And its frightening to see violence being threatened and used in a political campaign. I worry about threats. I worry about whats being said online, about many, many people, not just the former president. And he should be doing, if he were really a leader, he should be doing what he can to calm the matters, not try to just continue to throw, you know, Red Meat out there to get people riled up. Former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton condemning the apparent Assassination Attempt on former President Trump, and also reacting To Trump placing the blame for the attack on President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Well get the latest on the suspect and also the political implications in just a moment. And well bring you a report from springfield, ohio, as more threats fueled by lies from the former president and his running Mate Force schools to shut down for a Third Day. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is tuesday, september 17th. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the
not only that, he s been criminally indicted twice so far, he could face multiple trials in between campaign stops during primary season next year. essentially, on top of all of that, he appears to remain in control of the narrative and the eject cherie of this race. take for example the ways that those have responded to the criminal indictment last month, and how those responsive has a vault in the weeks since. have a promissory quickly made a pledge to pardon trump. tim scott said that the indictment is, quote, a serious case, but with serious allegations. at the same time, he condemned president biden and the justice department, alleging that they were targeting and hunting republicans. more interesting is how the talking points of a vote for trump s own former vice president, mike pence. shortly after the public learned about the indictment, pence said that he was, quote, deeply troubled but that no one is above the law. then, after the indictment was unsealed, he told cn
and a special sunday edition of the velshi banned book club brings us a beautiful, lyrical story of love and identity, a novel about mexican born texas raised gay teens that we ll feel universal when you read it. my conversation with the author, who will discover the secrets of the universe, it s one that you will not want to miss. velshi starts next. good morning to you, i am ali velshi, sunday, october 2nd. we have reached a new phase in the ever winding investigation into the insurrection of the u.s. capitol. tomorrow, marks the high profile trial seven from the january six so far. it s a rare case in u.s. history, or something called seditious conspiracy is charged, meaning the defendants are not discharged violent crimes but an effect on our country. opening arguments in the seditious conspiracy trial, this man, you oath keepers founder, stewart rhodes and four other individuals with the far-right booker said to begin tomorrow, hundreds of alleged interactions are bein
statewide, and their statewide elections. a lot of these states there are gerrymandered situations that cause more public majorities, and supermajorities. peoples votes can be very important in instrumental if they understand that. and your opinion, and some of the states are gerrymandered republican majorities, is that a solvable problem with people showing up to vote? or have we gotten so far down but gerrymandering that it s, not states can be substantially more conservative and reckless and even congress again? right now it s a crisis. we have terrible gerrymandering, we have a crisis of uncontested, racism that is making the legislation not at all reflect the people. i keep saying that kansas is sort of the bat signals in the country, that the stakes are not nearly as extreme as their legislatures. the legislatures are drawn to allow extremists to exist in a world with no accountability. they passed laws completely out of touch with their own people. that is why i hope these bal
keepers would then be there to support that militia. trump never invoked the insurrection act, but sent plenty of other bat signals to this government vigilante groups. he had the idea of voting the insurrection act at other points in his presidency, and you ll remember, this is the same man who told the proud boys, another far-right extremist group linked to january 6th to quote, stand back and stand by. that s after he was asked on a debate stage to condemn them. and then on january six, right before his supporters descended on the capitol, donald trump said this. we fight like hell and if you do not fight like hell, you will not have a country anymore. now if you thought the multiple investigations bearing down on him including the series of damning hearings from the january six committee or the actual, realtime prosecution of his supporters for their actions on that day where prompted the former