president has a real thing for july the 3rd. if you remember, it was one year ago today he was at mt. rushmore, a huge rally there at the height, if you will, of the pandemic. so the president keeping up his traditions. back to you. joe johns reminding us of something that was only 12 months ago but feels like 20 years ago. thanks so much, joe, for being on the road for us. let s discuss tonight s appearance and so much more. with me my friend from the white house briefing room, white house correspondent and washington bureau chief for the grio, april ryan, former advisor to former president bill clinton, paul begala. april, it is not very typical for former presidents to hold rallies just months into his successor s term. former president trump is not very typical. i guess the question right now is does this help his party that he s still doing this? well, the party has some issues right now. they re trying to create the narrative about january 6th.
what a great story. verlander one of the greatest pitchers of our generation, he just looks gassed. he s having trouble in the fall. chris sale is a great pitcher through like july the 3rd. verlander is starting to look gassed now, and it s just it s tough, but it happens. it s a hell of a long season. yeah, he s 0-6 in world series games. like scherzer one of the greatest pitchers of any generation, but he doesn t get it done in the world series. i think they hoped he d take the ball last night and win the game. the nationals have gotten through cole, they ve gotten through verlander and now they re to zack grin key. . a great pitcher in his own right. everything plays. this is one of the great series. jack and i went up to see a few games. i know, good memory. this past weekend, and just
verdict on this charge of serious assault that a$ap rocky and two members of his entourage have been facing in sweden where they have been in custody since july the 3rd. we ll get the final verdict on august the 14th. what s important to remember about the judge s decision just 15 minutes or so ago in stockholm is that they can go for now, but it has not been determined whether or not they are innocent or guilty of these charges. all three of these individuals have pled not guilty to the charges. these relate to a june 30th incident on the streets of stockholm during which a 19-year-old afghan man was attacked allegedly with a glass bottle. now, rakeem meyers and two members of his entourage say, yes, they were involved in the street brawl but they were acting in self defense. back to you. okay, nina dos santos, thank you very much for the update on that case, we appreciate it. former u.s. ambassador to the u.s., nikki haley, is calling out president trump for his latest attack on
ready? whoa. yeah. you thought the women s world cup game yesterday was the big moment in sports. that was the big moment in sports. are you going to go visit the white house? i will go visit the white house. that s called the bottle cap challenge, something i didn t know about until yesterday. there s an mma fighter who did this first, where, you know, you get a big vodka bottle and kick it and touch it so it spins the cap off the bottle. they had me do it with jenna yesterday, on the today show, first try. tight pants. let s be honest. you have the legs for it. i do. i ve got some reach on these legs, and now walter isaacson is going to do it. we ve got a bottle here. walter has been stretching beforehand. welcome back to morning joe. new orleans we learned to do that growing up. i bet you do. down on the corner. it is wednesday, july the 3rd, i m willie geist, joe and mika have the day off. professor at princeton
history and joins now ss us now to talk about this. on average about 30 to 40 shark attacks in the u.s. waters every year. are we above the average so far at this point, july the 3rd? that s a sliding average because each year we expect more attacks than the last because there s more of us going in the water. last year we had 52 in the united states. we are on the same pace of last year. what are the factors that you think are keeping us at this pace? you say it s more people in the water? well, i mean that s ultimately the driving factor of course to have shark attack you have to have sharks and humans same place at the same time. there s a result of overfishing and more attacks is very suggestive that it s just simply more people in the water. and when we put it into context about saltwater and how obviously the sharks are around