Just keeps good morning. 14, 15 times. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday morning. But the shower heads. Yeah, hes obsessed with that. Soups of can, cans of soup. Along with joe and me, we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lamire, former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state department, elise jordan, and nbc news and msnbc contributor Shawna Thomas is with us. And cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. Did you always wonder why look at the numbers. Geez. Did you ever wonder why lamere always had a couple of campbells soup cans . Oh, there you go. In his backpack . Thought it was like a and warhahl thing. No, its violence. Violent. The president s taking one angle here and digging deep. The president s visit to kenosha, wisconsin, yesterday, gave another opportunity to promote healing and unity oh, great, thats good. After the unrest following the Police Shooting of jacob blake. You would think he met with the family im sure he did. And with
That was way too early for this wednesday morning. Morning joe starts right now. I want to get our hands around a very difficult situation all right, donald. Hold on, donald, youve got to let us ask questions. Go. You cant just talk. Youve got to ask us ask questions. Youre just talking. No, im not just talking. Im giving you the facts. We will go to break if you keep talking go to break then. All im doing is giving you the facts go to break. Well be back with more morning joe. Note to moderators that actually want to moderate a debate that makes sense, stays organized and keeps both candidates in line, thats one idea, cut the mic and mean it. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, september 30th. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have msnbc National Affairs analyst, cohost of showtimes the circus and executive editor of the recount, John Heilemann. Cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. Politics and journalism professor at morgan state university, politics edito
It was an utter medical mess. It could be of course for a state that many fear is going to become a hot spot, Anthony Fauci well, in the numbers, we dont need doctors to tell us the numbers but were getting new cases and a real fear among medical Health Care Experts that were exploding into another terrible time. You know, willie, i was watching last night as ron desantis, the governor of this state, who is supposed to be setting an example which of course he hasnt from the very beginning was going through the crowd, high fiving, you know . Wiping his nose, high fiving people, everything. And i i thought back to images of these troubling regimes that came in Turbulent Times. You know, you see the old black and white films of these crowds, of these mobs and you wonder what planet did they come from . And then you realize as youre watching it in real time that theyre from my home state. Yeah. And i really i am quite confident not 50 years from now or 20 years from now, but five years fro
It was my Justice Department that arrested them. Its not my Justice Department. Its the peoples Justice Department. Yeah. Yeah. Just one of the ways things will be different 47 days from now. Its definitely not his Justice Department. So let me ask im just curious. So its not going to be his Justice Department. No. Not his. Its not going to be his military. Its not going to be like the bullets that he gets what was that one, willie, before i became president , what did trump say . My army was out of bullets. Ammunition. Theyre out of ammunition. Oh, my gosh. It was monopoly or something. He talked about my generals. He loves to talk about my generals, my military. Its amazing to listen to joe biden. It seems radical to Say Something as conventional as the Justice Department does not belong to me. I mean, it is a radical departure from the last four years but its something that the president should say. Its in line with what republican president s and what democratic president s have sa
Along with joe, willie and me, we have White House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan la mere. Cofounder and ceo of Axios Jim Vandehei and conservative lawyer, cofounder of the Lincoln Project and contributing columnist to the Washington Post, George Conway joins us this morning. Well, a lot to get to, joe. I think the first we should start with is that donald trump is expected to become the first u. S. President to be impeached twice after Vice President mike pence informed at this point the House Speaker nancy pelosi that he would not go forward with the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. In a letter to Speaker Pelosi just hours before the house passed a resolution urging pence to invoke the 25th, the Vice President wrote that such action is not in the best interest of our nation and would set a, quote, terrible precedent. I question his oath of office at this point, but that is what he did. The house convenes at 9 00 a. M. Debate on the impeachment resolution is se