Special counsel jack smith announcing the third indictment of donald j. Trump after months of investigating the former president and his allies and their efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election. This hour well have indepth coverage of the accusations against trump and the new information were learning about his attempt to stay in power from that sweeping federal investigation. And well also look at how this latest legal issue could impact the president ial campaign as he has used previous indictments to boost fundraising. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, august 2nd, a historic day. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting it with us. And well begin this morning with history once again. Former President Donald Trump who took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the United States constitution has been indicted for allegedly trying to subvert that very same document. In washington, d. C. Yesterday a federal grand jury of trumps own peers convene
is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay. now congress i didn t say over. go to the paragraph before. wow. how would you like to be ivanka stage managing that? back in july, the january 6th committee played raw footage of the outtakes of former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot when he was choking on every word. this morning, the day before he called them patriots, beautiful, this, that, the other. wow. this morning, the committee s full final report has finally been released. we re going to go through it all. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s friday, december 23rd. everybody s off. i m here. i hope you re not bothered too much by that. we re going to get through it together. we have former aide to george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. and the host of msnbc politics nation and president of the national action network, the hardest working m
and let s not forget what they were doing their, right? we re talking about hanging the vice president, trashing the capitol, and what they did to police officers. remember, these are people who were breaking windows, stealing things from offices, leaving feces behind, urinating in the capital. how soon we forget, right? and well all of this was going on, while they were peeing in the capital, leaving feces, taking things from people s offices. threatening to kill lawmakers. 187 minutes was when the president, when all this was going on, refusing over and over again to stop them. because he wanted to hold on to power. we are going to do a deep dive for you tonight, into what we heard and what we saw tonight. witnesses who have never spoken publicly before, never before seen video. but even after everything the committee has revealed, everything that they have shown us, this is stunning. outtakes from the speech of then president reported just one day after his own supporters
on the u.s. capitol. instead, for 187 minutes, between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home, the 45th president of the united states first argued with secret service agents who refused to take him to the capitol. then after returning to the white house, sat in a small, private dining room off the oval office, transfixed by the violence he saw playing out on fox news. which showed the capitol under siege. trump learned just 11 minutes after returning that the protest had turned violent, but he did not make any calls to intervene. failing to reach out to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, or the department of homeland security. instead, he demanded a list of senators phone numbers, calling and encouraging them to delay or object to the certification of the electoral college count. while the president s official call log from the white house that afternoon is empty, trump placed at least two other calls that day. not to the military or the police but
it s called christ of the ozarks. christ of the ozarks was the subject of a huge a suspiciously huge fund-raising operation by gerald l.k. smith. he died in 1976, but that statue still stands 1 in arkansas toda. but gerald l.s. smith is about to have another moment in the public eye because what he really wanted to be remembered for, even more than that statue, was a nationwide movement that he tried to build, a movement that he named and that he led and that he promoted tirelessly and that he wanted to outlive him forever. the motive behind the term christian nationalist is easy to define and simple to interpret. we believe that the destiny of america in relationship to its governing authority must be kept in thein hands of our own peopl. we must never be goonchd by aliens. we must keep control of our own money m and our own blood. in other words, we must remain trueor to the declaration of independence. that is nationalism. woe believe that the spiritual symbol of our s