The Secret Service closed access to the Ellipse Park, which is a public park, from which journalists had been capturing live images of the East Wing demolition.

Well, that makes sense.

If none of it's on camera, they can just claim the East Wing hanged itself in prison.

Now, a lot of, I guess, I'm going to.

Stephen Colbert, hitting on two of the stories making headlines this morning,

the president's unilateral decision to reshape the White House

and how the Epstein case still looms over Capitol Hill amid the ongoing government shutdown.

The president, meanwhile, was up late last night,

setting trade policy via social media, a Canadian political ad about tariffs triggered

an angry escalation to the economic standup. We'll have more on that. We'll see how Wall Street

reacts to that when the markets open later this morning

as we are on for four hours. Also ahead, we break down the story engulfing the NBA right now

involving gambling, organized crime and what's being called a nightmare for the league.

Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Friday, October 24th,

along with Joe, Willie, and me. We have the co-host of our fourth hour, staff writer at the

Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire, U.S. Special Correspondment for BBC News and the host of The Rest

is Politics podcast, Caddy Kay, columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post, David Ignatius, and editor at The Insider.

Michael Weiss is with us this morning. And Joe, a lot of late breaking moves by the president last night.

Blame Canada, man. Blame, blame Canada, man.

Blame Canada. Get out the South Park theme, you know,

theme track, theme song.

And, yeah, a lot of stuff happening.

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