Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Thats 1,754 votes ahead in a sdlact h district that has been in gop hands for three decades. The official outcome way not be known until other ballots are tallied and the race could be headed to a recount if the k candidates end up within 1 of each other once the votes are certified. This morning, balderson is claiming victory. Oconnor has not conceded. Regardless, well see a rematch when they compete for full term in congress. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, august 8th. With joe, willie and me, we have Associate Editor of Commentary Magazine noah raufman. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst Steve Rattner and National Political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc news, is he still away, Steve Kornacki. But you see this same thing happening. Theyre bleeding. Republicans are bleeding so badly right now in suburbs, and then
Good morning, everyone. Im sandra smith. Ed releasing a written statement before a tv interview last hour. He denied sexually assaulting tara reade back in 1993 when he was a senator. The response came after biden faced growing pressure within his own party to personally respond to these allegations. Heres more from the former Vice President s interview a short time ago. To the best of my knowledge, theres been no complaints made against me and my senate term. Its just an open book. Theres nothing for me to hide. Nothing at all. Sandra peter doocy has more from arlington, virginia, for us this morning. Good morning, sandra. Joe biden repeatedly said he does not remember any kind of a complaint tara reade may have made about him or against him 27 years ago. He said he has not reached out to her since she decided to go public with the allegation about him and he argues he is not treating her differently than he treated Brett Kavanaughs accuser. Why is it real for dr. Ford but not for tar
My condolences to those 80,000 members who lost letheir lives d a shoutout to healthcare workers who put their own health in danger in order to provide services to our citizens. Dr. Bright, my understanding in 2017 barta funded a project in albuquerque that can be used in the Public Health of emergency such as what we are going through today. None of these next generation respiratories were available to us today, do you have any idea . I have no idea. You are talking about the ventilators . Yes, those that can be sanitized and reused. It was contracted and that project was scrapped. I am not floor with that project. We had a lot of discussion with hydroxychloroquine. I am confused here because as my understanding that this is barta, barta and the role of barta and the mission of barta to look at things like this. When we in congress appropriate and allocate money to go towards this that you were supposed to be looking and barta is supposed to be looking at things that have merit such a
From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with david gregory. Lets show you a live shot of Emory University hospital in atlanta where kent brantley, walked into the hospital of his own accord with the assistance of another medical worker. He arrived on a specifically equipped plane after contracting the deadly disease while working in liberia. President obama weighed in on friday saying the u. S. Is taking the outbreak of the disease, quote, very seriously. Our chief medical editor dr. Nancy snyderman has the very latest on the crisis and how the u. S. Government plans to respond. Good morning. Good morning. The cdc is now issuing an order for 50 people, disease detectives if you will to be deployed to west africa to try to start to get this epidemic, this outbreak of ebola under control. But in the meantime, they were also at the epicenter of an extraordinary operation. That required the coordination of the state department, cdc, white house, fbi, the doctors and nurses at e
Sorry about that. Its all over the place here. My point is this. Thats fine. Remember what i told you about we have a lot of time here to get into a lot of issues. Somethin tells me when a Republican Former president was getting big speech money like lets go back in time a little bit here, Ronald Reagan and he had similar big paydays, in fact, even bigger paydays with several speeches in japan that was all over everything and everyone across the globe. Whats the difference here . Again, republican president , democratic president. A republican president who the media kind of had a problem with, no matter his success. A democratic president with whom it has no problem long after he has left office. Shall we say odd . Ironically so when Charlie Gasparino broke this story, now, thats not to say the entire Mainstream Media let that out. Lets just say most of them i think because charlie beat them to it. But i also think because of the subject of that story. Charlie, first of all, update us