Mark sanford discusses his 2020 primary challenge to President Trump. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host the congressional point person on the impeachment of president is california representative adam schiff, the chair of the house Intelligence Committee, which is leading the inquiry. House Republican Leadership has stepped up criticism of congressman schiff, some calling for his resignation. It is washington journal for thursday, october 3, 2019. We are going to ask how confident are you in congressman schiffs ability to lead the impeachment inquiry . Epublicans, 2027488001 democrats, 2027488000. Independents and all others, 2027488002. You can text us your thoughts. That is 2027488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from and on twitter, we are cspanwj. You can post your thoughts at facebook. Com cspan. Congressman adam schiff has been in congress for 10 terms. He is a california congressman
Good morning, everybody. I am Erik Schatzker. I ruhle. Happy new year. I will wager mine was cooler than yours. It was definitely warm and beautiful and lovely where i was. But it is warm and beautiful next to my partner, Erik Schatzker. News, the top business stories of the morning. The euro has not been this low in almost nine years. The currency fell below 119 earlier this morning. There is concern elections increase this month could result in the greeks abandoning the euro, or as my partner, eric likes to say plus, the ecb is debating whether to expand economic stimulus. Do you like that . Your favorite. Oil resumed its slump today. Below 55 a barrel for the first time in almost six years. West texas in west texas intermediate is below 51. Boost exports to a record later this month. Oil production now at the highest level since the breakup of the soviet union. The president of iran says the economy cannot grow if the country is isolated. In a speech president was on call for an inc
Senate confirmation running an agency as politically electric as the epa is. They dont want to get four confirmations for four slots, and before major election season, scrambling to have a cabinet that is functioning, trying to keep the seats warm. Part of the reason he has been able to hang on as long as he has. As the shoe drops, there will be more pruit stories, it will make it tough to last as long as he has. Emelba marcos here. He said this on air force one on thursday. I think scott has been a fantastic job. I think he is a fantastic person. They lost scott pruit. They feel strongly about him and love scott pruit. Coal and energy. Reuters, 25 more Industry Leaders than advocates. Add that to coal representatives. Yes, i think that certainly, the politics of trump trying to revive the dying coal and Energy Industry plays into this. What is more important is what he said about scott pruits effectiveness. The advocate shows how ineffective he has been. A lot of his actions tied up i
Bidens. Joe biden hitting back hard last night for the first time. I put my integrity, my whole career of Public Service to this nation, up against his long record of lying, cheating, and stealing any day of the week. Point break. More democrats from swing districts come out in favor of an impeachment inquiry. How its playing to the voters back home. I will not shirk my duty and i will not violate my oath. I will support and i will defend the United States constitution. Congressman max rhodes of Staten Island, new york, joining us ahead. And blowout. Rachel maddow with her big new book, the incredible story of how corruption in the oil and gas industry helped Vladimir Putin expand his global influence as she explained on the today show with savannah guthrie. There is this paradox where you have all this oil revenue but it ends up giving you a bad country and weak economy. In russia, they used oil and gas as a weapon. On our show today rachel will be here to talk about how oil and gas p
She hands out subpoenas like theyre cookies. You want a subpoena . Here you go, take them like theyre cookies. Yes, they are like cookies because thats the way your presidency crumbles. [ laughter ] thats Stephen Colbert last night. Good morning, welcome to morning joe. Its thursday, october 3rd. Im willie geist. Joe and mika have the morning off. With us we have msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle and karine jean tee, a, Jonathan Lemire, sam stein, and the director of domestic policy studies at Stanford University. Mike, i know how close you were to the president , walk me through his day yesterday sitting at the side of the president of the United States for two press gatherings that were astonishing. It was an interesting afternoon for the president of finland. If you look at him closely you can see as we saw from hanoi several decades ago, the international s. O. S. Sign as hes blinking basically saying, you know, how quickly i can get to dull tlos ges to get out of . What a totally aw