the white house is billing the event as the largest gathering of african leaders ever in washington. a second american missionary affected with ebola is setbrants week are the only ebola patients ever treated in the u.s. ramping up for a potential presidential run, senator rand paul will continue his brief through iowa today. that does it for way too early. morning joe starts right now. stick around. join us in an effort to restore confidence, dignity and decorum to this institution. former white house press secretary james brady died today at the age of 73. only 69 days after ronald reagan took office. one bullet striking reagan in the chest. another penetrating brady s skull. the tragedy turned brady s wife sarah and eventually brady
himself into advocates for gun control. what may be an emerging genocide. shiite men are herded together and executed in mass graves. news about the experimental drug used to treat that american doctor infected now back here in
the rangers will host the flyers. avalanche with the wild. way too early and morning joe starts right now. you can do whatever you want. the little i ask you is not to promote it and not to bring him to my games. black people can t attend his games. [ boos ] i couldn t have said that better myself. folks, i m shocked that sterling would perpetuate the cruel stereotype that white people are genetically superior at basketball spectating. [ laughter ] oh, let me guess because our muscular skeletal structure makes it easier for us to pump cheese. that is racist. and everyone has expressed outrage, folks. even the clippers players made a statement. clippers players staged a
silent protest dumping their uniforms on court and wearing the jersey inside out and concealed the clippers logo. they concealed the beloved logo of the clippers which we all know is [ laughter ] i want to say a guy getting a hair cut or [ laughter ] a toenail clipper with googly eyes. [ laug
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from nbc world news headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. it is a circumstance the white house said under the dire circumstances was a necessary one but with the death of american photo journalist luke somers after a failed attempt to rescue him from al qaeda terrorists. tonight we have more
we must never be a place that we can have fear be the reasons we make moves. roosevelt said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. thank you for watching. i m al sharpton. hardball starts right now. afraid to vote? let s play hardball. good evening. in washington tonight 13 years after 9/11, the president declares war on a new terrorist enemy. but where s the congress? he says we ll have allies in the fight against isis, but where are the allies here at home? also tonight, will the nfl really deal with a player knocking out his knife? and with an executive office that seemed to allow it?
finally, a look at the last days of the vietnam war through pictures that highlight the fear of those left behind. we start with the trumpet from washington, the failure of both parties in congress to step up and says, yes, wooy support the president s call to drop bombs on the islamic state. do the democrats and republicans believe in this war or not? if it does, why won t it
oh, pretty morning. good morning, it s monday, july 11th. welcome to morning joe. 11th. with us on set we have the host of politics nation reverend al sharpton and also has a national action network and had a busy weekend but did watch soccer. i watched joe on twitter tell me what was going on on soccer. in between all the stuff i had. joe was my connection. that s nice. msnbc political analyst and school of public policy, former democratic congressman, herald ford jr. good morning. morning. man managing editor and co-host of with all due respect mark halperin. the circus returns with some good cameos. are we showing some of that this morning? i wouldn t know. let s regroup and make that
happen. speaking of cameos, really quickly. boy, wedding season. mike barnicle s son, colin barnacle, got married this weekend. lovely, lovely wedding. he tried to do that to me and broke my back. but mike barnicle and ann and was something. there is of course, phil gri