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Ukraine Inflicts Heavy Toll on Russian Troops

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Ukraine Inflicts Heavy Toll on Russian Troops

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0:00.0

When President Trump needs backup, Massey wants to debate process.

0:05.2

When the movement needs unity, especially at the biggest moments,

0:09.4

Massey's willing to vote with Democrats.

0:12.3

When conservatives are fighting the most radical left in American history,

0:17.4

too often Massey's instinct is to throw elbows at fellow Republicans instead of the people who are destroying our country or want to destroy our country.

0:28.0

And there's one man standing in their way, and it's President Trump.

0:34.6

It's really incredible, isn't it?

0:36.8

Will you have a Secretary of Defense who is fighting a war that has upended the economy, not only in America but across the world, that as Bob Kagan has written, may be one of the greatest losses militarily in American history,

0:57.7

and he finds time to campaign against a Republican congressman who Donald Trump hates

1:06.7

because that Republican congressman is trying to follow through on Donald Trump

1:12.4

and Republican candidates promise to release all the Epstein files.

1:18.2

And because Donald Trump has been trying in every way possible to cover up the Epstein

1:24.5

file, something we haven't talked about since this war began.

1:35.0

He is doing everything he can, along with all of his billionaire supporters, to destroy a congressman who wants the Epstein files released. And the Secretary of Defense has time to go down.

1:43.3

And instead of trying to prosecute this war, which we are losing

1:49.0

politically, he's instead trying to beat a congressman because the congressman wants full

1:58.0

accountability for the victims of Epstein and all the very powerful people around

2:05.0

Epstein. Some say, including the president. Yeah, I mean, it's extraordinary, unusual,

2:15.4

inappropriate for a defense secretary to be on the campaign trail to

2:18.6

begin with. Let's just start there to be out campaigning for a candidate. There are Hatch Act

2:23.7

considerations potentially here. But then to do it in the middle of a war where just hours ago

2:29.6

the president was on the brink, he said, of a new round of strikes against Iran before pulling back again.

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