Pharisees, it's a problematic and historically weaponized term that cast Jewish communities as

hypocritical or morally corrupt. Words matter. What you choose to say, how we choose to say it.

How do you justify using this language as Secretary of Defense?

Senator, I feel like it's a pretty accurate term for folks who don't see the plank in their own

eye and always want to see what's wrong with an operation as opposed to the historic success of preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

All right, Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth back on Capitol Hill yesterday, grilled this time by the Senate Armed Services Committee.

It comes as the Trump administration is about to pass the deadline for congressional approval

to sign off on the war in Iran, but now claims the ceasefire exempts the conflict from

that timeline. We'll dig into that. Plus, Morning Joe, economic analyst

Steve Ratner is here with his charts breaking down the Trump administration's ties to crypto.

Also ahead, we'll dig into the redistricting chaos in Louisiana. After the state's governor said he intends to delay House primaries

in response to the Supreme Court's ruling this week. Good morning and welcome to Morning,

Joe. It is Friday, May 1st. Along with Joe Willie and me, we have the co-host of our 9 a.m. hour

Staff writer at the Atlantic,

Jonathan Lemire, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haas,

and co-host of The Weekend and Washington Reporter for MS Now, Jackie Alamania is with us this morning. I just want to say, and we made sure we passed a rule long ago.

What's that?

That there would be no betting in prediction markets on the Morning Joe prediction market based on anything that any of us said about politics, war, sports.

But if we in fact had, had you? Had that?

Everybody here could be very rich because, as you will remember, Willie, as I said,

through long-suffering Giants fan Richard Hauss when it was two to two between the Hawks and the Knicks,

what did I say?

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