Starts right now. Today was the deadline for Donald Trumps legal team to file their brief with the senate for trumps upcoming Impeachment Trial. And it looks like trumps lawyers will be arguing that the trial is unconstitutional because trump is no longer president. Im going to use this. Im going to use this next time a cop pulls me over. Im going to be like, well, im no longer speeding. I was. I was. Im not now. Therefore this ticket is unconstitutional. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, february 3rd, along with joe, will li and me, we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire, former u. S. Senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst Claire Mccaskill and politics and Journalism Professor at Morgan State University and msnbc political contributor Jason Johnson is with us. So Donald Trumps second Impeachment Trial kicks off next week. And according to the case against him, the former president s role in the capitol hill riot is,
murder charges this evening over the death of a black motorist during a traffic stop. memphis officials are worried about civil unrest tonight. the district attorney says the city will release body cam video tomorrow. correspondent charles watson is in memphis tonight with the latest. good evening, charles. good evening, bret. all five memphis police officers face second degree murder charges in the death of nichols. steve announced the charges this afternoon after a grand jury convened this morning and indicted the officers in their roles in the beating death of nichols during the traffic stop earlier this month. today all five officers were booked in the shelby county jail this coming nearly a week after the memphis police department fired the officers following an internal investigation that revealed multiple policies were violated during a violent confrontation with nichols on january 7th. body cam video of the encounter has not yet been released but folks. described it
of the hostages they say more than 30 are children with the youngest being a 9-year-old baby. meanwhile the israeli army is conducting raids deeper into gaza city, capturing terror suspects it says were involved in the attacks. let s start with our cnn white house reporter, kevin. kevin, we saw the information emerge earlier with the white house saying this 3-year-old is one of the american hostages being held by hamas. reporter: that s right. the timing is interesting. as it appears, there s intensifying pressure on benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister. you saw large protests in israel over the weekend calling on netanyahu to do more, and now the white house saying one of the hostages is this 3-year-old toddler, and they revealed that information in a readout of a phone call that president biden held with the amir of qatar. all of the partners are trying to come up with an agreement to secure the release of the 200-plus hostages being held in gaza. the white hous
dillen, we will see if the street ballot holds. bret: all right, we don t have any chips on lindell. we just want to point that out. juan: is he a sleeper candidate. sleeper candidate with a pillow. finally tonight. a special day an 8-year-old girl named delilah battling cancer for four years gets a surprise live performance in the hospital of one of her favorite songs played by plain white t s front phantom higgenson. take a look. delilah it s tom from plain white t s. i heard you are a fan of our song i figured i would play for you right now. so here we go. actually, you know what? i got a better idea. hang on a second hey there delilah what s it like in new york city i m a thousand miles away but girl tonight you look so pretty. yes, you do.
i was in charleston. and i remembered that dillen roof went to the church and he murdered nine people worshipping and he was apprehended without incident. what about eric garner and rice. and mcdonald. and bland and turner? and i m proud that i m the only candidate so far that put forward legislation that would reform our policing system in america and make sure no matter what the color of your skin you are treated the same. including latin os. who are mistreated. thank you. lest hoerlt has a question. a viewer question. we asked voters to submit questions. this comes from john in new york. he asks, does the united states have a responsibility to protect in the case of genocide or crimes against humanity. do we have a responsibility to intervene to protect people threatened by the governments