just looking at it. It was that offensive. I had to leave quarter of the way through the speech because i went into labor. I knew there was a reason. Your baby was right. Lets get out of here. The last time ive been. Still ahead,
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Ronny Jackson<\/a> this is a high quality individual like they would love in montana. And tester started throwing out things that hes heard. Well, i know things about tester that i could say, too. And if i said them, he would never be elected again. Well, well, well. The one thing we learned about you, mr. President to this point is if you knew something about jon tester that would finish his career, you would have said it 15 days ago. Blurt it right now. President trump continued his attacks on the democratic senator over allegations that he made against the president s former pick to run the department of
Veterans Affairs<\/a>. I do not understand those allegations, though, at the same time. On saturday, the president sent out a series of tweets aimed at the senator. The top democrat on the
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Committee Trump<\/a> claimed that the secret service told him that allegations made by tester against dr. Ronny jackson are not true, saying that tester should resign before later adding he should lose his reelection race in montana because of his claims. On friday the secret service did issue a statement denying the details of a published report that agents had intervened on an overseas trip to prevent jackson from bothering then president barack obama. And bloomberg reports that signing an unanimous official white house conducted review of available vehicle records and found no evidence that jackson had been in car accident after drinking. Among the allegations in the document tester released was that jackson crashed a government vehicle after getting drunk at a secret
Service Going<\/a> away party. The senator has raised other charges against jackson, questioning his prescribing practices and leadership ability including accusations of being drunk on the job. All right. So, nick, were going to sort through this for some time. But it is interesting that the republicans on the committee and johnny isaacson, actually the chairman of that committee, is backing tester. And an awful lot of republicans didnt want jackson anywhere near the v. A. Correct. Also i should point out that sources for the
New York Times<\/a> reporting on jackson, were, in fact,
Staff Members<\/a> on the gop side on the hill who were urging the times to go with some of these anecdotes and specifics. I do think that were going to get more of the story of
Ronny Jackson<\/a>. We have not heard it all. Yeah. But it is not a partisan hit job at all. No, it is a bipartisan hit job. I am curious,
David Ignatius<\/a>, were 44 minutes in and havent talked about the most important thing yet. What do you think of the homeland finale last night . You know, i have to be honest, i am saving that so my wife and i can watch it when we dont have to get up so early to be on morning joe. Dont tell him what happened. Dont tell him what happened. Dont say a word. I believe in kerry totally. Im confidant. It is a strange world we live in where you have this huge finale and cant talk about it to anybody. No, you cannot. Joey scarbrough will get mad at me. No. Up next, the national ill sit here silently. Its not possible. See. Its not possible. He couldnt do it. Talking about star wars, my running joke with joey always was growing up, he said, dont spoil the movie for me, dad. I said, ah, they all die in the end. Dont say that. So then we went to go see rubio one and he said how was it . They all died. He didnt believe me. You ever confessed to joey your secret love for jar jar binks . Theres no reason for you to be so hateful because you have the last jedi so wrong. Nerd boys. Bonus material. Trekkies . Love for star wars. Noah is a trekie. Yeah. Thats why im all the way over here. Yeah. Stay there. Up next, the
National Inquiry<\/a> turns on
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Michael Cohen<\/a>. Oh, this is not good. Weve been through this. Yes, we have. Cohen did manage to score a small legal victory against
Stormy Daniels<\/a>. Morning joe is coming right back. I feel a great deal of urgency. I think, keep going, and make a difference. At some point, we are going to be able to beat als. Because life is amazing. So i am hoping for a cure. I want this, to uh, to be a reality. Um, yeah. Were on a mission to show drip coffee drinkers, its time to wake up to keurig. Wakey wakey rise and shine oh my gosh how are you . Well watch this. I pop that in there. Press brew. Thats it. So rich. I love it. Thats why you should be a keurig man fullbodied. Are you sure youre describing the coffee and not me . Fullbodied. My mom washes the dishes. Before she puts them in the dishwasher. So what does the dishwasher do . New cascade platinum lets your dishwasher be the dish washer. Three cleaning agents dissolve, lift and rinse away food the first time. New cascade platinum. Most people come to la with big dreams. We came with big appetites. With expedia, you could book a flight, hotel, car, and activity all in one place. No, no, nick, no. That wasnt it. That is unbelieveable. Words to live by, mika. No, nick. President trump welcomed 200 u. S. Olympians and paralympians from this years winter games to the white house on friday. Trump, who did not attend this years olympics in person praised their athletes for their performances in pyeongchang, including saying this. So today on behalf of the
United States<\/a> i want to thank every olympian and paralympian and that was just incredible and what happened with the paparaly is inspiring to me. Its a little tough too watch too much but i watched as much as i could. No. That was incredible. Just incredible. A complete buffoon. Im going to offer a dissent. Hes saying i didnt watch it. Im going to offer a dissenting view. Too tough to watch. Its all about trump, right . Its all about him, how bad he feels and how it makes him feel bad to watch it. Im not sure thats what he meant. You dont think thats what he meant . Im not sure but he also may have meant he didnt have time to watch it that much, he was busy, didnt tune in. Hold on i understand he watches a lot of morning tv. He watches 12 hours if the paralympics are not during executive time i dont think he saw any of it. Its a little tough to watch is it makes me feel uncomfortable watching it. Oh, my lord. I feel story for myself. That was a good sporting try, nick. Seriously, nick . Im just saying theres some uncertainty in my mind. Lets run it again. Because the whole speech is about how it was great of them, how it was inspiring. Why would he dig in z he doesnt have anything of substance to add which is to suggest he doesnt see events. He went off teleprompter and thats why he said what he thought. Like when he made material material admissions against himself in the
Southern District<\/a> of new york and in the california case. Heres the clip again. You be the judge. So today on behalf of the
United States<\/a> i want to thank every olympian and paralympian and that was just incredible and what happened with the paraolympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me. And i watched its a little tough to watch too much but i watched as much as i could. Nick confessore is completely just awful, this was not a time management issue. No, it never is. This was not a time management issue. That was awful. Coming up, breaking news overnight from afghanistan. Twin suicide bombings and this morning isis claiming responsibility. Plus, north korea vows to shut down its nuclear site. But is that move anything more than symbolic considering reports are that that nuclear site is already collapsing . David ignatius is here to weigh in on that and americas future concerning the iran nuclear deal. Plus, we are going to circle back to the white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> over the weekend just to keep it going. No. Lets end it. Lets not do that. Well be right back. Its hard to watch. Im here to make jokes. I have no agenda. Im not trying to get anything accomplished. So everyone thats here from congress you should feel right at home. [ laughter ] were on a mission to show drip coffee drinkers, its time to wake up to keurig. Wakey wakey rise and shine oh my gosh how are you . Well watch this. I pop that in there. Press brew. Thats it. So rich. I love it. Thats why you should be a keurig man fullbodied. Are you sure youre describing the coffee and not me . Ayep, and my teeth are yellow. . Fullbodied. Time for whitestrips. Crest glamorous
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Donald Trumps<\/a> head. Donald trump said recently he has a great relationship with the blacks. Though unless the blacks are a family of white people, i bet hes mistaken. Hard to believe that seven years ago apparently its still on the president s mind. By the way, that is such a historic moment. Supposedly the moment that inspired him to run for president. Its historic because that is the moment. And mark mckinnon, its a great example of sometimes its best to lay off. When barack obama kept poking him and kept poking him and kept poking him, that was the moment he decided he was going to screw them all, im going to run for president. And i dont know that barack obama thought about it consciously and he was turning over the keys of the white house to donald trump but there had to be a part of him wondering. Getting elected president is the a revenge served cold. That would be. So
President Trump<\/a> criticized this years
White House Correspondents Association<\/a> dinner by referencing seth meyers routine from 2011, welcome back to morning joe. Its monday, april 30. Still with us, we have
Political Writer<\/a> for the
New York Times<\/a> and msnbc political analyst
Nick Confessore<\/a> whos written a lot today. I was making a list of reporters who have faced real trials and tribulations around the world, thats for later. Okay, thats worthy. Washington anchor for bbc world news america katty kay. Associate editor of commentary magazine noah rothman trekkie and columnist and associate editor of the
Washington Post<\/a>,
David Ignatius<\/a>. Also joining the conversation, former adviser to george w. Bush and cocreator and executive producer of the circus on show time, mark mckinnon. And with us, political reporter from the
Washington Post<\/a>, msnbc political analyst and moderator of
Washington Week<\/a> on pbs. Robert costa. But wait, theres more. Media correspondent for the
New York Times<\/a> michael is it. Grinbaum. Ive been reading your treats. Michael, you wrote a great deal article yesterday. I can only stay on twitter so long and im like good god, lets read an article and i went to yours and it was a great summation of all the chaos and nonsense and hypocrisy on both sides that was going on. Break it down for us. What happened . Well, i was in the room on saturday night and i mean there was really this icy silence that fell over the black tie crowd at the hilton. Michelle wolfs performance was cutting, there were some pretty raunchy material that she brought out, people were saying it was a real kind of classic comedy
Club Performance<\/a> but it was some pretty tough remarks about
Sarah Sanders<\/a>, the
White House Press<\/a> secretary and
Kellyanne Conway<\/a> who both were in the crowd. Sarah sanders just a few feet away. I mean, you felt the whole room watching every tick and facial expression that was going across her face. And, you know, its basically become the talk of washington. Theres this whole inquisition about it. As the tweets showed,
President Trump<\/a> gloating calling this an embarrassing failure, evoking that classic seth meyers monologue and, you know, essentially saying this dinner needs to totally end or completely start over. Well, listen, it does need to start over. I think most of us think, mark mckinnon, enough with the comedians. Its time, place, manner. Growing up i loved the sex pistols, i wouldnt have brought them to
First Baptist<\/a> church pensacola even if i could have, i would have listened to them somewhere else. Same with the clash, same with its time, place, manner. Artists are artists, dont bring them in to ceremony and then be shocked by what they it just reinforces the worst things people think about the press. Its anachronistic and it should change. I hope it will now. A lot of people are saying i think what made some people uncomfortable about the
Sarah Sanders<\/a> things and everybody can debate, liberals can pretend that the overall arc of it wasnt about her appearance and if they want to live in that world and be the
Donald Trumps<\/a> of this past weekend where donald trump said wait a second, i didnt say all mexicans were rapists. If they want to play that game, they can. But i remember going back to the mid90s, don imus, and being so uncomfortable even though i had no use for bill clinton or
Hillary Clinton<\/a> at the time, being so uncomfortable that imus was standing there and humiliating bill clinton and
Hillary Clinton<\/a> and everybody else right there with the colleague ligklieg lights on him. Well, in her remarks,
Michelle Wolf<\/a> said you should have done your research. Journalists should have done their research. But, b, ill also say that the comment about
Sarah Sanders<\/a> an uncle tom for white women who disappoint other white women, thats not really funny, that not only insults
Sarah Sanders<\/a>, it inas a results 25 million women who voted for dronald trump. Well, there were a number of levels in which this dinner, some say, went off the rails. What stood out to you . Were you there . Im hearing the room was icy and didnt like it and you could see the people on stage who were in complete pain at times during this performance. Its monday, its time to get back to work, focus on the reporting. I was at the dinner. What im looking at in my notebook mika is not so much the dinner because the lawmakers im covering, the people im covering arent paying attention to it. They
Pay Attention<\/a> to the president s speech and say how can republicans echo that kind of message, that kind of rambling speech he gave, that same night as the dinner and they wonder where is the message on the tax cuts, where is the focus from the white house and theres deep concern in gop ranks that the president may be able to carry himself through the midterms but not carry his own party. And mark, thats so funny yesterday, some people were trying to figure out which race this comedian was going to impact. John podhoretz said two weeks from now nobody will remember this. They may remember like we remember the don imus speech as a footnote but it wont impact any race. It may impact the relationship between the white house and the press corps. I think it will impact reinforce impressions about the press mostly but not an impact on this race. Thats exactly what it will do. Reinforce impressions about the press negatively. Ing it could help with the president s reelection. What does become of the dinner
Going Forward<\/a> . Imagine this dinner thats caused so much agita, that became the symbol of the swamp ends up disappearing or changing indirectly because of the president. I cant think of a better talking point for draining the swamp than kicking this dinner off of the annual d. C. Schedule. Theres a lot of talk in the
Correspondents Association<\/a> about changing the format. And i want to remind folks that the idea of having the entertainer, the comedian roasting the president , roasting politics, it was meant as a counterbalance to the president having a chance to get up there giving his own speech. President obama brought in judd apatow as a ringer to write some of his punchlines so there used to be some semblance of parity here. But now without the president in the room, it just feels lopsided. Yeah. And completely out of place and i think its kind of having it both ways to say now were going to rethink this. The woman got up on stage and i was like this is going to go terribly. This woman has a netflix special. If shes really good, this is going to be really bad for the media. This is a trump win on every level. So smart to avoid these things. You have to avoid it. And the
Sarah Sanders<\/a> stuff, i would like to state again, shes a problem for the media. Shes we are struggling right now with how to cover these press briefings, how she shills for a president who lies, who bullies, who says raunchy offcolor things about people. We dont want to stoop to that level. We have to figure out how to take on a presidency who is trying to take down the media. This was a disaster. You cant apologize now and say youre going rethink it. Should havent done it. Look, i have some modest proposals for how this dinner should change. I think first of all the cameras, get rid of cameras. It should not be a spectacle. Its not about us. Dont invite a comedian. Why dont you invite the families of reporters who have been killed around the world for doing their jobs . Right now there are two reporters for reuters under arrest in myanmar for reporting on the massacres of the rohingya. Theres a reporter killed in veracruz for reporting on drug cartels. There are eight reporters killed in kabul overnight. Those people put their lives at risk in a different way, in a very different way, the people of the white house who are reporters there do an incredible job, work very hard. Put the spotlight on the work. Dont make it a spectacle. The benefit of doing that 50 reporters were killed around the world 2, 250 reporters are in prison. The number of reporters being put in prison for crimes of socalled fake news by authority and regimes is rising. There is a moment at which we can be highlighteding the important work of journalism around the world in this country and other countries. The problem with what we do at the white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> is you undermine trust in journalism, you could make this an event that boosts trusts in journalism by showing what journalists are doing. If networks and lobbyists arent going to buy tables at this thing because theres no speech then shame on them. She should buy tables they should honor fallen journalists. Scholarships and also to actually fund serious business, take it seriously. Fund investigative web sites, fund investigative reporting units in state capitals across the country that right now are collapsing because they dont have the money to do their work. Put surviving family members at each of those tables instead of celebrities. Amen. Now the president playing this to his benefit. He held a rally in michigan. Bob costa along the audience screaming nobel why dont we take a look at some of what the president had to say. We have 1. 6 billion and this last budget, just so you understand, we had to fund our military, folks. We got our military was depleted, general mad dog mattis could not be happier. Could not be happier. I said yesterday, i said general, do you think we needed this much . We needed it, sir, we need it. We really did. So by doing that the democrats dont care about our military. The liberal politicians who support criminal aliens and they support them over, far over american citizens, nancy pelosi and her gang. [ boos ] theyve got to be voted out of office. That ive got to be voted out of office. We have to have borders and we have to have them fast and we need security, we need the wall, were going to have it all and that wall has started. We got 1. 6 billion. We come up again on september 28 and if we dont get border security, we have no choice, well close down the country because we need border security. That works, closing down the country. By the way, we do have borders, one. Two actually the number of
Illegal Immigrants<\/a> coming across the border actually add a tenyear low. Numbers going down. So, please, please, mr. President , dont close down our country. With that said, im trying to figure out exactly, bob costa, the president s logic or going out playing to his base when you have republicans reports over the weekend showing what you were just saying, republicans warning the president things are going terribly wrong right now. That it looks like theyre going to lose big in the fall and the president telling everybody no, no, things are going to go gr t great. Talk about the concern going on behind you with republicans. Two revealing things with those clips you just showed. On mattis, you see the defense secretary being touted by the president and you can bet thats being paid close attention to by
National Security<\/a> adviser john bolton. Theres a real question inside of this administration right now who is going to truly guide
President Trump<\/a> on
National Security<\/a> and foreign policy. Secretary of state pompeo, bolton or secretary mattis . It shows you that mattis is still at the forefront. And the comment about nancy pelosi, you see the democratic leader, the republicans are trying to have a betwe2010 styl campaign but shes not the same figure because
President Trump<\/a> as a cultural and
Political Force<\/a> is so overwhelming, the republicans are struggled to animate pelosi as a political target. And noah, donald trump again doing exactly what he did the win the republican primary and the presidency but right now you look at every poll, its not working. That is not translating to helping republicans who are right now in endangered seats. No, its district specific, some house districts are from
Vulnerable Senate<\/a> campaigns and ever has to run their own campaign. In the last hour and a half weve been talking about president loss of civility and norms and the president going up there and saying democrats dont care about the military, its something that would have been beyond the pale and it goes right past us. We dont
Pay Attention<\/a> to it or notice it because its part of our average daily dialogue. There is no more powerful currency in
Politics Today<\/a> than victimization the victim being hurt, being offended, being attacked, democrats and republicans and rallying around the idea that theyve been wounded by a comedian who roasted some people who were in absentia which doesnt work, you cant roast people who arent in the room and i imagine democrats will take this and rather than react with just dismissively and say we need to get back to real civility in real politics and understanding we have two different visions for the country but we want this country to succeed, they will posture in victimization as well because that is what works. That is what generates enthusiasm and engagement from base voters. And i think at root a lot of our problems today, our dysfunctional politics are that posturing victimization effect that creates some sympathy for you but shuts down dialogue. The victimization has not worked in virginia, didnt work in alabama, it hasnt worked in one special election after another. Donald trumps play book has failed time and again. Except that its been a bowerful currency on right and left but its been powerfully deployed by the right and republicans now control all of washington and im curious, mark, just the history of that. How is it that the most powerful man in the world, the president , is able to present himself as the embattled victim of reporters . And why does that work for him at least for his own election, for his own politics. Running against the media is nothing new. Give me your feedback, joe, on this, think about the message the republicans have in the fall to get refocused. Youve got peace breaking out on the
Korean Peninsula<\/a> and prosperity in america and if you get focused on that, unemployment historic lows,
Consumer Confidence<\/a> historic highs and korea coming together. Thats simple. Id focus on that, frame it up. They cant as noah was saying. Here you have the republicans who control the house, who control the senate, basically control they control the white house, the administration, they control the
Supreme Court<\/a> 54,
Robert Mueller<\/a> is a republican,
Rod Rosenstein<\/a> is a republican, the attorney general is a republican. Deep state. The person running the white house running the
Southern District<\/a> of new york is a trump sist ste ster. Youd have to go back to
Calvin Coolidge<\/a> to find a washington more controlled and dominated by republicans and instead of saying hey, look, guess what, you put us in charge, you gave us the keys to the car. We have lower unemployment than ever before, we have peace and prosperity. It hasnt been like this since ike was president. Were going to bring peace to the
Korean Peninsula<\/a>. Morning in america. Its extraordinary, this is morning in america. They cant do it. They have played the victim for so long now. Theyre going to take it right over the cliff because they can have an optimistic reaganlike message but theyre so busy playing the victim. Theyre so busy bitching and moaning and about the media and bitching and moaning about the deep state, making up conspiracies where they dont exist, whether its seth ridge or pizzagate or the deep state when all they have to do, noah, is just look outside at the birds chirping and the sun is rising and people going back to work. We could do the morning in america but they cant do it because theyre so busy being such weak snowflakes, such victims, they hurt us, theres a conspiracy. We control the world but theres a conspiracy. They sere frail. Its ridiculous. If you have the winning touchdown, go to the sideline and celebrate, stop complaining about something that happened in last years super bowl. Quit blaming the refs, youre ahead. And democrats dont a very good message and theyre not very popular and republicans have a lot of control in government and weve seen
Republican Voters<\/a> are not showing up at the polls for the special elections and it will play out in november and why wouldnt they be . Theyre being told we control every office in government but we cannot do anything we want because theres this vast conspiracy preventing us from getting the agenda done, why would you turn out to vote . What is your message after telling your voters everything is horrible in washington, the deep state controls things, theres nothing we can do, this is horrible, vote for us. By the way, we control everything. Heres the victimization, its the peddling of fear. If youre a victim, how do you get out of that . You peddle fear. Thats what were seeing a lot of in the
Republican Party<\/a> and this administration. Cambridge analytica ceo said it, our currency is fear, we will delve deeper into your fears than anyone else and that is how we win elections. They said it on tape. We should point out, joe, at the valley, the same time as the white house rally, the president was saying people are sneaking over the border from mexico to vote in the elections. Thats the fear element. Its a complete lie. Its a complete lie. David, can i ask you one other thing about the rally . That was the president talking about the
Korean Peninsula<\/a> and there were these chants of nobel and we would love the idea of winning a
Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> but i was interested
Reading Press<\/a> from the
Korean Peninsula<\/a> and korea watches on the
Korean Peninsula<\/a> in south korea. They were a whole lot more skeptical than the press that i was reading here about the chances of this succeeding. They were saying what was delivered beyond the spectacle of the two guys walking across the border and
Holding Hands<\/a> was less than they hoped it would be in terms of specifics. That might be where they are but i was struck how different it wa was. The stage has been set for a deal people think cant be done. The deal donald trump demanded is north korea give up its nukes. The analogy is to libya which denuclearized. I cant believe kim jongun loves that analogy. I cant imagine that he does. We know what happened to
Moammar Ghadafi<\/a> after he did that ch. This is progressing toward an extraordinary moment in which donald trump will meet this outlaw leader of north korea and, again, you have to hand it to trump for seizing the moment. I think this set, this scenario has been drawn by kim jongun. Since 2016 hes said what he was going to do and then he did it but trump was there to respond to it against the advice of a lot of people and so i think hes lucky to have john bolton. Very hard line
National Security<\/a> advisor who is the professional skeptic about north korean claims. Watching him on television yesterday on one of thess th sundays show, he was very skeptical. So we were worried trump would get hoodwinked. Im less worried because i think there is useful skepticism from bolton, from pompeo, from others. The deal that come out of this i think people will insist has to be good and verifiable. Michael, final thought from you, weve been talking about the impact on washington, d. C. , just how big of an impact will this have on
Michelle Wolf<\/a>s career. How big is that netflix special going to be . Because you know in a way just like donald trump speaks to his crowd, she was speaking to a crowd outside the bubble and i have people coming up to me all day yesterday, my kids baseball practice, all different places i went and theyre saying did you hear that joke about and they all had their favorite joke and i was seeing dollar signs over her head going thats going to be a big netflix special. The
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> has always been a launching pad an opportunity for comedians do make their mark. Its also filled with peril. Larry wilmore had a tough time after his performance a couple years ago. No doubt netflix will get bigger numbers for the debut of michelles show but i dont think she came into this she was doing very similar comedy and jokes that shes done in all her appearances onset myers and the daily show. I think of the scorpion and the frog thing. The correspondents invited in a comedian known for that style of humor and she performed in the style she always does, so i do think its going put her on the map. Shes on the front page of the post this morning and the executives at netflix will be seeing dollar signs. Which is what he just said about the scorpion and frog. I said yesterday when people were getting shocked. Her twitter following doubled overnight. There you go. Michael grynbaum, thank you very much. Robert costa, what are you looking at today . One person i was looking at at that dinner was rosenstein sitting two tables away from me. I said to myself, forget about what miss wolf says, what is he going do. And right before she took the stage he left because he knew the cameras were going to come to him so
Rod Rosenstein<\/a> was there but he didnt stay for wolfs speech. Bob, thank you. Smart man. Mark mckinnon, well watch the circus on show time. Still ahead on morning joe,
Michael Cohen<\/a> has seen his name on the front pages with troubling headlines. But for him, this one might be the one of the most concern. What it means now that the
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Stormy Daniels<\/a> will have to wait a little longer for her day in court. On friday a federal judge grant add 90day delay in her civil lawsuit against
President Trump<\/a>s longtime lawyer
Michael Cohen<\/a> citing a criminal investigation the attorney is facing. Cohen asked for a delay after fbi agents raided his home and office earlier this month. The judge said on friday that the issues in
Stormy Daniels<\/a> civil suit overlap with the criminal probe into cohen. Meanwhile, the national enchoirer enchoir er the
National Enquirer<\/a> is going after cohen. American
Media Incorporated<\/a> is run by david pecker who is a friend of
President Trump<\/a> and some believe that the two often collude to get
National Nation<\/a> enquirer front page stories that trump wants so thats probably bad news for
Michael Cohen<\/a>. Joining us now, a pair of former colleagues, mimi rocca and daniel goldman. They cowrote an oped for the hill entitled in the cohen case, dont buy the vast government conspiracy defense and they write attorney
Michael Cohen<\/a> has not been charged with a crime but
President Donald Trump<\/a> and his defenders are so concerned about what incriminating information cohen may give to prosecutors in the
Southern District<\/a> of new york that they have begun a campaign to discredit the entire federal criminal
Justice System<\/a>. These attacks, however, distort how the system actually works. Do not withstand scrutiny and come at the expense of
Public Confidence<\/a> in our criminal justice process. To say the least, mimi. And let alone
Michael Cohen<\/a> appears as being hung out to dry. Absolutely. And this is a common tactic that
Defense Attorneys<\/a>, savvy
Defense Attorneys<\/a> do in court when theres a trial and the evidence is strong. Its one thing to do that in court when
Defense Attorneys<\/a> do it, its another thing for the president of the
United States<\/a> to be doing it. His surrogates are doing it, as you pointed out, the enquirer, alan dershowitz, other people but the president of the
United States<\/a> is med of the government that is this
Justice System<\/a> and for his own personal reasons hes willing to completely undermine the confidence and its frightening. Its also shortsighted because you have a judge, kimba woods, who says she has complete confidence in the integrity
Southern District<\/a> of new york, the prosecutors. Its one thing if youre attacking cohen and rosenstein, sessions and the fbi. Here its more closely held. Youve got kimba woods, the prosecutors and
Donald Trumps<\/a> cohens defense team. Theres not a lot of wiggle room. It seems to me all hes doing is making a federal judge angry which, by the way, if i did that when i was practicing in northwest florida which i would never do because federal judges scare the hell out of me i would be pissing off a federal judge. You dont want to do that, whether youre in northwest florida or in the
Southern District<\/a> of new york. Absolutely. It reflects a greater and deeper concern that never existed when we were there, and we were there a combined 26 years. It was never a situation where we felt like we were doing anything other than specifically what our job was and that was nonpartisan and that is literally to follow the evidence and figure it out. But what is the upside of making maybe things have changed since i practiced law for like two weekends but what is the upside of attacking the judicial system and making a federal judge angry . The only thing i can think of is its a political play which is to say that and im not sure that trump is thinking this far out. No. But lets assume he is. Lets assume hes a rational actor for a moment and its a political play. Hes been advised hes likely not going to get charged as a sitting president right now so what is going to play out is there will be a report and it will go to congress and it will be an impeachment issue for congress to deal with at which point it turns political so hes trying to undermine the investigation and the evidence and trying to provide his allies and surrogates in congress with some political cover so that they have a basis on which to attack the information and the evidence that comes out. Thats its not a legal play because i dont see the legal system is going to play out. So the theory being advanced by alan dershowitz, the president s friend at harvard, is
Something Like<\/a> this. Prosecutors would lie to the judge to get a search warrant, get this evidence and then find terrible things and then threaten cohen with a life sentence. Walk us through why this theory doesnt hold up. You both touched on this. You really have to buy into this entire conspiracy theory. Its not just
Michael Cohen<\/a> is a liar, its the prosecutors are evil and planting evidence. Didnt he do this with o. J. 20 years something that. Hes consistent in that at least. Im serious, he did this with o. J. Prosecution. Were not saying prosecutorial overreach or misconduct never happens. That would be extremely eye yooef and contrary to whats happened in the world but theyre here saying its happening already with no indication its happening and every indication to the contrary and its not something that happens regularly. So the prosecutors would have to be in on. It the judge, the agents. As a matter of law, can the prosecutor say this is the sentence . No. There are so many safety checks built into the system and thats the point. Theyre ignoring all of those, so the judge decides the sentence, the prosecutors dont decide and in a white collar case in particular as we say in the oped, the idea that you could manufacture a story like this, youd have to have started it pretty much like ten years ago. You would have to have started planting the seeds for this so it doesnt make sense. And to take their theory to its logical conclusion, it means really what theyre saying is this happens in every case or many cases so we should basically let drug dealers, violent gang members, rapists, we should let them all out of jail because clearly theres prosecutorial overreach everywhere. When and if it comes to the issue of trying to get
Michael Cohen<\/a> to cooperate, presumably there also has to be substantiating evidence as well. The prosecutor isnt going to go to cohen and say im going to give you this deal based on your story. Theyre going to have a lot of other evidence in order to give him something in return for his cooperation . And this is where this theory falls apart. Even if you assume the prosecutors are acting improperly and making threats and doing all sorts of improper things to convince
Michael Cohen<\/a> to cooperate. There are so many checks and balances that happened after that fact so lets say in this hypothetical theory that
Michael Cohen<\/a> just makes up a story because hes really innocent and everybody else is innocent. In a white collar case youll have contemporaneous emails. Which they have. Youre going to have bank records, youre going to have documents. So in theory if theyre innocent hes making up a story of guilt that will be inconsistent with the innocent evidence. Thats why it doesnt happen and from the process perspective we would never, ever allow anyone to cooperate if we have not vetted their information and made sure its truthful, not just that we believe its truthful, to see other evidence, other witness testimony, other documentary evidence that convinces us its truthful, then once you have a cooperating witness who you believe, you would never charge nichb based solely on that cooperating witnesss testimony. You have to have other corroborating evidence so there are so many different ways that the system ensures that the proper people are being charged. And they have volumes of documentary evidence. They have files like this. There was already email search warrants on
Michael Cohen<\/a>s emails before the searches. You can go through the files and see, its going to be so obvious. Also, mika, this spiresy theory that anybody who believes that prosecutors in the
Southern District<\/a> of new york would go after the president of the
United States<\/a> attorney without having everything dead to septemberer have no idea how that office or any other
Prosecutors Office<\/a> works. Do you really want to be the person that crew scrscrewed up
National Stage<\/a> and destroy your zpleer th career . Thats a rhetorical question. Still ahead, house chaplain
Patrick Conroy<\/a> says he was blindsided when he was ousted by
House Speaker<\/a> paul ryan last week. Now democrats and republicans alike are pressing for answers. Well have the latest on that with politicos jake sherman next on morning joe. Mr. Elliot, whats your wifi password . Wifi . Wifis ordinary. Basic. Do i look basic . Nope which is why i have xfinity xfi. Its super fast and you can control every device in the house. [ child offscreen ] hey lets basement. And thanks to these xfi pods, the signal reaches down here, too. So sophie, i have an xfi password, and its daditude. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Speculation continues to mount about why
Speaker Paul Ryan<\/a> asked jesuit priest
Patrick Conroy<\/a> to resign as chaplain of the house. Father conroy and others believe ryans motives are political pointing to a prayer he delivered on the house floor in november urging economic equality while lawmakers debated tax overhaul legislation. Ryan denied that move was politically motivated, however democrats on friday forced a vote to start an investigation into conroys firings but the measure ultimately failed. Meanwhile, republican congressman and baptist pastor mark walker, one of the three representatives looking for conroys replacement announced he has left the committee. Kwlaek lawmakers became angered after walker suggested the next chaplain should have a family which would include exclude catholics from consideration. Joining us now,
Senior Writer<\/a> at politico and coauthor of the play book, jake sherman. Jake, why was what were the reasons behind the firing . Are we very clear on that . No, were not. This is a very bizarre episode, the kind you could only have happen in washington. But what happened behind the scenes is there were complaints about this chaplain, about father conroy, people thought he wasnt dynamic enough, people were unhappy with him in some pockets of the republican conference, but there was a way to avoid this which paul ryan appeared not to take, they could have let him stay until the end of the year, theyre pushing him out in the middle of may, just a couple weeks after he was told he was going to be gone. So paul ryan privately told republicans on friday this was not political, it had nothing to do with his comments about the tax bill. Some republican, believe it or not, were angered he let a muslim imam give a prayer in the capital, so thats
Something Else<\/a> people are talking about. This was botched and handled in a horrible way. I had a republican text me late next week now we have to find another
Catholic Priest<\/a> willing to take the job to prove were not anticatholic. So just a strange episode. So what what do you hear about the republican conference . Were there complaints about him allowing a muslim to pray . Was it mainly how much of a blowback did you hear after the prayer right before the tax bill which actually pretty much lines up with matthew 25 and most all of jesus words. As a former member of the
House Republican<\/a> conference you know theres probably complaints about everything at every single time in congress, someone is always upset. There was a perception that father conroy was closer to democrats and his politics were democratic. At the time of that prayer i would be surprised if more than two or three lawmakers knew that prayer happened. Very few people listened to the prayer. The chaplain is not an integral part of congress. Something somebody who exists, people seek him out if they want to talk to him. Some people dont, its just a very bizarre episoetd that highlights a certain element of this
Republican Leadership<\/a> which is they continue to step on it in some instances and a lot of unforced errors. I dont know if this has a political impact. Democrats will try and put this front and center. Im not sure why the firing of a chaplain is going to be the political winner for democrats. To so the theories we have is he was too liberal, too pro muslim and wasnt married enough because hes a
Catholic Priest<\/a>. Any other theories that might come up in the next few weeks . I dont think so. Listen i think they wanted to replace the guy. I dont think he was particularly popular among republicans who control congress and theres not a lot of catholic republicans. Theres a lot of evangelicals and they want somebody more closely aligned to them and i think thats the reality in this very strange episode. All right, jake sherman, thank you very much. Well be reading the political play book every morning. Strange, i dont theres something way more with to this. There are a lot of catholic republicans in the northeast. There are not a lot of jesuit republicans. A lot of catholics in wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania and ohio so lets see if they dont get a catholic or whether theyll allow the insult against all
Catholic Priest<\/a>s to hang out there. Coming up, the
House Intelligence Committee<\/a> issued its final report on russia and the 2016 election, clearing the
Trump Administration<\/a> of any wrongdoing. Oh, thank goodness. But democrats say theyre still investigating. Well talk to congressman jim himes about that. Morning joe is coming right back. This is a story about mail and packages. And its also a story about people. People who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams theyre handing us more than mail theyre handing us their business and while we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the
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Vladimir Putin<\/a> trying to get a solution to the iranian deal, making sure the iranians never get a nuclear bomb and making sure that peace comes to syria. Talk about this unique position macron finds himself in. Hand hes going to have the white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> in paris next year. The food would be better. When macron met with us on wednesday he said he was going to call the iranian president and see if there was some way to negotiate this bigger deal that he pitched to
President Trump<\/a>, that it would include new developments and no surprise, he was told over the weekend, no deal. Were not going to rewrite the i ran
Nuclear Agreement<\/a> to suit these new conditions where an the other european leaders teresa may and merkel have agreed with macron that they stand by the agreement, that they think by macrons account that trump is going to drop on may 12th. So the stage is set for a couple of weeks of pretty intense bargaining in which trump is saying hes going to withdraw from something and the iranians are not prepared to negotiate. Thats just the scenario that macron described to us. Trump believes in that very kind of confrontational bargaining and the french want to be there to catch the wobble in these coming weeks but its fascinating that macron is positioning himself. The dangerous iran
Nuclear Agreement<\/a>, this is a dangerous one. Still ahead, new video coming in of that twin
Suicide Attack<\/a> in afghanistan overnight. Dozens have been killed including nine journalists. Well have the latest. Plus, the president says hes not being played by the leader of north korea but wont see if hes spoken to kim jong un directly. Well have the developments on their planned summit and more controversy over the white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a>. Put in some contacts. Yeah, okay. Push the button. And get back to work. With an industry first, carbonfiber shaft. Lawn care has never been this easy. Or this powerful. The new ego power string trimmer with powerload\u2122 technology. Exclusively at the home depot and ego authorized dealers. Lets do an ad of a man eating free waffles at comfort inn. They taste like victory because he always gets the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed, when he books direct at choicehotels. Com. Or just say badda book, badda boom. Book now at choicehotels. Com. Or just say badda book, badda boom. When did you see the sign . When i needed to jumpstart sales. Build attendance for an event. Help people find their way. Fastsigns designed new directional signage. And got them back on track. Get started at fastsigns. Com. Welcome to morning joe. Stop, were on the air. He put out a tweet a couple of days ago. Fit right in with yesterday. From the lost jedi . He was hateful . I just suggested that some of the movies joe likes are not the best star wars monday. Its monday, april 30th. Oh, my gosh, and it doesnt feel like it around here unless youre anywhere else. With us we have
Political Writer<\/a> for the
New York Times<\/a> and analyst washington anchor for bbc world news america whose book account if confidence code for girls is number one,
New York Times<\/a> best seller. It was out this weekend. In the sunday paper. It feels good. I knew it. Who told you . And reading it. Who told you . You told me. Okay. Its time. Associate editor of commentary magazine is with us and david joins us from washington. All right. We begin this morning with breaking news. At least 21 people are dead, 43 others wounded after a double suicide bombing in afghanistans capital of kabul early this morning. Afghan
Officials Say<\/a> at least seven journalists are among those killed. Six are from local networks. One is an ap photographer. Authorities also say that the second bombing was intended to hit the people rushing to the scene to help the victims of the first explosion. The attack occurred on the same street as the
Afghan Intelligence<\/a> agency and natos afghanistan headquarters and just 500 meter from the u. S. Embassy. Isis has claimed responsibility. 17 years later, the fighting continues in afghanistan. What is this white house what is the pentagon, what are our allies planning to do as we move forward over the next 17 years . Well, for the moment im sure the answer is to stay the course and not panic. But the inability to secure the capitol and these areas of kabul are supposed to be the most secure. These are streets ive walked down. Theyre extensively checked and yet year after year, its not possible to keep infiltrators with bombs from coming in. We have fighting this war off and on since 2006 or 7 and if theres anybody that knows the terrain and the conflict its him, but he just is struggling with a stealemate. This is a particularly horrible kind of bomb. Sometimes referred to as a double tap. Where theyre trying to get the people who are coming to take care of or report on the first incident. It leads to even worse loss of life. In a day when were talking about a lot about joumplism. This could happen any day youre there. And they do it faithfully with great professionalism people just remember when theyre getting into serious discussions. And you know were going to get to the controversy. The big talker over the weekend in a little bit, but theres actually some news to cover first. And you know, for mika and me at least, that was our thought going into the white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a>. We havent gone in a while. Dont knock those that do go. We didnt go this weekend. But these are really serious times and people are doing extraordinary work and journalists across the world are in more in danger today than they have been in quite some time and theyre doing extraordinary work. So why do you not have an awards show . Why dont you just reward the people who are doing the most extraordinary journalism and have an inspiring speech and be done with that . Because this is what journalists do. Yeah, all around the world, 50 journalists were killed around the world last year. Some 250 journalists are in prison for doing their jobs. The number of journalists willing put in prison for fake news is on the rise. And i think youre right. The white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> ought to be a celebration of those people and the work they do rather than a gazing event where we look at ourselves. And become the headline. Because every time we talk about ourselves were not doing our industry any favor. We should not be con some usumis of news time talking about ourselves. We should be honoring those journal irists around the worldo are giving their lives. And the great comedians . Perform somewhere else. Perform on netflix. I havent been for years. Id rather send my saturday okays hanging outs with my kids than going to a work event that isnt particularly funny. Well get to that conversation in just a moment. Well talk about that more and theres a little bit of debate but turning now to the
Korean Peninsula<\/a>. North
Korean Leader<\/a> kim jong un is vowing to shut down his
Nations Nuclear<\/a> test side by the end of may according to moons office and north korean state media. Kim also says that he will open the process up to foreign experts and journalists from south korea and the
United States<\/a>. North korea last used the site during last septembers test of a
Thermo Nuclear<\/a> bomb and reports indicate that the site partially collapsed rendering it unusable
Going Forward<\/a>. President trump addressed the developments out of the
Korean Peninsula<\/a> alongside german chancellor friday and during his rally in michigan on saturday. A lot of very positive things happened over the last 24 hours. Were in total touch with both north korea and south korea. Were speaking very much with south korea and with north korea. The relationships are building and building strongly and this will be a great thing for the world. I dont think hes playing. No, i dont think hes playing and its never gone like this. Its never gone this far. I dont think its ever had this enthusiasm for somebody for them wanting to make a deal and yeah, i agree, the
United States<\/a> has been played beautifully like a fiddle because you had a different kind of a leader. Were not going to be played. Okay . Were going to hopefully make a deal. If we dont, thats fine. This isnt like past administrations. We dont play games. Im not going to give you whats going to actually happen because we dont really flow but i tell you one thing, were not playing games and i remember, you know, it was very rough three or four months ago. Thats very nice, thank you. Thats very nice. Nobel. I just want to get the job done. I had one of the fake news groups this morning. No no, they were saying what do you think
President Trump<\/a> had to do with it . Ill tell you what. Like how about everything . That just sounded like they were saying nobel. They were actually staying no tell. They were talking about
Michael Cohen<\/a> and the 5th amendment. Lets go back to the time zone change plan, giving up a site thats partially collapsed. But to suggest this has gone farther than anything else has gone, in terms of negotiating a final agreement that will get the job done is hard to say. Of course nobel prizes were handed out for what happened in the 1994 and it ended up that the
Clinton Administration<\/a> only provided more cover for the regime. Do you see anything developing that would suggest an end game that is going to be different . These are preliminaries. Theyre confidence building measures. Their initial pass on ones nominating yourself for
Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>s is unusual. I think its a mistake to minimize the importance of whats happening. Right. Or to say that
President Trump<\/a> hasnt had a role in it. He chafes at the idea that hes not been given credit and he does deserve credit for seizing the moment when it arrives. We dont know where that moment is going. I just would stress for viewers that the driving force in this story is this really quite unusual and surprising young north
Korean Leader<\/a> kim jong un who it was easy to take him less than seriously given the way he looked and acted, but he has had for the last couple of years if you look carefully at his speech and statements an idea that north korea would push to get
Nuclear Weapons<\/a> and im sorry so they they do have
Nuclear Weapons<\/a> and then would pivot towards negotiations, towards working on its economy. Hes done exactly what he said. He laid out a script in a speech on january 1 and hes been following it. I think its great that
President Trump<\/a> seized that moment and is engaged in and i think hes properly a little skeptical, doesnt know whats going to happen. We now know the right questions to ask, what the traps and the things that might not work out, but you know, lets see and encouragement with the president. So up next well play you the jokes that set off the twitter debate along with some context of what the president of the
United States<\/a> has been saying latsly. Youre watching also that
National Enquirer<\/a> is such a tell. Yeah, it means donald is trying to get to you. You saw it, he certainly used that against ben carson. He did it to us. Remember he did it to michael flynn. Should someone tell him its obvious . . All right. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Itll connect us to everything thats going on in the company. Get it for jean whos always cold. For the sales team, it and the warehouse crew. Give us the data we need. In one place, anywhere we need it. Help us do our jobs better. With domo we can run this place together. Well thats thats your job i guess. Need a change of scenery . The kayak price forecast tool tells you whether to wait or book your flight now. So you can be confident youre getting the best price. Giddyup kayak. Search one and done. There is now a controversy brewing over the choice of entertainment at this years white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> over the weekend. Most notably the comedian opened a divide over the limits of comedy under a president who rarely hesitates to attack the press. The biggest dividing line surrounded wolfs comments about sarah huckabay sanders. Graced with sarahs presence tonight. I have to say im a little star struck. I love you in and lid yaydia an hand maids tale. My friends if you havent seen it you would love it. Every time sarah steps up to the podium i get excited because im not really sure what were going to get. You know, a press briefing, a bunch of lies or divided into softball teams. I actually really like sarah. I think shes very resourceful. Like she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like maybe shes born with it. Maybe its lies. And im never really sure what to call sarah huckabay sanders. Is it
Sarah Sanders<\/a>, is it cousin huckabay is it aunt huckabay sanders like whats uncle tom for white women that burn other white women. A lot of other statements as well. Many people calling on the white house corps dents association to apologize. The morning after the dinner. It was a great honor to be able to preside over last nights dinner and to represent all the journalists who cover the white house. My aim and the way i sought to set the program is to build a spirit of unity. My only regret is to those 15 minutes are now defining four hours of what was a really wonderful unifying night. Also a statement saying quote, the program was offered a unifying message. Great reporting and scholarship winners, not to divide people unfortunately. The entertainers monologue was notds not in the spirit of that mission. President trump tweeted the white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> was a failure last year but this year was a failure. The filthy comedian totally bombed. Couldnt even deliver her lines much like seth meyers appearance. Hes obsessed onset meyers. She said shes committed to hearing from its members on the program
Going Forward<\/a>. There is so much we could unwind here, but lets not waste too much time. Okay. Charlie summed up one of the biggest
Dumpster Fire<\/a> days in twitter history yesterday when he said and its the only thing i tweeted other than being very excited about the homelands finale started. Left wing twitter sounds a lot like right wing twitter today and vice versa. The lack of selfawareness is jarring. Yeah, so i was on vacation last week. I deleted my twitter app from my fun. I turned it on on sunday because i have to oh, no. It was like walking into a bar fight. I had no idea what everybody was saying. Why everybody was at each others throats. Breaking chairs over each others heads. Imagine i kind of feel like thats what people who dont saturate themselves in the news cycle feel like. We might overinflate this. So im not a huge fan of judging comedy from the stands its a tough room. Its art and i dont really like judging art like that. The white house
Correspondents Dinner<\/a>. The dinner on the other hand has been a problem for the ips tugs of jaurnlism for years. It wasnt recognized under the
Obama Administration<\/a>. Now its overtly hostile and it demonstrates the biases that are inherit. And hypocrisy. Coming up on morning joe, senator john tester already has a tough election this fall and the president is trying to make it even tougher. It all stems from the fallout over the president s pick to lead the v. A. The latest details on that. Next on morning joe. Its a lot easier to make decisions when you know what comes next. If you move your old 401 k to a fidelity ira, we make sure youre in the loop at every step from the moment you decide to move your money to the instant your new retirement account is funded. Oh and at fidelity, youll see how all your investments are working together. Because when you know where you stand, things are just clearer. Just remember what i said about a little bit o soul things are just clearer. Tech dont wait for a chip like this to crack your whole windshield. With safelites exclusive resin, you get a strong repair that you can trust. Plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. Customer really . singers safelite repair, safelite replace. Its just a burst pipe, i could fix laugh no. With claim rateguard your rates wont go up just beacuase of a claim. I totally couldve. wife nope switching to allstate is worth it. We need to help more tocalifornians get ahead. D, thats why
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Ronny Jackson<\/a>, this is a high quality individual like they would love in montana, and tester started throwing out things that hes heard. Well, i know things about tester that i could say too. And if i said them, hed never be elected again. You know the one thing weve learned about you mr. President at this point, if you knew something about john tester that would finish his career, you would have said it 15 days ago. Blurt it right out. President trump spent part of his weekend continuing his attacks on a senator. I do not understand those allegations though at the same time. On saturday the president sent out a series of tweets aimed at the senator. The top democrat on the
Veterans Affairs<\/a> committee, trump claimed that the secret service told him that accusations made against jackson are not true. Saying that tester should resign and later adding that he should lose his race because of his claims. On friday the secret service did issue a statement denying the details of a published report that agents had intervened on an overseas trip from bothering then president barack obama and bloomberg saying they found no evidence that jackson had been in any car accident after drinking. Among the allegations in the document tester released was that jackson had crashed a government vehicle after getting drunk at a secret
Service Going<\/a> away party. All right. So nick, were were going to sort through this for some time. But it is interesting that the republicans on the committee and the chairman of that committee is backing is still backing tester and an awful lot of republicans didnt want jackson anywhere near the va. Correct. And also i should point out that sources for the
New York Times<\/a> reporting on jackson some of the anecdotes you heard where in fact gop side on the hill. Urging the times to go with some of these anecdotes and specifics. I do think we ear going to get more of the story but it is not a partisan hit job at all. Jim comey calls the
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Correspondents Dinner<\/a> on twitter saying quote, dead as we know it. He adds, this was a total disaster and an embarrassment to our great country and all that it stands for. Fake news is alive add well and butte fliz represented on saturday night. The president of course is deep in irony there talking about all the lies he told actually in his speech in michigan. Quite a few that well get you caught up on later. Lets bring in it is a commentary convention. Editor of the
New York Post<\/a> and the weekly standard, john, i brought you on here originally because i followed some of your tweets. You were brave enough to stand in the sewer a couple of hours yesterday. That was the worst. That was twitter at its worst. It was twitter at its worst and what strikes me about this controversy about this dinner, i went to this dinner going on 20 years. I havent been in a long time so its total misunderstanding of what it is. Its an annual industry dinner. So if you had a neurologists convention in washington and there was a comedian who came on who was like you guys are killing people on operating tables all over the place, my god, whats the matter with you people . Malpractice insurance rates should be up tenfold. Its not a roast. Its supposed to be a sort of thing where oh, we get together once a year and were usually rivals but were going to have a nice evening together and anybody who challenges that approach, the audience gets rattled and upset and people get all angry because its supposed to be nice. Its supposed the one evening thats nice. And the funny thing is everybody said if you if youre critical at all of having a comedian at the end, that actually does, which she does. Im not critical of her at all, but you have some people commentating that you are somehow helping along the fascist regime. People called mika a nazi yesterday. Seriously . Were talking about a roast. Right. But its not a roast. Like i went for years before it became this thing where everybody in show business came. I remember it was a get if your organization could have the secretary of commerce. Oh, youre going to host the secretary of commerce at your table . And then clinton came in and suddenly you had to have a movie star or your table stank. It was like this boring dinner and now you have this weird thing where if the comedian doesnt assault the its okay to assault the president by the way. Its really that question of shes sitting there
Sarah Sanders<\/a> is sitting there three day seats away and shes being insulted by
Michelle Wolf<\/a> and it puts you feel its cringing to me because its like, what is she supposed to do . Now comedians, if you go to a roast everybody on the deal is comedians. They get their licks, they get jokes about them but
Sarah Sanders<\/a> could only sit there and try to hold her expression. Im no fan of
Sarah Sanders<\/a> but socially its like why are you doing this to her for . We have talked all the time, mika even asks reporters why do you go to
Sarah Sanders<\/a> press conference because she lies. Dont enable the lying and yet there are better ways to handle it. Shes sitting there like exactly. And cameras are on there and anything that she does, any move, any eyebrow she raises becomes a news story and you just its like i remember somebody saying the other day its like this is the ratings are going to be you know, everybody watching, no ones watching. You know . Nobody cares. No ones watching. We care. Theres like 5,000 people on twitter who care a lot and a lot of people are knowing because youre talking about it and all of this, but in four days nobodys going to remember any of this. Yeah. Would you like to comment . Give us some commentary on what the editor of commentary said . Just agree. Agree. Really excellent. This is a time for me to say very wise. I will add though that the
Al Smith Dinner<\/a> has a different character to it. It is a roast and the president is usually a participant and often his opponent is a participant in an
Election Year<\/a> and it has a very different feel to it and think that is much more the venue in which were going to have the light heartedness that can turn to politics. And probably not having any cameras would be a good idea. You have to have the commpoliti opposition as well. There are new developments involving the russia investigation. In an interview, the russian lawyer who met with
Trump Campaign<\/a> officials in 2016 is backtracking on her earlier denials of having ties with the kremlin. She acknowledged she was a source of information from a top kremlin official and not merely a private attorney. Meanwhile, after a year long investigation, republicans on the
House Intelligence Committee<\/a> have released a final full report saying they found no evidence of collusion between the
Trump Campaign<\/a> and russia. Democrats on the committee argue the 253 page report only shows the lengths to which leaders went to shield
President Trump<\/a> from scrutiny. They argue they failed to interview key witnesses or issue subpoenas for necessary information. Trump responded to the news on friday and seized on the republican findings. It was a great report. No collusion, which i knew anyway, no coordination, no nothing. Its a witch hunt thats all it is. There was no collusion with russia. If you can believe this one. There was she probably cant believe it. Who can . But the report was very powerful, very strong. No collusion between the
Trump Campaign<\/a> and the russian people. As ive said many times before ive always said there was no collusion but ive also said there has been nobody tougher on russia than me. With that all being said if we can get along with russia thats a good thing. I was very honored by the report. It was totally conclusive, strong, powerful. Im just curious if you believe it proves what the president says it proves. He says theres no evidence that the campaign coordinated with hush sha and it was a big hoax based on payments and lies. That is not my understanding of what the facts were before i left the fbi and i think the most important piece of work is the one the special counsel is doing now. This strikes me as a political document. Did the
House Intelligence Committee<\/a> at all serve a good investigative purpose during all this in your observations . Not that i can see. Just totally got too split sized . Yeah, and it wrecked the committee. The intelligence communities, it was just a wreck. More fake news from donald trump when he was talking because of course, he says its a witch hunt. So far 13 russian witches i think have been indicted, five witches are turning states evidence or maybe four turning states evidence against the president. Another witch right now is going to trial who was his campaign manager, so this again, one of my favorite tweets of the past couple years is sometimes when you go on a witch hunt, you find wimps and the witches. And jim heims of
Tarrant County<\/a> connecticut. Can you defend the weather in connecticut . Rain and cold into late april . Beautiful up here this morning, joe. By the time you get home it will be warm and sunny. Yeah, whatever, i dont believe you. So lets talk about how funny is it that the house not funny, but unintentionally funny that republicans released this sham report. They say theres absolutely no evidence of collusion. They closed the door on it. No evidence of russian influence whatsoever. And then soon after that you have
Richard Engel<\/a> interviewing a russian lawyer who said yes, actually i was working with an agent of the kremlin when i went to talk to don jr. And the gang. Well, i mean, it shows the absurdity of nunes brings the investigation to an end way early. And most importantly from the standpoint of the investigation, before we followed up on the most rudimentary of leads and pushed back on a number of the president s key people who refused to answer questions. This is a big part of the story that has not been told. The people closest to the president , hope hicks, lewandowsk came into the congress and said were asserting executive privilege not just for a number of narrow conversations we had with the president which is traditionally how it would be asserted but with everything that was said not during when he was president but during the transition. But theres the three key people thumbing their noses at congress and congress should have pushed back on that. Can you run the time line for me because speaking to former members of your committee they that i had this was a committee that managed to put politics aside and people did act in the best interest of
National Security<\/a>. Can you pinpoint the moment during the course of last year which that bipartisanship on your commit ttee disappeared. Its always been the one committee where people find agreement across party lines. Its a huge job overseeing an 80 billion
Intelligence Community<\/a> and i can pinpoint the exact moment. It was the moment in the open hearing in front of my committee about a year ago when jim comey said the department of justice has authorized me to publicly disclose that there is an investigation into the possibility of collusion between trump,
Trump Campaign<\/a> and russia. In that moment you can i mean, metaphorically you can imagine the white house catching fire and you can imagine very shortly thereafter people in the white house calling the chairman of the committee and saying hey, youve been a friend, youve been around and now you did this to us and i think that conversation, which you know, i was not privy to was the moment when all of a sudden the
Intelligence Committee<\/a> became a mechanism for the defense of the white house, the president and his campaign. Congressman, there are i think twoish issues that you can separate leer. One is the behavior of the
Trump Campaign<\/a> and then the other is the president himself. So while we have all sorts of evidence that there were officials on the campaign who were playing footsy with russian officials and trying to get things out of russia and get things for themselves, did you see any evidence during this year long investigation that the president himself was in any way involved in this . Because thats the ultimate question here. Right . Its the campaign thats bad news if a
Political Campaign<\/a> that elected a president was colluding with russia, but the real question is, what the whether the president was involved himself in any way in all of these hi jinx. Thats a really good question because i think when the president says now the president doesnt have a particularly
High Standard<\/a> for truth but when he says theres no collusion i think hes thinking what you just said. I never sat down with
Vladimir Putin<\/a> and signed a contract that in exchange for releasing the emails were going to get you 200,000 votes in ohio and michig michigan. Nobody would do that. The russians certainly wouldnt do that. The russians would do exactly what they did. They would have people sending out feelers. You showed the clip earlier, a lot of people sending out feelers to people like don jr. , which happened, to people like flynn and others, carter paige, they would do it much more subtly. So americans expecting some hollywood block buster ending that has
Vladimir Putin<\/a> and donald trump signing an oath, thats not going to be the outcome here. All right. Live from a stunning vista actually overlooking the south tracks at stanfords metro north station. Thank you so much for being here. This is one of the finest interstates in the country. One of the finest interstates in the country. If it had four more lanes. By finest you mean most congested. Thanks so much. You get to see stanford. All right. John, stay with us. Im going to ask you also because i think i saw you tweeting about the avengers. I took my kids to go see this on friday. All right. Up next, the
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Brighthouse Financial<\/a> established by metlife. A number of mergers this morning including t mobile and sprint joining forces. Cnbcs dominic chu. Is this one going to go through . Whats at t one looking like . Youre talking about americas third and fourth biggest cellular phone companies. Its a 26 billion deal. The combined company is going to keep the t mobile name. It solidifies t mobile sprint together as the number three player in u. S. Wireless. The only guys bigger are verizon and at t. If it happens, because like you said, this proposed merger is going to be facing a lot of regulatory scrutiny as the government tries to figure out if its going to harm competition. We know at t is having a hard time with the time warner and theyre not even related businesses. Marathon petroleum is going to buy andeavor. It will make americas biggest independent oil and gas refiner in terms of overall capacity. It brings together marathons oil stations and stations, speedways. So those folks in the western u. S. Know that gasoline brand. The last one is a cross borderishtype deal. Its
Grocery Store<\/a> chain anbury. Asda is owned by walmart, which means if this deal closes, walmarts going to own a 42 stake in the biggest
Grocery Store<\/a> chain in the united kingdom. So certainly a lot of big deals. Cnbcs dominic cheu, thank you. If you take all of those mergers, add up all the money, it wouldnt be half of what the avengers made. Opening. The biggest opening in the history of the world. Until, you know, six months from now when theyll be
Something Else<\/a> that has the biggest that just looks horrible. What do you think . I was shockingly engaged by it. I really liked it. My thing about the superhero movies is when they start fighting and battling and, you know, hitting each other with hammers and stuff, that i find boring. Its the interactions between these characters, if you like them, and, you know, these movies are superbly cast, thats one of the reasons that marvel has done so well with its movies and d. C. Has done badly with its. We were talking about there are bits in this movie between christopher plat from guardians of the galaxy and
Chris Hemsworth<\/a> as thor that are funny, like laugh out loud funny. Did you see it . I dont get it. My wife adores these movies. And i just particularly the avenger series. Im just suffocating under cast members. There are just too many people for me to keep track of poor noah. Faces yes, i know. Noah. Like individual super hero movies, i can handle it but the ensemble is too much. They do a really good job of separating them out, putting them in different places and teaming them up. Hes so right, so smart. John is he is always right only when hes a hes a little he needs to be developed, his thoughts no, you didnt say that, no. All right. All right, mika, mika, final thoughts, what are your five thoughts . I think its time for the media to forget about the
Correspondents Dinner<\/a> for a while and not talk about it anymore. Because were not going to agree. And maybe that was one of the things that we should respect that came out of the performance that was so controversial. Next year, you know, do it as an award dinner to journalists who are doing a good job. And try and use it to get the
Publics Trust<\/a> back again, not destroy the
Publics Trust<\/a>. Nick. I kind of wish people would stop talking about the
Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> because i really wish donald trump would be not committed to a deal on the
Korean Peninsula<\/a>. He needs to be able to walk away. Of course i said nick, i meant noah. I always do that. Its okay. John. So i think what they need to do is do what they did when things got too controversial in the bush years and do things and book people like rich little. You need a lowrent, unfunny but totally banal comedian. That is an awfully tough indictment on rich little. I grew up loving rich little. That does it for us this morning. We like you, rich little. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. Im stephanie ruhle. A lot to cover. Starting with the path to peace. North korea vows to clear its
Nuclear Test Site<\/a> within weeks and
President Trump<\/a> supporters know exactly who deserves the credit. But while that crowd celebrates, his
National Security<\/a> team is doing his best to reel in expectations. It appears to have given us this real opportunity for something that would be transformative for the world if we can achieve it. May day, exemptions on ste","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia903105.us.archive.org\/12\/items\/MSNBCW_20180430_100000_Morning_Joe\/MSNBCW_20180430_100000_Morning_Joe.thumbs\/MSNBCW_20180430_100000_Morning_Joe_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240617T12:35:10+00:00"}