stephen kornacki is with us. and msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele is here. pulitzer prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson joins us. former chief of staff to the dccc and for hillary clinton s presidential candidate, adrienne elrod. she s an msnbc contributor. great group to have with us this morning. what s on tap for today? ten candidates for president square off tonight including bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. they re among the front-runners right now, but still trailing joe biden by a wide margin. we re going to dig deep into the latest polling and what s going on with the candidates. plus two developments from capitol hill. the senate fails to block arm sales to saudi arabia and more house democrats back the push
lead as a dictator. she spends a lot of time listening to the views of her caucus, and by the same token she obviously does not want to proceed to the impeachment inquiry. she thinks that would be a political mistake. and so, you know, as that number mounts, how does her calculation change? i m a bit surprised that it is continuing to climb since the mueller testimony and so we ll just have to see in the next few weeks if it gets there. i think chairman nadler of the judiciary committee is pushing very strongly now for an impeachment inquiry and he s the guy who would run it. so steve kornacki as we close out with you, the impact though of an impeachment proceeding could have an election, i m sure you ll be tracking numbers like that because the timing is tough for democrats.
involved and a lot more time involved. you re talking about ten month soar so time frame. if you started something around labor day, you use the watergate model you re not finishing up with this thing until after the presidential primaries next year, late into the spring of a presidential election year and then the two recent impeachments, nixon and clinton, they were lame ducks. that s the wild card for democrats thinking about this, hey, the voters get to decide on this. this is all unchartered territory. steve kornacki, thank you for being on this morning. check out steve s great piece on journey to power, the history of black voters, 1976 to 2020. and gene, thank you as well. we ll be reading your latest piece from the washington post entitled trump s escalation of racism means one thing he s
that the president of the united states signed this into law and taking care of the first responders until the year 2092. but this was a political layup. you have to say the right things, give the praise that the first responders deserve and even there he puts himself into the place where he was not over the course of the days and months after 9/11. nobody should be surprised at that. he injects himself into everything. it s always his generals, his army, his plans and i was down there amongst you. everything like that. anecdotically, factually no. i have never spoken to anyone who saw a presence of donald trump, a visible presence at e the in the rubble during all those weeks and months that people were picking through it and contracting diseases that killed many. yeah. i think he went down there once or twice and he was in the city of new york, steve, but imagine taking september 11th and
the specific focus of the subpoena is jared kushner s use of whatsapp as part of a wide ranging investigation into whether senior administration officials broke federal records laws by using private accounts for official purposes. trump is also annoyed that cummings stood alongside democratic leaders discussing the possibility of impeachment after robert mueller s testimony. and was particularly incensed when the long time democratic lawmaker lambasted trump s acting head of homeland security over reports from the border of a child sitting in its own feces and can t take a shower. so here we go. coming up on morning joe by some accounts kamala harris got the better of joe biden during their first debate but their poll numbers tell a different story. we ll get to that just ahead. plus, steve kornacki is doing what he does best. he s got a great new piece on