Days. Vice president Kamala Harris, of course, is now Donald Trumps opponent in the race. Were going to go through the strategies for that showdown. Also ahead, well have expert legal analysis on Hunter Bidens surprise guilty plea in his federal Tax Case. Well have the latest on that. Well also bring you the very latest developments out of georgia, as the father of the suspect is now facing charges. And the weapon used in the attack appears to have been a gift to his son. The shooter. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is friday, september 6th. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white House Bureau Chief at polpolitico, jonathan lem. Special correspondent for bbc news, Katty Kay is with us. Pulitzer prize winning Columnist And Associate editor of the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson is here. And Msnbc Contributor and author of the book how the right lost its mind, Charlie Sykes is here. Well start this hour with pretty big theres a lot of stuff to t
racially motivated. he apparently has an issue, what he considers sees these locationings as something that allows him to go to these places. it was a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate. now on the one hand, is the analysis as simple as the sheriff makes it? again a certainty here is just what happened, just this pointless loss of life for so many and so many families affected within the asian and american community, is certainly fueling widespread fears in the asian american communities all over this country. a lot of new information is emerging about the suspect today. according to authorities has confessed as you just heard from the sheriff, he is charged with eight counts of murder, one count of attempted murder. but no hate crimes. that is going to take more of a process of investigation he didn t help by admitting it as that. one victim did survive this nightmare. now, a former roommate of the suspect tells cnn that the suspect did feel tortured by a s
in washington today the arrest of a 31-year-old texas man outside the naval observatory of the official residence of vice president harris. a rifle ask ammunition were recovered from his vehicle. he has been charged with several accounts. among them carrying possession of unregistered munition and large munition fueling device. the secret service says the secret service operators detained him. vice president harris wasn t there and a bulletin originated in the state of texas. the news continues right now. we ll hand it over to chris cuomo for prime time. i appreciate it, there is no question there has been a surge in violence and hate against asian americans. anti-asian crimes surged by nearly 150% in 2020. and we know the increase spiked there ut the pandemic and we know just yesterday trump went on hate tv and spewed his anti-asian hateful covid slur. and he did it again to deflect blame for the virus he chose to spread across our country. here s what we don t know. we
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm In Washington where the us Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, says he wont be involved in any investigation into whether russia interfered in last years president ial election. Hes been accused of lying about contacts he had with russian officials during the campaign and senior democrats have called on him to resign, accusing him of lying on oath to congress. Mr sessions has denied doing anything wrong. This is what he told reporters a little earlier. We talked a little bit about terrorism, as i recall and somehow the subject of the ukraine came up. I have the Ukrainian Ambassador in my office the day before and. To listen to him. Nothing that russia. Russia had done nothing that was wrong in any area and Everybody Else was wrong with regard to the ukraine. It got too bit of a testy conversation at that point. Our North America Editorjon Sopel has this on the days events. I thought it was telling last night that as soon as the story broke ther
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm In Washington where the us Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, says he wont be involved in any investigation into whether russia interfered in last years president ial election. Hes been accused of lying about contacts he had with russian officials during the campaign and senior democrats have called on him to resign, accusing him of lying on oath to congress. Mr sessions has denied doing anything wrong. This is what he told reporters a little earlier. We talked a little bit about terrorism, as i recall and somehow the subject of the ukraine came up. I have the Ukrainian Ambassador in my office the day before and. To listen to him. Nothing that russia. Russia had done nothing that was wrong in any area and Everybody Else was wrong with regard to the ukraine. It got too bit of a testy conversation at that point. Our North America Editorjon Sopel has this on the days events. I thought it was telling last night that as soon as the story broke ther