you are watching symone. president joe biden holding true to his words, the south declared union man spoke to labor groups and philadelphia today. for his first rally of the 2020 campaign is not on the campaign trail this weekend. but he still getting a lot of attention anyway, after being arraigned on a criminal indictments in a florida courtroom this week. some of the republicans vying for the nomination even saying they will pardon him if elected. what kind of strategy is that? plus, juneteenth, we are marking the third anniversary of the federal holiday with a special at the national museum of african american history and culture. i spoke to director kevin young, we unpacked the significant events, people, and places that led to june 19th, 1865 and what we now commemorate as a big federal holiday juneteenth. i m simone sanders townsend, and i have something to say. another busy week to discuss. it started with the former president appearing in court for his second crimi
and welcome to morning joe: weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. let s begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trump s presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitution s foreign cause. the report finds from 2017, to 2019 alone, trump s businesses received at least seven point $8 million from 24 in governments. most of that money? according to the report came from china! whose government allegedly paid more than five and a half million dollars to rent out trump s own properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia where, trump visited on his first foreign trip as president paid his business is more than $600,000. the. information stems from documents obtained from the trump s fo
tonight on the reidout there s something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy? history is watching. the world is watching. president biden s powerful new ad on the trump threat to democracy amid new polling that shows a shocking number of americans don t believe what they saw with their own eyes on january 6th. plus, two new challenges to trump s place on the ballot. this time in florida and illinois. as a deadline looms for the u.s. supreme court to decide on his disqualification in colorado. also tonight, the scandal that the republican-led oversight committee won t be investigating. the millions of dollars trump raked in from foreign governments while he was president. we begin tonight with the 2024 election cycle that s already under way. nearly three years after a heavily armed trump incited mob atta
fraud. stone may regret letting the cameras roll in that room. there is new video from that session and we have it for you exclusively later tonight. we begin with news on a story that i can tell you some on the right are hoping the nation forgets. the kind of story they re hoping that you news viewers and citizens will forget because we live in a time of growing inequality and corruption. take supreme court justice thomas blatant taking and grifting gifts from insiders, or billionaires, shaping our politics and clashing with anyone who dares disagree with the power they think they bought over our democracy, or this ongoing rolling trumpian takeover of a political party which has resulted in rallying the gop around rank, transactional calculus, self-interest as a kind of new norm to be minimized or even defended. and i ll tell you this as introduction to some really important stuff we re about to show you. the modern republican party has long embraced capitalism, sure. bu
arabia, as i do with mexico, as i do with everybody. you know, they all buy apartments from me. they pay millions and millions of dollars. am i supposed to dislike them? i love them. china. i sell apartments for $50 million, $30 million, $25 million, the cheap ones like $10 million. i don t bother to sign those contracts because those are the cheap ones. but i get it from saudi arabia. i get it from japan. i get it from everybody. i love these people. willie, what do i always say? when he s talking, there s laugh tracks going in the audience, but you can believe him, right? you can always believe trump when he makes a claim like that. yeah, that was almost a decade ago, too. wow. there s some new information we re getting this morning. we ll get into specifics about how much he enjoys those relationships he was bragging about. yeah, there is a new report that finds those payments continued during his years in the white house. we ll talk about that. good morning. w