The special primetime hour of morning joe with two days until the midterm elections. Early voting has already started, and now it is a final sprint to the finish. Trying to take control of the house and senate, and the future of president agendas. The issues that are driving the vote, it abortion, crime, how much power trump republicans still wield over the gop. In many ways, democracy itself is on the ballot with Election Deniers in multiple states poised to could take control over the next president ial race is being determined. Were digging into all of it with reports from key battlegrounds with an allstar political panel. Along with joe, lori, and me, we have Nbc News National Correspondent and Executive Editor of the weekend. John heilemann, he is cohost of showtime, former u. S. Senator now on nbc news and msnbc news political analyst. Claire mccaskill, the host of the msnbc of politicsnation, and president at the National Action network. And former White House Press secretary je
And it really, again, undermined the conference and the institution. Unfortunately, these eight individuals torpedoed the conference, took out our best player on the field, if you will, and created a constitutional crisis. Thats republican Congressman Mike Whauler of new york state criticizing the members of his own party who voted to remove Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. Well bring you the very latest from capitol hill on the candidates who could replace him. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is trying to reassure allies that the chaos in the house wont affect our nations support for ukraine. Well tell you what the white house is planning. And also ahead yet another tantrum from donald trump outside the courtroom in his Civil Fraud Trial. This one prompts a response from new York Attorney general letitia james. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, october 5th. Im jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the race to become
Democrats. You think of it as a purely democrat area. Its a very unfair situation. Donald trump may have violated the gag order in his Hush Money Trial yet again yesterday during a radio interview, complaining about the jury. Well get expert legal analysis on that. And yesterdays Opening Statements and first witness. Plus, well go through the newly unsealed transcripts in the classified Documents Case which shows a former white house staffer tried to warn trump about the legal issues he could face. You know, if he stole classified documents. And its another day where trump is in court and President Biden is on the Campaign Trail. This time in trumps home state. Well preview the president s speech in tampa, florida. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, april 23rd. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. And Deputy Managing Editor for politics at politico, sam stein. Doing a little Way Too Early duty this morning. Of co
And make this the summer of style. Amid new u. S. Air strikes in iraq, confirmation this morning the cia is arming kurdish fighters. The conflict juxtaposes a new ceasefire in the region between israel and hamas. Well go live to the middle east. Back at home, a democratic divide in hawaii as the incumbent governor gets ousted by over 30 points and the Senate Standoff is too close to call in a primary haunted by a late senators legacy. Also this morning, were marking 40 years since an unprecedented week in American History when Richard Nixon resigned and the presidency passed to someone elected by one House District in michigan. Good morning from washington, its monday, august 11th, 2014. This is the daily rundown. Im luke russert in for the great chuck todd. We start with the u. S. Role on a battlefield americans thought they had left behind. U. S. Officials now tell nbc news that the cia is directly arming Kurdish Forces battling isis fighters in northern iraq. Up until now, the u. S.
Were going to start with terrorism. You can see why secretary of state john kerry described yesterdays attacks in turkey as daily fair. A jarring phrase to hear yesterday but its true. Right now it feels like the new normal. Were less than three weeks from the start of the conventions. Can the public really accept the idea that this idea of terrorism is a new normal . Were going to dive into that in just a moment. First, we want to get the latest from istanbul. Some images were going to show you are graphic in nature. Youre being warned. If you want to have people look away, look away. This is new video in the immediate aftermath of last nights deadly attacks. At Ataturk International airport. The death toll stands at 41 according to turkish officials with hundreds injured. Still no official claims of responsibility. Officials in both turkey and the United States believe its highly likely the work of isis. Were getting new warnings from u. S. Intelligence officials as well. Cia directo