Hello and good afternoon to you from brook lib. Im chris hayes. Three months from today republicans will go to cleveland to pick their nominee for president and that is about all we know for sure on this, the eve of the New York Primary tomorrow. Thats all we know about the gop convention, the date. Anyone who says they know who the nominee will be is either lying to you, lying to
themselves or unlikely case they have been in the future and returned to tell us about it. Donald trump is in the lead and a delegate sweep tomorrow would erase cruzs wyoming weekend momentum. The fact that trumps main target is the republican voting process itself could be a clue his campaign is thinking about the possibility they could fall short of that magic delegate number. Weve got some new numbers from our nbc news wall street journal poll to tell you about. Ted cruzs numbers arent that much better but the stop trump crowd needs him to do well tomorrow. For them its the lesser of two evil situation. So
Welcome back. Lets get a check on the day ahead check on the day ahead before we toss it over to morning joe. Chuck hagel is set to testify on a house hearing on the administrations strategy to beat back isis. General dempsey will also be a witness. And Mitch Mcconnell is expected to be elected majority leader and harry reid minority leader. That will do it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. This is Ground Control to major tom youve really made the grade david bowie this morning. Alternative version, actually. Hey, welcome to morning joe. Were going back to what are we going to try to do today, willie . Save the world. Save the world. Thats good. No matter what, we need to save the world. I mean after some guy and woman, whoever, figured out how to land a ship on a comet. Wow. Whatever we do this morning is going to suck. Come on. I dont like science. Im a republican, right. No, no. I dont like science. Liberals dont like math. Were going bankrupt. Were even. I dont like
Have we reduced people now to where theyre not even worth the value of a lucy cigarette . These are questions that were going to have to answer in coming days. Tonight, we have to make sense to children why they are at their fathers funeral. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Is nothing sacred . Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in san francisco. Let me start with this relentless shameless effort to accomplish anything by the president of the United States. Worse than any of it, the attempt to kill obama care in its crib. Refuse yl to back immigration
reform. Rejection of obamas plea for congressional action even with the border crisis, cold plooded opposition for background checks. Worse than any of that are the poll numbers showing that the average republican out there is as feverish as elected officials and want and hoping the president will go down in the dirt. This is the fact facing voters. Can a Political Party win the minds and hea
A new study finds drinking soda every day can age you just as much as smoking. A 20ounce soda equals an extra 4. 6 years of aging. Fox friends starts right now. Good morning. It is tuesday, october 21. Were going to start with a fox news alert. He shot and killed his model girlfriend and moments ago blade runner Oscar Pistorious was sentenced to prison. But did he get less time because of his celebrity . We are live with those breaking details. The president responds to all those democrats who are avoiding him out on the campaign trail. These are folks who are strong allies and supporters of me, and i tell them, i said you know what, you do what you need to win. Why does he keep talking, the democrats are wondering. Is the president hurting his own party more than helping you . You be the judge. The worlds most infamous intern takes center stage. I fell in love with my boss in a 22yearold sort of way. It happens. But my boss was the president of the United States. And thats not all she
For everyone and show we can be better and we can do better. Look how far weve already come. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. A devastating verdict. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. In a devastating rebuke to politicians today, those that this abuse power, a jury in richmond, virginia, today found a former Virginia Governor and his wife guilty of a series of felonies that could keep the couple in prison for the rest of their lives. Both bob and Maureen Mcdonnell wept openly in court. The jury found him guilty on all 11 counts of conspiracy, she on nine counts leaving their stunned families in tears. This is what it means to face the American People in the year 2014, a time when the people look upon politicians as fails at best, abusers of their offices at worst. Guilty today means guilty before the people. Guilty at a time just one in 15 americans believes the United States Congress Deserves respect. In the program tonigh