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
rockets. russian troops are attempting to break through the defenses and advance south, further into donbas. in a small town outside of kyiv, new video shows damaged and destroyed homes left by russian shelling during the first phase of this conflict. as ukraine s orthodox christians celebrate easter this weekend, ukraine s president said he was hopeful of prevailing against russia. translator: the 58th day of our defense is coming to an end. it ends on good friday, the day when death seems to have won. but we hope for a resurrection. we believe in the victory of life over death, and we pray that death loses. moscow has finally acknowledged casualties from the sinking of the moskva more than a week ago. says one sailor was killed, 27 missing. claiming the 396 remaining crew were rescued and taken to crimea. for more, let s bring in isa soares. hi to you, isa. reporter: a very good morning to you, michael. as our reporters meet more ukrainians, the stories of brutality a
Election, havent provided anything to lead me to believe or should lead you to believe, and i continue to see reports coming from Media Sources saying when they checked in with Law Enforcement or Intelligence Community sources. Theres nothing more than has been previously reported over and over again. So at some point you do have to ask yourself what are you actually looking for . How many times do you have to come to the same conclusion before you take the answer . Thats what im saying. Mara . Just to followup, did you personally reach out im not going to say what we discussed internally. We did our job about making sure that when people had reporters had questions, we let them know what subject Matter Experts were available to discuss the accuracy of a newspaper story. Mara . Im sure people will come back to the budget question, which is during the campaign, the president said he was not going to touch medicare, social security. Treasury secretary repeated that. Sounds like the direc
i just want to make that point we have some precedent for it. just to put a final touch on this, one thing donald trump is good at is making lemonade out of lemons. anytime he is in a criminal situation, in a court situation, the fbi raid, he will find a way to make this a fundraising opportunity, a merchandise opportunity. don t expect donald trump to hide away from this. he s going to leverage this as part of his campaign. the media is going to follow it. we saw this when he had his indictment a few weeks ago. there will be wall-to-wall coverage of this thing, and that ll try not the other candidates. i ll make the point we are seeing real world consequences with him, legally, on this, we haven t seen before. he was found liable in the civil trial. the judge s ruling today i think is not insignificant. he does fear, i think, certain legal consequences with we just got word that trump lawyers have requested a meeting with attorney general garland in that classified documents c
road and get it earlier. what happens in a primary doesn t disappear in the general election. the elon musk of it all, i think it s very significant. this is something that has been spreading nonstop conspiracy theories, whether it s about paul pelosi s attack, the neo-nazi guy who carried out a mass shooting in texas. he, in and of himself, is a controversial, some would say, toxic figure to tie yourself to at this stage. others don t lucky socks, expects the point. the republican party is moving into this world war elon musk stands for what they stand for culturally, so it makes sense rhonda sanchez would go there. the thing i m thinking about, is when we say voters aren t on twitter, voters aren t anywhere. this immediate landscape is so different. it s not the old days where everyone was watching the same three broadcast news networks at night. now, everyone is on gaming platforms, social media platforms. all that matters is, can you plan a message that can go viral and break o