thick of application season right now, one of the most sought after private college consultants, allen co, founder of cardinal, education based here in the bay area. allen, thanks for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> i think a lot of people in the bay area know, but for those who don't, what is a private college consultant? what do you do? >> sure. so we work with students, you know, as young as middle school to make sure that their character, their academics, their extracurriculars are diversified and differentiated in a way that can give them the maximum advantage to pursue the universities that they dream of. >> it sounds like a multi year effort, but your website says you cater to sophisticated families all over the world. usa today describes your company, cardinal education, as catering to the very affluent. first of all, is that accurate? >> yes, it is. i mean, we do some pro bono work, but we're very highly specialized and we take a very small student load compared to pretty much all other college consulting firms. i see. >> all right. so the families that you work with, s

. >> allen co is ceo of cardinal education in families pay his educational consulting daetz to help students against the other very qualified college applicants out there. co is not surprised that colleges rejected zhang's application. >> asian male computer science. the probability is are darwinian much worse than for any other demographic. >> co says the other possible factor is he came across as too unidimensional for most universal. ortiz co says all the sciences, including engineering, are very competitive programs for many reasons. >> it is getting much, much more challenging for asians to be accepted into competitive stem program. >> us co says the admissions system needs to change there. absolutely needs to be reformed. >> the playing field can be leveled by universities being much more transparent about what the standards are and just advertising it publicly to everybody. and if they were to do that, then you don't need private college consultants, let alone school counselors, to help students navigate it. we really want to push for transparency. >> we should be able to, you know, i

allen co is ceo of cardinal education families pay his educational consultants to help students competeinst the other very qualified college applicants out there. >> co is not surprised that colleges rejected zhang's application. >> asian male computer science. the probabilities are darwinian much worse than for any other demographic. >> co says the other possible factor is he came across as too unidimensional for most universities. >> co says all the sciences, including engineering, are very competitive programs for many reasons. it is getting much, much more challenging for asians to be accepted into competitive stem programs. >> co says the admissions system needs to change their absolutely needs to be reformed. >> the playing field can be leveled by universities being much more transparent about what the standards are and just advertising it publicly to everybody. and if they were to do that, then you don't need private college consultants, let alone school counselors, to help students navigate it. we really want to push for transparency. we should be able to you know, if we get rej

accuracy of financial statements was the task of his long-time chief financial officer and co-defendant >> was allen weisselberg responsible for that >> object to the form. >> i would say yes >> so laura, in this case the state is looking for a $250 million penalty what else is on the line potentially >> well, lester, mr. trump already stands to lose his ability to do business in new york state but if he loses at this trial, he may also be forced to sell off his entire new york portfolio to pay for that potential massive judgment, lester >> all right laura jarrett, thank you. >>> donald trump's attacks lately have not just been against those connected to his legal troubles recently going after the general who served under him as joint chiefs chairman, general mark milley, and suggesting milley's actions warranted the death penalty. i sat down with general milley recently, just days in fact before his retirement, to get his response to mr. trump's remarks as well as deeper insight into the tense and complicated relationship between the two men. much of general mark milley's military career was spent

co-founder of "axios," mike allen, thank you for joining us.ow. >>> the united states has been focused on a core challenge here, which is that hamas

this world wide problem, the colleges the and the hello, i'm emily, angling this is denise allen live from co ha and continuing coverage of the israel guys of will. within $700.00 children are among the rapidly rising jeff tall and gaza. after 7 days of his riley bombardments, hundreds of thousands of palestinians seek shelter in the south. the head of an expected is riley ground invasion. desperate to escape the bombing. hundreds of people gather at the wrath of buddha, crossing with egypt. israel's prime minister visits troops made the frontier with guys as the military build up front and tens of thousands joined protests around the world as the war triggers passions on both sides. welcome to the program. it's $21.00, g m t, that's midnight in gaza and his riley deadline to flay northern guns. a has now expired and troops and mast on the border as well as military says it's preparing to carry as a wide range of fences by a land and say more than a 1000000 palestinians. they have been ordered to flee south. this includes people in hospital shelters and some of the cities lodges to a few. jac

co-founder of "axios," mike allen, thank you, as well. mike barnicle, you stay right where you are. >> really? >> oh, yeah. >>> coming up -- you are here for the duration. coming up, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has equated hamas to isis. david french will join us with his new piece for "the new york times" on what it would mean to treat both terror groups the same. >>> plus, national security council spokesman john kirby will join us as israel is planning a ground invasion into gaza. >>> also ahead, the former president's comments praising hezbollah as smart. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. >>> we need to fill the chair with a speaker. every day that goes by, it gets more dangerous. you know, i was on the phone with our friends with israel. they're going to need a supplemental in aid to replenish the iron dome. they can't do that if we don't have a speaker in the chair. i see threats out there, but one of the biggest threats i see is in that room. it is dangerous, what we are doing, and i wanted them to k

batstein, supreme court chief justice john roberts , google co-founder sergey brin, cia director william burns, professor noam chomsky, director woody allenre and philanthropist, bill gates. and besides, former prime minister of israel, ehud barak, what’s interesting is that during a search in epstein’s house, a portrait of clinton in a woman’s dress was found, like this, i ask you, you follow the flow of information, imagine the president of the united states posing for the artist in a woman's dress with heels, well, there's something about it, right? the same thing is happening around barack obama , look, his personal chef, who worked with him throughout his presidency, drowned in a pond 2.5 m deep, on the obama estate, despite the fact that he was a semi-professional rower and an excellent swimmer. in the same way, the director of the department of health of the state of hawaii, loretti fundi, who certified the certificate that obama was born in hawaii and not in kenya, mysteriously died, because there were rumors that obama was actually born in kenya, therefore, had no right to be the president of the united states of america, but her

accuracy of financial statements was the task of his long-time chief financial officer and co-defendant. >> was allend say yes. >> nbc's laura jarrett reporting there. let's bring in staff writer a "the new yorker," john cassidy. good morning. >> morning. >> your takeaways from yesterday are what? beyond what was happening inside the courtroom, aside from the circus outside where donald trump was yelling at the immediate you can't. >> trump's point of view, the main thing is what happened outside, turning this into a political circus. he pretty much succeeded because what he said was so extreme. the media can't ignore it, he is calling the judge a rogue judge and calling the prosecutor a racist right outside, you know, 10 feet from the front door of the court. pretty amazing. inside the court, i would say, the most striking thing to me was how aggressive trump's lawyers were in, not so much attacking the judge, but making clear they're going to challenge every aspect of this trial. trump's lead attorney, former florida solicitor general, a smart lawyer, was on his feet, objecting to everything. their

co-founder of "axios," mike allen, thank you for joining us. thank you for getting up "way too early" on this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> the united states has been focused on a core challenge here, which is that hamas is using civilians as human shields. they're hiding behind and among civilians. they're putting rockets and other terrorist infrastructure in civilian areas. that creates an added burden for the israeli defense forces, but it does not lessen their responsible to distinguish between terrorists and innocent civilians and to protect the lives of innocent civilians as they conduct this military operation. that's true of striking from the air. it is true of going in on the ground. this is something that we talk about with the israelis on a daily basis. >> national security adviser jake sullivan on the responsibility of israeli forces as its troops are moving farther into gaza this morning, days into its ground operation. we'll get the latest in a live report from the gaza border. >>> plus, what the new speaker

. >> co-founder of "axios," mike allen. thank you.at point on the big donors. look what's happened to ron desantis because of the six-week abortion ban. some of his largest donors, some of the largest donors in the republican party are like, thanks but no thanks. add on top of that other extreme views. this new speaker, you know, has said that gay men, adults doing what they want to do in their bedroom should be criminalized, could be criminalized. if it's not, it could lead to the downfall of the united states of america. that's not a custom-built message for big donors, let alone 95% of americans. >> yeah, or that he said years ago, legalizing gay marriage, which america overwhelmingly supports, could lead to people marrying their pets, something, a road he believed we were heading down. >> has he retracted any of that? >> interesting thought process, to even think about that. just let that -- >> you wonder where -- >> where does that come from? interesting inspiration. >> looking at fluffy, i don't think that. really strange. how d

batstein, supreme court chief justice john robert, google co-founder sergey brin, cia director, william burns, professor noam chomsky, and director woody allen and philanthropist, bill gates, and in addition, former prime minister of israel, ehud barak, british prince andrew and other very, very influential and rich people, it is interesting that during a search in epstein’s house a portrait of clinton in a woman’s dress was found, like this. i ask you, you follow the flow of information, imagine the president. countries of the united states, who poses for an artist in a woman's dress in high-heeled shoes, well, in general, like something about this, yes, the same thing is happening around barack obama, look, he drowned in a pond 2.5 m deep, obama's estate, his personal chef, who worked with him throughout his presidency , despite the fact that he was a semi-professional rower and an excellent swimmer, the director of the hawaii state department of health, loretti fuddy, who certified the certificate that obama was born in hawaii, not kenya. because there were rumors that obama was actually born in kenya, and therefore had no right to be the