Politicsnation. Tonights lead, stormy days. Tonight more than half a million homes and businesses in and around houston, texas, are still without power after punishing storms slammed into the region yesterday, leaving at least seven people dead and putting intense strain on the infrastructure and power grid. The Lone Star State is weathering political storms as well tonight. Outrage is growing over Governor Greg Abbotts pardon of a white Army Sergeant found guilty of murder found guilty of murdering a black lives matter demonstrator in 2020. Critics are calling the pardon politically motivated. Well be talking about it all with the democrat challenging ted cruz for the senate, congressman cro little allred. Meantime, the white house is hoping to avoid political tempest tomorrow as the president delivers the Commencement Speech at Historically Black Morehouse College. Students and faculty have been divided over bidens support of the war and his presence on their campus. Weve got another
While his own lawyer roasts him. Look, i get the defenses argument that you cant trust Michael Cohen because he hates donald trump, but, to be fair, everyone who has ever worked with donald trump hates donald trump. At some point, you have to be like, i think its trump. We also learned what the defense ordered for lunch today. 14 pizzas, four cheese, five pepperoni, four sausage and pepperoni, and one chicken, bacon, and ranch. No word yet on what trumps lawyers ordered. Boom, boom. Okay. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, it is, today, officially, i have triple sourced this, friday. She did. Yes. We did it. Friday, may 17th, everybody. We made it. Welcome to morning joe. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. And Associate Editor, the great euGene Robinson. Jonathan lemire going to hang his American Flag upside down because the red sox lost last night. I did text that to you last night. It wa
A youngster . As i reflect on my background i would think the first person would be my mother. She was not an educated woman but she believed very strongly in education. And insisted that my sister and myself, that we study hard that we do what we needed to do. She believed that we had the potential to do the schoolwork, so she insisted that we concentrate and focus very strongly on education. She was a nononsense county of parent. The report card had to be turned in, she wanted to see the homework. She would visit the school any time. Even though we didnt have a car shed change buses two or three times to come see how we were doing and to interact with the teachers. The teachers that i had and in particular a teacher that i had named miss jordan who was again a nononsense teacher but a very caring person. Miss jordan always used to tell us, dont ever put yourself down, that you can do it, take your time, and put forth the best effort. My teachers also taught me that education was abso
Trying to afford a government on itself. After words is next. Eric dyson joins us to discuss race and the obama presidency. Who is barack obama when it comes to race . Guest he is a really complicated human being. One of the smartest men to occupy the oval office who thinks about the issues of race. He showed the knity gritty of race and grappled with the consequences and talked about shifting between a father who is from kenya and a white mother from kansas and their heritage. And he speaks about a biracial child trying to fit in. He is a man who has a brilliant understanding but is residence to address the issues. The moment he begins to speak on race, his poll numbers take tank but there is finger pointing at him. We could say that is anything he does. The division is not in society but it is in his black body. Never again can this presidency as an institution exist without having the history of a black man grace the roster for two terms and do it with insight and elegance strugglin
Health advocate, an author, a physician, an educator. He serves as secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services under george bush and was founding dean of the Morehouse School of medicine, and today dr. Sullivan will be discussing his recent memoir, breaking ground my life in medicine, so welcome. Were very happy to have you. Thank you. [applause] this is a bit different because often i do fiction books, occasionally memoirs. But your story, theres a lot to talk about here. And i wanted to just begin, i mean, its a hard thing to say to somebody, you know, hi, can you synopsize your life in all of two sentences. But i wanted you to just in some just very brief way tell the audience what this book covers. And then i will delve in, and well start true going into start going into specifics, and then well build from there. Well, thanks very much. First of all, its a great pleasure to be here with you and to be here at the public library, so thank you very much. Youre welco