Going to spend some time each of our is going to spend about five or 10 minutes introducing a particular president ial transition and highlight a few of the big takeaway interesting points, Lessons Learned. And so well go im going to im going to we wont go in program order. Were actually going to go and in Chronological Order of the elections that theyre going to be highlighting and then do that. About 50 minutes or so. And then open it up for discussion and conversation and questions. So so let me im going to go forth and im going to introduce everyone at the top. And then we will they will go in turn. So im going to introduce folks in the in the order in which they are going to speak. So first, we are going to have lindsey stravinsky, who is a senior fellow at center for president ial history at Southern Methodist methodist university. She is a historian of the presidency, political culture and the government, especially the president s cabinet. Her first book, the cabinet, George Wa
Behind the scenes to make sure that judge gorsuch is confirmed by the senate and what message does he have on capitol hill for the filibuster . Its four democrats that are now supporting, saying theyre doing to vote against the filibuster. I think we feel good about that level of support. I think we have done a very good job making sure that we have the republican majority support that we need to to pass it. Its an internal question for senators to determine how they want to do it. When leader mcconnell said friday, judge gorsuch will be voted as the next Supreme Court justice. And friday, a major meeting with the president of china. His eyes will be on washington. Will he be making phone calls thursday night we look forward to headed to florida thursday to engage in bilateral meetings with the president and his team from china. Obviously that will continue on a friday morning. Well see how friday evolves. Again, i dont think theres any question right now according to leader mcconnell
Douglas high school shortly before students were supposed to be dismissed. The gunmshoot began reportedly 2 30. The shooter pulled the alarm so students would come into the hallway and he could shoot into the crowd. When deputies arrived at the School Hundreds of students were already fleeing. According to the Broward County Sheriffs Office, the suspected 19yearold was con sealed himself running out of the school. 17 victims died at the school. 2 more died at the hospital. Welcome to morning joe. Its thursday, february 15th. Joe, here we are again. Mika, here we are again. More than 33,000 people are killed by guns in the United States every year. Thats according to the cdc. 33,000. We have had 1,670 mass shoots since sandy hook and we said never again. In schools, where we send our children every day to learn. 430 people have been shot in School Shootings since sandy hook. If you want to take it beyond our children, being gunned down in schools, well, three of the ten deadliest shooti
Hill. Lets begin with nbcs hahn nick kels at the white house. The president back at it on twitter this morning in a way thats making more than a few republicans nervous. And also as were getting new details about a possible election in the mueller investigation. The entire investigation by mr. Mueller depends on what hes doing on collusion. He continues to say with tweets over the weekend saying this isnt about collusion. Collusion collusion total witch hunt. The latest tweet i believe was a total witch hunt with massive conflicts of interest. Heres what we learned overnight, reporting indicating muellers investigation focuses on what happens after trump took office. Its focused on how mr. Comey was fired requested how mr. Flynn was terminated. The issue with the trumps tweets so far theyve been focussed on the collusion side not what happened on the potential op instruction op justice side if that is indeed muellers investigation. You have his lawyer suggesting at one point this inves
Pleading guilty to lying to fbi. Instead there he was, he walked into that black suv with orders to go back to court in march after his sentencing has been delayed. Flynn, the first former white house official to face sentencing in the russia investigation got a scolding today from the judge there, judge emmitt sullivan, who said a lot. He said i am not hiding my disgust, my disdain for your criminal offense. He added the aggravating circumstances are serious, not only did you lie to the fbi, you lied to senior officials in the incoming administration. A bit later after a brief recess, the judge would walk back some of his harshest comments, including those about treason. The judge did say he was merely asking questions, that he wasnt making accusations and prosecutors said there was no reason to consider charging flynn with treason. So lets go straight to our senior justice correspondent evan perez. He was in the courthouse. Evan, i mean, this was something no one saw coming today, th