Good morning and welcome to morning Joe. It is Monday, July 21st, and we have a lot to get to this morning, including President Trump officially taking legal action against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting about a birthday letter that they say he sent to Jeffrey Epstein. Also ahead, we're going to go through reporting on the growing concern inside the White House

about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Plus, President Trump also upset about reporting that says a member of his cabinet is convincing him not to fire the Fed chair.

And we're going to have highlights from Scottie Schaeffler's dominant.

And somehow dominant doesn't quite capture what happened over four days at the British Open,

leaving him one major shy of having a career grand slam.

With us this morning, we have the co-hosts of the fourth hour,

contributing writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire.

Also, President Emeritus of the Council in Foreign Relations, Richard Haas,

who fortunately also is our roving golf correspondent.

Politics, Bureau Chief and Senior Columnists at Politico, Jonathan Martin, and the host of way too

early Ali Vitale. I got to, I mean, Richard, I mean, this is why you get paid the big bucks.

You are, of course, our our golf analysts of course

self-appointed you said i want to be your golf analyst like roger bennett's your soccer analyst

so this is your time man i'll tell you what scottie sheffler over the four rounds

uh as dominant as anybody i've seen in the majors, it seems every shot he made

was pin high, every putt he made was true. It was a remarkable round from a guy who started,

and I heard as much talking about this over the weekend as his spectacular golf.

Scotty Schaeffler started by saying, I'm more than golf.

I mean, if I'm not a good husband, if I'm not a good dad, if I'm not a good person,

golf doesn't matter.

And I think it was his wife who said, Scotty's a lot more than his scorecard.

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