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