Of leftwing commentators who are fans of joe biden, think hes been a good president but simply believe hes too old to run for a second eternal. More on that coming up. The networks called the South Carolina race after a big media buildup within seconds last night as donald trump won a landslide 60 of the vote on nikki haleys home turf. Its just embarrassing to lose by that kind of margin where you were governor. Theres no other way to view this other than a huge setback for her struggling candidacy. This time the former e president came out first. Now theres a spirit that that i have never seen. We ran two great races [cheers and applause] but theres never been, ever, theres never been a spirit like this. We need to beat joe biden in november. Finish i dont believe donald trump can beat joe biden. Howard haley had already served notice that she was staying in the race. Of the same politicians who now publicly embrace trump privately dread him. They know what a disaster hes been. I feel
putin knows, xi know knows. our allies know that joe biden, america s commander-in-chief, is in serious mental decline. and everyone saw what that looks like last night. now, this is not a political debate. it is a factual certainty. no amount of briefings by staff, his press office, his lawyers will convince voters here or leaders in other countries. that biden himself is in charge now someone over at the white house is making the big calls and it ain t this guy. i m well-meaning and i m an elderly man and i know what the mel i m doing. i m president and put this country back on its feet mile. memory is fine. laura: 67% think we are on the wrong track on this right back on track. all right. they sent him out last night to try to reassure the country. it just confirmed what everyone knows. initially the president of mexico, sisi did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. i talked to him. i convinced him to open the gate. laura: okay. me
highlighting his cognitive struggles, but as per usual, the mob, the media, they raced to his defense. take a look. i thought it was good for him to show who he is. this is not handlers, this is not pollsters, this was joe biden, you know, sort of letting everybody know where he is coming from and how he feels. i think that that makes him seem more youthful and more engaged, more human, more relatable. if you want to get to the age thing, let s call it what it is, it s ages some clearing of any wrongdoing, if some of you says you are too far left, you contacted the center. there s the man is 80 years old. he rides a bike. sean: let me educate our friends from the mob and the media, according to the special counsel report, joe biden was presented as a sympathetic well-meaning man with a poor memory who cannot even remember when he served as vice president. that s what they said in the report and asking on day one of the interview with the special counsel if it was 2
garland appointed a special prosecutor to look into it. well, today we got the results of the investigation in a report. the special counsel will not seek criminal charges against president biden. so if you re in a fantasy league for presidential indictments, it s still, trump, 91. every other president ever, 0. you got that? clean that up. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, february 9th. good to have joe, willie and me here together. along with us, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann. former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg. and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is with us this morning. we have a lot going on. we ll start with the special counsel investigating president biden for his handling of classified documents will not bring charges against the president. that s the conclusion. he wrote in the report, wrot
president biden s mental acuity and the press conference seemed to add fuel to the fire and now there s more concern about a two tie tiered justice. where one president, biden is not held accountable while another former president donald trump faces 37 counts of what most see as similar offenses. good evening. the white house appears to be in clean up mode after robert hurs investigation says that president biden will not face charges and he said he s especially pleased to know the stark difference between this case and mr. trump s face. special counsel and i wrote, several material distinctions between mr. trump s case and mr. biden s case. after being notified to return classified documents and mr. trump allegedly did opposite. also in special counsel hur s findings president biden is described, as well meaning elderly man with poor memory. here s vice president kamala harris. the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more w