our country. when i look to the future, i see america strong once more. and the america i see, the permanent politician will finally retire. and mandatory mental competency test for politicians over 75 years old. good morning, happy saturday morning. good morning micah, happy saturday. i love saturdays, you bring me my coffee. i do, and we re probably watching this right now while you re drinking coffee that i get for you. it s delicious. she literally pushes me out a bed at 5:30 okay, okay, that s a little much. people don t want that mental image. okay. it s her saturday morning routine. and your saturday morning routine of course is watching morning joe weekend. it s saturday february 18th, former south carolina governor nikki haley officially kicked off her candidacy this week at an event in charleston on wednesday. in his speech she said, there should be mental competency test for politicians older than 75. micah, that was kind of a dig at president biden
are tense again. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. a self-loathing has swept our country. joe and kamala even say america is racist. this is not about identity politics. i don t believe in that, and i don t believe in glass ceilings either. strong and proud, not weak and woke. that s the america i see. [ applause ] the only challenger so far to donald trump in the 2024 presidential race kicks off her campaign. during that speech, nikki haley took a dig at her former boss and president joe biden. we ll play for you those comments. also today, we ll get our first look at the pieces of the grand jury investigating the president s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. plus, mike pence wants all the credit for doing the right thing on january 6th but doesn t want to talk about it under oath. we ll show you what he had to say abou
right, right, that s the bottom line. there is a lot of established republicans, i m sure joe talks them all the time, who i think have this vision that somehow, musical brigadoon, the city that only came down once every hundred years or so? it s a generational allusion john. they had this vision that there s a post trump world that s gonna come one day. and there are now normal people, they re a ei republicans running, so they re like okay, we have some people now have been to a heritage seminar. so it s gonna be okay. i don t know if it s gonna be okay. right. it just takes 30, 35%. and the polls have been consistently wrong now for years. for various technical reasons. i don t think we re through this. and it s an american question, not a partisan one.
trumpism as a problem that must be eradicated? or are you just going to tiptoe around it? right. that s the bottom line. if you hope and there are a lot of establishment republicans, i m sure joe talks to them all the time, who i think have this vision that, somehow, the old musical of the city that only came down once every hundred years or so. it is a generational illusion, jonathan. we ll talk about it later. they have a vision that there is a post-trump world that is just going to come one day. they re aei republicans running, so they re like, okay, we have some people now who have been to a heritage seminar. it is going to be okay. i don t know if it is going to be okay. right. because it just takes 30%, 35%. the polls have been consistently wrong now for years for various technical reasons.