What do you think . I thought it was funny. Good morning, everyone. It is tuesday, february 19th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, we have msnbc and Time Magazine senior political analyst, Mark Halperin. Hey, Mark Halperin, how you doing . National Affairs Editor for new York Magazine and msnbc political analyst, John Heilemann. In nashville, we have look at that Pulitzer Prize winning historian and author, jon meach meacham. Its dark down there. It is dark. Shall we get right to the news . Lets do it. Theres a piece on rattner. Sorkin, andrew sorkin. Like aenaen an insider newsletter. None of us are quoted. Im so tired of being an outsider, raging against the news. Can we do news . Yes, we can. Msnbc news morning joe. I ghosted this, man. Lets move in. President obama will be joined by First Responders at the white house this morning to deliver remarks on billions of dollars in automatic budget cuts set to kick in next friday. According to Administration Officials, the presiden
Douglas high school shortly before students were supposed to be dismissed. The gunmshoot began reportedly 2 30. The shooter pulled the alarm so students would come into the hallway and he could shoot into the crowd. When deputies arrived at the School Hundreds of students were already fleeing. According to the Broward County Sheriffs Office, the suspected 19yearold was con sealed himself running out of the school. 17 victims died at the school. 2 more died at the hospital. Welcome to morning joe. Its thursday, february 15th. Joe, here we are again. Mika, here we are again. More than 33,000 people are killed by guns in the United States every year. Thats according to the cdc. 33,000. We have had 1,670 mass shoots since sandy hook and we said never again. In schools, where we send our children every day to learn. 430 people have been shot in School Shootings since sandy hook. If you want to take it beyond our children, being gunned down in schools, well, three of the ten deadliest shooti
Some books have no true ending. Some offer an epilogue. A hint, to imagine what rests beyond the closing chapter. Can we imagine this day . A reunion with her parents. With your parents, sir. And with your dear robin, together again. My guess is shes already hunted down jane austen and has said, well, how did things turn out you with mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett . And knowing barbara as we all do, she may have been telling jane how things should have turned out. In the meantime, until each of our time comes, she would want us to carry on. To live as she lived fully and deeply, to laugh and laugh often. To love all that god sends our way. And to serve one another, the common good and especially the purposes of god. So leave here today, not to grieve, but to rejuroroicerejoi leave we will sing joyful, joyful, we adore thee. Barbara would want us to celebrate her great new chapter. She has been raised to new life, for in this story, you never turn the page and seat two words, the end.
Does that speak to the fact that hes just a lot more interested in dividing americans than bringing them together and when he has a chance to talk about how america comes together, he still lies and suggests that its torn apart. Hes fighting for the next five minutes, not for not even the next five weeks, much less the next five years or next five decades. Basically hes going to keep doing this because he has been rewarded for t hes the president of the United States, he gets the feedback loop he wants from those of his supporters. I think he thinks of us as an audience, not as a country, and is happy to have, in the professional wrestling sense, the people who boo him he thinks are booing him partly because its their role. I dont think he takes on any kind of constructive criticism. So i think where we are is we have a president who now or has for quite a long time, hes incapable of changing because the way hes acted has been rewarded. I think that the only thing people can do at this
President. A great and noble man. The best father a son or daughter could have. And in our grief, knowing that dad is hugging robin and holding moms hand again. Our reporting begins with the special counsel. The mike flynn sentencing report dropped last night. Much of it is blacked out. Behind the redactions, what we do not get to see, could tell the story of how the Mueller Probe is turning. What the investigators are learning and for whom the fact finding could be concerning. Michael flynn flipped. He helped the mueller team so much the government is advocating for his freedom. Mueller believes flynn fully cooperated and should be in effect pardoned for the crimes to which he pleads. No jail time at all. The sentencing report does contain details, but we cant see them. Theyre under seal. Presumably so other witnesses wont be influenced and those under scrutiny wont be tipped off. Last december, mike flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi, specifically about conversations with the R