This is all very Vice President joe biden. Remember we were watching the farewell address in chicago, joe biden is a scrappy kid from scranton who became delawares favorite son. It cant be a surprise if its actually on cnn dont you think . Thats my service. Thank you for that, but we do have breaking news. The Justice Departments internal watchdog, the Inspector General is launching this review how the fbi and the Justice Department handled the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server among the myriad of her alleged misconduct, you have this investigation into Hillary Clintons emails just 11 days before the election, pamela brown is handling this, tell me more. Reporter there are more that the watchdog will be looking at. The big thing will be how the public was notified into Hillary Clintons private server, one of the allegations is that the fbi director handled it improperly when he came out this past july and said the investigation was closed and said there was no ev
The investigation into russias involvement in the election. By the way, the senate just went nuclear, changing its rules to confirm judge neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. This morning well be joined live on the set with the chairman of the Armed Services committee, senator john mccain, also member of the Foreign Relations committee senator marco rubio. New york times columnist tom friedman joins. Bob woodward as well. Welcome to morning joe on this friday, april 7th. With us on capitol hill, we have columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius, washiton anchor for bbc world news america katty kay, and john heilemann. Good to have you all, this morning. We begin with the breaking news. The United States has launched Cruise Missile strikes against a Syrian Air Base. Yesterday evening 59 tomahawk missiles were launched from the u. S. S. Ross and u. S. S. Quarter in the Eastern Mediterranean sea targeting the shayrat airfield near the city of homs. It follows a c
Together. Trish will take the town of l. A. Harris will try to show up for the show. Sandra its a fabulous show when its on sunday nights on fox news channel. Lets get started. Going on offense, President Trump legal team reported looking into a potential conflict of interest among members of special counselor Robert Muellers legal team. Thats according to the New York Times and Washington Post. Some of those concerns could include the fact that several of millers legal hires have made big political donations to democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former president obama. Also, one of the lawyers on millers team represented the clinton foundation. Plus, he was considered for the fbi director position after james comey was fired. And the special counselor and comey are friends and former colleagues. Trump attorney jay secular says they want to make sure mueller stays within the boundaries. He will have to stay within his mandate. If theres drifting, were going to object, but Richard
Much, much more on that story in just a moment. Plus a fifth accuser has come forward against Alabama Senate candidate roy moore. Beverly young nelson alleges moore sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager. More than 20 republicans have called for moore to step aside. Weve got much more on that story to come as well. Lets get to our breaking news right now. Newly revealed secrets in the russia investigation. Remember when President Trump said this just one month before election day . This just came out. Wikileaks. I love wikileaks. So apparently hes not the only one who loved wikileaks. Hes not even the only one named trump who loved wikileaks. Weve learned tonight that donald trump, jr. Had a tenmonth correspondence with wikileaks twitter account via private direct message. The story points out most of the messages from wikileaks to trump junior went unanswered. Trump jr. Release the wikileaks exchanges tonight. But then candidates son apparently didnt tell them to take a hike e
Washed the fire burn around them. They were just very fortunate to make it through that. Others were not so lucky. 17 people are confirmed dead. Authorities warn that the death toll could rise. More than 180 people are reported missing. Communications problems is a big part of this. Many survivors say that they escaped just steps ahead of the flames. Went out and they were screaming fire, fire, fire. Get out, get out. Sad. My house is okay. All of my neighbors arent. I just dont know where to go from here. Fire crews say that given the massive challenge of battling more than a dozen wildfires, their focus right now is just simply trying to keep people alive. One captain with the Highway Patrol saying that he thinks this will be one of the worst disasters in californias history. Some 2,000 homes and businesses have already been destroyed. And this is what that looks like. Before and after, of just one building. And with it, lives shattered in an instant. Lets begin in the heart of calif