and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. you want to sweep it under the rugment i don t want to talk about this any more than anyone else. when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. they were people that behaved badly on that day. i m not one of them. ms. abrams is going to lie about my record because she doesn t want to talk about her own. i don t have the luxury of being part of a good old boys club. debate night in ohio, utah, and georgia with the midterms exactly three weeks away, things are getting a little heated. steve kornacki is standing by at the big board. did you see that guy beforehand, he s going into the whole rage thing. out of hand. this guy s crazy. the state of the race, which is what we really want from him. republicans claim to care so much ab
to purchase tobacco in texas to 21. and in 2021, the texas legislature lowered the able to purchase guns to 18. this individual who killed 19 of our children a day ago was 18 when he went and purchased those weapons. and that s because the legislature lowered the age in the state of texas. and so if we don t stand up for our kids, it happened in uvalde, but these are our children. if we don t protect them, who will? and the legislature passed house bill 1927, talking about the texas legislature, that now permits permitless carry. no training. no license. no permit required. lowered the age by which people can purchase assault weapons to 18, and now 19 of our babies are gone. and families will be hurting for the rest of their lives. i applaud what beto o rourke did. the time to be nuanced is over, okay? and you can t not allow policymakers, legislatures, governors to pass bills that promote the use of guns and then when people are killed say we are praying and we are offer our
americano a close, an soldier sat down at a piano and composed a song it was designed to be part of a musical review for his army camp. god blesss america. the composer of course was irving berlin, who came here at the age of five, son of immigrants who came to this country for freedom. to do,sers are wont he worked very carefully with the lyrics. the song needed to be pure. it needed to be above politics, partisanship. he wanted it to be a song for but it was more than just a song. it was to be a prayer for the country. as you are very distinguished done in hiss prayers on these long days that you have spent as judges in the high court of impeachment, we have been reminded of what our country is all about and that it stands for one nation under god. the nation is about freedom. we hear the voice of martin luther king jr. and his dream filled speech about freedom echoing the great passages inscribed on america s temple of justice, the lincoln memorial, which stood behind
thank you mr. chief justice, majority leader mcconnell, democratic leader schumer, senators, thank you very much on behalf of all of us for your continued attention. today we areom going to complete our argument and finish her closing argument. we will complete that in a very efficient. of time, you understand the arguments that we have been making. at the end of the day, the key conclusion we believe the onlyco conclusion based on the evidence and based on the articles of impeachment memselves in the constitution, is that you must vote to acquit the president. at the end of the day, this is an effort to overturn the results of one election and to try to interfere in the coming election that begins today in iowa. and we believe that the only proper results, if we are applying the golden rule of a peach meant, if we are implying the rules of impeachment that were so eloquently stated by members of the democratic party the last time we were here. the only of robert result her
Flake opened his speech saying he wished to speak that day on the state of disunion. Websteresqst daniel ue at first. He said that democratic norms and ideals were undergoing a daily thundering. The healerne, lincoln, the lincoln who appealed to the better angels of our nature. That same lincoln had taken, at that time, a firm stance against slavery and was making plans against fort sumter. He was not compromising. Weve come here today and tomorrow to figure out compromises. Or not. Loyalty tohether state is more important to loyalty to country or not. Reporters ny these last few months have been the gift that give that keeps on giving to historians whether we wanted it or not. Asked, what would you say to general kelly if you talked to him . Have you ever been to gettysburg, have you ever read the gettysburg address . Just pointing that out. War, ande of the civil , theresr secession commentary ample from so many people. Jefferson davis gave a speech in late april to the Confederate C