President ial speech that was written for him, we stand in it was a good speech. What should it say . Yes. Yes, it was a good speech. But what else could any, i dont think any person he could have attacked nancy. Okay, yes, but then we see the real trump, an hour or two before, obviously the irony of going after obama and nancy pelosi. And it is just stunning to watch this duality. I will come back it my original point. Yes, it was a good speech that he read. That somebody else wrote for him. And i dont think you could just, thats a norm, and he gets the kudos for norm, and for him, in a bizarre way, thats good news going into 2020 . This becomes so attuned to making the shocking statements when hes on the National Stage, that when he pulls off a speech, that is basically in line with any other previous president , it becomes a moment for praise. But the thing that was so striking about that fox news interview, willie, was that it actually took place, according to our own Halle Jackson just as the ceremony was about to begin. Not only did he have this backdrop of the grave stones but you have trump making these comments, moments before he was about to join these world war ii veterans for what will probably be their last ceremony like this. Ever. The men who liberated europe from the nazis, and who saved, you know, us from a much broader conflict, was, you know, happening right before, moments before these guys joined them on stage. He definitely gave the speech right before that ceremony. Steve, we said yesterday, we said it was a good speech, but what comes next . Is it a tweet, a comment he makes . And turns out it was an interview he already given when we were speculating about what he would do. Not just an interview. And a remarkable interview. Drugs and needles and all of that stuff in her district and take her on as we saw, sitting with the backdrop of those crosses, and stars of david, in the normandy grave yard. It is incredible. And we should just never normalize that kind of behavior. With 61 house members now calling for impeachment, House Speaker nancy pelosi has told her caucus she does not want to see the president impeached, she wants to see him in jail. Nbc news how has confirmed that during a tuesday meeting with several House Committee leaders, Speaker Pelosi said quote, i dont want to see him impeached, i want to see him in prison. Politicos first reported those comment, and that judiciary chairman jerry nadler reportedly pressed pelosi to allow his panel to launch an impeachment inquiry, but the speaker stood firm, reiterating that she is not open to the idea of impeaching trump at this time. While politico did not characterize the full context or tone of pelosis comment, a congressional aide in the room tells nbc news her remark was consistent with her position that trump needs to be removed electorally in 2020. Yesterday, fox news asked President Trump about Speaker Pelosis comment about wanting to see him in jail. Here is the president s response. I think shes a disgrace. I actually dont think shes a talented person. Ive tried to be nice to her because i would have liked to have gotten some deals done. She is incapable of doing deals. Should he is a nasty, vindictive horrible person. Let me ask nancy, why is her district a drug and needles, all over the place, it is the most disgusting ching what she has allowed to happen to her district, with needles, with drug addicts, with People Living in the middle of streets, with People Living on the sidewalks, you think, she out to focus on that, because she is a disaster and when you were overseas a horrible vicious statement. While im overseas. Now, if i made any statement about anybody, it would be like a big thing, why would he do that that when he is overseas. She is a terrible person. And the name, it is nervous nancy, because she is a nervous wreck. And there was more in that interview with fox news. At the American Military cemetery in normandy, with the backdrop of rows of head stones of u. S. Service men killed during the liberation of france, 75 years ago. They thought their good friend Bobby Mueller was going to give them a great report and came out with a report with 13 horrible angry democrats, who are totally biased against me. Do you mind if he testifies . Before you said you didnt care. He made such a fool out of himself, the last time, because what people dont report is the letter he had to do to straighten out his testimony, because his testimony was wrong. But nancy pelosi, i call her nervous nancy, nancy pelosi doesnt talk about it. Nancy pelosi is a disaster, okay . She is a disaster. I will tell you the more successful weve come, the more angry people like nancy pelosi who dont have what it takes. The opponent, who shouldnt have been allowed to run, she happens to be a crooked person, so her name is very appropriate, we have crying Chuck Schumer who is a disaster by the way, a total political, you know, jerk. Jeremy baxter, pretty easy way to handle those questions with those head stones behind you and thats its not im not going to talk about it here, not now, when we get back home there will be plenty of time for politics but today is about the men who served and lay behind me. Totally undignified, actually, i think it besmirches the honger and dignity of that moment, of that place, of the occasion of remembering what happened 75 years ago. And the thing about the president s speech really, as much as we appreciate the words, the thing that i thought, when i heard it is, it is a total repudiation of the trump Foreign Policy, the trump Foreign Policy has been to enable and embolden auto crat, tie rantd, the populist neo nationalist movements sweeping europe and dday in some ways commemorates the exact opposite which is the unification of the United States, the transatlantic allies to push back against attorney ny and stand up for freedom. And there is the substance and teetly made up and doesnt make any sense Robert Mueller and the purple heart and broonz star award and he said that mueller had to put out a letter to straighten out his testimony. There was no testimony from him. Maybe he was talking about the Mueller Report himself. But the president also was making things up as he talked in front of those headstones. Maybe he was referring to bob muellers statement before the cameras. Look, he the overwhelming impression of that interview is the setting of it, right . It is less what the president said, although it was very vitriolic against a whole range of people, Chuck Schumer, nancy pelosi, hillary clinton, bob mueller, he took on all of his favorites, but you wonder whether somebody in the white house this morning is not looking at the image, turn the television to mute and not looking at the image and maybe we shouldnt have injected domestic politics in the tone in which the president did it in that particular setting. Because for me, having visited those graves all through my childhood, it is a jarring image, seeing the president of the United States, who in one breath is talking about the fact that we are bound together, as nations, as allies, fighting a common cause, and we always will be, and then to hear him talk in this way, about fellow american politicians, is really striking. And i think it was, you know, steve was saying, it is not, it is not a dignified setting for the president to be talking about that. Willie, unfortunately, katty, i wish it was the case there was somebody in the white house looking at that and saying you shouldnt have done that. The sad thing is, there is no one in the white house. And he is despicable. Calling chuck shume area jerk. And nancy a horrible human being because she disagrees with him. We cant normalize this. He is despicable. And that is despicable humanity, that any sixth grader would behave that way, he would be sent to his room. And that is a despicable human being. And the white house must have set this up, they arranged the interviews, trump didnt arrange the interviews and the backdrop, so the timing and the setting for this was decided by the white house. Sure, but you got to believe that the text was all trump. I cant imagine everybody in the Commerce Department ne know putting him with Laura Ingraham of all people. And i cant imagine the commerce and the white house, saying we will put trump in front of crosses what did they think was going to happen. He was asked about nancy pelosi. They didnt put him with shep. And nancy pelosi was interviewed at the same American Military cemetery and declined to discuss politics on the anniversary of dday. We are so divided as a country right now, do you worry about the politics right now, impeachment, and Everything Else that is on the table, and how that talk to us . With all due respect to your question just not that hard. Thats beyond that particular setting. And heres what a missed opportunity here, is that the president had just come from three days in london, where in respect to the royal family, by his comment about Meghan Markle before he landed, he had behaved appropriately and i know speaking to british officials, they were breathing a huge sigh of relief, in the company of the queen, the president had done the right thing. There had been no big diplomatic faux pas, he was capable of doing it and capable of staying on message and staying on script and proved himself in london and in the interview with Laura Ingraham, he must have wanted to do this, this was a choice, not a mistake, he chose to talk about american politics in the tone and the words that he uses to describe his fellow politicians that is so at odds with the setting that hes in. All you have to do is to say, were here to honor the men and women who served. Very simple. Meanwhile, we will talk with some of the people who hope to replace President Trump. A poll shows insight on who will make the cut for the first president ial debate in miami. Je biden at 30 comfortably. And senator Bernie Sanders at 15 . Senator Elizabeth Warren at 8 . And Kamala Harris with 6 and pete guj buttigieg 5 . Buttigieg 5 the poll is especially significant since the dnc is counting it into who makes this months debate stage. Joe biden is abandoning a longheld position on abortion. In remarks last night, biden abruptly changed his stance on the amendment, a four decade old ban on using federal funds for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of a woman. That came just a day after an exclusive nbc news report from heidi, documenting bidens record on abortion in which the Biden Campaign reaffirmed his support for the restriction. Facing a swift backlash from abortion rights activists and at least 12 of his rivals for the 2020 democratic nomination, biden opened with these comments to a dnc gathering last night, in atlanta. For many years, as u. S. Senator, i have, i supported the Hyde Amendment, like many, many others, have but we now see so Many Republican governors, denying health care to millions of the most, poorest, the most vulnerable americans by refusing medicaid expansion. I cant justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to constitute, to exercise their constitutionally protected right. And if i believe health care is a right, as i do, i can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someones zip code. So that is a change, heidi of course, from joe biden beginning in 1976 when the Hyde Amendment first came to pass and again and again and again voting to uphold the amendment, until last night, and in fact, when your reporting came out two days ago, it contained again from the campaign an affirmation of his support for the Hyde Amendment. This is a stunning turn of event, willie. Because in my research, i saw that biden not only went along to get along on this vote, like a lot of other senators who said we cant pass our spending bills unless we agree with this because the republicans will never vote for it. No. Bidens record is he forcefully and enthusiastically supported this amendment going back to the early days. I called him when i saw footage of an aclu act vist who seemed to get them to change their position and thats big news and they got to me, and said he still supports it and you saw the reaction by awful president ial candidates by all of the womens Rights Groups like emilys list like planned parenthood, who said you know what, in this context, joe biden, you may have supported this your entire career, but we are in a moment that we have not faced, since the inception of roe, with the unprecedented assault on above rights. And i think, we dont know exactly what went through bidens head really, we do know from our own reporters, and mike and marianna, on the ground, that this happened last minute. Even his aides, two to three hours before his speech, said that they didnt know what he was going to do. He seemed to not be reading this from the teleprompter. And actually speaking from the heart. And if you listen to what he said there, this is a moment of acknowledgment from biden that yes, we have been in a unique moment, with all of the laws at the state level being passed and planned parenthood funding being under siege, youre seeing the number of clinics going down, in states like missouri, where you may only have one clinic left, in texas, and what is happening at the same time is youre seeing an increase in Maternal Mortality rates. Lets be clear here. The Hyde Amendment affects only poor women. The low income poor women. Because were talking about medicaid funding. He obviously made the calculation that in todays modern climate, i cannot continue to hold this position. This is interesting. I said this at the beginning of bidens campaign. People were very concerned, wow, the long history, when it comes to crime, when it comes to bank regulation, that will sneak up on him and ive said his defense is always going to be, look, i grow, i can change my mind, it is not changing from 40 to 42 and i think he will have the same teflon feeling that trump had, and democrats want him so bad, that they want him to beat trump, they will let him go, and i changed my mind. And i think what the candidates are hoping for, with the stuff in the last years will stick, the first example of how he can gracefully pivot. And as the Trump Campaign have said and others have said, this is a cave to the left. He is a devoutd catholic. This is something that he believes in his core. He supported the mexico city policy over the years. The Hyde Amendment. That in a period of 24 hours, he heard noise from the left and quickly changed his core. I will go on the theory that ordinarily we get the flipflop, but i think once he says he will have the same thing trump had, the same shiny halo that people will let it slip off. When youre a frontrunner, a lot of stuff comes with the frontrunner that includes other candidates, silently quietly pushing on you that is a position that is not really tenable to the modern Democratic Party which has moved to the left. So much focus on him and obviously the press focuses on these flipflops or changes in position. And theyre not going to let him quote completely get away with it. So he is, you know, when youre the frontrunner, it comes with a lot of baggage and it is not the easiest place to be. It is also the Vice President , katty kay, has been challenged on not being progressive enough and the moderate guy that can appeal to the youngstown and scranton and win those states back and he has to make moves that appears to be a nod to the left. And it is interesting that he chose to do so after this one, he clearly feld after heidis questioning and reporting that it is not a tenable position. The Democratic Party has not changed as perhaps those on twitter and social media and those progressive voices would have us think it has changed. He is not changing his position on everything. But he did do so on this one. Realizing it was sought of step economically and socially as well with the Democratic Party base. Because it hit poor women. And particularly because it hits poor women of color who are often the ones seeking abortions in states that they can. And i think it is interesting to watch the issues on which he does change and where he feels he is in step and out of step with the Democratic Party as he sees it. Here is the rejoinder to all of this. If biden does become the nominee, the polling tells us that the majority of the public actually still supports the Hyde Amendment, so what youre seeing here is that within moments of biden switching his position, the rnc, the Trump Campaign all pouncing on this as a flipflop. So while biden has neutralized this arguably, well see, in a democratic primary, if he is the candidate, if he is the nominee, he is definitely going to get hammered on this by the republicans. Still ahead on morning joe, as u. S. Allies gathered in normandy, two other World Leaders were meeting in moscow. Theyre chinas president , called Vladimir Putin his best friend during a threeday visit to russia. Well talk about that next with admiral James Stavr