Republicans with what was the word of the week, weird. Both candidates were on the Campaign Trail over the weekend with Donald Trump making an pitch to voters. Well play the comments. Meanwhile, trumps Running Mate defends his remarks on childless Cat Ladies. Well show how Jd Vance decided to double down. And well bring you the latest from the Middle East, where there are growing fears of a wider conflict following a deadly attack in israel by hezbollah. Also ahead, an update on the Paris Games, including an Injury Scare for one of Team Usas most decorated athletes. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is monday, july 29th. Im Jonathan Lemire. Joe and mika continue their vacation this week. Theyll pop back on, though, in the event of any big, breaking news. Willie, that lucky guy, is on assignment at the olympics in paris. We will check in with him at various points during the week. But with us this morning, we do have msnbc political analyst elise jordan. She is a former aide to t
phenomenal job again, alex, billington. is cruising around yesterday, i ll 4, getting my meds come over the counter guess what i saw? hearts, lots of hearts but valentine s day, i noticed that. caught me off guard i saw the red and i thought his christmas decorations no hearts everywhere. pressure on delivering come valentine s day? they just made a lot of money they did well. keep it going. i got in and got up quickly. maybe you did i don t know. start loading up. for the calendar believe it is a friday this year. absolutely. weather, we have been watching patchy, dense fog portions of the coast but actually the inland spots. dense fog impacting visibility to concord. improving a little bit up to a quarter-mile in fairfield just over a mile. here is the plan for today partly sunny skies more clouds especially for tonight in mild this afternoon upper 50s to lower 60s. storm tracker to the north of the bay area. we will introduce scattered, high clouds througho
my name is kathryn martucci on the director of policy and programs at the alliance for health policy at i had the pleasure of welcoming you all on behalf of the alliance to our breakfast series for reporters. for those who are not thinly withfo the alliance, we are a nonpartisan organization that is dedicated to convening and educating health policy community through a balance exchange of evidence. we are so thankful to bill pierce and apco worldwide for supporting the alliance and put it on this syrians with that support we ve had the privilege of hosting many 15 guests and panel discussion over the past couple of years, including joe grogan and we are honored to welcome back to be properly you have the decision being our first repeat guest picky joined us about a year ago when is an associate director at omb and to look for doing about your new role and healthcare priorities as a director of the domestic policy council. so thank you for being here again. thank you to all of
francisco, 50 san jose in santa rosa and the mid 40s this morning. weather headlines, a mild start to our monday, mostly clear skies, sunshine, warm temperatures as we go through the afternoon, highs in the 60s and in the 70s. well above average for this time of year. we continue with the warm weather for today, it was a rate weekend, the first sunny and warm we can of the year. we are looking at the rain returning this week with much cooler temperatures as we are tracking a few weather systems rolling in this week. we time it out on future cast for you, take you are by hour, what you can expect where you live coming up. let s check in for a look at traffic, we have traffic alerts this morning. as we do. as you work your way along highway four, i just checks with chp, it will be wrapped up in the next couple of minutes. as of right now, two right lanes still blocked pushing everything over to the right shoulder, a pretty big backup behind the, you also have a crash report r
we re going to go ahead and get started. my name is scott pattison, ceo of the national governors association. i m really thrilled. one of the things we try to do is respond to governors suggestions. one of the things they said was let s try top let s try something like ted talks. i m just thrilled to introduce the first governor to oversee this experiment here at the national governors association. governor doug ducey, of arizona. thank you. [applause] : thanks, scott. andeople want to come in grabbed their seat, we can get started straight away. this is a real pleasure, for me to be back in washington, d.c. this is my third winter meeting as a governor and i m honored to be able to have the opportunity to kick off this hot topics hot top topics topics session today. i want to thank my colleagues who are coming back to the table here this morning and joining me. this session is going to consist four ted-like talks and engagements. we will be discussing national infr