Party. Vice president harris reacting to getting the baking from former congresswoman Liz Cheney and also cheneys father, Dick Cheney. The former Vice President following the warning he heard from his daughter, that its not enough just to not vote for Donald Trump. He will take the next Step And Vote for Kamala Harris. In his statement released On Friday, he called trump a threat to our republic and pointed to his repeated 2020 election lies. Quote, he tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again. Trump responded in a social Media Post calling Dick Cheney irrelevant. He also did a lot of other things on Social Media that well be talking about this morning. Good morning. Welcome. Monday morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is september 9th. Good to have you with us. With us, we have the host of Way Too Early, white House Bureau Chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. The president
that office. i don t know what s in the documents. laura: hold on a wilmington minute. the man who promised to raise the bar for ethics and trust in government. he is now feigning ignorance? i see nothing. i was not here. i did not even get up this morning. laura: more than two months after these ten classified documents were discovered, the public was made aware of this inconvenient truth. president returned dignity to government, had actually been derelict with government records or someone close to him was. now, when trump was found with classified documents, biden called it totally irresponsible. of course, the media has taken great pains to differentiate the biden situation. accidents do happen. it is not a good reason but it is a human reason. joe biden may never have known that these documents were in that box. other differences here, the volume of documents, the number is smaller. in president biden s case, he and his lawyers appear to have actually done the
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from serving in the federal government. laura: well, okay. he is worried about criminalizing public service. that s hilarious coming from a guy that served at the agency under john brennan, which leads us to a fifth question. when merrick garland, the attorney general, on november 18th, announced the appointment of a special counsel in the trump documents case, did garland know about biden s classified documents? inquiring minds want to know. joining us now to make sense of all of this, george washington constitutional law professor, jonathan turley. jonathan, good to see you. happy new year. thank you. happy new year. laura: why could this be a problem for joe biden? it is a problem because it can be a crime. it is true that the unlawful possession of removal of classified information has tended not to result in major prosecutions but they have resulted in criminal charges.