Pennsylvania. All four still too close to call as officials work to count a Record Number of mailin ballots. Meantime the Trump Campaign is suing to stop the counting of votes in several key states including pennsylvania. The president s team accuses officials there of a lack of transparency. The Biden Campaign is calling for patience saying the democratic process must not be disrupted. This as both sides dig in for what could be a long legal battle. Were going to win pennsylvania but theyre trying to cheat us out of it. They know its their only path to victory. Im not here to declare that weve won, but i am here to report when the count is finished we believe we will be the winners. With all the votes counted. Sandra folks Team Coverage for you this morning Dan Henninger standing by with analysis. Jonathan serrie in atlanta and we begin with peter doocy reporting live from wilmington, delaware. What is joe biden doing today . Good morning. We were just alerted by the press pool thats
Time being president , i would have kicked them out but i didnt know what they were doing. Welcome to. The viewers and Linda Greenhouse, an old friend of mine. Im excited for her new book thats out. We are going to have a conversation for about 45 to 60 minutes. I wanted to start by saying ive known linda since the late 80s when i started covering the Supreme Court. For a long time we were friendly competitors, but competitors. I was working fulltime at the post and she was full times at the New York Times and we started on the respective book journey. And sometimes would be at the library of congress doing research together, but a lot of peoplem from the outside is stil new us and his competitors and i will never forget one day we decided to have lunch together and we were walking out and a group that might have seen us on that said there is Linda Greenhouse and john biskupic and they are together. I always think yes, here we are one more time together and its a privilege and pleasure
Thank you. Thinking of your wife. Bring flowers. Msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the Republican National committee Michael Steele. Remember, michael . Working on it. Oh, boy. His chorion and author of the soul of america and rogers professor of Vanderbilt University jon meacham joins us, nbc news and msnbc news contributor just ran out the door to get some flowers and former u. S. Attorney now nbc news Law Enforcement analyst Chuck Rosenberg, who i know remembered and former Justice Department spokesman now an msnbc justice and security analyst matt miller is with us. Joes away with his kids for this president s day weekend and willie taking a welldeserved morning off. Worked three weeks straight and im here on valentines day. Okay. We begin with what appears to be another instance of quid pro quo by President Trump. Theres a lot to get to, so were just diving in. The same issue that got him impeachedthe first place. Before a meeting with andrew cuomo President Trump put
Days. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. It is groundhog day again. And the president is calling his Justice Department a disgrace. Some would argue claiming it is a partisan investigation. And the apparent evidence behind all of that, this memo. Which has, quote, material omissions, according to the president s own fib. Compiled by a former member of transition member devin nunes written by Staff Members an there is money are money reasons to be skeptical but the main contention is the trump appointee used information from fusion gps steel steele dossier in an application to spy on Campaign Adviser carter page after he left the Trump Campaign and they failed to tell the fisa court which proved the warrant that the Clinton Campaign and the dnc was funding steeles work. If that is all accurate, does it raise some questions . Yes. Should a judge be told about that stuff . Perhaps, yes. And it may be the judge was to
End up being very, very relevant in that trial, depending on how the judge works these things out. And they were both hashed out today in court in front of the judge. The first is that Paul Manaforts defense team doesnt want his second federal felony trial to be in washington, d. C. Paul manaforts defense lawyer today speaking to the judge. Mr. Wesling. This is one of manaforts defense lawyers. Quote, just to give the court notice we will file this week a motion for change of venue. We wanted to just give you notice, your honor, and not be in a situation where that came tomorrow or at the end of the week so you would be surprised by it. So and the judge interrupts and says, where do you want to go . Mr. Westling says, i dont know that i have the answer to that yet, judge. It may be that there is no place. But we feel it is important to make the record on the issue and to brief it for the court. The judge says, all right. I understand that. I believe that the overwhelming majority of th