morning joe, it s monday. did you have a good monday? i will tell you about it in just a moment. joe has a lot of cats. he s a cat man. we were not big cat people. we had dogs. mika is a cat woman and apparently everybody in our family has - cats. everybody decided to get cats and everybody decides to leave town. and drop their cats off. i am herding cats. what do i do? usually sit down and watch my soccer and smoke cigarettes, drink my pbr. here i am herding cats all weekend. you are really good with the food for some and you keep it from the others that they don t get stomach problem, you are caring for all your cats. okay. it was quite a fixture to come home to. put them on leashes. with us, we have the host of msnbc, reverend al sharpton. very disturbed, i am thinking you are a dog guy reverend al, i am not a cat guy. if they were thrust upon me on this marriage. i am neither a dog guy or cat guy if i can help it. i have been caught once or twi
house and helped persuade the united nations that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which of course iraq did not. powell, a lifelong republican, broke with his party to endorse barack obama for president in 2008 on meet the press with tom brokaw. i think he is a transformational figure, i ll be voting for senator barack obama. he then backed joe biden for the white house in 2020, after leaving the republican party and speaking out against former president trump. we have to make sure that our top leadership, especially the president of the united states has to be an example for the rest of the country that we are one nation, one people. joining me now, nbc news correspondent courtney kube at the pentagon, and john letterman. as proud as he was being secretary of state, he always wanted to be referred to after he left the state department for the rest of his life as general powell. that s a really interesting point. technically as the secretary of st
President biden has just released a statement upon the death of colin powell, and i just want to read in part what he says. he says time and time again he put country before self before party before all else in uniform and out and earned him the universal respect of the american people. having repeatedly broken racial barriers, blazing a trail for others to follow in federal government service, colin was committed throughout his life in investing in the next generation of leadership. whether through his care for the women and men serving under his command and the diplomats he led or through the work he shared with his wife alma at the america s promise alliance to lift up young people or through his years leading the eisenhower partnerships, colin s leadership included a focus on the future. we ll have a lot more on colin powell coming up. meanwhile, a desperate effort is underway to find and
And he became really a spokesman for moderating force. there was a wineberger doctrine that was put out in the 1980s to try to avoid some of the mistakes we need in vietnam. colin powell was one who extended the doctrine. what he said is when the united states goes to war, they don t want a fair fight. and the powell doctrine was that you use overwhelming force. you achieve your stated goal, and then you bring the troops home. and it was a sort of thing that unfortunately we haven t listened to as a country, because colin powell also said, before you commit troops to battle, you have your end game already set out. what is the goal you seek to accomplish? and unfortunately, tragically,
Secretary of state for george w. bush. according to a post on facebook, mika, the powell family broke the news this morning. the first, by the way, african american secretary of state. and the family says general colin powell, former u.s. secretary of state and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff passed away this morning due to complications from covid-19. he was fully vaccinated. he want to thank the medical staff at walter reed national medical center for their caring treatment. we have lost a remarkable, loving husband, father, grandfather, and a great american. the powell family. and the family pointing out, joe, that colin powell had been vaccinated and yet, still passed away due to covid-related complications. so i know a lot of the