a man who attended the rally that led to the capitol insurrection and also now the man who won the republican nomination for the governor s race there. he will now face pennsylvania s attorney general josh shapiro in the general election. a lot going on in pennsylvania. so let s go there. cnn s athena jones is starting us off live in lancaster, pennsylvania, with more on this deadlocked senate race. what s the latest that you re picking up? reporter: you mentioned, we re talking about the two leading candidates trading the lead back and forth. in the wee hours of last night. a lot to be determined. could be very close causing a recount. there s a problem though because a lot of votes still need to come in counties across the state. this is one of those counties. lancaster county where we learned early yesterday that about 22,000 mail-in ballots were misprinted with the wrong code, so they could not be scanned by the machines. here you see a room full of county staffers, ele
States such as texas, arizona and florida are on the brink of apocalyptic levels in his views. Still, the president who should be leading in this pandemic continues his pattern of deliberately down playing it. A recap. Looks like by april, you know, in theory when it gets a little warmer, miraculously it goes away. Its going to disappear, one day like a miracle it will disappear. Its going to go away. This is going to go away. Eventually, its going to be gone. Its going away and i think well be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point thats going to sort of just disappear, i hope. Well, inside the white house, top aides are now debating whether the president should shift back to focusing on this pandemic or stay focused on his hopes for the economy. Just this morning, some good news for the country. We learned that the economy added 4. 8 million jobs in june. Lets go straight to Christine Romans. Christine, these are good numbers. They are somewhat backward looking. P
Make change. I dont think so. The president s attack on his 2020 opponent for ripping off the American People come as a top trump adviser who was key to President Trumps 2016 election is expected to appear virtually in court any moment for ripping off the American People. Former Trump Campaign ceo and former white house chief strategist accused of defrauding the president s own supporters arrested off a yacht. He was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. He took hundreds of thousands of dollars for his own personal gain under the guise of raising money for we build the wall. A group trying to fulfill Trumps Campaign promise. Acting homeland secretary visited the site where the group was building a wall device and donald trump junior gave a speech at one of the events calling what they were doing, what capitalism is all about. A spokesperson for the Trump Organization telling the New York Times that trump junior was deceived by the group and had no involveme
By the values we cherish, decency, respect, justice and the opportunity to rise up. We always hear that line about this being the most important election of our lifetimes, this year it really is. The past few months have tested us all, weve lost more than 170,000 family members and friends to covid. This tragedy is compounded by the loss of jobs and income. Its not just the past few months. The past four years have left us as a nation diminished and divided. And yet in the middle of the fear and sorrow and uncertainty, people have come together because they know were better than this. America is better than this. And so we choose to act inspired by the three sacred words that breathed life into our nation, we, the people. Okay, im ready. Lets go. Are we ready . I think i was in middle school fifth grade. Can i say this in spanish . Should i read just this line or the whole thing . Justice. Tranquillity. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Lets do this. We the people. We the people. We the peopl
Mean a oneterm candidate . No. Youre leaving open the possibility youll serve eight years if elected . Absolutely. I want to turn to the attacks weve seen from President Trump this week alone on your mental fitness. His campaign called you diminished. Im curious how you respond to that. Watch me. Mr. President , watch me. Look at us both what we say, do, control, know, what kind of shape were in. Look, i think its a legitimate question to ask anybody over 70 years old whether or not theyre fit and whether theyre ready. But i just only thing i can say to the American People, its a legitimate question to ask anybody, watch me. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Its monday, august 24th. With us we have host of politics nation and president of the National Action network reverend al sharpton. And host of kasie dc on msnbc, kasie hunt. We have White House Reporter for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire. And columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. Mik