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summer. hey, do you work? what do you do? usually when an 81-year-old does that much traveling through europe, it s on a viking river cruise. [ laughter ] good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, june 13th. we re going to bring you the very latest from the g7 summit in italy. president biden is there meeting with world leaders and also talking support for ukraine. that s a top priority there. meanwhile, there s a lot happening today on capitol hill. donald trump will be in washington to meet with lawmakers from both chambers, setting up his first face-to-face with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in more than three years. it comes a day after a partisan vote in the house, holding merrick garland in contempt of congress. we re going to dig into all of that straight ahead. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former treasury official and economic analyst steve ....
House republicans last night, house democrats aren t scheduled to be briefed until 5:00 p.m. later today. have you spoken with democratic leader jeffries or president biden since the deal was announced last night? i have not spoken with either of them, although i have been texting with leader mcjeffries. although i did get a lengthy briefing from a top white house official lale brainerd called me immediately when the deal with us released last night to tell me, it sounds like what happens not everybody was on the same page in terms of when the deal was going to be announced. and i think there was supposed to be a final review, so i think it got announced to republicans quicker than expected. at the end of the day, i don t like pramworks. i think they are really problematic in terms of being able to make a decision. it s fine to say, we ve reached an agreement and principle, but all of the texts matters. ....
Our military who desperately need it. but is it your view, what would you say to the president about being willing to come down off of his number in order to get some kind of dialogue going? i would say negotiate, mr. president and the vice president told house republicans last night that the administration is very interested in negotiating. the problem is they hadn t had really anybody on the other side. so i don t know what s been said in those meetings, what i do know as i mentioned is if this were any other sort of problem, you d get the staff together, you d meet somewhere in the middle and could solve it pretty quickly. that s what needs to happen here. congressman mac thornberry, thank you so much. thanks for being with us today. i appreciate it. thank you. and coming up, reading between the lines, botched redactions exposing new details on mueller s paul manafort case. you re watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. ....
Together. i think that something will happen, i hope, otherwise we ll go about it in a different manner and i don t think we ll have to do that but you never know. in a few moments i ll sign legislation continuing my administration s extensive efforts to combat the scourge of human trafficking. i spoke about it last night, human trafficking. as you see, the president is signing the legislation. this is taped about a half hour ago in the oval office, the tape was then brought back, it s been played back is playing out now but joining me now is senator tim kaine. senator, you watched the speech last night and we ll go back when the president starts taking questions. but from the speech last night, and from criticisms from republicans that there s been no give on the democratic side, now, let me pause it that the president has to come down from 5.7 billion but is there something in the middle? republicans saying to me if you started with $2 billion and ....
Actually going right up to this border fence, and you can speak to somebody on the other side. now, this as you mention, andrea, the funding was set aside during the bush administration back in 2006. the actual fence was constructed just several years ago. before that here, there was a chain link fence. for the most part, people could traverse here, even though it was illegal to do so, they did it into the surrounding community here. came in, got water and food and went back across. they can t do that any more. there s also a few feet of steel beneath this to prevent tunnelling. but this is the type of barrier now that the president is talking about that is needed across the border. advocates here on the border we spoke with daca recipients last night that watched his address, first primetime address in the oval office. they were watching very closely, so this debate is raging on. the president still has many supporters here along the southwest border, people who say he should stick ....