we appreciate it. stick around. we ll talk to you again in a few minutes on morning joe. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. to do something with 50 votes is rough. to do small things with 50 votes is rough. to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes, republican minority, a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin, wow. senate majority leader chuck schumer after the senate passed a sweeping climate health care and tax bill, putting democrats on the verge of another major win ahead of the midterms. republicans also scored a win for big pharma. we ll explain. donald trump s republican party gathered in dallas for cpac this weekend, where the big lie was on full display. along with an incredibly ridiculous guest and this is not the one i m talking about. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 8th. with joe and me, we have corresponde
Good morning and welcome to squawk alley. Carl and jocn have the week off. They will be back though joining us this morning as well, walter isaacson. Nice to have him this morning. And a lot to talk about. More red flags for facebook, twitter and other social flat forms. For example this time for former president barack obama in an interview with prince harry, obama warned against the irresponsible use of social media. Take a listen. The dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases the truth is that on the internet, everything is simplified and when you meet people facetoface, it turns out they are complicated. People are comply it ca llic apparently thats what we hear. Twitter and social media and facebook and Everything Else, the question is about regulatory in particular sort of come to mind, not to mention of course the meddling by the rush shacsin the election in 2016 and
Drier pattern for at least a couple of weeks in november and makes sense. This system increasing clouds throughout the day, then so much moisture in the air. I dont think it takes much. A seagull flapping its winds would give enough dynamics to probably give us rain. Upper 40s for a few. Menlo park is in there, stanford. Close for others. San mateo at 52. Theres our last system. A lot of this is lifting northward. Still enough there to swing in and give us rain by this evening. Not a lot, but enough that we have to mention it for the trick or treaters this evening. After tomorrow morning everything kicks out of here. 60s on the temps. 4 31on a monday morning. Sal. Steve, right now were off to a nice start, if you are driving lets say from Solano County and driving into the carquinez bridge area, traffic looks good. Fairfield and vallejo taking not that long to drive through the area. Doesnt look too bad here as you drive through the Cordelia Junction or to the carquinez bridge. Traffic
Gutting the environmental protections of the delta. This is another water war in california we do not need. What we need is some wise legislation that actually can solve the problem. Gutting the endangered species act, overriding the biological opinions, taking away the clean water act and simply turning the pumps on is not a solution. It is in fact the death nell of the delta. Knell of the delta. Along with governor browns tunnels, it will end the delta. Lets go the wife science with realtime monitoring of what is happening in the depellta is how we determine whether to ramp up or reduce the pumping in the delta. That is not in the bill. Take a look at the opponents. Weve got the two delta interests, mr. Mcnerney and myself, weve got the san juan queen valleys. This is not the way to hannle it. Not in an appropriation. Not in a bill that guts the environmental protections and simply turns the pumps on. I yield back. The chair the gentleman has yielded. How much time do i have left . T
Being able to hold any one any accountable. We do not believe that freddie gray killed himself. Four of the six officers have gone back to work. Scott, there is an administrative review hanging over all of the officers, that could lead to dismissals. Jeff pegues, thanks. A federal judge ruled John Hinckley jr. The man who shot president Ronald Reagan will be allowed to leave a Mental Hospital to live with his mother. Hinckley is now 61. The judge said his Mental Health improved dramatically. Now, more with chip reid. Reporter on march 30, 1981, John Hinckley attempted to assassinate president Ronald Reagan outside the washington hilton how tell. At the hospital, reagan told the surgeons he hoped they were republicans and told wife nancy, honey, i forgot to duck. In fact though it was far from funny. The bullet stopped less than an inch from his heart. Three others were also wounded. Including press secretary jim brady who sustained ate severe brain injury. Hinckley said he wanted to ki