ahead than the united states and united states companies in trading, and in doing things to build africa. africa is an opportunity, an opportunity that finally, it looks like, some will engage seriously thanks to this president. thanks for watching. i m al sharpton. hardball starts right now. counter suit. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. let me start with what caused a big remarkable reaction last night. i m talking about the idea of the president turning the tables and suing what he calls this don t do nothing congress. they sue him. people think they should do what i talked about last night, sue them back. many think suing the congress back is the way the president
should respond to what the republicans in the house of representatives did to him last week. think about it. time and again congress has failed to act on even the most roo are teen matters of official business like approving ambassadors for posts overseas. it s failed to do w
that s going to wrap it up for way too early. morning joe starts right now. here s a political announcement. a political announcement. i saw already this was like two days ago. take a look at this. he s been called an elitist. he vacations on martha s vineyard. he has been accused of ignoring the crisis in missouri and overlooking the concerns of the african-american community. hell, i could do that. paid for by romney, 2016. good morning, everybody. it is thursday, august 21st. welcome to morning joe. a lot to get to this morning. boy, we do. on the front page of all the papers, we have got news that there was an attempt to rescue jim foley. we start there. the pentagon confirms that dozen of special operation troops unsuccessfully tried to rescue the journalist james foley and
other american hostages earlier this summer in syria. the captives were not at the targeted locations and foley was eventually murdered by islamic. people are very angry right now about n
our own lack that we have an obligation it make america work for everyone. thanks for watching. i m al sharpton. hardball starts right now. a cheap impeachment. let s play hardball. good evening, i m chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this evening s house vote to sue the president of the united states. is this impeachment light as some are calling it, a way to brand the president as bad, without the trouble and noise of putting him on trial? or is this the first bitter assault on the man in the white house? a tar and feathering to precede the worst? is this the beating that precedes the execution. excuse me, is there any other way to see this speck tickle
than by condemnation of the congress minus the due process of impeachment. something to chuckle about, perhaps even savor over the family camping trip. that s certainly wait the hard right back ventures see this. this absurd, travesty for television. this, as i said, impeachment on the cheap. an all t
he later spoke out against the war and promised to bring that experience to the white house as commander in chief. what conservatives did next was shameful. they launched a swift boat ad smearing his war record, trying to drag him down into the mud. a few years later, they tried it again against another democratic nominee, but it hasn t worked. you can keep trying to smear and lie, but after a while, truth will rise again. i m al sharpton. hardball starts right now. impeach me. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in
washington. let me start tonight with what could be a battle between president obama and the republican congress. the stakes are these. can congress destroy a president s ability to destroy the vital problems facing the country, a broken immigration system, aging and decaying infrastructure? can a partisan house of representatives sabotage the working of the democracy, kill a presidency in broad daylight? uh now to the weapons. the speaker of th
eventually rescued. what a scary job. fox & friends starts right now. have a great day. good morning. today is monday, the 4th of august, 2014. i m anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. we start with a fox news alert. ebola in the united states, one infected peasht patient here and another on the way. plus a scare at an airport in the u.k. after a passenger suddenly died after getting off the plane. developing details ahead. another story breaking overnight. contaminated water in ohio has half million people on edge this morning. residents are being told don t drink it, don t touch it and you can t boil it. it makes it worse. new tests just in. we ll have a live report from toledo. as democrats run away from president obama, the
most wanted man in america turns out to be drum roll please mitt romney. why the former presidential candidate is in high demand on the campaign trail. mornings are vastly superior with friends. it s fox & friends. welcome to