leave, i don't leave. >> do you think he would look into a camera and say i was wrongsa and than he'd gracefull say i'll let somebody else be the president? then what? he'd pack a suitcase and physically walk out of white house? and notou be the president anymore? no. he'd make us drag him out like an uncooperative toddler. you know that's true. >> good morning. welcome to "morning joe." withe us we have mike barnicle sam stein, pulitzer prize winning columnist eugene robinson, washington anchor for bbc world news america katty kay and political reporter for "the washington post" and moderator of washington week on pbs, robert costa. good to have you all on board this morning. >> since we've got two red sox fans here.

a big win last night, mike. >> that was a huge win. largely because of rick casella going seven innings. the bullpen showedn up. >> it like s's like six in a ro now. >> more than half was against the orioles. i don't know if we can count -- >> of course you can. they all count. >> they all count. >> we have a lot to get to this morning. >> cange we keep talking about >> no, you can't. the united states is sending approximately 1,000 additional troops to the middle east in a move thatth comes amid heighten tensions with iran and is in addition to the roughly 1,500 additional troops president trump announced he was sending to theas region back in late ma. in a moment we're going to get a live report from nbc's bill neeley in dohar, qatar.

and mitch mcconnell says congress will fund the 9/11 fund and he doesn't know why john stewart is all bent out of shape. we'll tell you why. and president trump is kicking off his campaign today. trump bashed results last night in ash tweet writing fox news polls are alwaysti bad for me. they were against crooked hillary also. something weird going on at fox. our a polls show us leading in l 17 swing states. wow. >> we have to stop right there very quickly. sam stein fired his pollster because his internal polls were worse than fox news's polls.

>> they were supposedly fake polls so there was no need to firene the pollster if they're fake, right? i'm aprmazed by this tweet. i didn't know there were 17 swing state and that trump is leading all of them. >> getting pounded by double di digits in wisconsin, michigan, losing in north carolina, losing by 17 points in virginia. you go to all the swing states. downin in georgia by 6 points, only ahead by 2 in texas. >> some with would argue that was why he wasth selling out america to get some foreign countryet to help cheap. the polls are so bad, there's no other way to win. >> forget the pollsters. to be in that position at this point in his presidency when the economy is doing very well is not a great or enviable

electoral position and i think heto knows it. >> it's because of his campaign manager. he is his own campaign manager. >> but he can't fire himself. >> given the state of the economy, what else would you talking about as a candidate? >> economy, economy, economy. donald trump, it's hard to remember a time when he wasn't in politics but what worked for donald trump so well from august -- actually, from june of 2015 through the primary and then even into the general election, he snuck in doing the same inthing. narrow casting, playing to the base, saying basically to hell with college-educated people, to hell with people in the suburbs, to hell with young are whier wh people. that's brought us to where wete are. i'm asking this question for people like you to have a great read of what's going on inside the white house. yousi know trump as well as

anybody that reports on him. when trump says he's ahead in 17 states, does donald think he's ahead in 17 states or does he understand that actually he's really facing an uphill battle right now? >> to answer that question, you haveo to think back to that period you just described, 2015-2016 when reporters would go up to the trump tower. he would have all these picture frames from "the apprentice" on the wall. he would say my ratings are doing really well. thise is back in 2015. we'd say what do you mean by yourdo rating? he meant his polling. polling to him is connected to an almost personal way to his own popularity and status. he's sensitive to polling because heve sees it as politic ratings. that's whypo people in his circ

are reluctant to give him bad polling information. he doesn't just take it as data, he takes it as a reflection of his own popularity, but he does want to see the data. he does see there are some weak spots across the country in some of these swing states. when youse talk about who he's playing to, joe, he really believes he has to stoke his base to have any chance in 2020. that's why they keep coming back to immigration and back to trade. >> mika, i'm so glad that bob brought up "the apprentice" because it had an extraordinary run. >> he used to send us ratings and circle stuff and write little notestu to us. >> so had an incredible run. everybody in his agency told him not to do it. he did it anyway. and he was right. and whathe an incredible run. but on the back side of "the apprentice"'s success, he will

still faxll us ratings, number e again! donald. you look at the ratings and it would be like 17. i'd hand it to mika. do you get this? i don't understand this. and it's so funny. i don't know what year it was. maybe it was in 2011 or 2012, but it was the end of a remarkable run. but we could not figure out how he was saying he was number one. there are a lot of people that will tell you this story, he would fax it around, "still still number one." >> during the height of his birther story stuff, he went on "the view" or something and i put out some random tweet is this all like theater or does he actually believe this stuff? about ave week later i got a pie of mail from him scribbled over

it said "we'll never know but it's great ratings." i foolishly did not hang on to that. >>t to he also complained on hi interview with abc and his mind was on crowd size. the south florida sun sentinel notes the line was about 50 people long and a had grown to 0 people by 9:30 last night. at the same time the president was tweeting that thousands of people are already lined up in orlando some two days before the rally. this as sunday night's abc news special that the president personally t promoted on social media turned out to be a ratings bust. the show was third in its sunday nighttime slot with 3.91 million

viewers, a sharp drop from the week before when "celebrity family feud" pulled in 6.1 million viewers. so he didn't get the ratings. >> well, it's the feud, man. >> i think the question, gene, going into 2020 is going to be whether the excitement's still there for trump, how much can you gin it up. at some point even shows that have great runs like "the apprentice," at somee point th just grow old and people turn away and go to another story. i wonder if you look at everything we've been talking about this morning whether starting to happen here. ig will say this, trump people who still when i ask are you still supporting him, they almost to a person go love him, we voted for him, we'reil goingo vote for him again but then they'll go oh, god, but his

tweets make me so tired. he has exhausted them. >> he really has. i thinke we, if anything, underestimate how desperate he's getting already at the signs that there's just trump exhaustion out trthere, that th base is going to take a whole lot more stoking, even more stoking thanen he did last timea lot more stoking to get him out and in comparable numbers. if you look at the -- i saw some figures a few weeks ago on responses to his tweets. and that's way down. there's -- people become desensitized over time and i think some people have become desensitized, others have just wandered away, others have been appalled by various things he's done.va ande' so i think if, you know, looks really k frantic right no but i think we haven't seen

anything yet. i think it's going to get much, much, much worse before it gets any better. >> there are different arguments for why the frantic behavior and such bold faced lying, too. george stephanopoulos, just completelyou refuting the reali of the polls. ihe guess some could argue thers some serious ramifications waiting for him from the southern district of new york and from the law, if and when he leaves office after his first term. that could lead to frantic behavior. it could. >>ha a lot of his base supporte still believe him. >> but the reality is -- >> it doesn't matter what the reality is to a lot of his base supporters. let's just admit his lying and tweets is creating an alternative reality as kellyanne conway called it at the very beginning. the creation of the alternative reality has at least worked for 30, 35% of americans and the

other 5% to 10% that support him don't care that he's lying. they like the economy as it is. >> yeah. the question is what's the magic number in his approval ratings mixed with the electoral college system that means he can win or he can't. some people have put it at 44%. he cannot win below 44, 45%, even when you put in the strangenestrange ness of the system. you know the rating is figured from the george stephanopoulos interview from sunday night has got to kill him, he hates the idea he's not doing well. and all the comments about i.c.e. and deportations and families, they're not a reaction, the poll numbers from fox, the n ratings are looking

bad. that seems to go back to the issue that gets to the 35% of the people that still support him and his policies and that's immigration. the i.c.e. agents are telling us they're not ready. they don't want this leaked out. it takes a lot of planning and we're about to start this next week. whenever you see a tweet like that, is it because the president is, reacting to bad newsg internally and he doesn' like llit? >>sn you know what might be his biggest asset? his dominance of the media. there are some very, very good democratic candidates out there running for president. we never really get to them because everything is trump centric. >> he has the platform, the bully pulpit. >> all day every day, his dominance. >> that's one of the things i noticed in the book,ng writing this book --

>> "this end badly." >> thank you very much. now available. is how many times we all knowingly and willingly fell right into the trap. marco rubio endorses nikki haley -- or nikki haley endorses marco rubio. donald trump attacks the pope. who talked about nikki haley endorsing marco rubio after that? this happened every day. >> do you think because it worked for him in the past it will work in the future? >>ll no, i don't -- >> it's damaging the country.

>> i think they're going to be there no matter what. he operates on the idea that any media attention is good for him. he'll say outlandish things, make tweets like he did last night, which could have real bad world implications. i'm not sure that's necessarily a winning formula. >> i don't think if is this year. so many of us were wrong about donald trump in 2016 but he did what he had h to do as a challengeras and then with the help ofhe jim comey bit hillary clinton. bob costa, it's so interesting that donald trump -- the shocking thing about trump's cam pan is in those early states, iowa,es new hampshire, south carolina, my gosh, into super tuesday, he had donald trump,

corey lewandowski and hope hicks. that's it. i've never seen a campaign like it, nobodyi's seen a campaign like it and nobody ever will again. now he's got all the infrastructure he wants and needs. iuc wonder how he performs as a front-runner. even i'm surprised he just can't adjust to the fact that he needs to get the undecideds. he needs to get 5, 6, 7% to went th -- win this year. any sense there's that understanding within the white house? >> we're going to hear a lot about brad pascal and the trump campaign and the new infrastructure and how different it was with hope hicks and corey lewandowski and the plane. when you talk to people who are

in conversation with prum every d -- president trump every evday they are bracing what they say. they say it's going to be so relentless and focused of painting the democrats with the broad brush of socialism, stoking fear on immigration, coming back and attacking the democratic candidates as people who will change the country in destructiveun ways. president trump is ubiquity us. all these candidate who is plan to run a semi-traditional campaign againstad president trp haveca to know that behind the scenes, he cannot wait to go after all of them all day and to go to the extreme in how he frames the democratic party. as you say, this could end badly. politically this willdl be 2016 torqued up even more. that's how the president is talking about it. >> if he wants to distract, he has the platform to do things in

a very big way. still w ahead on "morning joe,"e go live to the middle east to president trump's troop buildup in the region. and also, amy klobuchar is on the set. but first bill karins. >> good morning. travel delays will be plentiful this morning. we have a lot of heavy rain right over the top of nashville. we have 46 million people at risk of flash flooding today. it'sfl poured so many days in a row. it's not going to take much in the southern ohio valley to get more flooding today. we included pittsburgh and even washington, d.c. in that today, too. watch out t oklahoma city. not so many tornadoes today. maybe oney or two. we're more concerned with widespread wind damage late this

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secretary patrick shanahan says the deployment comes following a request from the u.s. central command and is, quote, for defensive purposes to address air, naval and ground base threats in the region. joining the table, the co-host of "morning joe" "first look," yasmin vossoughian. she has new reporting for nbcnews.com on secretary of state mike pompeo meeting with u.n. commanders amid the growing tensions with iran. also from dohar, qatar, bill neely. bill, what's the latest? >> well, on top of the u.s. maximum pressure campaign on iran, we might now have maximum resistance from iran. resistance is build into iran's dna but more than that, also maximum pressure of their own from iran with that announcement yesterday on its ramping up its production of low-grade uranium

and threatening to breach the nuclear deal limit. iran's president saying this morning we don't want to wage war but taking a swipe at the u.s. saying those facing us are a group of politicians with little experience. and as you say, from u.s. central command and the pentagon, an announcement of another thousand u.s. troops to the region. they'll be used for surveillance and intelligence gathering on iran and its proxies. also used to protect u.s. troops from what the pentagon calls a credible threat and it will be used not just here in the gulf but likely in iraq, possibly in syria, too. so just within days we have a military buildup, we have a tax on tankers, we have a nuclear warning from iran and really the problem is no sign of a way out. no talks likely. iran's supreme leader has already dismissed any talks with

president trump. and all we see is a growing confrontation. and certainly here in the gulf from shipping companies who are worried about more attacks on tankers, some of them even asking for military escorts, all the way to governments in moscow and across europe there is real concern that this is leading to potentially a very dangerous confrontation. mika? >> as they used to say on the rocky and bullwinkle cartoon show, i don't know if they played that in england but in the united states i grew up with it. rocket j. squirrel would say "and now for something completely different." you're in doha, i got to ask a question, a couple of hours ago, they arrested one of the top officials, former top officials for bribery connected in awarding the 2022 world cup to

qatar. i'm wondering what the reaction is in that country and whether you as a big fan, whether you believe there is any possibility that some people are talking about now the world cup made be moved to england in 2022. >> it is certainly something very different, the former captain and star player of the french national team who became a big fish in europe football. he has been arrested for questioning about the awarding to this tiny gulf state of the next world cup. it was controversial from the very minute that it was announced. you'll remember, joe, that both russia and qatar were awarded the two world cups at the same time. and to be absolutely honest and put it frankly, many people said this just stinks and it stinks

of money. qatar is not one of the great powers in world football. it's true they have just, you know, won an asian championship. they just beat i think it was paraguay last night. the world cup had to be moved from the summer to the winter. there have always been allegations that actually it won it simply through big bucks. so platini is being questioned. a big blow for his reputation, whether i whether it's true or not. many are questioning whether qatar should host a world cup. they have a great infrastructure with air conditioned stadium. it would be a huge blow for not just qatar but the middle east in general and the growth of world football. but nevertheless, something here

stinks and that's why platini is being investigated right now. >> showing range, bill neeley. >> thanks, bill. you. >> don't want to talk about the world cup because i've been studying it. >> she has range, too. >> it was just total chaos. they never played. >> if aman were here, he'd talk about the world cup. yesterday i got a call saying pompeo was headed to centcom but there was nothing public saying he was heading to centcom. i this i what bill said, the timing and optics of this is very interesting. he's going to meet with general mckenzie to talk about

additional troops they'll be sending to the middle east. as mika mentioned, in late may, 1,500 troops were approved to be sent to the middle east. on top of that now a thousand plus troops being isn't as well. the opt, of this and grand scheme of this is what 2,500 troops is blip on the radar. it's not a lot of troops to be heading to the middle east. hearing from what iran said yesterday, they do not want confrontation from the united states, they do not want to go to war with the united states, but if they are attacked, they have said they will respond. >> so what is the purpose of sending these troops? if it just a blip, what is the objective here? >> i think it the optics of it all. they want iran to be see they're serious about all of this, right? and if iran is responsible for the oil tanker attacks, but iran continues to deny, iran is saying it's going to be expensive if you want to go to

war on us. look at the crude oil prices that went up friday after those attacks. >> you have the secretary of state, not the secretary of defense. >> the acting secretary of defense still. >> which donald trump is growing more skeptical of by the day. >> so, cattkatty, there's alway been a disconnect between the united states and our closest allies, whether it had to do with iraq but also through decades with iran. we've always taken a much harder line, position, against iranian adventu adventurism. is there skepticism regarding the claims? >> there's been some skepticism expressed -- more by japanese. shinzo abe was in iran when it was attacked and he would like to see more evidence. there is the desire to see more

evidence. the americans say they have the iron-clad evidence. they've released more images but those images don't show them putting the mine on the ship. it shows them taking it away from the ship. after two and a half years of donald trump saying things that aren't always true, when the american administration now says we have evidence that it was iran who did the attacks, you're starting to get the reaction, well, show us the evidence. now that they accept it. clearly this is not an assault force, not a land invasion force. it seems these are more defensive and protective of american interests. the americans are aware if this tension raches up and we get into some kind of conflict by mistake, which is what i'm being told is the most likely possibility at this point, then

up need to have your diplomats, your a workers, your personnel protected and that's what these two and a half thousand troops are going to do. >> i'd love to hear from cabinet members that were in the trump administration but left. i'd love to hear from mattis, from anybody and talking about the erosion in our credibility on the world stage, which could could not be. we have a policy that is completely at odds with our own policy with respect to nuclear weapons.

>> they're saying we were there for years and years and came up with an agreement so how are we supposed to trust them now? >> the lack of a secretary of defense is at the moment worrying allies. diplomats felt that general mattis, who was no softy when it came to iran, acted as a bulwark against bolton on the issue of military force against iran and because there is only an acting there sitting in the situation room, that doesn't have the same weight as the pentagon saying to the nsa, let's push back against this and look at al tern it hte scenarios. >> we've been hearing for years people saying because of donald trump's -- let's just say his -- well, his untruths, his deliberate untruths as the soviets used to say at some

point that would affect the united states because if they couldn't trust trump with the small thing, they couldn't trust him with the big thing. >> no one is going to believe this administration without seeing ironclad evidence. looking at the big picture, somebody tells me how this ends. the administration has had this policy basically from day one of maximum pressure on iran, cancelling the nuclear agreement, punishing sanctions that have crippled the iranian economy. now you see the iranians rather predictably striking back. let's assume they are

responsible for these attacks. they have threatened to resume producing the production of nuclear materials beyond what the agreement allows, which is alarming europeans who are parties to the deal and others, alarming everybody. so if the idea was to squeeze the iranians till they hurt and they lash out, then that's been successful but now what? what is a diplomatic offering? because a policy that's just based on the expectation of total and complete capitulation does not seem to me likely to work with iran. it hasn't everyone worked and i don't think it's going to work now. so where do you end up if you don't end up in some sort of conflict, either accidental or deliberate. i'm trying to figure out how this ends. >> so bob costa, where does this

end? if you follow drumm and honald his campaign rhetoric, where does this end? doesn't this end with the united states backing down? >> if the follow the president's oil policy, can find a common thread when it comes to oil. look at venezuela, the administration got aggressive down there, was heavily involved in the standoff in venezuela. now a shipping lane for the oil in the middle east, the gulf of oman, a presence to warn off people in venezuela or the iranians, but this is a real test for president trump. as much as his advisers tell reporters he has noninterventionist instincts, he has real pressure from the business community to take pressure and haubsin side his administration to take military action. he sits in the chair.

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i is know the best people, i know the best managers. but the cabinet, we're going to all the best people. we're going to find out who they are. >> we need to get the best and the finest and if we don't, we'll be in trouble for a long period of time. >> then-candidate donald trump promised to surround himself with the best people if elected for president, but now according

to the "new york times," he holds record for white house staff turnover, cabinet turnover and highest turnover within a single department. with last week's announcement of white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders' resignation making the 50th departure from the top of the trump administration. it's interesting some of those people are still there and you don't even know they're there. sarah sanders had not done her job for quite some time. so i'm not sure what she was doingjoini doing. joining us now, alexander n nazaran. he's out today with "the best people." i forget zinke was there and pruitt was there and pruitt kicking down the door. >> we don't want to know.

>> hhs secretary. >> so talk about it. what did you find in writing this? what is causing this remarkable turnover? >> i wrote this book because i knew that trump was dangerous, but i wanted to find out what specifically is dangerous about this administration to ordinary americans, right? and what i found is that trump is often a distraction from trumpism and this administration for all its chaos, all of its incompetence does get a lot done. and it often does it by using trump himself as a diversionary tactic. look, they have confirmed two supreme court justices, they've overturned -- they got us out of the iran deal, out of paris and i wanted to know how have they

managed to do this despite this every day incredible every day chaos, the incredible incompetence of a lot of the people around trump and in his cabinet. >> so they're incompetent. the question is, though, are they quietly on the side while donald trump's distracting, are they get a lot of things done in their agencies, moving things forward democratically? >> that's exactly it. it's not even the carsons or the pruitts doing this. it's the republican functionaries, a deep state of heritage foundation and federalist society activists who have been dying to do this stuff since probably the middle of the first obama administration, sort of where i place a lot of this beginning. >> so policy-wise, give us a couple of policies that maybe

americans haven't followed that have been -- >> accomplishments. >> i would say our environmental policy has gone back to -- i don't want to sound alarmist but perhaps the beginning of the nixon administration at this point. they've utterly eviscerated the e.p.a., which is why i used nixon, because he started it. our protections on land and water and air are utterly gone. protections for students are gone. for-profit colleges are allowed to take advantage of young people again. it's stunning stuff. >> when you're talking about getting things done, you're talking about destructive things, pulling out of deals, pulling out of things that might be helping our society involving in a productive way. >> yes. and they're banking on us not paying attention.

>> when it comes to the staffing of the president, it seems from your book that the original season, if you want to call it that, was the transition team. and chris christie, who was at the time heading the transs tit team -- >> didn't he get fired two days after trump -- >> yes. >> well, the transition happens before the election and christie had been tasked with getting everybody in order, resumés lined up, going through people's records to make sure they get vets. was it just a mess? what does your reporting reveal? >> perhaps chris christie did not have the best transition in place, but it was better than what the trump team had

afterwar afterwards. just having very little sense of how to staff a government, if any sense at all. and, you know, bannon in this book unloads on christie. he actually calls him deranged at one point. i can't use the actual words bannon used. at the same time, what did bannon have in place and the answer is nothing. so that original sin, they never recovered from that turbulence. >> gene robinson. >> yeah. so who is the worst? i mean, looking at these -- the worst maybe is not the best way to put it but who was the cabinet member who is -- who jumps out at you as perhaps the most inappropriate and then who is the most effective at getting the stuff done sort of in the background? >> that's an excellent question,

gene. i just wonder how much time we have to answer it. >> three-hour show. >> good, we'll be halfway done by then. i think betsy devos has been effective. we've been distracted around issues of her brother prince, blackwater is involved in the mueller report. at the same time she has rolled back ver ul, whether it's for-profit colleges, college loans. most of that is gone or attempted to roll it back and weren't competent enough to roll it back and now are sort of suck if this prg. it's hard to remember a less --

i mean in the history of the united states. >> the book is "the best people rng trump's cabinet and the siege on washington." it's out today. >> still ahead, we'll talk about what's next for trump's former campaign person coming up on "morning joe." ning joe."

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>> impeachment. if you're going to cough, please leave the room. >> all right, i'll go. you're digging your own grave. >> robert mueller was conflicted. he had numerous conflicts. >> you're talking yourself into prison. >> he said there is no collusion. >> he didn't say there's into collusion. >> shut your mouth, you crazy

bastard! >> was that mick mulvaney coughing? >> in real life, yeah. >> so trying to make him stop talking. >> you think so? >> that's the theory. >> come on, nobody does that in the middle of a network news -- >> you never know. >> it is allergy season. >> please stop talking. idiot. >> mike barnicle and sam stein are still here. >> going to jail. >> katty kay polite enough not to cough. and candidate for president, senator amy klobuchar. >> are you guys just going to cough through my whole interview? >> so obvious. great to have you.

>> we'll talk about the debate. that's really big news. we can't wait to see what happens on those two nights. first i want to talk about your 100-day plan. f.d.r. famously had his first 100 days. newt gingrich put together called a contract with america and everyone is says it's a contract for america, something like 50% of the democrats voted for it. it was really pretty remarkable, laying out a 100-day plan. kept everybody so disciplined. you knew what you were going to do before you got there and those first 100 days were extraordinarily efficient. when we got beyond it, newt sort of wandered off into the fields sometimes but this is a precursor to say i think everybody should do what you're doing right now and say this is how i'm going to start my first 100 days. >> thank you. the idea and i've used this in

other management jobs i've had. you've got to have sprints and you've got to have marathons. the sprints are important because you've got a president creating chaos all the time. there are so many things we can do right away. prescription drugs. you can as a president order that less expensive drugs come in from safe countries to create that competition. as a president you can stop the deals where pharmaceuticals are paying off generics to keep their products off the market. can you sinus back into the international climate change agreement on day one. you don't need congress to do that. you can bring back the clean power rules that have been negotiated for years that the president left on the cutting room floor. can you stop the actions to throw the dreamers out and the actions to throw the people here on legal temporary status out and of course you start introducing the big bills. but think about all the things you can do immediately, including stopping sending the

mean tweets that will set a different tone. as you said, what i like about this, i did it when i was chief prosecutor, your friends see it, yes. your employees see it, yes. but you know who else sees it? maybe the people who aren't on your side. they can see these things we're okay with, these are things we're going to fight but you have a clear direction as a leader. >> let's talk about people who may not be naturally on royour side if you're president of the united states, that being the republican party. a little skirmish broke out yesterday between joe biden who said we've got to work with the other side and others who said, no, you can't work with the other side. if you think back over it, you can take barack obama's eight years in office, you can take donald trump's two and a half years in office, we've gone over a decade without a significant piece of bipartisan legislation.

>> well, we did pass the tarp bill, which was a response to an emergency, right. but i think that was over a decade. that was at the end of bush continued into the beginning of obama. >> and, in fact, the last six years of barack obama's administration, there wasn't a significant piece of legislation passed. how do you move washington past where it is right now? >> well, there were some bills i have to say that got some support with a few republicans, but not in the way that you are talking about. i think that people are crying out for change. they want to see a different washington. i'm not a pollyanna about mitch mcconnell. i've worked with him now for over a decade but i know there are republicans that want to move immigration reform. they know we need more people working in our factories and in our fields and that we can't continue the way we are.

it's an economic imperative that we move and get that debt reduction from that 158 billion, you can use part of it at the border, part of it to help those free country countries so you st step, they know we need to move on getting our trade agreements in a better place, that we need o bring down health care premiums, do something about farma. up hear the republicans talking about anty trust for the first first time. i'm the ranking on that committee. as president in a hundred days i can order a review of the horizontal and vertical mergers. you can do things without bills from congress. >> but there is middle ground for republicans and democrats alike. i'm talking about the contract with america. the democrats hated it but some of the legislation was so positive that they had to vote

for it. they couldn't go home without voting for it. and people saying, oh, republicans are going to be against everything. well, you make them an offer they cannot refuse and you put it on the house floor and go, oh, okay, you're going to vote, you go ahead and vote against this. >> infrastructure? see what happens with that when your people are crying out because they've got a bunch of potholes or they want to get their transit structure in or bridge. my idea is i've got 100 pills that have passed since i've been in the senate and then a hundred bills we can do in the first 100 days and i truly believe these are things we can do. and then we'll have your next goals. when you do this, you got to have a hundred days and your end goals and up set them oyou set e and up know they're going to resist on some of them but you

set out the ones you can get done right away. >> before you get to your first 100 days, you're president-elect of the united states of america, you've got 40% of the people outside of the ballpark, 40% sitting on the other side of the ballpark. what do you do, what do you say, where do you go to try and heal this country? >> we need to bring the heart back into american politics. and i think a lot of how do you that, mike, is by how you run a campaign. it's how you talk in a campaign, how you bring people in. and i'm mostly talking about a general election here. and that means you say, look, we have a lot more in common as america than this donald trump's world where he wakes up every morning and goes after immigrants or as you were talking about earlier on a show, is sending us rashly back out into the middle east when we had an agreement, the nuclear agreement that may not have been perfect but would have completely prevented this from

happening to begin with. people are attuned to politics right now. they can figure this out. so you reach out to those people and up set the tone from the day you win, you set the tone from that night about how you're going to have a different america where you're going to respect people. you may not always agree with them, you're going to stand your ground, but when you can find common ground, you pursue that. >> sam stein. >> not to be the resident cynic at the table here. >> well, it's a cynical time. >> i'm looking through your legislation and i just don't see a path to getting any of it done. infrastructure -- >> i would say -- >> hold on. we just talked about infrastructure. there has been bipartisan consensus for infrastructure for a decade now. >> one at a time. >> i have this all wound up. >> i'm sorry, been there, done

that. not as much as the senator. you can put together an infrastructure deal that even mitch mcconnell can't say no to. >> and this year, if you look at that carefully, there are some things you can do immediately on safety and things. big infrastructure deal is probably going to be year end. you need to take that corporate rat down from where this ba you've got that infrastructure financing package, which is bipartisan. that's $300 billion of it. changes the international tax code. you do what he should have been doing in the first place. when he did that big. >> you want to introduce gun

violence legislation. >> sam, you're missing one important ingredient. the house will already passed it. the kids out there demanded it. >> i still have to hit a 60-vote threshold. if you're president and mish mb, election security, which he's standing in the way of right now, would you endorse changing the roles of the senate so you eliminate or lower the threshold for the filibuster? >> first of all, remember, if he wins the senate, that's why i want to lead the ticket because i can win in red states as i've sewn in my elections and help bring my ticket with me. i've done that any r single election i've ever run. so if he is -- then you have the

leverage to use if he doesn't play along. >> would you use that leverage? >> you can put. >> but this is way off. >> way off! >> these are things can you do in the first 100 days on your own that a president can order. can you nominate a bunch of good judges on day one. >> you cannot pass the dream act by fiat. you cannot do gun violence -- >> i don't say that you can pass a dream act. i save we can stop the assault on the dreamers with those court cases that the trump administration is pursuing. you can immediately stop that with one phone call you can stop that. the other things to pass a dream act, what do i say, introduce

hom you want money at the border for personnel, you got to pass gamins it is a bob mueller. >> all right, katty kay has a question. >> okay, senator -- >> i'm getting ready for debates. >> ratherly you've talked about rejoining the paris climate accords would you we've had a president that somehow pissed off the entire country of canada. that isn't easy to do. go to canada, go visit with the

european leaders. with that gave way too much pressure but the point is you have to show that you are serious about getting back into that agreement immediately. and i don't know what he's going to do now except go to congress and brief us so we can figure out what havoc he's wrought here and we would also get involved with an authorization of military force if he is serious about pursuing that. the other this evening would i do is visit our combat troops. that took a while for him. i think that's very important to show the military that you have a leader that's going to have their backs and stand with them. modernize our military, which repeatedly told is a can be

while there have been some efforts made by this administration,y are nowhere where it needs to be to updating our military and of course protecting our election commit nt be a. >> there you go. >> and i'll answer questions while joe coughs. >> because that's not what this is. this is a whole bunch of people there, all of whom have something to say.

i'm glad on tight one, that will be important. obviously depends on influencing those who can be influenced. can so you come across i didn't say to them? what is your message to them moving forward athey wanted something different. a lot of them felt left out because of the economy. i know people that felt that way in my own state. they told me they were voting

for me and they did and two years later they were voting for him. my message is what's been hall. >> most of it went to help the wealthiest. here's one that you might not expect. what's happened to you with robo calls? this is why my plan covers the minute and the big. robo calls went up before donald trump got in office. they were 2 billion a month in america and now they're 5 billion. these are the kinds of things we're dealing with. you go through practical things, the cost of things for them, what has he really he's doning in. he's are they had butt are issues that i loud our candidate it former governor scott walker.

in states that we thought were unwinnable before in the midwest where donald trump had won, people were able to say you know what, these are practical things. you shouldn't get kicked off your insurance for preexisting conditions. that's exactly what this guy is trueing to did and no. you don't want your neighbors going to war when we have an agreement that would have protected them. can you go down the line and make a case, not just the democratic base but to everyone. and those why those debates will give mu the but to make case of how i beat n come on set with us

after miami. >> only if sam is not there. >> i promise you, sam will not be there. >> independent not that bad. i do believe there could be bipartisan condition but supporters are already lining up for his 2020 campaign kickoff rally. nbc's peter alexander joins us live from orlando. plus majority leader mitch mcconnell says he doesn't know why john stewart is bent out of shape. now he's and it really shows.

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president trump is fegsly set to kick off his reelection campaign today in orlando, florida. the event comes amid sagging poll numbers the past few days. joining us from the site of the president's kickoff campaign in orlando, peter alexander. peter. >> reporter: mika, good morning to you. one of those states where the president was said to being lacking was here in the state of florida. this is where he's returning later this evening. you can see the lines are already growing in fact, the official capacity is 25 thousands, still, there is a large crowd already gathering here this morning. the president expected tonight to be joined on stage by the vice president and first lady h

trump expected to be be here as well. aid say he's been personally involved in the planning of this evening. the president last night was trying to rallying -- i spoke to immigration officials last night and they said normally these types of actions are kept secret so as not to tip anything off. if or an actual plan. >> this.

>> the rally, they've gone early. some energized people behind you. >> you can imagine a lot bh these are the folks that remind me what it looked like ahead of the 2016 campaign. >> huge msnbc man. >> should be fascinating. >> it's all be because yesterday i was the keynote speckers, at the el it was a really great crowd. honorees were katie couric,

eleanor homes i was very honored to be there and thank you very much for having me. >> that's fantastic. >> coming up, a growing number of democrats are calling for president trump's impeachment and in somes we'll talk to democrats coming up next on "morning joe." "morning joe."

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after weeks of study and deliberation with orange county families, i decided to support an investigation of the president. >> that was california congresswoman katie porter, the latest lawmaker to come out in support of an impeachment kwirly. worther is a prp.in 1983. dozens of kroots have called for

an impaechlment inquiry will but congress comporter is only the second freshman democrat from a republican leaning district do so. the first was congressman tom ma malinowski of new jersey. the post reports that in recent weeks the chairman of the and the upshot according to democrats familiar with the findings is that the public's impression of the nous p new house majority is bound up in its battles with trump, not in its policy agenda. that has prompted anxiety about

whether the democratic strategy to hold the house in 2020 by focusing on health care costs and other kitchen table issues can be effective amade the president's attacks. or. voters are largely unaware of political developments that don't involve the president. so joining us now, member of the house judiciary committee, democratic congressman david cicilline cicilline of and looking like you're getting something done or actual will getting something done. >> i think the democrat being

ta tack. >> one is to drive down the cost of health care and bree corruption democrats have passed almost 250 pieces of legislate. they range from ten health care bills to equal pay for equal work to veterans' child care benefits to tax cut. at the same time we have to hold this administration accountable and make sure the president doesn't behave like he's above the law and he's accountable for he he ises our responsibility in our own districts to keep communicating what we're getting done. >> so how do you, if a lot of

americans weren't aare form and about the equality act that we been do in opinion of a lot of it has to do with how we're engaging the folks at home. i spend a lot of time in my district in want as parki think it is incumbent upon us to make sure that we're continuing to engage with the folks who elected us and asked us to go to washington, d.c. can. ? when it comes to donald trump, are frchbls the last time i was

home or the time before that we did a mentally behavior health panel where we brought in pokes kroo thes fjs about also and be hear a lot about infrastructure. the medical pchgs and as somebody ons transpore tags and infrastructure commit, i pab opinion we were part of a celebration of a 50th anniversary of stonewall for the dnc. this happens in course the your.

movement was born 50 years ago, the house passed a comprehensive civil rights bill with the vote of every single democrat in the house and eight republicans that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual or yon engs tangnd every bill was bipartisan with the exception of hr-1, it's major reform which -- >> so how do you get past that and how do you not make the connection that a lot of that actually has to do with the other issue, president? >> well, that's right opinion p that would protect positions, that would raise familyin come.

we have to change the composition of the senate. >> at the end of the day mitch mcconnell doesn't answer to the president. he answers to the people of his constituency. >> so putting aside the stalled nature of the equality, i think it's fair to say the gay rights movement has been one of the most successful movements in my generation. what are the lessons you've taken from their successes that you hope to apply not. >> i think that one of the things that we have to keep in mind, by and large -- even stonewall was started by a group of black trans and activists and i think a lot of what we're

seeing in this movement is people who are taking a step back and now as folks who sit in decision-making positions, it's our job to make sure that we're listening to every aspect of not just lgbtq communities but communities that have often been left out of the conversation and what we need to think about is our job is to listen and make the more people in congress doing that, the better off we'll be. >> i hope you come back. >> coming up, jon stewart gave an impassioned speech on capitol hill last week on pee what of 9/11 first responders. last night he was back at it after mitch mcconnell called him bent out of shape. we'll show you what they both have to say. plus, the supreme court upheld a

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rrt donald trump's trade war with china, not great pore americans but, man, it has put a hurting on the chinese. i wouldn't be surprised if there's linkage between a deal that saves face tore donald trump and drot backing off that has to be one of reasons he's going up there the interesting thing about the chinese, you have president chi going to north korea and president chi meeting with vladimir putin. that's an unholy alliance if anyone's ever seen one. moscow, beijing, north korea and donald trump in the middle of it. >> to your point that, would be exactly the trumpian move. create a problem and solve it

saying you're with the american tariffs swak egypt's former preside president mohamed morsi collapsed and died in the courtroom yesterday. he had been in custody after his removal after stay protests. he died of a heart attack, but activist and his family say he was not receiving treatment for high blood pressure.

morsi was 66 years old. >> it's a grim story and let's see there's going to be people who look into this in the historical context of the country, too. >> and a ninth man has died after staying at a resort in the dominican republic. >> can you believe these stories in these people go to a mini bar and have a drink and die of heart conditions and it keeps happening. >> 55-year-old joseph allen was found dead in his room on thursday while celebrating a friend's birthday. and a number of other families reported stories of their relatives mysteriously dying while staying at resorts on the island nation. >> man, i don't want to cut into

the d.r.'s tourism, but, man, not -- >> terrible. >> tough several weeks. >> nobody in my family is going down there, that's for sure. >> especially at that hotel. >> these are just one unexplained heart attack or weird health condition. >> her son, cnn anchor anderson cooper announced her death yesterday. known as the jeans queen, vanderbilt grew up in the 1930s as the great great granddaughter of cornelius vanderbilt and stitched her family name in a $100 million family empire, she was the mother of four sons and wife to four men and had a varied career as a model, actress, poet, painter, author

and mass marketer of designer jeans. cooper said she passed away in her manhattan home with her friends and family by her side. she was 95 years old. >> mika, what an extraordinary life. >> yeah, and our best to anderson. they're very close. >> now to the latest on paul manafort this morning. he's being held in custody in manhattan after the justice department intervened to keep him from going to riker's island. a senior d.o.j. official said mr. manafort's attorney contacted the bureau of prisons and raised questions about his health and safety in prison. the new york prosecutors did not

object and the arrangement will not have an impact on the state's -- >> what mika says is very strange. the d.o.j. deciding to move a prisoner around? >> you should see what happens when rg people like me contact the b.o.p. and try to get favors, my guy has peanut allergies. but when it's -- >> do you have the justice department intervening on behalf of a prisoner? >> once a prisoner is in the custody of b.o.p., once the defendant is sentenced, they are literally property of the b.o.p. so the d.o.j. if they intervene,

it may be persuasive but it's not mandatory. they own that person like cargo. they ship them around wherever they like. >> so if the state had >> to the constitutions double jeopardy clause which allows for states and the federal government to prosecute someone for the same offenses. the case drew a 7-2 majority decision and garnered the decision currently facing fraud

charges. manafort could have benefitted from the clause being overturned a kmid pardon talks. but trump would not be able to pardon manafort for the charges he still faces at the state level. >> the fifth amendment protects defendants from being twice twice. >> but not really. there are so many exceptions to this rule, it is really not a rule. the supreme court took it a step further and said, the fifth amendment allows for this because of the separate sof wren rule. the federal and state government. two sof wrens, two laws. in a way you never reach a double jeopardy. there are so many exceptions. mistrial. one juror holds out. guess what, you've got to pay

the criminal defense attorney. doesn't feel like double jeopardy protected me. in this case, the defendant was charged with the crime at the state level and federal level. he said double jeopardy should protect me. supreme court and court said, it wasn't even close. so many exceptions to the double jeopardy. if the crime has different elements it is considered a choice. >> let's say the federal law is identical to the state statue. you are tried by the feds. can you then say, wait, i was already tried for the identical statute in the state court. if there is any difference between the two, the state can argue effectively, hey, it is not even the same law here. but what if it is the same law

on its face? same language. the state scooped up, picked up the federal law and through it on the state books. >> exactly the same deal here. the doj has a policy. if they want to prosecute, the double jeopardy rule will not prevent that prosecution. they are like separate kingdoms. >> yes, even on their face. same elements they enacted that for different reasons. >> thank you so much.

>> to former daily show host and activist jon stewart who is hitting back against senator majority leader in a growing word of wars. on sunday, stewart called out mcconnell following his testimony on capitol hill last week in which he blasted congress for inaction on the fix to the fooinl victim's fund set to expire early next year. the majority leader dismissed in stewart's concerns. here first is mcconnell followed by stewart. >> many things congress have at the last minute. we have never failed to address this issue. we will address it again. i don't know why he's all bent out of shape. we will take care of the 9/11 victim's kpenation fund. it sounds like he's looking for

a way to take offense. >> you love the 9/11 community when they serve your political purposes. when they are in need, you slow walk and use it as a political pawn and you don't get the job done completely. your answer to that charge is, yeah, duh, we're congress. that's how we do. if you are busy, i get it. just understand the next time we have war or you're being robbed or your house is on fire and you make that call for help, don't get bent out of shape, if they show up at the last minute with fewer people than you thought were going to pay attention and don't actually put it out but leave it smoldering for another five years because that's how [ bleep ]s done around here. no offense. >> all right.

i think point taken. mitch mcconnell has seemed a little aloof on several issues. tell me this guy cares about what needs to be done on washington. don't want to take that one on. still ahead, donald trump and poll numbers and tv rating. amid rising tensions with iran, the u.s. announces plans to send 1,000 more troops to the middle east. after authorities accuse iran of attacking two oil tankers next week through the country's foreign minister denied accusations. morning joe back in a moment. ♪

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>> when you look at past impeachments whether president clinton or nixon. he left. i don't leave. >> of course he doesn't leave. do you think he would hold a press conference and say, i was wrong. in what reality would that happen? and he'd pack a suitcase and walk out of the white house and just not be the president anymore? no. he'd make us drag him out like an uncooperative toddler. you know that's true. >> good morning, welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, june 18. with us, our guests editor from the "washington post," washington anchor for bbc world

news america and political reporter for the "washington post" and moderator of washington week on pbs. good to have you all on board. >> let's start with what is important since we have two red sox fans here. >> a huge win. going seven innings. the bullpen showed up. sort of. i'll take it, man. >> that is like six in a row now. beats how we have been doing. >> more than half was against the orioles. i don't think we can count that. they all count. >> we have a lot to get to this morning -- no, you can't. we are going to begin with president trump officially kicking off his reelection campaign today. a campaign which is suffering in recent days from sagging poll numbers losing by double digits to joe biden and failing to out

pace all over democrats. trump bashed those in a tweet saying fox news polls with always bad for me. this he were against crooked hillary. something weird going on at fox. our polls show us leading in all 17 swing states. >> we have to stop quickly. he fired his polster because his internal polls were worse than fox news. his own polls showed he is getting pounded by biden. >> but they were supposedly fake polls so no need to fire the polster. i didn't realize there are 17 swing states and i'm shocked that trump is leading all of them. if it is really irrational to get bad news and then fire that person who is delivering the news. >> getting doubled by double

digits in wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, badly in florida. north carolina. losing by 17 points in virginia. all the swing states. down in georgia. only ahead by two in texas. >> some would argue that was why he was selling out america to get some foreign country to help cheat because the polls look so bad. >> the bigger story is how big a trouble position he is in. to be in that position at this point of a presidency as good as the economy is doing is not a great position and i think he knows it. >> it is because of his campaign manager. he is his own campaign manager. >> he can't friire himself. >> what else would you be talking about? >> economy, economy, economy. >> it is hard to remember a time when he wasn't in politics.

what worked for donald trump so well from june of 2015 through the primary and even into it the general election, he snuck in doing the same thing. narrow casting, playing to the base, saying basically the hell with college educated people, hell with people in the suburbs and younger white people. that has brought us to where we are. i'm wandering and i ask the question for people like you who really have a great read on what is going on in the white house, you know trump as well as anybody that reports on him. when trump says he's ahead in 17 states, does donald think he's ahead in 17 states or does he understand he's really facing an uphill battle right now? >> to answer that question, you have to think back to that period you just described, 2015-2016 when reporters would go up to the floor of the trump

tower. he would have all these rating from the apprentice in framed picture frames on his wall and he would use the phrase rating and interchange it with his discussion of pollings and say my rating are doing really well. we'd say what do you mean by rating. he meant polling. polling to him is connected in an almost personal way to his own popularity and status. he's sensitive to his polling because he sees it as his political rating. people are reluctant because he takes it in that way. he doesn't want to see the data. he does see there are weak spots across the country in some of these swing states. you talk about what use playing to, he has to stoke his base to have any chance in 2020. they keep coming back to

immigration and trade. >> i'm so glad that bob brought up the apprentice. they had an extraordinary run. >> right. he used to send us rating and circle stuff and write little notes to us. >> had an incredible run. everybody in his agency was telling him not to do it. he did it anyway. he was right. what an incredible run. on the backside of that success, he would still fax us rating and put in big letters, number one again, donald. you'd like at the rate ing and would be like 17. i'd say, i don't understand this. it was so funny. maybe 2011, 2012. the end of a remarkable run but

we could not figure out how he was saying he was number one. he would fax it around saying, still number one. i guess people would see the headline and throw it away. >> during the height of his birther movement stuff, he went on the view or something. i put out some random tweet, is this all live theater or does he believe this stuff. a few weeks later, i got a piece of mail from him that said, we'll sure never know but it sure brings rating. i couldn't believe it. i foolishly did not hang on to that. >> he also complained about his interview with abc. his mind once again on crowd size. the first person in line got there 42 hours before the event is even scheduled to start.

the "sun sentinel" reported the line was about 250 people long. at the same time, the president was tweeting thousands of people are already lined up in orlando two days ahead of the rally. sunday night's abc news special that the president personally promoted 0en social media turned out to be a rating bust. the show was third in the time slot with 3.91 million viewers. a sharp drop when celebrity family feud pulled in 6.1 million viewers. he didn't get the rating. >> it is the feud, man.

>> going into excitement for mr. trump. at some point, even great runs like the apprentice, at some point, they grow old and turn away to another story. i will say this, trump people who still when i ask them, are you still supporting him? they still almost to a person, go, love him. going to vote for him. will vote him again and then go, oh, gosh, those tweets make me tired. he has exhausted them. >> he really has. if anything, we underestimate how he's exhausted the base that

will need a lot more stoking to get him out in comparable numbers, if you look at those figures from a few weeks ago on responses to his tweets. that is way down. people become desensitized over time. i think some people will become desensitized and others wonder away and others have been appalled by various other things he's done. he looks really frantic now. i think he hasn't seen anything yet. it will get much much much worse before it gets better. >> the just bold-faced lying to george stephanopoulos and refuting the polls. some could argue there is serious ramifications against him from the southern district of new york and from the law

after he leaves office. that could lead to frantic behavior. >> still ahead on "morning joe." >> we say every day is a great day in south carolina. ladies and gentlemen, if we elect marco rubio, every day will be a great day in america. [ applause ] >> it is one of the moments from the 2016 campaign that donald trump managed to wipe off the headlines with his increasingly wild behavior. does he have the same game plan for 2020. you are watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. i can't tell you who i am or what i witnessed,

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states. g god bless. >> one of the things i noticed in writing the book. >> "this ends badly." >> available for order. the amount of times we fell knowingly right into the trap. marco rubio or nikki haley, the governor of south carolina endorses marco rubio. we start to move towards the story. donald trump attacks the vote. we spend the next five days we go, he'll never survive. who talked about nikki haley endorsing rubio after that. again, going through the book, the campaign and the time line, this happened literally every day. >> do you think just because it worked for him in the past, it

will in the future? >> no. >> but that 35% that joe just referred to though. >> i think they'll be there no matter what. he operates on the idea that any media attention is good for him. >> correct. >> he'll say out landish things. all of the objective is to get the attention back on him. that's not necessarily a winning formula. >> so many of us were wrong about donald trump in 2016. but he did what he had to do as a challenger to beat 16 people and with the help of jim comey beat hillary clinton. bob costa, you know it is so interesting that donald trump -- the shocking thing about trump's campaign, which you know very well. in those early states, iowa, new

hampshire, south carolina. my gosh, into super tuesday, he had donald trump, corey lewandowaski and hope hicks. nobody has ever seen a campaign like it. nobody ever will again. ever. now i wonder, he's got all the infrastructure he wants and needs, i wonder how he performs as a front runner. even i'm surprised he just can't adjust to the fact that he needs to get the undecideds to get the 5, 6, 7%. is there an understanding in the white house? >> there is. we are going to hear a lot about the new infrastructure and how different it is than in 2016 with hope hicks and corey

lewandowaski on the president's private plane. what really matters is not the infrastructure but the message. when you talk to people in contact with president trump every day. they are bracing and say this campaign in 2020 will be so relentless and focused on painting the democrats with the broad brush of socialism, stoking the fear of socialism and attacking the candidates. people who will change the country in fundamental and destructive ways. you say president trump is ubiquitous. those have to know that behind the scenes, he cannot wait to go after all of them all day and to go to the extreme in how he frames the democratic party. as you say, this could end badly. politically, this could be 2016 torqued up even more. that's how the president is

talking about it. >> if he wants to disstrakt, he has the platform to do things in a big way. >> coming up, kwqutar finds itsf in two headlines and a major sports scandal that is years in the making. "morning joe" is back in a moment. ♪

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the united states is spending approximately 1,000 additional troops to the middle east in addition to the roughly 1,500 president trump announced he was sending to the region in late may. patrick shanahan says the deployment comes after a request from send ral command to address air, naval and ground base threats in the region. joining us from qatar, bill kneell kneely, what is the latest. >> reporter: on top of the

pressure campaign, we have maximum resistance and maximum pressure of their own as it announced threatening to breach the nuclear deal limit those facing us are a group of politicians. the announcement of another thousand u.s. troops used for surveillance and intelligence gathering on iran and proxies. also used to protect u.s. troops on what they call an incredible threat used here in the gulf and likely in iraq and syria too. within days, we have a little

tarry build up. attacks on tankers and warning from iran. really, the problem is no sign of a way out. no talks. they've already dismissed any talks with president trump. all we see is a growing confrontation. certainly here in the gulf from shipping companies that are worried. some even asking for military escorts, there is real concern that this is leading to potentially a very dangerous confrontation. >> so bill, as they used to say on the rocky and bullwinkle. and now they would say there is something different. i've got to ask the question

from a couple of hours ago, they arrested one of the top officials for bribery connected in awarding the 2022 world cup to qatar. i wonder what the reaction is in that country and whether you as a big fan, whether you believe there is any possibility as some people are talking about now, the world cup may be moved to england in 2022? is. >> it is certainly something very different. the former captain and star player of the french national team who became a big fish in football has been requested for awarding this tiny gulf state of the next world cup. it was controversial from the

very minute it was announced. you remember both russia and qatar were awarded the two world cups at the same time. some people said this just stinks and it stinks of money. qatar is not one of the great powers in world football. it is true, they just won an asian championship. they beat paraguy last night. there were allegations it won it through big bucks. he's been questioned and a big blow to his reputation whether it is true or not. yes, there are many people requesting whether qatar should hold the world cup. it has built an amazing

infrastructure with air-conditioning and so on. i don't think there is any sign this world cup will be taken away. it would be a huge blow to the middle east and to football but nonetheless something here stinks and that's why he's being investigated by police right now. >> showing range. >> remarkable range. still ahead, president trump vowed on twitter that millions of people living in the u.s. illegally will be deported starting next week. we have been following trump's immigration battle from the beginning. he joins us ahead with a fact check. "morning joe" is back in a moment. my experience with usaa

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of immigrants in the u.s. >> removing millions of illegal aliens. knowledge of the preparations were not aware of the plan to divulge enforcement plans on twitter. >> where we are because president trump can take it back. he's a one-trick pony. gets in trouble, bashes immigrations. >> he goes back to the play even though. number one, it is operationally

impossible to report millions of undocumented people in the united states. >> no. we don't have the money to do it. >> because president obama who did earn the nickname deporter in chief was the one to hold the record in 2012. >> can we stop there. when donald trump became president of the united states, illegal border crosses were at a record low. >> as low as they've ever been. >> since donald trump has been there, the smugglers have been able to manipulate people in central america saying we got to go now. is there any indication that

people will catch on to the fact? he's created this crisis. >> there have never been more families coming across the border and being apprehended. >> donald trump is a human billboard for illegal migration. when they came into the office, they called it the trump effect and people were scared. they are not scared anymore and they are rushing to the country. his threats are a big red flashing sign saying come now or you'll never get in. his policies have fail the miserably and we are seeing the consequences today. >> what have you heard about the construction of a new facility in oklahoma to house even more children separated from their family? >> that is part of the problem, hhs reported opening soft-sided

tent cities to house all of the unaccompanied migrant children coming into the country. when you are on a federal military base, those bases are not bound by the state and local jurisdictions. they are not something that is going to happen in areas like that. that is just where we are today. >> they have virtually no space

left. >> what does that look like. let's say he actually follows through on this threat. how does it happen? what are the legal ramifications, societial? >> i.c.e. goes into neighborhoods and targets parents with american-born children. they are going to go and do a raid. >> take parents a weighed, rip up the families. >> they'll go back to the home country. be put into some kind of removal proceedings and eventually go off to their home countries. >> so we'll have a detention set up for those parents we pick up

with american-born children? >> what he's doing is attempting to terrorize the millions of families here with undocumented status. >> he's playing to his base, his 35%. >> it is predictable. >> the greatest hits. it goes right back to it. >> right. even though it can't be done. doesn't have the money to do it. so, yes. the reality of this. correct me if i'm wrong. this apprehension of people could result in something like this. a father goes to work in the morning. a landscaper. whatever. the mother goes to work in a restaurant. kids are in school. kids were born in the united states. >> junior high, high school, elementary school. at the end of the school day, their parents are scooped up and

are gone. >> they may see it at a youtube video or outside their school at the super market. >> united states of america. >> i know. >> he's playing to his base. i don't even think everyone in the trump base is dying for this. >> no. they are not. >> during the family separation. a year ago, i was at the border talking to you all at the height of the crisis, people who supported donald trump were sickened by what he was doing. this would have the exact same effect. >> except people know these family units. >> they are our neighbors, our co-workers. >> i always tell the story about evangelicals i knew, i went to church with being sickened by what they saw when we would go to provide relief in louisiana.

this is shocking. again, yhe can't do it first of all. it will terrorize people. third, it won't reduce the illegal crossings at the southern border. >> cynthia mcfadden has a spot, save the children and the entire organization has never operated within the united states. there on the border right now operating a shelter. what he tweeted last night has nothing to do with that. it will fix it in no way, shape or form. >> what can americans do to help? >> get involved with some of those agencies down there and take care of thousands of migrants being dropped off at bus stops throughout -- not just the south, southwest and throughout the united states. they are being thrown around the country and dropped to figure out what to do. the other thing you can do, make

sure there is a place for these undocumented migrant children to go and sleep. everything i've seen in these shelters take good care of these children. there is a lack of funding there. that is something not getting done in washington right now. >> we can't thank you enough to thank you on your continued reporting. a new move by facebook. unveiling a new crypto currency allowing you to make purchases via messenger, whatsapp and instagram. but questions now are growing whether this can be trusted. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: as you know, facebook is the dominant player in social media. 2.4 billion people are on line.

now it wants to dominate the world's currencies. here is the question, would you trust facebook with your money? the facebook plan, replace the world's dollars, euro and others with a new crypto currency called libra. you can use your phone to transfer libra to transfer to friends, shop on lines or pay at the store. it has experts buzzing. >> this is going to be the biggest thing to happen to fab in years. >> reporter: 28 companies have already signed up to launch and govern the use of the libra including visa, master card, uber, lyft and others. facebook tries to take a bite out of amazon's lead in

commerce. after years of hacks, privacy violations and russian trolls have undermind the trust. >> facebook says it won't manage but is launching a subsidiary calling calibra to do that. it won't share account information or financial data with facebook without consent and promising strong protections in place. but wait, you ask, what about bitcoin? >> trading in the crypto currency was halted as the favae fell by 20%. >> facebook says the libra will be pegged to real currencies with a regular torry system. some pros are recommending a go

slow approach. >> let other users be the guinea pigs. >> a lot of people suggesting proceed with caution. it will launch in 2020. it is being pegged to currencies, the euro, the dollar and even the franc to offer stability. >> thank you. not doing that. >> sam's wife works for facebook. we have to say that everyday. >> seriously. what's it going to take? >> what has facebook done to prove any of us should trust them? they lied about russia and when people brought this to their attention, she exploded, blue up. th

zuckerberg, i can't even say the word what they did to american democracy in 2016 and then spent the next you few years lying about it. now they are doing a crypto currency. they should be broken up to a million little pieces. we did it to the bells and microsoft. facebook needs to be broken into little bits. >> the anti-trust division of the justice department is seriously in a rears of the action that ought to be taken. look at what they've done. look at what they plan to do. it is a massive power hoarding conglomerate that knows more about our lives than any other institution. the credit card companies and banks are pikers compared to facebook? >> as you mentioned, my wife works for facebook. i think this crypto currency

thing looks great. >> no. there are problems the company is facing. what i'm intrigued by is the political will to do exactly what you just said is building in clear and obvious ways. how does the board allow zuckerberg to continue operating as ceo of that company? >> what about cheryl sandburg who was actual lying and caught screaming at other employees that were trying to bring the russia crisis to light. they deliberately were trying to hide the fact that russia was trying to screw with with democracy. what don't i get here? >> my works for facebook. one thing they've done really well is hire good people.

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reports that president trump is planning to live tweet the first democratic debates on june 26th and 27th according to people familiar with the planning. >> can we stop right there? >> yeah. >> can we all have an agreement, like all the networks that matter, nobody reports on his live tweets until the morning after. because he is doing it deliberately to do what we talk about all the time, to draw attention away. >> i do think maybe network executives and television, we really need to think about how we cover this. >> that's just like -- not to diminish "the wall street journal" scoop here but you might as well report he will breathe during the debates. of course he'll live tweet. >> i'm glad they did the scoop though. the thing is now network

executives should plan this out. are they going to be manipulated by donald trump like we all have been for three years? >> the president's political advisers were reportedly hoping to keep him off twitter during the event arguing the president's reactions could elevate some contenders or reveal which attacks hurt him the most. duh. joining us now members of the house foreign affairs committee, the judiciary committee, and the chairman of the ethics committee democratic congressman ted deutch of florida. is your head spinning? where do you begin? >> congressman, two things. one, sam's wife works for facebook. and, two, he was rude to amy klobuchar earlier this morning. no he wasn't. >> been quite a morning. >> number three, let's talk about facebook for a second. should facebook be broken up like we broke up the bells, like we broke up microsoft? >> there is no question what my colleague is embarking upon and on our judiciary committee it is the right thing to do which is to start looking at all of the issues surrounding big tech after the last election if it's

not clear to everyone that we at least need to start to dig in to figure out what steps, the right steps are to prevent the power of a company or two or three from dominating, then we didn't learn anything. >> isn't it amazing? there is this attitude toward the tech community saying basically all the rules that apply to the rest of us, apply to other businesses in america, they don't apply to big tech. >> well, that's exactly right. but what is so interesting is, and i'm glad you're talking about that, i was fascinated by the breaking news about the president tweeting because, if i may, it is not about what everyone is going to report at the debate but the fact that the president goes out there and says this. he gives "the wall street journal" a scoop, and guess what we stop talking about. we stop talking about his incoherent policy on iran. we stop talking about his interview last week where he said he would welcome foreign

governments. >> and show he was a threat to national security. >> right. all of that gets taken off the table because we're obsessed with his twitter account? it's hard not to get sucked in every time he does something like that. but, my god, there's been a lot that happened over the past week that i think should alarm all of us. >> as mike brought up, you also have china and russia moving toward the type of alliance that dr. brzezinski and henry kissinger and american foreign policy leaders for 50, 60 years have been trying to avoid. >> when your policy is to go it alone, what's happening now with iran is an example of what happens. there is no coherent strategy for what's going to happen. you've got the president saying one thing. last night he said the attack on the tankers was very minor and he's not concerned about it. then he's got, at the same time, sending a thousand troops, u.s. service members, into the region. >> what do you think about that? is that a mistake?

should the troops be sent there? >> well, i don't know the answer, joe. the president needs to come to congress. >> we don't know that he knows either. that's the biggest problem. >> right. what is the strategy? we have a hearing tomorrow with the point person on iran to ask exactly that. what is the strategy? what are you trying to accomplish by sending in these troops when you pulled out of the deal in order to affect iranian behavior, our allies now question because of our role, because of what we're doing here, because of trying to undermain our efforts on climate change, because of questioning nato, they're not with us. there is a leadership test that any president has to rally the world if he perceives a threat and the president is failing miserably. >> you have to carry a strike for us already in the middle east. you have a thousand more troops going there and, still, the troop deployment is still being done under the auspices of a nearly 20-year-old piece of legislation. >> right. and you've got an administration trying to make the link between

iran and al qaeda to justify using military force that is two decades old. we've all talked about this for a while. we have to have a debate in congress. we got to get rid of that aumf. >> why haven't you, though? >> we need to replace it. we need to be willing to have the debate on the house floor about what we're going to do, if there is a threat then we should be responding to what's happening today and not allowing the administration to do what they're trying to get away with in forcing arm sales through without coming to congress for example when the saudis simply ask for billions of dollars in weapons. >> switching gears, you are on judiciary committee. >> yes. >> i apologize for not knowing in advance but the latest quotes i see from you say you support an inquiry into whether president trump, quote, violated his public office, violated the public trust, and committed high

crimes and misdemeanors. that sounds like an impeachment inquiry. are you in support of that? >> not at this point. >> why not? >> here's why. because ultimately, what we've learned and i think this is clear at this point, the mueller report is over 450 pages or so of mostly damning evidence. >> have you read all of them? >> yes, i have. volume one about russian interference, last week the president effectively confirmed when he invited countries to come play a role in our next election. he confirmed everything in volume one. and volume two is about obstruction of justice and his behavior last week where he resorted to name calling because he didn't want to acknowledge that he refused to cooperate. there is so much in there that gives us the ability to go forward but we need don mcgahn to come in and show the american people what is in there because most people haven't read it. we love a good move but we love to see the movie. bring in don mcgahn. we'll have hope hicks before us.

bring in the people who are the subjects of the mueller report so people can hear the outrageous conduct that the president told them to pursue and then we're in a position to decide how to go forward. >> all right. congressman ted deutch, thank you very much. come back any time. we'd love an update on what is going on. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. thanks so much. good morning. i'm stephanie ruhle. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and we are just hours away from the official launch of president trump's re-election campaign. as the backdrop to his big event the president has chosen to announce massive deportation raids. late monday he tweeted this. millions of illegal aliens would be targeted in nationwide operations. this is a clear sign that the president believes an antimigrant crackdown can only help his chances of a second term. why not? let's not forget, look at your screen right now. that