Good morning, its wednesday, september 20th. We are following a number of stories. President trump was America First se u. N. And steps up his warnings to north korea meanwhile, republican as far as see daylight on Health Care Reform. Some gop governors arent so sure about that. The Russian Investigation rolls on with new details on whos paying the president s legal bills but first, two Natural Disasters unfolding in real time. Rescue efforts happening right now in mexico after a powerful earthquake ripped through that country yesterday and Hurricane Maria about to slam directly into puerto rico. Well go straight to meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storms latest track. Bill. Power knocked out. Roof damage done, structural damages beginning as the strongest weekends are moving on shore in puerto rico. Overnight, can you see the storm, 124mileperhour winds in st. Croix. Now the storm is about to make
landfall. Lets get into the zoomed in radar. You see san juan to the north
even our own fellow citizens in the middle of the night. but don t worry, according to joe a little chaos was bound to happen and was factored in to this, there s no reason for us to begin to be in the region because of al qaeda he thinks magically has disappeared. perhaps nobody told them that they were released from prison s just days ago. let s put this thing in perspective. what interest do you have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone? we went to afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al qaeda and afghanistan as well as, as well as getting usama bin laden and we have. tonight joe s: the pentagon said the opposite, that our credit is veryqa much alive and well in afghanistan working alongside their taliban partners and, we don t even have an embassy presence or intel assets
our allies every day, i better stop insulting everybody every day, diplomacy may be setting in a little bit. again, david said it was a conventional speech, but there was still the trump bomb bast. that said, this was a president eight months in has seen that you have to patch together alliances if you want to get anything done across the globe, even if are you the united states of marc. we will talk about this more, still ahead on morning joe andrea mitchell joins the table. plus three former cabinet itself on set. former secretary of state john kerry joins us and former secretary madeleine albright and tim ryan and senator bill cassidy the republican breathing new life into their efforts to repeal obamacare and tonight joe s band has a gig at the
i didn t sense the isolationism unilateralism that we saw nine months ago. like you said, i saw a tip of the hat to harry truman several times, which at least for those of us who you know look for such things, that s a tip of the hat to the history of the united nations to 1947 to the marshall plan. again, i m not saying this was, you know, i m not saying this was fdr, i m just saying i know that. this may not be donald trump january 20ing, 2017. joe, i thought it was a speech from a president who is enjalgaged in the world sometim too loudly and too inflammatory a way but engaged. i thought there was an interventionist theme, frankly, saying, you know, cuba is an
anybody to do what you have to do. you have to ask yourself, is america safer because of rocket man? did we bring anybody to the table as a consequence of that language? you don t give a speech at the united nations to talk to your base. you have plenty of opportunities to do that. you give a speech at the united nations to bring people to the table. what do you need more than anything? you need china to do things. china provides 100% of the fuel to north korea. every plane, every truck, every car that moves in north korea, china s doing that. every bit of north korea s financing goes through chinese banks. china would shut north korea down in one week, two days. why don t they? because they keep saying we re afraid of the stability issue. we re afraid there s going to be a massive implosion of the regime. in reality, joe, i think the reason is that they re fearful that you know they don t know what comes afterwards, for sure. but that could, in fact, be