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
Good morning and welcome to sunday today on this may 19th. Im willie geist. The 2024 president ial campaign is in full swing this weekend with less than six months until election day. This morning President Biden is in georgia, a state he won narrowly last time around, where he will deliver the commencement address at the historically black Morehouse College. Meanwhile, on saturday, former President Trump was in texas speaking at the National Rifle Association Convention and picking up that groups endorsement. Well have the latest in a pair of live reports and talk to Kristen Welker just ahead. Plus, our sunday focus on the president ial debate this week after back and forth public challenges between President Biden and former President Trump. How will these ones be different . Will they really matter in the end . Then, our sunday spotlight on 50 years of People Magazine at the center of american Popular Culture with famous covers, behindthescenes stories and, of course, a roundup of t
Thank you so much for starting your weekend with us. Im kira klapper Cinthia Pimentel has a quick look at our microclimate forecast. Certainly windy earlier this morning. Are we going to have to and a bit chilly too. It was just a struggle to get out of bed, but good for those people that are taking advantage of the path. This morning were starting with that may gray again down here through the south bay, san jose. Were seeing it up into San Francisco as well, and in through the north bay. Also a foggy and cloudy start for our day up there in san rafael. Were starting off in the temperatures this morning. If youre finding yourself along the coast. Also, maybe some drizzle by the time that we get into the lunchtime hour, some spots will are struggling to warm up. But then as we get on into the afternoon, our inland valleys in the 70s once again breezy. Were in that pattern and up until the coastline i can see the models staying with that cloud cover hugging the coast. So ill walk you th
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