Excan i have executive spoke to moscow three times. And good morning, everyone. Its tuesday, august 29th. With us we have mike barnicle, mark halperin, now an msnbc political contributor, rick tyler and from usa today heidi pryzbyla. The russia story. I mean, rush just keeps moving forward. They keep saying theres nothing to it, its dying and then you find out hes trying to build trump tower and then they say theres nothing there and then the guy they say had no contacts with russia you can even go back to mike pence being asked did the Trump Campaign talk to anybody in russia regarding no, no, we just talked to the American People. You stack up all the lies but to really get the gravity of the lies, you have to get g back to the getting. Thats apparently what people are doing. And then theres the president firing a guy because his crowd size was small. And he fired a guy because his crowds were tiny . How do you do that . Its not like he was a promoter for a led zeplin concert. This i
The last two years have been two of the best world series in i mean recent history. The difference is last year you had a great game seven. Last night the astros jumped out in the weekend inning and the pitching held out. 51 was the final. They won the first world series in the history of their franchise. They have been to the world series once before, that man right there, George Springer, crossing the plate right there, most valuable player, hit another home running homered in four consecutive games, darvish, thats all they needed. 51 was the final. This team, joe, was 2011, 2012, 2013, each season lost more than 100 games. They were the worst too emin baseball . I remember saying they should really be playing aaa baseball. No, they were horrific. They were. There is a 2014 Sports Illustrated cover. Yeah. That shows George Springer on the cover says 2017 champs . What did they know . They had an incredible farm system and grow up and three years later predicted the world series title
White house reporter for usa today, heidi pryzbyla. Good to have you all. Heidi, the roy moore story is not going away for republicans. And it seems that donald trump is trying to have it both ways. Or maybe no way at all. How nervous are republicans on the hill right now, especially in the senate, about this race . Think about this, joe. That their best option at this point, just tactically, in terms of keeping this seat in the hands of republicans, would be, at this point, since they cant get him off the ballot for this man, roy moore, an accused sexual offender of minors, to come to the senate and for Mitch Mcconnell to have to unseat him. So i think theyre extremely nervous right now. The best thing that would happen right now for the Republican Party would be if the state party would get on board with trying to push roy moore out. Right now theyre circling the wagons and they seem to be kind of bolstering around him, whereas here in congress, you have members of congress and Mitch
Tufts university, retired four Star Navy Admiral james stavridis. Admiral stavridis, well go to you. This weekend certainly if you care about americas place in the world had to be one of the most concerning certainly ill just say the most depressing in Donald Trumps year and a half in office. I must say that at least for me my worst expectations were actually met this weekend at the g7 meetings. Whats the impact on america and the world . I share your concern. And, you know, if youre getting ready in a schoolyard to face a bully, which is kim jongun, you would think you would want to kind of gather your friends around you. Here was a perfect setup. Walk into a summit meeting with the largest economies in the world, all u. S. Allies. Why not come out of that with a strong sense of community to go face this awful dictator in singapore . So it fails the pragmatic test. And, joe, even worse, kind of the tail end of the whole thing, he goes after nato as a former supreme allied commander. I
And Yamiche Alcindor and msnbc political analyst Eugene Robinson is with all of us. Joe is awake and it was a tough night. It was ugly. It was ugly. Willie, lets set the record straight. Clemson is the best team in College Football by a long shot. Oh, my lord i dont want to get overdramatic but last night did seem like the changing of the guard. This was an alabama team that has spent a decade dominating others. This reminded me an awful lot of 1992 and alabama won their First National championship in, you know, about a decade and a half. And they just humiliated the miami hurricanes and the program wasnt ever the same. Im not saying thats whats going to happen here, but it sure felt like the changing of the guards in College Football last night. Well, on the up side, joe, you look chipper this morning because you could go to bed in the third quarter, which i did, too. He does. He did not. Trevor lawrence, a teenager, a freshman, was absolutely incredible against one of the best defens