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Transcripts For MSNBC Morning Joe 20240919

I got it approved. Ronald Reagan Couldnt do it and nobody could do it. I got to done. In their first week, they terminated it. Check that one out, bagram. Check it out, willie. You got your Google Machine . Bagram, alaska. I hear there is some of the best Moose Hunting in all of the world in bagram. Imagine if Joe Biden or wait a second. 24 7. Bagram left. That would be bagram, alaska, bagram, afghanistan to the right. No. I think he may have confused alaska and afghanistan. Not a slip of the tongue either. He said it five or six times, gwynne, closed with check it, google it, find it, look it up, take it to the bank. One thing he is right, though. Rodney reagan did nothing about bagram so that part of it is true. Thank god. Thank god he is so much better than every other president ever he says except for The Other 45. That was a Campaign Event in Michigan Last Night where he repeatedly confused alaskas arctic national Wildlife Refuge known as anwar with bagram Military Base in afghanistan. It happens. It happens. Hey. You know, front page of The Times today, a couple of fascinating stories, willie. We will be talking soon about this. But man. The massad using pagers. Oh, my gosh. And pagers to have simultaneous explosions all across israeli. I mean, all across lebanon with hezbollah terrorists who have been raining missiles down on israeli now for months, months after months there. Then we also will be talking about we have talked about this issue an awful lot but, willie, instagram making some pretty significant changes, Child Safety changes in their app which, of course, is something so many americans, so many parents have been concerned about for so long. A long time coming for a lot of people, especially if you have kids between 10 and teenagers and making changes people have been pleading for a long too many and see if it makes a difference. The other story we will dig in to deeply, a report from israeli. A stunning attack by massad. It appears they are not taking credit for it but it seems pretty clear it was israeli to blow up thousands of pagers. If you read into the details of this, we will get into it, it wasnt something that happened yesterday. It was something that happened along the Supply Chain of when these pagers were made and then purchased by members of hezbollah. Just extraordinary and we will get into the details of that as well. Tell me about the Culture Significant Of Diddy and for those like me who may not be as wellversed in his place in music history. P. Diddy. First of all, the details laid out in this indictment turn your stomach is appalling what he is accused of having done over almost two decades, but, yeah. Bad Boy Entertainment, bad boy records. His partnership with Biggie Smalls early on in their career before Biggie Smalls was killed was a Turning Point in Hiphop Music in mainstreaming Hiphop Music along with jayz. They came up pretty much the same time in new York City. Diddy was a wrapper, a producer, a ceo. He sort of expanded the idea, along with jayz of being more than just an artist, controlling your own business, controlling your own empire. But along the way, it appears, according to this indictment, he has pleaded not guilty, is still in jail and given no bail and in federal prison, sexual Abuse And Trafficking and really appalling details in that indictment. Looks like he faces life in prison if convicted. No bail. He could be inside prison for the rest of his life. We will have much more on that straight ahead. Along with joe, willy and me. We have the host of way too early, white House Bureau Chief at politico, jonathan lemire. Msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle is with you also as well. Our top story this hour is another moment from that Trump Event in flint, michigan, to show you. This is arkansas Governor Sarah Hukaby sanders taking a swipe at Vice President Kamala Harris for not having her own biological children. Not only do my kids serve as an reminder what is important and keep me humble. You can walk into a room like this and people cheer when you walk on stage and you might think youre kind of special. You go home and your kids remind you very quickly that youre not that big of a deal. Ours are pretty good at it. So my kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesnt have anything keeping her humble. Whoa what is there obsession with women without children of their biological connection. Kamala harris is a stepmother of two children with her husband Doug Emhoff, Cole And Ella emhoff they consider her as much of a mother as their own. Their biological Mother Kerstin emhoff wrote, quote. What is this exception . Its cruelty. Really. You know youre turning off an entire population of people so they just dont want those voters. They are playing for a very small subset that relishing the cruelty. First of all, its adding sarah Huckabee Sanders still cant pronounce Kamala Harriss name correctly. You want to make them The Other . Continue to mispronounce their name that everybody seems to do on fox better when they know better. Its kamala. I will talk to republicans who will say kamalla. Why do you mispronounce her name to make cher seem like The Other . So he is starts there, kamaula doesnt have her own children. Its to be hateful. They do this to be hateful because they know the truth. They have heard dougs Childrens Mom say time and time again that they are all part of a blended family. Not everybody i guess is perfect like sarah Huckabee Sanders and Donald Trump and maybe j. D. Vance are perfect in this respect. A lot of us stumble through life. A lot of us have blended families. A lot of us figure out how to make blended families work. But ive just got to say politically, there are a lot more people who may have blended families, a lot more people who understand what Kamala Harris and doug are doing. There are a lot more people who understand. You know, again, blended families. Than people who are just selfrighteous and mean and hateful and it goes back. They keep playing in Tim Walzs hands where he says in minnesota the Golden Rule is mind your own damn business. They dont win any points here. They make independents and others say, ew. Why are they so hateful and attacking a woman because she doesnt have any biological children . There are quite a few out there and its not a sin against god or humanity. We have lived in this strange era the last decade or so when Donald Trump came out of the scene where you earn points for being mean and other words we have used off the air, for being a jerk. That is the virtue in and of itself. She got laughs and cheers in that arena among hardcore Donald Trump supporters. Outside people say women dont have children by their own choice in many cases and in many cases a life they have chosen for themselves. Stay out of it. None of your business. I think what you think about the politics for Kamala Harris has done pretty damn well in her life. Its a change for people who talk about their christianity and judging people with one particular moment and get an Applause Line from people inside a trump rally. I think it strikes a lot of people that its so small. Yeah. It makes them so small. Never mind the fact if you ask any american, give me the top ten issues on your Mind Today that youre dealing with in terms of your family or your job or your issues politically, what are the top ten issues . I doubt whether the fact the Vice President s Family Situation would be one of them. People dont care about that. But, again, to joes point, i mean, there is a lot of blended families in this country and to your point, the fact that she has no children by birth is meaningless because she is a mother. She does take care of children in that blended family. She is like of other women in this country, a lot of other families in this country. But it is just so small of an approach. It really is. Mika, i want to hold up the Wall Street Journal. First of all, look at that incredible super moon. It jumps out at you over osaka japan, is supposededly one of the biggest and brightest this year. Over here, though, really the lead Story Today, the Exploding Pagers Killing Nine and hurting thousands in lebanon. I must say, you know, massad, if you look at what happened here and look what happened in iran with the bombing there and the killing of a leader of hamas, it seems that massad can do what they want to do when they want to do it and where they want to do it, which leads to the question why on October 7th . It makes that question even bigger. Why October 7th . Do they know an attack coming for a year had all of the Warning Signs and did nothing . And still havent explained it. And still havent explained it. Never a good time. Kicker here is b. B. Netanyahus rabid cabinet are now trying to get rid of the defense minister. You see, this has been an ongoing fight between secular jews that are running the defense in intel agencies or have since 1948. And extremists who really dont care about the military but are always undermining, always trying to undermine those in the Military And Intel community and lifting up bebe netanyahu. While this is still going on, they are still trying to get rid of the competent leaders inside of netanyahus cabinet, instead of going after the guy who was responsible for hamas funding, its growth, its illicit collection of funds, On And On And on. The precision of magnitude on these steaks. An unprecedented attack that involves blowing up hundreds of pagers across lebanon. Nbc news interNational Correspondent has the details. Reporter explosions like this across lebanon as the hezbollah Militant Group says hundreds of pagers belonging to its members detonated simultaneously, calling it a massive coordinated attack and blaming israeli. Look again. The explosion injures the man with the pager but causes almost no damage around him. Lebanon says almost 3,000 people were wounded, including the iranian ambassador and at least nine killed. Among them, several children. Iranianbacked hezbollah uses pagers avoid israeli Surveillance And Israeli refusing to say whether it was behind an unprecedented Intelligence Operation. Have you ever seen anything on this scale before . No. No, i havent. It really is remarkable sort of milestone in the Intelligence Security activity. Reporter hours earlier, israeli said it foiled a Hezbollah Assassination Plot using a land mine. The latest escalation in a conflict many fear are spiraling to an allout war. This morning the New York times is reporting that israeli was behind the operation. American official said that israeli had planted explosives in pagers. Israeli has not commented on the incident. Joining us is Columnist And Associate editor for the Washington Post David ignatius who is writing about this this morning. And retired Cia Operator Mark who is a intelligence analyst. Mark, can we talk about the practical questions how israeli, how massad pulled this off getting into the Supply Chain. What else do you know about that . Willie, this is massad has given us a Master Class on covert actions. My 26 years in cia i was involved in operations like this and never seen anything in terms of the exquisite nature of an operation like this in the lethal and Supply Chain aspect of it. This gives the notion that israeli has restored its deterrence and what did they do here . Well, hezbollah had switched their communications methods. You know . They believed the israelis would be able to intercept Cell Phones so they moved back to pagers. Think with a wire, the great Tv Show taking place in baltimore. Israeli took a look at how hezbollah was going to, in essence, import these pagers and got into the middle of the streak. We dont know how. Israeli was an enormous scale, thousands of pagers able to implant explosives and come up with a means to detonate them via a page. Its an Intelligence Operation for the ages and i think it restores the capability of instilling fear in its adversaries. In many ways, massad is back now. They are actually showing almost total domination of hezbollah in the intelligence sphere. The message from israeli, we can find you and get to you wherever you are, including on your hip. So, david, youre writing this morning in a piece that is headlined the ominous implications of the Pager Attack against hezbollah. Willie, i wrote that this operation is like an Incredible James Bond thriller. Hundreds of pagers exploding at the same moment across lebanOn And destroying communications network. One problem is that hezbollah gets to write the next chapter by determining how it responds. U. S. Officials believe that hezbollah is confused by what has happened, panicking. Everywhere around the fighters, people are dying because of the Communications Devices that they were carrying. But, at some point, israelis believe they are likely to retaliate and the question is whether israel can recontain that retaliation like in the most recent incident of Cross Border Fire where they sent their Air Force to take out Hezbollah Rocket positions before they got started. Will they be able to do that again . If not, there is the fear we have all been worrying about for nearly a year now since October 7th, that this conflict could explode in to something much bigger. A devastating war across the border between Israeli And Lebanon which would lead israeli cities, major centers of population as targets, could definite State Lebanon and continue to wider countries. U. S. Is hoping that does not happen. They were in touch with the iranians im told yesterday to convey the message, we had nothing to do with this and we werent aware of it beforehand to try to stabilize the situation, but i think the u. S. Commitment to help israeli, if it gets in a really deep scrape with hezbollah to stand by israeli remains as strong as ever. But these next days are going to be dangerous. David, i wonder. You look at how iran and hezbollah has responded to past attacks by israeli and its quite clear they havent had the stomach for a regional war. Iran doesnt want a regional war right now, at least if you judge by what has happened over the past month or two. They respond but they respond in a very measured way that they know is not going to amp things up and heard the same from hezbollah a few weeks ago after a attack there where they say we responded but didnt do much overall. We are all good now. But it seems neither iran nor hezbollah wants that regional war. Is that your read . Joe, that is certainly my read, the read of both the u. S. And israeli officials. Hezbollah and iran have not wanted to go all the way in to a conflict that they know would be devastating for them. The question is how you remain on the edge, how you display enough force that you still seem credible to your followers without displaying so much that you get clobbered. One problem for hezbollah at home in lebanon it appears to the lebanese people to tie Lebanons Fate to sinwar and hamas who are really on their last legs in gaza. Hamas,

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