Start to the Labor Day Travel weekend. Aaa expects it to be the busiest since the Great Recession. Plus, theres going to be a three day birthday tribute to Michael Jackson. Thats going to Michael Jackson will get under way in his boyhood home of gary, indiana. Family members including his mother katherine and his children are expected to attend that celebration. That is going to do it of thursdays edition of way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Haes good morning. Mike has been ordered around going back to parochial school. Trying to get him ready for school is like getting a village ready. Maggie is ready. You guys. A princess. I dont know where to start today. So much to talk about. When youre looking at the threat that isis proposes and
its hard for americans who poses a threat and who doesnt, lets face it, they have been lied to a lot over the past decade but the wall street journal has this great article talking about the industry that isis is, an industry of extortion. The
For across all religious lines, but particularly a president that says he is personally committed as a christian. Why do we have anything, anything close to trying to play religious divisiveness and trying to castigate peoples basic beliefs. Win on the merits, not by playing these kinds of games. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Were back to benghazi. Lets play hardball. Good evening im Chris Matthews in philadelphia. Let me start tonight with this a newly disclosed email from Deputy National security adviser ben rhodes has reignited the benghazi firestorm on the hard right. Senator Lindsay Graham has
coined the white house scum bags. Darrell issa is comparing president obama with president nixon. But the freakout once again doesnt square with reality. Heres what got things going. Rhodes refers to a prep call with susan rice ahead of her appearances on those five sunday talk shows the weekend after the tragedy. Rhodes calls one of the goals for the interv
He broke them so he has to pay the price. Tom says throwing the pastor in jail will not change anything. When he gets out he will be just as loud. Thanks to everyone who responded. We appreciate it. Fox friends starts right now. Bye. Good morning. It is monday, september 15. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. Isis terrorists threatening the third beheading will not be the last. So are we at war or are we not . Well, it seems to depend on the day. I think thats the wrong terminology. What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counterterrorism operation. Were at war with al qaeda and its affiliates. Why is the white house having such a time with their message . We report. You decide. And from Domestic Violence to child abuse, scandals plagued the nfl this weekend and one former player has a simple solution for all of it. Take them off the field. I dont care, were in climate right now, i dont care what it is. Take them off the daggone field. More from the fallout ahead. That was chris cart
Theyll accomplish, theyve already fail. They fail because, like people around the world, americans are repulsed by their barbourism. Their or hifk acts only unite us and stiff fin our resolve to take the fight against these terrorists. And those who make the mistake of harming americans will learn that we will not forget and our reach is long and that justice will be served. Top of the hour, welcome to morning joe. That was president obama in estonia in the past hour talking about isis and the latest a horrific video. A lot of people shaken up by it, obvious obviously. I got a friend calling me yesterday afternoon asking me after the beheading whether new york was still a safe place to raise their kids. I know you got a call from a friend who was shaken. Asking all sorts of questions about it. Not that the first wasnt horrific, but the second has a chilling effect. Both of them just absolutely terrible. Americans are wakening to the fact that what were witnessing is not even just anoth