Good diagnosis. Ah yes. And pie the way, the Washington Nationals tonight. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report. Is this the only way to wipe isis off the face of the planet . You have to hear what the top military office just told the u. S. Senate. Plus senator Lindsey Graham, and others, do any of them agree with the president s isis plan . All here to go on the record. Right now the big news from todays critical Armed Services committee hearing. This will not be an easy or a brief effort. It is complicated. We are at war with isil, as we are with al qaeda. Im not confident how this is going to happen without the assistance of our trained special operators on the ground here. My view at this point is that
this coalition is the appropriate way forward. I believe that will prove true. But if it fails to be true and if there are threats to the United States, then i of course would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may incl
Good morning, it is friday, august 1st. Oh, look at that. Oh, dear lord, where did july goes . Time flies when youre having so much fun. Welcome to morning joe, everybody. Time goes a lot faster. Boom with us on set, we have Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst, euGene Robinson. Pulitzer prize winning author jon meacham is here. We have so many pulitzers here. Won the masters in 86. Wasnt it odd three or odd four . We have breaking news so if we can just move forward here. Right, willie . In washington, senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein. Never won a pulitzer. He has so many years ahead of him, though. What did we win our pulitzer for, willie . It was fan fiction we wrote. Yes that is it i think it was a how to. That was it. Did you forget what year it was . It was odd three. I cant remember what summer it was. They run together. Can we go to the breaking news now .
Thats going to wrap it up for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Heres a political announcement. A political announcement. I saw already this was like two days ago. Take a look at this. Hes been called an elitist. He vacations on Marthas Vineyard. He has been accused of ignoring the crisis in missouri and overlooking the concerns of the africanamerican community. Hell, i could do that. Paid for by romney, 2016. Good morning, everybody. It is thursday, august 21st. Welcome to morning joe. A lot to get to this morning. Boy, we do. On the front page of all the papers, we have got news that there was an attempt to rescue jim foley. We start there. The pentagon confirms that dozen of special operation troops unsuccessfully tried to rescue the journalist james foley and
other american hostages earlier this summer in syria. The captives were not at the targeted locations and foley was eventually murdered by islamic. People are very angry right now about not only about this murder. T
Medal of arts, the first lady is also going to attend. Thats it for way too early and t. J. Is back. Morning joe starts right now. Despite talk of a new temporary ceasefire in gaza today, both sides in that war launched new attacks. Hamas rocket launches roar to life. In israeli, fired back. We have accepted five ceasefires acted upon hamas has rejected every single one of them. They have even violated their own ceasefire. You want to recognize israeli as a jewish state . No. More fighting in ukraine is preventing outsiders from reaching Malaysia Airlines flight 17. The fighting, some of the
worse of the fighting seems to center around the crash site itself. So much of what people do is psychologically annual lies so you tell us what is he like . You met him many times. He is very tough. If he wants to stare intently at you with his very bright blue eyes he can turn on the charm. The fighting in elaborate rages on tonight. So the u. S. Embassy in triply is guarded. Will you consider im