the co-founder of axios, you know who else is joining us, mike allen with axios' one big thing.eded to do a drive by. >> that was perfect. the axios one big thing is actually going out to mika. it is perfect. >> perfect. >> what is the one big thing today? talk to us. >> the axios one big thing is fighting joe. we're told the former vice president, joe biden, is taking the advice of "morning joe." he is not being deterred by the personal space issues. we're told he is on track to announce toward the end of april, probably in the last nine days right after easter. we've seen here on the show that he was taping a commercial back home in scranton. that is exactly what it looks like, an announcement commercial. we're told by an associate that joe biden knows that the rest of the field is going to try to crush him as soon as he announces. we're told he is totally prepared for it. >> so what is his game plan once he does actually announce, and what is he going to lead with? what issue is he going to lead with? >> as soon as he announces, we're told he will follow it up with big speech

mike allen, thank you so much.e axios ne newsletter. >>> that does it for me. i'm yasmin. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> as somebody enjoying the first year of married life, i'd say freedom is what's at stake in the idea of whether a county clerk gets to tell you who you ought to marry. hello again. speaking of things that are at stake, that do not belong to a single political party -- you know, the good news is, the condition of my soul is in the hands of god, but the iowa caucuses are up to you. >> apparently, it is not pete buttigieg's supporters taking notice of his surge. his critics, it seems, are also paying attention, as the south bend mayor rises toward the top of the democratic field. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is wednesday, april 17th. joe needed to be off this morning, but he will be back tomorrow with us, tomorrow morning. we have with us today msnbc contributor mike barnicle, contributor to "time" magazine and msnbc political analyst and former aide to the geoe

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mike allen. let's talk a little bit about "1 big thing." what do you got? >> good morning. uh-oh. he's setting us up. >> we're going to be very serious here. the axios "1 big thing" is for real. president trump's next supreme court pick. behind the scenes, this is a classic behind-the-scenes quote. when he was talking about the supreme court pick that eventually became the supreme court pick, judge amy coney barrett, he said i'm waiting for ginsburg. he likes the fact that she was a law professor, went to notre dame, a proud catholic, has indicated she might be open to overturning roe v. wade and a choice that would throw gas on the culture wars. >> that is fascinating. is there anything about her the president might turn on down the road? any hurdles or is he in full with amy coney barrett? >> so the president is practical and the base would love this pick but even with a couple more seats he has in the republican senate could be a tough confirmation. so that might ultimately be the calculation. the fact that the president already has his eyes several picks down the road a

in on the president with just under 80% of the gop saying they're enthusiastic and comfortable mike allen, co-founder and executive editor of axios. this is not unrelated to the poll numbers but what do you make of the president saying he really might shut down the border what would happen if he made such a move? how likely would that even be? >> so i think that he thinks it's very likely our reporting shows that the president definitely wanting to do it. reporting the president talking about it behind the scenes administration officials feel like it's going to be unlikely they feel like it won't actually come to that if it happened, the mechanics of that would be at the ports of entry on the southern border, it would be closed except day laborers, who would still be able to go back and forth, but other than that, it would be closed huge disruption and of course, a huge symbol. >> are we talking about being closed to, for example, the highways are closed? the trucks that are coming across to make their deliveries? does that just mean from mexico into the u.s. or both ways >> and you put y

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joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., the co founder, mike allen. >> happy friday.e "morning joe" family, it was fun to see all that good news. >> lots of good news for the family. it's been a good week. >> tech is making the rich richer and the big bigger. people hoped that tech would allow entrepreneurs, people in the garage, to take on giant temperatures, that was how apple started, uber started. technology is helping the biggest players get bigger. income equality is likely to increase and that's part of what's fueling instability in our politics, that there's great pockets of wealth but it doesn't necessarily promote broad prosperity. >> i know that you're breaking down the trends you have seen amidst this tech explosion shall we say. what are some of those trends? >> this is a piece by jim vandehei and our experts on both coasts. one of the trends is that data begets data. the great fortunes of the future in part are going to be built on how you're able to collect, package up and remarket data. for example, the information of anything from our phones, anything

mike allen. what is axios's "1 big thing" for today? >> thank you.ll of you. thank you for a great week. the axios "1 big thing" is the democrats' 2020 edge. this is chris kreuger of colin research came up with this. house republicans have 13 women, that's 7% of their members, 13 women house republicans. house republicans have 14 dudes named greg or mike. so it's a new way of looking at the gender disparity among house republicans. "the new york times" a few years ago discovered at the time there were no men named john running fortune 500 companies than there were ceos who were women. this points to a big republican problem and a democratic opportunity, and that is the suburbs. that is what could be so important in 2020 and we saw real republican bleeding there in the midterms and a lot of it was because of women. >> i want to meet the researcher who says i want to know how many john or gregs. >> how are republicans planning on going after women in the 2020 election you had the vote for the violence against women act, a lot of republicans saying they

. >> mike allen is popping a scoop as we speak. now telling advisers he might run, especially if these allegations of joe biden damage him and convince him at some point not to be in the race. blo bloomberg has always wanted to run but has always seen biden as a big roadblock. he felt like they'd be fighting for the same voters. now that biden is having some trouble, in some ways this says as much about biden as bloomberg, they're seeing this is making him wobbly, they're wondering if he'll be able to survive it, then bloomberg sees that centrist part of the electorate as his base. >> one man as miser to -- one man's misfortune is another's opportunity. >> there's been four or five days now constant coverage of biden, none of it positive. a big debate about whether his touchy feeliness is appropriate or inappropriate. that's never good for a politician. everything we're hearing, he's still going to run and even more in some ways certain about running, but inside that campaign, people around biden, they are rattled and they're mad.

>> well, my colleague, mike allen, has done all the reporting on this.nounce. it has been -- when we talked to -- and i've spoken to a few people close to biden over the last few months. his aides know this has been a struggle for him. he's gone back and forth. at certain times, they thought he was on the precipice of announcing, and he hasn't. i spoke with someone with biden in december, and he said confidently he'd announce on january the 15th. that date has flown by. >> jonathan swan for us, you're staying put for "morning joe." our viewers can sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. >> that does it for us this morning. "morning joe," everyone, starts right now. >>> i hope they now go and take a look at the oranges, the oranges of the investigation. the orange is how it started. >> they can name it however they can, peaches. we appreciate it very much, tim apple. >> it is like word salad, seriously, from the president. he's bananas. good morning, everyone. welcome to "morning joe." >> oranges. >> what? >> he's oranges. >> a lot of oranges. >>

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so, mika, if you invite us over and you put out like some hot pockets to watchand you just warp mike allen the legitimacy of his potential candidacy. >> we saw in that picture, great scoop from pennsylvania man, januaryor man, about him taping that commercial. we're told he wants to get full steam ahead, that they were missed about his coverage and they were upbeat. o o in addition to the is there as i go prk, from pb one of the biggest lessons is you just have to be. >>zmchl and i don't think you can completely chang who you. sfm faxate somebody sflchblt have sfrchbl given the fact that we're in the age of me in, correct me if i'm wrong or push back if you disagree, kimberly, but it seems none of these stories are about sexual a narmt it sfrm. >> >> and the women who came forward said they are not saying this is sexual harassment and these are not the kind of actions that were involved in the me too movement. but i'm go do needs to change who he is. snchl in a snch snmt that hts maernt to bring qualityin whether it's how they're treated, particularly in pof spees sps. and putting a hand o

mike allen's reporting this morning that mayor bloomberg is rethinking whether or not he would run, especiallyat joe is talking about as scale. billions, literally billions of dollars he would allocate to a race if he decided to run. he won't get it in $25 increments, he'll get it in billion dollar increments. >> coming up on "morning joe," susan page paints a remarkable new portrait of brass bush. we'll dig into the brand-new biography of the former first lady next on "morning joe". rnin" >> who knows somewhere out in this audience will be someone who one day follow in my foot steps and preside over the white house as the president's spouse and i wish him well. [ laughter ] [ laughter ] no matter where you are in life or what your dreams entail, a cfp professional is trained, knowledgeable, and committed to financial planning in your best interest. find your certified financial planner™ professional at letsmakeaplan.org. finyou get the freedom ofcial what a 7-day return policy. this isn't some dealership test drive around the block. it's better. this is seven days to put your carvana car to t

. >> the other thing i wanted to touch on with you is you had a piece in mike allen's place over the weekend about capitalism and billionaires we've had a number of billionaires on our set overth past couple of weeks. >> right. >> who made some of these statements, here in fact, about their qualms or -- i don't know if they have qualms with capitalism so much as they have said relatively straightforwardly that they think capitalism is broken ray dalio and even steven schwartzman made some comments which i thought were surprising last week given his support of president trump and where he's come from historically about the state of capitalism if you will. i did an interview over the weekend with dave sticklitz. he has talked about progressive capitalism catching fire with some on the left what's your take about what's happening here is this a bipartisan issue >> this is 100% a theme we've been following for at least a year now, at least since president trump's election if you look at the rise of the populus movements, the brexit. a lot of people feel that the economic order of the las

mike is also with us and so is donna edward, former maryland congresswoman and nbc news national political reporter jonathan allen, as well. i'll start with you, ali. how did the speech play in the room, as they say? >> reporter: so, craig, i've been here for the past two days and i have to say bernie sanders definitely got the most -- and they're doing that q and a with al sharpton that you mentioned and it was a mix of things and in talking to people on the ground here their top concern is beating president trump in 2020. so bernie sanders came here not just armed and willing to go after president trump. he does an interesting thing where he basically thinks it's a binary between he and president trump each though he has a field over primary hopefuls who want to be the democratic nominee and it was spot on in terms of what people wanted to hear in terms of how to close racial wealth gaps and close education gaps in the community and he would sign sheila jackson-lee's legislation to set up a commission to study reparations, so he definitely got a lot of energy and applause here, but so did someone else. kamala h

police say allen was driving a black mercedes, a $25,000 reward is being now offered for any information that leads to an arrest. >>> right now we want to look into a commute, mikes good news. we don't have any major injuries we've heard about as a resulting from the motorcycle involved. that was a concern. recovery for the bay bridge, slowing right now for highway 13, very tough drive from 580 to 24. no incidents reported there but that is the note through piedmont hills. pretty standard flow of traffic, north 87 slow towards concerner, back to you. >> another local news update in 30 minutes. we're always on at nbcbayarea.com. with the cast of broadway's "the cher show." fallon and cher, nbc tonight. >>> it is 8:30 on a monday morning, april 15th, 2019. the sun is out. >> yes, it is. >> breaking through the clouds after some really rough weather overnight here in new york. a big beautiful crowd to go with the sun. >> i know. willie along. craig and hoda have the morning off. >> we're looking for a guy who looks a lot like carson daly. oh, wait a minute. there is chris from houston. ali, how are you? what do you think? carson's look alike? >> absolutely. >> a si