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
Starr hopkins. Followed by commentator Armstrong Williams. And john dicken talked about infections in Nursing Homes. Washington journal is next. Join the discussion. Host one week ago today, africanamerican george floyd died at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. Protests, civil unrest, and violence and reaction to that expanded to some 75 u. S. Cities, building to a crescendo over the weekend. Good morning, and welcome to washington journal for this monday, june 1, 2020. Well start the hour asking you this hour about the president s leadership in response to the unrest, the president largely communicating, commenting on the issue saturday, some at nasa, and largely leaving his response to twitter. What are your thoughts . Republicans, use 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. And independents, all others, 2027488002. You can also send us a text, that line is 2027488003. And make sure that you leave us your name, tell us where youre texting from. cspanwj. , were, your comments welcome on
This is about two hours. Hola. You certainly know who i am. There are some very special guests backstage and we are livestreaming this all across the country. I will take a moment to introduce myself. I am a six great teacher from utah. E teacher from utah. [applause] coincidentally, president of this nations Largest Labor union, the National Educational [applause] represent over 3 million compassionate, caring professional educators. We have about 3 million in this room right now. What we have to say about the needs of Public School students and their families and their communities should be important to elected officials who will make the decisions that we all have to live with, that our students have to live with. That is why we have come here together on this very special red for ed day. Red for ed. It is all about the voice of educators and our responsibility to protect our students and the integrity of our profession. Red for ed is a movement that has spread across our great nati
Earned it at this point. Thats right. We will keep the humidity level somewhat on the low side. Waking to good hair day thats right. Extra hair gel in case. Looking good. Looking pretty good today some clouds around early this morning, but dont worry well break out to sunshine in the afternoon. It does warm up progressing through the second half of the weekends. Not whole lot happening clouds over philadelphia, dry conditions right now little bit of different story the farther south and east you go. Going over to storm scan3, you can see little disturbance trying to bring few light rain showers, south of wilmington, delaware, through dover. They may clip extreme southern new jersey, into Salem Cumberland and Cape May County over the next hour or two. Then we clear the clouds up and back to mostly sunny skies. So good midmorning shaping up across the region. There are the temperatures, 74 in philadelphia, everyone else still in the 60s, dover at 72 degrees comfortable 60 at this hour up
Up to see a nice morning. And we will check out the temperatures right now across the region, generally in the 60s, north and west of the city, to lower 70s here in philadelphia. Same deal in south jersey, so, looking okay. And the suburbs, same story pottstown, doylestown, both coming in 65 degrees, this hour quakertown you guys also in the mid 60s. I mention humidity on the low side to gauge it, look at the dew point temperature and 50s yes almost unheard of in july. Enjoy. That will typically we see upper 60s to around 70. So it indicates dry air mass, so good hair day for nicole, no problems there. Heres what to expect through the morning hours, few clouds early, gives way to mostly sunny skies by lunchtime, low 80s, will be warm afternoon highs in the upper 80s for philadelphia, at the shore again, could be sprinkle early this morning temperature there low 80s and looks great if the poconos high of 80 degrees well talk about next chance for storms in the seven day coming up in a f