american dance theater and this celebration of american dance is incorporating everything we believe that dance should do. it should up lift, entertain and educate and you should know who you are. anyone who has gone to alvin ali feels these things. when they get a chance to see what takes place on tuesday at the white house they will be inspired to check this out this fall and winter as it makes its way across the country. good to see you congratulations and now even more people will know about your contributions to this performing art. thank you so much. fredricka thank you. all the best thank you so much. talk soon and see you soon when you come through atlanta again. all right. okay we re going to take the turn. there is a different kind of perforso to speak going on in atlanta today. where do they come to life? lucky us, in atlanta today.
take some of the money, recovered from oil that s been skimmed off in the gulf region, has been made usable in some way, giving some of those proceeds back to the people in the gulf to try to offset all of these enormous losses. figuring out that formula is another complicated task. but certainly people living there can estimate and can imagine scenarios they believe bp should be responsible for. the question will be politically, is there a will to try to enforce that? okay. kelly o donnell at the white house on a sunday, lucky us. thank you much for the o.t. good to see you. elena kagan now the newest member of the supreme court. she was sworn in yesterday by chief justice john roberts. still have a few months to prepare before the court tackles its next docket in october. some possible cases include arizona s tough new immigration law, the country s divisive fight over same-sex marriage and the brewing battle over whether the government can require americans to buy health insur
top of the hour. live look another the white house. sun coming up in washington, where we are this morning, at the nbc news washington bureau. welcome back to morning joe. i m mika brzezinski. joe scarborough is off today. willie geist here with me in washington. we ve still got norah o donnell, lucky us, as well as pat we ve said thank you three times. thanks, norah. pat s still here too. norah, we are lucky we were able to book her for the full three hours. and now ron brownstein joining the conversation as well. we love you. i m just kidding. let s get to our top stories. we ve got so much news from overseas this morning that s incredibly important. and then, of course, politics and ron.
special coverage begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern. testimony begins at 10:00. early start will get an early, early start beginning at 3:00 a.m. eastern. lucky us. set those alarm clocks. sean spicer directly contradicting position top administration officials have been trying to sell all week. listen to the press secretary acknowledging the president s tweets are official white house statements. sort of. are president trump s tweets considered official white house statements? well the president is the president of the united states, so they are considered official statements by the president of the united states. that comment by spicer completely counters what several members of the administration have been saying since the president s travel ban tweet storm. listen to white house spokesman sebastian co rx in s comments. it s social media. it s not social media.
[ laughing ] more than anyone. shawn hannity is on vacation. don t pay attention, shawn, i say that to all of the girls. lucky us. isis praising the shooter as one of its own. the terror group saying the istanbul attack was carried without a heroic soldier of the calif. phate who attacked where christians were celebrating their pagan feast. they have detained 8 people but the gunman who escaped after the shooting not among them. among the survivors, a delaware man is shot in the leg. perhaps fortunate to be alive. turkish authorities saying the cell phone he was carrying might have prevented a bullet from piercing a major artery. benjamin joins us live from london with the lateest. hi, sandra. istanbul remains on highest alert as the desperate manhunt