Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its thursday, august 2nd. And what a way to start the day. What a way. So, is it the official policy of the president or not . I think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. He was just venting. Just like a baseball game. When hes actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. Or Obstruction Of Justice. As brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. Talk about fake news. You talk about deep state conspiracies. You fire prosecutors and you have a were
this campaign. we ll see if it sticks. one of the things i was going to ask you, gargarrett, the momentum he had when he ran for senate made a lot of people think he could break through. when he announced his candidacy, he raised a lot of money, but since then, i believe candidate o rourke is only made about $6.8 million, less than the 19.4 million he raised in the first quarter of the year. do you get a sense as to why, from his campaign, that enthusiasm as it translates into a dollar amount in polling has dropped a little bit? i think some of it was sort of a decision paralysis. so many people in the race, so many more candidates getting in even after o rourke got in. absolutely his best week was probably his first week in the race. he raised the most money. his poll numbers really took a spike. and then like so many other candidates, he got a ride at the toc top of the ferris wheel and his numbers dipped back down.
former president obama just endorsed 81 candidates ahead of this year s midterm elections, weighing in on more than a dozen state races, obama says he s eager to help his party gain seats this november. the former president s endorsements include georgia gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams, nevada jackie rosen and new mexico house candidate deb hayland. some notable absences texas senate candidate o rourke and new york congressional candidate cortez. obama cease team says the endorsements are a first wave and more will follow. ben, who do you see on the first list? i see a lot of people that i worked with, so a lot of alumni, so just here in new york, andy kim, tom malinowski and buffy