Americas homeowners. He gets to run his campaign any way he chooses. Taking advantage of the veterans. Hey, get out of here. Threes the most persistent fly i have ever seen. Nice. And refused to condemn White Supremacists. Not true. Not true. No other insurer would take nathan as long as thomas was on the policy. Get out of here. You have seen me grab one of those before. Fly with me, lets fly, lets fly all right. There you go. A brief history of president ial politics and flies. Live look at the white house, top of the hour. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, october 8th. Along with joe, willie and me, we will fly away with White House Reporter jonathan lemire, msnbc contributor Shawna Thomas and chief White House Correspondent peter baker, coauthor of the new book the man who ran washington, the life and times of james a. Baker iii. A great book. Let me say, we are one with those who were deeply stunned and saddened as people talked about the fly after such an
You see the marine guard there at the door. That means the president is just beyond that door inside the west wing in the oval office despite, despite his Coronavirus Infection and the growing outbreak inside the white house. The white house chief of staff mark meadows and social media adviser dan scavino have been working alongside the president while wearing personal protective equipment. Were certain to hear a lot more about the White House Coronavirus outbreak at tonights historic debate between Vice President mike pence and senator Kamala Harris. Now just a few hours away. Senator harris would be the first woman to hold the office and the first person of color. And with all the focus that the president s illness has developed, we cant forget the pandemics enormous death toll here in the United States, which now stands at more than 211,000 with more than 7. 5 million confirmed cases. Lets begin our coverage this hour with our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, the pre
Many people found the first train wreck to be bid basically unwatchable, its actually this final debate that shed some viewers down about 9 malcolm pa million compared to the last outing but 63 million watched last night. Team biden says thats good news for them as early voting shows trump trailing. Any time people are paying attention in the fundamentals of race dont change they believe is a bad time for donald trump. He was back breaking cdc rules today with this packed gathering inside the snug oval office where even in his spin, the president did elude to the reality that he had to change gears after his first debate performance. The first one i thought i did great. There are certain groups of very aggressive people that love the first debate. But i think this was better, this is obviously a more popular way of doing it. Across the nation, covid meanwhile surging. The u. S. Is hitting the highest daily covid19 infection rate ever. Something you obviously need to know and thats on m
In the book mr. Gates, who served as secretary of defense under president george w. Bush and president obama, talks about his management of the wars in afghanistan and iraq, and he shares stories about his relationship with the white house and congress. [applause] secretary gates, i also want to thank you for being here, especially in light of the fact that youve recently had an injury. I know youre making a robust recovery, but having to wear a neck brace is surely has surely complicated your being here and getting here, and we thank you for making that effort. Until i became secretary of defense, i had never broken a bone or had a surgery. [laughter] february of 2008 i fell on the ice and broke this shoulder in three places. Ten months later putting a snowplow blade on a tractor, i pulled the bicep tendon off arm. My security guards quickly came to the conclusion that alqaeda was no risk to me at all compared to myself. [laughter] and before we start, id like to say it is good to be
Do under the circumstances, which was to take the hit. One question. Let me just say to build on your observations, i mean there was a lot of goodwill toward general mcchrystal in the white house because during the fall of 2009 and we have are debating options for afghanistan, including whether to go with what he had recommended, this 40,000 additional troops or other options with smaller numbers that have been advocated by the Vice President and others, there were a number of leaks in public statements by the military including by general mcchrystal that made it appear to the white house that, and to the president , that the military was trying to box him in and force his hand to adopt their option in terms of the 40,000 troops. I tried to convince the president that i could see where this suspicion came from because of these leaks and public statements. The president sought and others around him Vice President and others saw it as an orchestrated campaign by the military leadership.