Starts right now. Today was the deadline for Donald Trumps legal team to file their brief with the senate for trumps upcoming Impeachment Trial. And it looks like trumps lawyers will be arguing that the trial is unconstitutional because trump is no longer president. Im going to use this. Im going to use this next time a cop pulls me over. Im going to be like, well, im no longer speeding. I was. I was. Im not now. Therefore this ticket is unconstitutional. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, february 3rd, along with joe, will li and me, we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire, former u. S. Senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst Claire Mccaskill and politics and Journalism Professor at Morgan State University and msnbc political contributor Jason Johnson is with us. So Donald Trumps second Impeachment Trial kicks off next week. And according to the case against him, the former president s role in the capitol hill riot is,
thanks to sofi, i can see the light at the end of the tunnel as of 12pm today, i am debt free not owing anyone anything is the best feeling in the world, i cannot stop smiling about it welcome back to velshi & ruhle. the country s fiscal deficit just smashed $1 trillion. the $1.07 trillion figure is nearly double than it was in 2016 and now it is our highest deficit since 2012. that s bad news for our $22.5 trillion national debt. and the president s campaign promise to eliminate it in eight years. joining me now our correspondent, my dear friend,
the democrats put in a tax increase last year, 107 votes for a $107 trillion tax increase. if you do that, you halt the economy. we re in a recession. we did a tax cut and we re growing. suburban people all work for a living. they re all doing well in the economy where i live. i think that is favorable. on national defense, the republicans just plumped up defense. we want national borders secure and want to end illegal immigration. the democrats don t. so issue by issue. democrats socialized healthcare. promised you can keep your healthcare. it s all false. you run on those issues in the suburbs, you win. julie: you look at the numbers, people vote based on whether they re better off today than they were a year ago. let s say that. so people s taxes have gone down, the paychecks have gone
we don t have a ten-year budget window problem here, we ve got a 30-year baby boom generation demographic problem. and so the first decade you have deficit about $7 trillion. but we did a projection over 30 years, $107 trillion because of the unsustainable nature of medicare. and this administration refusing to deal with those things. they demagogue those issues. president obama says medicare just needs modest reforms. yet behind closed doors president obama admits to the republican senators that the problem in reforming medicare for every dollar that gets paid into the system americans get $3 out in benefits. but he also says and americans don t understand that. because we re not talking about it. how do you get from here to there, though? because obama care has been attached to the funding of the government. right. the president says he won t negotiate on his signature piece of domestic legislation which you probably understand because you were against this strategy in the firs
authority to increase the debt burden on our children and grand children, we ought to have a serious discussion and robust debate. the bills have been the reason we have to increase the debt limit is because of future deficit spending. these are the recommends, but it s the future spending that is the problem. i don t buy the president s argument. this is future spending and deficits and we have to come to terms with the fact that over the next 30 years. a deficit of $107 trillion over the next 30 years. those are scary numbers that most people don t want to face. that s the type of problem we are dealing with. the long-term deficit going from 22% to over 39% over 30 years. i want to play a clip here. patty murray, chairman of the senate budget committee.