All of the NATO allies agreed with us, but they don't want to, you know, despite the fact that we help them so much, we have thousands of soldiers in different countries all over the world, and they don't want to help us, which is amazing, I mean, amazing.

And I didn't do a full court press, because I think if I did, they probably would be. But we don't,

we don't need help. Okay. President Trump again yesterday complaining about NATO allies,

saying they're not helping with the Iran war, while also claiming the United States does not need them.

We'll bring you the latest from the Middle East in just a moment.

Meanwhile, the president's pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Senator Mark

Wayne Mullen, will be on Capitol Hill today trying to convince his colleagues he's up for

the job.

That comes as top TSA officials' warning of serious consequences

at the airports, if the partial government shutdown, now at nearly five weeks, drags on any

longer. And good morning. And welcome to Morning Joe. It is Wednesday, March 18th.

With us, we have the co-host of our 9 a.m. hour, staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire.

MS. Now, National Affairs analyst, John Heilman. He's a partner in chief political columnist at Puck.

Columnist and associate editor at the Washington Post, David Ignatius, is with us.

Writer at large for the New York Times.

Elizabeth Bue Miller is here and senior writer at the dispatch.

And a columnist at Bloomberg opinion, David Drucker is with us this morning.

And Joe, a lot to cover a lot of questions about the war in Iran.

Who's going to support the United States?

Who's required to and who wants to

at this point in time? A lot of questions. It's interesting, the Washington Post breaking with the

news this morning that actually the gold states are now pressuring the president and the administration

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