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
this video of a strike, which we ve geolocated to be nearly 100 miles north of the other strike you ve just seen. the houthis are a political and military group who control a large part of yemen, including the capital, and they re allies of iran, who give them backing in the form of weapons and political funding. this is a map showing some of the strikes by the us and uk in yemen. a number of these have been confirmed by the uk s ministry of defence. the us has said over 100 weapons were fired at 16 houthi locations. the uk, meanwhile, has said it s been involved in strikes in two locations, and this is all in response to repeated houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the red sea. the houthis released this video in november of them seizing a cargo ship which they ve been holding with its crew off the yemeni coast. they ve been targeting ships heading to israel or those which they believe have israeli connections following the outbreak and most of these attacks have all bee
lai is in taipei. i think what they re looking for, people who are looking the kyiv tea party is a more relaxed dialogue relationship tft tft party. we were just at the ruling dpp party rally as well. tens of thousands of supporters have rallied across across taipei and new taipei city. and i think what you get is a mix of two things. one, the domestic issues, the economy. this has come up many, many times to the people that i ve spoken to, mothers who talk about child care policies, young people who actually feel quite unheard by the two establishment parties, if you will, and are tilting towards the dpp, and are tilting towards the tpp, that third force, as they describe themselves about about employment, about housing. but in the back of everyone s mind, i think, is the cross strait relationship, that strained relationship with beijing, how beijing is going to react to whoever comes into power. so geopolitics is very much present here. that context that you were talking
optimism from the opposition party ahead of the election tomorrow? that is what ou ahead of the election tomorrow? that is what you feel ahead of the election tomorrow? that is what you feel here. obviously, as you say, is what you feel here. obviously, as you say, it is what you feel here. obviously, as you say, it has kind of wrapped up but you you say, it has kind of wrapped up but you can you say, it has kind of wrapped up but you can feel the excitement and as you but you can feel the excitement and as you mentioned, the optimism, and we are as you mentioned, the optimism, and we are essentially on home turf when it comes we are essentially on home turf when it comes to we are essentially on home turf when it comes to the kmt, because they have the it comes to the kmt, because they have the male of new taipei city here have the male of new taipei city here and have the male of new taipei city here and his supporters are all around here and his supporters a
but here s this deal we re going to touting it and then say we re going to run it over republicans in the next phase so don t worry progressives your priorities are going to be in here as well. that s why you heard the criticism from mitch mcconnell. but this is the reality of counts voting in a 50/50 senate and a narrowly divided house of representatives. progressives have said we want reassurances on climate, child care policies and these other things the president has proposed. we don t want to leave them at the whims of the bipartisan deal, frankly. and they know that, right. so the house is also incredibly tricky because nancy pelosi, the speaker, only has a handful of votes that she can spare and progressives there have also said, why are we putting this all on this alter of bipartisanship. that puts everyone in a tricky position. and watching what mitch mcconnell does and how he talks about it is going to be, i