obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. we ll play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to indict him, but shouldn t. we ll discuss his reasoning. and the 60-day sprint to the midters begins today, and it seems whoever is managing the money for the republican senate candidates can t get it right. how republican senator rick scott explains burning through loads of cash with little to show for it. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 8th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, author of the big lie, white house bureau chi
good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a really busy week. let s get to some of the conversations you may have missed. gag order in donald trump s hush money case is an effect, but his attorney said, they will keep fighting to get it thrown out. that comes after new york s top court declined to hear trump s appeal of the matter earlier this week. the state court appealed trump s thing, there was no constitutional grounds for the appeal. that leaves the gag order imposed by judge juan mershon in place meaning, he could still face penalties in place for violating it. the order bars trump from going after witnesses, jurors, and others who were involved in the case. following his felony conviction last month, the sentencing is scheduled for july 11th. so, i guess first of all, do you expect this gag order to be put back before the sentencing? i don t, but maybe there is reason for it. and then, what do you expect for the sentencing?
Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 1am in paris, where the two candidates hoping to be president of france have been going head to head in the final Television Debate of the election. The latest polls suggest the centrist Emmanuel Macron is well ahead of his far right rival Marine Le Pen but his lead has narrowed. Both are competing to win over undecided voters ahead of the final vote on sunday. James reynolds has been watching the debate. He calls her the candidate of hate. She says he has no qualities. Tonight, they meet. Emmanuel macron, the frontrunner, wont want to slip up. Hes standing as a pro eu, Pro Immigration Centrist and hes protecting a clear lead in the polls. Marine le pen, from the front national, is trying to bring him down. I asked her what she wanted from the debate . Translation what do i expect from the debate . Some clarification from mr macron. Hes still being very vague. And tonight, on french tv, the two candidates faced one another and
Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 1am in paris, where the two candidates hoping to be president of france have been going head to head in the final Television Debate of the election. The latest polls suggest the centrist Emmanuel Macron is well ahead of his far right rival Marine Le Pen but his lead has narrowed. Both are competing to win over undecided voters ahead of the final vote on sunday. James reynolds has been watching the debate. He calls her the candidate of hate. She says he has no qualities. Tonight, they meet. Emmanuel macron, the frontrunner, wont want to slip up. Hes standing as a pro eu, Pro Immigration Centrist and hes protecting a clear lead in the polls. Marine le pen, from the front national, is trying to bring him down. I asked her what she wanted from the debate . Translation what do i expect from the debate . Some clarification from mr macron. Hes still being very vague. And tonight, on french tv, the two candidates faced one another and
This morning there were signs it could be happening again. The Wall Street Jurm reported that Big Tech Companies are using their power to silence certain political views. Both google and Web Hosting Service go daddy stopped providing Hosting Support for Daily Storm Area White Supremacist website. The Hotel Website airbnb announced it will perm nernt in any eventually ban White Supremacists from booking booking rooms. Pay pal wont let them use the payment platform. No one is weeping for the daily stormer, mentioning their name probably got us written up as dangerous alt right sub investigatives. Theres a principle at stake and is worth defending. We should be concerned by the prospect of big Companies Using their power to enforce ideological conformity when it seems to affect people we dont like as it does now. Especially now we should be concerned. Support for Free Expression seems to be fading on the left
point. Its proof of how robust that right is. Tech companies arent the governmen