Just keeps good morning. 14, 15 times. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday morning. But the shower heads. Yeah, hes obsessed with that. Soups of can, cans of soup. Along with joe and me, we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lamire, former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state department, elise jordan, and nbc news and msnbc contributor Shawna Thomas is with us. And cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. Did you always wonder why look at the numbers. Geez. Did you ever wonder why lamere always had a couple of campbells soup cans . Oh, there you go. In his backpack . Thought it was like a and warhahl thing. No, its violence. Violent. The president s taking one angle here and digging deep. The president s visit to kenosha, wisconsin, yesterday, gave another opportunity to promote healing and unity oh, great, thats good. After the unrest following the Police Shooting of jacob blake. You would think he met with the family im sure he did. And with
Mini strokes. Good morning, its wednesday, september 2nd, im Alessia Alessia menendez. Given another opportunity to promote healing and unity after the unrest that followed the Police Shooting of jacob blake, the president instead chose to promote his Campaign Message of law and order. He did not meet with blakes family, but he did speak alongside the Kenosha Police chief and county sheriff. As the ap zeke miller andon that lemire note, trump stood at the epicenter of the latest eruption over Racial Injustice and came down squarely on the side of Law Enforcement. He dodged questions about systemic racism and took credit for quelling the violence in the blake shooting when the governor used his own authority to call in the National Guard in additional to federal reinforcement. The president made clear even before he afliefd wisconsrrived the purpose of his visit. Im speaking there today, im there for Law Enforcement and the National Guard because theyve done a great job in kenosha. Then
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh Mcenany weighing in on that a short time ago. Watch. If he wants to debate, he plans on being at the debate, but he wants it to be fair and a fair exchange. He does not want rules that cover for certain candidates ability to perform well. Harris john roberts is live with more. John. The white house and the Trump Campaign are saying that these rules are because joe biden got pummeled. And that now they are trying to tilt the Playing Field in his direction. There has been talk about potential for the moderator to have a button to cut the microphones. A source told me a little while ago, a source close to the negotiation told me it was an idea that was floated by the biden camp yesterday morning at 9 00 before the commission on president ial debates came out with a statement saying they would look at changing the structure to facilitate a more highbrow, if you will discussion of the issues then we saw over the weekend. If somethingng else that contins
Remember was temporarily blocked earlier this week hours after the violence of protouch supporters in the capitol. Final straw tied to a tweet the president wrote yesterday morning in which he said his supporters will have a quote giant voice long into the future and wont be disrespected. Several other Internet Services are also limiting or blocking the president all together. They include facebook, snapchat and paypal. Some of the president s allies call it nothing short of censorship. These Big Tech Companies are too big. They are monopolistic. They dont allow for competition. If they can do it to the president what makes them stop from doing it to anybody else. The president is vowing to return to social media other platforms potentially even developing his own. After the one point he did tweet from the at potus account those tweets were later removed. We will keep watching. Pete, jed and will, garage. Will its will cain along with pete hegseth and jedediah beal i cant. Good morning
Make donald trump the first president in the United States history to be impeached twice. Andrea, unlike last time, todays expected Impeachment Vote will be bipartisan. Thats because a growing number of republicans have already defected, including the number three republican in the house, liz cheney, also the most powerful republican in the senate, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell reportedly pleased about the impeachment. Privately, backing kasie hunt said sending up white smoke, if you will. Thats right. We have our team of reporters and analysts standing by, including our panel for the next 60 minutes. Claire mccaskill, michael steele, both msnbc political analysts, chuck rosenberg, senior fbi official joins us as well. We want to start on capitol hill with Leigh Ann Caldwell who can take us through what we are seeing. We are in the middle of a procedural vote on this motion by republicans to set up a commission effectively to look at what they describe as the failures of the election