To watch them up close bear their pain, bear their grief with dignity and not succumb to the temptation of wayward words and inflaming tensions has made me a better activist, a better person, a better commune indicator. I thank these families for making it a better america. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Who you gonna call . A hawkish hillary or a dovish rand paul . Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in new york. Let me start with the wild possibility that we may have to choose for our next president between a democratic hawk and a republican dove. If you want to see a
transformational election in our country, let the democrats put forward a war hawk like Hillary Clinton. You will see a transformation like you have never seen. What will this do to mix up the decision after lee elections voting against a war can we choose a democrat who voted for the war and sounds hawkish today who takes a harder line on putin, iran, syria . How will re
54 of you picked that one. 12 named Debt Reduction and another 13 named immigration. And another 14 said voting rights. 18 of politics nation said other. The minimum wage was a popular writein here as well. Thanks for voting and you keep the conversation going on our Facebook Page and twitter. And thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. A special election edition of hardball starts right now. Catching Mitch Mcconnell, lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Let me start with tonights bik electoral contest, leading off with the two state where is the
democrats had the best chance to snatch u. S. Senate seats now held by republicans. Those contests in kentucky and georgia could end up as this years big democratic morale boosters. Both being contested by women with impressive political roots in their state, the kind of strong name and family idea that could help them withstand what threatens otherwise to be a brutal november. In kentucky, Allison Grimes at the age
A dead giveaway. The ugly an acronym, krispy kreme u. K. The firm apologized after using kkk wednesday. They said it was completely unintentional. Frocks frocks fox friends starts now. Intoorm. It is february 18. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. The state department doubling down on its jobs for jihadis comments and they are blaming president bush. President george w. Bush talked about poverty being one of the drivers that lead people to extremism. Unbelievable. This as the isis carnage continues to escalate. And islamic extremism . Youre not going to hear that at the white house during the summit. They say its all just hype made up by us. We spend more time more time talking about what do you call it as opposed to what do you do about it . Fox didnt talk about this they would have nothing else to talk about, it would seem to me. Does it matter what we call it . Well discuss that. Well have nothing else to talk about except rocco. We could talk about dogs. We could talk about whatever else com
Get a check on the day ahead. Primary elections held in alaska and wyoming today. Voters will decide who will run against mark begich. Paul ryan is more focused on his partys image and we will have a chance to ask him about it when he join the set of morning joe tomorrow. That does it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning, everyone. Its tuesday, august 19th. Welcome to morning joe. That is what t. J. Does. Hes into the glasses. Im glad someone does. I love those glasses. You have the situation with the last contact lens that falls and you just cant find them . I like them. Im telling you. Thank you, willie. I do. Its different when he says it in a way like he is not panting like t. J. Oh, yeah. Its different. Did he just wink at me and go is that bad . No. From the will meister . No. Morning joe contributor John Heilemann, what a weird start. He joins us. Usually youre the weird one, john. All right. Today, im innocent. Today, you are innocent and elegant. We al
Dropped the phone in the toilet and havent had a phone. You got everything done and then dropped it . This is a fox news alert im bret baier in washington president obama has vetoed a bill from congress to authorize construction of the Keystone Pipeline. Move comes despite the state departments conclusion that it would have no adverse effect on the environment. Chief correspondent james rosen is with the latest. This is the third veto president obama issued across his six years in office but the first since republicans regained control of the senate. In a brief written message to the Senate President obama said he was vetoing the keystone legislation on procedural ground
because the president wrote this act of congress conflicts with established executive branch procedures. It has earned my veto. The white house said earlier alerting to expect the action. The president intends to veto this legislation. Reporter the Obama Administration spent some six years delaying a decision and casti