appearance over substance, the mike baker -- make money on their name, image and likeness.ybody is sympathetic of breaking in on looks, it is this collection of hot ass. utilize fame to sell stuff at the forefront of cav ender friends, while playing basketball at university of miami. they now make a living online thanks to massive social media following and just being hot. i know the feeling. you should see the traffic on myspace page. in fact tons of good-looking college athleteses make more than men, critics say it is sexist, but shouldn't we be celebrating female entrepreneurs? hot girl problem, people have a problem with hot girls, myself included, they won't stay out of my hot tub. >> a sexist would say. >> greg: let these attractive 22-year-olds capitalize on their looks. they will turn 30 soon enough and it will be over. >> what sexists would say. >> greg: bad influence michele, you are from the sports world. isn't this how it operates, beauty is status created through strength is male currency. men don't care if you are the best fencer, michele. women care mike bake

mike baker, you are a spy.ve done in a couple of times. >> greg: i have seen you die here a couple times. >> it started years ago on "redeye." what a plea move. i hope when this eventually -- die because nobody goes to his funeral. that will be proper karma. >> greg: have him run over by a karma. [laughs] michelle, i mean, he claims that he never got invited to anything. felt unappreciated and he wanted to teach them a lesson. >> kat: i got -- >> i got a response in five words. what a [bleep] selfish man. it was all about him. i'm not being invited places. i'm so sad. i'm hurt. let's see how you really feel about me. i would be so pissed. >> greg: i would kill him. i would, kat. is that not an awesome reality show? i'm surprised they have not done this yet where someone fix their death. that has to have been plugged or pitched as a reality show. >> kat: probably. >> greg: have you thought about doing that? >> kat: the way he did it was bad. when i through my own funeral, there it is. i entered my birthday party

maria: mike baker jump in here.own with the united states is so important. not only are chinese nationals apprehended at the southern border up 1300% -- the border agents tell me these are engineers take are coming in to the southern border. but you also have this spy center set up. it's going to be 100 miles away from florida, mike. >> yes. and jonathan, i mean, i couldn't agree with you more on their blobuildout of a military that projects or potentially projects power well beyond their neighborhood. i'd like you to talk a bit about their looming presence and control over critical minerals, rare earth elements. cuba's an interesting example. i mean, people aren't talking about this but their building relationship with cuba probably has nothing to do with the fact that cuba has ten times the known reserves of cobalt as an example and they've got, what, 500,000 metric tons, known reserves, compared to the u.s., 53 tho53 -- 53,000. i'm sure that hasn't escaped china's interest. maria: this is why some companies are l

maria: yeah, mike baker. >> mike, good to see you again and i do take your reference to sandi burger classified documents in my pants. [laughter] >> i just wanted to ask you if you were worried about the growing numbers for the republican side in terms to have candidates for 2024? the size of that field, does that worry you? >> no, i think it's a good healthy sign that the party has a lot of people who say i'd like to be on the team, put me in coach, i'm ready to play. that's good, that's fine. now what it probably does is makes donald trump stronger because he owns the donald trump lane all by himself and the more candidates there are in the i'm not donald trump lane, the more difficult it is for any one of them toe merge and it's going -- to emerge and it's going to be a demolition derby and it's a primary as we should and that's healthy for the party and for the country. maria: senator tried to grill on protecting joe biden and they won't give up the document that show, proves scheme of influence peddling decisions to take money from ukraine. >> what question ought to be concerned

maria: look mike baker jump in white house leaked a crises story that biden was about to come up with taifkss on chinese companies never materializeded. >> ut companies chasing holy grail of china, chinese market decades oftentimes nothing materializes the chinese yooem building satellites in the south america president of honduras was just in china most visible evidence of he growth and project about what power is the issue of cuba, the question is is there a red line you perceive obviously they have a listen facility, in cuba now, they've had that sometime. the talk about building a military training installation in cuba, at what point is there a red line that says enough is enough there is pushback? >> well, i think they crossed receipt line from my perspective why there does need pushback this all every encompassing competition military diplomatic, being response requires that level comprehensive policy we are not seeing that from this administration, look at what the chinese are doing in our own hemisphere, as you said, the spy station in south america, but the belt and road init

maria: no, it's not fair, mike baker.oughts. >> we've got to streamline the debate process so we ensure voters have the opportunity to see all the candidates. democrat and republican. i get from the political calculus the sort of age old consideration that a says if i'm ahead, if i'm the incumbent why should i get on stage and debate people polling at 1, 5, 10%. that's not the point here. on the democrat side, 80% people say they want to see a debate, make it happen. the question i've got is the same suffolk university poll says that if biden/harris are reelected and a biden can't finish the next term, are you comfortable with harris as president and 53% of the democrat voters said yeah, we're very comfortable. who are these people. >> come on. >> that are very comfortable with kamala harris being the leader of the free world but the republican party should continue to hammer on this idea that a vote for president biden is a vote for president hair rims that should be the tag line every time anybody talks about this elect

joining the conversation all morning long, mark tepper, kaley mcgee white and mike baker.ight now, "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ i want to know. ♪ oh, won't you please take me home. ♪ i want to see. ♪ oh, won't you please take me home. maria: the federal reserve pausing rate hikes during this week's policy meeting but signaling two more potential rate hikes are coming later this year, federal reserve chairman jay powell holding his post meeting press conference yesterday following the decision. >> nearly all committee participants view it as likely that some further rate increases will be appropriate this year to bring inflation down to 2% over time. i would almost say that the conditions that we need to see in place to get inflation down are coming into place and that would be growth meaningfully below trend, it would be a labor market that's loosening, it would be goods pipelines getting healthier and healthier. the things are in place that we need to see but the process of that actually working on inflation is going to take some time. maria: joining me righ

tonight we got the return of mike baker. michelle tafoya. kat timpf, tyrus let's do. abroad. so when she is away i use her toothbrush. she doesn't know what i use for. so, when she comes back, she doesn't know that i actually use it to scratch duck's back. >> dana: that's a baby flamingo. >> greg: how did you know that? >> dana: i read it on your paper. >> greg: i find baby flamingos brush them and put it back on the thing i tell alaynena. gets fine hairs in her gums and has to go to the hospital. >> jessica: the sign feldt toot brush in the toilet episode was so good. ains. >> jesse: killer flamingo. mom texts you were over the moon obnoxious. apologize to her and your group. wow, awful behavior. purple hair and nose rings doesn't mean a person is worthless and not human. where is your humanity? yuck, jesse, please do your level best not to sink lower and then lastly homeless people are not homeless because they want to be. it's a terrible situation in which to find one'sself and god knows one's family. of course there are professional homeless. double heart. tonight

reagan, family, he was known for surrounding himself with really talented people, jim bayer, baker, mike dever. i get the sense that you have that same talent, guys like nick ayres, mark short, kellyanne conway. you have really been able to build a world-class team. mr. pence: thank you. mark short and his wife kristen, mark is with us tonight. they were the founding director doors of the reagan ranch. so they come from a good background. it is one of the things that you learned early on, and i know president reagan learned and lived it. i had the privilege to know a number of people who were senior in the administration including a dear friend attorney general ed mees whose friendship i cherish to this day. you learned early on you are only as good as your people, and i learned that on that tragic day in january in 2021 as well. both mark short and my general counsel greg jacob as a recount in the book had been there at my side giving me steady counsel and support as we sought to stand firm and to do our duty. i will always believe that we did our duty that day, ensuring the peaceful tr

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baker. vaughn, you have a statement from donald trump from a spokesman which outlines a potential legal strategy as former vice president mike pence is ramping up his criticism of trump. >> right. over the last eight years, donald trump has been in charge of his own defense. it has been a political defense. it is convincing voters. this time, it's a jury. that's why i want to let you look at the statement from a trump spokesman, beginning to lay out what the legal defense could look like. i think that that is an important construct when we talk about the legal end of this. that is what the likes of mike pence and other candidates are now using to sort of juxtapose their own responses to this. listen to mike pence here in an interview talking about the serious nature of the allegations laid out in the indictment from the department of justice. take a look. >> i have a son who is a captain in the marine corps, a son-in-law who is a lieutenant in the navy. i know the risk that as i said even inadvertent release of classified information could present to our armed forces. >> that is where for mike pence, in terms of looking at t

mike pence making history, as the former vice president to ever directly challenge his running mate in a primary. join me for insight and analysis senior washington correspondentn "new york times" chief white house correspondent, peter baker. kimberly atkins sorer. and steven hayes, editor of "the dispatch." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press," with chuck todd >>> good sunday morning. and a happy father's day to all the dads out there as one former prosecutor put it pr pretty bluntly this week, two years from now, donald trump could be in prison or be president. with trump holding a commanding lead over the republican field, his opponents face the question that will dominate this race over the next six months will they? can they and should they? go after the former president over his federal indictment? and trump's legal issues that are likely to come first, let's tackle the will they clearly, it would be the best way for any candidate not named trump to get attention but so far, thechristie and asia hutchinson. hutchinson called for him to drop out of the race and christie said the conduct in the indictment is a