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jenny, molly jong-fast, thank, you appreciate it.ad, we will change gears and get an update from the mother of -- who was one of the three palestinian american students shot last week in vermont. weekend, 3:20-year-old palestinian college students were shot and critically injured in burlington, vermont. the three students were taking a walk during a family gathering when a white man confronted them and wordlessly began firing from a handgun. the students were speaking a mix of english and arabic and two of them were wearing black and white palestinian scarves known as caffey's. according to the burlington poli chief, all three are now in stable condition but one sustained much more serious injuries. the suspect, jason eaton, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of second degree murder. prosecutors are determining whether the shootings should be treated as a hate crime. here is one of those students speaking yesterday with nbc. >> did you ever saying anything like this could happen on american soil? >> i certainly hope not. i have h

let's bring back kurt and molly jong-fast into the conversation. need to get your reaction on this stunt ramaswamy trying to pull. here literally saying, if trump can beat me, i don't even want to run for president. is that a fair characterization? >>> well it's easy to withdraw from something you have no chance of actually winning. which is the case with ramaswamy. and i think you hit the nail on the head there. it's just a stunt. it's a publicity sund. because that's what this guy is. he's just a walking publicity stone trying to get little tidbits on tiktok and social media. but there's no substance there. there is no there there. that's like saying, hey, if i've got a lot to do x, i'm not going to show up at the nba all-star game this. here will guess, but i'm not gonna be in the all-star game, so it doesn't really matter, does it? >> reporter: i was going to, say where you're not invited and decided not to go, or did you say i'm not going -- >>> i should be invited. let me just say that right now, nba. >> reporter: molly, how do you explain th

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joining me now is molly jong-fast, special correspondent for vanity fair and the host of the fast politicste, this to point everything we know, shootings do away with polls altogether, then? what's the utility and having them >> poles are good for seeing a pattern. right? they could promoting the trajectory. so if, if someone is pulling really well in wisconsin and in the polling less well, okay, you could see that. that's useful. but the reality is national polls have almost no use because we don't elect the president that way, right? we elect with an electoral college. so, national polls, i just threw out. who cares? winning popular vote was meaningless in this country. >> so a question as we, as journalist, how do we use a poll, then, you're telling me it's not a predictor of what's gonna happen and it's even, unless it's kind of in our backyard, we may actually have any significance. >> so, i think the way to think of it is this. there's a guy called daniel bernstein who wrote the boards to, wrote this book in 1962, and he was sort of the sort of forced to work and pr as a public relat

. >>> let's discuss all of this and more net worth molly jong-fast and it's a cup. as a, let me start with you. your reaction to trump using what supremacist clan language. there aren't any top wattles there, this is a bull horn, the language diffusion. >> yeah, he's not winking or nodding. like you said, he's out and proud and i think that's because not only is this kind of go two for, him but his base has condensed. it's still very loyal and right, but we know that. but it contains. the folks that might have come on board, if you look skeptically at the first go round, for all the normal raisins, maybe economic policy, taxes, regulations. they're all gone. they're gone because they don't won the freak show. and these, you know, these kinds of storylines that go along with trump. so all that from the left our sort, of the conspiracy theory crowd and folks that would respond to this. and so exploiting white fright is, i think, something you're probably going to hear more from trump over the next year as he's running for president again. >> molly, trump also today vo

my friend writer molly jong fast of vanity fair said it best, moral clarity dies in euphemism. this moment, not only in terms of haley's response but in the larger inflection points when we find ourselves around american democracy demands the moral clarity that molly jung fast wrote about. it is imperative as central to our tomorrow as anything else about the fight we're currently engaged in. but it's worth asking if this so called backlash will even hurt haley or will it alienate voters in her party at all. joining me now to discuss all of this is christina greer, political scientist and host of the blackest questions podcast, and my friend and colleague susan del percio, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst. good to have you both on. i'm so happy to have this discussion. susan, i want to start with you. the response to haley's comments seem like they may have helped her in terms of toeing the line in the republican party more than they hurt her. what does that say about where that party is and what they're trying to sort of hone in on as their core values? >> i t

. >> special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the "fast politics podcast," molly jong-fast. the talks for action from president biden in order to salvage his top foreign policy priority. we'll get into that. >>> coming up on "morning joe," we'll bring you live reporting from jerusalem as the white house becomes more pointed in its criticism of israel's military operation in southern gaza. >>> plus, we'll hear from the spokesperson for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. "morning joe" just a few short moments away. mess? (caroler) ♪ very much so. just trade in that old phone. ♪ ♪ for a free 5g phone, plus netflix and max ♪ (wife) you really just should have done that. (caroler) ♪ this didn't land, she didn't like that. ♪ (husband) honey! i immediately get it! (avo) this holiday turn any samsung phone, in any condition, into a galaxy s23+ on us. and now add netflix and max to your plan for just $10 a month. save big this holiday. only on verizon. there are some things that go better... together. burger and fries... soup and salad. like your workplace benefits and retire

and, molly jong-fast, most of the fast politics podcast and a special correspondent for vanity fair. thank you both for joining me. jason, liz cheney says we're sleepwalking into a dictatorship, but correct me if i'm wrong -- it's not gonna be the kind of dictatorship with concentration camps and martial law overnight, is it? that's not what we're gonna get. we're gonna get trump borrowing from the abend playbook in hungary, from the -- what would that look like here in america in terms of his use of the doj, or the irs, or his approach to the media and universities? >> so, he'll be targeting media and targeting universities. viktor orban targeted central year peÑa ferocity and drove out from hungary the best university in that hunger -- marxists, lgbt supporters, and vilified them in those terms. he forced media companies to sell themselves to his friends using tax framework and the courts. so we can expect that. we're already seeing this kind of attack on universities and schools throughout the country. that's why it's so ironic that, as everything trump does, it's so hypocritical

joining us now, "vanity fair's" molly jong-fast. a classic trump "sir story."alls him "sir," he can morph it into a story. hasn't been to the debates yet, but says a general, three star, called him brave for showing up in 2016. >> if i were ron desantis, i wouldn't be bringing up debates. he kind of got his lunch handed to him by gavin newsom. >> at least he was there. >> yeah. >> the debate stage in 2016, hirajima, moments we'll all remember. what it means for the primary is nothing. desantis, anytime he's taken a quick hit at trump, he backs off a day later. none of the attacks stick and none make a difference in the polls. good for desantis for saying what was true, donald trump was grossly offensive with his comments and denigrated military service, but it's not going to change the trajectory of the race at all. finally, desantis is changing tactics, when it looks like nikki haley has the momentum as the anti-trump contender. she's still 30, 40 points down. >> iowa, of course, is where desantis put all his eggs, and he's down in the polling. molly, you piec

let's bring in special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast molly jong fast same way. it's good to see you this morning. let's get your read here about the former president and, you know, it's not just about presidential leadership. we know he doesn't do anything the way any conventional president does. i mean, that is such a mean-spirited note there. but what a lot of his base wants, and he barrels into 2024. now just a few days away, with a commanding lead in most republican primary polls. >> yeah, i mean, look, this is what the base wants, these deranged tweets that have all caps in weird places and make the case that somehow, you know, there was election interference. i mean, this is what the base wants. i think that i continue to believe that when you bring this message to mainstream voters, to swing voters, that they are not going to be moved by this the same way they might have, i think, in 2016. i really do believe that he was able to sort of come from nowhere, and i think got a lot of credit for being a little bit less insane than he really was becau

"vanity fair's" molly jong-fast, thank you for coming on this morning. great piece. ly. >>> ahead on "morning joe," democratic lawmakers who served in the military and the cia sent a letter to president biden urging him to pressure israel to change course in gaza. congresswoman elissa slotkin, who worked as a cia analyst and signed that letter will join the conversation. >>> later, a live report from capitol hill where negotiations are under way to work out an immigration and border policy deal in exchange for additional aid to ukraine and israel. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. [dog barks] no it's just a bunny! only pay for what you need. ♪liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ in the u.s. we see millions of cyber threats each year. only pay for what you need. that rate is increasing as more and more businesses move to the cloud. - so, the question is... - cyber attack! as cyber criminals expand their toolkit, we must expand as well. we need to rethink... next level moments, need the next level network. [speaker continues in the background] the netw

special correspondent at "vanity fair" and host of the "the fast politics podcast," molly jong-fast. and "politics nation's" reverend al sharpton. and bureau chief at "politico," jonathan lemire. and rogers chair in the american presidency at vanderbilt university, historian -- >> isn't that something? >> -- jon meacham. >> what's that? ♪♪ >> what are you saying that about? >> we have meacham here. >> he brings the gravitas. >> really does. >> the prestige. >> best title by far of everybody else. >> rogers professor. >> no doubt. >> on this december 7th -- >> he is so important. >> -- 2023, we have him here, obviously, to talk about vivek. [ laughter ] >> willie, it was an interesting moment there. chris christie did what i think everybody in the room wanted him to do. at the same time, you have this very interesting dynamic. he was coming to the defense of a woman, which, again, you know, in the south, antiquated, that's what some of us have been taught to do. he's from jersey, so he doesn't have that excuse. but i love what he did. it kind of put nikki in a weird position, and you