Some, among other things, suspicious math there for the former President Yesterday calling what he calls a News Conference, but it featured much of what he typically says at his rallies. We have more from that event in just a moment. Good Morning And Welcome to Morning Joe. It is friday, august 16. Along with joe, willie and me, we have Msnbc Contributor mike barnicle, Pulitzer Prize winning Columnist And Associate editor of the Washington Post Eugene robinson and Managing Editor at the Bulwark Sam Stein is with us. Sam. Thank you for joining Way Too Early this morning. Donald trump held a second socalled News Conference in many weeks, this one at his club in bedminster, New Jersey beforeHand Trump was seen meeting with Mypillow Ceo Mike Lindell who continues to deny the results of the 2020 election. As for the event, trump spoke for just under an hour before taking several questions from reporters at The End. Initially he held back from making personal attacks against Vice President K
This is the ingraham angle. My interview with President Trump and Rereveal Something hes never before said about the day of the shooting. Plus his reaction to the biden to and whether or not he will actually debate Kamala Harris. But first. All right, Democrats Type think they may believe they may have a new winning message and a simple phrase. Speak on the other side, they are just weird. 32 ounces of weird. Donald trump and his weird. Strange, weird. You have these men because they are weird. We are not afraid of weird people. Laura really, that is it . Thats what its come to from a party that promotes this . And i guess this is not weird for the bidenharris Administration. And this was what come a perfectly normal thing for people to do on the white House Lawn the summer of 2023 . Welcome to the White House. Thank you. We stop this at the White House . Laura these are the people who think trump, vance, and maga are weird . And of course, the man up to a week ago, he was going to be
Because this moment in history calls for our collective strength. I didnt know what the Hell Nato was too much before, but it didnt take me long to figure it out, like about two minutes. Right now, World Leaders are arriving at the White House for Tonights Nato Dinner hosted by President Biden. And as biden shows actual leadership on the World Stage in the face of a Democratic Party meltdown, Donald Trump was showing his ignorance about nato and just about everything else in his latest unhinged performance. Also tonight, the rise of christian nationalism. Insurrection champion Josh Hawley says hes advocating it and trumps allies are planning to Infuse Christian nationalism into a second Trump Administration. But we begin tonight with a deep dive into what Donald Trump and his sycophants have planned for the Department Of Justice under project 2025. And how they would use the doj to attack american citizens. The 28page Section of the Projects Manifesto covering the Department Of Justice
Set to break pandemic levels. This morning while delivering remarks about the covid recovery, President Biden laid out his concerns as the u. S. Is sadly set to fall short of his u. S. Vaccination goal. Im concerned that people who have not gotten vaccinated have the capacity to catch the variant and spread it to other people who have not been vaccinated. Im not concerned that there will be a major outbreak, in other words, that were going to have another epidemic nationwide. There is a concern that lives will be lost. A lot of lives have been and will be lost. And inany cases right now completely unnecessary. Last month we lost about 10,000 americans from the virus. Its really tragic because around 99 of them would be alive today had they been vaccinated. That is based on recent cdc data. The uncomfortable truth is that when it comes to vaccinates there are one of two americans of the 19 states that surpassed the goal, all voted for biden. Of the ones far below the average numbers vot
The other party, the purpose of politics isperformative. Its about theater. Acting out the worst part offense their voting base. They passed two major legislations. Hr1 that would expand access to the ballot creating nationwide voter registration, restoring Voting Rights to the formerly incarcerated and the long overdue policing overhaul. Two real pieces of legislation. They did it with zero support from republicans. Sort of. One republican voted yes on the george floyd bill. Texas republican lance said he oopsied and pressed the wrong button by accident. Soon after every republican voted against police reform, one rose to address the most pressing issue of our time. We should all respect and honor dr. Seuss and forget this cancel culture nonsense. Lets be clear. The purpose of politics is supposed to be to do politics. To enact policy. You are simply not a Serious Political Party if youre using your time on floor of the u. S. House of representatives to harp on how to grinch stole chr