Hi, john. Uma, good afternoon to you. The person to beat in South Carolina remains donald trump at this point, 17 points ahead in the latest politics average. Ted cruz the closest competitor. He lead them on conservatives, moderates, tea party. Florida senator marco rubio needs to have a good night after that big stumble in New Hampshire. On board his plane from New Hampshire to here in South Carolina, he was able to swroek about it when i asked him to compare that moment to rick perrys infamous moment in 2011. Well, i mean, theres a big difference. He couldnt remember what he wanted to say. Apparently i remembered it too well. I think thats the bigger difference. But the the and i like rick. Im not saying anything to make fun of him. But im on a plane, going to South Carolina. Im going to work really hard. I think well get past it. Watch for rubio to be very forceful tonight. Keep an eye on jeb bush. Making a real play for South Carolina, the state that sealed the deal for his brother
Good evening. Top of the hour, in the middle of a big night in president ial politics. Hillary clinton again made a factually challenged claim about the fbi director and her emails. Donald trump spoke again about a video of an American Cash payment to iran, a video that simply does not exist. And president obama celebrated his 55th birthday the way most people do, in a press room at the pentagon answering questions about isis, iran, donald trump and more. Heres a sample. We announced these payments in january. Many months ago. There wasnt a secret. We announced them to all of you. Josh did a briefing on them. This wasnt some nefarious deal. We do not pay ransom for hostages. Weve got a number of americans being held all around the world and i meet with their families, and it is heartbreaking. And we have stood up an entire section of interagency experts who devote all their time to working with these families to get these americans out. But those families know that we have a policy tha
Debate between trump and Bernie Sanders. And jeff weaver with my colleague, andrea mitchell. Lets see if he has the courage to get on stage with Bernie Sanders. Thatll be the real test. Over the next hour, i will be joined by joe bennett of the Clinton Campaign and halie jackson. We start with the best Political Team in the business covering all the angles of this political avenue. Halie jackson is scheduled to speak. Halie, lets start with you out there in the Mountain West and this of course is a big milestone for the guy that would not thought to make the finish line. What kind of victory could we expect for donald trump . Reporter Something Big and something huge presumably here in the rally. We are seeing a little bit of celebration coming from his top advisors. For example, a couple of minutes ago, one of his aids tweeted out this photo. His original core has been with him since the beginning and celebrating and hitting that magic number and clinching it and locking up that nomin
Do you still deny each of those claims . Chris, of course i do. Im completely innocent. Ive said this before and ill say it again. Nobody has more respect for women than i do. All right. All right. Settle down. Settle down. Settle down, entire planet. Settle down. Another good one. Snl hitting it out of the park. Welcome to morning joe, everyone. Its monday, october 24th. Joe is out this morning. With us on set we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. He is tired. How many weddings in four months . This is your second . Second in three months. Youre like joe. So nick and meg got married this weekend. You sent the picture to alex. Do you have a picture . When are we going to see the picture . Very good. How beautiful. That was in georgetown right before the wedding with bradley cooper. Who caught the bouquet. Of course he did. Okay. Congratulations to you and ann. Thank you. Political writer for the New York Times Nicholas Confessore and msnbc political analyst and
Good evening. Top of the hour, in the middle of a big night in president ial politics. Hillary clinton again made a factually challenged claim about the fbi director and her emails. Donald trump spoke again about a video of an American Cash payment to iran, a video that simply does not exist. And president obama celebrated his 55th birthday the way most people do, in a press room at the pentagon answering questions about isis, iran, donald trump and more. Heres a sample. We announced these payments in january. Many months ago. There wasnt a secret. We announced them to all of you. Josh did a briefing on them. This wasnt some nefarious deal. We do not pay ransom for hostages. Weve got a number of americans being held all around the world and i meet with their families, and it is heartbreaking. And we have stood up an entire section of interagency experts who devote all their time to working with these families to get these americans out. But those families know that we have a policy tha