we appreciate it. stick around. we ll talk to you again in a few minutes on morning joe. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. to do something with 50 votes is rough. to do small things with 50 votes is rough. to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes, republican minority, a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin, wow. senate majority leader chuck schumer after the senate passed a sweeping climate health care and tax bill, putting democrats on the verge of another major win ahead of the midterms. republicans also scored a win for big pharma. we ll explain. donald trump s republican party gathered in dallas for cpac this weekend, where the big lie was on full display. along with an incredibly ridiculous guest and this is not the one i m talking about. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 8th. with joe and me, we have corresponde
this former oan host really the best a former president of the united states could do. meanwhile the republicans can t break with trump though we re seeing cracks in the blind loyalty. we begin the the reidout are a food note. in an overnight filing about stunning revelations about trump s happened lipping of highly classified material, the doj wrote this investigation is not simple police about efforts to recover improperly retained presidential records. moreover, 18 uscc 2071 criminalizes the concealment or removal of government records, including presidential records. in short, this is an investigation about lies, about deceit and potential obstruction of justice. that s all spelled out in the doj s 36-page response to trump s request for a legal for a special master in what is nothing short of a damning report about the lengths to which trump and his legal team went to withhold subpoenaed information. just remember, it took eight months for trump to turn over the fi
with the committee and that is according to reporting by abc and cnn. then you have mike pompeo confirm today that he is in talks with the committee. abc news reporting this about the state of the negotiations with the panel saying in part, quote, the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol is in active discussions with former secretary of state mike pompeo for his testimony behind closed doors. sources familiar with the matter telling abc news. pompeo is tentatively scheduled to speak with the committee come the coming days, sources said. pompeo was among the few trumpa allies and officials that at least publicly stuck with the ex-president in the immediate aftermath of the attack. he said, quote, while we all think the violence that took place in the capitol was tragic, and i ve watched away people walk away from the president and they are not listening to the american people, not remotely. pompeo played a critical role in the trump a
in the process, giving the parties some very real weapons to carry into midterm elections. now, just barely three months away. starting with senate democrats rallying around a major spending package aimed at reducing record consumer inflation. but also a massive investment in health care and climate interventions. central to the biden agenda. and now, on the cusp of receiving this weekend, after previous hold, arizona senator kristen sinema announced her support for the bill. giving senate democrats the votes they need to pass it by monday morning. and another shot in the arm heading into november, that is on the top of a surprising strong july jobs report that just more than doubled economists expectations. one of the main architects of the september 11th attacks, and a major vote in favor of abortion rights coming from the deep red state. all in the last week. but is it enough for the democrats in either chamber to keep the majorities in three months? i will ask the chair o
records that were taken by the twice-impeached ex-president when he left office in january 2021. the new reporting also details team trump s months of resistance led by the ex-president himself to handing over records containing some of the country s most important and guarded national security secrets. it reveals that the search of trump s private resident was actually many months in the making and really just the latest chapter in a long, simmering investigation. here s what happened when the national archives got their hands on the first batch of documents from mar-a-lago back in january according to this new reporting in the washington post, quote, when archives employees began opening up and sifting the material they noticed an immediate problem. the boxes arrived without logs and inventories to describe their content according to a person familiar with the recovery. instead they contained a hodgepodge of documents including some that didn t come from trump s time in o