All the while there was a flurry of diplomating activity. Secretary clinton met with Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas in the west bank and benjamin net ya knetanahu in ca. Lets go straight to Fred Pleitgen where sirens have been going off earlier. And joining us is ben wedeman in the gaza strip, gaza city. Fred, what are you seeing now in ashkelon . Reporter from ted pleitgen, have the rockets stopped in ashkelon . Reporter the rockets, yes, have stopped in ashkelon. It was interesting, because up until about a minute before our broadcast began, there were still booms that were heard in the sky. And about ten minutes ago we had to run for cover in ashkelon. Now it appears as though things are quiet. I can tell you from speaking to people here on the ground, theyre telling us this he dont really believe in this ceasefire just yet at this point in time. Folks that were speaking to at this cafe who have been watching the speech of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they believe this
All right, thats going to do it for this edition of way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning look at that, willie. That is a beautiful view. Beautiful day. Its a Beautiful Day. Last couple , not so beautiful. Its thursday, august the 14th. Great to have you here with us. Along with you, we have got washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay and nick consori and then with bloomberg news, al hunt. Yesterday, willie, really bad storms out there. Did you see some of the pictures . Even out here on long island. Cars on the highways up to their roofs. Looked like a river. It was. Yeah, parts of the midatlantic and northeast cleaning up and drying out after heavy rains sparked flooding across several states. The hardest appeared to be long island. Islip 13. 27 inches in under 24 hours and more than a foot in less than a day. More than the region receives in an entire summer. The rainfall shattered previous records and a lot of cars abandoned and a lot of people h
All right. Lets get a check on the day ahead. Former Florida Governor will hit the trail to campaign for Current Governor rick scott. Scott faces his predecessor Charlie Crist coming up this november. President bush will return to the white house on sunday. President obama heads back to the vineyard on tuesday. That is going to do it for a friday edition of way too early. Good show, everybody good week. It would be better if it were payday friday. It is not morning joe starts right now. i grew up here and this is my community and my home. Therefore, it means a lot to me personal that we break this cycle of violence and diffuse the tension and build trust showing the utmost respect for every interaction with every
citizen. I understand the anger and fear that the citizens of ferguson are feeling and our Police Officers will respect both of those. Good morning. Its friday, august 15th. Its good to have you with us. We have got a huge show today. Willie, i mean, this is night of a thousan
As we see this splits. Yes, let me walk you through Donald Trumps strategy over the next three days to do the ten state splits. We are calling that Hillary Clintons blue firewall, the states of wisconsin and pennsylvania. Thats one region and then you know donald trump has to be able to win the mustwin florida and North Carolina. If he does not win any of those states, this race is over. He has to be able to hone onto that. He wants to be able to go out to the west and see if he could pick off a state like colorado, for example, that helps him out. Just to kind of show you then, you know, Hillary Clintons
holds. Pennsylvania is critical to that. Michigan is critical to that. Thats a reliably blue state and she will be here later today. And campaigning later on tonight with jay z, shes adding a stop this weekend. The polls are all tied up. Shes battling for every vote and not taking any vote for granted, thomas. Kristen, standby, lets go to our katy tur. This rhetoric that trump is usin
Leaders in congress, are to pretend didnt happen. Is that just Mitch Mcconnells nature . What has to happen for something to get done . Tell me what you saw when you watched the Press Conference today. Reporter well, Mitch Mcconnell knows when youre the leader, a party in the senate, youll take shots. Thats part of the job, a guy who takes incoming fire and allows your caucus to get things done. The two men appearing sidebyside today was politically smart or at least acknowledgement of political reality. Their goals in most cases are the same and desperately need each other to get any of them done. On tax reform, they cannot have the same problems they had on health care. If theyre sniping back and forth at each other day after day its gawk to be that much more difficult to get done. You heard some of that today. The president praising Mitch Mcconnell. Saying hes the guy to get it done on all of these issues and put a bunch of additional issues on Mitch Mcconnells plate now
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