Maxine waters joins me when all in starts now good evening from philadelphia im ali velshi in for chris hayes. The coronavirus nightmare is getting worse in 40 states across the country, and the president continues to fail in leading the country out of this nightmare. So its not surprising that the pandemic is the single biggest thing driving the president ial election right now tonight joe biden was trying to fill that president ial void in his interview with my colleague joy reid on her new show the reid out. And that makes sense given Donald Trumps disastrous and unprechbtd crossexamination about the pandemic yesterday on fox news and so knowing hes got to turn around americas perception of his Coronavirus Response donald trump announced hes going to resume his coronavirus briefings this week. Remember those he stopped doing them back in april after he called them a waste of time and, honestly, hes not wrong because they were nothing more than a sideshow in case you had forgotten ab
Weekend he effectively did. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is monday, august 10th, along with joe and me, we have nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kc d. C. On nbc, kasie hunt. Political analyst and former chairman of the Republican National committee Michael Steele is with us. White house reported for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire. And former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst steve ratner is with us. And joe, a lot happening over the weekend. And weve got major covid19 news as well. Yeah a lot happening over the weekend. Of course, a lot of chaos, of course, coming from the white house. Jonathan lemire, we have economists, we have people on the hill, we have business owners, we have ceos. We even have well, we have white house officials that are sort of scratching their heads and asking what exactly happened on friday. The president tried to look like he was in control by pushing unconstitutional president ial directives which seem t
U. S. Senate. Republican senators david perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing democratic challengers jon ossoff and the reverend Raphael Warnock respectively. Georgia has not elected a democrat to the senate since 1996. Last month joe biden became the first democrat to win georgia in a president ial race since 92. Now, President Trump spent this evening rallying supporters in valdosta, georgia. He urged the crowd of course to vote for the incumbents, while also saying that the election he just lost was rigged. That contradictions pretty glaring. Urging people to take part in a process he maintains is irredeemably fraudulent. But that narrative is everywhere. Even behind the scenes. This was the wifi password for reporters at tonights rally. Rigged election. Exclamation point. The president s push to overturn the election is going nowhere. He continues to lose in court, most recently in georgia, and in wisconsin. This morning mr. Trump called georgias governor, brian kemp. He asked him a
With three crucial spending bills up in the air right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york welcome to the week. Today marks four weeks since joe biden was projected as the president elect, and today marks one month until voters in georgia set the tone for the u. S. Senate. Republican senators david perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing democratic challengers jon ossoff and the reverend Raphael Warnock respectively. Georgia has not elected a democrat to the senate since 1996. Last month joe biden became the first democrat to win georgia in a president ial race since 92. Now, President Trump spent this evening rallying supporters in valdosta, georgia. He urged the crowd of course to vote for the incumbents, while also saying that the election he just lost was rigged. That contradictions pretty glaring. Urging people to take part in a process he maintains is airredeemably fraudulent. But that narrative is everywhere. Even behind the scenes. This was the wifi password for repor
Now, the question about Richard Nixon of course was what did he know and when did he know it. The question about donald trump could be what else did he do and when will we know it. New bombshells emerging about the lengths trump allegedly went to hoping to keep his grip on power. The wall street journal reports that he pushed the Justice Department to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate joe bidens election victory. And sources telling cnn that trump planned to fire his acting attorney general and replace him with someone willing to go along with the false claims about Election Fraud in georgia. Trumps relentless attacks on the election led of course to the deadly capitol riot and siz second impeachment. Now, weve also learned disturbing new details about that insurrection. A texas man accused of taking part is now charged with threatening to kill democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez and a Capitol Police officer. So one question is this. How will this latest example of Donal