Him, the mother of his children. When it comes to marriage, a man doesnt want to come home from a hard day of work and looking at a sexy wife lying on the couch saying yes, he does. You know who made up hes lines . No. Ugly girls mothers. Wow. Joan rivers passed away at the age of 81 yesterday. And it is still like you cant stop discovering new things about her, when you look at her body of work. Oh, i know. You go back and a lot of people just look at joan rivers and what she has done, the snarky comments she has made on red carpets and as the New York Times described so well, she has a career that should never be eclipsed by that. She was a trail blazer. You go back and read what the New York Times wrote about her
in 1965. Shes a pretty basically sounded like shes a pretty little lady and its surprising because shes a young woman and shes pretty. She still gets laughs, but she doesnt get much of a future. The times morning was talking about maybe they read that wrong. There was a movie came out a couple of years ago, joan rivers, a piece of work. We will have the executive producer and director of that movie on next hour. That movie, everybody should see. It really does show you a side of her, usually you get a movie that kind of shows one angle of a person youve never seen before. Woe. This was an amazing woman. Sometimes i was very turned off by her, but she took risks like nobody else. Put her heart out there and then you see in this documentary what drove her and theres a rawness to her and a realness to her and a sadness to her. A calendar that is unfilled . Yeah. I cried at times throughout that movie at very inappropriate times. Frank bruni is here and frank is a huge fan of joan rivers. We are going to be talking about this in just one minute. Sam stein is here. His appearance, he wasnt each born when joan rivers comedy career began but we will teach him. Trail blazer. First, for me, at least, for a lot of people, sad news, saddening to a pathetic story in virginia. Not just for you. Its a really sad store. If you have brain and a heart this is a sad story and if youre human, you might relate in some way. Virginia governor bob mcdonnem mcdonnell and his wife maureen have been found guilty. The first states governor ever
to be charged let alone convict. They rejected a plea deal early on that could have spared his wife and reduced his felony count to just one. But as the jury read each guilty verdict in court, 11 times for him, nine for her, the mcdonnell and their children wept openly in the court. The New York Times reports his head dropped and wept at the table. They took 177,000 in loans from Jonnie Williams they say to help support a nutritional supplement. He depicted his wife in court as harsh and unstable. He even tried to demonstrate she had a crush on williams all to prove it was impossible. The first couple colluded but it simply did not work. This is a difficult and disappointing day for the commonwealth when public
officials turn to financial gain in exchange for official acts, we have little choice but to prosecute the case. Anything to say for all of the virginians watching out there . All i can say is my trust remains in the lord. The couple plans to appeal but faces decades in federal prison when sentencing begins next year. I want to bring in political reporter for the richard times dispatch, olympia meal who has been in the court the entire trial. Olympia, first of all, set the scene for us in terms of what the reaction was inside the courtroom when the verdict came down. Well, thanks for having me. I think you kind of nailed it. It was a sad day yesterday, and certainly it was a difficult scene in the courtroom. As the verdicts were read, the governor, over time, just seemed to kind of dissolve at the able in tears and he kept his head and his hands for most of the time, just shoulders shaking. His children, who were in the
row behind him and the former first lady, he and the former first lady, just openly sobbed and they kind of just crouched down to console one another, and as more and more of the guilty verdicts were read, the cries seemed to get louder. So i think it was certainly a difficult scene in the courtroom and, you know, as you just heard, i think by most accounts, it was a sad day overall for the state with even the u. S. Attorney and the district saying it was a difficult day for the commonwealth. Olympia, thank you. I dont agree with anything they did. I mean, i completely understand the difference between right and wrong here, but, my god, this family, what they did to themselves to try and i dont know. Im not going to be popular on this. Ive said enough rightwingers
over the past couple of weeks and let me defend some leftwingers now. Go. I think its absolutely outrageous that the government brought these charges. I say as a politician people sit you doin and say this is what you can do and this is what you cant do. Here are the lines you cross, here are the lines you dont cross. Now listen. There is right and wrong. And i see these exchange of gifts as morally indefensible. I look at them and i roll my eyes and say, how in the world could they do it . That is dead wrong. But you know what . I do a lot of things that are dead wrong every day. Politicians in washington do a lot of things that are dead wrong every day. And, yet, im not going to federal prison and politicians arent going to federal prison. You have an ethics code in virginia that allowed this to happen. When they took these gifts, they
were following the laws of the state where he was governor. And the federal government comes in, for the first time, for the first time and they decide they are going to make an example of Bob Mcdonnell and his wife . Again, please. Nobody say, hey, joe, but what they did is wrong. I know its wrong. I talked to some of their closest political allies yesterday and they were very sad. They said, got, but how could they have done that . I say how could they have done that . But, at the same time, to go to jail this long to put your family through this. We dont know yet. When the federal government decides for the first time that they are going to prosecute a governor who lived within the confines of the ethical rules of his state, if you got a problem with this, as i said from the very beginning, go to virginia. Let the Virginia Legislature clean their act up. But to send this guy to the federal prison forever. Just so you know, they could get years. Up to 30 years. They will have its not going to end up being 30 years. Obviously, they are going to appeal this and a chance he gets a lot of these charges overturned on appeal. Under virginia law, you get up to a certain limit, the problem do you do anything in exchange for those gifts . And, clearly, a jury decided that he had done favors for this guy in exchange for those gifts. You can argue all you want about whether the punishment fits the crime. But, you know, the federal prosecutors made a derms thatten that it did and they, obviously, wanted to use this as a example to compel the Virginia Legislature to do the Ethics Reform that you talked about. Why is the United States attorney getting involved with governors . Does the United States attorney not have enough federal officials to go after . Does the United States attorney sure. Not have enough terrorists to try to convict . Does the United States i mean, i want to know whether the United States government decided to get involved in a states business. I dont understand. In this case, what was so i mean, a guy that was leaving office, what was so compelling that eric holder and the Justice Department said, hey, you know what . Because were kind of bored. We dont have a lot of to do here. We dont have a lot going. Why dont we go into virginia and try to figure out if we cant convict this guy. I dont think there is a role to play why hasnt it gone before . Didnt they go after Rod Blagojevich . Under this . For a different role, id have to look. I think a role the federal government has to go to going after this type of virginia. Why didnt virginia do it . They can. They didnt. I think for the course of the next few days, tons of news programs will look at this and will look at all of the different charges and look at the horrific things they it and talk about that. I just think you would know i would know from our world view and the way we grew up, the impact of these jobs of being in a position of power, of being an elected official, and the pressure on families, and im not saying i dont judge. I do. I think what they did was in some ways, incredibly stupid, and they are paying a terrible price as a complete family. When you go to virginia wachlt or you have a job like this, youre running a state and a country, if your family doesnt have the Strongest Foundation and the tight relationships, you do get cracked up. I can say there is also
money. There is also money concern too. Absolutely. Frank, i had thats part of it. People would come see where i lived, you know, after i got divorced, i lived in it was literally a shack. My boys loved it, though. We lived they absolutely loved it. By the river. It was awful down by the river it was awful but i dont care. Because i dont care. We had a great time and had a lot of time and id invite people over to my house and they expect to see this big southern mansion and it was a little shack and we called it cockroach hotel. But, frank, there were some other people, though, who had kids that were going into college. I remember Bob Livingston when he lived in new orleans. Talk about modest. Yet, people sending two, three, four kids to college. I will say one of the more maddening frustrating things is
when somebody would come to me and ask for some help moving a map this way or that way so they could do a development and make, like, 20 million off of it, and, i mean, its a tough business when your family is struggling. I was going to say, youve been in the game. How hard is it for politicians who do not come from its your entire life. Its your entire existence. How hard is it for politicians who do not have money and are raising funds from people and constantly, you know, in communication with and mingling people who have a lot of money how frustrating does that get and how much can that work a person . You know, ive seen it warping people. I wasnt in politic long enough. I was in there seven or eight years, but i have seen politicians through the years that went in without a lot of money, left without a lot of money. Michael steele, i think over decades, they start thinking,
wait a second, im making all of these clowns millions of dollars by passing tax cuts and by doing favors for them, you know, and i have seen some people get bitter and i always wondered if that got them in trouble at the end of the day. Its like why is everybody else getting rich and, gee, what is the problem if they give me, you know, 5,000 trip to hawaii or Something Like that . Well, i think mika hit it right. There is that economic financial and personal pressure, and some cant wait for the gratification at the end as we just saw recently with former congressman eric cantor who landed a big, fat paycheck on wall street. Some cant wait for that payday after that, quote, Public Service is over. They do find the loopholes and they do find the ways within the system to feather the nest while
they are there. The problem in this case and both unfortunately, both you and sam are right, the laws of virginia allowed the governor to do what the governor did. But the federal prosecutors also wanted to make an example of this type of, quote, unethical behavior. The blagojevich case was different because that involved a federal office, so it does raise the spectrum why the federal government would find its way into this type of a case, but, you know, given the pressure that we have seen, joe, in recent years with politicians and big money and wall street, it makes sense. You hang out with billionaires. When Hillary Clinton said im rich but im not really rich. You understood . Yeah. Wait, no. Yardstick changes. I understand how the clintons look at it yes, we make 250,000 when we go make a speech. These people we hang out with, they make 145 million when they
do a deal in an afternoon and have g5s, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So its all around a lot of money. But, any way, we need to move on. I do want to say this because i want to be really clear and get back to that issue. At the end of the day, though, i do have to say this. Even without laws, ill go to the other side now. This is just behavior. Their lines they should have never should have taken the deal. Should have i can also tell you too when youre sitting there in that office you know what the laws are. And i think i was helped because i was an attorney first and you have a trust account and ed moore who was my mentor came to me said, you never do this and never touch this and you learn early on, there are red lines and you not only dont cross them, you dont even go up to them. We have a complete report on this coming up as well so we are going to certainly go back at different angles of the story. Other news. Heavy fighting overnight in
ukraine is creating new doubts about a potential ceasefire agreement between ukraine and russia. Ukraine forces come under heavy fire from pro russian rebels. The rebels and other european officials plan to hold talks on ending the crisis. President obama is scheduled to hold a News Conference later today before returning from the nato summit in wales. He met with ukraines president and other top european leaders in a show of support for kiev in its conflict with moscow. Lets go to nbc senior White House CorrespondentChris Jansing who is traveling with the president this morning in wales. What is the plan, chris . Reporter there is a major shift in focus and gone what with we going to do with vladimir and that is still very much on the front burner, but the talk is about what happens next with isis . We are getting a sense that that plan is really very much in the
development phases. I talked to ben rhodes yesterday asking him whether boots on the ground would be necessary in syria to deal with isis and he said nothing has been ruled out. John kerry today said that key nato members are going to Form Coalition and not involve boots on the ground but they expect to have a plan in place before they head to the u. N. General assembly that starts on september 23rd. Over the time we have been here, there is skaescalating concern. The president met with the french president so i think we will hear more coming out of this and certainly at the president s press conference what is next in terms of the fight against isis. Chris jansing, thank you very much. Still ahead here on morning joe, we have a lot to talk about with senator claire
mccaskill. She will be joining us on set live at the top of the hour at 8 00. Also, we will answer one of lifes biggest mysteries. What happens to your socks when they go missing . Okay. Then dirty dancing. A principal cancels her schools dance and miley cyrus is the reason for that . We will play the best moments of the 50 years of joan riverss life. Youre watching morning joe. We will be right back. You dont hate me, do you . I dont hate you. Personally, i hate your type. What is it about my type you dont like . Thin, pretty, blond, great eyes, screw you im sorry i like do you know what i mean . Youre good looking and youre smart. You got the package. Really . Are you christian . You got it all. Shes got it all my mother made the best toffee in the world. Its delicious. So now weve turned her toffee into a business. My goal was to take an idea and make it happen. Im janet long and i formed my Toffee Company through legalzoom. I never really thought i would make money doing what i love. We created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. Go to legalzoom. Com today and make your business dream a reality. At legalzoom. Com we put the law on your side. Create a better website at squarespace. Com start your free trial today. Welcome back to morning
joe. Its time to take a look at the papers. Im going to do it this morning with two hot shots that get invited to the u. S. Open. What . You were invited. Ed forrest wanted you to go. Who doesnt fit at this table . Who else came along . Gale king. You know what im doing . Im sitting in the office shining mikas shoes. You were invited but you couldnt. That federer match last night was just stunning. Youre looking at the morning papers. Here is the usa today talking about joan rivers. The dailiy news also talking how tough she was. Lets get on to more of the morning papers. We will be following up on joans life throughout the show today. Bp faces up to 18 billion in civil penels after a federal judge decided the company. That is in addition to last years 4 billion settlement over criminal charges in its 2012 trial with victims. It claimed the lives of 11 workers. We get this from the rut land herald. The administrators at a Vermont High School are blaming miley cyrus for their decision to cancel a homecoming dance. The Officials Say their controversial dance move twerking left some students feeling uncomfortable and unsafe prompting them to cancel the event. Do we need to call kevin bacon to go up there and teach them that dancing is okay . In a letter to the local paper said since miley cyrus took the stage twerking at the
vmas in between our students dancing behavior has crossed the line of what we can condone as appropriate behavior at a school. They were asking what twerking was and nobody could explain it to him. You and thomas showed it . No i tried to get him to but he wouldnt. Yeah, no. They were they didnt understand what it was. Something like thomas, please. The administrators letter says twerking is dancing to popular music in a sexually provocative manner. I wish we had had this to explain the other day. A low squatting dance and thrusting movements. Students do not face one another or remain with the same person for the length of the song and if you hadnt seen twerking i would encourage you to research this online. No. Dont research this on line. Now you know. That encouraged yesterday. Remember, the guy said go to google. We said youtube it. We are not going there. The decision was based on entirely stupid grounds. Usa today, a dog owner in oregon was shocked to learn her socks didnt go missing in the dryer. It was rather in the stomach of her great dane. The owner rushed the 3yearold dog to the vet after it kept getting sick. An xray showed the dogs stomach was severely blocked by a sock. This is disgusting. During surgery, the doctor pulled 43 1 2 pair of socks in different shapes and colors from the animals tummy. The xray was so impressive it won a contest and the money was made to charity and that one
published in a veterinarian journal. The dog was carrying 43 1 2 socks . Holy cow that is amazing. The nfl season kicked off last night on nbc. What happened . The defending super bowl champs which are the Seattle Seahawks hosting the green packers. The hawks are hosting quarterback Aaron Rodgers to under 200 yards and one interception and three sacks and one led to a safety. Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch ran for two touchdowns in the 3016 victory to kick off the regular season. Jim vandehei on suicide watch this morning. The cheese has sort of wilted on his head. Poor jim. Coming up, Bob Mcdonnells epic falls to grace. Once a potentially president ial candidate falls away. People were jubilant about this last nist. Its a human tragedy. When people cheer as much as some people cheered last night over this. Im not even sure i disagree with what has happened. I just am sad. First, the life of a legend. Speaking of sad. We are going to do our best to bring you some of the best moments and there were many from joan rivers unbelievable career. Dont go away. We will be right back. [ breathing deeply ] [ inhales deeply ] [ sighs ] [ inhales ] [ male announcer ] at cvs health, we took a deep breath. [ inhales, exhales ] [ male announcer ] and made the decision to quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. Now we invite smokers to quit, too, with our comprehensive program. We just want to help everyone, everywhere, breathe a little easier. Introducing cvs health. Because health is everything. Introducing cvs health. When folks think about wthey think salmon and energy. But the energy bp produces up here creates Something Else as well jobs all over america. Engineering and innovation jobs. Advanced Safety Systems technology. Shipping and manufacturing. Across the United States, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. When we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. Thats not a coincidence. Its one more part of our commitment to america. [ mala bit of italy when ycomes home with you. Bertolli. Your house . [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] with the taste of our chicken florentine farfalle skillets for two. Bertolli. Italy is served. Female narrator sleep train challenged its manufacturers sleep train challenged its manufacturers to offer even lower prices. But the mattress price wars ends sunday. Now its posturepedic versus beautyrest with big savings of up to 400 off. Serta icomfort and tempurpedic go headtohead with three years interestfree financing, plus free sameday delivery, setup, and removal of your old set. When brands compete, you save. Mattress price wars ends sunday at sleep train. Your ticket to a better nights sleep oh, he fakes a handoff quaand hes making a run. For mattress discounters fall kickoff sale right now, save up to 300 on Sealy Posturepedic and serta mattress sets. Even get 24 months interestfree financing on every tempurpedic. Youre going to love their football fieldsize selection. This calls for a little touchdown dance. Dont miss the fall kickoff sale at mattress discounters. Mattress discounters i feel sorry for any single girl today. The styles and the whole society is not for single girls, you know that . A man is single he is so lucky. A boy on a date all he has to be is clean and able to pick up the check. Hes a winner, you know that. Or a man could call up anybody in the whole world. Do you know that . Hello i saw your name in the locker room and thought i would give you a quick call. Few people can be credited with shaping their craft the way joan rivers shaped comedy in america and she was still on top of her game until the very end. Joan passed away yesterday here in new york city one week after she stopped breathing during a throat procedure. She was surrounded by family and friends. Her daughter Melissa Rivers made sure the hospital room was full
of flowers and music and that her hair and makeup was done as well. Her mothers hair and makeup. She said her mothers greatest joy was being able to make people laugh. It was a career that lasted more than 50 years. Her big break was in 1965 when she was discovered by johnny carson. For 20 years, she would be a frequent guest and guest host on nbcs the tonight show. I can only take credit for putting on the show but i did say one thing that night which i have seldom said on this show over the years, you finished your routine and you were devastating and the audience was falling apart and you walked over and you sat down. I said, you know . Youre going to be a big star and that is something you dont say because it always soundic, like, youre just i looked behind me. I couldnt believe you were talking to me. Yeah. That friendship abruptly ended in 1986 when joan agreed to host her own late night show competing against carson on fox. She says johnny never spoke to
her again. Joan has become a staple of the entertainment scene and hosting a variety of shows. Last night her colleagues in late night took a moment to honor their friend. Talk about guts. She would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable. Yeah. Just where you would have to swallow pretty hard and twice, but it was hilarious, and she stood behind her jokes and, to my knowledge, would say these things and never apologize because she felt, hey, im a comedian, these are jokes. Besides being a pioneer for women in comedy and everybody in comedy, joan was lucky because she loved her job so much and she never wanted to stop and she didnt have to stop because she was so great at it. She is fearless. She would come out and say what you were thinking but you wouldnt say it but she wouldnt stop and just say it and a lot
of people thought her humor was mean but she did it because she wanted to make everyone laugh and she could take a joke as easiest as dishing it out. A class act all the way. The New York Times talking about what a trail blazer she was. Yeah. I was really glad you read from that clip where they were reviewing the 1960 show and saying she is pretty but she is funny. One of the things i think we are realizing now got lost in recent years she was a pioneer to use Jimmy Kimmels world and trail blazer to use your word. In the end people lost sight of that because she seemed to lose sense of the line between a provocative joke and something that was just crazy but she had an amazing career. But there was risk going with that, going over the line. Some of her jokes were so over
the line you cringe and you couldnt laugh. She took that risk. She let her brain go so fast to sort of try and create a moment of laughter that the risk was often driven. Listen, im a big fan and admirer but i think a couple of months when she was arriving somewhere and she said Michelle Obama was the first transgender first lady. That kind of that is a joke, that falls pretty flat. Totally. Completely. And she had many of those that did. Horrible. I remember back when i was in college, i remember sitting around with friends drinking and maybe doing some other stuff and listening to her. Studying. No that was back in the era where we actually bought comedy albums and we had albums that sold re well and she had one called what is a semilegend most and she had a whole thing on it that was classical going to the gynecologist and that was edgy at that time and you can listen to it today and its still hilarious. To say she pushed the envelope is complete understatement. So here is a clip from joan rivers. A piece of work. Its kind of a documentary on her life. It shows just how much she pushed the envelope early on in her career. When i started comedy, i was very wild for the time. But different times. The last line of my original act was this business, its all about casting couches so i want you to know my name is joan rivers and i put out. And you would hear the audience, such a sweet little silly line from a girl that was 28 years old, you know, dressed up trying to look nice. The audience, half of them laugh. Jack lemmon saw me and walked out. Said thats disgusting so for my time, it was very shocking. Still shocking in a lot of different ways. You talked about this documentary how it was you
really admired her. You told me about a month or two ago you really admired her in some ways but in other ways, it was just sad watching somebody that lived for the next applause line and talk about that empty calendar you were talking about. This documentary shows sort of how she was driven by this raw need to please, to make people laugh, to make a moment out of everything, to help the people around her, but it was so extreme that it was very hard not to be deeply sad watching this, even deeply hilarious moments, i had met her before i had seen it and i met her after and i looked at her completely different after, almost like wanting to take her hands and hold them down for a second and say just be sill as for one second. Just stop. We still love you. There is sort of like a humanity that comes out in this documentary and if youre
interested, everybody should look at it if youre interested in her at all or you followed her. Gosh. You see something in her that we all have, but that is out of whack. We are going to talk about joan rivers more as we go forward throughout the three hours. Still ahead, the touching moment as a 7weekold child hears his mother for the first time. That is coming up in a minute. Kansas politicians are pumping the brakes on chad taylors exit from the senate race. Its crazy. More crazy things. What is the matter with kansas . His is invalid . What . Thats coming up next. Ethnic people get emotional. Im not no. Watches, nothing. Ethnic people, you know, you say irish cry you say to an
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on the ballot. Why . According to the secretary of state taylor failed to provide a reason in his letter explaining why he would be incapable of fulfilling his duties. You did not do your homework correctly he didnt say mommy, may i . Why cant he send another letter . Because there is a deadline. He said he passed the deadline and he cant provide the explanation. Its over. I wonder if the clerical error included something that actually would have helped republican pat roberts if there would have been an amendment . Im just kind of guessing. Michael steele might know. What do you think of this, michael . I think a little bit. All kind of ways to make it work for roberts. This is interesting. The fact of the matter is that you had folks sort of talking about this beforehand and, in fact, had informed taylors campaign exactly what the procedures and the process would
be be and what was required in the letter. That is an interesting point not to miss here. They were specifically told what the letter would require. They put that in the letter. And then 24 hours later, come to find out, oops, you forget to tell us why. Wow. A little political news for you. We are going to continue to talk about the life and legacy of joan rivers. I saw donny deutch walk in and we will get his take. Anybody who knew her knew how incapable melissa and joan rivers were. Edgar rosenberg, joans husband committed suicide. This describes how she coped. Spoke to my husband the night before because he had gone to philadelphia and he had called her he and he said he was coming home tomorrow and then he hung up and girl himself. I had a 15yearold girl who had gotten the news and had to tell
me and had spoke to my husband. What could i say . We are jewish and jews spend in the house after a death. People come to you. That full week, i couldnt find my daughter. Crazy. I couldnt find her. She had bangs fringe and like the fringe. I couldnt find a face in there. She just wasnt there. And then and then it was over and i took her out to dinner and i could reach her. I couldnt get to her. And we go to dinner in this very famous restaurant, very expensive in biverl hileverly h. We sit down and open the menu. I said, melissa, if daddy were alive and saw these prices, he would kill himself all over again and she laughed. So i got my daughter back frank, that sums up a life of
a woman that got laughs out of a lot of her own personal pain. Mika talked about how needy she was, how desperate she was. But that drove her. A big secret to her, i think you saw in that clip, is she was willing to be as raw about herself and as tough on herself as on everybody else. And i think that was really key, because she did say a lot of cutting and horrible and went places people didnt expect her to go but she was a savage also on herself. Jimmy fallon gets tips from a model in news you cant use. He got 11 guilty verdicts for corruption in return for dragging his marriage in the mud. We will look back on former governor Bob Mcdonnell. The rose is in the window box turned to the side. [ alex ] transamerica helped provide a lifetime of retirement income. So i can focus on what matters most. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. Transamerica. Theyve earned in life theres a higher standard of home care. Brightstar care. From care teams led by registered nurses to unmatched Care Expertise brightstar care offers home care you can trust, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your loved one deserves care thats nothing less than extraordinary
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bob and Maureen Mcdonnell are likely headed to prison even though it could have been avoided with a predeal and what ended as a greek tragedy began as a story of great promise. Doesnt matter how many all americans or pros on the roster its all about gameday. You got to have people showing up on gameday to get the win. Reporter Bob Mcdonnell was a
political thoroughbred. He defined Democratic Power in the state. We still talk about your campaign. We do. Because it was such an example. Reporter just days in office and he was already rebutting the state of the union on national tv. We want results, not rhetoric. We want cooperation, not partisanship. Reporter and it wasnt long before 2012 talks started. Mcdonnell for president . And later as running mate. Imagine how much better off we are going to be with president mitt romney in office. Reporter but as his term in office came to a close, the allegations began. Loans and gifts from a donor, rides in Jonnie Williams ferrari and lavish trips and shopping sprees for the first lady and tens of thousands of dollars worth. Fbi agents now interviewing a number folks, governor, about the relationship between you, your family, and that of a major
campaign contributor. Reporter at first, the denials were calm and collected. Because there is nothing that is going on in in any way impairs my ability to be an effective governor. Nothing has been done with regard to my relationship with mr. Williams or his company star scientific. Reporter but they quickly turned into humble apologieses. Bob, youve had people coming after you from all sides. Look, im not perfect, id made some mistakes. I acknowledge those and repaid the and repaid back loans. Reporter all the while he denied he had done anything illegal even vowing to reform virginias edgeics laws and despite the investigation, his popularity remained high, even higher than the president s. I created about 180,000 jobs and for business according to forbes magazines and that means more jobs. Reporter the end undid the
beginning. The news cameras that focused on his rise now trained on his unstoppable fall. At trial, he dragged his marriage and his wife through the mud to bolster his own defense. And in the end, it simply didnt work. Anything to say for all of the virginians watching out there . All i can say is my trust remains in the lord. Much more ahead on morning joe. The life of joan rivers. More on our tribute to the unapologetic comedienne still ahead. A science experiment at a Nevada Museum goes horribly wrong leaving children injured. First, the most terrifying thing youve ever seen with eight legs. The story behind this giant spider ahead on morning joe. Musical chairs. Fun, right . Welllllllll, not when your travel rewards card makes it so hard to get a seat using your miles. Thats their game. The flights you want are blacked out. Or they ask for some ridiculous number of miles. Honestly, its time to switch to the venture card from capital one. With venture, use your miles on any airline, any flight, any time. No blackout dates. And with every purchase, youll earn unlimited double miles. From now on, no ones taking your seat away. Whats in your wallet . When fixed income experts work with equity experts who work with regional experts
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this is going to warm your heart. Really . Yes. We want to introduce to you baby lockland hearing his mom for the very first time at 7 weeks old after receiving hearing aids. Here is a little bit of his reluctant reaction at first, but soon he will melt your heart. Lockland, his first hearing aid. [ screaming ] hello, lockland. Way to go. Well, hello. Hi, baby. Hi. Hello. Hi. Gorgeous. Hi. He is smiling lockland, hello. I know hes smiling hes smiling look at that little guy. Oh, my goodness. That is going to warm your heart. By the end of the show, im going to be weeping. Mika has been tearing up. We have to get tissues on the set. I told you, ive been experiencing mood swings lately. The joan rivers, she has been tearing up. And now she a baby tell the virginia story. Im a dog eating a sock. Im tearing up too . Im going to scare the tiers out of you because nothing like a good friday fright and a laugh to go along with it. We have the best spider costume
you have ever seen. Thats a little puppy harmliless going about terrifying people on a huge prank on youtube. Look at this. [ screaming ] oh, my god its all on youtube. The guy lying in the elevator oh, my god its being called mutant spider dog. Its gotten a million views on youtube. That really funny until
somebody gets serious about it and starts kicking the spider dog. They are too afraid. I would have a heart attack. Yeah, id freak out. The next hour of morning joe starts right now. Every time i write a joke, i try to remember to get it on a card. Why should a woman cook . So her husband can say my wife makes a delicious cake to some hooker . You wonder why im still working at this age. People think it comes so easily. They have no idea what youre doing is a terrifically difficult thing to do, and i prepare line a crazy lady welcome back to morning joe. We pull ourselves together here. The chairman of deutch incorporated is here, donny
deutsche. Doris goodwin who is author of the bully pulpit. She is the author of no ordinary time franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt the home front in world war ii. And associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst Eugene Robinson. Is eugene in washington . We have Michael Steele with us. Michael steele is with us too. We just got over a spider attack. Lets talk about joan rivers, obviously, she said offensive things. She was always willing to take a chance and made a lot of people laugh and its because she wasnt afraid to offender. I knew joan fairly well. She was great and delightful. I was in the makeup room. The woman said did you know joan, yes. She said i never heard anybody
say anything bad about her. Her wit and her shtick, she was a sweetie pie and delightful, warm and would always do anything for anybody. She broke a lot of barriers. I think after lucille ball and maybe carol burnett, she was probably the preeminent female comedienne of her time and allowed women to be raw. Within the feminist movement she was really the first raw feminine voice. Dirty. Yeah. The New York Times basically saying she is a woman, shes cute. You know, if reminds me of nora efron she never thought anybody would be allowed to do anything but be a secretary. Joan rivers was kicking down walls in 1965. There are a lot of people
working today that owe a huge debt for her. Even in a weird way lena dunham. Two years ago here she is when she offered me some of feedback in a way only joan could. Is my sweater okay . Okay for a serious person. I wouldnt send you on the red carpet in that. Dont to this personally. And youre very thin, so you got the good body. Yeah. You should look more like the chicks they have doing news. I should . Im 45. We never say that. Youre 39. Too late. Mika is very honest. Ill start 46 before i turn 46. Thats good. They say she looks great. She looks great for 90, wow she was very funny when she was on but sometimes very sad when she was off camera. Here is a clip from the
documentary we have been talking about. A piece of work. When i started comedy, i was very wild for the time. But different times. The last line of my original act was, this business, its all about casting couches so i just want you to know, my name is joan rivers and i put out. And you would hear the audience, such a sweet little silly line from a girl who was 28 years old, you know, dressed up trying to look nice. The audience, half of them lack. Jack lemmon saw me and walked out. He said, thats disgusting so for my time, i was very shocking. Doris, for her time, she was, wasnt she . Yes, i suppose so. When i watched you all laughing before about the spider dog and about her comedy, laughter is such an extraordinary emotion. It relaxes everything. You laugh at a bad meeting when youre in the white house and
suddenly everybody relaxes and imagination comes forward. Its an important part of our brain to be able to laugh. Its very important emotion. Its a heart of humanity. In this documentary we will the executive producer on in a bit. This documentary of joan rivers, a piece of work. And it shows her talking about her life and presenting herself and it also shows moments that people dont show in their life because it has a reality aspect to it of, like, when her calendar wasnt full and when literally nobody was booking her, when she hit the bottom and, like, right there on her face, you could see how that was like a knife through her heart. And this sort of struggle to get back in her head, and also then the unbelievable effort it took to get out in front of thousands of people when you only had one gig out of five weeks and to try and bring it. That is where the risk comes in,
the desperate risk. Here is an early clip of rivers on the sammy davis jr. Show with guest host johnny carson. There comes a time in a marriage a man wants a woman to cook and sew for him and the mother of his children but when it comes to marriage a man doesnt want to come home after a hard day at the office and find a wild sexy wife lying on the couch and saying eye of the tiger. Yes, he do. You snow who made up these lines . Ugly girls mothers. So more later. We will be talking about joan the last hours. Also talking in three or four minutes about former Virginia GovernorBob Mcdonnell who is probably going to be going to jail for a very long time. But, doris, we have you here and we have to talk about the president and the last couple of weeks. He made a misstatement at the end of last week. A lot of his critics jumped on. Critic on the left and right. They say the president doesnt have any strategy and its almost as if this president just hes not going to play by the rules of past president s. He is not going to toss out a glib line. In this case, the most extraordinary thing, i guess you have a whole new definition of team of rivals where he goes out and delivers a press conference just to tell his own cabinet members youre not pushing me into war prematurely. Talk about barack obama and just extraordinary personality traits that are so confounding to so many people. You know, the most important thing, when you have a war that may be going on soon and that the military are saying this is the most difficult thing we have seen in our lifetime, you have to begin using what Teddy Roosevelt defined as the bully pulpit. You got to explain to the public what is isis about. Simple language. He doesnt want to do that, though. But he has to. That is the most important tool of the president is educate the public when youre taking them into tough times and people may be dying. Do you join the thousands of historians, politicians, observers, frustrated by his refusal to do that . I think what may be happening is the deliberative part of his personality which wants to make the decision in its own good time and good at that Decision Making is warning against that need to keep the public involved. And its not just the public now. The congress has to get its thing back here. I mean, there has to be a debate. When fdr understood we were getting deeper into englands wars before we wanted to as an isolationist nation he explained. He said your neighbors house is on fire and you need to help them and that changed public opinion. Even though it took four months to get through congress and britain is dying saying we need the stuff now. They said if you can make a decision by millions it will
stand because it will sustain. You wait for a democracy to talk. So the timing is critical to begin this education process right now. Can you think of a historical equivalent of barack obama who refuses to play by the rules and refuses to engage in the theatricals . Jimmy carter still sat in front of the fireplace and still said turn your thermostat down and play the game every other president would play but this president just doesnt. There is a sense of him wanting to have authenticity as a person but that is to be respected but fdr said you have to be an actor if you want to be president. He said me ande orson wells are the best actors. Im confused he doesnt have a strategy. When you refer to the military, and type of evil we have not come across before. There are three civil wars going on in the region and there is not Thomas Friedmans comment the other day not a button to push to say, destroy them. Maybe a president , prior to our press conferences, we are not there yet. We dont have an answer and we will have an answer and i wasnt a guest as everybody else. I wasnt a guest either. When you say a line that fits into a preexisting belief about you, a preexisting narrative, frank, youve talked about it. So many other people have talked about it. I dont think maureen dowd has weighed in yet. Oh, wait. Yes she has, holy cow but it is very frustrating to a lot of his supporters too. Is there a difference between not having a strategy and saying outloud we dont have a strategy. I dont think many people expect there to be a perfect strategy right now. Im not sure it makes sense to say that but we havent talked about the comments he made the next day i found as striking, if not more so, when he was at the fundraiser and he seemed to be minimizing isis and saying,
well, social media amplifies this stuff and the world has always been messy. Those things are true to an extent but i dont think that is what you tell the public when they are seeing beheading videos and are freaked out. The isis, though, mika and i have a lot of friends inside the white house. Ive always said this. The thing that from the very beginning, we would go and i remember going on a bp spill early on. We said you guys have to get engaged. You dont look engaged. There is a pipe. There is oil pumping out. People are looking at that 24 hours a day. You guys are going off to chicago for a long holiday weekend. Instead of going down. Its always been we always joke. Its always, oh, joe or oh, mika and its like they are the first people that have ever been in the white house and everybody thats been there before them have been stooges and, you know, the social media thing when he says Something Like that, i just roll my eyes and go, my god, they really dont get it. Isis is different. Isis is even different. Thank you for saying that. Than Osama Bin Laden who depended on having a rich daddy to be able to fund a lot of things. These people are sweeping up territory the size of jordan and they are grabbing control of hundreds of millions of dollars of american passports. They are a grave threat and it has nothing to do with twitter. It has something to do with terrorism not the tweets. Its terrorism, not the tweets. The hard thing i think for a leader is like when roosevelt recognized that the nazi were something difference than we had ever seen before and he started to talk about quarantining the dictators. The country wasnt ready for it. They said you are going to be impeached how can you do that . He said a terrible thing to lead a parade and look behind and nobody is following you. He has to start leading that parade now. I think he has to get out of washington. One of the things that Teddy Roosevelt would do is talk at
village stations in simple language and carry a big stick. People have to understand this isis thing as clearly as we understood what it meant to be an arsenal of democracy for britain. When youre going into big moments and the military clearly has talked more than they have talked for a decade about the scariness of something. When you see those guys with the black flags marching along. What started in 1979 in iran has finally led us to this point and i suppose it was always inevitable we would get to this point, but we have a truly deadly force that could cause grave damage and doris talks about the fdr quote about being in a parade and nobody being behind him. If he gets out to Middle America like kay hagan and al franken and other democrats who are suddenly certainly starting to sound more like john mccain and Lindsey Graham than the president chances are good he will hear a lot of americans very concerned about this threat and they will want action. I think he has to be incredibly careful with his words and while theater is important in this case, we have seen leaders use the wrong words and them have real implications as well. There is so much to get to this morning. Doris, thank you so much for coming in. Still ahead on morning joe, a democratic candidate for u. S. Senate drops out of the race in kansas, but what is Claire Mccaskill have to do with that . We will talk with her about that and much more live at the top much our 8 00 hour. Plus, a fivefoot long albino is on the loose in california. Chuck todd is going to weigh in on Bob Mcdonnells convict shn and preview his big interview with the president this weekend. Youre watching morning joe. We will be right back. Youre watching morning joe. We will be right back. At 1800dentist, were about one thing. Helping you find a dentist youll want to go to for the rest of your life. Weve helped over 8 Million People find that dentist, and we can do the same for you. Call 1800dentist today. Call 1800dentist today. Where the reward was that what if tnew car smelledit card and the freedom of the open road . A card that gave you that im 16 and just got my first car feeling. Presenting the buypower card from capital one. Redeem earnings toward part or even all of a new chevrolet, buick, gmc or cadillac with no limits. So every time you use it, youre not just shopping for goods. Youre shopping for something great. Learn more at buypowercard. Com
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extraordinary photo of Bob Mcdonnell getting into his car and friends and family members behind him in what was an extraordinarily painful day for that family. We will get to that in a moment. Another look at the morning papers. The los angeles times, a venomous albino cobra was finally caught yesterday after keeping a california neighborhood on edge since wednesday. Im serious. Animal control officers found the snake not far from where it bit a dog two days ago. The dog is going to make a full recovery. Nearby residents on high alert because a cobra bite can kill a human within an hour. The owner is yet to come forward. It is illegal to own this type of cobra in california. The snake didnt go quietly. One with its own twitter account and provided colorf fuful commey
leading up to the capture. Six children burned at a museum in reno, nevada. The incident occurring when a live Tornado Storm demonstration. Oh, my gosh caused the explosion and the ensuing fire. Officials say an incorrect chemical mixture was to blame there. Nine people were taken to the hospital, four others were treated at the scene. Oh, my gosh thats horrible that is horrible i cannot believe they got that on video all on video. This from the cleveland plain dealer. Cleveland browns wide receiver josh gordon is going to be taking a job as a car salesman during a season long suspension. Gordon is expected to put 40 hours a week at the dealership in while learning the auto business and will serve as a go goodwill ambassador working with wounded vets and the dealership will foot the gbill for the gym
membership. He was tested positive for marijuana. We have the nfl kicks this guy out of the league for a year for smoking pot, and another guy that beat his wifetobe senseless until she passed out is going to be playing football in a couple of weeks. Its outrageous another case came up with a pregnant wife, a player. We will see what happens. We will see what happens with that. San francisco chronicle, google reaching 19 million settlement with the ftc in an inapp purchases made by kids. Customers claiming their kids were making purchases without proper parental approval while using various apps. Apple agreeing to a similar settlement over 32 million that happened in january. Former Virginia GovernorBob Mcdonnell and his wife maureen have been found guilty on federal corruption charges. He is the states first governor ever to be charged, let alone, convicted. There is the front page of the Richmond Times dispatch. He rejected a plea deal early on that could have spared his wife and reduced his felony count to just one. As the jury read each guilty verdict in court 11 times for him and nine for her, the mcdonnells and their children wept openly. The New York Times reports his head dropped nearly to the table at which he sat. This is a difficult and disappointing day for the commonwealth when Public Officials turn to financial gain in exchange for official acts, we have little choice but to prosecute the case. Anything to say for all of the virginians watching out there . All i can say is my trust remains in the lord. The couple plans to appeal but faces decades in federal prison when sentencing begins next year. Lets bring in nbc news
political director and moderator of meet the press chuck todd and a reporter covering the trial from the beginning. Valerie berlane and Eugene Robinson is bus. Chuck, lets begin with you. A stunning fall from grace but really just a couple of years ago this guy was on the short list to be Vice President of the United States. And remember the introduction of paul ryan who introduced mitt romney. It was Bob Mcdonnell that was in virginia. I mean, that was two years ago. I think were like two years ago and three weeks. It is sort of beyond stunning. But, you know, joe, remember john roland, the former Connecticut Governor . Yes. Same thing. This vanity thing that sometimes hits these politicians that dont have a lot of money but they are surrounded by donors and socalled friend who do have a lot of money. And i think they start
rationalizing and sit there and think, geese, look at all of these people that are making money off of policies. Ive done or off of things that ive done. What is wrong with me taking an airplane ride here . Im not going to let it impact what ive decided . Or what is wrong with me doing this . Im just trying to get a loan. You see and all of a sudden they are rationalizing their way to corruption. Happened to john row land in connecticut. It really is this sort of odd vanity thing that hits some of these politicians. In the case of john and patty roland, there are similarities. They had a lake house in connecticut and tons of work done on it with ties and to people who were in the public sphere with the governor. Then he went back at it again later after getting in trouble. Gene robinson, you had predicted a couple of days that it was going to look bad, things were going to look bad for the mcdonalds because of the jury instructions. I was surprised by the verdict. When breaking news came across my iphone i could believe it and i went back to what you said before. The judges jury instructions was so expansive that it set the mcdonalds up and put more of a presumption on them. Right. They are going to appeal the verdict and good luck with that, frankly, with the Fourth Circuit in richmond which is a tough court. But, you know, the Washington Post talked to our reporters talked to several of the jurors and one said this was a tough decision because it was tough to go into that courtroom and look at this nice family and tell them they were going to prison. But it wasnt a difficult decision, given the facts that were laid before them. And they kind of used their common sense and said, you know, if he were not governor of virginia in a position to do these nice things for this businessman who gave them all of this money and these gifts would he have gotten all of this stuff . The answer was clearly no. Valerie, covering the story, youve been on the show talking about it, it just seemed like they were creating this kind of mock attempt to defend themselves. Was there anything in court that chose the other side why this potentially could have worked . I just i dont get it actually what they tried to do. A lot has been made about the socalled nut bag defense of saying mrs. Mcdonald had some crazy disability and some problems. But i talked with several defense lawyers last night who said, look, it was incumbent on the defense to give the best case they possibly could for their clients and with a conspiracy like this its very he important to show these two people didnt communicate. It wasnt that they asserted they had a prone marriage. The defense lawyers tried to present evidence that showed that in the childrens testimony and emails and things of that nature. Chuck, is that why you think the crush defense didnt work
and the governor should have had a smarter, wiser Defense Strategy . It kind of didnt past the common sense test. Im with joe. I was surprised too because of virginias law. Virginias ethics law is so look. Look. There is going to be an appeal. I tell you the defense was so hamhanded, right . This idea that, oh, our marriage stinks so that is why with we couldnt have done that. So they had to almost like create a whole new set of a whole new set of facts that, at the time, didnt make any sense and we saw pictures of them Holding Hands and all of this. So it came less believable. Valerie, final word . Im not sure that is i see you point, but i think what the prosecution did so effectively is disarm that argument with the photos you mentioned with loving emails and records of their own that showed how many nights the mcdonalds spent together in the mansion. So i think the defense i
talked with several white collared defense lawyers who defend these kind of case, they had, look. They made a good case. The prosecution was just able to disarm it and then also convince the jury it didnt matter. Wow. Valerie, thank you very much. Eugene, stay with us. Chuck, youve got a big interview on meet the press this weekend. Yes. We do. Mr. Obama. The president after his trip, sat down with him tomorrow and a lot going on between isis and think about it, immigration, putin, only have 30 minutes. I feel like we need two hours so we will see you have a great team with you. Chuck, congratulates. Congratulations to you, buddy. Ill see you sunday. Ill see you sunday. All right, brother. Congratulations. Coming up, this is a story that chuck knows and a lot of baseball fans know. Its an amazing story. Why . With no chance of coming down from an lsd high, doc ellis pitched the game of his life. I mean, this was i mean, as unbelievable. He was on acid. No. He almost got taken out early because he kept hitting people with the ball. They kept him in long enough to pitch a nohitter on lsd. No. Yes. Thats not good. Lucy in the sky with diamonds on the mound straight ahead. First, sass, self dr deprecation and a sharp tongue. Morning joe will remember joan rivers, the late comedienne, next. [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. She can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. My mom works at ge. Im on expert on softball. And tea parties. Ill have more awkward conversations than im equipped for, because im raising two girls on my own. Ill worry about the economy more than a few times before theyre grown. But its for them, so ive found a way. Who matters most to you says the most about you. At massmutual were owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. Ready to plan for your future . Well help you get there. When folks think about wthey think salmon and energy. But the energy bp produces up here creates Something Else as well jobs all over america. Engineering and innovation jobs. Advanced Safety Systems technology. Shipping and manufacturing. Across the United States, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. When we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. Thats not a coincidence. Its one more part of our commitment to america. As the company thats all about printing. But did you know we also support hospitals using Electronic Health records for more than 30 million patients . Or that our Software Helps over 20 million smartphone users remotely configure email every month . Or how about processing nearly 5 billion in electronic toll payments a year . In fact, todays xerox is working in surprising ways to help companies simplify the way work gets done and life gets lived. With xerox, youre ready for real business. And life gets lived. My motheits delicious. Toffee in the world. So now weve turned her toffee into a business. My goal was to take an idea and make it happen. Im janet long and i formed my Toffee Company through legalzoom. I never really thought i would make money doing what i love. We created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. Go to legalzoom. Com today and make your business dream a reality. At legalzoom. Com we put the law on your side. Sweater, extra sweater oh and this is the xfinity tv go app. He can watch live tv from over 50 channels and xfinity on demand movies and shows wherever he wants. Have fun, make some friends. Alright . Did i mention his neck pillow . blowing thats a good page. Do you know what i mean . These are good pages. 10 00, 11 00, 12 30, this and that. Thats happiness last year, it was a very difficult year. I was playing, here we go. The bronx, 4 30 in the afternoon. That was a real good one. Ill show you fear. Thats fear. If my book ever looked like
this, it would mean that nobody wants me, that everything i ever tried to do in life didnt work and nobody cared and ive been totally forgotten. That was a clip from the 2010 documentary. Jones rivers, a piece of work. With us now is a executive producer of the film, ricky stern. Thank you for coming in. Mika has been tearing up this morning and i see tears in your eyes right now. Its hard to watch. Your mom was best friends with joan and told you to do this . My mom, we had just finished a film. My film partner and i on dar 4 and the diva, and dar 4. He said you have to walk coundo the street to joan. She will stop and say to the Police Officers, im coming back. Ill before you you pie. Ill bring you coffee. She had a way to bring joi
everybody. You stayed with her a year doing this. What did you find . Honestly when i went into it, i didnt even know that joan rivers was going to be funny because she seemed like she had passed her prime and i didnt get her jokes but the minute i met her, there was so much warmth and kindness which is surprising. People dont expect it in her who dont know her and she was so funny. She was so smart and quick and just able to either just come up with something at the drop of a hat. I want to say its a great film. Ive seen it and terrific and good to have that to remember her by. I got the impression watching it and her there was absolutely no filter. She was brutal but she was also brutally honest. That is true . Was this any guiel or anything you noticed in her when you were doing this . I think joan would say she is a truthteller. A lot of her humor was really self deprecating. People might say she was critical of others but, quite
honestly, she really turned the camera on herself a lot and she was really just if anything, she didnt want to hurt peoples feelings, which i know seems stupid to say, but it is true. In the film when she saw the film the only issue she said was off the cuff and truth telling. Here is joan on her huge catalog of jokes in the documentary. Every time i write a joke, i try to remember to get it on a card. Why should a woman cook . So her husband can say my wife makes a delicious case to some hooker . Ha ha. You wonder why im still working at this age. People think it comes so easily. They have no idea what youre doing is a terrifically difficult thing to do, and i prepare like a crazy lady. What people might not know about her, she was a workaholic. I remember her at 79 telling me what was going on in per week
and i wanted to pass out hearing about it. I think people, junk generations of comedians what they can take away from this is you with have to work and work and work and prepare and prepare and he joan did it because she loved her audience. As an actor or a performer you need an audience to do the thing you love so she kept working hard at it so she could have that audience and she could perform and she loved her fans. We wouldnt put her on the couch except you followed her around for a year. So you know. What void was she trying to fill . What was she running from and what was she trying to stay ahead of . Love. She was always looking for love. She has a wonderful daughter who she loves and her grandson who she is very close with and her husband at the time who took his life and committed sued and was very hard. I think it was just the sense of making people laugh was her way of giving in many ways. Did that suicide change her . Im sure it did. Yeah. She would say it did, but i think joan always just wanted to make people laugh and her daughter says in the movie, you know, laugh at me, laugh with me, it doesnt matter, just laugh. Ricky stern, thank you so much for coming. Dar iv and the diva. A wide range. Great work. A man who took performanceenhancing drugs to the next level. Why doc ellis nohitter remains one of baseballs most memorable games. He kept hitting players. Unbelievable. Rising star to convicted by a jury. Talk on the road that was Bob Mcdonnells career next on morning joe. I have an agent. I have a manager. I have a business manager. A pr lady. Two assistants. And a lawyer. We forget the lawyers. There are then certain relatives
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mr. Williams or his company star scientific. Reporter but they quickly turned into humble apologies. Bob, youve had a lot of problems. Ethics complaints. People coming after you from all sides. Look, im not perfect, id made some mistakes. I acknowledge those and repaid returned the gifts and repaid back the loans. Reporter all the while he denied he had done anything illegal even vowing to reform virginias ethics laws and despite the investigation, his popularity remained high, even higher than the president s. Unemployment right now . Down to 8 . I created about 180,000 jobs and for business according to forbes magazines and that means more jobs. Reporter the end undid the beginning. The news cameras that focused on his rise now trained on his unstoppable fall. At trial, he dragged his marriage and his wife through the mud to bolster his own defense. And in the end, it simply didnt work. Anything to say for all of the virginians watching out there . All i can say is my trust remains in the lord. When you look back on when we were following his campaign and his rise to the governorship, you cant underestimate the potential he had. No, he recall cant. I would just say that everybody likes to kicks others when youre down. I mean, you know, i dont care whether its Eliot Spitzer or john edwards or mark sanford or Bob Mcdonnell here. You dont kick people when they are down. Its a family tragedy. It is. And its sad. People should show a little bit of humanity and not treat people as a blood sport when they are done. Still ahead, senator Claire Mccaskill will join us on the set. First, how one lsd trip was able to take doc ellis to a higher level. Is this sending a good message, joe . Probably not. Kids, dont drop acid at home before you play your Little League game. Hello three grams daily of betaglucan. A soluable fiber from whole grain oat foods like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. Thank you
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signals. But as far as seeing the batter himself, i didnt really see anything. The opposing team and my teammates, they knew i was high but didnt know what i was high on. That was a clip from no no, a documentary that looks at doc ellis and his claim that he pitched a nohitter in 1970 while high on lsd. Joining us now, the films director, Jeffrey Radice and tom reich. This is a story that lives in folklore. All fathers tell their little boys this story when they turn a certain age. You say you want to get away from the lsd part of it, but ive never dropped acid, but im a musician and have a lot of friends who have. They sit here in wonderment that this guy could have ever gotten
on the mound in that condition, let alone pitched a nohitter. So the lsd story is interesting because this is what perpetuated docs legacy. I think if you have been pitching your whole life and youve got the muscle memory and youre used to doing it, it just came natural. So he didnt even see the batters. He saw the catchers mitt. He also, though, hit two batters, walked eight, six more. Walked eight. Holy cow, and still a nohitter out of it. Thats incredible. He had some help with a diving catch in that game. So tell us what he doesnt really talk about it that much now, does he . I met him later that year and i started to you werent allowed to have representation then, but we kind of forced it well, not kind of, we forced it. He never and we knew each other. We spent an incredible amount of
time in the next six or seven years, and he never talked about the nohitter. He never talked about that kind of stuff and he never did drugs in front of me. Doc was very smart and he was very intuitive. And when he had respect for people, he didnt do his thing with them. He would do it with his homeys. Gene robinson, obviously we all remember this story about the nohitter but also a strange nohitter without even knowing he dropped acid before the game. When you heard that he did, you said maybe thats why he hit two batters and walked eight. Right. And one wonders, you know, maybe he just became so fixated on the strike zone that at some point he couldnt miss it. Although its fascinating that he says he didnt know which batter was which and who was who. He just looked at the tape on the catchers fingers. You know, what about, though, the rest of doc ellis career. And if he didnt talk about that, then what phase of his career did he talk about . Well, we talked mostly about that was a terrible, ugly era for racial relations and discrimination. And that was real. He stood up bigtime in every way, and he had his own way of exemplifying what was wrong. Its an ugly era in america. Its how i got involved in the first place, because the black players and hispanic players were treated like garbage. He was one of the first ones to speak up. He really kind of called out major league baseball, i think it was 71 where vida blue was the dominant pitcher in the a. L. And said theres no way theyre going to start two africanamericans or two blacks and heres a clip from no
no that looks at how doc ellis changed the game of baseball for future africanamerican players. We talked about race but in a way that was really accessible and sort of logical. He seemed to bend the rules or chafe against authority a little bit. There hasnt been a hell of a lot of progress made in terms of the Comfort Level of players of color since jackie robinson. Doc was one of the most impactful guys in regard to those issues that has ever come down the pike. A lot of people do not understand him. But if some people say that he didnt know what he was doing, thats wrong. He knew what he was doing. He always knew what he was doing. This looks fascinating, no no, a documentary is out in limited release today and also available on itunes. Jeff and tom, thank you so much for being on the set this morning. I cant wait to see it. He did a fantastic job. It looks great. Its his party, let me tell
you. Coming up at the top of the hour, the broken down marriage defense wasnt enough for Bob Mcdonnell to escape 11 of 13 corruption charges brought against him. Whats next for the former Virginia Governor ahead on morning joe. Plus senator Claire Mccaskill is stacked by. Shes going to weigh in on the isis threat, vladimir putin, and the senate shocker in kansas. Also the latest jobs report in just about half an hour well have that live straight ahead. I cant wait to see claire, top of the hour. Love her. Shes coming in. Hey pal . You ready . Can you pick me up at 6 30 . Ah. boy im here im here cop too late. I was gone for five minutes ugh move it. Youre killing me. You know what, dad . Im good. dad it may be quite a while before hes ready, but our Subaru Legacy will be waiting for him. vo the longestlasting midsize sedan in its class. Introducing the allnew Subaru Legacy. Its not just a sedan. Its a subaru. We know were not the center of your life, but well do our best to help you connect to what is. Were changing the way we do business, with startup ny. Weve created tax free zones throughout the state. And startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. Thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. No property tax. No business tax. And no sales tax. Which means more growth for your business, and more jobs. Its not just business as usual. See how new york can help your business grow, at startup. Ny. Gov ok, if youre up there, i coulsmart sarah. Elp. Seeking guidance. Just like with your investments. That sets you apart. It does . It does. Youre type e. And seeking another perspective is what type e s do. Oh, and your next handhold. Is there. You dont have to go it alone. E trade gives you the support and guidance
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can to squeeze this dreadful organization out of existence. All i can say is my trust remains in the lord. Former Virginia GovernorBob Mcdonnell and his wife, maureen, were found guilty today of taking bribes from a businessman. I look at him and i roll my eyes. I say how in the world can they go, that is dead wrong. But you know what, i do a lot of things that are dead wrong every day and yet im not going to federal prison. I want to know when the United States government decided to get involved in a states business. Were very disappointed but were not deterred. This fight is a long way from over. Its about to get ugly here. Its about to get ugly here. Get on your knees and apologize in public. Were Walking Around the streets here, or going across america, what do people say to you about me . That i love too much. That i can say on tv. That i care to a fault, right . Thats what they tell me. And i always believe if you do that, you get that in return. And yet Claire Mccaskill comes
here and she hates when loving would be so much easier. Telling me that the red sox i love telling you the red sox are 21 1 2 games out. Thats what i love. I told you, i told you wed be back this year and you would not be. I had no idea they were 21 1 2 games out and you even know how much they lost by. Two walkoffs in the ninth with the yankees. Two walkoffs in the ninth. You stop now. So lets go to the other side of it. The cardinals. How are the cardinals doing . Were four games in first place. We just swept pittsburgh and last night we beat milwaukee. Weve got a lot of viewers in the central time zone. I am a central time zone guy. How maddening is it to you to live and be a st. Louis cardinals fan and continually, you talked about the east coast snobs, even people from missouri that move to new york, you guys have the most extraordinary franchise year in, year out,
year in, year out, unlike the yankees. You dont buy championships. Thats correct. We dont have that payroll. Its got to be pretty frustrating, but you guys just keep winning. Albert pujols leaves and everybody goes thats over. No, no, its not over. We have a wonderful farm system, we have a great organization. The fans are truly, i believe i know everybody says theyre the best their fans are the best in baseball. But our stadium is full every night. I look around the league, even those teams that are in first place and theyre not filling their stadium every night. We fill our stadium every night. And kansas city is in first place, by the way, speaking of the midwest. The royals . Kansas city and st. Louis are both in first place. She knows her sports. She walks in the room locked and loaded taking you down before were even on the air. I almost felt sorry for joe. Almost. Lets dont go there. So lets talk theres a ways to go before theres sympathy. Claire, i found myself in an
unusual position over the last week telling people to take a deep breath and not jump on the commander in chief. I think in part because we are in a time of crisis like we havent been in quite some time. Okay, he screwed up in the press conference and said something he shouldnt have said, he said it inartfully, but do you have people in missouri in the middle of america saying, boy, we want to rush into war right now. Are they cutting the president a little bit of slack to give him time to get a coalition together and do this right . Well, i think people still remember that we rushed into iraq, and it hasnt obviously turned out that well long term because the underlying political problems are so difficult. This is really about sunni moderates abandoning the notion of a united iraq because they were so frustrated about being excluded. With maliki, obviously. So the moderate sunnis will not stay with isis forever. They dont want their childrens hands cut off for listening to
music. How dangerous is this for us, though. They have hundreds of millions of dollars, theyre sweeping up territory the size of jordan, they have got american passports, they want to come and kill a lot of americans. How dangerous is it and do you believe we do have to act aggressively against isis . I think we have to act carefully and i think we have to have intelligence. As you see when we first talked about trying to help in iraq, we waited until we had people on the ground and we had the intelligence and our air strikes have been effective. We have turned them back. I think the same kind of analysis is now going on in other places. What can we do surgically and strategically that will support wiping out this horrible, extreme terrorist organization but at the same time not get us into a sticky wicket that we dont really have any way of getting out of. Are you hopeful, as i am, that you have other arab countries who are finally stepping forward, speaking out
against other islamic extremists . I see the uae, i think thats hopeful, egypt going after extremists in libya. Do you think we may be actually turning the page in our Foreign Policy to a time where we dont have to have these unilateral attacks on muslim countries . If you look at what went on in nato yesterday and the day before, obviously the president is spending a lot of time getting europe with it in terms of tightening the screws. Is that frustrating for you not only on how they have reacted to putin but also to the isis threat . Do you think europe is, as i say, taking a vacation. They havent had as a robust recovery with their economy, they are still in much more of a hangover from the financial crisis than we are. We still have growth that we can enjoy but we are in a much stronger position economically than they were. So i think thats part of it is their political environment is a little more difficult. But he is getting everyone
together. They are going to ramp up more sanctions on russia and hes spending time along with hagel and kerry talking to everyone at nato about isis. But the beheadings by isis horrify everyone. They horrify our arab allies, they horrify europe, they horrify the world so i think this is a nobrainer that we ought to do the Due Diligence to get everybody united. I want to ask you about kansas. We had the democrat, chad taylor, who withdrew from the race. Are you involved in this like the todd akin thing . You should still be ashamed of what you did in that race, claire, and what you have done to the republican brand for funneling money to todd akin. Ridiculous. By the way, can i just say i love you for doing that. By the way, its going to be all in the book exactly how we did it. I cant wait to read your book. When does the book come out . I dont know yet. Shes been a little busy. A little busy. I talked to chad taylor, hes a great guy. I talked to him. He was wrestling with a really hard decision. You know, he was facing a campaign without a lot of resources. He wanted to run but he had, you know, questions about it and so we had a discussion, a freeranging discussion where i tried to give him the best advice i could on a personal level. He is a great guy and a good man. What did you tell him . I told him that he needed to think about what the outcomes could be either way and kind of think those through. And he decided to not pursue it and then went to the secretary of States Office and said what do i need to do to legally withdraw. The secretary of States Office, this was all in his statement yesterday, they approved the language. He showed them what he was going to turn in and they said, yes, thats fine, this will do it. He turns it in and then the next day theyre saying its invalid now. The secretary of state who is on pat roberts Steering Committee says, no, the language
wasnt right in the letter, putting his finger on the scales. Its really not good. Not good. Interesting. Okay, i want to ask about Hillary Clinton, but youre ready for hillary, right . I am. Elizabeth warren talked about being worried about her ties to wall street and big money. She was worried about that. Are you worried about that being a bad message as shes trying to really connect with america at a time when wages are really going to be a big issue and disparity, i think, is worse than ever, and corporate profits are still strong . Is this going to be a problem for her . And how would you characterize how you feel about that . First of all, i dont think that Hillary Clintons image is one that is, you know, tied to wall street. I think she has spent a career working to help families, to work for the middle class, to become an expert on Foreign Policy. If you look at her history and the policy she has worked for in
her long Public Service career, i think the American People should be nothing but reassured about where her priorities are. They are firmly with the middle class in this country and making sure that we have a level Playing Field for everyone so people have the same opportunities that she and her husband had coming from, you know, just kind of average families. I dont dispute anything you just said. Having said that, there are these huge speech payments and also relationship with wall street that exists, unlike perhaps other potential candidates. She is a senator from new york. It would every senator from new york has to have some relationship with the financial sector, its part of the state they represent. Having said that, you know, i think we ought to talk about all the president s and all the first ladies who get big speech fees. I think its actually amazing that she garners a good salary. Finally, finally women speaking and getting paid. When you look at bush and all the money they have made traveling around giving speeches, i dont know why her
giving speeches should somehow the fact that shes compensated for it should somehow disqualify her from leading this nation. Can i just say im very resentful that she gets paid that much for her speeches. Id like to get paid that much for speeches. First of all, donny, youre a big liberal, a left wing, upper east sider. Usa today weekend, al qaeda eclipsed by brutal islamic state. Im going to ask claire this question later but im going to ask you. Mika and i said earlier this week, i had a friend ask me is new york city still a safe place to raise a family. Mika had a friend that was visibly shaken in a way mika said she hasnt seen people shaken up since 9 11. What are your friends saying, even the liberals . And lets just talk about it, lets put it on the table. Because i hear nothing but frustration about barack obama. And actually some liberals saying to me i think youre taking it a little easy on the president. Everybody at least and the brighter they are understand this is Terror Incorporated and
this is an evil we have not seen. To your pointing, the size of jordan they occupy. And they have money, theyre funded. Theyre not guys in caves. Right. What are your liberal friends saying . The liberal friends and everybody in this country says something needs to be done. This is you can go back to nazi germany and you cant turn your head. Are they concerned about the president having said that, its very easy to say, and, senator, you werent on when i said this, i was on as a guest when the president said we dont have a strategy yet. Coming off of shoot first, ask questions later, something has to be done. The jury is out. There is a moment in time here and i believe this president will step up. So what do your friends my friends are frightened. My friends are frightened. People who people ive never are they worried about the president s leadership . Theyre worried about the world and this country. You know, theyre not politicizing it. Theyre just frightened. The smarter they are, the more frightened they are. The debate has been about
whether or not we have a strategy. I thought the more interesting debate was whether or not what the president said also, which is can you make this Terror Threat manageable. And it goes back that debate has been happening since john kerry in 2004 where he talked about making terrorism into a Law Enforcement problem, not a military problem. And its a question that other societies grapple with, like israel, for instance, who has to endure the stuff day in and day out. Im curious what your thoughts are. Do we have to reconsider our notions of how to deal with the Terror Threat . Can we make it manageable or is it something that is going to have to be stamped out militarily . Well, first of all, i think you have to, before you even think about that, you need to contemplate what that looks like if you try to stamp it out militarily. You have to understand there are cells all over the world. And i think what we have done as a nation after 9 11 is really all about and frankly its one of the debates that we have. How far do we go with our intelligence gathering capabilities and when do we start stepping on peoples rights in this country in that
effort. So militarily stamping it out, that sounds great in the abstract but actually how you do that is something that and thats one of the things that goes on when we have these crises. Well, what would you be doing and how would you be doing it . Hes the only one that is in a position to actually make those decisions. Thats why if you really know whats going on inside the white house, he is very close to his military advisers, very close to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and all of the leaders of each branch of the military and to hagel, and they are in constant communication and the intelligence community. So they are doing everything they can to manage a terrorist threat in the most effective way possible. Wiping it out, i dont know that we even know what that would look like in terms of what wed have to deploy around the world in terms of boots on the ground. Lets go gene robinson. Another big issue to talk
about. Gene, to you. Senator mccaskill, attorney general eric holder announced theres going to be a federal civil rights investigation of the ferguson police. I wondered if you supported that investigation, that idea, and what you thought what you thought of that situation . Im very glad hes doing it. Hes doing the investigation into ferguson on their practices and patterns. Hes also doing a cooperative investigation with the st. Louis county police department. They have asked in a cooperative fashion, please talk to us and investigate how we handled. They are the department that in fact militarized the response at one point during this unrest in ferguson, and thats really the good news that got missed yesterday. Not only are they going to look at ferguson in a cooperative fashion, the county police are saying, hey, help us be better. We want to get better. Of course for me in st. Louis thats the best sign of all. Have they said please take away our Armored Vehicles . I dont think they have said that yet, but were going to have a hearing on that next tuesday. Youre holding those, right . Holding the hearing on these three programs. Its not just one. Its been talked about theres just the Defense Program but theres also one at the department of justice and another one at department of Homeland Security and no one has really taken a comprehensive look in terms of oversight of these three programs and well do that next tuesday. And training. Why dont all Police Officers wear cameras. Thats what im going to try to insist on. If were going to provide federal funds to police departments, lets start with providing money for cameras and say until you have cameras, you dont get anything else. Its only a matter of time. Its great for Police Officers to have them because now with people with cell phones, somebody might tape the last of an altercation with a Police Officer and not tape the beginning of it and you wouldnt now it began. We showed an example of this on the air last week where you
had a guy that from the dash cam it looked like the Police Officer had been tough on the guy. He had a body camera on changes the story completely. And you could see this guy came around and started swinging wildly on him. Senator Claire Mccaskill. Its fun to be here and meet you guys in the flesh. Go royals and go cardinals. He needs that every once in a while. Everybody comes on and is so def deferential to him. Enough is enough. Since you said that, that is going to happen. I think it doesnt i heard from the white house as well. The white house has also issued complaints. Its just television. I like the music. It gets my heart racing. Claire, done. And there was not a quid pro quo, dont worry, were good. I dont want a rolex and i love my husband. Okay, okay. Gene, thank you as well. Coming up on morning joe what would have happened if Elvis Presleys twin brother had survived . Thats the big question raised in ray liottas film the identical. Out of nowhere hell join us later in this hour. And then super sized shrimp cocktail. How a fisherman discovered this 18inch long shrimp. Ew speaking of ew, heres bill karins with a check on the forecast. All right. Weekend forecast time. We have severe storms to deal with and then a beautiful air mass behind it. Today indianapolis all the way down into areas of Central Indiana and back up to detroit and cleveland, strong, damaging winds with the storms later tonight. Your relief comes tomorrow with a beautiful saturday. New england on sunday, the strong storms come through your area, portland, boston, hartford, all the way down to new york city. Its going to be a hot, humid day and then the storms will erupt and they could contain
dangerous lightning and gusty winds. Heres your weekend forecast. Already we are watching that beautiful air heading into the Northern Plains today. Unfortunately for the southeast, especially the beaches of east florida all the way up through georgia, South Carolina and north carolina, not a good beach weekend. A lot of rain near the coast and even some waves. Theres those storms in the east. And then finally on sunday, a lot of areas get some beautiful relief, starting to feel a little bit like fall out there. 82 in d. C. Is more like it after a very hot, steamy week that continues this morning. We leave you with a shot of washington, d. C. You can feel that humidity creeping in. Storms for you saturday night. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. I got this. [thinking] is it that time . The son picks up the check . [thinking] im still working. Hes retired. I hope hes saving. I hope he saved enough. Who matters most to you says the most about you. At massmutual were owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. Whether youre just starting your 401 k or you are ready for retirement, well help you get there. Theyve earned in life theres a higher standard of home care. Brightstar care. From care teams led by registered nurses to unmatched Care Expertise brightstar care offers home care
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kids all over the country are going back to school this week. We sent our writer, arthur, down to the street to ask them what they thought about going back to school. The only catch was they had to dance the entire time that they answered. How do you feel about going back to school. Going back to school is pretty annoying because of the all the classes and the home works and the test. Theres a long commute this year. I have to take the train in. Im not excited about how early i have to wake up. I dont like history, its bore, i dont want to learn it. I fall asleep half the time. I hate science. Boring and lame and stupid because of social studies and science and math. I like math and learning. Kids are the best. So cute. Another look at the morning
papers. Were going to start with usa today. A florida fisherman made a shocking catch when he successfully reeled in a giant shrimp. And its big. Officials say the crustacean was 18 inches long and had to be grabbed from the back like a lobster in order to be removed from the water. Scientists are unsure of the species of the shrimp but plan on investigating. 18 inches . Ew thats kinds of gross. Yuck. Okay, moving on. I dont think im going to eat shrimp a couple of days. The Washington Post, scientists have discovered the remains of the largest dinosaur in history weighing in at an astounding 65 tons. Oh, my god. That would be commonly referred to dregnautus. Which appropriately means fears nothing, was discovered in the hills of argentina. I put the emphasis on the wrong syllable. The dinos 65ton weight is
heavier than a boeing 737 jet. Fears nothing. The daily news. A florida mother is outraged after she says her teenager was forced to wear a, quote, shame suit following a School Dress Code violation. The teen was told to change into a bright yellow shirt and red sweat pants that had the words dress code violation on them after School Officials teamed her skirt too short. The mother said she and her daughter did not realize the skirt was a violation and the emotional stress caused her daughter to break out into hives. The school says the student who broke the dress code, students who do that are given the option to change into the outfit, accept an inschool suspension or have someone bring a change of clothing. The mother claims her child was not given an option. A shame suit. Have you ever worn a shame suit . We had to wear School Uniforms, which were, you
know thats it. We had a dress code. Did you like School Uniforms . It made it easy. Takes all the guesswork out of it. Especially for girls, i think especially. The pressure for the girls. And for the mothers. And for the moms, yeah. So much easier. And it was all the same colors. And kids cant make fun of other kids. Across america we should do that. The shoes were all the same, everything. All about School Uniforms. Then you just wear the same thing every day. We should do that here. Thats me actually because i wear the same thing every day. When i spill things we take you down under. The daily mail stay tuned were banned from doing hand stands and cart wheels on the playground. The decision comes after several students got injured while performing, quote, cheerleading style stunts so the parents were split, feeling it prevents kids from being kids, others
believing that the move is proper safety and helps kids be safer out there. The school board said while its critical of the ban it supports the school and its principal to make these types of decisions so the school thoughts the kids were getting a little too, maybe daring in the stunts they were pulling off. This next story is for us, mika. The toronto sun. New Research Suggests a lack of sleep may cause the brain to shrink. That explains a lot. The journal of neurology published findings. Scientists say a third of the subjects who cited chronic sleeping issues also suffered from tissue shrinkage in their brains. Sleep deprivation may have also been linked to high Blood Pressure and obesity. So its shrinkage. That explains a lot. Thank you so much. Speaking of shrinkage, thank you so much. That water was cold. Jimmy fallon gets physical on the tonight show with a
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civility and ethical uprightness of the socalled virginia way. Convinced of its own abiding rectitude, virginias Political Class has refused to enact laws with teeth, to hold elected officials to decent standards of conduct in carrying out the peoples business. At the least, the mcdonnell verdict should disabuse the old boys of their smug self righteousness and their conviction that the states egregious absence of laws on public ethics is somehow all right. At the very end it should end once and for all the common view that legislation will not eradicate morale obtuseness. Of course it wont, but a vacuum of laws will only encourage it. And there was a vacuum of laws that actually prevented the state of virginia from prosecuting this guy. The first governor in the history of virginia to be prosecuted in our country. Ive got to tell you something, and this is very personal for me. My parents had to leave their country because of political freedom, the lack of it, and come to this country and see the extraordinary opportunities that
people have and to be in Public Service and to abuse it this way, it is grotesque. I dont care what state its from, i dont care what level youre doing it, this should be a position of honor and that one takes very seriously. This is a grotesque representation of the worst in american politics honestly i think youre overreaching a little bit. I think weve seen a lot of grotesque and still, for me, and to joes point earlier, a law was not broken. And there still has not been a Straight Line to, okay, i got the watch and you got this. Do you think he got the watch because hes good looking or because i think we live in a country where you either break the law or dont break the law, right or law. It was determined he did break the law. Thats the point of the verdict. Well, to me i still dont see it. What did Jonnie Williams get for it . According to the jury, he got favorable treatment by the governor. In what way . Who i mean there is one
anecdote in this Washington Post piece where the governor encouraged his own aides to hold a meeting six minutes after discussing a loan from Jonnie Williams. Those are quid pro quos that amounted to essentially corruption. Jonnie williams didnt run for anything, he wasnt a representative official, he wasnt working for the people. Joe, youve been in politics a long time. Maybe im crazy, but you get political donations and then you do favors for people. Ive seen governors bring in the biggest crack pots and promote their products and hold conferences because theyre not promoting the crack pots, theyre promoting the state of florida or the state of virginia or the state of whatever. Listen, we all think its grotesque. I think what they did was grotesque too. During the trial was the worst. My god, i will tell you this. If Bob Mcdonnell had good lawyers, he wouldnt have been convicted. I would have got one person after another person after another person after another person to come to the state of virginia, talk about what bob
mcdonnell did for them. Im like you, if there had been a smoking gun where Jonnie Williams had gotten something that people who didnt give a dime didnt get, that would be one thing. But you guys have been in the news for a very long time. I just dont second guess juries. You know what, because they sat there the whole time. Didnt get the rolex because hes good looking. He didnt get the loan because hes good looking. Thats why we get loans. Thats right. You, because youre great looking. Very good hair. Theres that. Now weve got breaking news. The Labor Department just released the monthly jobs reports and were going to get the numbers now from cnbcs sara eisen. Sara, hows it look . Its a disappointment, a big one. The economy only added 142,000 jobs during the month of august. Economists were looking for a number above 200,000. 220,000 was the estimate. We only got 142,000. This is the first bad news weve had in a while, isnt it . It is the worst it is
actually the worst level of job creation in terms of the monthly number all year long. We were going solid above 200,000. I guess if you want to Say Something on the plus side, the Unemployment Rate did tick down to 6. 1 . Still, that could just be a reflection of fewer people working. This is not a good report, at least on the headline number. We were getting used to 200,000 jobs being created every month. 142. Just to dig a little deeper where the jobs came from, where they missed. Retail jobs were a negative. That had been a positive contributor, meaning that some of the big retailers in this country are not hiring or were not hiring in august. It could be a seasonal thing, happens during the summer and then they gear back up for backtoschool and then the Holiday Shopping season, but retail was a big drag. Manufacturing did manage to create jobs, so thats a good sign and construction, but overall big disappointment. The data had been looking good, as you guys were saying, from everything, manufacturing to layoffs to services. I mean it was looking good. But well see how the market takes this, guys. Initially the dow dropped a little more than 50 points, at least on the futures, ahead of the open. Theyre pairing those losses on the idea that, hey, the economy might not be in good enough shape for the Federal Reserve to take its foot off the gas pedal in terms of the stimulus and the easy money, so its kind of this perverse trade going on here, but not a good number. Sara, thank you very much. Jose, well be watching, jose diazbalart at 10 00 eastern. And telemunne dough in the evenings and the today show this weekend. Boom. Youre a busy man. Viva today is the hash tag, and ill see you guys on telemundo. Hold on a second, viva today. Are you going to tweet that right now while were live . Thats really neat. Unemployment numbers and no change in the africanamerican and hispanic unemployment numbers. Over 11 for africanamericans and 7. 5 for the hispanics. I have a question for the table. Yes. Coming up, how much would you pay for one kiss . With who . One kiss with actress Elizabeth Hurley. I dont know why were asking you this. Oh, my god. Thank you, jose. You got that for free. Coming up next, one of the most respected actors joins us. Ray liotta is next and well hear the very interesting premise to his new movie. We love it. Look at this. Theres a stain on that chair. Did ray put it there . Well ask him when he returns. Dad,thank you mom for said this oftprotecting my future. You. Thank you for being my hero and my dad. Military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa Auto Insurance could be one of them. If youre a current or former military member or their family, get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. Hello three grams daily of betaglucan. A soluable fiber from whole grain oat foods like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. Thank you vo ours is a world of the redeyes. daughter im really tired. vo the transfers. Well, thats kid number three. vo the copilots. All sitting. Trusting. Waiting. For a safe arrival. Introducing the allnew Subaru Legacy. Designed to help the driver in you. Care for the passenger in them. The Subaru Legacy. Its not just a sedan. Its a subaru. Sweets become salaries. An oven heats up a community la cocina, a small kitchen that kickstarts the careers of 41 entrepreneurs. They bring the talent. We help fund the tools. Its a small way we help thats been huge for the community. Little by little we can do a lot. Because. Small is huge. Visit www. Wellsfargo. Com to see how big small can be. This aint the call for me. But you got the gift. Every one of your teachers says so. Theyre not me, daddy. The things we make are the decisions that are made in haste, you understand. Lets just slow down here and finish the school year daddy, daddy. Ive already withdrawn. Ryan, you dropped out of school . I dropped out yesterday. That was a scene from the new movie the identical. Joining the table as costar of the film, especialmmy award win actor, ray liotta. That looks amazing. Youve got brothers separated, identical twins. One becomes a huge star and the other, you and ashley judd as
parents want him to be a preacher. Right. Im a preacher and i want him to follow in the Family Business and spread the word of god. He just finds himself just he just has a really great musical talent himself and realizes thats what he wants to do and im not happy about it. Its a beautiful, beautiful movie. Its sweet. And talk about the concept, though. This is just a crazy concept. It would be as if elvis had an identical twin brother separated at birth. Well, he did have a twin from what they say who died, a stillbirth, so this isnt like that story or what if. Maybe the writer used some of that, i dont know that for sure. I didnt know he had a twin actually. Thats incredible. So im just curious what caused the ruckus in the green room. There was no ruckus. You were throwing chairs against the wall. It was just your suede chairs are just old and stained and
dirty and gross. Thats awful in the green room and that little waiting room. Horrible. Really . Well have to take a look at that before. It takes ray liotta to get us to change you guys do not hear. Im scared now. Donny is about to take credit for the stain. Wheres the big cheese. Ive got a question. My question is can you clean the chairs or do you have to burn them . What do you suggest, ray . No, theyre toast. Ray, you are in two of my five favorite movies of all time, goodfellas and field of dreams. When you see a script, do you know before that, wow, this is going to be there or its still kind of in the stew, as youre doing it . Well, especially those two movies, that was my third and fourth movie and i still was kind of new to it all. I remember reading the script for field of dreams and just
thought it was the silliest thing in the world, that this guy gets rid of his cornfield for a Baseball Field and hears voices. I couldnt i didnt get it. You hope every movie, you know, does well. Those two definitely have taken on a life of their own. But, you know, some people like some movies and some people dont. Thats funny, i want to ask you about that. Is there a science to making a good movie . And how well can you actually tell in advance of it getting out there and being reviewed and seen by critics, how well do you know if its going to succeed . You dont. Youve got to know some a lot of the movies they say this was a very slow summer because i think they just keep repeating themselves and keep using the same formulas and dont take any chances. Some people love those kinds of movies, some people dont. This is a beautifully sweet, faithbased movie. Im sure some of the reviewers are not going to like it because
its not edgy enough. Then if you do it edgy, then its too edgy for them. And the identical hits theaters today. Is it personal for you . When i look at your life story and certain aspects about you and your past in this . Yeah. Theres a coincidence. Im adopted and i adopt my son in this movie, i adopt a baby so i looked at it through my fathers eyes but i didnt personalize it in any way. Although when i do watch the movie, i only like watching them a couple times. Its got to be weird to watch your own movie. I havent watched but half of them. Have you ever seen goodfellas. Like twice. By the way, just so you know, it worked out okay. You said you didnt get it, it was a weird script. I remember george h. W. Bush, they asked him and he said field of dreams. What did you think of it . He said i didnt get it. And he was a baseball player. But this looks like a wonderful, absolutely wonderful movie. Youre exactly right. You know, its very easy to do something edgy and, oh, hes taking a chance. This is a chance in the other direction where youre basically saying i dont give a damn whether you think its sentimental or not, a little too this or that, its going to touch a lot of people. I think in the middle of the country its going to play like gang busters, especially because of whats going on this day and age right now, the immediate see of it all. And i think faith is what helps people through times like this, and justify. I think its a beautiful movie. The identical in theaters today. Ray liotta, thank you so much. Well clean up. Even though you outed us, thank you. Please. Coming up next, tribute to the great joan rivers. Keep it here on morning joe. , which rewards her for responsibly managing
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comedy, joan was a very lucky person because she loved her job so much she never wanted to stop. She didnt have to stop because she was so great at it. She is a fearless, one of the i mean she would come out and just say what you were thinking but you wouldnt say it, you would stop, but she wouldnt stop, shes just say it. A lot of people thought her humor was mean but she just did it because she wanted to make everyone laugh. She could take a joke just as easily as she could dish it out. I love her so much, class act all the way. Late night remembers joan rivers. She really was everything they say. She was so sweet. I know. I know. All right. Well, now were going to get ugly because were going to go to hollyweird, i guess. Something about paying for a kiss. Really . I love that toss, mika, thank you. Gisele bundchen took jimmy fallon to school, challenging him to some yoga moves. That would never happen to me. I can teach you that. I can teach you that. No, you cant teach me that. Yeah. How about we do a plank. What is that . I challenge you to do a plank. Lift your body, strengthen your arms, squeeze your belly and be strong. I am being strong. This is me being strong. Stay strong. You dont understand how hard this is not to look up. No, i mean the exercise, no, i mean the exercise. Squeeze your belly. Im squeezing my belly. Now you can make it challenging. What do you mean make it challenging. You dont know how hard this is for me. Put one leg up. No. Yes. And then do a pushup. Other leg, pushup. Okay, thats it for me. Daddy needs a nap. Shes very athletic, like you, mika, very impressive stuff. Now, what would you pay for one kiss with Elizabeth Hurley . That very prize was auctioned off last night at a benefit for the elton johns foundation. A banker named julian barky forked over 50,000 pounds or what amounts to 80,000 for a brief makeout session with the british actress. He is the photo evidence that he got exactly what he paid for. It looks like they both thoroughly enjoyed that kiss, mika, and it was all for a good cause. Okay. I just want to see the spider. Louis, thank you very much. Up next, newton spiders and Everything Else that weve learned today. This is the greatest video i think ive seen in years. Well be right back. Whenwork with equity experts who work with regional experts who work with Portfolio Management experts thats when expertise happens. Mfs. Because there is no expertise without collaboration. Watch. Dentist. At 1800dentist, weve helped over 8 Million People find that right dentist. We can do the same for you. So dont put it off. Call 1800dentist. Transit fares as in the 37 billion transit fares we help collect each year. No . Oh, right. Youre thinking of the 1. 6 million daily Customer Care interactions xerox handles. Or the 900 million Health Insurance claims we process. So, its no surprise to you that companies depend on todays xerox for services that simplify how work gets done. Which is. Pretty much what weve always stood for. With xerox, youre ready for real business. Dad hes our broker. He helps looks after all our money. Kid do you pay him . Dad of course. Kid how much . Dad i dont know exactly. Kid what if youre not happy . Does he have to pay you back . Dad nope. Kid why not . Dad it doesnt work that way. Kid why not . Vo are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed . Wealth management at charles schwab
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checked shirt day. Joe, did you learn anything . Weve got to clean up our green room. Donny has left a variety of stains in there. I look forward to seeing you on meet the press this sunday. If its way too early, its morning joe. Stick around, Peter Alexander has the daily rundown. Thanks for being with us this week. Look forward to seeing you next week. Breaking news as we speak, as a third american infected with the ebola virus arrives for treatment in nebraska. We are going to take you live to omaha for the very latest. Its also jobs day here and the new report out just minutes ago shows the economy added 142,000 jobs last month. That is the smallest increase this year. We will get the latest from the Labor Department and break down the numbers with moodys top analyst who says that he already expects these numbers will be revised higher. Plus just a couple of hours fr n