We put together a segment for you folks. Hope you enjoy it and find it entertaining and informational. A few moments with new York City Comptroller Eliot Spitzer. Take it away, eliot. Huge, enormous, massive, nuts, bigger, bigger, too big, thrust, it goes deeper than a that, a stick is a rhinoceros. I think hes on to something. Is that how were starting the show this morning . My god. It is wednesday wednesday, july 10th, as you look at an empty summertime square. With us on set Mike Barnicle, former Communications Director for george w. Bush and former Senior Adviser to mccain president ial campaign nicolle wallace, the former chair of the rnc Michael Steele and political analyst visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman from the great state of tennessee mr. Harold ford jr. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Joe and mika have the morning off. Start right there. Eliot spitzer on this program, nicole you were here, took some tough questions from joe and mika and from Mark H
Thats going to do it for me. Morning joe starts right now live from washington. Hey, good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its thursday, july 11th. You take a live look at capitol hill. You know its really, gene robinson, a picture that makes my heart swell with pride. You look at what those kids on the hill are doing every day. I know. The peoples business. I get it its like 1965 and lbj. One piece of legislation after another. Spitting it out. Its like an assembly line. Everywhere i go people are like rotator cuff americans are Walking Around with their chest pumped out. So proud of their congress. Obama running out of pens to sign. Hey, seriously somebody anyway with us on set, senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the the huffington post, sam stein. Also pulitzerprize winning columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. Columnist for Bloomberg View al hunt and Economic Policy reporter for the New York Timesp
So possible progress this morning in a Longterm Nuclear standoff. Iran in direct talks with the u. S. About scaling back its nuclear ambitions. Were live. It was awesome, there were people sprinting to go and see this fish. It was awesome. It is a rare 18foot sea monster discovered off the coast of california. How one snorkeler made the discovery of a lifetime. Everybody is excited. Thats one weird looking fish right there. I dont want to call it ugly because i dont want insult it. I dont think it cares. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. And im score ride za sambolin. Its wednesday, october 16th, and its 4 00 a. M. In the east. Were pretty much there, folks. Pretty much deadline day. Just a few hours to go before his country flies head first in the debt ceiling where the u. S. Begins to run out of money to pay its bills. This morning, all eyes were on the leaders of the senate to work out an additional deal. We pretty much know the parameters of this plan.
But are warning they could last for years. These are some of the first pictures on the ground in syria, after the air strikes. And residents say this town was hit by four rockets in the first day of the raids. And the u. S. Has stressed there was an international coalition. A top official with the joint chiefs of staff says the u. S. Has carried out most of the strikes. The Obama Administration says the air strikes are legal, under the iraq war authorization act of 2002. President obama is praising the five arab allies and promising that the countries will not let up on i. S. I. S. America is proud to stand shouldertoshoulder with these nations, on behalf of our common security. The strength of this coalition makes it clear to the world this is not americas fight alone. The overall effort will take time. There will be challenges ahead. Were going to do whats necessary to take the fight to this terrorist group. For the security of the country and the region, and for the entire world. We
Modern American History on the house floor. Democrats keeping the floor of the house to force a vote on new gun measures. The sitin organized by congressman john larson of connecticut and led by civil rights icon congressman john lewis began just before 11 30 yesterday morning and stretched on into the early morning. Around 2 30 last night, paul ryan opened a new legislative day complete with pledge of allegiance, then the house over the chants of democrats completed a weeks worth of business, adjourned and wont return until july 5th. That capped the dramatic day that began with a man who is no stranger to protest. Newtown. Charleston, orlando. What is the Tipping Point . Are we blind . Can we see . How many more mothers, how many more fathers need to shed tears of grief before we do something . We were elected to lead, mr. Speaker. We must be head lights and not taillights. We cannot continue to stick our heads in the sand and ignore the reality of mass gun violence in our nation. Jus