. >> well, the jesuit retreat center is rooted in the spirituality of saint ignatius loyal love, the founder of the jesuits and it is a very specific spirituality and it is difficult to actually pinpoint it to just a few words but one of the things that in ignatius always said, find god in all things. so his focus was to have people not just be private prayers , but people who prayed and went out into the world to change the world. to bring god to other people, to do good. >> excellent, and i think i mentioned to you at our retreat as a methodist man, we not only want to have spiritual growth and development, we want to also be active in our world, so that is how you see the purpose of the retreat. >> absolutely, in light of jesuit spirituality, it is meaningless if you just go and nothing happens that you take with you when you leave the property, when you leave the retreat. you come on a retreat to re-create, to refresh, to become more centered, to be more in touch with god, but all of that has to be a focus to go out into the world. i don't know if you know about the spiritual exe

. >> with david ignatius. >> of the. >> washington post.from munich. >> and day one dud prices aren't going down. as trump promised. >> inflation is up and his tariffs. >> threaten to drive. >> them up further. what you should. >> know about. >> how all. >> this could affect. >> america's financial future. >> i'm jonathan capehart. this is the saturday show. we've got lots to talk about tonight, including new u.s. efforts to initiate negotiations toward peace between russia and ukraine by sending secretary of state marco rubio and other u.s. officials to saudi arabia. we'll have more on that developing story coming up. but we start with president trump's and elon musk's accelerating war on the federal government, which is destroying the livelihoods of thousands of government workers and the millions of people who depend on them. this week, the trump administration advised all federal agencies to fire probationary employees, meaning workers who have been on the job for less than two years. these arbitrary firings could affect hundreds of tho

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meantime, we have david ignatius now back with us. and david, i had a chance to read the message. you got. from the american. official who's now there. >> in kyiv, a. >> former u.s. military official. and i'm. >> just wondering your. take on. >> all of. >> this and the message. >> that the. >> trump. >> administration is currently. >> sending to allies. >> so ukrainians. >> and i think allies in general are shocked. they see this as the trail. by by president trump. of ukraine, brave and very loyal ally, the united states. i think this is going to have repercussions across europe. around the world, because it's such a disturbing picture of american power. there is a theory that what donald trump is doing and trash talking president zelensky. >> is. >> is trying to get zelensky to agree to turn over 50% of ukraine's mineral wealth. in payment for, in effect, america's support, past and presumably future. i get that impression, not simply from the comments this morning of the national security advisor, mike waltz, who was caught on camera saying that that's what zelensky should cons

and we have one of the best here today. >> he is the president of st ignatius college prep. >> he has great fundraising ability with your personality and his way to make money. >> i see this as a great team going forward. let's give a warm city hall welcome to father edward reese . >> and no worries, dean i'm not here to collect the library fines that you oh yeah. let's pray gracious and almighty god we come before you today with hearts full of gratitude and hope as we gather to witness the swearing in of a new fire chief, we thank you that you have called to leadership and service and you have placed in his heart. >> we also thank you for our first response orders and for all committed to the act of courage, integrity and wisdom. >> lord we ask your blessing on dean as he steps into this vital role. grant him the strength to lead with clarity and compassion the humility to serve selflessly and the resilience to face the challenges that lie ahead may be a source of inspiration. a union and unity for his team fostering a spirit of trust, respect and shared purpose. >> protect him. oh g

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and we have one of the best here today. >> he is the president of st ignatius college prep. >> he has great fundraising ability with your personality and his way to make money. >> i see this as a great team going forward. let's give a warm city hall welcome to father edward reese . >> and no worries, dean i'm not here to collect the library fines that you oh yeah. let's pray gracious and almighty god we come before you today with hearts full of gratitude and hope as we gather to witness the swearing in of a new fire chief, we thank you that you have called to leadership and service and you have placed in his heart. >> we also thank you for our first response orders and for all committed to the act of courage, integrity and wisdom. >> lord we ask your blessing on dean as he steps into this vital role. grant him the strength to lead with clarity and compassion the humility to serve selflessly and the resilience to face the challenges that lie ahead may be a source of inspiration. a union and unity for his team fostering a spirit of trust, respect and shared purpose. >> protect him. oh g

and we have one of the best here today. >> he is the president of st ignatius college prep. >> he has great fundraising ability with your personality and his way to make money. >> i see this as a great team going forward. let's give a warm city hall welcome to father edward reese . >> and no worries, dean i'm not here to collect the library fines that you oh yeah. let's pray gracious and almighty god we come before you today with hearts full of gratitude and hope as we gather to witness the swearing in of a new fire chief, we thank you that you have called to leadership and service and you have placed in his heart. >> we also thank you for our first response orders and for all committed to the act of courage, integrity and wisdom. >> lord we ask your blessing on dean as he steps into this vital role. grant him the strength to lead with clarity and compassion the humility to serve selflessly and the resilience to face the challenges that lie ahead may be a source of inspiration. a union and unity for his team fostering a spirit of trust, respect and shared purpose. >> protect him. oh g

don't forget, david ignatius, that it's tax season.hey're also looking to not just access irs systems, but also potentially lay off irs workers there. i mean, this is a full scale assault on government and it's going to have impact. >> i said to. >> a trump supporter during my trip to munich over the weekend. >> this is. >> looking to me like a case of ready, fire, aim. >> you know. >> the aim only comes at the end. and that's no way to run a government, but no way to run a reform of government. >> and i. >> think the point that you and katie and john are making that that when this comes home to roost, when people in your district are getting. >> their clinics. closed or their. >> checks aren't arriving, or other basic services that they depend on, or when the avian flu, which could be really deadly, that begins to sweep across the country, people will say, where is government? where is the help i need? and then maybe we'll have a congressional response that we haven't seen so far. but but the way in which this group of young people wo

david ignatius, this seems like an obvious one. don't send an unclassified memo with a list of all the people you've hired at the cia for the last two years. so what do you see as the problem with this and reaction at langley? >> so it's a wildly insecure move. this is the kind of thing that's led in the past to the disclosure of names from government databases that could continues to have repercussions for the for the cia, the cia, and as near as i can tell from my reporting, is just reeling. calling a veteran former cia officers that they were receiving, you know, half a dozen a day calls from colleagues around the world currently working for the agency, looking for work. they had received these buyout notices. they sense that their services are not wanted by the new administration. and so they're thinking, okay, what else am i going to do? the problem for the for the cia and the federal government in general, as katie was saying earlier, let's think about the people who are most valuable, people who speak chinese, people who spe

david ignatius, the host of way too early.a lot of other things to talk about for, and we're going to start this morning with a new development in the middle east where moments ago, hamas confirmed its commitment to continuing the ceasefire deal in gaza, including the hostage exchange. that is, according to a statement from the militant group, which now resolves a major dispute that threatened the cease fire deal. we're learning that three more israeli hostages are set to be freed as initially planned. this comes after president trump had warned hamas all hell would break loose if the hostages were not released by noon on saturday, and israeli prime minister netanyahu said military operations would have resumed in this. so. david ignatius, your take on this breaking news and trump's involvement in it. >> so. >> mika, i. >> think there's no question. that hamas. >> was basically intimidated. into resuming. >> the process. >> that had begun. hamas had. >> complained about. >> israeli military. >> operations and had said it. >> w

and we have one of the best here today. >> he is the president of st ignatius college prep. >> he hasdraising ability with your personality and his way to make money. >> i see this as a great team going forward. let's give a warm city hall welcome to father edward reese . >> and no worries, dean i'm not here to collect the library fines that you oh yeah. let's pray gracious and almighty god we come before you today with hearts full of gratitude and hope as we gather to witness the swearing in of a new fire chief, we thank you that you have called to leadership and service and you have placed in his heart. >> we also thank you for our first response orders and for all committed to the act of courage, integrity and wisdom. >> lord we ask your blessing on dean as he steps into this vital role. grant him the strength to lead with clarity and compassion the humility to serve selflessly and the resilience to face the challenges that lie ahead may be a source of inspiration. a union and unity for his team fostering a spirit of trust, respect and shared purpose. >> protect him. oh god. and al

david ignatius. >> thank you so much. >> for your insights this. >> morning again. and still ahead on morning joe, a federal. judge has denied an effort by 14 states to stop elon musk from meddling with federal agencies. we'll explain. why the case is not over yet. >> plus. >> how the white house is trying to. >> explain musk's role. >> in the administration amid. >> new questions. >> this morning. >> about who. >> exactly is leading. >> his department. >> of government efficiency. >> also ahead. >> is doge really finding billions. >> in government savings? >> we'll have a fact check. you're watching morning joe. >> we're back in 90s. >> don't get me. >> don't want to think about. >> don't want to think about. i'm not afraid of losing ever feel like a spectator in your own life with chronic migraine? 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. in a survey, 91% of users wish they'd started sooner. so why wait? talk to your doctor. botox® effects may spread hours to weeks after injection, c

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so david ignatius, here we are again. it only gets worse. and while really consequential to hear this president turning on ukraine, when. >> you look at the. >> pattern of his. behavior with ukraine, i guess it's not surprising. it's also a huge distraction from the. >> breakdown of the federal. >> government that is happening in unlawful ways, as well as the controversial nominees that are getting basically, you know, corralled right through the senate and out into their positions with seemingly very little pushback or questions to some really scary concepts that they bring along. >> with them. >> so one. >> striking thing to me, mika. >> is that. >> republicans finally seem to have found their voice. in directly, clearly disagreeing with. >> donald trump. >> in his. >> criticism of zelensky and this absurd. >> claim that ukraine started the war. that seems to have blown a circuit for the republicans. and it's about time. >> the concern i'm. >> hearing from. >> strategists. from military people who. >> follow this. >> is. >> is this negotia

david ignatius, the host of way too early ali vitali and nbc news national affairs analyst and a partner and chief columnist at pwc, john heilemann. so a lot of lot of news yesterday, some of it good, some of it good, some of it good. >> some of it good. >> let's start there. >> anytime an. >> american returns. >> home, american who was. >> wrongfully imprisoned returns home. >> that is good news. and that's where we're going. >> to start this morning. before we get to. >> the less good news that american. >> who was. >> wrongfully detained in russia now back on u.s. >> soil, a. >> man named marc. >> fogel. >> he was. >> released yesterday. >> in a deal. >> brokered by president. >> trump's special. >> envoy. >> the 63 year old. >> teacher from. >> pennsylvania was held captive for more than three years. >> he was. >> arrested in moscow. >> back in 2021. >> for traveling with. >> 17g of medical cannabis. >> fogel was. >> found guilty a year later. >> for supposedly. >> engaging in. >> what. >> was deemed. >> large scale. >> drug smuggling. >> he was. >> sentenced to 14 years. >> at a lab

thank you to sally quinn and david ignatius and. in a couple of minutes, president carter will be in this next room signing his books. thank you very, very much. in fact. it's a. good. one. you know, one of the major perks of owning a bookstore is that we get to see advance copies of new books. and i was privileged to read the aptly titled all the best. a few weeks ago, i was enthralled with this recounting president bush's life through letters and diary entries over the past six decades. nowadays most politicians at least pay service to old fashioned concepts honesty, integrity, civility in public life, humility and honor. however talented of them may be talking the talk seems depressingly few managed to actually walk the walk. how refreshing it was then to delve into george bush's new book and find those values on every page not in sermons or lectures speech, but in his own moral compass, which has steered them through each stage of life with grace and dignity. it's enough to make even die hard democrat like yours truly feel a bit

and we have one of the best here today. >> he is the president of st ignatius college prep. >> he hasgreat fundraising ability with your personality and his way to make money. >> i see this as a great team going forward. let's give a warm city hall welcome to father edward reese . >> and no worries, dean i'm not here to collect the library fines that you oh yeah. let's pray gracious and almighty god we come before you today with hearts full of gratitude and hope as we gather to witness the swearing in of a new fire chief, we thank you that you have called to leadership and service and you have placed in his heart. >> we also thank you for our first response orders and for all committed to the act of courage, integrity and wisdom. >> lord we ask your blessing on dean as he steps into this vital role. grant him the strength to lead with clarity and compassion the humility to serve selflessly and the resilience to face the challenges that lie ahead may be a source of inspiration. a union and unity for his team fostering a spirit of trust, respect and shared purpose. >> protect him. oh go

washington post lidcombe big thank you to sally quinn and david ignatius and. in a couple of minutes, president carter will be in this next room signing his books. thank you very, very much. in fact. it's a. good. one.

well because this morning on morning joe, david ignatius described some of these cuts as ready, fire, aim. it felt apt. so what is your reaction that you're hearing from to some of these cuts, especially in departments like the cdc amid an avian flu outbreak, no less? >> yeah, that's absolutely right. and over the weekend, there was an announcement about hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to education contracts. by the way, these are contracts where educators have the opportunity to see if the curriculum in a school is actually doing what it's supposed to do to teach kids all of these things, this broad brush, this sledgehammer to, to, to government workers and to government services is doing exactly what you mentioned before, the brain drain, the loss of decades of institutional power and memory and history. and to susan's earlier point, yes, the members of the senate, republican members of senate of the house could sort of step back and say, this wasn't us, this was them. but what democrats, i believe are going to do and have been already doing is being able to detail district

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david ignatius and even though many of our allies and fewer of our enemies understand that, i know i spoke with people in the region over the past couple of days, and even if it was an opening bid, even if a day after everybody is saying, okay, well, they seem to be backing off, talk about your reporting and how our allies were were were deeply shaken by this. so our enemies, our enemies were thrilled by this because what propaganda for iran, what propaganda for hamas, what propaganda for our enemies at the imperialist america now wants to come over. but but, but talk about it. because when we say arab countries were upset, that used. >> to. >> be our enemies are upset. now, those arab countries, those sunni arab countries are close allies. they were deeply shaken by this, and even the dhs had to send out, as you reported, a chilling warning about the possibility of terror strikes as a result of this change in posture. >> so, joe, like. >> trump's tariff. >> policies, what. >> was shocking. >> about this was. >> that it was an assault on our closest. >> friends and allies. >> jordan

. >> so, david ignatius, here we are again. it only gets worse. >> and while. really consequential. >> to hear this president. >> turning on. >> ukraine. >> when you. >> look at the pattern of his behavior. >> with ukraine, i guess it's not surprising. it's also a huge. distraction from. the breakdown of. >> the federal government that is. >> happening in unlawful. >> ways. >> as well. >> as the. >> controversial nominees that are getting basically. >> you know, corralled. >> right through the senate and. >> out into their positions. >> with seemingly. >> very little. >> pushback or. >> questions to. >> some really. scary concepts that they bring along with them. >> so one. >> striking thing to me, mika, is that republicans finally seem to have found their voice in directly, clearly disagreeing with donald. >> trump in. >> his criticism of zelensky in this absurd claim that ukraine started the war. that seems to have blown a circuit for the republicans. and it's about time. the concern i'm hearing from strategists, from military people who follow this is, is th

host: national security writer david ignatius, his column in the washington post today, he writes thattuesday was a dark day for the united states. president donald trump and his administration praised russia as a peace partner without demanding that it pay any price for its illegal invasion of ukraine. and then come in a statement that turned up around the upside down, the president blamed ukraine for causing the war. trump is an outrage-generating machine, he writes. he appears to take perverse pleasure in saying things that shocked, and i normally ignore the daily presidential detonation, but this time was different. the tragic loss of life in ukraine will mean nothing -- and a true resolution of the conflict will be impossible -- if we can't this english between the attacker and the victim -- if we can't distinguish between the attacker and the victim. good morning. caller: the caller -- thanks for taking michael. the caller a couple of colors back -- callers back hit it on the head. joe biden started the war when he allowed putin to sell the oil . he freed up money for iran to giv