Days. Vice president Kamala Harris, of course, is now Donald Trumps opponent in the race. Were going to go through the strategies for that showdown. Also ahead, well have expert legal analysis on Hunter Bidens surprise guilty plea in his federal Tax Case. Well have the latest on that. Well also bring you the very latest developments out of georgia, as the father of the suspect is now facing charges. And the weapon used in the attack appears to have been a gift to his son. The shooter. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is friday, september 6th. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white House Bureau Chief at polpolitico, jonathan lem. Special correspondent for bbc news, Katty Kay is with us. Pulitzer prize winning Columnist And Associate editor of the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson is here. And Msnbc Contributor and author of the book how the right lost its mind, Charlie Sykes is here. Well start this hour with pretty big theres a lot of stuff to t
dying of exhausting speaks to a bigger problem. the pigeons sit on the couch all day long and play video games. get out and exercise. they are lazy and out of shape. yes! if you are exhausted, stop flying. or land. take a break. stupid pigeons. they are stupid. come on. bill, you race pigeons for breadcrumbs outside fox. how fast are they? nobody has clocked one. they tried to and they are like, no, i have a life to lead. first of all, don t do this whole thing with england. in eng a land every woman is a bird. you are confusing the queen to begin with. you know who else does this? mike tyson. peta won t go after tyson because he is mike tie mike tyson. they will go against the bat in the hat that comes out every jubilee and waves her hand like this. going after tyson a little harder.
easily. stephanie gosk, nbc news, paris. moving on, we all remember former jetblue flight attendant steven slater who became something of a folk hero for the way he quit his job in august. in less than an hour, slater is heading to court to try to avoid jail time for opening the escape shute and sliding out of the plane in a blaze of glory. mike tie bee is outside the court in new york city. what s at stake here? reporter: less consequence than before when he might have faced as much as seven years in jail for the charge of criminal trespass and reckless endangerment. he walked in with the rest of the people, wearing a slate gray suit, a blue shirt and an ironic smile, maybe never anticipating all the fuss he would have caused back on august 9th when he made the unusual departure from his career and his job,
new york s mike tie i be by is now with us from outside the proposed mosque. we ve been working this story. i think we got somewhere. imam musri said, he was the guy standing next to terry jones, he said basically the reverend was talking about faith, that sometime during the course of talks with the people building the world trade center mosque, that maybe they ll change their mind over perhaps ten years. your news on that subject. it s kind of sugar coating it a little bit. pastor jones said unquivly we have a deal. this is going to happen. i m going to go to new york. he later said he was lied to. if for whatever reason pastor jones has now made a permanent decision he s not going to have a bonfire of korans on saturdays that situation in gainesville, florida, and the images it would have created is defused. however, that doesn t defuse the situation here. even though there s not a equivalency between the two events burning korans and building a mosque from ground
moornz storming a civilian ship taken over by pilots in the gulf of aden. nine pirates were taken into cussed to. iranian officials say they will release share ral showered detained last year. a federal appeals court is temporarily lift aga ban on federal funding for stem cell research allowing work to continue while the case is being considered. wall street reacted positively to a larger than expected drop in jobless claims now at their lowest level in two months. i m veronica de la cruz. now back to hardball. we re back. pastor terry jones of florida has canceled his plan to burn core tlanz saturday on the faith that that proposed mosque be would be moved. new york s mike tie i be by is