Ambassador and just Foreign Policy veteran bill richardson. Just four days remain till new jersey democrats decide whether corey booker does head to the United States senate or not. And then a deep dive into the sky with air force one. Were going behind the scenes to the famous president ial plane. And finding out why the first plane to get that call sign is rusting away in an arizona desert. Good morning from des moines, iowa. Im luke casey, host of good night iowa. Its friday, august 9th, 2013, the first day of the iowa state fair and the unofficial kickoff of the 2016 iowa caucuses. This is the daily rundown and heres chuck todd. Mm, fried butter. Thank you, luke. Lets get right to my first reads of the morning. President obama will try to get last words in this afternoon before leaving tomorrow for marthas vineyard. Hell set the stage for the fall fights. Ahead of taking question, in his first solo press Conference Since april. Having a press Conference Tomorrow so why dont you ask
That was paul white. An engineer from ham lake, minnesota. Hes one of the winners from this weeks 448 million jackpot drawing. And he is a smart guy. Smart guy. Smart financial plan. He opted for the cash payment, which ended up being just over 58 numb 58 million after taxes. Friday, august 9th. Great to have you on morning joe. With us on set msnbcs thomas roberts. Weve got the host of way too early, Brian Shactman. Pulitzerprize winning columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst Eugene Robinson and the former governor of pennsylvania, nbc news political analyst, ed rendell. Showing that we do at nbc have a conservative there oh, wait, conservative democrat. Fortune magazines assisting managing editor Leigh Gallagher, good lord it started early, the author of the great new book the end of the suburbs. Its great to have all of you guys with us. Lets start with news. Mika, of course, she where do you think she is . South of france. Shes in the sout
Carolina just hours before the polls were due to open across the country. President obama did one last rally. A huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of North Carolina in charlotte. He talked about his grandmother that night. He said, shes gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. He said, im not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. So with hours to go until election day, president ial candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte and he cried during his speech. And he gave liz Closing Argument for why he should be president of the United States. And it was a very powerful moment because of that raw, human emotion, but it was also a powerful political moment because here it was the night before a president ial election and it is a big deal that the democratic president ial candidate is making his Closing Argument to the nation from the south. And he co
13 membof the family members, e one of them representing the 13 People Killed in that rampage, will be allowed to speak to the panel. The government will also have some expert witnesses. The most important point is that prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty. The other option is life in prison. We do not know in nidal hasan will make a statement. He has that right. He has not said whether hell have any witnesses. He has said in the past that, and indeed he admitted in court that he was the gunman. He said he switched sides to protect islam. He has said outside of court that he shot soldiers to protect taliban leaders overseas. So he will have a chance to explain himself before the panel, if he chooses to do so. Well find out monday, perhaps monday, if he does that. If he does get the death penalty, legal experts say it will be quite some time before he would actually face execution because of the automatic appeal that would follow. Again, to repeat, nidal hasan has been found gu
This is why superman works alone. Im batman. Nice coat. Forget there have been bad batmans out there over the years. Val kilmer, i didnt remember him. Good morning, friday, august 23rd. On set washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay who i gave her a cold. Shes upset. Were sharing everything. Guys, be careful. Okay. Dont overshare, please. Drugs here if anyone touches them. Always be in england. Can i just say, does every boy grow up dreaming of saying, im batman . I dont know. Its a funny joke. Every boy doesnt grow up. Thats good. Oh oh. Discuss that also. Pulitzerprize winning historian jon meacham. Pulitzerprize winning column t columnist, msnbc political ans list, can we shorten the title please, Eugene Robinson and Vice President and executive editor of msnbc. Com richard holt. Hes also the author of the book the message, the reselling of president obama. And thats all we have time for this morning. Back to you. If we did the subtitle of richards book we would run