He insulted all of his opponents. He insulted all of the moderators. He insulted i guess about 80 of the American People and the rest of the world. So how do you prepare for that . I think on the one hand its a serious chance for americans to tune in and if they havent made up their minds to try to make up their minds. I want to take it seriously. I want to talk about what we can do and how important it is. But youve got to be prepared for wacky stuff that comes at you. I am drawing on my experience in elementary school. All right. Good morning. Its tuesday august 23rd. Welcome to morning joe along with joe, willie and me. I think donny is wearing poplin this morning. Hes wearing green shoes. No, they are black. They are green. Get the shoe up, its green. They are black. The managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and cohost of with all due respect o msnbc. I was trying to be donny a eesque today. Apparently donny did with all due respect. Eddie black. Before i get started, im checking m
And Tony Schwartz who swiptd the public mythology and the art of the deal only to emerge as a decoder of trumps rhetoric and yes, lies. I want to thank you each for joining this discussion at this important time. Gentlemen. Good, good. I do want to get quickly first, two questions to each of you that are lightning round. Basically one word only. And then well get in deeper. So first, your views of trump at the debate in a word. Michael. Can i use the hyphenated word . Yes. Fecal display. Anthony. Unhinged. Tony. Rabid. And the second line round question given why youre here and in this role that youre playing as we go toward this election. From when each of you met him, how many years in your count, in your mind, did it take to change your mind about trump . Michael. A did he ecade. Seven years. Tony. Zero. I knew who he was at hello. Interesting. Which in your view, in your own telling, raises some of the questions of accountability that well get into. So thats a framework for part of
Im chuck todd. Just 19 days to go. The breaking news right now is this. Senator Kamala Harris has been sidelined from the campaign trail until at least sunday after two people involved in her campaign tested positive for covid. She has not, by the way. One of them was Harris Communications director and the other was described as a nonstaff flight crew member. The Campaign Says neither of them has had recent contact with Vice President biden. But the news raises obvious concerns as to whether we could see more cases inside the campaign, even though officials have touted the safety precautions and protocols in place to mitigate that risk. Well have the latest from inside the campaign in a moment. These cases around biden harris come as new infections are rising across the country. In some places quite rapidly filling hospitals to capacity and comes as the president s Reelection Campaign continues to struggle in the home stretch. He will soon be holding a rally in North Carolina where rec
Campaigns come to a close. You cant go to church, you cant take your family to dinner, but you can let people riot down the middle of your beautiful shopping street, knocking the hell out of people, burning down your stores like in minneapolis, burning the hell out of the place until we sent in the national guard. We choose hope over fear we choose unity over division we choose science over fiction, and, yes, we choose truth over lies we at the reidout know many of you are feeling a lot right now, excitement, trepidation and, yes, buckets of anxiety. Trust me when i tell you, family, because this is true, in real life the only two things that matter right now are keeping yourself safe from covid19 and voting. Thats it. If you have already voted, highfive and now, please, try to get others to vote. Get creative with your civic duty. Take cookies or walk grandma to the poll because tomorrow is. Time to sprint to the tape. What you shouldnt do is give one more second of your time and Ment
Cruz holds the senate floor in a protest of obamacare. Occasionally yielding to questions. Most would say china, but think again. The republicans support the bill passed. Cruz even reading dr. Seuss at his childrens bedtime. I do notlike green eggs and ham. Signs that diplomatic relationships may be beginning to sore both president s. If we can solve the nuclear program, that can serve as a major step toward the relationship. Three days of mourning in kenya. Ashamed and defeated. A rising dealt toll after a earthquake in pakistan. This is the back of an interview. The dog bit the owner on the bum. All that. I guess this wasnt meant to be. When i first met bonno. He walked into the naval office. Must be easy to make fun of. Which was a bigger deal in your house . And all that matters. Obama was like really . On cbs this morning. Today they spent the day dealing with this ben affleck as batman thing. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Good morning norah. Good morning t