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Fleecefest continues. Joe has a purple fleece pullover today. Joe said that the USA is better off with Saddam & Syria with Assad. Joe said ISIS is the greater threat. Joe said fools rush in. Joe said Obama is cautious. Joe is opposed to invading Syria. Joe likes body cams on police in Feguson. Joe said increasing the minimum wage is popular. He voted against it in Congress. Joe said the GOP campaign for Congress & the Senate is in trouble.

Chris Matthews was very irritated at Joe for interrupting him. He also told Joe that he doesn't poll columnists like Eugene Robinson or Kristof or Ignatious to find out his position on ISIS. Joe told Chris that he sounded like Ross Perot with the "let me finish". Mika looked confused throughout the discussion.

Joe looks ridiculous with his different colour fleece everyday. Grow up!. Mika, Thomas & Willie are dressed appropriately for TV. I am shocked that Richard Engel agreed to appear on Morning Joe set. Joe hates him.

Moderate Joe may be a rating ploy. I think he will snap soon. How long can he keep up this charade? I am sure they are aware of the lower ratings so they are trying new things. Their analysis of the wendy;s tim hortons deal was amateurish. Where's Ratner?

In the second hour, joe is going off on another rant about Americans best days being ahead. Joe said the GOP should support Obama against ISIS. This is weird. The camera just focused on Joe . Joe said he doesn't ready what critics of his say. Joe said u should get off your ass & support the commander in chief.

Fleecy Joe is back. The music interrupted Mika while she was speaking about Iraq. Mr Dreamy gets to sick at the glass table with Mika & Joe while reading newspaper headlines. Something is off with the show the past week or so. Joe has been going on these weird monologues at the start of each show. Maybe Joe is upset that he didn't get to host Meet the Press? Mika & Joe were upset at Warren Buffett for investing in Burger King.

Joe is in full rant mode today. He is mad at the militarization of police, the lack of community policing. Joe said the police need body cameras. Joe said Ferguson police makeup is like Apartheid in South Africa .Joe strongly supports Al Sharpton efforts. They talked about Maureen Dowd's golf column on Obama. Joe said his friends in Pensacola were talking about Obama playing too much golf. Mika did not watch the VMA's. joe said his daughter listens to Ariana Grande & other female singers but that there are no good male bands except Maroon 5 now. He said One Direction wasn't popular anymore.

The ratings for morning Joe have dropped. 4th place is not good. They used to be #2 in that demo. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/thursday-cable-ratings-msnbc%e2%80%99s-morning-joe-4th-in-demo-with-60k/

Cackles asked Joe what happened to the cat that Mika gave Joe. The cat died& Mika lost control of herself. She couldn't stop laughing. Why would Mika find a dying cat to be funny ?

mini recap. Mika is back today after dropping off her daughter at college. Mika was vey distraught about letting her daughter go. They showed footage of Mika's pickup truck & Emilie near her dorm room. It's odd that they would have camera crews there. Cackles & Halperin were on set. Joe was mad at the looters in Ferguson. Joe was mad at Gov Perry being indicted. They showed clips of the drunk attorney. Joe said the GOP should thank Obama for offering air power to the kurds against ISIS. Joe said Obama is doing a good job in Iraq. Cackles hates Kale.

Hi Stacey. Is "cackles" OK as a nickname for Nicole Wallace?

I found the Alison Grimes vs Mitch McConnell debate to be fun @ the Fancy farm. Campbell Brown was on complaining about teacher tenure.

Mini Recap. Mika is off & Joe is back with Barnacle & Bobbi Ghosh.& Al Hunt & cackles. The show does a quick 3 minute clip of hot topics, then starts. Netanyahu said the US shoud not second guess Israel Hamas has no allies in the middle east. Joe thought it was weird that the US & Europe is more sympathetic to Hamas than Egypt. Joe was opposed to the bombing of civilians. Joe said he was Pro Israel. Cackles got mad at the panel for sympathising with Hamas because hey were terrorists. Joe was mad at the anti semitic protests in France & Germany. Joe was mad at TJ for losing the interview with the advisor in Netanyahu . Joe was mad at all the impeachment talk. Mike Murphy came on & said the GOP should stop shooting itself in the foot. Steve King is a secret Democrat weapon because his talk of impeachment helps democrts & makes the GOP look foolish. Murphy said the GOP is not showing courage because they talk to their base . Not enough swing districts left. Campbell Brown & Pat Buchanan will be on later.

More analysis of Joe's statement on Friday. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/08/03/scarborough-unfair-his-attempt-damage-control-demonstrates-success-hamas

Mini Recap. Mika on set & Joe broadcasting from his private studio. TJ was back. Halperin & Meacham were on & a panelist . Mika said she had trouble raising her teens this weekend. One of them was misbehaving. The big topic was Gaza. Joe said Hamas is using people s human shields & building terror tunnels with funds raised by the UN. Joe said Israel should be able to defend itself. Joe said 1000 dead civilians is bad Pr for Israel.Joe said Hamas was in political oblivion but now is doing better in the polls because they are seen as protecting Gaza. They showed a clip of Charlie Rose asking Hamas if they would recognize Israel. they said no. Next topic was Ukraine. Hillary said she was skeptical of Putin . Halperin said Obama had no strategic vision of the world crisis & what the USA should do. The new panelist said that the USA could give Ukraine the locations of the missile launchers in Russia. Meacham said there are too many Russian spies in Ukraine so the USA could get in trouble with Russia & it would escalate the war. Halperin or Joe said Obama has to stop allowing other countries to cross red lines. There is a scandal with Cuomo stopping his own ethics commission because the commissioners asked his allies troubling questions. Joe said Chris Christie would never get away with that & this was worse than Christie closing bridges. Halperin said Cuomo isn't treated as a national figure so his scandals are OK. Joe said Cuomo was bubble wrapped .

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73014.html Mika & Joe were opposed to Buchanan being dropped by MSNBC.

I think that Chuck Todd would have a better chance than Mika & Joe of hosting the show.

Mika & Joe argued about whether or not Reagan had reacted quickly to the Russian attack on the South Korean airliner in 1983. http://spectator.org/articles/60015/mh-17-vs-kal-007%E2%80%94obama-vs-reagan. Joe was upset that Obama was eating cheeseburgers & refusing to stop the fundraising during the last week. Mika & Joe were doing comedy stand up this weekend in Nantucket. Mika was impersonating Joe fawning over Bill Clinton. Heileman is back. They also discussed Israel, James Garner & the Ukraine

Mika was happy that Joe was back on set today. Mika said Joe was muttering about wearing khakis & sweaters onset. Joe was confused by the Christie Christie poll numbers. he misread unfavourable as favourable . Joe said the other candidates are bunched up. There was a big debate over Hillary's $250K speaking fee for the University of Buffalo.

today's mini recap. Mika was haapy that she actually watched a show that was nominated for an emmy. it was called Orange is black. Mika said her daughter Carly who is an intern on morning joe was rude to her. Halperin & Joe were upset that Obama wouldn't negotiate with Congress. Mika said Congress shouldn't sue the President. capreheart was on & said Obama is frustrated with the GOP. Julie Pace said Obama gives the same partisan speech whether he is at a democratic fundraiser or not. The panel said Obama likes to get away from Washington. Joe said Clinton negotiated with the GOP when he was in Congress. Joe said the President should go on vacation.

Mini Recap. Mika & Joe are off. Willie is home alone. Cackles, Donnie & Barnicle on set. the supreme court decision about Hobby Lobby was discussed. Hobby is exempt from providing the 20 forms of birth control options for their employees. They provide 16 & object to 4 options. cackle said religious liberty applies despite what the New England Media says. This debate is weird to me. Why can the company decide what type of birth control their employees can use? More troops are going to Iraq to protect the US embassy & the airport. The ISIS group have fighters with European 7 American passports so they could come back & attack targets in America & Europe. The ISIS rebels have $2billion.. They stole 400 million from a bank in Mosul. They can pay fighters & offer good benefit plans compared to other terrorist groups. Mike Allen said Liz & Dick Cheney are trying to rebuild roots in the GOP party after her disastrous campaign for Senate in Wyoming.

Mini recap. Joe congratulated Mika for hosting the working family summit. Obama mentioned Mika so she was happy. Mika hosted a panel with Pelosi & a few others. Mika was the only one wearing a short black skirt. Joe was happy that the panel had Cackles & Michael Steele. He said MSNBC usually likes to have more Democrats on the panel than Republicans. There is a new bridge scandal with Chris Christie. Joe was mad at McDaniel for being too Tea Partyish. Joe went on a tirade against the NY Times & Washington Post over the new IRS internal investigation. It was on page a19. Ratner said it was old news. joe said the emails disappeared after the investigation began. Mika interrupted Joe to talk about women leaving their careers prematurely. Joe said the ny times & the broadcast news is a scam. Joe said conservatives don't trust the big newspapers & broadcast news. Darrell Issa was mad at the IRS guy for losing the emails. Ed Rendell is back & said the IRS chief should be fired. Mika said the tone was wrong. Joe said it was a cover up.

Agreed Suomi. Mika looked very nice while she was interviewing Obama. I thought her questions were good. Mini Recap Monday. Joe started talking about soccer & the USA loving it now. Mika's daughter graduated from High School. She will be going to John Hopkins in the fall. Mika was happy about that. Back to the interview, Obama said you can't play whack a mole with terrorists. Obama gave a good explanation of what's going in the Middle East. Troops may stay in afganistan according to Al Hunt . Someone said Obama was tired. Halperin said Obama needs to take charge of the situation. There was a new panelist, Bobby Ghosh who was dressed in a Nehru Jacket. He said Obama wanted 30K troops with the status of forces agreement. The panel then started complaining about Hilary's wealth & the fact that someone brings her coffee for 30-40 years. Mika then started interrupting the panel to ask her interns for coffee. Some democrats are worried about Hillary coming across as too imperial to be president. Its back to the do you want to have a beer with the President? Who would want to have a beer with Halperin? The cable went out here, so that's all I could recap.

Thanks for the info Stafford. So Mika doesn't get an exclusive, she's part of three women interviewing the President. I remember a few years ago when Norah & Willie used to cohost the show when Mika & Joe were away. Good Times.

Mini recap for Friday June 20 cont. Joe apologized to Dr Z for being wrong abot the War in Iraq in 2003. Joe said everyone should stop blaming each other for being for against the invasion surge etc.. Dr Z & Richard Hass think that Iraq will be portioned along sectarian lines between Shiites, Sunnis & Kurds. Hass said that there is a risk that Obama is being seen as propping up Maliki. Dr Z said the US should support Jordan which may be falling apart due to all the refugees going to the country. Hass said the middle east is going through a period like the 30 years war in the 17th century between the catholics & protestants. Joe wondered if a small token force left behind in 2011 would have stopped the chaos from happening now. The panel had mixed opinions about whether it would work. I am curious why Mika is interviewing President Obama. Why not Brian Williams?