Edition of Morning Joe. We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. Were on tape this morning bringing you some of our best discussion from the past two months, and we start today with our conversation the morning after Kamala Harris accepted her Partys Nomination for president on the Last Night of the dnc in chicago. Willie, you obviously are in chicago. Describe the scene if you will, because it is awfully hard you know, debates, ive heard one journalist after another say never try to judge how a debate turned out, president ial debate, when you are in the room. It is quite the opposite at a convention. You could walk into a convention, you can be watching it from you know, you had the Bob Uker seats which are usually the best seats to stand in, take it all in and say, okay, what is the state of this party. What is your answer to that . Youre right. John and i sat in section 315 Last Night eating those blackhawks and bulls nachos. Yummy. A pretzel with no salt. We really had the
Devastating. Two politics for the president stole the stage at the u. N. General assembly warning north korea, you provoke us or our allies, we will destroy you. General jack keane moments away on that. Despite all those headlines as we say the market in record yet again. More alltime highs expected just a halfhour from now as investors wait for janet yellen this afternoon. Also waiting for word on Health Reform. The gop we are told one or two votes short of getting it done. Three top senators will be joining us over the next three hours. The day for politics. Varney company has got it covered and its about to begin. We are now getting our images of Hurricane Maria headon. As you can see from the map on the right and what is happening on the ground on the left. We spoke to the d. C. Office of the governor of puerto rico and they say, quote, the situation on the ground is catastrophic. Communications extremely difficult. They dont know what condition the infrastructure or communications
That is money in your pocket. The biggest banks in the land, they took the test, they emerged with a clean bill of health. All the financial stocks are going up, and look at that, bigtime. Politics is helping as well. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell wants a new Health Care Bill tomorrow. The president said look for a big surprise. There is some new momentum for the growth agenda, and investors like that. Well, thats got the democrats worried. They plan to ramp up the outrage over the july 4th holiday. The demonstrators will be out there claiming death is coming. Overall, we have a positive start to the day, and weve got a big show for you. Blue apron feels the amazon effect. Martin shkreli channels lady baa georgia, and the president goes on an early fundraiser pulling in ten million in one night. Big day. Or Varney Company about to begin. Stuart when it comes to health care reform, do something, get something. Because anything obamacare [inaudible] its a piece of crap bill. Its a pi
Good afternoon. We have the best reporters in the business tackling this massive news day for you. Bob pisani is live at the new york stock exchange. Eamon javers is standing by on capitol hill. Lets start with john harwood live outside of trump tower. John . The president elect, donald trump, had his first News Conference in months since july, actually. And he addressed a wide range of controversies that have been dogging him over the last several weeks. Lets start with a bit of policy news. You heard about the or you eluded to the farmna npharma ne. On obamacare, he wants a virtually simultaneous replace and repeal process, so that within even the same hour or the same day or couple of days that they would offer an obamacare replacement plan to a company, the repeal process. He said he would announce a new Supreme Court justice, his choice for that position within two weeks of his inauguration. So, that is something to watch. The most interesting things he discussed were, first of al
I wanted to ask you to join in here. I think were also talking about the Asian Community and were talking about whether people feel that they are being hurt and theyre included. You think about the minorities in the country and often times people, you know, start with the Africanamerican Community but largest is now hispanic community. And then you have the Asian Community growing in rapid numbers, especially the Fastest Growing group of immigrants is asian. Whoo about political participation an inclusion . Do people feel like they have a right to participate in this structure . Well, yes. Thats the message we have to carry to the community, to let them know that if they dont participate, their concerns are never going to be heard. Theyre concerned about immigration. Theyre concerned about health care and access to health care. Theyre concerned about housing, you know, putting food on the table. You know, asians are not the model minority inclusively. There is diversity within that div