Epidemic in this country, but we have a hate epidemic hate has no place in our country. Just ahead, the stories of bravery, people helping people, as the gunfire rang out. I feel i was put on the earth to help people. Its happened again, today, monday, august 5th, 2019 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Wish we could come on the air with a smile on our faces and something happy to tell you, but unfortunately, we cant. It is just another terrible, terrible moment in our history absolutely. We want to get right to the outpouring of grief in two closeknit communities and across the nation following this weekends backtoback outbreak of gun violence. Vigils were held in el paso and dayton, ohio, overnight to honor the victims. 29 People Killed more than 50 others injured. As for the investigations, they have quickly revealed the troubled pasts of t
Challenge Bernie Sanders to rein in some of his aggressive supporters for their online attacks against rivals. To say i disassociate is one thing. Find out who they are, if any of them work for me. Fire them. Find out. See whats going on. And airlift. Fourteen passengers from a quarantined cruise ship test positively for coronavirus as they and other americans on board are flown home. After a long ordeal on this cruise ship and the threat of the coronavirus still looming, they will be tested when they arrive and spend another 14 days in quarantine at a military base. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. On this president s day a federal holiday, as President Trump and attorney general facing a barrage of criticism from former Justice Department leaders with experience, some stretching back to the eisenhower administration. More than 1100 doj alumni calling on william barr to resign after he overruled prosecutors proposed sentence for convicted trump associate roger
A very good morning to you. Im richard lui at msnbc world headquarters. Were watching the latest on Hurricane Irma. Our special coverage of this category5 storm for you. Its roaring past cuba. The latest visuals, of course, the radar showing it moving through the northern sides. Here it is again. This as all of florida braces for what lies ahead the next 48 hours. Survivors in the caribbean survey the damage left behind. Okay, at this hour, Hurricane Irma pounding cuba as a cat5 storm with ferocious 160 mileperhour winds. The storm on track to go and go north toward florida, pummelling the keys there tonight and into sunday, before charting a path through western florida where it is expected to hit naples, orlando, ft. Myers, potentially tampa. The threat in those areas is higher than initially thought at least by the latest information that we got two hours ago from the National Hurricane center. This after the storm does take a turn westward. A little bit tacking farther to the left
Were expecting to hear from President Trump this hour at the Cabinet Meeting after a morning spent embracing Vladimir Putin. In a tweet storm, touting his relationship with the russian president , hinting at cooperation between the two countries on undisclosed topics, first discussed in that closed door trump putin helsinki meeting. Two key questions. Will the president try again to clear up his first attempt at a doover. I accept our Intelligence Communitys conclusion that russias meddling in the 2016 election took place. Could be other people also. A lot of people out there. And will he be compelled to walk back any of the other stunning comments he made in helsinki on monday. Joining me now msnbc Kristen Welker, political analyst ashley parker. White house reporter at the Washington Post, msnbc political analyst elise jordan. And Msnbc National Security analyst clint watts, a former fbi special agent and author the messing with the enemy. Good to see all of you here. Chris what do w
An initial tweet after boarding air force one that clarified his comments on the Intelligence Community. He wanted to make sure that was clear. At the very first chance he had in a public setting, the following day, he clarified his comments and i dont think that it was that long for that to be the very first public appearance that he had following arriving back to the United States. Its a pretty long time and it was out there for quite a time it wasnt 24 hours before he responded at all. Again, he put out an initial tweet from air force one. To clarify his remarks to clarify the would to wouldnt or wouldnt to would. And i think a lot of people would argue that there was ample time for the president. He tweets all the time from air force one. And he tweeted that night. To put out a statement which clarified what he meant to say during the joint News Conference and he didnt do that. What took so long is my question . Once he reviewed the transcript, he wanted to publicly he wanted to pu