Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. It is a tuesday, full of news. Victor blackwell by my side. Good morning. Good to be back. Good to have you. Here all week. Five things to know for this tuesday, august 8th. New this morning, the east coast cleaning up after deadly storms, trees are down, roads are blocked. Hundreds of thousands of people without power. Already more than 300 flights cancelled. Happening today, the police chief in montgomery, alabama, is expected to reveal more information about that brawl that broke out on the citys river front. It started after a black dock worker was attacked by a group of white people. So far no arrests. But four warrants have been issued. Right now, Los Angeles City workers are on a 24hour strike. 11,000 workers including Sanitation Workers, engineers, life guards, all headed for the picket lines. They say its a fight for fair contracts. This hour, polls open in ohio as Voters Decide whether to make it harder to amend their state const
Legislatures, asking state governors, asking State Elector officials to do the right thing. In fact, even asking Vice President pence was protected by free speech. Well, former Vice President pence did not dispute trumps right to ask. But he is once again drawing attention to what he was asked to do a day before january 6th, he came back as his lawyers did. He said we want you to launch those votes outright. They were asking me to overturn the election. I had no right to overturn the election. I know we did our duty that day. Well, the federal judge Tanya Chutkan in d. C. Has set a timeline for tomorrow at five pm when the trump team must respond if they object to the governments request for a protective order on evidence in this case, a request prompted by trumps activity on social media as of late, effectively setting up the first showdown of what is expected to be a protracted court battle. Now, the indictment remains the top story on the front pages of the New York Times and the wa
Real guns that fire real bullets. Youve heard of the ar15. Well now meet the jr15 as in the junior ar15. The company that makes it is super cute about the whole thing. They call themselves we won the technical. Ca wee ones as in little ones. Until recently they had logos for the little girls and little boys version of this gun for babies. Because why should any kid have to wait until they finish the Teething Process so they can carry a gun. They apparently dropped the Pacifier Logos and the scooby do cartoon font in some of their asvertising, but its not like theyre no longer claiming this is an Assault Rifle for babies. I mean, they could change their marketing of it. They could have started to say theyre making this mini sized Assault Rifle for people with usually short arms. Hey, are you built like a trex, hard time reaching the steeral wheels and pedals at the same time, weve got the Assault Rifle for you. Cant handle a gun that weighs more than 2 pounds, find yourself unable to li
The air tonight. I can tell you i have an endless appetite to watch blue iv content, shes only Getting Better and more fantastic every show. On that note, i wish you a very good night. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. I will see you at the end of tomorrow. Thank you athome for joining us tonight, good to have you with us. We are a big country, 330 million people. Very diverse, very heterogeneous in terms of everything, in terms of backgrounds, tradition, the way we live, our values, our opinions, but for all of our diversity, i think we americans can all probably agree, we can all come together around the somewhat obvious idea that if there is one Consumer Product america needs, one thing we are missing as a country, it is probably a gun that is specifically designed for babies. A gun specifically designed to be wielded by babies, specifically an Assault Rifle style semiautomatic long gun made to look kind of like the civilian v
I think they have more evidence as to President Trumps state of mind. Donald trumps former Attorney General with an ominous prediction for the former president in the 2020 election case. It comes as trump faces arraignment today in Federal Court in washington. Well get a live report from washington, d. C. , and legal analyst on what we can expect from todays hearing. Meanwhile, former Vice President mike pence just gave his most direct criticism of his former boss. Well play those comments for you. Also ahead, new reporting on a private meeting between President Biden and former president obama over concerns about the 2024 election. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, august 3rd. Along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. Senior attorney and fbi official, chuck rosenberg. Reporter for the Washington Post, Jackie Alemany. And Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and Associate Editor of the Washin