Hampshire institute of politics. Already tonight we heard from senators Amy Klobachar and Elizabeth Warren and right now is senator Bernie Sanders of vermont leading the field among the Harvard Institute of politics. Please welcome senator sanders. How are you doing . Good to see you. You too. Thank you. All right. How about our first question. Why not . Why not, indeed. What else do we have to do . Well talk later. Hes from massachusetts and a junior at the university of massachusetts, lowell. What have you got . Hi, senator. Hi. How are you . Good. You reduced your medicare for all legislation package, many of them are running along side of you for president of the United States. In this legislation you called for an end to private Health Insurance companies. How do you plan to phase out these companies for your new medicare for all insurance. Excellent question on a issue that millions of americans stay up nights about. We have a dysfunctional Health Care System in which 30 million
Like to get the job . Jedediah it feels good. The weekend show is so much fun. You guys are a blast too. Im looking forward to it. Brian tell you how long it is . Jedediah they did. Its a long four hours. Steve you are saying you have to do two shows four hours. 8 hours a week. Tough. [laughter] steve we only work 15. Brian of course you were here and went to the view for an hour. So this is a lot more. Jedediah exactly. I was like you on outnumbered on the five the view for an hour and then here. Its good for you. It keeps you really sharp. Fox friends keeps you 145r7. I tell everybody that. There is no one sharper than the fox friends people. That live tv you never know whats popping up in that prompter sometimes. Steve or its not spelled right. Brian didnt we go through two months of no vowels. Steve wheel of fortunate. Steve turn around and show the prompters went all dark. Jedediah all black for a while. Brian the prompter strikes back. Congratulations, jed, i think you are going
Be top of mind when hes insulting people. Yeah. I just dont know that thats where id go if i were donald. But anyway, good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, august 16th. Were filled with love, willie and i along with republican strategist and msnbc analyst susan del percio. National security expert and columnist of usa today, and author of the book the death of expertise and living loving, led zeppelin tom nichols. Also associate editor of the Washington Post and political analyst Eugene Robinson. Hey, willie, so we have got these fox news polls that have come out that are pretty stark in just how badly the president s standing has fallen since all of these controversies regarding, you know, send her home and the racially charged attacks which obviously have hurt the president in a way that we would. Some breaking news. Yeah. Israels interior minister says this morning that it will allow congresswoman Rashida Tlaib a palestinian american to enter the country of israel to v
Everyone. Im sandra smith. Its putting the executive power to the test. Critics argue the Trump Administration plan would alienate immigrants and putting a states political power in congress and federal funding at risk. Bill doug mcelway outside the u. S. Supreme court today for the rundown. It boils down to one little question on the census questionnaire. It has been on the census questionnaire for better than a century. Was on the census questionnaire from the years 1820 through 1950 and then in 1950 they stopped putting it on the census questionnaire. Now the Trump Administration and commerce secretary wilbur ross want it reinstituted on the census questionnaire. It asks how many citizens live in this household . Well, in january a federal judge in new york barred the government from including that question on the census. Normally the government would appeal the case to the court of appeals. In this case the government believes that immediate action is necessary because the census q
What legislation has them literally running from the law . Welcome to the lead. We begin this friday with breaking news in our world lead and a stunning about face by the commander in chief, President Trump ordering a retaliatory strike against iran for shooting down an unmanned surveillance drone yesterday. The pentagon had targeted three different sites but then just minutes before the strikes were carried out, President Trump changed his mind. He says he did this because he was concerned about civilian casualties be p the president casualties. The president tweeted we were co cocked and loaded. Ten minutes before the strike i stopped it. 10 minutes is now 30 and it remains unclear in the jets were in the air President Trump says they were not. The New York Times says they we were. The comments raise the question until President Trump didnt know about that moment until the death toll. Reporter lawmakers have been expressing confuse because when youre making a decision on this scale,