good day to all good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with the fallout from the first presidential debate. the atlanta journal editors board now calling on president biden two, quote, pass the torch, while the philadelphia inquirer■ç editorial board says trump should leave the race. today, president biden is at camp david for some previously scheduled family time. nbc news is reporting the future of his election campaign will be a new item of discussion on the family agenda. surrogates for both candidates debating the performance of both debaters. you also have to look at what donald trump was able to do. he showed commands of the facts. he was funny, he was engaging, he was pushing back a little bit, but he was doing it with a good-natured demeanor. donald trump lied the entire 90 minutes. one analysis said that he told about 30 lies. i am not real good at math, that i think that s about a lie eve
it best. i will remember being on sets like this in 2012 after the first debate that he conducted. he s had bad debates happen and they do happen. good debates happen. as the president said maybe he isn t as great a debater he used to be. i would tend to say it wasn t his greatest debate. it is 90 minutes. in a campaign and in an administration where he has achieved enormous things maybe it wasn t a great debate that he has been a great president. fellow democrats voicing their support for the damage also deserve scrutiny. let s be crystal clear donald trump is a liar and lied over and over in that debate. president biden told the truth, he was honest, he showed the kind of man he is, he took on donald trump on the issues he needed to take him on and i am proud of our president. both candidates hit the campaign trail friday delivering these messages to voters. we are in a battle for the soul of america. i look around at the pride, hope and light that all of you, all
this evening president biden and his allies including former president trump, including former president obama, are trying to reassure support after our disappointing performance at the first presidential debate on thursday night. the democratic party officials, some members of the biden campaign this afternoon discussed the situation. we have the dnc chair standing by to talk about this. all of this after president biden struggled on stage with an ■çapparent cold. it was his opponent, fromer president donald trump who did battle with the truth. make no mistake, we will be talking about the debate over president biden s age on the program tonight but we will also not lose sight of the egregious lies told by his opponent, fromer president donald trump and his deeply troubling proposals. nor will we ignore the actions taken this week by his ultraconservative supreme court, criminalizing homelessness and putting our personal safety, the environment, and even our democracy a
democrats panic is muzzled if poll numbers stay. there are big events, including donald trump s sentencing coming up shortly. john heilemann, we ll talk again in a little bit on morning joe. thanks for getting up way too early on this friday morning from atlanta. morning joe starts right now. i ll fix the taxes. we have a thousand trillionaires in america, i mean billionaires. what s happening? they, in fact, pay 8.2% taxes. if they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers, they ve raised $500 million billion dollars, i should say, in a ten-year period. wipe out the debt. we can help make sure all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i ve been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do look, if we finally beat medicare after you rallied your supporters that da
on donald trump s verdict. exclusive reporting on how u.s. officials are bracing for north korea to drop and october surprise, possibly at the urging of vladimir putin. two the day after the verdict of donald trump s trial, president biden weighed in and no one was above the law was reaffirmed. that democratic doctrine that the law applies to everyone withstood the first criminal trial of an american president. the days that followed the closing, experts are opined. the system did work. and also according to donald trump, ordered it rigged while leaving the courthouse on thursday in a rambling 33 minute press conference at the trump tower. in a statement, elise stafanik said that today s verdict shows how corrupt and rigged the american justice system has become under joe biden. june jordan called the verdict a try just the charges see. it s easy to dismiss these comments, attempts to delegitimize the jury s decision. it has taken a body blow by donald trump and his syc