Speaker
Joe Scarborough
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2 episodes
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2
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Between 1979 and 2007 Britain had only 3 prime ministers, but since Brexit in 2016 it has had 6, illustrating a dramatic collapse in political stability.
The GDP of the United States and the combined GDP of the EU plus the UK are roughly equal at around $26–$27 trillion each, making Europe a peer economic power.
Russia's GDP is only $1.4–$1.5 trillion, smaller than the economy of the state of Texas, making Trump's deference to Russia over Europe economically irrational.
Trump is expected to unfreeze around $100 billion in funds for Iran as part of any deal, though the $300 billion reparations figure is seen as unrealistic.
The $300 billion in reparations reportedly demanded from Iran exceeds what Germany was made to pay under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
JD Vance's conversion to Trumpism did not come during the 2020 campaign but in the weeks after January 6th, when he decided he wanted to run for Senate in 2022.
Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough is approaching its 20th year on air, with Scarborough waking up at 4:30am five days a week for nearly two decades.
In 1990, Trump compared Gorbachev unfavorably to Chinese communist leadership, praising the Tiananmen Square crackdown as the correct way to handle protesters.
Commentator Bob Kagan wrote that if the Iran deal ends at the MOU stage, it will go down as one of the greatest military defeats in US history.
Katty Kay's advice to every Republican who has cleared their primary: you are now in the YOLO caucus. Distance yourself from the White House, raise your own money, and run on your own record. The president's approval is at rock bottom, Washington looks like crazy town, and your only path to reelection is to make voters forget you were ever associated with any of it.
After Trump's Capitol meltdown, Senate Majority Leader Jon Thune — tall, suited, stone-faced — turned and walked in the exact opposite direction of the president. No words needed. That body language is the most eloquent statement yet that the Republican Party's leadership has had enough.
A New York Times poll shows 60% of Democratic voters are now more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis. Only 15% lean toward Israel. This is not a fringe position in today's Democratic Party — it is the majority view, and it is reshaping who can run for president in 2028.
Senator Bill Cassidy refused to be bullied by Trump, shouting back and then immediately telling reporters every detail. He confronted Trump directly: 'You said this war would last 4 weeks. It lasted 4 months.' When a sitting senator calls a press conference to narrate his president's meltdown, the party's discipline has collapsed.
Trump has cost Republicans the Senate seats of Bill Cassidy and John Cornyn, is blocking a veto-proof housing bill, and is refusing to renew FISA. Scaramucci's read: this isn't incompetence. Trump is deliberately burning down his own party because he only answers to himself.
Haberman and Swan's book 'Regime Change' reveals a White House where decisions are made by one person on gut instinct, nobody else's input matters, and the last thought in Trump's head becomes policy. It's the most detailed account of the second term yet — sourced from inside the Situation Room.
According to 'Regime Change,' Trump gets a literal psychological high from issuing pardons. The combination of instant results, no constraints, and the feeling of people being completely indebted to him is intoxicating. And he wants to pardon everyone within 250 feet of the Capitol on January 6th.
Behind the buddy-buddy photo ops, Trump privately hates Netanyahu. According to 'Regime Change,' Trump browbeat Netanyahu into submission to secure the release of 20 living hostages from Gaza. The real relationship between these two 'allies' is nothing like what is publicly portrayed.
Zohran Mamdani backed three Democratic Socialist candidates in New York's congressional primaries and swept all three. In the 10th District, Dan Goldman — a Jewish liberal Zionist — was beaten for being insufficiently critical of Israel. Democratic voters have moved on this issue faster than their party knows.
Anthony Scaramucci asked bluntly: can a Jewish candidate or a gay candidate win the US presidency today? His honest answer is no — despite Josh Shapiro and Pete Buttigieg both being exceptionally qualified. On America's 250th anniversary, this is a sobering verdict on how far equality has actually come.
Katty Kay argues Josh Shapiro is a superb candidate in almost every way — but the Democratic Party's shift on Israel makes it impossible for him to hold the position he currently holds and win a 2028 primary. The New York results this week made that clearer than ever.
Democrats swept New York City's primaries with democratic socialists. Republicans will use that footage in every suburban district from Iowa to Pennsylvania. Katty Kay's warning: the voters deciding the midterms are not in Brooklyn — and Democrats risk handing the GOP a perfect script while celebrating in Manhattan.
JD Vance knew from intelligence that Iran's nuclear program wasn't 'totally obliterated' and refused to use that exact word on Sunday shows. Trump's response: 'Everyone just has to copy me. Say obliterated, obliterated, obliterated.' The book captures the humiliation of Vance being berated for basic factual caution.
Trump refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill at the last minute — after a full signing ceremony was staged at the Capitol — holding it hostage to his SAVE Act. The bill had a veto-proof majority. This wasn't a strategic move; it was a hissy fit that left Mike Johnson holding a microphone and answering questions about being blindsided.
Stephen Miller is a fashionista who switched from a comb-over to a shaved head out of vanity, is deeply superstitious about keeping his old White House office, and has never once ended up on the wrong side of Trump in 11 years. Scaramucci calls it revolting Manichean court calculation. Haberman and Swan made it unforgettable.
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