Hello and a good saturday morning to all, welcome to morning joe weekend. I am jonathan mayor, i am in this week, let s jump right into the week s biggest stories. You have used words like animal and rabid to describe like district attorneys. You have attacked black journalists, calling them losers, saying the questions they ask the court, stupid and racist. You have had dinner with a white supremacist at your mara lago resort. So, my question, sir, now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust you? after you have used language like that? well, first of all i don t think i have ever been asked the question so it is such a horrible manner, the first question. You don t even say hello, how are you? are you with abc? because i think they are a fake news network, a terrible network. And it only went downhill from there. That was part of donald trump s contentious interview yesterday at a conference for the national association of black journalists.
Republicans with what was the word of the week, weird. Both candidates were on the campaign trail over the weekend with donald trump making an pitch to voters. We ll play the comments. Meanwhile, trump s running mate defends his remarks on childless cat ladies. We ll show how jd vance decided to double down. And we ll bring you the latest from the middle east, where there are growing fears of a wider conflict following a deadly attack in israel by hezbollah. Also ahead, an update on the paris games, including an injury scare for one of team usa s most decorated athletes. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is monday, july 29th. I m jonathan lemire. Joe and mika continue their vacation this week. They ll pop back on, though, in the event of any big, breaking news. Willie, that lucky guy, is on assignment at the olympics in paris. We will check in with him at various points during the week. But with us this morning, we do have msnbc political analyst elise jordan. She is a former ai
Bulwark, sam stein, we appreciate you joining us this morning. Thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this historic monday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Joe biden has been one of the most consequential presidents in american history. He has put people over politics and patriotism over personal position. This is another heroic act in a long running series of heroic acts by joe biden on behalf of the american people. From the moment he was first elected back in 1972 to the united states senate. House minority leader hakeem jeffries yesterday praising president biden s political career following the president s decision to withdraw from the race. Biden made the announcement in a letter posted to his social media accounts yesterday afternoon, writing in part, i believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term. Shortly after this announcement, presi
Clearly very of the senior center on what president biden should do but there s an overall recognition here that his debate performance was a big lead town. Do you think it s a oneoff that it wouldn t happen again in another debate performance i hope so president biden s news conference does not appear to have called calmed nervous democrats this morning. One of his top allies, opening the door for biden to step aside, even while saying it s time for his party to stop talking about biden leaving the race and a massive data breach at at t, leaving nearly all of their customers expose what the company is saying about the second major league this year and an eagleeyed truck driver is being called a hero this morning after spotting a 1yearold child abandoned on the side of a busy louisiana the highway. New details on this remarkable rescue. What acuity i m sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman is out today. This is cnn new central happening today? a defiant president biden has gone
Download. The latest on what the companies a toddler crawling in a ditch off a major highway. Why the boy s mother is now facing criminal charges including murder we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central president biden headed back on the trail as calls for him to drop out of the race, grow this time he ll be in the key swing state of michigan falling a private meeting last night with house democratic leader hakeem jeffries. Cnn is learning jeffries did not offer biden his explicit endorsement in that meeting. We also know 18 congressional democrats have now come out saying biden should end his bid for reelection. Meantime, the president is preparing for a series freeze of crucial calls to convince his party that he s fit for another term in the white house. Sources tell cnn that he ll meet virtually with the congressional hispanic caucus today as well as members of the asian pacific american caucus tomorrow he s holding