good morning. welcome to morning joe. that s a look at times square. we re a heart of hours the ball the will drop and we ll turn the page to 2024. good morning. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to this morning, including another state remove donald trump from the republican presidential ballot. we will have expert legal and political analysis on that big decision from maine s secretary of state. plus nikki haley s attempt at cleaning up her highly criticized answer on the cause of the civil war. also forces continue to strike refugee camps where it believes hamas terrorists are hiding. this comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure to protect civilians. plus we ll take a look at the stories that dominated 2023 from two wars overseas to chaos on capitol hill, as well as the former president s many legal battles as he enters the presidential election. a lot to go through. with us for all of us is nbc news national affairs analyst john heilem
Hello, welcome to our viewers in the skpus around the world. It is friday, october 27th. 9 00 a. M. Here in london. Police are in their second night of hunting for the suspect in two back to back Mass Shootings that kill ed 18 people and wounded 13. Law enforcement descended on the suspects last known address yesterday and will be scouring the area in the hours ahead. Police are looking for 40yearold robert card. Hes considered Armed And Dangerous and charmed with m multiple counts of murder. Officials are telling residents in the areas around lewiston, maine, to stay vigilant, remain inside and lock their doors as they search for card. Tensions rose last evening when for a time it appeared the manhunt may have been ending, but it didnt. Brian todd was on the scene as police surrounded the suspects home. Reporter start ing at 7 00 p. M. Eastern time when Law Enforcement assets just flooded the zone here and surrounded robert cards home behind me about 250 yards behind me with a lot of
received a traffic citation and while the viation took place near the jury van the freelancer never contacted or sbepded to contact the jurors during deliberations. never photographed the jury. msnbc and nbc have been banned from the courthouse at this point. here again we are awaiting a possible verdict on day four but we have no indication when that could potentially come. david, the jury deliberating more than 23 hours, about 24 hours. is that unusual in a case like this? it is unusual although i will say that the jury instructions in case are very complex and confusing. there are 36 pages and if you look at the information the jury requested since they began deliberations i think it makes sense to conclude that they re
start to talk about what the action is months in advance and it gives the sbepded recipient of action a heads up. so i don t think that you re going to see the president drawing red lines in the sand. i think the action that he took in syria shows that when appropriate, this president will take decisive action. when they happen to clear ambitions the way they do. when you talk about we did this to syria and to afghanistan, is that i think bombastic rhetoric. i think please don t read too much into that in terms of trying to make an analogy. it s kite quite the opposite. but with north korea, the president had a really good meeting with president xi where i think he spoke extensively about the relationship that they made down there and continue to work to improve. the results of that are paying off.
speaking and people are mental illness never involuntarily committed, angry and, you know, might have other risk factors like substance abuse aren t involuntarily mmitted and thinking about the criteria as sbepded to actually d them people who are likely to harm themselves on other we could have better criteria without running afoul of the second amendment of the constitution. you re a researcher, professor, you study this mental illness and also gun violence. the cdc as i understand it has not been able to conduct gun violence research since the 1990s. congress restricted funding for research that involves guns as a weapon. is that right? right. well, since 1996, the dickey amendment what s referred to as the ban on gun violence research really isn t that. what it is is a ban on using cdc funding to promote or advocate