jonathan thomas is a bus monitor and a paraprofessional at mayfair elementary school in east clevelandistrict. the kids writing the bus, he's the first contact with school in the morning. he works hard to make sure they have a good start to the day. >> oh, well. i drink all that milk, i'll be in trouble. >> right. >> and how long have you been working here? >> i have been working at this school going on this is my second year. i have been in the district seven years. >> did you go to school here? >> not here but i did go to school in the district. >> you know these fine people in here? >> oh, yeah, this is my guy right here. one of my helpers. >> come out. >> what grade is everybody in? >> 6th. >> oh, kinder garten. >> 5th. >> what grade are you in? >> i am in the 4th grade for the tenth time. what are your favorite classes? >> my favorite class is you focus and tell you what you get yourself together. my favorite part of school is computer lab. basically when we go there on friday we basically get to have free time. >> my thing is dinosaur, all as to play time outside to the park and

>> jonathan thomas is a bus monitor and a professional here in the east cleveland district. the kids riding the bus, he is their first contact with school in the morning. he makes sure they have a good start to the day. >> oh, well! i drink all that milk, i'll be in trouble. >> and how long have you been working here? >> i've been working at this school, going on, this is my second year but i've been in the district seven years. >> did you go to school here? >> not here but i did go in the district. >> do you know these fine people here? >> oh, yeah. this is my guy here, one of my helpers. >> nice to meet you. >> what grade is everybody in? >> second. >> sixth. >> kindergartenen. >> fifth. >> what grade are you in? >> i'm in fourth grade. [ laughter ] >> for the tenth time? what are your favorite classes? >> my favorite class, she really likes focused on you and tells you, get yourself together. >> my favorite part of school is the computer lab. when we go there on friday, we get to have free time. >> my favorite book is dinosaur -- dinosaur, always play time outside, do the

jonathan lamire, shawna thomas still with us.ributor and so much more, mike barnicle, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of "kasie dc" on msnbc, kasie hunt, and professor at princeton university and author of the book "begin again," eddie glaude jr. guys, good morning. we've got a great crew assembled. kasie, let me begin with you about these senate negotiations. we heard yesterday late in the day from mitch mcconnell that he may be open now to this $600-a-week unemployment benefit being extended. that had been a big point of contention. that expired at midnight on friday. tens of millions of americans going without that $600 check as we speak. how close do you think we are to a deal here? >> i still think we have a little ways to go, willie, but you're right. and i actually asked mitch mcconnell about the $600 yesterday, and his answer was pretty noteworthy. he didn't come out and say, "i support that," but what he did say, functionally, was that, hey, this isn't going to be the way it was last time. i'm going to move

jonathan lemire. msnbc contributor, shana thomas. historian john meacham, whose biography of john lewis accomplishes next week. and host of politics nation and president of the national action network reverend al sharpton is with us. we are covering a lot this morning, including developments in the postal story, with house speaker nancy pelosi saying louis dejoy will not restore cuts made to the postal service. speaker pelosi said louis dejoy told her while he has agreed to refrain from additional changes until after the election he has, quote, no intention of returning the sorting machines removed from facilities or collection mailboxes taken from streets. and developments with the concern as florida yesterday became the fifth state to reach 10,000 deaths. joining new jersey, new york, california, and texas. georgia now leads the country in the rate of new cases according to the white house coronavirus task force, which urged the state to take stronger measures to curb the outbreak. the infection rate in new york city, the former gl

with us, white house reporter for the "associated press," jonathan lamire, nbc news and msnbc contributor shawna thomasitico and co-author of "the playbook," jake sherman, an msnbc political contributor as well, and co-host of "the circus" on showtime and contributor for "vanity fair," mark mckinnon. joe and mika have the morning off. so, jonathan lamire,

jonathan, so the great thomas ricks who has a wonderful book coming out in a couple months said that what the boston red sox are doing are nothing less than a remarkable experiment. he said they decided to elevate an entire triple a pitching staff to the major leagues at the same time, of course, tom is a little off. this is single a, double a pitching staff the red sox have sent up. but it's just -- it's beyond words how bad the pitching staff is. i don't know if you know this or not, but the red sox won the world series a couple years ago. >> 2018, joe, feels so very far away. it is, in a word, embarrassing how this red sox team fell so far so fast. there's days the pitching staff looks like a jv group. they lost three straight to the yankees. probably lose again in the bronx today. it is so disappointing that just a short time ago not only did they win a world series but seemed like they were set up to contend for years. and now they are not just bad, they are down right impossible to watch. outside of a bright spot here or there, they're a difficult team to watch. and frankly, it

thomas, the reverend al sharpton. mika will be back tomorrow. willie, we're going to get to the big takeaways from night two of the republican national convention. as jonathanore, rising 2024 stars and pompeo and melania. the president, ever a showman, mixed official business with campaign politics. you know, it was very, very interesting, willie, that if you looked at this night, it really was an alternative reality. you had larry kudlow talking about the coronavirus in the past tense. you also had melania actually criticizing people who were mean on social media, and gossipers. of course, never heard her criticize her own husband when he said that mika was bleeding badly from a facelift. or when i was a murderer or when a woman who had passed away tragically 19 years ago, her husband was begging donald trump to stop being so hateful and causing their family extraordinary pain, begging him to stop and he just continued over and over again causing pain for that family. never heard melania say anything then. never heard her say anything when donald trump talked about bleed i badly from a facelift. someone used her child's name in a pun and, oh, my god, locus

my panel tonight, jonathan swan, washington post white house reporter and msnbc analyst ashley parker and political reporter and could be content executive and contributor shauna thomaslcome to all of you. shauna, let me start with you on the broad picture here. it seems the president wants headlines saying he did things to help and there is a world where -- that we've been covering the last several years. he was able to write those headlines, write those the way he wanted them to but in this particular case, americans across the country are living out the experience and the reality is he simply cannot help them as much as congress could. so is this -- what is clearly a political strategy from him going to work? >> i mean, i think it's a political strategy white houses have done before. there are a lot of executive orders out there written pretrump that were just for political purposes. i'd like to remind people barack obama signed one about guantanamo bay and closing it when he first took office but what i think is there is a sugar high that the president might get from that. i was looking through newspaper headlines during the day and the "denver post" trump ordere

joe and me we have white house reporter jonathan lemire, nnbc newsreporter casey hunt, president of the national action network reverend al sharpton and shawna thomasn joe biden has announced senator kamala harris as his running mate for the 2020 presidential election. in texts and emails to campaign supporters shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday, biden broke the news, writing in part, "i decided that kamala harris is the best person to help me take this fight to donald trump and mike pence and then to lead this nation starting in january 2021. and shortly after that, he posed the announcement on twitter calling harris a, quote, fearless fighter for the little guy and one of the country's finest public servants. biden's announcement comes more than a year after he and harris, a former presidential rival, clashed over biden's record on race during the first democratic debate. it was tough. if elected, she would become the first female, first black and first asian-american vice president. she's the daughter of immigrants. her father from gentleman majam mother from india. she attended the famed howard attorney general and went on to become california's at