obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. we ll play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to indict him, but shouldn t. we ll discuss his reasoning. and the 60-day sprint to the midters begins today, and it seems whoever is managing the money for the republican senate candidates can t get it right. how republican senator rick scott explains burning through loads of cash with little to show for it. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 8th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, author of the big lie, white house bureau chi
Curiosity about an american president taking boxes and boxes of classified, top-secret documents with him to his beach club. how do they do it? i ll never understand. still ahead on morning joe, more from the unveiling ceremony at the white house yesterday, where the official portraits of barack and michelle obama were finally unveiled. plus, senate republicans had more than $181 million in the bank in july. by august, most of it was gone. what the head of the national republican senatorial committee, senator rick scott, is saying about the money concerns ahead of the midterms. also ahead, the latest from ukraine, as the united states accuses russia of a war crime. arguing moscow is forcibly deporting hundreds of thousands of ukrainians. and we ll be joined by a pair of former defense secretaries. leon panetta and chuck hagel
He accused moscow of imitating the tactics of the nazis by deporting hundreds of thousands of ukrainians, and using aerial bombardments to flatten cities. meanwhile, the uk defence secretary, ben wallace, says vladimir putin continues to make fairy tale claims to justify his invasion. our kyiv correspondent, james waterhouse, has more details. no rallies in kyiv this victory day, in fact nothing major is happening for the first time since ukraine declared independence. figs for the first time since ukraine declared independence. as the ironclad house declared independence. as the ironclad house of declared independence. as the ironclad house of soviet - declared independence. as the ironclad house of soviet and i declared independence. as the - ironclad house of soviet and yummy meat in mortal combat. that country was meat in mortal combat. that country was part meat in mortal combat. .. that country was part of meat in mortal combat. that country was part of the - meat in m
And that became an obvious threat to our country and to our borders. ukraine s president zelensky has said russia is imitating the tactics of nazi germany with their bombardment of cities and by deporting hundreds of thousands of ukrainians. he added russia had forgotten everything that was important to the victors of the second world war. translation: there is nothing more | dangerous than an insidious enemy, | but there is nothing more poisonous than a fake friend. these are the words of the great ukrainian philosopher gregory skovoroda. on february 24th, we realised this truth when a fake friend started a war against ukraine. this is not a war of two armies. this is a war of two worldviews. the war waged by barbarians who shelled the skovoroda museum and believe that their missiles can