What conservatives used to believe. and it is just like everything else with that former president. and hutchinson told cnn that a presidential run in 2024 is quote on the table. he also said that the republican party needed to move on from former president donald trump. move on. this is fascinating. jonathan lemire, fascinating. you re seeing more people speak out against president biden. you re also seeing what is going on in georgia. a big, big challenge of donald trump from governor kemp who looks like he s going to crush donald trump s selected opponent david perdue. yeah, i think we should stipulate trump is still by far the most powerful force in the republican party. period. that said. but there are some cracked emerging here. where we have some republicans willing to speak out against him. kemp, though certainly was behind the driving force behind
L.a. where they drive 55. i think. never. they actually can t. there is too much traffic. you can t drive 55 on the 405. what is that? you don t drive 55 on the 405. no, you don t. now reporting from axios, mark esper said president trump wanted to shoot demonstrators who were filling the streets around the white house following the murder of george floyd. according to a new memoir out this morning he said trump asked, quote, can t you just shoot them. just shoot them in the legs, or something. he was fired by trump after the 2020 election and esper will be our guest next tuesday morning for the new book. jonathan lemire, this is something that we heard at while the protests were going on, that donald trump had wanted to shoot the protesters.
Voters that gave biden the white house along with african american support, back in 2020. they feel like those are the same voters who are so turned off by this republican extremism that they might be willing to come back and stay with the democrat this is fall. ander that cheering for, that if elon musk indeed takes twitter, they hope the first thing he does is put donald trump back on it. they think if he starts tweeting again, it will simply remind the voters of the crazy that accompanied his time in the office, around january 6. and elamfy the fringe candidates and that could only be good for democrats. bring his back. he s crazier than ever. this is from today s wall street journal talking about the lunatics that have taken over the republican party in wisconsin. this is what the wall street journal said. it isn t hard to figure out what
Wonderland element to this. we used to talk about this all of the time. that was the big issue. and we look around and say we re in the middle of a pandemic how is it possible that stocks are this high. so everything is relative. you see the prices come down but maybe the truth is you should look at where prices were pre-pandemic. and certainly the price of the stocks not necessarily commensurate to the health of the economy and that is a lesson that donald trump never wants anyone to learn because he would brag about it all of the time. and that is where we are now. and talk about what we should expect from the federal reserve with i think you re going to see a 50 basis point rise, some people are talking about 75 points. and how fast do you go, interestingly there was a wealth effect issue which is to say that if stocks continue to come down, you could argue that that actually zp-does a little bit of work for jay powell. they re trying to reduce demand and if the market comes down, the head of that, that unto
Or i forgot who it is. a personal friend of donald s. a endorsement to a guy whose name he can t remember. just like kev. steve. coming up, april was a tough month for the nasdaq which posted the worst month since the 2008 financial crisis. warren buffett had strong words to say about that. plus a powerful tornado tore through wichita, kansas, leveling hundreds of buildings. look at this. we ll have more on that storm and the damage it did when morning joe returns. morning joe returns. crossed the desert s bare, man. i ve breathed the mountain air, man. of travel i ve had my share, man. i ve been everywhere. i ve been to: pittsburgh, park gravelbourg, colorado, ellensburg, cedar city, dodge city, what a pity.
Adversaries clearly having benefited from threat inflation and our assessment, we might be able to scale back some of what think of those threats to be. so i think we really need to rethink the mix with our military and think about the next generation threats we re going to face. all right. columnist david rothkopf and chief of staff to europe colonel brendan kearney. thank you so much. and coming up, more on war in ukraine. leiv schreiber will be our guest. we ll talk about the work he s doing to help dozen of ukraine aid groups and his recent trip to the region. and he has ukraine background. his mom was ukrainian. and andrew ross sorkin on the slowdown of the global economy and why warren buff set blasting wall street. we ll also have new reporting that former donald trump wanted
We re just talking at the top of the show about the difference between joe biden and his approach to the press, not calling them enemies of the people, and donald trump, who not only called the press enemies of the people but wanted to send some to jail, threatened to send some to jail and now of course you have here donald trump because people protesting, asking secretary of defense why they couldn t just shoot the protesters. yeah, we ve had reports before that trump asked this but it certainly carries more weight coming from the former secretary of defense. and i think it is important to briefly reinstruct those days in late may and early june of 2020 where after george s death there were protests across the country including some big ones outside of the white house in lafayette park there. and one night, and only one did things get a little bit out of hand and there was a fire at a church nearby and that when trump and his family were put into the safe room, the emergency bunker in the white