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
we go to new jersey with more of the former president s message. nate, good evening. trace, good evening to you. his first public remarks, or at least his first speech since his arraignment in miami this afternoon, former president trump defended his right to retain classified information. he said it is in the sole discretion of the president to keep their own documents, and he also took sharp aim at president joe biden for what he calls weaponizing the department of justice. listen here. this day will go down in infamy and joe biden will forever be remembered as not only the most corrupt president in the history of our country, but perhaps even more importantly, the president who together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and marxists tried to destroy american democracy. but they will fail and we will win bigger and better than ever before. [applause]. charging a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917. trace, president trump then
dana. thank you very much. great to see you. all right, good evening everyone, i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. the u.s. is bracing for tens of thousands of desperate migrants to try to cross the southern border in a few days. that s when the trump era policy expires, that allowed some ministry quickly turned away. already, men, women, and children are lining up for food, sleeping on the streets. when 150,000 people are reportedly just across the border waiting to cross. but it s the responsibility of congress to pass new immigration laws. so, what can the biden ministration actually do? our panel has ideas. plus, nobody wants to live in fear that we re only a day or two away from the next mass shooting. this past weekend saw another one, eight people killed, this time at a mall in allen, texas. the shooter was a 33-year-old who served in the military for three months. but a defense official says he was terminated years ago because of a mental health condition. th
for democrats, it s about do they have enough power to pump up the ballots and drag a victim across the finish line. the let fit you are for office, the better. they will just fling you into the back of a van like you are a side of beef, like they did with hillary. but, she couldn t walk but, hey, she was a woman and that s who barack wanted to succeed him. and if you re too scared of covid and you can t get a crowd and you can t handle the press, they will bury you into a bunker and zoom you into the white house just like they did with joe. and then came along john fetterman, who wasn t senatorial timber to begin with, and then the poor guy had a stroke. took the summer off, and delivered the worst debate performance in american political history. here s what i think we have to fight about inflation here right now, that s what we need to fight about inflation. there is that 2018 interview you said, quote, i don t support fracking at all. so how do you square the two? o