Is here on set. I have to say i am confused the flag is a controversy. I am sure it will work itself out, willie right . I think its definitely started to work itself out. Whoever is still sitting silent about it. There arent many back t. Rnc the two republican senators from South Carolina the republican governor all stood together yesterday. So its a small group. Hello, senator mccain is here. Senator don mccain. Nice jacket, man. Very sharp. Tie and everything. What about pete rose . Pete. Well, theres that. I bet he doesnt get into the hall of fame, though do you think . But he hiss. Whatever you want. Were not on yet. Sure. Lets meet pete rose. In 2004, you know pet rose came clean. He bet on baseball while he was a manager. But for nearly 30 years, major leak baseball all time hits leader insisted he never bet as a player. I never bet against my own team. Now espns outside the lines say its obtained documents that shows rose did, in fact bet on games he played in although fought against his own team. Documents are pages from a notebook seized by a former associate, a sketchy guys, under court order seal show rose bet on the Cincinnati Reds during the 86 season again showed no reason he bet against them. He was banned in 1989. Not a big surprise to a lot of people. This was out there. Now a document to prove it. The elements outside theline lines had specific evidence. Of course we just showed it. The evidence they compiled was very similar the to the evidence, 20 25 years agoing hes a dejen rat gambleer and bet on everything. He meant to entertain. Are you kidding me . A dejen rat gambleer. Of course he bet. Do you think he did . Absolutely. If he didnt do a cashout bid. The book that he was using, at the end of the day, when he didnt bet. You are saying great greatest hitter of all time. Will you vote for him to get into the hall . Not after this, i dont think he should get into the mall. If you bet on morality. Nobody proved he influenced. He bet on his team to win. Do you believe that . You havent been around a lot of gambleer, have you . I havent. But i do think the guy gets over 4,000 hits. Hes an extraordinary hitter of our time. You have ted Williams Pete rose ty cobb. Anything he will do he will admit he lied. If hes in the hole 50,000 to a a, his team is drunk the fight before before. I watched them play against pete rose fought pete rose hank aaron, doesnt hank aaron get greater with age . Hank aaron is the home run king. The guy had an amazing batting average. A man of great character. Consider the circumstances under which he was doing all that with Death Threats on him every day because he was chasing babe ruths record. He was playing with some serious pressure. Plus he played for my atlanta braves. There is also very important. Lost over 100 games a year. Rocket era. Already. You already to go now . Lets go to atlanta up to South Carolina. That would be great. I have news now worth talking about. I love rc. We begin this morning. We start now in South Carolina the governor has taken a historic step, calling for the removal of the Confederate Flag flanked by an unlikely scene of supporters including congressman jim clyburn and rfc chair governor nikki haley explains why the flags time has come. Whether for good or bad whether on a statehouse grounds or if a museum the flag will always be a part of the soil of South Carolina but this is a moment we can say that flag while an integral part of our past does not represent the future of our great state. So what remains to be scene e seen is whether the political will a headcount from the post and courier suggests a boom chambers want it to come down. In the senate. More than half declined to respond how they would vote. Some observers note it took the death of nine africanamerican sids in a church to finally force action. I hate that it happened on the eve of this tragedy. I hate that the tragedy is what actually made this happen. The governor we ae plaud her efforts. We know it wouldnt happen without her. We applaud these conservatives and the to see clang and now they see it as something they want to change it down. When you see rex prevus there. It gives you an indication that they were tired of candidates dancing around nine People Killed over this hateful symbol and whether it ought to come down. South carolina is not the only state seeking change t. House speaker in mississippi is pushing for removal of a confederate emblem on the state flag. Walmart says it is removing all items promoting the Confederate Flag. Good for them t. First lady and Vice President will all travel to charleston for the funeral of discriminate store clemente pinckney. How do you feel about this . Yeah. I mean this is the people outside the south dont understand. This is a big deal. Its obviously a very big deal in South Carolina. It would have been a much bigger deal 20 years ago when this wasnt seen universally as a symbol of hatred but what is seen certainly among most white south earners as defiance in many ways a against the north. We obsess over southeastern football because we havent come, dealt with the fact that we lost the war. Never forget. Will you have a debate. You heard on twitter last night people stating the extraordinarily insightful width of the civil war, that doesnt mean 100 years later i cant be proud of the south and stick it to yankees as we always grew up calling them by putting a Confederate Flag up in our room or whatever. It changed over the years when it became universally seen by the overwarming majority of americans as a symbol of hatred. 20 years later, its time to take it down. I have been saying it and i was surprised, but very happy yesterday that these compligs politician there is South Carolina took the step they did ilt amazing how fast this happened not the overall movement in decades, but among republicans inside South Carolina, which unfortunately, tragically, these murders are a catalyst for it. All the way down the line from the government to the for, everybody falk if line for that, remarkable for republicans if South Carolina to do it. There was a crush of statements in the wake of announcements from republicans across the country. Senator john mccain tweeted his support. If 2000, he apologized for not being more candid for taking down the flag. He told the time i feared f that if i answered honestly, i could not win the South Carolina primary. I broke my promise to always tell the truth. Governor scott walker tweeted a statement of truth t. Day before he said it was up to the state. Sources said he wanted to calm for the flags removal but waited at governor nikki haleys question. Jeb bush in florida similarly praised haley for doing the right thing. Kevin carson wrote about dylanen roof, some did a dance over the obvious. Quote not everything is about race in this country, but when it is about race. Then it just s. Lets call this sickness what stoz we can get on with the healing. Senator rand paul reached out directly to africanamericans, senator paul acknowledged a gaffe recently after the death of Freddie Moore in baltimore. I came on the train. Im glad the train didnt stop. One other person is mitt romney who got up early and numbered a lot of the 2016 candidates to move in this direction. It was great. There is a great example how mitt romney still is going to have an impact on this race and this party. From a good way. He was praised for it. I remember seeing it saturday. He retweeted it and wrote something myself and, boom everybody started if soon after mitt romney did that. He had real impact in this debate. Also, something about South Carolina too. There is also an impact on the state lanes e legislators who 20 years ago may have been dragging their feet. By the fact that he hasnt been to South Carolina you dont know what a change the state has gone through over the past 20 years, there are so many people that moved n. Carole campbell when he brought in bmw, michelin boeing a massive plant from boeing found if charleston and it is an economic magnet for Companies Across the world. You go to greenville on friday night and, in fact we were down there for a book event and the mayor was telling us this. Go to greenville on a friday night. Are you as likely to hear people speaking german as you are here having been hearing english. I was shocked. It is such a mix. At green victim especially charleston its extraordinary whats happened to that state. Since Carole Campbell started this economic revolution connecticut, they want an example of how to bring industry into a state ha already had the great quality of life. You can do no better than what South Carolina has done. Thats had a big impact. In addition to that have you the obvious demographic changes that have taken place in this state with the migration of people retirees from the north to South Carolina rather than just to florida or just to arizona, a huge and growing population of retirees in South Carolina. So you know just to lock at this sort of there is changes happening in lots of different ways, if 2010 governor nikki haley reportedly said the issue with the flag had been resolved to the best of its ability. In 2014 during her reelection bid she panned criticism from her democratic challenger as being last minute election politics. Take a look. You know the Confederate Flag is a very sensitive issue. What i can tell you, over the last three yafl years ago i spend a lot of days on the phone to ceos and recruiting jobs to this state. I can honestly say i have not had one conversation with the ceo about the Confederate Flag. What is important we look at the perception of South Carolina matters, thats why we have everybody answering the phones. Thats why we are named the friendliest state t. Most economic state in getting these great accolades. We fixed all of that when you introduced the first Indian American governor. When we appointed the first african person u. S. Senator. That sent a huge message. It is now also sending a huge message. It does. And you know im waiting for these holdouts to speak out because yoyo understand at this time. I dont think they have another choice. Lets go on to politics. Lindsey graham and yes. Senator kevin scott as well the governor and two u. S. Senators, that is a powerful powerful message. For sure. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is expected to talk about race when she travels to missouri today. Clinton is cloin joining a Community Meeting at the church in st. Louis, a suburb at the site of last summers unrest over the Police Shooting of teenager michael brown. Meanwhile, an nbc wall street journal poll shows clinton dominated the field. Clinton garners 75 of the vote in the new national poll. A poll 60 points ahead of bernie sanders. 92 of democrats say they can see themselves supporting clinton as the nominee and in a general election matchup, former Florida Governor jeb bush performs best against clinton. Though she leads all three Top Republicans candidates. Anything interesting . You put up the headtoheads. Unless they sprinkle with pixie dust Hillary Clinton pixie dust this is out of line with most of the polls we have seen over the past month or two in hillarys favor. If anybody believes an election today, Hillary Clinton won by 8 points over jeb, then come on. Lets go to london to make some bets. You dont think she would . No, i know she wouldnt. Certainly not by 8 points. It doesnt matter. Its early. Im just saying if hillary runs against jeb. That will probably be an all nighter. Yes, we can say that 15 months out. No, i think there is a real disconnect between the conversation inside washington and the Media Echo Chamber and america on Hillary Clinton. Theyll just go for her. Im not saying whether its right or wrong or whatever. You go out there and you talk to people about Hillary Clinton. They will vote for her. Its a bit creepy. You look at the number inside our poll from the Democratic Party. You can see why her campaign can see why it will brush it aside. 92 of respondents in the Democratic Party say i could see myself voting for Hillary Clinton. Bernie sanders has a strong following. Still hes at 15 overall while shes at 75 . Something could happen you know, that is a staggering change. There could be some event or gaffe or whatever but i cant everyone envision what is at this point. We just had one last week if charleston, South Carolina. She will address race today from a way she has not addressed race i think in her last campaign or has recently and she on her own clock. Again, we talked about this. Her campaign is on her own clock. She has no truth to this. She can be on her own clock. You know when mike and i talked about how this race is going to be close, there are a lot of things already baked into the cake. You take casualty of the states that mitt romney won. Most republicans will say thats a low water mark. You add all those states up doesntly, all jeb has to do or marco or whoever wins the nomination, they will win florida, ohio to virginia and then pick up maybe new hampshire, one other state. Well jeb will win florida, if its him. Chances are good he will take kasich or somebody in ohio. Im sorry, jeb will win virginia. Then you go out west to all the hispanic states the hispanic influence states the republicans got slaughtered in new mexico will go if jeb win, colorado will go for jeb. Nevada will go for jeb. Suddenly you got two sides scrambling, so how can we say this, this early on . Because we k. Hold the tape. Save the tape. If its hillary and jeb and they run Great Campaigns, we will be up late late late election night. Its a jump ball election facility if its jeb. Yeah it is. All right. Still ahead on morning joe, we will talk to former Governor Haley barber who said the Confederate Flag didnt have anything to do with last weeks shooting, more on that damming report about pete rose. He looks happy. Thats his happy moment. So many times, barnacle we have pictures of people coming on the show that dont represent their true that does that is lupica on his birthday. Okay. Later, after winning the lottery, Congress Woman elise elise stefanic. The first confirmed lead for the two convicts in upstate new york. We golike live to the center of the search. Up next a switch thats happened here. Whats happening . You look nice from top to bottom. Gene is wearing jeans with no socks. I love gene. Have you socks on . Put a little food on your shirt. You got your outfit down usually. First bill kierans with a check on the forecast. Bill. Severe thunderstorms are rolling right now through pennsylvania heading towards d. C. To boston are going to get a line of storms during the day today. Yesterday, we had a large wedge tornado that went through northern portions of illinois this was some Storm Chasers that are on that tornado. There was a power folds bending in the wind there. Then the little wider view you can see the actual tornado there in the background the power blasts and the surges there, the transformers. Thankfully, no injury no deaths. 14 tornado reported yesterday. That leads us to where we are at now. We are still watching these strong storms roll into pennsylvania. A lot of people in cleveland and erie are waking up as these storms roll through. Watch out from binghamton to williamsport and eventually towards scranton. As far as the forecast will go today, notice 47 Million People in this orange colored enhanced risk area. Thats where the storms will be the strongest. Late this afternoon, widespread wind damage and even a tornado or two is possible. Most likely location will be areas of central portions of new england. The timing of those storms. We take it from 2 00 p. M. Through 4 00 p. M. T. Majority of the storms will be at i95 Providence Hartford philadelphia and d. C. It looks like your timing is around 5 00 to 7 00 p. M. A. Chance of storms later this ornament airports will have significant delays. You are watching morning joe. Well be right back. Right. Dont open up anyone elses mic because theyre not ready. Its seriously is romper room. 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