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Once again, im stephanie ruhle. We are now 239 days away from the election and we could be just one day away from donald trump and President Joe Biden locking up in a delegate to win their partys nomination for president. Though is up for grabs for both parties tomorrow in georgia, mississippi, and washington state, republicans will also caucus in hawaii. Over the weekend, donald trump rented about his increasingly apocalyptic vision of our country, attacking migrants and mocking President Joe B...

"morning joe" starts right now trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the united states came down yesterday when a new york city grand jury convened by the manhattan district attorneys office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge donald trump. because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they center around that $130,000 payment trump allegedly made to porn star stormy daniels just days before the 201...

16 million citizens with 20 million weapons of war. the people in power acknowledging that change isnt in the cards right nowment so do we have to wait for a whole new generation before kids are safe in their classrooms? music lovers at a concert, or shoppers at the grocery store, and if we have to wait, how many more americans will die between now and then? plus, gut wrenching claims in missouri where residents who lost everything in those devastating tornados say they had warning s...

saying no laws existing or proposed could have ) what happened yesterday in nashville. >> such a deeply offensive thing to say. it really is. if this had been a muslim shooter, we would have seen a thousand bills proposed for more things for homeland security to do. willie, the idea that every time a horrific tragedy like this happens, if you even talk about trying to do something to make our school safer for our children, people say, "oh, theres nothing you can do." they say you can d...

far two often -- far too often. we have to do something to stop gun violence ripping apart our communities. ripping apart. [ applause ] >> good morning and welcome to "morning joe." thats president biden joe biden delivering a speech. another deadly shooting. were going to have more on the victims and the expected gunman just ahead. and the white house talks about three unidentified objects that were shot down over the last week with a new explanation of what they could be. and wer...

people who do know it is a lie but they choose to repeat the lie and choose to live in that alternative reality? >> well your exactly right. there is a tendency to think this is somehow based on education or experience or anything else. and it is not whether you went to college or where you went to college that is the most likely predictor, it is whether you consumer right-wing media. youre more likely to bring conspiracy theories about vaccines and elections. that is the problem in th...

Considering running for president as well. what can you tell us, jonathan? >> yeah, i mean, the politically influenced nra is not what it once was. its an organization beset by some financial troubles, scandal with leadership. its not the behemoth that it was a few cycles ago, but it still matters and certainly its agenda, the way its shaped the message, the way its pushed paranoia to suggest that the government is coming to seize your weapons is now almost part of a cultural identity. our frien...

A handgun, which, by the way, is the only thing that is protected, actually, under the constitution of the united states. if you read the second amendment and heller. but its this hyper individualism over the past 20 years, this extremism that says, "i want all my rights, even rights that i havent had before. give me more rights. i take no responsibility. and im going to take pictures of my children holding ar-15s," because of this sick, sick gun culture. thats how they celebrate christmas on th...

Because, quite frankly, until we change our leadership and get some people with some real backbone in there, its not going to change. theres going to be no meaningful law change in tennessee from this that i can see. its heartbreaking. >> yeah, it is heartbreaking. everything about this, representative freeman, is heartbreaking. whats also heartbreaking is those people that you were talking about, they could have been with you. they could have seen everything. they just wouldnt have cared. they ...

Everybody stronger as a nation. but, now, again, ill just keep saying it, over the past quarter century, this hyper individualism that has just perverted the rights that our founders gave us and twisted it to people asking for more and more and more extreme positions to be taken by their legislators. if you try to do anything reasonable and rationalsuddenly youre an enemy of the state. youre a traitor. youre a communist. we as a nation have got to put our arms around this, and we have to realize...