we appreciate it. stick around. we ll talk to you again in a few minutes on morning joe. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. to do something with 50 votes is rough. to do small things with 50 votes is rough. to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes, republican minority, a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin, wow. senate majority leader chuck schumer after the senate passed a sweeping climate health care and tax bill, putting democrats on the verge of another major win ahead of the midterms. republicans also scored a win for big pharma. we ll explain. donald trump s republican party gathered in dallas for cpac this weekend, where the big lie was on full display. along with an incredibly ridiculous guest and this is not the one i m talking about. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 8th. with joe and me, we have corresponde
out swinging against nikki haley, launching a range of verbal attacks on her record and against each other. you were bankrupt and against each other. you were bankrupt when - and against each other. mm, were bankrupt when you left the un, after you left the un you became a military contractor, you actually started joining service on the board of boeing whose back you scratched for a very long time. that maths does not add up. it adds up to the fact that you are corrupt. there is nothing to what he is saying. there is nothing to what he is saying, and in terms of these design saying, and in terms of these design saying, and in terms of these design donors supporting me, they design donors supporting me, they are design donors supporting me, they are jealous, i am not going they are jealous, i am not going to they are jealous, i am not going to sit there. applause. a notable absence going to sit there. applause. a notable absence of going to sit th
board of education in the 20th century, dealing with segregation, and it was about access to education. when you look at how people now are feeling resentment for people that are well educated, and even though i grew up in a home where neither of my parents went to college, i went to college, didn t get the degree, but i went. now you have the reverse, where people are resenting people that go. how do we deal with it? is it about democratizing high education, where it is affordable? because many people now just can t deal with student debt, can t deal with the tuitions, can t deal with being prepared in these groups that prepare people for s.a.t.s, or do we try to find some mid-ground? in fact, those that do go to historically black colleges, hbcus, we have a sitting vice president who graduated from howard that might look different than those that graduated from harvard. how do we deal with those two tensions? i think the bottom line is
even able to meet with rouhani week that i was profiled. thinks that s the beginning and so what can we do to move your evident it. in the u.n. and secondly what you have iranian militia that s sort of message is this sending, party and the president towards this sort of fog that we re some kind of mid ground to deal can do all sorts of things. this has already taken for how getting conflicting messages with this? from the president and his staff because americans of all long, what, 6% of the world s backgrounds are concerned. oil off the market. i don t think we need to go to the extreme, but we need to do one can imagine there is growing and the secretary, what do our something and something right saudi arabia is congenitally allies think but how is this away. i think his comments were vulnerable. playing in tehran? so i also have the fog of war to i think that s why he concerning. i support the second amendment backtracked on that tweet, we and even with the second amendment we
understand that violence is not the answer. we can debate, argue, and disagree, but we cannot argue that we ve got to find a mid-ground to stop this kind of madness. he ll be back in this hour. while you were speaking with senator bernie sanders, we got yet another sad and staggering, staggering update on this situation here. the death toll has gone up to 19 people. 19 people lost their lives at that mall in el paso. the number of injured is now 40. at least 40 people transported from that scene there who were injured, possibly shot. 19 of them may not have made it out of that scene. we are waiting for a press conference that will take place at the bottom of the hour, 3:30 central time in el paso. andrew blankstein is here with me. andrew, are you on the phone?