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I'm sure that Joe thinks the bunker broadcasts are so smooth that no one notices. But I find it very distracting. Look at the daily roster of shows -- I can't imagine any of the other MSNBC hosts not being on set four days a week.

I am a total fan of Rachel, but just did not need to hear ten minutes of Condi Rice's shoe shopping in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina in order to hear 10 minutes later that Alex Azar went to his 30th college reunion on Saturday. Yes, HHS is doing a horrifying job of taking care of children that should not be in their custody. I don't care that he went to his college reunion on Saturday. Skipping it would not have made a difference to the likely hundred children transported that day. I care what he is doing during the week to get these children back to their parents. But Rachel did not get to the part about babies transported to Michigan and officials lying to American Airlines until 21 minutes into the show. That would have been a more compelling start. I want to hear more about these nighttime transports and the ways everyone is wising up to this surreptitious activity: greeters at the airports and custody workers who are appalled to be receiving babies and air attendants who are taking the names of these children on planes. She briefly mentioned all of these.

It looks like hour three is live. I guess it is dark in Texas because of rain? It's 7:36 AM in Texas right now, and much darker than Seattle right now, where it is very bright.

I think I am watching the repeat of hour one. Mika started with: "I have four words: tone-deaf, callous, heartless". Well, kind of four words, Mika. But yes, Kirsten Nielsen going to a Mexican restaurant last night? So, so tone-deaf.

I don't think I can watch this again, but here is a clip from the end of the show: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/393161-rachel-maddow-breaks-down-in-tears-while-describing-tender-age-shelters-for

Poor parents.

Oh, Rachel. Our hearts are breaking with yours. When Rachel Maddow bursts into tears on the show -- well, this is a very new and horrifying era.

I've been hearing the recording (part of it, or another one) of the children being detained, so I was already disturbed both for the children and because of the heartless reaction to the recording by top federal officials. But when Rachel played a long section of recording of a couple of children with a black screen and translated words, it just destroyed me. The one child so sure that her aunt would stop by to pick her up ("I memorized her number") and the other child who kept moaning "Papa..." -- what a horrible situation for both of them -- and their parents. If anyone else had this particular recording, I had not heard it during the afternoon. I was not clear on who the guest was talking about (the child was moved to a new site, or the person who made the recording?), because I could not even focus on the interview. I had not realized that every living First Lady had written with concern about this crisis.

One will go on the honeymoon, the other will Skype into the frame. I don't think they were both on set more than two days last week, if that. Enjoy the poolside, Oakville! Didn't know you had pools up there, just thought there were frigid natural bodies of water.

The canoe: In the handoff, Lawrence went on about Cohen and Avenatti, but Rachel's head clearly already was on the canoe. She actually swiveled her chair before Lawrence was done (then stayed). Don't get between Rachel and the trout, Lawrence.

I generally cannot stand to listen to someone reading a document, especially when the text is also visible -- but Rachel reading transcripts that are hot out of the printer is a real treat. And the drama of it really does come through because of the reading.

I certainly hope Rachel is on the air this Friday evening tonight. So, aside from all the head-exploding, depressing news, I appreciate that she took time (Wednesday) to highlight the cat prediction of the World Cup winner. And the Russian cat chose the Russian team by choosing the Russian bowl of food. I'm sure it had nothing to do with the broccoli in the other dish and the bacon topping on the Russian bowl. ??? Thanks for the break in the relentless news, Rachel.

Apparently the walk and talk was some staged appearance, according to Joe. Ari Melber is insulting Donnie's "loud" jacket to make a point about appropriate language and protocol-- while saying Giuliani is not appropriate. Donnie does not seem to appreciate this. Sorry, Ari, I can't hear you while Donnie's jacket is strobing like a disco ball.

I think at least part of the third hour is live -- they just showed Trump walking and surrounded by many reporters. (8:29 AM ET) Very odd. Then Joe said Trump had tweeted he would do that forty minutes ago.

It was chilling to watch Season 6 for the first time in June 2018 -- when now we know *so much* of what was surmised when this was written (before the 2016 election, a thousand years ago, it seems), about the subversive bots and campaign to use social media to manipulate public opinion. I guess we will never know why Dal let Max go, but I am glad the writers showed us that he did emerge from that dark place. I thought he would have been left tied to a plumbing pipe and discovered weeks later. Looking forward to bingeing Season 7, but maybe will give it all a rest for a while. One loose end I kept expecting to pop up again was the housekeeper at the rural location where they "kidnapped" the PEOTUS. On the ride back in the pickup truck, Keane kept saying, I *know* I've seen you before; I'm very good with faces. I really expected that she would turn out to be someone masterminding some aspect of all the dark ops. Thanks for the threads and comments, everyone -- I read each thread before going to the next episode.

The Tim Russert footage was not in the hour included in the online stream. They generally use the first hour for the audio podcast, but I'm not sure which hour ends up in the MSNBC app.

Yes, Luke was rather smarmy. If I had been working my way up the NBC/MSNBC food chain and watched his untrained presence jump rungs ahead of me, or if I had earned my stripes the old-fashioned way, I would have been alternately furious and demoralized. It was not like he had a natural gift. I did not see any of this morning's show -- hope the Tim Russert footage was in the first hour, which can be viewed via app.* I actually never watched Tim Russert on the air, but understand the veneration of him. (Last I saw, Luke, whom we did indeed call Li'l Luke, was traveling around the world.) *I recently found an MSNBC app that has a day or two of the most recent shows in video -- much more convenient to watch than the website. The podcast is just audio -- useful for car travel.

The best part of the shredding story, the Rachel twist, was when she was imagining him tearing paper into *tiny* pieces "with his ENORMOUS hands"! I just howled. I basically have not been able to watch the news for the past two days, so appreciated that Rachel's analysis at the top of her show got me back in the swim.

Yes, they mocked Trump saying that Trudeau had been impolite on he Monday show. They were mildly amusing, for them. I see that the staffer who promised "a special place in hell" to Trudeau has actually apologized. (Navarro)

I cannot imagine how she could have handled it better. "I'm a big fan. My husband wrote for your show." And she left it to the rest of us to say, "asshole". And I generally like NPH, but he seemed to be having a jealous mood as he tweeted this year's show.

Wow, I am so used to the split screen that when my eyes opened and I saw them together, my first thought was "what happened in the news?". It's like seeing Brian Williams pop up at 2:00 in the afternoon and you go "what happened?". Ha! They just played Justin Trudeau giving his earnest high school valedictorian speech and went into faux outrage about his lack of politeness. That was funny. ("Faux" because, you know, bilingual, right, Oakville?) Je suis canadienne.

It was not nominated this year. Won last year.

I think they did the scene in their own theatre? I might have misunderstood the opening establishing shot. I left before they did one minute -- am recording. But I loved the opening of the awards show!

Can hardly wait for this to air three hours later on the West Coast! Thanks for the highlights! I love watching the Tonys -- mainly for the scenes presented from nominated shows. A great reminder that live theatre is so - alive!

"110 in the Shade" was a musical based on the play/film "The Rainmaker" (Burt Lancaster, Katherine Hepburn). Beautiful music, with some lines from the film made into lyrics.