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Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 11:51:00

For all that he was the greatest salesman in the world. in one on one conversations kelly tried to gently nudge trump away from his incendiary language toward north korea, telling him that he could unintentionally set off a conflict if his language was misread. you re pushing him to prove he s a man, kelly said to trump. if you push him into a corner, he may strike out. you don t want to box him in. let s bring in michael schmidt right now. michael, there are so many revelations here. one has to do with the fact how shocked general kelly was at just how ignorant donald trump was in the basics of foreign policy, and i often try to explain to people, what people consider to be maniacal of donald trump is pure ignorance at types. he had no grasp on the basics of foreign policy, quote, why did we go to war in north korea. ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 12:03:00

Donald trump and whether they were morally compromised, people that stayed in while donald trump was still there. general kelly people that waited to write a book. general mattis stayed in a long time. there were a lot of people that stayed in a long time, and there are constantly people chirping from the cheap seats saying you need to get out, you need to get out, and the further we get away from it, the more we realize that these people, kelly s one of them, general mattis is another, they actually did think, and i think for good reason that they were serving their country, trying to stop somebody worse from coming in, someone who s extraordinarily unpopular with certain people. debra birx, you know, she held on as long as she could and people were saying, oh, she needs to get out. she s letting him lie, et cetera, et cetera, well, she knew that whatever followed her ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 11:57:00

That, you know, because of her aesthetics, he didn t like her as a potential, you know, senior administration official or as a potential vice presidential replacement for pence who trump was complaining as far back as then owed him, that pence owed him because trump had saved pence from political ruin when he picked him in 2016 to be his vice president. willie, obviously shocking and yet not surprising at all. i mean, the only question this from a man with do they not have mirrors in mar-a-lago? i think they have mostly mirrors in mar-a-lago based on the decor i have seen from some of the photographs. the quote, he said, donald trump, according to general kelly is of nikki haley, she has that skin thing. she doesn t look good for me. didn t like her complexion, he said, there was something wrong. i don t know what he s talking about there. i don t either. bigger picture, mike. ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 11:37:00

Called appropriate authorities and turned them over. we spent a year and a half watching the drama unfold in mar-a-lago and it had to end in a police search to recover the documents. and there is what makes all the difference. apples and oranges. makes all the difference when you re talking about investigations. the biden team finds it, they immediately notify the doj, they return the documents, willie, take care of it immediately. trump fights for a year and a half. i mean, i know josh hawley is not stupid. i mean, is he one of those yale boys? i think he s one of those ivy league boys. i know he s not stupid. lindsey certainly knows that there s a huge difference too. a year and a half, a year and a half that trump lied his lawyers lied, they fought, they hid the documents, moved the documents the day after the doj called, ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 12:04:00

Would be worse, and sure enough we got atlas who was an absolute nightmare, and so looking back on it, i think in that debate, it s very clear that those that went in that were qualified that put up with all of the garbage they put up with were saving us from a worse situation. we found it can always get worse and it did, exponentially after these people left. yeah, i mean, you just have to look at the difference between john kelly and mark meadows, right, in terms of their relationship with trump and the degree to which they tried to reign in his worst instincts. that north korea example is so interesting because kelly was right that you didn t want to push kim jong un into a position where he may feel his manhood was being threatened and so he had to act out. now, unfortunately trump s way that he responded to that was he went 180 and exchanged love letters with him, and that was unhelpful, and the summits were ....

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