americans with president biden declaring the mission a total success. we will explain how it was carried out, also, china is now threatening a military response over how nancy pelosi s expected visit to taiwan, the u.s. is warning beijing not to turn the trip into a crisis. we will go live to the white house to speak with john kirby. it is primary day across five states with major implications for abortion rights and election integrity. meanwhile donald trump stirring up confusion in missouri after an endorsement that has leading candidates in the senate primary both claiming the former pete president is supporting them. good morning and welcome to morning joe on tuesday, august 2. good to have everyone with us. good to have you with us. every september 11th for 20 years we have reflected either personally or on air about what was lost on that day, who was lost and you talk about people on the street, you talk about loved ones that you knew, it was deeply personal for me
steps to protest the holdup putting republicans on the defense as they struggle to explain their hesitation to get it passed, senator pat toomey faces the most pressure after he said he wants an amendment to make technical changes for accounting va funding. the chairman of the senate veterans affairs committee john tester told us the funding was not changed at all in the bill after a minor fix. let s bring in professor of history at tulane university walter isaacson. there has been, there has been a narrative in american politics. republicans are brilliant, they are the evil geniuses to borrow words from kurt anderson of american politics and democrats are just idiots who invite and
fit? i have no idea, other than trying to create beautiful attack advertisements for democrats in these districts where you can just have veterans talking about someone denied them care for those horrific conditions post burn pit. really it s that we have politicians who are so eager to send men and women to the war but they don t want to pay for the care they require in the aftermath. the long-term bill and the long- term effects of the wars. we heard from senator john tester that it is not true that the bill was changed between the first vote and now these republicans have changed their votes, clear to you and again to me there was one line taken out having nothing to do with the complaint from pat toomey and others.
is crazy, looking at the position republicans have put themselves in. . petulant, they have opposed veteran s health care to try to make some procedural point? so they are against veteran healthcare? and they also, as john pointed out, there are also against the united states being more competitive against china. that s the position that have taken over the last couple weeks because of petulance. the kid getting out maneuvered, they were outmaneuvered on the january 6th commission. they see they have made a colossal historic mistake, the keep getting out maneuvered. they might not be as good at the game as we give them credit
committee democratic senator john tester, republicans supported the bill first but they claim democrats forced them to oppose the bill by making changes and now it looks different. were there any changes made to the bill that would put republicans in this position? there was one sentence taken out saying that the va could buy out provider contracts, that s the only change, the only reason that was done is because it raised revenue so we had to strip it out. the bottom line, this is exactly the same bill we voted on june 16th passing with 84 votes and i cannot figure out why we passed this bill, give the benefits to folks and now we are taking it away two or three weeks later. these folks fought for our freedom and fought to keep us