Edition of Morning Joe. We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. Were on tape this morning bringing you some of our best discussion from the past two months, and we start today with our conversation the morning after Kamala Harris accepted her Partys Nomination for president on the Last Night of the dnc in chicago. Willie, you obviously are in chicago. Describe the scene if you will, because it is awfully hard you know, debates, ive heard one journalist after another say never try to judge how a debate turned out, president ial debate, when you are in the room. It is quite the opposite at a convention. You could walk into a convention, you can be watching it from you know, you had the Bob Uker seats which are usually the best seats to stand in, take it all in and say, okay, what is the state of this party. What is your answer to that . Youre right. John and i sat in section 315 Last Night eating those blackhawks and bulls nachos. Yummy. A pretzel with no salt. We really had the
very busy tuesday morning. right now president biden is facing questions over how he handled classified documents when he was vice president. his attorneys found those documents from his time as vp in a private office and we should note turned them over immediately to the national archives. attorney general merrick garland calling on a u.s. attorney to now investigate any potential damage. we will discuss the impact and also how this case differs from former president trump s handling of classified documents. all this as the president wakes up this morning in mexico. immigration of course a top priority as cnn learns new details about the president s plan now to curb the surge at the southern border. plus evacuations under way in several parts of california as deadly storms slam the state. intense flooding leading to mudslides, power outages. check out this scene. this is in santa clarita. first responders you see there rescuing people from submerged cars. as this have mo
nightmare is unfolding in buffalo, new york , after days of blistering cold weather in nearly fifty two inches of snow ,dozens are now dead. thousands are without power. new york s governor referred to driving conditions as a war zone. police, national guard are going door to door, plowing their way through the snow to perform welfare checks. and the death toll in western new york is expected to rise. meanwhile, thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed, especially on southwest airlines. which is stranded americans and their luggage all over the country in what is being described as a colossal failure at every level. here now with a full report. fox wethers, katie, burne, katy . some southwest fliers never made it home for the holidays. many of them are still stranded tonight. and for those who gave up on flying altogether, they decided to drive home instead. now they re showing up to airports like this, looking for their luggage and being told they won t be seein
good evening,. alex through the conversation, then you are having with david floofy. i like when i get a laugh. the idea that you just said, we re going to have a speaker and odds are the person will probably be a republican. that s where we are. i want to cover our bases, the fact that that s even a possibility, that it might not be somebody from kevin mccarthy s party tells you where we re at. thank you, my friend. thank you to all of you at home for joining us this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. and that appears to be exactly where we are right now. in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of time
good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you to all of us joining us at this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. that appears to be exactly where we are right now in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of times that he has failed to win the speakers gavel up to 11. that s the most failed elections for speaker and any congress and over 100 years. surpassing the nine attempts it took to elect a speaker all the way back in the year 1923. throughout those failed votes, kevin mccarthy hasn t picked up one sin