A targeted strike on the first night of the u. S. Ground war in afghanistan. Since then the u. S. Has conducted over 400 drone strikes in pakistan, yemen, and monthlia, while the pentagon drone fleet has expanded from 50 to 7,500. For the past decade american drone policy has existed largely in the shadows. Its legal just ficks and moral underpinnings largely relegated to debate among progress severe Media Outlets and concerned libertarians. Now as john brennan, the architect of the u. S. Drone policy and president obamas mick to head the cia readies to testify this afternoon on capitol hill, calls for Greater Transparency and legal justification for the killings have increased. The outcry reached a crescendo on monday when nbcs Michael Isikoff obtained a leaked white pair from the government suggesting that the u. S. Government can kill american set zenz overseas without any specific intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the u. S. The expansive Legal Fra
Hollywood walk of fame today. The star is currently in the hit movie interstellar. Thats going to do it for monday. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning. Its monday, november 17th. Welcome to morning joe. Dont look out the window. What a day. All right. On set, we have managing editor of bloomberg politics, park halperin is with us and amy joins us as well. How was your weekend . The tide rolled. The tide did roll. Quite a game. How did vandy do . They had a bye week. To Mississippi State where we
have to deal with the mess you left. Very angry group of bulldogs. Mississippi state should be in the playoffs. One loss to maybe the best team in the country. No doubt about it. How was your weekend, mark . Thank you very much it was good. I activated my iphone 6. Long delay. Thats exciting. It is for me. 6 or 6 plus. Ill show you a picture i took with it that relates to one of the guests on todays program. I hope you had a more exciting weekend than mark. I was in dallas, texas. It wa
Cottage. Paul marcs life at the white house with more. This video really just came out last hour or so. It was released to fox news and other media organizations across the country. As you mention, it came from the attorney of lava parnas who is a former associate of rudy giuliani. This video appears to be taken in 2018 and it made have been recorded on a cell phone. It bounces around disc because it was being taken discreetly. It appears to be showing President Trump saying get rid of her. And saying she may not be supporting the president. The video is about an hour long and you can see it is just raw footage here. We asked the white house about this on friday because the report was about the existence of this tape in the comments about yovanovitch. The presser told on friday that every president in our history has the right to place people who support his agenda and policies within the administration. We reached up to the white house to see if they have any additional comments but w
At the top of the show, we asked, why are you awake . We have a lot of interesting responses today. John tower has a few. Hey, john. Darren writes, my fake i recall grend is in town early today. On twitter, im up because i thought i saw you walking on garden street a few years ago. Am i right if i think you probably are right. Lets face it, with no makeup and no suit, i dont look very good on the street, so you might not have thought it was me, but it actually was. All right, john, thank you very much. Morning joe begins right now. Its vince with shamewow youll be using this towel every time to wipe away your shame. Dont worry, shamewow wipes it away like that. Lied about doping and threw everyone under the bus . Just insert one end of your ear and pull it out the other end. Look at that, shame is gone. Shamewow works for every shame at any time. Lipsync the national anthem, pooped your big boy pants, expose your crown jewels, tenweek marriage, sorry for party rockin . Dont worry. Sham
John tower, why are people awake today . We backing you up team sprinkles. I may live in boston, but im in south jersey, they are sprinkles. The interesting part is when i go to cape cod, i do call them jimmys because i dont want anyone to know that im a new yorker. I wear my yankee hat, i may get thrown out. Great show, everyone. Morning joe coming up right now. Good morning. It is thursday, february 14th. Willie, happy president s day. Happy president s day. A long weekend. Is it president s day . Valentines day. Oh, is it really . All right. Well, with us on set to celebrate this blessed occasion, msnbc contributor and central parks stalker, on valentines day or any day, mike barnicle. Its getting warm enough. It is getting warm up. The problem is hes got the reflector shades on, and they steam up. When its this cold outside, they steam up and he cant. Its hard. When its cold, its easier because i can wear the scarf across the lower. Thats just gross. Ski mask. Ski mask. Whoo you se