All he wanted to do was impede a process thats, well, its stated there in the constitution. Thats all he wanted. Like a bank robber, all i wanted to do was rob a bank. Take all the money. This is exactly what he is charged for, and he admitted it. Yeah. You know, watching mr. Lauro and political defenders like Lindsey Graham, well talk about him in a minute, attempt to defend donald trump over the last couple days, its clear they dont have a lot to work with. Mr. Lauro is a real attorney, unlike some of the other attorneys trump had around him. He was a prosecutor. 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 6th, because the evidence in the indictment, the allegations in that indictment are so overwhelming, theyre Hopscotching Around, hoping to find something. Nothing is hitting yet. Well, of course, theyre not going to find anything legally because theyre boxed in legal le
at every single stop now, reporters are looking, is he interacting with the crowd? is he take shaking hands, tae staying long enough? if you re advanced staff, you have to stay at least an extra 30 minutes to show, hey, he likes people. i saw tweets, what pizza is he having? is he talking to voters? do we have a timetable as to when other candidates will jump in? rumors about tim scott, mike pence and others. i think tim scott will come in. may 22nd is the date where they re circling. you ll see his super pac get bolstered. mike pence also in the next month. those are the two main candidates. national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson covering a lot of ground. thank you for being here. thank you for all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent year. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, focus the election on
this is fascism, is it not? well, look, it s not just a race to the bottom. i wrote a piece, i think for msnbc a few months ago, saying the brutality is the point. and there is this contest now among the republicans. it s not just the cruelty is the point, it s the brutality is the point. you listen, and it is as if there is a contest of who can be the toughest, who can be the most savage. are we going to put drug dealers up against the wall and shoot them the day they re convicted? you know, donald trump wants to put spikes on the top of the border wall. december nmsz comron desantis c hold my beer. i ll slit throats on my first day in office. i think it s not just the it s not just the i guess it s the crudity, and it is the appeal to this visceral sense of, we are not in a normal democratic order. we need to destroy our enemies
of the case, is that i can bring you what you like about trump without all of the bad things that come with it, without the history, without the election denialism, without the january 6th. his team will certainly be pointing to these polls. even as they try to, perhaps, deflect some of his own extreme positions as governor of florida. let s talk about december nmsz ron desantis, vaughn. he s way behind trump. there s been a lot of press for him. a damning story over the weekend about how his inner circle, republican donors are backing away from him, saying he needs a reset and needs a reset now. well, he went to iowa. trump didn t because he canceled a rally because of a tornado warning. do they think this is the beginning of a desantis turnaround? look, i was in iowa this weekend, and i was having a hard time finding any iowa republicans who were willing to place a bet on ron desantis. donald trump is the odds-on favorite there. they re looking back from 2016.