I think they have more evidence as to President Trumps state of mind. Donald trumps former Attorney General with an ominous prediction for the former president in the 2020 election case. It comes as trump faces arraignment today in Federal Court in washington. Well get a live report from washington, d. C. , and legal analyst on what we can expect from todays hearing. Meanwhile, former Vice President mike pence just gave his most direct criticism of his former boss. Well play those comments for you. Also ahead, new reporting on a private meeting between President Biden and former president obama over concerns about the 2024 election. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, august 3rd. Along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. Senior attorney and fbi official, chuck rosenberg. Reporter for the Washington Post, Jackie Alemany. And Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and Associate Editor of the Washin
pat cipollone will sit down for a deposition with the january 6th committee tomorrow. will he help connect the dots? and the georgia prosecutor makes it clear if her investigation uncovers crimes committed by former president trump, he will be held accountable. we ll have her exclusive interview with nbc news. plus, two former fbi directors spurned by trump get swept up in highly invasive and rare tax audits that are supposed to be random. targeted? the odds on that daily double pretty extraordinary, really, for that s a coincidence. yeah, it was a special audit that very few americans got. but somehow, somehow, right after donald trump was upset with james comey and mccabe, both of them hit the daily double, the odds, pretty extraordinary. we ll be talking to michael schmidt who broke that story, willie. that s a tough exacta, even for the two of us. i think the odds are something like 1 in 20,000, to be audited that way. purely by coincidence, the two of the
sudden realize there is political polarization in the united states and, you know, it s like, all shocked and horrified. it s been that way for a while. we ve been to this brink of, you know, default many times now. yes, in the end, we always honor the full faith and credit of the united states. it would be better, i think, if we did away with the debt ceiling and did away with this ridiculous exercise. obviously, it makes people nervous, but to decide just out of the blue that, oh, gee, this is a problem, we have to downgrade, it seems ridiculous to me. i m with jamie dimon, it doesn t actually mean anything. it doesn t mean anything. again, i can t tell you, just a famous clash song, i m so bored
japan is going to take us over. the soviets are going to take us over. i m so bored with the usa. i m bored, myself, with the collapse of western democracy narrative i ve been hearing my entire life. so we heard that authoritarians were on the rise. we heard that right-wing populists were going to destroy western democracy. we have trump on the run. le pen got crushed. in italy, right-wing populists who were supposed to seize power crushed politically. here, you have boris johnson, the guy that lied his way through life, lied his way through brexit, finally, like donald trump, i believe, finally having to pay for all the lies he told and all the things he did in and out of office.