The two leading lights of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, Senators Elizabeth Warren and of course, Bernie Sanders. The stakes could not be higher going into this week. Despite the disorder at the rnc, donald trump has now pulled even with Hillary Clinton at the polling average and the Democratic Leaders are presenting a unified front, the same cannot be said for the rank and file. For the thousands of demonstrators in philly this week. The convention was officially called to order in just the last hour or so with one person conspicuously absent, dnc chair Debbie Wasserman schultz, longtime lightning rod for sanders supporters dissatisfied with the party and the primary process. After leaks, internal emails showed top dnc officials disparaging the Sanders Campaign, Wasserman Schultz agreed to step down at the end of the convention after officially opening and closing the proceedings. This morning, she showed up to address delegates from her home state of florida and this i
Of the day yesterday complaining about the moderator, complaining about the microphone on the debate stage, but by the time he got here in the evening, in florida, he was ready to go on the attack and take advantage of some of the opportunities he may have missed on the debate stage. Take a listen to one of his cutting lines from last night. She couldnt even pass her bar exam in washington, d. C. She failed it. The single weapon that shes got is the media. Without the mainstream media, she wouldnt even be here, folks. That i can tell you. She wouldnt even be here. She wouldnt have a chance. Reporter now, he went after her over her emails, he went after her over foreign policy, he called her virtually incompetent. Carol, at times, it was like seeing the donald trump from the republican primaries. He would interrupt himself to tout his own poll numbers, to insist he won the debate, and to slam the media. Its very clear hes trying to figure out what the right tone is to hit in these comin
We got through a week. We did. We did. November 18th. Welcome to morning joe. We tell secrets openly on the set here. With us here, katty kay. Political writer for the New York Times Nicholas Confessore and in nashville, tennessee hes back. He was here yesterday. He bored us to death. I wanted to be bored today. My kids said, daddy, daddy, a horrible man put us to sleep. Is this the rule . We bore you to death . I think its good to have katty here so we can learn how to lose an empire gracefully. Okay. I can give you the road map because youre headed there. Lets start then jon, one of the reasons i wanted you back here, fascinating news yesterday broke and historical precedent do it. Woodrow wilson did it where mitt romneys name in consideration, a name that would calm a lot of fears on the International Stage and also domestically and the markets, mitt romney being talked to, considered for secretary of state. How important is that and talk about the historical precedence and team of
The latest. Why now . You know, anderson the fbi is supposed to be in a Political Agency but it has found itself in the middle of this political fire storm with todays unexpected document dump. And the timing is only igniting tensions and sending off democrats already fired up over comeys letter to Congress Last friday. Tonight the fbi in increasing scrutiny after releasing heavily redacted documents from the 2001 investigation into the pardon of mark rich. The timing seven days before the election and the on the heels of the fbi directors controversial letter to congress invited more criticism of the bureau. Brian fallon tweeting absent a foia litigation deadline this is odd. Will fbi be posting docs on trumps housing discrimination in the seventies . A case settled years ago. And fbi officials insists todays release was not political. Freedom of information act requests are automatically posted when they have ethey are ready for the public to view. The fbi also this weekend posted do
Government at the direction of Vladimir Putin himself orchestrated Cyber Attacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our election. That is a fact, plain and simple. This was a, my opinion, a well planned, well coordinated, multifaceted attack on our election process and democracy. Are we prepared today to say how many states were targeted . As of right now, we have evidence of 21 states, election related systems in 21 states that were targeted. Russia continues to engage in exploitation. I am deeply kerneled about the danger posed by future interference in our elections and attempts by russia to undermine confidence in our whole electoral system. Fair to assume you were concerned if not worried about 16 and 18 elections and all others Going Forward . Yes. Testimony was a dramatic rebuke to a white house that has consistently dismissed that threat. Yesterday, sean spicer said he couldnt even say the president believes russia was behind the plot. Lets watch spicer in action. Doe