These are the slicers. They slice people up. They wanted me to walk up and go like this. Some of the president at his rally in Pennsylvania Last Night and much, much more of that. Good morning, everyone. Its friday, august 3rd. Welcome to morning joe. We have a number of important developments to get through this morning, including a stark warning from the intel community. Russia is at it again. Theyve got the publics attention, but what about the president s . Does he care . Whats going on . Plus, dan coats speaks truth to power, again. The director of National Intelligence admits he still does not know what the president told Vladimir Putin last month in helsinki. Think about it. The director of National Intelligence. And ivanka trump says that it was a low point for her when the separations of children from their family were happening
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those pictures, especially when you see the children, the women, the elderly, all of whom, according to everybody and whatever we can see, are non-combatant. this is just really, really tough to keep witnessing. it s one of the most severe massacres of civilians of this war now in its seventh week. it does actually strengthen the resolve. i specifically asked ursula von der leyen that. actually since the awful evidence started to emerge from around kyiv as the russians were being pushed back from irpin, from borodyanka, where we ve seen streets littered with bodies and bodies buried under rubble where the russians have deliberately just opened up on buildings and the like and where we know because of intercepts that this was not accidental, that was actually deliberate, it is part of their strategy. ever since then, each time there is one of these terrible, terrible outrages, it does make
are a neutral organization, and we are not neutral to violence nor human suffering. this is what i m observing on a daily basis in the areas that we operate and in the areas that we re able to operate. when rail stations like the one that was bombed today, hospitals are being bombed as well, and based on what you ve personally seen on the ground in ukraine, how difficult is it, and how dangerous does it make for your work and the work of all the teams of the international red cross? it is very dangerous obviously because we have what we observe all around the so-called combat zone is actually the critical infrastructure has been destroyed, damaged severely. and as we enter cities like just a few days ago in areas around kyiv, and irpin, bucha,
despite will smith s appologies and his resignation from the academy, the academy was under extraordinary pressure to send a message here. tonight, oscar winning superstar will smith banned by the academy from attending the oscars for ten years. for the now infamous slap heard around the world. that was a nice one. okay. i m out here uh-oh. oh, wow. wow. the decision to ban smith for a decade comes after a meeting today of the board of governors of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences. a board member telling cnn there was, quote, tons of debate on what the consequences for smith should be. i m a little surprised that he got a ten-year ban, but i m not surprised that this was the way they went. i knew they would give, i believed they would give a long term ban. i thought maybe three, five years. because i think it was incumbent on them to send some kind of message that this was actual
secretary jen psaki if it would be the same result with today s horrors. take a listen. is there any sense that the strike we saw this morning will also accelerate talks on additional sanctions between the coordinated allies? what we have done to date and we will continue to do is look at unfortunately the continued atrocities that we re seeing in the country and assess how that s going to impact sanctions, consequences, and obviously additional security assistance. and i m certain, given the video footage we ve seen on airwaves across the world and photos, that this will be a part of the discussion that our national security officials are having with their counterparts. reporter: wolf, important to note, it is an ongoing discussion and one that goes beyond sanctions as jen psaki alluded to there. some developments on that lethal assistance front. the u.s. securing s-300 surface to air weapons. they went through slovakia to do that, will back fill with