Antony blinken, has voiced his concern that nigersjunta might turn to the Russian Mercenary Group wagnerfor help. The group is active in neighbouring countries and its leader has welcomed the takeover. The coup leaders are currently Standing Firm against calls to restore democratic rule. Heres what mr blinken had to say about wagner. For sure, we have concerns when we see Something Like the wagner group possibly manifesting itself in different parts of the sahel. And here is why we are concerned. Because every single place that this group, wagner group has gone, death, destruction and exploitation have followed. Insecurity has gone up, not down. It has not been a response to the needs of the countries in question for greater security. I think what happened and what continues to happen in niger was not instigated by russia or by wagner but to the extent that they try to take advantage of it and we see a repeat of what has happened in other countries where theyve brought nothing but bad
I think they have more evidence as to President Trumps state of mind. Donald trumps former Attorney General with an ominous prediction for the former president in the 2020 election case. It comes as trump faces arraignment today in Federal Court in washington. Well get a live report from washington, d. C. , and legal analyst on what we can expect from todays hearing. Meanwhile, former Vice President mike pence just gave his most direct criticism of his former boss. Well play those comments for you. Also ahead, new reporting on a private meeting between President Biden and former president obama over concerns about the 2024 election. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, august 3rd. Along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. Senior attorney and fbi official, chuck rosenberg. Reporter for the Washington Post, Jackie Alemany. And Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and Associate Editor of the Washin
Leader. G jaunsnen and blackburn then revealed the new partys idiotic slogan. The need is for one party. And they also showed him the snazzy new pennants they had designed, blazoned with aerodynamic flyingwedge emblems, which they would be mounting on johnsons automobile. And they also laid out their new partys platform, which consisted of its entirety of Direct Action and, more emotionallism, in government. The kind of loyalty that gang centers John Dillenger and al capone required, he explained. And, quote, mr. Johnson favored a submachine gun, the Herald Tribune reported but mr. Blackburn preferred one of r the larger types of pistol. The next day the pair of 20 somethings attached their flyinh wedge felt pennants to the fenders of johnsons baronial 12cylinder packard. They loaded up with shakespeare, machiavelli, dennis, and their weapons catalog if not their weapons itself, and they headed south. So what that is from is i wrote aom book. I have written a new book. I said i would n
Its very significant. The weight of resources are no longer in your favor, i dont care how much money you necessarily have. What theyre doing now is likely expected a not guilty plea where he will formally tell the court he has notice of all the charges against him, and they will set some date in the future in terms of when he will have to either have discovery provided to him, there likely is not going to be a Motion Schedule for the things that you would argue about what would come into evidence, thats going to be longer down the road. But the notion of a rap sheet is so significant with these different indictments, particularly because of this reason normally if somebody has charges against them, trials in the same vicinity, youre talking about maybe if they are convicted theyre going to run concurrent sentences, meaning this one will run on top of the other and the other. Its not going to be youll serve five years for this one, then ten years for another, five for the next. It will
Impede the counting of electoral votes. All he wanted to do is impede the process that is stated in the constitution, thats all he wanted. All i wanted to do was rob a bank. Take all the money. I mean, this is exactly what he is charged for. And he admitted it. Yeah, you know watching mr. Laura and political defender like Lindsey Graham, attempt to defend donald trump over the last couple of days, its clear they dont have a lot to work with. Mr. Lauro is a real attorney, not like the other attorneys that mr. Trump had around him, he was a prosecutor, and if he cant seem to come up with a cogent theory of the case of why donald trump was acting legally around the 2020 election in the days leading up to january six, its because the evidence in that indictment are so overwhelming, they are hopscotching around hoping to find something, but nothing is hitting yet. Well, of course they wont find anything illegal because they are boxed illegally, they will lose legally, what theyre trying to