in the next week ear or week or two. and early start returns now with the latest projections from now-tropical storm harvey. devastating scenes playing out across southeast texas as tens of thousands are stranded, waiting for rescue from harvey s wrath. the rain is not letting up just yet. we re live in texas ahead. president trump heads to texased to to survey the damage texas today to survey the damage. questions follow. did he really pardon a controversial sheriff to get more conk during the storm more coverage during the storm? north korea launches another missile. this one over japan. a serious escalation the prime minister says poses the most grave threat ever to japan. cnn is the only western news organization reporting live from north korea. we ll go there shortly. good morning and welcome to early start, everybody. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is tuesday, august 29th. it is 5:01 a.m. in the east.
today. north korea fires a ballistic missile through japanese airspace, and meanwhile, a top aide to donald trump admits he spoke with the future president three times about a bid to build a trump tower in moscow. it happened during the presidential campaign. the president, meanwhile, says he kept an eye on higher ratings when he pardoned joe arpaio, just as the hurricane hit, and millions of people were watching the coverage. we ll show you exactly what he said. it s hard to believe. good morning, everyone. it s tuesday, august 29th. welcome to morning joe. with us we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnacle, senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc mark halperin, former communications director for ted cruz s 2016 presidential campaign, now an msnbc political
already thousands of people have taken to shelters in houston and are starting to arrive in dallas. welcome back to morning joe. it is tuesday, august 29th. with us we have mark halperin, rick tyler, wes moore, jeremy peters, and julia ioffe. can we start with julia quickly? yes. i want to follow up on this. you look at donald trump. unable to just say the same thing that other people in the administration are saying, that mike pence says on the doorstep of russia, and and anybody who knows history. it s baffling, and he obviously puts himself in a position where he can t do anything to move russian and
escalation the prime minister says poses the most grave threat ever to japan. good morning and welcome to early start, i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. tuesday, august 29th. 4:00 in the east, 4:30 p.m. in pyongyang. we ll go there shortly. it is 3:00 a.m. in houston. that s where we start. desperation setting in for thousands on the texas gulf coast. still stranded by harvey. this with forecasters predicting there is much more rain still to come. a lot more to come. there have now been more than 6,000 rescues by houston police and the coast guard alone. that does not include many other agencies out there saving lives. and aside from agencies, just people, neighbors, friends out there in their boats helping people get to safety. officials say there are potentially tens of thousands more people trapped, awaiting rescue. the coast guard says it is getting upwards of 1,000 calls per hour.
excan i have executive spoke to moscow three times. and good morning, everyone. it s tuesday, august 29th. with us we have mike barnicle, mark halperin, now an msnbc political contributor, rick tyler and from usa today heidi pryzbyla. the russia story. i mean, rush just keeps moving forward. they keep saying there s nothing to it, it s dying and then you find out he s trying to build