With signs of hope slowly emerging. Good morning. Its august 17th. This is today. Fire starter . Video showing downed power lines sparking a blaze. Just as work to recover more victims moves forward. A key road is reopened, clearing the way for more help to arrive. Were there live. Midair scares. Alarming video shows the engine of a Southwest Airlines plane in flames moments after takeoff. While on a flight from miami, the pilot suddenly collapses and dies. His crew safely landing that plane. Both incidents now under information. Well have the very latest. Extreme weather. Tens of millions under new heat alerts this morning, from the Pacific Northwest down to the south. Severe storms expected across the midwest and the northeast. Als tracking all of it. Shark watch. Officials increasing patrols, even holding rare drills on new york beaches after a string of attacks. You cant let go until help arrives. This morning, the new steps to keep swimmers safe heading into a busy summer weekend.
Thank you, as always. Thanks to all of you for getting up Way Too Early on this tuesday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Trumps lawyers, theyve been working to paint Michael Cohen as a sleazy liar who is hellbent on revenge, conveniently leaving out the fact trump used him as his own personal porno venmo. After calling 20 minutes over the past month, the prosecution rested their case. When he heard, trump was like, ive been resting the whole case. [ applause ] time to rest. Time to rest. Michael cohen admitted on the stand today he stole money from the Trump Organization. Only in a donald trump trial would the star witness be the one who ends up going to jail. How lucky is donald trump . Donald trump is like a corruption mr. Magoo. Hes just stumbling around, quid pro quoing, metal beams falling all around him, getting out unscathed. Well have more from Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial, including the Dramatic Exchange in court with a trump ally that led to the judge clearing the cou
At morning, and welcome to the Sunday Edition of Morning Joe Weekend. It was another fastmoving newsweek, and here are some of the conversations you might have missed. I have, for 6 months since people have been freaking out, i am telling you every time, talk to anybody whos running the campaign, the big part of the campaign. I dont know what they are telling you, what they are telling other people. They act ing like people are holding four aces. How about this . Thats pretty bad. Oh, yeah. Looks really tough. Yeah. Is as a criticism . No, im telling you. They know something that i think a lot of us dont know. They look at numbers, they see where things are going, they have a theory of the case, and when they realize donald trump is going to be getting into the race, they understand that you win politics by raising money. They understand Donald Trumps numbers are way down in every way, and fundraising, and they say, no, they are not. And as far as organization goes, we all know anybody
President trumps Hush Money Trial. He laid out tons of evidence during his testimony including tapes and emails and photos and calendar events. Impressive. One of trumps lawyers might win a case. Well, outside the court defending trump, he made a fraudian slip. Lets pray for our other side on this shameless prosecution. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, may 15th, along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of Way Too Early Jonathan Lemire. You know how long it took us to book him . Years to get stephanopoulos and longer to get Jonathan Lemire. He just wandered . He is a chief columnist. How do you like it . I love it. Dont give me a hard time. Ive been in this seat at least three and a half minutes. Three and a half minutes yeah. Early. Right, you were. Early. Yelling there is that. Im shocked. Im shocked that john couldnt modulate his voice. I usually do that on good morning america. Heilemann is here. Author of the book how the right lost its mind Charlie Sykes
Morning. His new plan to keep passengers happy and what the airlines doing to help hurricane victims. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The governor of puerto rico is so thankful for the great job that were doing and its the most difficult job because its on an island in the middle of the ocean. The president defends his response to hurricane marimaria the president has called, pledged his support. Steve bannons candidate in the runoff. President trump ups the rhetorical ante. It will be devastating, i can tell you that. Devastating for north korea. Thats called a military option. A scandal rocks College Basketball. Four coaches among ten people charged in a bribery case. Theres jail time people could be facing and this now big. Fire crews are making progress on a major brush fire. This fire has a potential to take off. Women are allowed the drive for the first time. This is a historic day. All that a brawl erupted in a parliame parliament. And