Thats going to wrap it up for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Heres a political announcement. A political announcement. I saw already this was like two days ago. Take a look at this. Hes been called an elitist. He vacations on Marthas Vineyard. He has been accused of ignoring the crisis in missouri and overlooking the concerns of the africanamerican community. Hell, i could do that. Paid for by romney, 2016. Good morning, everybody. It is thursday, august 21st. Welcome to morning joe. A lot to get to this morning. Boy, we do. On the front page of all the papers, we have got news that there was an attempt to rescue jim foley. We start there. The pentagon confirms that dozen of special operation troops unsuccessfully tried to rescue the journalist james foley and
other american hostages earlier this summer in syria. The captives were not at the targeted locations and foley was eventually murdered by islamic. People are very angry right now about not only about this murder. T
A dead giveaway. The ugly an acronym, krispy kreme u. K. The firm apologized after using kkk wednesday. They said it was completely unintentional. Frocks frocks fox friends starts now. Intoorm. It is february 18. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. The state department doubling down on its jobs for jihadis comments and they are blaming president bush. President george w. Bush talked about poverty being one of the drivers that lead people to extremism. Unbelievable. This as the isis carnage continues to escalate. And islamic extremism . Youre not going to hear that at the white house during the summit. They say its all just hype made up by us. We spend more time more time talking about what do you call it as opposed to what do you do about it . Fox didnt talk about this they would have nothing else to talk about, it would seem to me. Does it matter what we call it . Well discuss that. Well have nothing else to talk about except rocco. We could talk about dogs. We could talk about whatever else com
An apparent winner missouri. And Governor John Kasich easily won ohio with an 11point win over donald trump taking 47 of the vote. Trump added 194 delegates to his total yesterday, bringing them to 656. Ted cruz had a disappointing night, only took home 32 delegates to finish the night at 408 and kasich added 75. And trump is now more than halfway to the delegates he needs for the nomination on the first ballot at the convention with 581 to go. What a big night for Hillary Clinton. Clean sweep. It was a clean sweep. You cant overstate how big this was for the clinton campaign. Secretary clinton won by double digits in florida, North Carolina and ohio and notched razorthin victories in missouri and illinois. For much of the evening, those
two races were too close to call but nbc news has now declared clinton the apparent winner of each. In missouri, she edged out senator sanders by less than 2,000 votes but she picks up 363 delegates. Bernie adds 282 and now clinton is twothirds of the
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with joe and me this morning. The New York Times this morning are quoting somebody said that ben bradlee was the last of the lion king newspaper editors. He could be classy or approach fame, an energetic figure with a boxers nose and almost invarably dressed in a white collar bold stripe. And very salty language all the time. He was, its described elsewhere, a lot of tom brokaw remembers ben in a few minutes here with us and was, it was said that he drove the Washington Post too fast around corners. He drove it to its greatness
According to the Washington Post, abc news, Cheesecake Factory poll, voters favor donald trump over Hillary Clinton 46 to 44 . But how do you feel about it . 46 to 44, if you do the math, that only adds to 90 . The final 10 kept whispering kill me. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is may 24th. Mika has the morning off. Willie, as you know, its may and this time of the year she goes around the world and tries to help young rebels trying to train them im in an undisclosed location in a Counter Intelligence operation. Willie, we will get through this, which may be one of the uglier days in recent american political history. I say that because of what happened yesterday. We knew that the bill clinton allegations were coming. We didnt think they would come this early or this hard, but the vince foster charges bringing
those up and casting a light on suspicious activities. Thats about as low as it goes. And i was shocked that its already happening in may. Yeah, were in 1993 Conspi