Good morning. Welcome to morning, Joe. It is Thursday, July 31st, August Eve, my friends. We've got a lot to get to this morning. It's a beautiful live picture from the top of our building here at Rockefeller Center.

We'll have the big moments from yesterday's hearing on that deadly mid-air collision over Reagan National Airport.

We'll dig into what the finding show went wrong on that terrible day.

It comes as more than two dozen passengers on a Delta flight yesterday.

Had to be taken to the hospital after their flight experienced significant turbulence.

I'll tell you what happened there.

Also ahead, we'll go through the failed efforts by some Senate Democrats to block the sale of weapons to Israel.

Plus, President Trump is lashing out at India and Russia on social media after raising tariffs yesterday on imports from India.

With us this morning with me and Joe, co-hosts of our fourth hour contributing writer at the

Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire, NBC News National Affairs Analyst and a partner and chief political

columnist at Puck, John Heilman, Washington Bureau Chief at USA Today, Susan Page, and President

Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Hots. He's the author of the weekly newsletter, Home and Away, available on Substack.

Joe.

Yeah, a lot to get through this morning.

I mean, it does appear, Willie, that Donald Trump's anger at Russia continues.

Many people thought that it was going to abate, but it seems that, you know, you look at what he posted overnight, what he said about Medvedev, going after India, talking about the purchasing of Russian gas, all of these different things.

It really looks like he's going to start applying the pressure for the first time at a long time to Vladimir Putin, something that many Republicans like Lindsey Graham and the Senate have wanted to do for some time.

We're going to be talking to Richard Haas about that.

But first up, I tell you, Willie, when I've always heard when you talk to pilots, you know, how did a plane crash happen?

What went wrong?

And I've heard for years, and I'm sure you have too, they said, well, one thing doesn't go wrong.

Everything goes wrong at the same time.

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