Good morning, everybody. It is friday, august 21st. We made it to the end of the week, and it has been quite a 24 hours. Im yasmin vossoughian. So lets start with the democrats wrapping up their Convention Last night with former Vice President joe biden formally accepting the partys nomination for president. In his speech, biden implored americans to help him, quote, end this chapter of american darkness. Speaking against fear, anger, and division, the president ial nominee vowed to be a, quote, ally of the light. As president , bind said his First Priority would be to get the virus under control by implementing a national strategy, something the president has failed to do. Just judge this president on the facts. 5 million americans affected by covid19. More than 170,000 americans have died. By far, the worst performance of any nation on earth. More than 50 Million People have filed for unemployment this year. More than 10 Million People are going to lose their Health Insurance this ye
Order. And the president urged supporters to commit a felony, vote twice. This is checks and balances, am i right . Yeah. We have checks and balances. Thats why we have an attorney general. Because an attorney general when the president of the United States says Something Like that, an attorney general will come out and correct him, right . Well, maybe not so much in this administration. Actually, with this administration, its more like fles fletch. Where youre, oh, good the cops are here. It is thursday, september 3rd. We have White House Reporter for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire. Professor at Princeton University and author of begin again, eddie glaude jr. Senior adviser to the lincoln project. Susan dell pierce owe joins us. And politics editor for the daily beast sam stein joins us as well. Jonathan lemire, did you ever see fletch, chevy chase, classic 80s movie . No, i saw it. I enjoyed. It was a classic in the 80s. Theres a period where chevy chase was a comedy god, flet
On retail sales. Janet yellen and more more. Peter cook looks at regulatory issues behind the comcast time warner deal. We look at the stock moves in the 45 billion acquisition. Good afternoon. One thing thats important to note about this acquisition is its a stock transaction. Shareholders will get stock of comcast in return for this deal. They are going to get 2. 875 for every time warner share they old. That values the company at about 17 higher than yesterdays close. If you look at the Time Warner Cable shares today, youll notice theorizing which is what you might expect but they are trading below that offer price. There could be a couple of reasons behind that. First of all, comcast shares are declining so the value of the bid is declining to some extent. Second of all, its going to take a long time for this deal to close. It could be the end of 2014. And third of all, and of course peter is going to get more into this is the Regulatory Risk associated with this deal. Thats why th
Cambridge are celebrating their third anniversary. Really . They returned to the uk on saturday after their 19day tour of new zealand and australia. Okay. Thats it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Sterling insists hes not a racist. He says some of his best credit cards are black. I have an idea that would work for everyone. I will buy the team from Donald Sterling for 5,000. I would be proud to take the reins of once was and will again be the worst, nose miserable franchise in all of sports. Let me say this. All of a sudden, not such a bummer to be a lakers fan this month anymore. Good morning. It is tuesday, april 29th. Look at that beautiful shot as the sun comes up over new york city. Its light out. It is light out. That is so amazing. With us on set we have editor for new York Magazine and msnbc analyst john heilemann. But its going to be 48 degrees the high. But its going to be cold, but its going to be raining. Look, you all are here. And msnbc contributor Mike Ba
High number of cases. Just this morning, organizers announced they will cancel the new york city marathon, the Worlds Largest marathon because of the pandemic. For those keeping an eye on sports news, baseball is coming back. The Major League Baseball Players Association says it has a deal with mlb, with the league and they will have a shorter season starting in late july. Right now in arizona and texas, the number of coronavirus cases and hospital admissions right now are hitting new highs. Arizona just reported nearly 3,600 new cases. That is a record increase, around 84 of the icu beds in the state are now occupied. In texas, that state just hit an alltime high in new coronavirus cases as well. More than 5,500 in a single day. Even more concerning, hospitalizations have broken records for a second week in a row. We have our team of reporters standing by in both of these states. Nbcs joe fryer is in scottsdale, arizona, nbcs Priscilla Thompson is in houston. Joe, let me start with ar