Penalties will tell you more about that in a second. Plus, with just over six weeks until Election Day, a controversial new rule from Georgia Republicans about Hand Counting balance, despite warnings for Election Officials, Poll Workers, and even some of the states republican officials. But leading this hour, the fallout spills into a second day after cnn uncovered disturbing and inflammatory comments by the republican gubernatorial nominee in North Carolina. Cnns kfile found lieutenant Governor Mark robinsons posts on a Porn Hungerfree Message board for more than a decade ago before he entered politics, robinson called himself on that board, a black nazi, whatever that is, and expressed support for reinstating slavery, even buying a few slaves himself now robinson is ignoring multiple calls for him to drop out of the race. He insists hes not the one behind the posts republicans are voicing concerns that this scandal could impact other candidates in the state. Lets go straight to cnns
Soft and america has beaten back the unprecedented economic challenges of the global pandemic and the ensuing disruption to the economy. It is proof that the biden economic recovery has been nothing short of miraculous. Especially given the mess he inherited from trump and the u. S. Outperformed every other country on earth. Trump like so many republicans before him has enjoyed a pulling advantage with voters over the economy. That may be changing. Multiple polls in recent weeks suggesting harris is closing the gap and possibly even leading trump on economic issues. Harris has been helped by trumps inability to feign caring about the expenses of americans as he proved earlier this month with that rambling answer to that direct question in New York. It was Word Salad but with one under noticed but toxic ingredient that deserves more attention. If you take it in november, can you commit to making childcare affordable and if so what specific legislation will you advance . Childcare is chi
It is just coming in right now. The federal reserve announced half a point. That was not the most expected. 48 days to the election, great news for the economy. Critics said it could not happen, but our policies a little policies are lowering costs and creating jobs. As a republican nominee plans to raise your grocery prices. How can a family of four that, like cheerios? i haven t seen cheerios in a long time. And nancy pelosi on the state of the race and the maga threats in the house. And growing calls for center in the senate as a hate crime hearing flies off the rails. You do not support hamas. I oppose you should hide your head in a bag. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I am chris hayes. We are so back. This afternoon federal reserve chair jerome powell took the stage to announce the feds first cut in interest rates since 2020 and the beginning of the pandemic recession and it was a big one. A half percent interest rate reduction to stimulate borrowing and
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,
paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. we given this week with begin this weeking with a supreme court showdown. the justices set to hear oral arguments on thursday in a case that could upsend the 2024 presidential race as they consider whether donald trump can be removed from the my mare primary ballot in colorado. that state s court ruled the president president is ingel under section three of the 14th amendment which prohibits an officer of the united states who took an oath to support the constitution and then engaged in insurrection from holding office again. let s bring in former attorney general of the united states michael mukasey is. judge, welcome back to the show. good to have you here. you ve written, for us in fact, hat president of the united states is not covered by the disqualification claus. why not? right. first of all, the presidency is not an office a under the united states. s it is, it has an independent source of power. i