Subject, then well go back to the other because we sort of love that dont we no, its important they say its the most important subject. Im not sure it is. But they say its the most important. Inflation is the most important, but Thats Part of economy. All right. Donald trump undermining what his campaign had hyped as a significant economic address. The former president was light on policy and heavy on personal attacks. Well show you more of what he said straight ahead. Meanwhile, the economy is the top issue for President Biden, as it appears his administration is going to pull off the soft landing he predicted. Also ahead, well go through the normal things suburban women care about, uhhuh, thats according to Vice President Nominee Jd Vance. What he thinks is normal. And republican Governor Greg Abbott of texas is promising to keep bussing migrants to northern cities. But theres one big problem with that plan. We will explain. Good morning, and welcome to Morning Joe. It is thursday, a
Unjustly in russia. Paul, nearly six years. Vladimir since 2022. Evan since march 2023. Alsu since october 2023. They were convicted in Show Trials and sentenced to long Prison Terms with absolutely no legitimate reason whatsoever, none. Now, their brutal ordeal is over and theyre free. Joe biden speaking at the white House Yesterday about the most substantial Prisoner Swap since the cold war. Well have more of the president s comments and the emotional reunions for the wrongly Detained Americans in just a moment. Plus, Donald Trump is doubling down on his racebased attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris after falsely claiming this week that she only recently decided to become a black person. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is friday, august 2nd. Im Jonathan Lemire along with the bbcs katty kay. Joe and mika will be back on monday. Willie continues his hard assignment at the paris olympics. This story unfolded while we were on air yesterday, we were talking. We knew a Prisone
And theyre still going to the Feed Stores and getting ivermectin. Can you believe that joe rogan, Eating Dewormers for cows. Yeah. Joe rogan who contracted covid and attributed his recovery to ivermectin. Did he do that . Yeah. He said he got better because he ate cattle dewormer. He said he ateivermectin, yes. So he attributed his recovery to that. But to your point, a guy like jim justice, a republican in the state of West Virginia, a guy like nick saban, these are not the elites that people who wont get the vaccine have been tauGht To distrust. So its not the media, its not dr. Fauci, its not a democrat. These are people they trust in their lives saying clearly and by The Way, Mitch Mcconnell did again yesterday, too, go get the vaccine. He said these Conspiracy Theories out there, he said are insane, go protect yourself and your family and our Community And State and lets get through this. And it does come from, you know, Tommy Tubberville in alabama. Nick saban in alabama. Got the
Victims, the president that retribution. To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, no this. We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay. I will defend our interests and our people with every measure at my command. This evening the flag atop the White House has been lowered to half staff, as where the flags over the u. S. Capital, they are now just five days left to complete the evacuation, the drawdown in afghanistan. Earlier this week, the president announced the August 31st deadline would not be extended, precisely because of Security Concerns surrounding the operation at the crowded airport. The White House says that despite todays bombings, neither the nda nor the mission has changed. I would note that more than 700,000 70,000 people were evacuated over the last 24 hours. That includes members from coalition partners. This is what the president is focused on, getting as many people on these planes, even as w
The u. S. Military and taliban tried to expert what authority they could. Militants with rifles kept crowds away from the Airport Gates Guarding checkpoints with trucks and at least one humvee by the roads. Many with bags at their sides numbers in the hundreds, not the thousands of previous days. The Security Situation turning the united states and the taliban into Strange Bed Fellows. Seth moulton went on a controversial and unauthorized trip to kabul this week described the scene before the bombing and how the marines are working with the taliban. Its an impossible Task Weve given them to literally sift through a sea of humanity, thousands and thousands of afghans to try to pluck out our allies, our friends and their families, their husbands, their wives, their little girls and boys, literally pull them to freedom. I expected to see a gate with marines on one side and afghans on the other. Thats not the way this could work. We have to go out in the crowd. So these marines were out th