i was pleased to see they reached a firm conclusion that no charges should be brought against me in this case. this was an exhaustive investigation going back more than 40 years. even into the 1970s, when i was a new senator. the council acknowledged i cooperated and did not throw up any roadblocks. i sought no delays and i was determined to give the special counsel what he needed, i went forward with a five hour in person interview over two days on october the 8th and 9th of last year, even though israel had just been attacked by hamas on the seventh and i was occupied. i was handling an international crisis. i was pleased to see the special counsel may clear the distinction between this case and mr. trump s case, the council wrote several material distinctions between mr. trump s case and mr. biden s are clear. most notably, after given multiple chances to return classified documents to avoid prosecution, trump did the opposite. he not only refused to return the documents f
garland appointed a special prosecutor to look into it. well, today we got the results of the investigation in a report. the special counsel will not seek criminal charges against president biden. so if you re in a fantasy league for presidential indictments, it s still, trump, 91. every other president ever, 0. you got that? clean that up. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, february 9th. good to have joe, willie and me here together. along with us, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann. former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg. and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is with us this morning. we have a lot going on. we ll start with the special counsel investigating president biden for his handling of classified documents will not bring charges against the president. that s the conclusion. he wrote in the report, wrot
also, tonight, president biden calls israel s military response to hamas over the top, as prime minister netanyahu signals a ground invasion of rafah could be imminent. plus, the right wing supreme court has been a big supporter of states rights in cases involving reproductive rights and control over women s bodies but not so much when it came time to decide whether states can kick a proven insurrectionist with the last name trump off the ballot. but we begin tonight with special counsel robert third s report about president biden s mishandling of classified documents. having had a day to digest the nearly 400-page report, i can comfortably say this is one of the most nonsensical, absurd, and outrageous documents i have seen since then fbi director james comey s hit job on hillary clinton and her email server 11 days before election day in 2016. in both cases the conclusion of the prosecutors was the same, no charges were deemed warranted, and no crimes committed. that didn
into the official record what so many democratic voters have been complaining about publicly, and so many movers and shakers have been worried about privately. the president is not as sharp as he used to be. but the question for them is how is that worse than the alternative. another senior citizen who has serious memory and confusion problems and also facing 91 criminal counts for trying to overturn an election, hiding and endangering extremely sensitive national secrets, including information about our nuclear arsenal. a man found liable for fraud, defamation, and sexual assault, let me repeat that. a man who a jury found sexually assaulted a woman. listen, i get it if you want to tune out and talk about super bowl snacks. nachos sound great, especially if you add crab on top. as americans, we don t have the luxury of tuning out. there s too much at stake. join me as we try to understand the playing field. monica alba, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dil
ballot for stoking an insurrection in violation of section three of the 14th amendment. and by all accounts, the justices posture during this arguments suggest the court is looking for ways to punt on that central question, did donald trump incited insurrection, and instead hand the issue may be to congress. basically to let some other group of people deal with the possible insurrectionist president being elected another day. which would seem to be a win for donald trump. seemed to be a win. because even if mr. trump was taking his victory lap, a different judge in a different courtroom released this one page order. it is here by ordered, adjudged, and decreed that after a jury trial before the honorable luis a caplan, plaintive e. jean carroll has judgment for damages against the defendant, donald j trump, for an aggregate sum of $83,300,000. that order is essentially a bill. donald trump must pay the 83 point $3 million he owes to e. jean carroll immediately. it does not ma