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good morning, everybody. it is friday, august 28th. we're going to start with the republican national convention ending last night with the president accepting the nomination for a second term in office. and delivering a scathing attack against his democratic challengerer joe biden. the president blur red the line between government business and campaign politics using the white house as a partisan prop to deliver his remarks. he spoke for an hour and ten minutes, the second longest following his own remarks in 2016. even many in the midst of a pandemic, reporters gathered on the lawn. chairs were not spaced out for social distancing and few were wearing masks. a number of people, as he puts it, would be tested for the

krstz, but we don't how many. in his message to supporters, the president defended his own record warning of a joe biden presidency. >> at no time before have voters faced a clearer voice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies or two agendas. this election will decide whether we save the american dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny. joe biden is not a savior of america's soul. he is the destroyer of america's jobs and if given the chance he will be the destroyer of american greatness. this november we must turn the page forever on this failed political class. the fact is i'm here -- what's

the name of that building? i'll say it differently. the fact is we're here and they're not. >> so fox news anchor chris wallace said only trump's speech had effective points overall, he was not impressed. >> there certainly were impressive fireworks on the mall, but i have to say i was surprised by the lack of fireworks in the president's speech tonight. first of all, it was far too long. 70 minutes exactly. i thought at times it felt more like a state of the union speech, like a campaign speech. the president went through all of his accomplishments during his first term and they are a great number and they are considerable. then as you say, he went after joe biden and he had some good

lin lines. but i have to say in his delivery, i thought the president who we have seen turn on a crowd, was surprisingly flat. and didn't seem to have the bite that he usually does have in his speeches. >> quite a juxtaposition with the music in the background. last night during the president's speech, joe biden offered a bit of counterprogramming with a two-minute ad on cable networks. let's watch it. >> some people are always in a hurry. they run when they would walk. race up steps when others take it close sloe. when joe biden is president, america is just going to have to keep up. we won't have to wait to deal with coronavirvid-19. he's already got a plan. >> just a few seconds of that two-minute ad there. so after a bump in viewership on night two, the republican national convention saw a decline in ratings on its third night. about 17.3 million people tuned

in wednesday night when mike pence delivered the keynote speech. that's down almost 2 million from tuesday when melania trump spoke. for the third night in a row, ratings trailed figures from the democratic national convention the week prior when 22.8 tuned in on its third night. however, both conventions are generate iing lowerer numbers t those from 2016, which saw 23.4 million for the rnc and 24.4 million for the dnc. joining me now is julia manchester. great to talk to you this morning so we've made it through both conventions. very unconventional conventions to say the least on both ends. first, we'll start off with your main take aways from the rnc overall. >> from the rnc, there are a number of take aways, but i cover a lot of the politics. i heard so much messaging geared

at suburban women, white suburban women in particular, throughout the week. you kept on hearing this message of president trump will keep you safe. you won't be safe under a biden administration. you heard a lot of referencing to some riots or looting that's been connect ed. i heard a lot of attempt this is week to try to maybe soften the president's character. you saw the white house press secretary describing how the president was one of the first people to call her after she underwent a double mastectomy. you heard other stories from women, but that white suburban women mentality. one of the gun-wheeleding st. louis residents during the protests there earlier this year, she spoke with her husband and said we won't be safe under

democratic control. i think that was a direct message to suburban voters. >> you're bringing up this idea of how the president is trying to establish himself as the law and order president. that he can establish or reestablish, however, he wants to put it, the law and order in this country because of all the protests happening everywhere. it seems as if we're back in 1968 with richard nixon trying to deliver that same message to suburban women specifically. the problem is this president delivered this similar mess naj 2016 when he tried to say that law and order needed to be established in cities like baltimore, that were going off the edge. we were an all-time low in crime in some of these cities. he's had four years and here we are with crime at an all-time high in many cities in the country, but donald trump has

been the president for the last four years. nobody else. so i'm confused how he thinks he's able to communicate this message when he's had four years to fix what he thinks was a problem, and he hasn't been able to do that and thinks he can in the next four years. >> that's the exact problem with this messaging. it's so size for the biden campaign to say it's happening on his watch. it's happening during his presidency. i heard a comparison the other day. on the sur it is a, it may not be as obvious, but when we look all the it makes differencsense. you saw a similar tactic used by republicans. they talked about immigration and the caravans coming from central america and this idea that you wouldn't be safe under a democratic-controlled house and senate because they are going to be lax on immigration. it didn't work then. and when you lock at a lot of the polling from the suburban communities in the united states recent polling, you show they are not happy with how president

trump handled trying to quash some of these protests and such that are happening in cities like portland. they say they wish he handled it differently. so i would say that republicans are taking a rather big risk with going with this law and order message iing. but i talked to a gop strategist yesterday, and he essentially said, look, if they stuck with safety and security, a softer form of that law and order message, that could make it easier to peel off some of the votes that have been moving away from the republican party. >> joule ja, stya, stay close. thank you. "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker spoke with the president this week and asked about his agenda for a potential second term. the president's answer was less than clear. baker writes this, quote, trump rattled off a list of what he hz done line i increasing military

spending, eliminating regulations, reenforcing the border and appointing conservative judges. trump told him, quote, i think it would be very, very i think we'd have a very, very solid, we would continue what we're doing, we'd solidify what we have done and we have other things b our plate that we want to get done. so joe biden told attendees at a virtual fundraiser he will resume campaign travel after labor day next month. making stops in some of the most competitive states in the country. he said this, we plan on without jep dieding or violenting state rules about how many people can assemble. one of the things we're thinking about is going to be going up into wisconsin and minnesota, spending time in pennsylvania, out in arizona. but we're going to do it in a way that's totally consistent with being responsible. biden e biden's campaign has been almost entirely online. he's made exceptions only to fly to texas to visit with the

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the republican convention is designed for one purpose. to soothe donald trump's ego. to make him feel good. but here's the thing. he's the president of the united states. and it's not supposed to be about him. it's supposed to be about the health and the safety and the

well being of the american people. and on that measure, donald trump has failed. >> welcome back. that was democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris yesterday during remarks about the shooting of jacob blake. her speech evolved into a prebutt tall of the president's renomination acceptance speech with detailing many ways she believes the president has failed this country. so the main event of the republican national convention, the acceptance speech, took place in the white house south lawn topping off what many considered to be four days of nonstop violations of the hatch act. norm eisen tweeted this. do you know what i see? literally thousands of hatch act violations, one for every federal official who helped with or participated in this revolting dispolice. the greatest mass hatch act transgression in u.s. history,

even the fireworks are a viel s violation. so government watchdogs spent the week note whag they believe to be violations of the law against campaigning on the government's time, dollar and property. they have included melania trump's speech from the rose garden broadcasting a naturalization ceremony the at the white house during the convention, and a speech by secretary of state mike pompeo while on an official trip to jerusalem. but few believe high level officials could be held accountable. let's find out. joining me is legal analyst danny so vo las. good to see you on this friday morning. >> good to see you too. >> tell us what the hatch act here is actually supposed to prevent. and make the arguments for whether or not it was violated at the rnc. >> the hatch act was enacted back in 1939 in response to political involvement. the blurring of political conversations for campaigns and

mitt call office and for many years, it prohibited very broadly the u.s. of political office, excuse me, government office, government property, all kinds of things in connection with a campaign. the idea being that people should be elected on their public service, not their political service. but in 1993, the fact was loosened somewhat so that it gave government employees a little more speech writes and involvement writes. still, some offices are more restricted than others. the fbi is much more restricted than the president and vice president because the fbi we're much more concerned about them being impartial than we are about the president and the vice president. but the reality is the hatch act rarely enforced and even more rarely prosecuted. >> so let's expand on that for a moment. because a lot of people questioning whether or not folks will be held accountable for this.

how likely is it that anybody is prosecuted for any such violations of the hatch act. if not, is there some sort of civil remedy? >> they are both civil and criminal remedies. again, most of them don't really apply to the president and the vice president. they do technically, but in reality, it's not likely to see a prosecution. although, i should say, that just in the last few weeks, there's been a lot of complaints filed about hatch act violations. it maybe the case the doj or the olc may take notice and actually look into prosecuting. but the key is since the 1993 amendments, as long as the federal employee is, quote, off duty, then they can participate in the political process. the challenge is determining when exactly is a federal employee off duty. when is mike pompeo off duty if he used government planes to travel somewhere and using that

place as a backdrop. you see him -- good job control room. there he is with jerusalem in the background. he had had to be on duty at some point. so the maryland earn definite nation under the hatch act remains to be litigated. >> our producers have been doing this for awhile, danny. when you mention something, they usually have a tape to back it up. thank you as always. good to see you this morning. we are getting a look at some of the damage caused by hurricane laura. when the storm barrelled ashore yesterday morning, meteorologist bill karins joins us for that, next. meteorologist bill karins joins us for that, next (vo) businesses are always making choices.

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i just spoke to the governor, it's going to be in pretty good shape, but they will need some help. but it turned out we got a little lucky. it was big and powerful, but it passed quickly. so everything is on schedule. we'll probably be going on saturday or sunday. we'll be heading to texas and louisiana. and maybe an additional stop. >> so hurricane laura ravaged through louisiana yesterday tearing roofs off buildings leaving huge stretches of land completely under water. we have some drone footage of lake charles show iing the def nation. the category 4 storm packs sustained winds of 150 miles an hour. take inging a lock at that wate there, unbelievable there. making it the most intense tomorrstorm to hit louisiana in 164 years. however, by yesterday afternoon as it moved north and east, laura was downgraded to a tropical storm that quickly. still, the storm threatened to

do serious damage to homes and business ace cross arkansas where the national guard was activated to help with evacuations and rescues brought on by the rain. but nonetheless, some devastation there. absolute from that category 4 storm. want to get a first lock at your forecast with meteorologist bill karins. you see some of that footage there of roofs torn off buildings. this thing came in, and as you say, moved through so quickly really and downgraded to a tropical storm just in a matter of hours. >> it held on b to hurricane status all the way up to shreveport. usually they weaken faster than that. you're looking at a category 4 major hurricane landfall, structures get damaged. it's like a 30-mile wide tornado coming on shore and then going for the damage path and swath is

40 or 50 miles inland. there's not many structures in lake chals that have not been damaged there's a lot of repairs that are going to be needed before people can get back into the city of 78,000 people. the storm surge flooding doesn't materialize. but the wind damage was extreme from what we have been able to see. so here's where we are now. we know there's 800,000 people without power in arkansas, eastern texas and louisiana. most of those are in louisiana. remember, it's still summertime in the south. that's not fun if you're trying to be living without power. and also the heavy rain continues up through arkansas. we had a report of a tornado in arkansas last night that destroyed a church. there's still some damage that's being done by this storm. i think it will be minimal throughout the day today. so we still have a flood threat. that's one of the issues. 5 million people are still in that flood threat including little rock to memphis, all the way to nashville.

so isolated areas could deal with flash flood pg the heavy rest rains are through tennessee and kentucky. then the rain will go all the way through the mid-atlantic region and then off the east coast by the time we get to sunday. this time of year, everyone is saying, all right, what's next. because the peak of the hurricane season is september 10th. we're not even there yet. we have had three hurricane landfalls in this country, which is exceptionally rare for this early in the season. we have two areas of interest, both out in the middle of the atlantic. 30% chance of development. that gives five to six days to watch those and the development regions are in the caribbean. it looks like the region is out there in central atlantic. so for today's forecast, a warm and hot day. and here's the problem. i mentioned 800 people people without power. they are under heat advisories. it's going to feel like 100 degrees this afternoon.

temperatures in the 90s and that heat indexes, shreveport will feel like 105. >> that is not what they need. let's hope they get the help they need. thank you, bill. still ahead, the president is pitching himself as the law and order president, as we mentioned earlier. but stays silent on what prompted the recent unrest in wisconsin. namely, the shooting of jacob blake. also the latest on the boycotts impacting professional sports. we're back in a moment. n a momet but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past... they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. let's help protect them together. because missing menb vaccination could mean missing out on a whole lot more. ask your doctor if your teen is missing meningitis b vaccination.

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welcome back, everybody. we'll start with the teen accused of killing two and injuring another protesters in kenosha, wisconsin. now facing new charges this morning. 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse was charged with intentional homicide and reckless homicide, which were filed yesterday by prosecutors. his attorney claims he was acting in self-defense. he also faces one count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under the age of 18 as well as three other offenses. a warning for you that this next visdeo is disturbing. the criminal complaint alleges that he went on a shooting spree with an ar-15 style rifle late tuesday. earlier self-proclaimed militia members clashed with protesters over the shooting of jacob blake. a black father left paralyze d y

a police officer. he's being charged as an adult under the state's laws and could face life in prison if convicted of the most serious offense. the compleaint named the victim of the deadly shooting. 26-year-old anthony hooub huber tried to hit him with a skate board before being fatally shot in the chest. josen rosen balm attempted to reach for the rifle before he was shot and killed. the third victim is expected to survive from his injuries. the suspect, who was captured in his hometown on wednesday, is awaiting extradition to wisconsin later today. president trump railed against democrat-run cities and praised the work of the national guard yesterday while managing to avoid addressing both the shootings of jacob blake and protesters.

>> these are all democrat run cities. so it went very smooth. we had a relatively small force. we could be much larger, if necessary. we'll move a very large force there, but we didn't need too much and it worked out well in wisconsin. all i ask is that these cities that are having difficulty if they call us, if they request we send the national guard, they will be there instantously, we will put out the flame, we will put out the fire, the vandalism, because the vandalism and the looting is ridiculous to allow this to happen. i don't know how they can possibly do it and why they do it. i don't understand. all they have to do is call. they can call me or mike or any one of us. we'll have the national guard there and we will stop the violence very quickly. >> the wave of professional sports boycotts and

postponements in protest of the police shooting of jacob blake in wisconsin continued yesterday. after wednesday's walkout by the bucks spread to other teams and sports league, the nba called off the three playoff games scheduled for yesterday. while the protests inspired some players to consider boycotting the rest of the nba season, league officials are hopeful games will resume today or tomorrow after players voted in favor yesterday of continuing play. meanwhile, another three wnba games were postponed last night. according to a league statement, continue discussions and reflections on recent events, that's the players. so the national hockey league and players association degreed to postpone playoff games scheduled for yesterday and today as well. semifinal tennis matches at the western and southern open were suspended, but both contests are set to resume today. and nine nfl teams called off yesterday's practices in support

of the protests as well. another seven major league baseball games set for yesterday were postponed including last night's matchup between the marlins and the mets at sit cit field, where the mets starters took to the field as the other players stood in foul territory for 42 seconds of silence in a nod to jackie robinson, who broke baseball's color barrier in 1947. players then exited the field for the night leaving a black lives matter t-shirt on top of home plate. also while the president has remained mum on jacob bill clinton, he did comment yesterday on the nba, a as did his son-in-law jared kushner. >> your reaction to the nba protest yesterday against another shooting of a black man by police? >> i don't know much about the

nba protest. i think their ratings have been baaed because people are tired of the nba, but i know their ratings have been bad. that's unfortunate. they have become a political organization, and that's not a good thing. i don't think that's a good thing for rt sports or for the country. >> i think that the nba players are very fortunate that they have the financial position where they are able to take a night off from work without having to have the consequences to themselves financially. so they have that luxury, which is great. there's a lot of activism, and i think they have put a lot of slogans out. but we need to turn that from slogans and signals to actual action that's going to solve the problem. >> so meanwhile, mike pence's chief of staff call ed the protests absurd and silly. in a cnn interview, he later clarified that his remarks were taken out of con text saying on that they were phrased in contrast to the nba's position on china.

joining me once again is political reporter julia manchester. let's go through some of this stuff. it seems as if the president has largely avoided addressing the shootings of jacob blake, but he's also vowing to stop the protests. is this going to impact the his reelection strategy, his stance that he is taking? >> you know, i'm not sure how it will impact his are reelection and stance to be certain. however, this is definite ly a move for his base. i don't think his base necessarily wants to hear him talk in depth about jacob blake and address maybe the problem of black men and black women facing police brutality in a very fatal consequence. i think they would rather hear about the law and order messaging. i think that's very much what you're hearing from him. he's really digging into that

message. as for his remarks yesterday about how the nba has low ratings, americans are sick of it and his son-in-law's remarks, it just seemed to a lot of people as very tone deaf. because obviously, we know that the underlying cause of these protests in the nba b and in the sports world overall is so personal and ep deep to so many of these players. they feel a connection to it. so we talk about this lack of empathy from the president and such. i think that could have been on display to many people from yesterday. >> also as i ticked through earlier, it's not just the nba that is reacting. it's the northbouba, tennis pla hock key players, baseball, football. it is every imaginable sport you can think of that americans hold

close at this point. so the president singling out the nba the way in which he does or the president's son b in law doing that in a way to say, well, they are lucky they can take a night off from work to do something like this. i don't necessarily think it's going to resinate considering the nakt we are gfact that we ae getting this signal across all major sports leagues. >> no way it won't resinate. coming from the president and his son-in-law in particular, two people who come from very wealthy families, quite a bit of privilege. and have many luxuries in their own lives. people were calling him tone deaf. >> thank you as always. great to see you this morning. still ahead, the trump administration is touting a major expansion of rapid coronavirus testing. but who gets them and when? back in a moment. back in a moment

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welcome back. the trump administration is touting a major expansion of rapid coronavirus test iing. part of a $750 million agreement with abbott laboratories. it's coming after the fda granted emergency use approval late wednesday to the company for its new coronavirus antigen test. it's set to cost about $5 and deliver results in minutes without lab equipment, similar to a pregnancy test. officials are saying yesterday that the president would mention the test in his speech at the republican national convention, but he instead spoke more broadly about the nation's testing initiatives. let's switch gears and get a check in with meteorologist bill karins. and bill, as we mentioned earlier, just an entire region

of the country dealing with the aftermath of a hurricane that ripped through the gulf region yesterday. >> yeah, the middle of a pan m pandemic, people wondering when they can return. and obviously, lake charles and all the communities around there, when can almost 100,000 people go back to their town and home. it's extremely difficult. >> let's get into this forecast. we have another active day. some associated with the moisture from laura, and some is not. we have a severe thunderstorm approaching minnesota. minneapolis is about to get hit by those storms. and then we're also throughout the day, we're going to continue to watch these storms progressing to the south. we could see heavy rainfall as far as chicago and severe storms too. so that's something we're going to have to be monitoring carefully later today. with the storms approaching minneapolis, we could see wind gusts approaching 60 miles per hour. so a serious line of storms

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welcome back, everybody. there's developing news from overseas. japan's longest serving lead er announced he's resigning due to health reasons. abe reportedly said he did not want to resign suddenly, but his chronic condition is at risk of getting worse. at 65 years old, he has been prime minister for eight consecutive years, which as the "new york times" puts it, is rare for a country accustomed to high turnover in the top job. he's considered to be a conservative boosting japan's military spending and trying to provide the country's economy. his current term was set to expire in september of next year. stock markets struggling for direction this morning as the japanese markets faced early turbulence. nancy pelosi had advice for joe biden on the upcoming debates. don't debate the president. he stood firm he would and pelosi later clarified her

stance. here's how it played out yesterday. >> don't tell anybody i told you this, especially don't tell joe biden. i don't think there should be any debates. i do not think that the president of the united states has comported himself in atruth evidence, data and facts. i wouldn't -- i wouldn't legitimize a conversation with him, nor a debate in terms of the presidency of the united states. now i know that the biden campaign thinks in a different way about this. >> as long as the commission continues down the straight and narrow as they have, i'm going to debate him. i know for certain i'm going to be a fact checker on the floor while i'm debating him. but the debates are going to take place. been recommended to me by a number of very competent people that know their way around, including leading republicans, that i shouldn't debate trump unless there's a fact checker in the debate saying that's true,

that's not true. i think everybody knows this man is, has a somewhat pathological tendency not to tell the truth. >> why i said he shouldn't debate him has nothing to do with joe biden, joe biden is great as a debater. joe biden is ready to go and wants to get into the debate. my concern was the president has not shown any respect for the office that he holds and i don't expect he will have any respect for the debates for that office as he has not shown any respect for getting people the right to vote without intimidation. >> all right. up next a look at axios' 1 big thing. and coming up on "morning joe." more from the fourth and final night of the national convention, plus chris webber will join joe, mika and willie

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welcome back, joining me now with a look at axios a.m. the cofounder of axios, mike allen. good morning, good to see you. give us axios' 1 big thing today. >> happy friday. the 1 big thing, trump between the lines. notice a big difference between the two conventions. at the democratic convention we heard about joe biden's character, how empathic joe biden was, more the uncle joe approach. the last four nights of the republican convention we heard more of the hard line policy differences. a lot more about the red meat of what trump says he's done and says he would do. here's why that matters. behind the scenes, the trump team knows that a lot of voters are going to vote for trump because of what he does, not who he is.

like they'll vote for him even if they don't like him. so that was a sub text of this convention was getting back a lot of those voters who voted for trump in 2016, maybe took a little bit of a flyer. they have not liked the rhetoric, they have not liked the style, but they do think that joe biden would raise their taxes or do they like other things that trump had done. so there was two parts for this convention, one is win back the suburbanites, give them a permission structure to vote for trump even if it may not be socially acceptable in their circles and secondly dial up the fear factor. >> the last four nights were based on a fear factor mental y mentality, i have to say, whether they succeeded is the question. succeeded with their base, of

course. conventions are over. we're learning joe biden is going to hit the campaign trail as he says had he's going to try to do it safely. what are his plans? >> this is a change in the biden thinking. both campaigns think they have an advantage in the optical contrast between president trump being out there, wanting to be with crowds, wanting to shake hands. and joe biden with a mask, following the advice of state health authorities. democrats are getting nervous, though, we talked to democrats who want biden out there more. so andrea mitchell told the story on the air how she was on the air with her show yesterday, the biden campaign called the control room, asked the producer, do you want joe biden, and they were like, sure. and andrea mitchell said that's how that interview came about. so now biden said he's going to get out there more.

yesterday he was on your air naming specific swing states, he's going to be in wisconsin, minnesota, pennsylvania, he's going to be out in arizona. i think it's clearly going to be more limited. he said he's going to follow the advice of state health authorities of how many people can gather in a crowd, but this is more than they had planned. hans nichols found out there was no plans for extensive air travel, for a campaign plane. so we're going to see biden more but not as much as we're going to see trump. who, as we saw with the pageantry last night, embraces the idea of acting as if if there's no pandemic. >> what do you think is the biggest difference between the way trump and biden will spend the next 60 days or so? we saw a glimpse of it last night where you had hundreds of folks in the crowds listening to the president's speech accepting

the nomination, basically, on the last and final night of the republican national convention. not many of them socially distanced at all. >> and not many in masks. here's a huge irony. joe biden, as you all know is a touchy, feely politician. he said yesterday in his interview with you, i'm tactile. he has a finger feel, he said he's a hugger where as we know president trump is a germaphob and before he became politician didn't even like shaking hands. so now we have joe biden, who spends so much time on the rope lines and connecting individually with people, i spent time with him in iowa and saw him spend as long as an hour there taking cues. where we're going to see now trump much more in person. >> thank you, i'll be reading

axios a.m. in just a little bit. you too can read the news lea r letter. that does it for me this friday morning, i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. my fellow americans with a heart full of the gratitude and boundless optimism. i profoundly accept this nomination for president of the united states. >> very big crowd there. that was president trump proudly or profoundly accepting the nomination for a second term. okay. it was about 1,500 people that gathered at the white house. it was -- they were all packed together. not a lot of masks. no social distancing at all. but at least the president's supporters practiced good hygiene, right rudy. >> in the summer, who stood by me