Trump tries to dominate everyone in the mold of rulers like Turkey's president Erdogan.

Here's Erdogan greeting French President Macron.

Take a look at how Erdogan tries to win the handshake. What is what is happening?

Stephen Colbert's take on that odd moment between presidents Macron and Erdogan last week.

Meanwhile, President Trump is trying to project strength after his long phone call with Vladimir Putin yesterday. It didn't produce any

significant breakthroughs in bringing peace to Eastern Europe. NBC News chief international correspondent

Keir Simmons will join us with more insight on that conversation.

Also ahead, we'll bring you the latest on the communication issues plaguing Newark Airport after yet another brief outage with a control tower.

How is this possible?

Plus, we'll go through the charges. A Democratic Congresswoman from New Jersey is facing following an incident earlier this month at an ice facility.

Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Tuesday, May 20th. With us, we have the co-host of our fourth hour, contributing writer at the Atlantic,

Jonathan Lemire, and writer at large for the New York Times.

Elizabeth Bue Miller is with us this morning.

A lot to cover, Joe.

And yes, congratulations, your Red Sox one last night.

Something new every day.

Doesn't happen. Doesn't happen a lot. The bullpen actually held up. So great news.

We're going to be talking, Mika, of course, off the top of the show about the two-hour phone call that President Trump had with Vladimir Putin.

And not a lot of movement towards a ceasefire.

The president said afterwards that there was, there were some positive steps forward.

But there is no doubt the biggest problem right now is that Vladimir Putin doesn't want peace, doesn't want a ceasefire.

And as Marco Rubio said, a month or two ago, he said, we're going to know very soon, who's

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