Joe: Trump is doing everything he can do to help Putin
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Well, Tehran says it will retaliate after the U .S.
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military attacked and seized an Iranian cargo ship yesterday.7 seconds
The
president claimed on SOCIAL MEDIA THAT THE SHIP WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET
PAST THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE OF IRAN'S PORTS AND COASTLINE.15 seconds
THAT
ACTION IS THREATENING A SECOND ROUND OF PEACE TALKS PLANNED FOR TODAY
IN PAKISTAN. THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS VICE VICE PRESIDENT J .D.22 seconds
Vance
is leading the delegation after President Trump initially told
reporters yesterday the vice president would not be traveling to the
Middle East,30 seconds
but
a spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministries has said that Iran has
no plans for another round of negotiations with the U .S.38 seconds
All of this has oil prices rising this morning with markets in both the U .S.44 seconds
and internationally jumping 5 percent sitting right now at around $88 .96 a barrel.52 seconds
The Trump administration, meanwhile, has again lifted sanctions on Russian oil for 30 days.58 seconds
That is despite Treasury Secretary Scott President Scott Bessent ruling out that move,1 minute, 3 seconds
vowing to rule it out while speaking to reporters Wednesday at the White House.1 minute, 9 seconds
We will not be renewing the general license on Russian oil and we will not be renewing the general license on Iranian oil.1 minute, 16 seconds
Because, again, that was oil that was on the water prior to March 11th. So all that has been to help Vladimir Putin,1 minute, 23 seconds
at a time when Vladimir Putin finds himself So you, it's very clear.1 minute, 29 seconds
Donald Trump is doing everything he can do to help Vladimir Putin.1 minute, 34 seconds
At a time when Vladimir Putin finds himself backed into a corner because of an ongoing war in Ukraine,1 minute, 42 seconds
a war that he thought was going to be over in three days. It continues to drag on year after year.1 minute, 49 seconds
The Trump administration has been lying2 minutes, 4 seconds
THE RUSSIANS HAVE TO BACK DOWN AND DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN AND JUST HOPE FOR A PEACE DEAL WITH THE RUSSIANS.2 minutes, 9 seconds
THEY'VE CONTINUED TO LIE ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF THE ECONOMY, THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY IS IN TATTERS.2 minutes, 14 seconds
THEY'VE CONTINUED TO LIE ABOUT PUTIN'S STABILITY IN RUSSIA, IT IS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW RIGHT NOW. AND SO WHAT DO THEY DO?2 minutes, 21 seconds
THEY
GIVE HIM ANOTHER 30-DAY LIFELINE AFTER LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
ABOUT NOT GIVING HIM ANOTHER 30-DAY LIFELINE IT JUST CONTINUES.2 minutes, 30 seconds
THIS WAR COULD BE OVER.2 minutes, 32 seconds
PUTIN COULD HAVE BEEN FORCED TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE.2 minutes, 35 seconds
I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE PAST SAID PUTIN IS GOING TO DO WHAT PUTIN IS GOING TO TO DO, A DEAL COULD HAVE BEEN STRUCK.2 minutes, 40 seconds
BUT
YOU KNOW, DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF AND PEOPLE AROUND HIM CONTINUE TO
DESPISE THE INVADED BY VLADIMIR PUTIN'S CONTINUING TO DESPISE
UKRAINIANS,2 minutes, 51 seconds
CONTINUING
TO DESPISE ZELENSKYY, CONTINUING TO DESPISE THE VERY PEOPLE THAT WERE
INVADED BY VLADIMIR THEY WERE PUTIN'S RUSSIAN INVADERS.3 minutes, 2 seconds
AS I HAVE SAID TIME AND TIME AGAIN ON THIS PROGRAM,3 minutes, 5 seconds
IF THEY DIDN'T HATE THE UKRAINIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS SO MUCH,3 minutes, 8 seconds
THEY
THEY WOULDN'T HAVE STUMBLED BLINDLY INTO IRAN THINKING THAT THEY WERE
GOING TO BE ABLE TO JUST KNOCK IRAN OVER IN THREE OR FOUR DAYS OR IN TWO
WEEKS.3 minutes, 19 seconds
THEY WOULD'VE LOOKED AT POWER AND LEVERAGE TO END.3 minutes, 35 seconds
THE PRESIDENT KEEPS MAKING UP WARS THAT HE ENDED WHEN HE WON'T END THE ONE WAR, HE HE HAS THE POWER AND LEVERAGE TO END,3 minutes, 43 seconds
AND THAT IS THE ONE BETWEEN VLADIMIR PUTIN'S RUSSIAN INVADERS AND THE UKRAINIANS.3 minutes, 50 seconds
HE JUST REFUSES TO DO DO IT.3 minutes, 53 seconds
AND ADMIRAL KERBY, I HAVE NO IDEA WHY HE CONTINUES TO LET VLADIMIR PUTIN OFF THE HOOK WHEN RUSSIAN 4 minutes, 2 seconds
LEADER WHEN THE RUSSIAN LEADER IS SO WEAK RIGHT NOW? YOU KNOW, LOOK, PUTIN WANTS THREE THINGS.4 minutes, 10 seconds
HE WANTS UKRAINE, OBVIOUSLY. HE WANTS TO DIVIDE THE WEST DEMOCRATS,4 minutes, 12 seconds
AND HE WANTS TO REBUILD FROM A WARTIME ECONOMY TO A MORE STABLE ECONOMY.4 minutes, 16 seconds
MANY OF THE DECISIONS THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE IN THE LAST 15,4 minutes, 20 seconds
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MONTHS HAVE TO HAVE ABLE TO HAVE AIDED HIM IN ALL THREE OF THOSE WAYS
INCLUDING BESSEN'S EXTENSION NOW OF THE WAIVERS HERE AND4 minutes, 32 seconds
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENDED, BUT IT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED THINGS OF MR. TRUMP THAT I JUST DON'T THINK HE'S CAPABLE of exploring,4 minutes, 41 seconds
and one of them is supporting Zelensky. I mean, there's a grudge here that goes way,4 minutes, 45 seconds
way back to his first administration with President Zelensky and Ukraine in general.4 minutes, 50 seconds
And
so not supporting them militarily has THAT'S DEFINITELY CAUSED THE
STASIS THAT WE'RE SEEING ALONG THE DONBASS, EASTERN AND SOUTHERN PART OF
UKRAINE.4 minutes, 58 seconds
THE FACT THAT NEITHER SIDE PUTIN, THAT IS WHAT HE WANTS.5 minutes, 2 seconds
THE WAR DRAGS ON AND AGAIN, THAT BENEFITS VLADIMIR PUTIN. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS. AND THESE, THE CASTIGATING OF ALLIES,5 minutes, 9 seconds
THE LACK OF PULLING TOGETHER SOME KIND OF INTERNATIONAL COALITION TO HELP IN IRAN,5 minutes, 15 seconds
ALL OF THAT ALSO SATISFIES PUTIN'S DESIRES TO FURTHER DIVIDE THE WEST AND TO DIVIDE NATO.5 minutes, 20 seconds
I GO BACK TO MY TRIP TO EUROPE THIS PAST WEEK SPEAKING TO I MEAN, THEY ARE MOVING ON.5 minutes, 27 seconds
THEY ARE MOVING ON WITHOUT THE UNITED STATES, JOE.5 minutes, 30 seconds
THEY SEE A FUTURE IN THE ALLIANCE THAT EITHER HAS A VERY MINIMAL AMERICAN LEADERSHIP OR PRESENCE OR MAYBE EVEN5 minutes, 50 seconds
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ALL GOING TO HUNGRY,5 minutes, 53 seconds
ALL TRYING DESPERATELY TO HELP A MAN GET RE-ELECTED AS PRIME MINISTER IN THAT COUNTRY.6 minutes
A MAN WHO TOLD VLADIMIR I WILL BE YOUR FOREIGN AGENT HERE.6 minutes, 7 seconds
THE SAME THING WITH LAVROF HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH HIS FOREIGN MINISTER, WITH HUNGRAY'S FOREIGN MINISTER,6 minutes, 14 seconds
THEY WERE NOTHING BUT PUTIN'S DUPES,6 minutes, 17 seconds
THEY
WERE DOING EVERYTHING THEY COULD DO TO HELP VLADIMIR PUTIN FROM HUNGRY
TO STOP EVERY BILL THAT COULD HAVE GONE THROUGH EVERY6 minutes, 24 seconds
FUNDING MECHANISM THAT COULD HAVE GONE THROUGH THE EU TO HELP THE IT WAS CONSTANTLY ORBANN STANDING IN THE WAY AND YOU6 minutes, 34 seconds
ACTUALLY HAD DONALD TRUMP AND VLADIMIR PUTIN BOTH DESPERATELY TRYING TO HELP THIS MAN WHO6 minutes, 45 seconds
INVADERS, YOU HAD THE IRONY DURING THE ELECTION IN HUNGARY THAT YOU HAD J .D.6 minutes, 49 seconds
VANCE, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND OFFICES OF THE GRU, THE RUSSIAN SECURITY services,6 minutes, 55 seconds
both
in Budapest at the same time with the same aim trying to get Victor
Orban elected. And they didn't. And maybe we'll look back, Joe,7 minutes, 4 seconds
and think 2026 was the year of peak populism.7 minutes, 6 seconds
And you've got the midterm BE A LONG TIME ELECTIONS IN AMERICA HERE COMING UP THAT WILL DEAL A BLOW TO POPULISM.7 minutes, 11 seconds
YOU'VE
HAD THE DEFEATER OF VICTOR ORBAN DESPITE THE WHITE HOUSE WEIGHING IN
THAT IS ALSO A BLOW TO POPULISM. BUT ADMIRAL KERBY IS QUITE RIGHT.7 minutes, 20 seconds
THE NET OUTCOME OF THIS ESCAPADE THAT DONALD TRUMP UNDERTOOK, THIS WAR OF CHOICE THAT HE UNDERTOOK IN IRAN,7 minutes, 28 seconds
THE BIGGEST OUTCOME OF IT IS THAT IT'S BENEFITED RUSSIA AND IT'S BENEFITED CHINA.7 minutes, 33 seconds
MARK,
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS SO INTERESTING AS WE HEAD INTO THIS
INCREDIBLY CONFUSING WEEK, WHICH WE REALLY DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE
STRAIGHT,7 minutes, 39 seconds
WE WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS, BUT I KEEP THINKING AND LISTENING BACK ABOUT THOSE NEGOTIATIONS.7 minutes, 45 seconds
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN TELLING REPORTERS THAT THEY'RE VERY OPTIMISTIC,7 minutes, 51 seconds
AND
THEY were very optimistic last time around, that Vance and the
Iranians who were sent were very close. They almost had some kind of a
deal.7 minutes, 59 seconds
And
part of me wonders whether that was just misinformation being spread by
the administration, because we know how long it took last time.8 minutes, 7 seconds
It
took 20 months of direct negotiations to get the JCPOA. Were they
really that close? And even if they were close last time around,8 minutes, 15 seconds
what are the chances for negotiations this week as we come into, as we head into Pakistan?8 minutes, 20 seconds
So, so, Katie, you know, I bought in on Friday to the same kind of optimism that I think so many others did as well.8 minutes, 26 seconds
I mean, there was kind of repeated efforts by U .S.8 minutes, 29 seconds
officials
on background to basically the entire Washington press corps, that
things were rather optimistic. And then they all fell apart. So you do
have to ask yourself, you know, why?8 minutes, 38 seconds
Was this just spin?8 minutes, 39 seconds
Were
they trying to do, and I hate to bring this up, but market OF COURSE
THERE WAS DISSENTION EVEN WITHIN THE IRANIC PRICE OF GAS BEING LOW,8 minutes, 47 seconds
OIL PRICES GOING DOWN, THE STOCK MARKET GOING UP, ALL THOSE THINGS HAPPENED. IT COULD BE THAT. THERE ALSO IS THE NOTION that,8 minutes, 53 seconds
of course, there was a dissension even within the Iranian ranks.8 minutes, 56 seconds
Perhaps
they were hearing this from certain Iranians they were talking to, but
as we've seen over the last 24 hours, the IRGC, the hardline elements
seem to be in control.9 minutes, 4 seconds
Those with guns make the decisions THE CHIEF SEEMS TO BE THE ONE CALLING THE SHOTS NOW.9 minutes, 10 seconds
SO
IT COULD BE A COMBINATION OF ALL OF THOSE, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY I
THINK WE HAVE TO BE CAUTIOUS WHEN WE DO HEAR THIS KIND OF SPIN FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE EVEN IF THESE9 minutes, 18 seconds
THESE ARE SOURCES THAT THE PRESS HAVE BECAUSE THE ENEMY,9 minutes, 21 seconds
THE
IRANIANS GET A VOTE AND I THINK IT TURNS OUT AT THE END OF THE DAY THAT
MIGHT NOT HAVE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN ACCURATELY WHAT'S HAPPENING.9 minutes, 26 seconds
ONE
QUICK POINT WITH WHAT JOE SAID ABOUT DAVID IGNATIUS, I ALWAYS HAVE TO
BRING THIS UP. HE WROTE A BOOK ABOUT HIS TIME IN BEIRUT, IN 1983, THE
BOMBING OF THE U .S.9 minutes, 35 seconds
EMBASSY BARRICHS CALLED AGENTS OF INNOCENCE.9 minutes, 37 seconds
IT'S ABOUT THE CIA, THE ROLE THERE THAT THE CIA HAD IN RECRUITING AGENTS.9 minutes, 41 seconds
I GAVE THAT BOOK TO EVERY YOUNG CASE OFFICER WHO EVER WORKED FOR ME WHEN I WAS THE DEPUTY OP CHIEF OF THE NEAR EAST DIVISION.9 minutes, 47 seconds
AND SO, DAVID, EVEN A LITTLE BIT YOUNGER, BUT HIS IMPACT IS PRETTY PROFOUND. ALL RIGHT.9 minutes, 54 seconds
MS NOW NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE,9 minutes, 57 seconds
ENDLESS, RETIRED CIA officer Mark Polymeropoulos and MSNOW National Security Analyst retired Rear Admiral John Kirby.10 minutes, 5 seconds
Thank you both very much for coming on this morning. And coming up on Morning Joe,
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