not every republican is a maga republican. maga republicans, the extreme right and trumpys. if this is how they have to motivate their base, we are in for dark, dark days. [cheers] it s my time. why not me for the breakthrough at the u.s. open. i m back back in the n new new york nek groove. we hope you had a wonderful weekend. thanks for waking up with us. a little rainy out there. 57 degrees today. summer is not officially over until september 21st. brian: no, today. ainsley: everyone goes back to school up here in the northeast today usually. steve: they do. if you are sending your kids off to school today, good morning, we will start you for the new school season. it feels like back to school here on the set though because do you know who is back? ed is back. ed has been gone for a little while. carley: ed, i haven t seen him this morning he is back? where is ed back there, brian? steve: he is downstairs. carley: ever so glad you are back. he had hea
Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its thursday, august 2nd. And what a way to start the day. What a way. So, is it the official policy of the president or not . I think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. He was just venting. Just like a baseball game. When hes actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. Or Obstruction Of Justice. As brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. Talk about fake news. You talk about deep state conspiracies. You fire prosecutors and you have a were
brian: ramada inn, the hilton. thank you very much you are our seventh caller you get a stay at the hard rock. does the hard rock have a hotel? steve: they do in this block. brian: access to the mini bar. ainsley: they we are staying in one when we go down to the patriot award. steve: these migrants being sent to new york and to washington, d.c. and to chicago. and chicago is only received a couple of bus loads of migrants and, yet, over the weekend, sunday, by the. brian: by the way look at the crackdowns on the illegal making sure how we don t shake my hand and come to my city. we paid our tax dollars, you don t have to pay anything. we will supply everything for you. steve: federal government has already given every one of them a document that allows them to travel freely. brian: bus ride. steve: a lot of migrants are going to new york as you can see to d.c. even more. a handful of busses to chicago. brian: welcome. steve: where over the weekend
(avo) beneful select 10. 10 ingredients. 1 thoughtful recipe. all right, welcome back to morning joe. it s thursday, august 2nd, still with us, mike barnicle, former fbi special agent and msnbc contributor clint watts, jonathan lemire, heidi przybilla, joining us he needs self-awareness, he walks in and takes over the set and throwing papers around, new york times reporter jeremy peters, and also with us former justice department spokesman, now an msnbc justice and security analyst, matt miller. by the way, little tommy submit from schenectady, new york, was our seventh caller, mike, rice-a-roni the san francisco treat and going to be eating a lot of rice-a-roni. good for him. how did he do it? i don t know. student of history.