plus, darth vader, and all your sports highlights coming up next with betty nguyen. >>> and now let's get the latest in sports from my colleague, betty nguyen. >> good morning, mara. let's start with some baseball. the new york yankees lose a tough one 12 hours after a-rod's appeal is filed by the players association. in chicago, a game winning triple to help rally the sox to a 6-5 whip. the yankees have lost 14 of their last 20 games. >>> jets quarterback can't seem to catch a break. first, coach rex ryan asked fan toes be nicer this week. now he is getting slack because he will be starting on friday against the detroit lions. he is taking the high road after reading this week saying f-u, hope you break youracl on friday. >>> andrew mccutchen, not only did his mother sing the national anthem, but he goes his 16th home run of the season. >> must have been mom being there. >> exactly. you know mama looks very proud. >> look how proud she is. i love it. >>> now to big plays in the little league, jacob garza and his team won a spot in the little league world series. garza w pitch perfect

. >>> plus, darth vader, a-rod and the rest of your sports highlights here on "early today." >>> let's get the latest in sports now. we start with some baseball. the new york yankees lose a tough one. just 12 hours after a-rod's appeal is filed by the players association, in chicago, a game-winning triple to help rally the sox to a 6-5 win. the yanks have lost 14 of their last 20 games. >>> jets quarterback mark sanchez cannot catch a break. first, coach rex ryan asked fans to be nice earlier this week. and now sanchez is getting flack because he will be starting for the jets preseason opener against the detroit lions on friday. sanchez takes the high road after getting this very rude tweet which reads f you. hope you tear your acl on friday. that is disgusting. sanchez responded with a tweet saying, thanks for your support, man. #classy. yeah, that's how you do it. kill them with kindness. >>> in pittsburgh, a very special night for center fielder andrew mccutchen. not only did his mother, you see her right there, sing the national anthem. he got his 16th home run of the season. and t

fans dress as darth vader and storm troopers showing the force is strong with the wielding light sabers> they're saying detroit bankrupt. yeah. finally check out the rowdy fans at the detroit tigers and cleveland indians game. let's go tigers cheers could not overcome chance of detroit's bankrupt. what a low blow. but detroit, they did get the last laugh. winning the game in the 14th inning, 6-5. they came out on top. >> last laugh indeed. >>> and now it's time for our first look at politics on this thursday morning. we go back to our top political stories. joining us as he does every thursday, bob franken. bob, good morning. >> good morning. >> let's start with this news about obama not attending the meeting with putin in september. are we seeing beginnings of a new cold war here? >> it's a real shame because the last one went so well. i was so looking forward to another of the jovial photo ops. but it seems to me that cold war is sort of sneaking up on us just a little bit although just about all the parties would deny it. let us not forget that president putin is a project of the kgb

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. >> chester as darth vader oner star wars the empire strikesemre back. >> if you only knew the p.o.wof the dar-- the power of the d. obi one won didn't tell you thet power of the dark side. i am your father. >>> i will answer that question. >> i think i'm entitled. do whatever. >> i want the truth. >> you can't handle the truth. >> bacarri rambo as rambo? this is what we do and who we are. and the winner is. >> alfred morris as jerry mcgwire in jerry mcgwire. [ laughter ] >> thank you. >> this is greatest day of my life. >>> i don't know if it was theae greatest day of his life. i told him i want to see it on the mantle. it's got to be at the house wito all the other awards he has received or it's got to be in the locker room.or uldn'though i wouldn't have given it. >> that was good stuff. >> the voice, and the stage. >> they all did a great job. >> good point inside let's checc in with brian and see what isat coming up next.co >> reporter: ahead at 6:00 a day of rage and vilence erupting in egypt after days of protests. >>> and the classified arguments, new revelation, top sesecret

evil or darth vader is in the white house? >> are you serious, a lot of liberals thought dick cheney was darth vader. and now that the shoe's on the other foot. >> guy -- >> -- think that obama is evil. >> and he has imaged the surveillance state that exceeds anything dick cheney could have dreamed up in his wildest, most exciting fantasies. >> he understands what the world -- >> he's succeeded -- >> are we just presumed guilty? and they scan us and keep track of us and keep up with us until we do slip up, we're all presumed guilty. >> you know the information is out there as soon as you log on to your computer, the cat's out of the bag. >> it's so disturbing. it's orwellian. i think not 100% people are fine with it. >>> coming up on "morning joe," "the washington post's" kathleen parker will be here with her new op-ed on congressman steve king. also msnbc's joy-ann reid, jilian tett, and john densmore will be here too. first, here's bill karins and he has a check on this hot, humid, sticky weather here. >> it's not quite hot

out of the closet, and jesse benting kind of sort of hates his boss, mitch mcconnell is like the darth vaderte. his staff will even say that to you. if i'm mitch mcconnell and this is the guy running my campaign, i'm going to walk in a room and look and say, wait a minute, i'm supposed to trust you, especially when my numbers are in the tank? more importantly mcconnell is talking about being backed in a corner like putin. he's screwed in kentucky, especially with the tea party folks. he can't do anything about the fact that his campaign manager thinks he sucks. that's a terrible place to be in if you're a senate in a reelect. >> probably many, many think he was speaking the truth. >> he certainly was, anything that knows him pretty much assumed that that was the case to begin with, and mcconned i'm sure actually knew that to begin with. benton is the aide more closely associated with ron paul than anybody else. he went from ron paul and then to rand paul, was with both of them for a long time. since this has been with rand and, as he said, he'll tend to be with rand paul after that. getting

climate change and immigration and women rights and gay rights and are going to hand those out and darth vader will be making an appearance with a counter protest encouraging google to not listen to their climate activists and instead fund more evil. is google violence isn't google violating their own you know don't do evil corporate if those by supporting. that that's right i mean in this is i'm just in a kind of a general sense google has had a very clear policy. working on this side of climate and you know fighting climate change and promoting climate science and in fact today a letter was released by the google science communications group of seventeen climate scientists who worked with google two years ago on this almost like literally to fight back against the likes of inhofe in the letter just severely castigated google for deciding to finance in office and this isn't just senator inhofe and google has also started to fund groups like the competitive enterprise institute heritage foundation and other anti science climate denying politicians one susan molinari took over their lobbying sh

unfortunately it's as if luke skywalker were trying to please darth vader. >> rose: tell me about this idea of writing a scene and you find yourself in a terrible place and you don't know how to get out of it. >> rose: we -- we -- (laughs) we have painted ourselves into some corners over the seasons, my yiers and i. and there's been couple times when we thought we'd have to go backward. >> rose: when hank's outside and the two of them are in the trailer -- >> that was a memorable moment. >> rose: i'm saying -- >> i mean, for us in the writers' room, memorable as in painful. >> rose: yeah, painful. and how long did it take you to figure that out. was that a week of writers just scratching your head saying "what the hell are we going to do here? >> probably about a week. >> rose: you have to get a resolution to this problem. >> oh, yeah. i wish i could be more specific. i -- there's a great old saying i learned from a writer -- from a producer, director of "the x-files" "the pain fades but the glory remains." i tend to forget some of the specifics of the pain but i think it was probably

like darth vader. old box tv sets. old box computers, what a great way to reinvent, recycle, reuse. pet garden. a screwdriver, pair of pliers. take the stuff out and spray paint. >> it's so cute. what a way to recycle. cds are becoming obsolete. but not in our world. not when we want to "improve this." what do you want us to do here? i mean, how great is this? i love this as a room divider if you live in a small apartment. you can get these shower rings at any hardware store. all of this stuff is easy to find. and did you just drill little holes in them? >> you need to use a drill. but it's super easy when you get a hang of it. >> this light reflection, is very psychedelic. and finally, i love your inventive use of vhs tapes. we've all got them. and now, you're saying live with them. >> look closely at danielle. tell me about this. >> this is a crocheted sweater made from the tape from one vhs cassette. >> that's one movie. >> this is the length of one movie right here. and if you're not willing to commit to the full sweater look, you can mac accessories, as well. >> let me look at

it has been replaced by vader useshere darth an invisible force to grab an opponent in an invisible grip. the latest is unicorning. you wear a uniform -- unicorn mask in unlikely situations and post the photo. #unicorning. online actually emerged last year but has enjoyed a major boost over the past few weeks after an american adult film actress was thrown after a baseball game mid july after performing a dance deemed too suggestive while wearing a unicorn mask. it gave unicorning a whole new lease on life. there are already variations of the latest viral sensation. some have found an alternative way of indulging in the craze, an ice cream cone and sticking it on their head, so that they look just like the mythological creature. pulse was put together by researchers at m.i.t. choose web users to how. place looks users's to measure perceptions to reality. a tumblr blog creator with a wacky idea. photos of bass players replaced with dogs. carpentry tools which move on their own, as if by magic, to cut wood and gradually build a lawn chair. motionstonishing stop- produced by a youtube regul