good evening, i m jonathan capehart in for a stephanie ruhle. the breaking news this hour, the new york times is now reporting that trump endorsed a georgia senate candidate herschel walker, urged his ex girlfriend to have a second abortion, after he allegedly paid for that first abortion which was reported by the daily beast. walker has yet to respond to this latest report. and just a short time ago, the daily beast, added to the story it s been breaking all week. reporting that walker s wife reached out to his accuser earlier this afternoon, and nbc news tonight is reporting that walker is now confirming, for the first time, friday, the identity of the woman, and, quote, in a brief interview, walker said this was also the first time, who is the mother of one of his four children, mentioned to him or his wife that she had had an abortion. we will have more on this still developing controversy a bit later in the hour. but tonight, we are also tracking the very latest on the f
look, we re only a matter of hours away now from when the house is going to be back in session tomorrow at noon when they ll do what they did today all over again after they failed to elect a speaker on three consecutive ballots today. leaving kevin mccarthy fighting for his political life. there is a lot going on behind the scenes, as we speak, including an effort by the so-called never kevin republicans to turn things in their direction. that is kevin mccarthy tells cnn he spoke to former president trump tonight, and he, quote, reiterated support. do you need trump to come out and reiterate his support for you? trump has already reiterated his support. how was your call with trump? what did you guys discuss? what was the nature of it? i mean, look, from that perspective, he thinks it s better that all the republicans get together and solve this. it doesn t look good for republicans, but we want to be able to solve it where we re stronger in the long run. what we wen
needed to be the speaker for a fourth consecutive time. florida republican byron donalds appear to have received just enough support to prevent kevin mccarthy from getting to 218. so what happens now? the house remaining paralyzed this hour. no committees, no legislation, elected members can t even be sworn in. they don t even know if they are getting paid at this point after they have tried and failed again four times to elect a speaker. it s a level of dysfunction unseen in modern political history. so let s bring in an incredible panel. senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. yamiche alcindor is our washington correspondent. doug high is a republican strategist for the rnc. peter baker is chief white house correspondent for the new york times and an msnbc political analyst. steve kornacki is at the big board. garrett, tell us what s happening this second and what should we make of it? we re watching kevin mccarthy on his way going 0 for 4. byron donalds, the l
overrun why junkies and vague grants. the speech came together at the last second. looks like a hail mary to me. nothing is sticking so they are going with january 6th. you think the president would close hard with a powerful message about the economy, but you d be wrong he s going with republicans are going to start a civil war. he is going to blame republicans for the actions of an insane, fairy loving, obama supporting illegal alien drug addict who hammered paul pelosi in the head. by the way we have fresh details on that attack a little later in the show it. looks like one of the biggest security failures of all time. speaking of break-ins. remember the democrat katie hobbs running for arizona governor her campaign headquarters got broken into and she blamed her opponent kari lake? right before we just came out on to air we found out that it was actually an illegal alien who broke into her office. and the democrats released him from jail already and didn t tell ice so he
crossing the southern border soars. and as some republican governors resort to political stunts with people s lives, we ll talk about that. later this morning, former secretary of state hillary clinton will be our guest. we look forward to talking with her as well. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, september 16th. along with joe, willie and me, we have u.s. special correspondent for bb news, katty kay in london, and the host of way too early white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, also with us the president of the national action network and host of politics nation, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. you know what people say about our show, that morning joe show is the most mindful show, we teach everybody that two things can be true at one time. we re not always that mindful. we re going to be talking about that. we re going to be talking about the crisis at the southern border, and by the way, i understand every t