Powering smarter savings. Powering possibilities. Hi, everyone, its 4 00 in new york. Ten tuesdays, 70 days to a Flashing Red Crossroads in our shared North American future. Both president ial campaigns this afternoon on pace with whats going to be a dead sprint to election day. Vice president Kamala Harris and her running mate tim walz at this hour preparing for what will be their tickets First Campaign stop since they formally accepted their partys nomination. A Bus Tour Of Georgia starting tomorrow. Meanwhile with Donald Trumps running mate jd vance campaigning in michigan and indiana, that campaign is adding new voices. An interesting voice. Nbc news adviser confirming that both robert f. Kennedy jr. And gabby is moving with trump. Lets go to North Carolina voters in ten days. Four days after that, the first president ial debate between trump and harris, which now appears to be all systems go. At least right now, according to donald trump. Disgraced expresident a little more than a
A mediterranean dispute but says it wont accept any preconditions from greece. To give up the main belorussian Opposition Leader says protesters desire for a democratic transition will not be broken. And historic day for africa as the continent has declared free of the virus that causes only and. Welcome to the program the family of a black man shot at least 7 times by police in the u. S. State of wisconsin is calling for calm but demanding Justice Jacob blakes mother appealed for an end to violent protests broke out in the city of commotion after the shooting on sunday the 29 year old is now power lines from the waist down in the familys lawyer says it will take a miracle for him to walk again blakes father accused the police of attempted murder. They. Shot my son. So this time. Something. Like he didnt matter. But my son matters. Hes a human being and he batted. A correspondent john hendren his life for us in a show mr blake sr was the only one speaking from the family in a town that
Starts right now. Today was the deadline for Donald Trumps legal team to file their brief with the senate for trumps upcoming Impeachment Trial. And it looks like trumps lawyers will be arguing that the trial is unconstitutional because trump is no longer president. Im going to use this. Im going to use this next time a cop pulls me over. Im going to be like, well, im no longer speeding. I was. I was. Im not now. Therefore this ticket is unconstitutional. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, february 3rd, along with joe, will li and me, we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire, former u. S. Senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst Claire Mccaskill and politics and Journalism Professor at Morgan State University and msnbc political contributor Jason Johnson is with us. So Donald Trumps second Impeachment Trial kicks off next week. And according to the case against him, the former president s role in the capitol hill riot is,
News from the holy oaks home. On sunday night, Lieutenant Governor, secretary and i first learned of the tragic situation that was unfolding at the holy oaks home. As of today, there are 13 confirmed deaths at the facility with at least six attributed to covid19. Someone who visited this amazing place on multiple occasions and found it to be a source of joy and grace and comfort and kindness for the residents their families and the staff that works there this episode is a gutwrenching loss that is nothing short of devastating to all of us. Our hearts go out to the families and the loved ones and the staff who have been so horribly impacted by this series of events. We have Public Health experts on the ground conducting thorough review of the Health Status of all the residents and staff there. We spoke to several members new team on the ground there this morning. Immediate steps have been taken such as implementing clinical command team and testing all patients and staff at the facility
Years. The u. S. Has been without a defense secretary all year since the departure of former defense chief jim mattis in december. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Our meeting will come to order consistent with our policy to start on time. We will be doing that. Good morning. Today were considering the nomination of dr. Mark espy to be secretary of defense. We thank you all for being here today. We anticipate during your opening remarks, dr. Espy, that you will introduce any members of your family who are here and other support groups. It is standard we do have the eight required questions you will have to respond to audibly so we can get that in the record. Have you adhered to ethical regarding conflicts of interest. Yes, sir. Have you taken any actions which would prepare to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercising legislative and oversight responsibility makes it important that this committee, its subcommittees and other appropriate committees of congre