The howitzer fired. You can see the smoke. This is where it began. Inspiring start under the averages at Arlington National cemetery. That was the chute at route 110. Moments before that people took pictures of the parachutes coming down. Members of the elite parachute team descending on the start line delivering giant american flags. 7,000 feet for one of those flags. And one of those making that special entrance, Kyle Carpenter, a medal of honor recipient. He was one of the parachuters. That repep went saved a fellow marine during a grenade attack in afghanistan. Heres what he had to say. To fly over the capital and look at the reflecting pool and the Lincoln Memorial and just the white house and just everything our country stands for, democracy and freedom, to see the sun coming up over those historic places, its what we fought for, happy to do. Reporter Kyle Carpenter is also running the full marathon right now. Hes shooting for 12 30 to cross this finish line. The people youre see
There . Reporter well hey there, alex. The advocates and activists here that are organizing some of the protests are furious at the fact that the Kentucky Derby is happening. Let me show you about the security presence here. This is the Kentucky National guard, state police. They have Armored Vehicles here. Churchill downs is just over there. You can see all this fencing here. And the concern here is what happens when these protesters and counterprotesters clash later on today. Will there be any major clashes . Now, alex, a short time ago at a park not too far from here, some militias started to gather, saying that, you know, they planned to march downtown to the area around the courthouse downtown. In the last hour, alex, we were in Jefferson Square park where there have been many protests over the last 100 days or so, and so police are really trying to keep these two groups separate and prevent any major clashes. Yesterday, we did speak with some of the organizers of the protesters d
Good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is friday, september 4th, along with joe and me, we have washington anchor, katty kay, White House Reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire. Associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analysis euGene Robinson. And editor in chief of the atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, the author of that new piece on President Trump disparage americas war dead. In a moment well get to joe bidens visit to kenosha, wisconsin yesterday it was in stark contrast with the president s visit earlier in the week with joe biden calling for an end to systemic racism and an end to the violence. Also, joe biden met with jacob blakes family for 90 minutes. But we begin with jeffreys new reporting on President Trump using words like losers and suckers, repeatedly disparaging members, and asking disabled military veterans to be left out of parades. When trump cancelled a visit to the cemetery in paris in 2018 he blamed rain for the lastminute d
Military. To me theyre heros. Theyre heros. Its even hard to believe how they can do it. I say that. The level of bravery. And to me theyre absolute heros. Defiance from President Trump. Several officials strongly deny a new report that claims that he called Americas Service members suckers and losers. The atlantic cites for Anonymous Sources that say it happened during a trip to france in 2018. The magazine reports President Trump made those comments when he cancelled a visit to a cemetery near paris to mark the end of world war i. Now this bomb shell report is reverberating from the white house to the campaign trail. First, to the south lawn with chief White House Correspondent john roberts. John, you were also on the france trip. I was. Im on the north lawn. Not the south lawn. But yes, i was on the trip and remember well that the president was supposed to go to the cemetery on november 9. Cancelled that. The official reason was given was that the helicopter could note fly because o
Deaths. By the way, were rounding the corner. Were rounding the corner on the virus. Hospitalizations and deaths have continued to decline over the past week, very substantially decline. Were rounding the corner. Deaths have declined substantially. But just moments ago dr. Anthony fauci was asked right here on cnn if he agrees that were rounding the corner. What do you make of that characterization . You know, im not sure what he means. Not sure what he means because frankly the facts just dont back up the president. Deaths have not declined substantially over the past week. Rough i will a thousand people have been losing their lives almost every day. And things could get worse. An influential model often cited by the white house is now predicting more than 410,000 americans could die from coronavirus by the end of the year. That is another 222,000 lives. Its more than double the current death toll. And experts are also warning that dahly reported deaths as you see on the screen there