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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state of mind watching that rally last night, and with that we go to the major developments yesterday. willie? i mentioned those national security directors in the white house yesterday. they gathered in the briefing room reportedly at the president s personal instruction, top national security and intel officials delivering a strong and clear message about russia s continued interference in the u.s. election process. this threat is not going away. as i have said consistently, russia attempted to interfere with the last election, and continues to engage in maligned influence operations to this day. this is a threat we need to take extremely seriously and to tackle and respond to with fierce determination and focus. the intelligence community continues to be concerned about the threats of upcoming u.s. elections. both the midterms and the presidential elections of 2020.
take the work that s being done at each of those agenciesand make sure it will have an effect. they need resource. nothing yesterday talked about additional resources that would be able to be brought to bare for this issue. we know something is serious when resources are put behind it. brett, this is willie geist. the implication yesterday was things have gotten better in 2018 than they were in 2016 presidential election in terms of stopping some of that russian interference. how do they arrive at that conclusion? what is that the result of. more resources? more focus on the problem? my theory is things haven t gotten better they got more sophisticated in hiding them. i think what we re going to face in the congressional elections are microefforts. they will microtarget key
people who come here from around the world, the melting pot that is america. you talked about it so positively. and yet what a low point for this administration and for you personally. it s still going on. it s not over. it s still going on. willie. the other maddening part about this is ivanka trump continues to talk like she s a bystander to all of this. she s the certificate advisor for the president. she s supposed to be with the president s ear. of all the children she s the one with her warning she could not stop it and bummed out for herself. again and again she comes in after the fact and talks about how distressing it was as though she has no say in the matter. that s exactly right. is she out there as the president s daughter. she has a west wing role and she does nothing. she voiced no agenda. she did have one thing she was kind of involved with. this should be her agenda. and to talk about things in the way of what i was upset and my
well. i feel very strongly about that, and i am very vehemently against family separation, and the separation of parents and children. yeah, but you can do better than that. i m sorry, willie. low point? ivanka trump. people seeking asylum in america trying to escape poverty, abuse, fear, violence. coming here and facing never seeing their kids again? that was ivanka trump yesterday acknowledging the impact of her father s policy on herself. the policy that tore children from their parents at the u.s. border. ivanka has never talked about the topic, other than congratulating her father over twitter after he stopped the policy that he created. yet hundreds, possibly thousands, of children s lives still hang in the balance, but