circle. and i didn t do it, be if it did happen, there s nothing to be ashamed after. that was a short lived defense. to a report that he paid for a former girlfriend s abortion. we re going to go through his evolving denials on that developing story. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, october 7th. we have pulitzer prize winning columnist from the washington post, eugene robinson. ed luce is with us. officer at princeton university, eddie glaude jr., and jonathan lemire is with us this morning. mika, we were going to get into the news i just saw ed there. i saw a little smirk on ed s face. and i just have to talk about it. you know, ed, we have an expression, we ve always had an expression when people have congratulated me for anything i ve done, i go, well, i m the tallest building in schenectady. your headline, i love this, america is history s most successful failing state, i would define what you re describing here, i m an upstate new york guy
it s graduation season here. there are big photos of local graduates, on local science outside of city hall, outside of businesses. driving down main street in uvalde, texas, you wouldn t know something so terrible s happened just blocks away. two blocks away, life looks as a normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and to teachers it s robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, mu
two blocks away, life looks as it normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and two teachers at robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, murdered with their teachers. let me bring you up to speed with what we know at this point about how this massacre unfolded, as well as some of the things that we don t yet now. this is the series of events laid out for us by texas law enforcemen
policy requiring the school to disclose a student s gender identity without their permission put students in danger by outing them to their own parents. i refuse to stand by and allow chino valley or any district board of education to put our children at risk or infringe upon their rights. especially not one of our most vulnerable at-risk groups. they wageed a war on parents saying we do not want you, the parents, to be involved in your children s life. chino valley is 1 of 3 california cal districts that require a school to notify parents within writing in three days if they become aware a student a using a name or pronoun or changing the bathroom that does not match the biological sex. i think the plan to fight back is just to stand our ground. we won t cave into their bullying tactic. the political cartel of newsom
drive by shooting. police say six shots were fired from a moving vehicle while the child was playing outside. a stray bullet striking him in the chest. family members remember him as a playful kid with an infectious smile. he was just two weeks shy of his tenth birthday. a person of interest has been taken into custody. the secret service will reportedly brief congressional staff on thursday morning on the cocaine found at the white house. that is according to spectrum news citing house oversight committee james comer s team is demanding answers after the discovery of the drugs white house triggered an evacuation. the university of cincinnati reversing its decision to reprimand this gender studies professor who gave a student a zero on a project for using the term biological woman. the student who got the failing grade says this: typically i m a straight a student to see that i just failed an assignment was very, very shocking to me so i had emailed the professor to try to