Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. America and everywhere around the world, the one that keeps people home from voting is as serious if not more serious. Yeah, i think thats exactly right. This is much broader than just about elections, as i mentioned earlier. Its broader than changing votes or anything like that. A lot of the activity that we see that is ongoing did not stop after 2016 and in some ways has actually grown. What we are seeing is a concerted effort to Pit Americans against one another, to make polarization more extreme. We are a pretty polarized country. But russia and others are taking advantage of that trying to turn us against each other in order to weaken us. One of the examples i cited this morning was actually of a fake page created by the Russian Internet Research Agency that used an issue like the Flint Water Crisis and Police Brutality as a way to try to influence americans views on an issue like syria. So theyre basically t
These are the slicers. They slice people up. They wanted me to walk up and go like this. Some of the president at his rally in Pennsylvania Last Night and much, much more of that. Good morning, everyone. Its friday, august 3rd. Welcome to morning joe. We have a number of important developments to get through this morning, including a stark warning from the intel community. Russia is at it again. Theyve got the publics attention, but what about the president s . Does he care . Whats going on . Plus, dan coats speaks truth to power, again. The director of National Intelligence admits he still does not know what the president told Vladimir Putin last month in helsinki. Think about it. The director of National Intelligence. And ivanka trump says that it was a low point for her when the separations of children from their family were happening
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thiel, is one of several candidates for the trump vote. and former ohio state treasurer josh mandel, who has made the big lie that the election was stolen from trump in 2020 a major part of his campaign. i believe the election was stolen from donald j. trump. reporter: and former ohio gop chair timken. really incredible person and friend of mine, jane timken. reporter: who is also embracing trump but trying to appeal to voters who didn t support him in 2020. . i am the candidate that can build a coalition between trump supporters and the education parents and bring back the suburban voters. reporter: and taking a subtle dig at her primary opponent. . you can t win a race in ohio on twitter. at a nearby forum in str
burned down from a wildfire, because he was so rageful that people in the state of california didn t support him and that politically, it wasn t a base for him. reporter: taylor, a life-long republican, says he is voting for joe biden. so, let s get right to jon karl, with us live as well tonight. and jon, you reported there on the former official at the department of homeland security making news today, but i do want to get back to the postal service. the democrats, you reported there, have called the postmaster general to testify before congress next week and tonight he says he ll be there? reporter: the postmaster general says he will be there and apparently the president is not happy about that. in a tweet just a short while ago, he asked why democrats have scheduled the hearing for next week during the republican virtual convention, saying, quote, they are always playing games. the president tweeted, get tough republicans. david? all right, jon karl, we ll see you for
gets gathered, that if there is more and more evidence that absolutely creates a quid pro quo, then even people who are republicans might have to say be grud grudgingly, yeah, this is terrible, we need to do something. but we have a ways to go and they need to proceed carefully. most republicans aren t saying what you re saying. i think we wonder if maybe they re thinking it as they work through some of this, but they re not saying it. does not saying that normalize what the president has done and do long-term damage? well, i think they need to look themtselves in the mirror and understand why they re not willing to say anything. i ve been saying this for two and a half years. it s why i didn t support him. it s why i didn t go to the convention in my own state because i m frankly shocked at where we are today, but some of what we ve seen over time doesn t surprise me. there s another thing we have to ask ourselves. say the house passes impeachment