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Morning Joe

Morning Joe 8/12/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Morning Joe panel discusses the latest in coronavirus news, U.S. and world news, sports and politics.

Transcript

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0:00.0

They heard that Southwest American and Delta Airlines will not require employees to be vaccinated.

0:07.9

It's not a twist. Frontier is now the classy airline.

0:12.5

Didn't see that one coming.

0:14.7

I prefer the 3M duct tape, please. Thank you.

0:18.2

Good morning. Welcome to the morning, Joe. It is Thursday, August 12th. Joe, You got duct tape to your seat that time. They ran out of Mr. Pibb on one of your flights down to Pensacola. I did. I did. No, Mr. Pib. No, Mr. C.ola. They didn't have goodies, headache tablets. I was like, what am I doing here? What am I doing here? But, you know, you talk about duct tape, of course, everybody remembers the early years of morning, Joe, and you and me at times had to actually duct tape me to the chair on an occasion or two. But everything worked out okay. And it didn't even interrupt your thought while we were duct-taping. You still continued on your rant. Very impressive. Yes, it's getting ugly up there in those skies. Good morning to all of you with us this morning. We've got the White House reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire, and Washington editor at Ozzie Media. Caddy Kay. Great to see you both. Let's dive right in today.

1:12.5

Yeah, go ahead. Well, no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, Willie, before we dive in,

1:15.9

something happened last night. It's like this sort of Haley's comic. The Boston Red Sox won a game

1:22.2

last night. I just wanted you to know. I saw it. We, it was, it, it, LeMere, but when Tampa Bay spotted us 19 runs

1:33.0

going into the ninth inning, it was hard for us not to blow it, but we did give it that old

1:38.9

sporting 6-1-7 chance, didn't we? You know how Blind Squirrel finds an finds an acorn once a while joe and we were

1:45.8

able to get a win and we needed all 20 of those runs it felt like as we proceed as in the ninth

1:51.4

we just gave up more and more and more and the final i was uh we needed 20 they scored seven or eight

1:57.8

uh i guess we missed the extra point but But let's be clear here, Joe.

2:01.9

These are dark times for the Boston Red Sox. The surging of them. The surging New York Ganties today playing in Iowa, the field of dreams field where they will undoubtedly pick up.

2:13.5

Look, they signed Rizzo at the deadline. They got Joey Gallo today. Probably the ghost of

2:18.1

Shoeless Joe Jackson to help them in a stretch run further trouble for us.

2:22.3

Well, I mean, this is a team of destiny. And if you didn't know that your New York Yankees,

2:28.0

really, were the team of destiny, which, by the way, you will remember, I said earlier this

2:33.2

year the Yankees are coming.

2:35.0

But any evidence you need is in the game tonight, that the Yankees are the team of destiny.

2:43.5

Build it and they will come.

2:45.9

And yes, they're coming.

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