Its not every day you get a better from the u. S. Postal service, let alone one that tells you it might not deliver on its promise to deliver the mail. Almost every state has gotten a letter, offering no guarantees that our mailin ballots will be counted. And its spreading vote of voter s suppression. Today, they gathered outside the home of postmaster general louis dejoy. He was clear they need money to run smoothly. Also, the money depends on the democrats giving him whal he wants in the next relief be. I can tell you he is a very smart man. He will be a great postmaster general, and he needs if you are going to do millions of ballots out of nowhere, hes going to obvious lir need funding. But the democrats are not willing to provide other things so theyre not going to get the funding for that. We are going to have an election that takes place on a beautiful day, november 3rd. And usually at the end of the evening, they say, donald trump has won the election. Donald trump is your new
Keynote speech last night for the Democratic National convention. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, august 18th, along with joe, willie welcome back and me, we have white house reported for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire. Politics and journalism professor and msnbc political contributor jason johnson. And senior opinion writer at the boston globe, Kimberly Atkins is with us. Good to have you all. Its good to have willie back. It is. Youre not going to be talking ability ttal talking about the red sox. Willie has been on assignment, we cant talk about where that was but hes been on assignment. The Convention Last night, judging from the reviews across the political spectrum was quite a success. You had a couple of fox news anchors talking about dana prino talking about how Michelle Obama stuck the landing and Chris Wallace talking about what a great contribution she gave to the Biden Campaign. That she splayed donald trump. Its great to be back. Id rather be
Undeterred by the deployment of federal troops to kenosha, wisconsin, where protests have remained peaceful after days of unrest. Undeterred by Donald Trumps misrepresentation of nationwide demonstrations. Today the families of jacob blake, george floyd and others addressed the crowd with emotional pleas for yesterday and change. Here are the fiery words of jacob blake sr. Whose son still lies in a hospital bed after being shot in the back seven times by police in kenosha. There are two systems of justice in the United States. Theres a white system and theres a black system. The black system aint doing so well. But were going to stand up. Every black person in the United States is going to stand up. Were tired im tired of looking at cameras and seeing these young black and brown people suffer. Were going to hold court today. Were going to hold court on systematic racism. Were going to have court right now. Guilty guilty guilty last night, donald trump didnt mention the names jacob blak
State has been cautious when it comes to fully reopening businesses. Hes got you in a shutdown still. Shutdown wolf. He cant do this. Hes going to destroy your soul. Its a very sad thing to see. And the results are not good. The results are not good. Heres some results. Pennsylvania is starting to tick below the crucial 5 Positivity Rate in which you can allow all kinds of things to reopen like schoo schools. In lehigh valley, they reached the lowest point. This virus is still deadly and nothing is a sure thing, but pennsylvanias slow reopening, its mask mandate,ate, has slowee virus which will enable the Stronger Economic come back. Trump then though continued to Say Something incredible. Weve done an incredible job. You look at our mortality rates, you look at all the things. Incredible. I mean, that is an incredible thing to say. Tonight the United States is on the verge of recording its 25th straight day of 1,000 deaths or more on average. Yesterday, more than 1,300 lives reported
President trumps positive diagnosis of covid19 a short time after his debate with joe biden. President trump is tweeting that he is looking forward to next weeks debate in miami, that he is feeling great and that the country is learning to live with covid. While former Vice President biden says the president should take some responsibility for his diagnosis. The president s doctor says the first patient is showing no signs of the virus. The president is also halting stimulus talks with House Democrats until after the election. More on that and a second. Also tonight, President Trumps director of National Intelligence releasing documents that seem to implicate former president obama and Hillary Clintons alleged plan to smear then candidate trump four years ago. At least briefed on it. We have fox team coverage. Peter doocy here in Salt Lake City has the Biden Campaign story. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight. Good evening. Good evening to you. Only nine