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positions. heres a tease. >> sean hannity wanted you to be a guest on his national tv show. he says he has no response from you which i assume means a no. so my question, as a united states senator and i work for one that would be the late john hines, you have to debate the opposition thing all the time. im curious as to what your reasoning is for not doing that? >> sean: we got an answer. well play his full answer tonight. also tonight, we have just obtained exclusively for this progr...

down the rhetoric, despite a wave of violent threats against law enforcement. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is monday, august 15th. a lot has happened since we got off the air friday, so since we finished coverage friday, we learned the search warrant for mar-a-lago revealed former president trump is being investigated for possible violations of the espionage act, tied to the mishandling of national defense information or classified material. now, according to the fbi...

a camp in rafah leaves dozens dead. breaking moments ago, israels prime minister now calls that strike quote a tragic mistake. then later, a bipartisan group of lawmakers now putting china on notice while in taiwan meeting with their new president. so a lot to get to today and we begin with that breaking news right now. 21 people are dead. thats a higher number than we had just an hour ago and nearly 600,000 homes are without power across 11 states. 71 million people are still under ...

Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. You cant on its face determine whether its unlawful or its within the law. Thats for prosecutors and factgatherers to decide, but, boy, it is something people will be looking at seriously. David . Kelly, very quickly. Youve been in contact with Rudy Guiliani over these last many weeks, talking to him about the grounds by which he might agree to have the president sit down for an interview. And we saw Rudy Gu...

Investigation. hes been careful, he hasnt been terribly public about what hes been doing. ive been critical of the fact hes been so slow, but you can bet the left media establishment will rise up and attack him viciously now. he seems to be zero nothing on hillary clinton and looks like people should be nervous like sullivan, who was in the thick of this. >> carley: told vice president biden about this scheme by the clinton campaign back in 2016. certainly more questions need to be answered on t...

Other campaigns. so when it comes to fund fund-raising, making that debate stage, the dnc has ambitious but important donor thresholds in place. for this next debate youve got to raise, donations from 165,000 people in 20 states obviously the governor want qualify for that, but will he catch up for those in the future? i dont understand the path for him in this race. >> a lot of people are picking up from your former boss, hillary clinton saying many, many people calling her encouraging her to g...

And so russia not ukraine responsible for that. what weve seen from the white house is that the president and those around him have raised questions about whether ukraine had more of a role while the russia investigation had been so focused on so it gets complicated and bossert is among those saying not to add anymore speculation is important. this is swn who worked for the president saying it is not helpful to the president to have people in his environment telling him that ukraine played a rol...

>> something with the president is clearly very aware of because hes talking so much about it. he did in 2016, he will continue to going into 2020 but there might be some vulnerability there, some people from his base or others who are concerned that hes not actually fulfilling the promises that hes made. the big sign at all of his rallies are -- has to do with promises made, promises kept, but hes selling some sensitivity to the fact that theres some criticism that maybe he hasnt been able to m...

We are standing by far police news conference right now. we know one person is dead and others including four police officers have been struck by the shooter. we are awaiting details. there is breaking news in robert muellers russia investigation. cnn reported first sarah sanders has been interviewed by the special counsels team. we have evan perez here with us. what does it signal to you? that they were interested in talking to her? >> i think sitit is a very interesting interview. theres not a...

Conservative candidate in the field that can actually get elected. to a certain degree, i think this may be a choice for a lot of democrats between idealogical purity and the question of who can beat donald trump. >> shepard: if joe biden gets in it, is he the front runner? >> no, i think he is. he is the vice president of the united states for eight years. although -- its interesting. i was going to say, hes the direct descendant of barack obama. but obama has not seem particularly enthused abo...