his little brother is a hero and joe junior is not. >> it was extremely difficult for joe junior. always been the oldest brother, the golden boy. >> there's a banquet for jack in boston and afterwards joe came home and we want and said i'll show them. >> april morning for a final inspection. they trained long and hard for these ships, you're on your way, joe. this is it. >> joe junior leaves to joins the allies in europe seizing his opportunity to become a kennedy hero. >> whether you were british or american, the ultimate of being the dashing world hero is being a pilot. that's what joe did and took on the scariest of missions flying a liberator bomber going after the greatest threat to the western alliance which was german u-boats. >> kick always joins the war effort volunteering for the american red cross in england. >> kathleen kennedy was a charming girl who wowed the boys and met one of the richest and socially prestigious, the oldest son of the duke -- >> london's most eligible bachelor and heir to the state and he was a catch. >> lovely, seat of the duke. >> one would thin

if joe had given the same quality and quantity of support to eunice that he gave to joe junior who ever. i would like for you to comment on that. who knows what she could've done. it was not just the kennedy family it was the world itself that was admired. it's hard for any woman in the h century america to be seen and had opportunities. would she had loved to been the one that joe chose. but she have made a better congressman than jack did. she would've made a better senator. you hear presidents i don't think she could have gotten elected. she did not have a politic streak. she said what she thought and she really didn't care what you thought. i don't think you could've ever taken that out. bobby infuriated people. i don't think any woman today can do that. she would not had teamed herself to run for elective office. she have more respect for people who were elected to public office than for anything she had accomplished people would ask in her dying weeks. you must be so proud of all you've done and all you've accomplished no you weren't. the nature of the woman that was difficult. in

she was not old enough to be part of a golden trio, jack, joe junior, they were the glamorous kennedys. rosemary was tucked in the middle, forgotten in her own way. she wound up at the kids table most of the time, supervising rosemary cutting her meat for. she founded a a disadvantage to be overlooked in that way. she became the best sailor, the best tennis i player, the most aggressive of the touch football players. simply to get his eyes on her and off of the boys. in 1959 she wrote a letter to her father, probably saying i know you are so busy daddy, spending all your time worrying about the boys careers. what about me? so, she knew the answer to that question in the kennedy family, power was the reserve of the men. the men played, the women prayed. it was not in the cards for her to get his attention in this political kind of way she hoped too. what joe kennedy wouldn't give, she took. she hijacked the charitable foundation. for all of its existence, the names of the president of the josep joseph p kennedy association, named for her older brother was killed in world war ii, the pre

thursday, may 24th, welcome to "morning joe," we've got msnbc contributor, mike barnicle, the chair of the african-american studies at princeton university, eddie glaube junior, former treasury director and economic analyst, steve rattner, columnist and associate editor for the "washington post" and washington capitals fan, a very happy fan this morning. huge game seven win and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, host of "kasie d.c." on msnbc, kasie hunt. >> i want to chime in that every time i hear this kasie d.c./ac/dc thing. i think about the battle between westi westinghouse battle between when we should have ac current or d.c. current. >> holy moly, ladies and gentlemen, playing the role of jon meachum today, steve rattner. >> where we started, steve said, listen when you introduce kasie, i got something i want to say. i wonder what's coming in here. it was about thomas edison and westinghouse. >> i think we should devote 15 minutes of the show, it's been bothering me. >> mika is attending her daughter's college graduation, we look forward to seeing her back in a couple of days. >> big stuff, man, big stuff. of all the things yesterday that concern me

joe's favorite phrase. we have mike barnicle and msnbc political contributor rick tyler. chair of the department of african-american studies as princeton university. eddie glaude juniornd former chief of staff at the c.i.a. and nbc news capitol hill correspondent oh yeah -- host of "kasie d.c." on msnbc, kasie hunt. we're never going to stop doing that, okay? >>> and co-founder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. i think we'll start right there, we begin with the stunning revelation from president trump's attorney, rudy giuliani. last night, telling fox news, that trump reimbursed his fixer, michael cohen, for that $130,000 hush money payment to porn star stormy daniels. despite president trump's assertion last month that he was unaware of it. >> having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman $130,000? i mean which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal. that money was not campaign money. sorry, i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know. it's not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. so -- >> they funneled it through the law firm? >> funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. >> oh. i didn't -- he did? >> yeah. >> there's no c

junior is under scrutiny once again for his meetings with the -- during the 2016 campaign. apparently russia wasn't the only country looking for influence. a lot to cover this morning, joe. >> yeah, what a disturbing series of tweets by the president. i guess we can blame bill karins for that forecast. i mean, the rain just keeps coming. the president doesn't have his golf game to keep him occupied. and so he just sits there with those thumbs just working that phone nonstop, over and over again. >> it's incredible. >> and, in this case, we saw a flood of tweets that really, once again, showed a president who was desperate and really despondent over an investigation that's already indicted so many people close to him, people that ran his foreign policy, indicted people that ran his campaign, indicted people he said ran his foreign policy, has indicted 15, 16 russians. going to be indicting more russians from everything we understand. and so it's getting too close for comfort for him. and so now he's striking out and is suggesting that we investigate the investigators who are, by the way, all republican investigators. he attacks the fbi. the fbi is appointed by a republic