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Pop cull culture and politics, which is basically who we are right now. >> jon heilemann i was busy with my kids yesterday. i didn't see the story until late last night. my first reaction is wait, this has happened two days after roseanne? are the entertainment gods just -- putting a test out there to see how tone-deaf the left can be? how tone-deaf popular media can be? i will restate the fact that this was a taped segment. they taped it. they looked at it. they put it on the air. then after putting it on the air they were so proud of it they put it front and center on their website. so you c...

Good comes out of this. but yesterday for anybody that has spent any time how north korea plays the united states and the west yesterday wasn't a surprise at all. we've always been concerned here. that there's been a belief inside the white house, even before they got sworn in, that history was going to start on january 20th, 2017. they were contemptuous of history. contemptuous of being told this is how history is unfolded in the past. they say you guys don't get it. everybody is getting it wrong. but the problem of not knowing history is what, jon heilemann. >> condemned to repeat it. isn't ...

>> again? >> it keeps happening. >> in this case it's kim jong un moving that football. and president trump, not charlie brown, left swinging in the air. >> so many times before. >> as it has happened, sometimes before. north korea has done a 180. pulling the plug on meetings with the south and threatening to scuttle a planned sit-down with president trump. welcome to "morning joe," it's wednesday, may 16, we have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and executive producer and co-host of showtime's "the circus" jon heilemann. >> it seems a little unfair to compare kim jong un to luc...

University to get an extra $100 in his pocket. could this president possibly say, wow, maybe i can make an extra few hundred grand by getting these -- you go that's not possible. but then you go of course it's possible. clearly none of us know the answer to that. michael, as i said, he, when i spoke to him yesterday, he said i'm still in a fighting mood, he said corey lewandoski got $2 million. whether or not we think it's sleazy, the big questions are, did any of it go back to trump? and let us not get head-faked away from russia. because we'll still always come back to the russian money. i t...

That job and could squeeze the resources going to mueller. so senator blumenthal tells me he is working with a number of republicans on this. they think that it will bring more pressure to bear on mcconnell, because every republican you talk to, up on the hill seems to agree when you talk to them, that this investigation needs to continue unimpeded and at the same time, we're seeing this escalating rhetoric coming not only from the president, but from everyone around him. from giuliani to now the vice president and reportedly now even john kelly. >> and jon heilemann, it's what we are entering...