Covering the biden campaign, shannon pettypiece, and kat aie glick on the biden beat as well. I want to start with the comments from michelle obama. Today, were hearing from michelle obama. She wrote a lengthy post on instagram about the transition. Tell us what she had to say. Right, and the former first lady is not extraordinarily outspoken, so when she does speak, it does warrant some attention. She talked about the difficulty she had setting aside some of the personal feelings from the 2016 campaign and welcoming Melania Trump into the white house in 2016, answering her questions, you know, telling her everything she needed to know to be able to assume the responsibilities of first lady. She then wrote in her post, she said, our love of country requires us to respect the results of an election, even when we dont like them or wish it had gone differently. The presidency does not belong to any one individual or any one party. To pretend it does or play along with these groundless con
Future that people of egypt want so badly. Host good morning. The comments of secretary of state john kerry condemning the violence in egypt on what was lastloodiest day since month overthrow of president morsi. Congress rates and recess. The president is doing his weeklong vacation at mothers at Marthas Vineyard. The Muslim Brotherhood is calling for a demo stretch and in cairo to protest the death toll yesterday. Now at 421. Another 3500 were injured. 43 policemen and a western journalist among those killed. It is thursday morning, august 15. Ahead on the washington journal , your reaction to the latest development in egypt and what the u. S. Response should be. You should join the conversation at 202 5853880, our line for republicans. 202 5853881 for democrats. We also have our line for independents at 202 5853882. Join us on facebook, send us a tweet, or email address, journal cspan. Org. At somegin with a look of the headlines from outside the u. S. , the Guardian Newspaper egypts
By joining us on twitter at bpshow and on face bob at facebook. Com billpressshow. Is president obama about to turn down the Keystone Pipeline and reject it . Well, we dont know for sure but that would seem to be the case after an interview he gave to the New York Times in which he said that republicans are dead wrong when they say the Keystone Pipeline will create thousands of new jobs and the president also said not only will it not create as many jobs as republicans say, it will also increase gas prices, not lower gas prices. President obama, by the way, continuing to talk economy and jobs this week with a big speech down in chattanooga, tennessee. This afternoon, he welcomes the San Francisco giants to the white house. And in other news, Anthony Weiner says hes going to stay in the race even though his Campaign Manager has quit. That and a lot more on current tv. Iq will go way up. vo current tv gets the conversation started weekdays at 9 eastern. Im a slutty bob hope. The troops l
Who takes a harder line on putin, iran, syria . How will republicans behave in the booth if forced to vote for a republican, rand paul, who thinks the u. S. Is too warlike . All of this is possible. It could happen if Hillary Clinton sticks to the hard line she voiced in a recent interview with the atlantic and rand paul win it is the republican nomination. Think it cant happen . It can. The big question is how party line voters will deal with it. Will democrats get hawkish . Will republicans get suddenly dovish . Talk about changing partners. David korn is here from mother jones magazine. Lets watch more of senator paul when nbcs Chris Jansing interviewed him. Lets listen to senator paul. The American Public is coming more to where i am and those people, like Hillary Clinton who fought her own war, hillarys war. People will find and i think that scares the democrats the most. In a general election, were i to run, there is going to be a lot of independents and some democrats who say, y
Possibility. That system slammed the southeast tuesday. In six states, thousands had no power. In hardhit georgia, two tornadoes rattled folks. All of a sudden we heard, like, a jet blaplane or Freight Train coming across the back of the house. All right. Check out what is churning in the atlantic. This is hurricane gonzalo with winds of 115 miles per hour. On tuesday, gonzalo turned dead lie. One man died in st. Maarten, but will it hit the mainland . Meteorologist bill karins will have the answer in just a moment. Right now we do have breaking news out of dallas. A Second Health care worker has tested positive for ebola. The worker was among those who took care of eric thomas duncan. A stunning prediction from the world health organization. We could soon see 10,000 cases of ebola a week. Dr. Anthony fauchi spoke to msnbcs rachel maddow. As you get more and more people who are getting infected and not getting into the kind of isolation and able to contact trace, theyre infecting a lot