So, you know, they are seeing him as a good ally in this fight. Also, you know, echoing the message we heard from joe biden in that Rare Oval Office address. You know, i think those lines of communication remain open, but i think this is something that Mitch Mcconnell just believes in a similar fashion to joe biden, and theyre happy to have someone from the other party be a spokesperson and advocate for this significant aid package. All right. Well see what happens in the capitol today. White house reporter for the Washington Post, tyler pager, thank you, as always. Thanks to all of you for getting up Way Too Early on this tuesday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Welcome to morning joe. It is 6 00 on the east coast, oz yau take a live look at washington, d. C. It is tuesday, october 24th. This morning, for the first time, were hearing from a hostage freed by hamas. Well play for you comments from one of the elderly women released yesterday by the Terrorist Group. Meanwhile, the e
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you re blaming it on wokeness, you ve really missed it. the wokeness, that s an issue that americans care about over here they ll tack lk about it. they care a hel l of a lot more about whether they can get their money out of an atm machine, whether the banks are going to collapse again, it s shortsighted my gosh, i repeat myself, they just keep losing speaking of losing, former president donald trump is going to be in iowa today. over the weekend, he was meeting with lawyers to talk about his strategy in the district attorney s investigation into hush money to stormy daniels it comes as another person with firsthand knowledge of the case is going to testify today. we re going to get legal analysis of what that means in a moment most legal analysis across idealogical spectrum says not good news for donald trump first, let s bring in senior business analyst and host of the
say why aren t you talking about your own network and msnbc, and i will be the first to acknowledge that polarization exists at both ends of the idealogical spectrum. in this particular case, democracy was at stake. i mean, they were giving oxygen, they were giving oxygen to conspiracy theories that led to an attempted coup, and they knew it was bullshit. that s the difference. i think you re 100% right. this is something that is toxic for democracy, that you have this medium that has a huge political impact and these guys are willing to do or say anything to make money. that s the bottom line. there is no line they will not cross if they think it s good for the bottom line. and the problem is, they have an enormous political impact worrying about the well-being of the country. they worry about making money and yet they have a huge
i think it s intimately connected. i think americans realize that this is an existential election, that our way of life is at stake. and however you parse that, no matter where you stand on the idealogical spectrum, i think people are feeling that in their guts, in the marrow of their bones, that something momentous is happening in the country. and just to echo david, i think there s another feature to this. if the republicans lose, we have to buckle up, because there s the question of the legitimacy of the elections. so this election matters. it matters if the democrats win, it matters that the republicans win, it matters if the republicans lose. in other words, the midterms aren t going to settle our problems, it will certainly suggest whether or not we re as mad as we think we are. or if we re better than we think we are. so part of what we do know is that the stakes are high, and i think americans across the country feel that, especially in places like georgia.