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Morning Joe

Morning Joe 7/15/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Washington, Congress, Government, Politics, President, Scarboro, Election, Brezinski, Ms Now, News, Issues, Giest, Campaign

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Gen. Mark A. Milley worried about what the president might do to maintain power after losing reelection, according to new reporting in Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker's book "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year."

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0:00.0

Are you surprised that this president is willing to go this far?

0:04.5

If you don't tell anybody?

0:06.1

Yeah, I am.

0:09.1

Remember when Joe Biden won the nomination by running to the right of Bernie Sanders?

0:14.5

Well, now the president is looking to push through a grab bag of progressive priorities in a sweeping multi-trillion dollar package.

0:22.8

But what does Joe Manchin have to say about that?

0:25.8

We've got two top Senate Democrats joining us today to talk about it.

0:30.8

And speaking of West Virginia's senior senator today, Joe Manson meets with a group of Texas lawmakers

0:36.9

who left their state to lobby Washington

0:39.6

on voting rights. What it means for the future of the filibuster and Republican efforts to change

0:46.5

election rules across several states. Also, the U.S. military is sounding new alarms about the American

0:54.0

withdrawal from Afghanistan.

0:56.4

After 20 years of blood and treasure, will that country soon belong to the Taliban?

1:03.0

And a military matter much closer to home as the top U.S. general sounds off on Donald Trump's attempts to subvert our democracy.

1:14.1

In the reported words of the Joint Chiefs Chairman, they may try, but they're not going to

1:19.3

effing succeed. All those stories and much more on this Thursday, July 15th. Joe has the morning

1:25.9

off and Willie, those quotes attributed to General Mark Millie.

1:30.0

They're quite something and there's a lot.

1:32.3

Absolutely astounding quotes coming out of the new book.

1:34.9

I alone can fix it from the Washington Post reporters Phil Rucker and Carol Lennox.

1:39.6

We're going to talk about those in a moment about what was happening and what General Millie believed really was possible

1:45.0

around the election. Let's begin, though, with President Biden on Capitol Hill yesterday,

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