he is probing the night the trump aides and some outside allies tried to hatch a military coup plot. again, if those words sound disturbing to think about your own american government and not something happening in some other region, buckle up. your government is investigating this with an eye on indicting potentially the people who wanted to abuse your military to take away your vote. it s a big story. i know it s summer, i know it s friday, this is a big story. the night of december 18th in the oval office where some of the most extreme trump plotters were working on tactics that allegedly even rudy giuliani warned would land them all in prison. they wanted to have soldiers seize election machines. they wanted to install one of trump s political legal operatives to try to dictate unlawful orders, both pertaining to the justice department and the military. that would be sidney powell. she had been on the campaign side, more or less, meaning arguing in court or making motions
nope. going to have to correct you there, donald. that is in fact not the law, which is how you ended up in a court of law just yesterday. plus, gaslighting efforts kick into high gear on the right with false equivalencies flying fast and furious all over fox. and later, the great rachel maddow joins me to talk about her amazing new podcast that takes us back in time eerily similar to those we are experiencing today. we begin tonight on donald trump s birthday. he turned 77 years old today. happy birthday you twice indicted, twice impeached found liable for sexual abuse former president! i m sure it s been an interesting one. a day of reflection perhaps on what matters in life like family, good health, community, or not. i mean, this is donald trump we re talking about. so what matters in life are things, gold toilets, celebrity tchotchke collections, gold stuff on the walls in the gold ballroom or the shaquille o neal sneak he bragged about to a wall street journal
because of the pandemic, when factories shutdown in asia they had no idea they were supplying essential materials to us, shutdown around the world. these small computer chips, the size of your finger tip, they affect nearly everything in our lives. our cell phones. automobiles, refrigerators, weapons systems, everything. america invented these chips we made them smaller, faster and more powerful. but over time we went from producing 40% of the world s chips down to just 10% of them despite leading the world in research and design. you saw what happened during the pandemic when the global economy came to a halt overseas factories that made the chips shutdown driving up the costs for everyone around the world, particularly american families every new car built needs as many as 3,000 of these chips during the pandemic, that s the reason car prices skyrocketed. and in some cases new car production shutdown because the chips were in short supply but now the private sector at home
former president trump hello, thank you, it s me, hi, i m the problem. it s me. well, folks, it happened i got indicted or as i spell it, indicated. frankly, it s time i come clean, i broke the law and go quietly to prison. april fool s. saturday night live s cold open and their take on donald trump s legal troubles the former president will be in court tomorrow for a historic arraignment. we ll take you to the time line and also the security concerns outside the manhattan courthouse meanwhile, the indictment has been a big moneymaker for his 2024 campaign, with millions of dollars in donations, and just a matter of days, it comes as a new challenger is getting into the presidential race and calling trump to drop out. good morning, and welcome to morning joe, it is monday, april 3rd. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. congressional investigations reporter for the washington post. jackie alemany atto
fbi but to demand changes. christopher wray was to clean up after james comey but astonishingly, he has made things worse. millions are fighting and americans and are now frightened of the fbi peer that is unsustainable and the democratic republic. christopher wray must be fire merrick garland impeached in the fbi replaced. we need a new organization that all americans can trust. todd: brooke singman has more what we can expect today. good morning guys that standing charges against igor danchenko after closing statements just hours from now. it comes as a federal judge dismisses one of the five charges against igor danchenko with false statements to the fbi. igor danchenko told the fbi he never talked to charles dorn junior apr executive who contributed information to the debunk still dossier. the legal team arguing since he never literally spoke to him but emailed back and forth, the statement was true. the trial also uncovering revelations of the alleged payments to inf