Michael Tomasky

So Donald Trump has screwed himself, which he does over and over and over again.

Michael!

You know, Joanna, you just called me before we came on the air, Mike, which is something only my grandmother has ever called me.

I don't know where it came from.

nostalgia.

At any rate, Joanna.

Michael, all I can do is put it down to, I got up at half past four Eastern time this morning to get to LA in time to record our podcast.

So just put it down to lack of sleep.

Yeah.

And I, I also want to thank, uh, my friend and, and, and our friend Michael Tomasky at The New Republic-

Oh, yeah

... for publishing this.

Yeah

...

I said, I think it was last summer when a reporter asked me, uh, in this way, uh, he said, "Judge, uh, I understand that, that you and, uh, and John Roberts are, are, are longtime friends.

And if you were, if he were here today, what would you say to him?" And I, I, without any hesitation, I said, "I would tell him that he's presiding over the end of the rule of law in America."

We should say that this is my theory on this, theory of the case based on what he has done in the past.

Michael.

Joanna.

Back in the studio.

Well, the sort of stolen valour of it, it's like stealing someone else's medal.

You think of all the people that did go down there, all the rescue workers, the essential workers, the nights they spent there.

The person I remember the most was the priest for the fire brigade, Michael Ryan, who had a terrible heart attack on the spot and died because it was, as Rudy Giuliani said, it might be too much for us to bear.

And then, of course, you've got the tragedy of what happened to Rudy Giuliani.

Coming up, our next guest says Senator John Ossoff of Georgia understands something most Democrats do not.

Michael Tomasky explains what that is straight ahead on Morning Joe.

Time for a quick break to talk about McDonald's.

The Texas meal is here.

Our next guest argues in a new piece for The New Republic that Senator John Ossoff of Georgia has something that other Democrats don't.

In a word, conflict.

The piece's author, editor of The New Republic, Michael Tomasky, joins us now to explain.

Also with us, co-founder and CEO of All In Together, Lauren Leder.

Hi, Henry.

I just wanted Brad to talk about Michael, the editor of the New Republic's uh michael report that was on his show tamaski statistics yeah statistics that he that he revealed about uh the new jobs record we uh recreated in the last 40 years

brad do you recall that show did you interview michael tamaski about the new jobs created in the past 40 years

I think I did.

And it was probably only a week or so ago.

I'm Brittany Lewis, one of the host of Forbes Newsroom.

Joining me now is Michael Tomasky, the editor of The New Republic.

Michael, thanks so much for joining me.

My pleasure.