Without no funding the post office couldnt expand mailin voting. This as democrats kick off their convention. Senator Bernie Sanders and former first Lady Michelle obama. President trump is starting off his own counterprogramming in a swing state push today, this afternoon at the minneapolis airport, he walked off of air force one to Lee Greenwoods proud to be america. All of this to address a gathering there, you see it there live right now, hes delivering remarks on jobs and the economy in minnesota. Well keep an eye on that. Hes making another stop in wisconsin later tonight, hell head to arizona tomorrow and is expected to visit pennsylvania on friday. Even stopping in scranton, thats of course Vice President bidens hometown. Nbc news has learned that the Republican National committee has filed a permit for pyreworks at the washington monument. Thats scheduled for august 27th. New numbers showing that trump is ramping up those road trips, joe biden polling at or above 50 in at leas
So we have an election this year. I heard the music and that so we have an election this year, mika . Yes, we do. Do we really . Yes. 60 years in 60 seconds for you. The Democratic National Convention Kicks off today and because of the coronavirus, it will be unlike any of the Party Conventions weve seen to date. Wont look like any of those. Good morning and welcome to morning joe it is monday, august 17th. With us we have White House Reporter for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire wait. Jonathan, this is important. Jonathan, so the great thomas ricks who has a wonderful book coming out in a couple months said that what the Boston Red Sox are doing are nothing less than a remarkable experiment. He said they decided to elevate an entire triple a pitching staff to the major leagues at the same time, of course, tom is a little off. This is single a, double a pitching staff the red sox have sent up. But its just its beyond words how bad the pitching staff is. I dont know if you know thi
Whatever they say. You know what, you wont know it for months or for years because these ballots will all be losz, they will be gone. And to be clear, there is no evidence that an election held largely by mailin votes will be fraudulent and jake tapper reminkd td tr reminded the white house chief of staff of this this morning. There is no evidence of fraud. There is no evidence that there is not either. That is the definition of fraud. And chris continue homkristeg us. They are hanging on to the notion that mailin voting wont produce clear results. What is the reality and how are democrats working to koubtsd c drumbeat from the white house . Reporter well, i think that we need to break it down even further because basing this on viewer emails, i think there is confusion here. These are two separate things that all fall under the same umbrella. On one hand, you have this idea of widespread fraud in mailin voting. That is not true. There is no evidence of that. On the other hand, just be
Series champion. Is it time to start fitting them for the world series rings, despite the fact they have the secondtolast worst record in baseball . I can feel those september breezes coming. Going to push them over the finish line. Joe, every four years we come out of the conventions wondering which candidate emerges with the big mo, its the Boston Red Sox, this time, joe. Two straight wins against the nationals. The grounds crew clearing space for a banner, this october wondering which exred sox star will get the bigger ovation, at fenway park, there wont be any fans, mind you, but still go with us. This is it, this is a turning point. This is the impossible dream. Like secretary going down the final stretch of the belmont in 73. These red sox are coming on, two wins in a row. Speaking of momentum, i do think that perhaps the president may have been a bit enraged yesterday morning after getting the ratings from his final night, but also the polling out of abc news, the Washington Pos
This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im womlf blitzer in washington. This is a special edition of the situation room. We begin tonight with two big breaking stories. Right now, large swaths of the United States are burning. As dozens of wildfires, many of them simply out of control are raging across the west coast. In the meantime, the president this hour is headed to a rally in nevada, an area under air quality advisories due to smoke from the wildfires. Also tonight, the president s political appointees are being accused by a federal Health Official of trying to change the wording of key medical reports from the cdc to better line up with President Trumps messag g messaging, the morbidity and mortality weekly report. The cdcs primary publication for Public Health information and recommendations to the american public, its been around in some form since the 1870s. Check out the response from the trump appointee accused of pu