could pbe affected. good tuesday morning, everybody, i m yasmin vassoughiaan alongside ayman mohyeldin. the associated press writing the is. the president has w inflamed racial tensions betting such divisions will help ease his path to victory in 2020 and he replaced gut instincts for the silver analysis for professio l professionals on matters of war and atpeace. and unconstrained trump 15 mons from the election, few have stepped up to challenge a president emboldened by the conclusion of the russia probe and divided democratic congress. themo temptations for trump are only set to increase this week before two nights of democratic
private health insurance. so, obviously, we have this debate for the next two nights. everybody is going to be watching very closely, considering what took place in the last debate. is joe biden going to be enemy number one on the debate stage despite the fact he is appearing on the debate stage and one of the big issues and the big superstars that are going to emerge out of all of this. who are you going to be watching for, niall? i think tonight bernie sanders has to have a good debate because he is really at risk of being eclipsed by elizabeth warren on the left and tomorrow night joe biden has to reassure his supporters having a weak performance in miami about a month ago and finally a whole lot of candidates here, yasmin, who need to do something if their campaigns are not. there are people who we may not see again on the debate stage if they don t make some kind of impact tonight or tomorrow night. people like amy klobuchar hasn t
morning. i m yasmin vossoughian with ayman mohyeldin. morning joe starts now. mitch mcconnell who is a smart guy, he wanted no part of having a bipartisan commitment that we would say essentially russia s doing this, stop. bipartisan. they would have no part of it. that to me hanging around that body up there for a longer than any of you were around doing it meant to me that the die had been cast here. this was all about the political play. that is not just a political candidate speaking there it s the former vice president of the united states last year with the council on foreign relations. we ll get to that story in a moment. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, july 30th. joe is under the weather. but along with willie and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc and author of the red and the blue