the wider public through the right wing media concocting with that man, steve bannon, they called the green bay sweep involved persuading members of congress to challenge the college electoral results setting off a chain reaction by their theory also by their cockamamie theory lead to stage legislators appointing trump elengthers. months after the january 6th committee made a criminal reseveral navarro to the department of justice, turn over records including communications with donald trump. at the time navarro s contempt with congress, cited executive privilege as a reason for stonewalling the select committee even though he wrote a book and went on television to boast about his role in the insurrection and how his plan for a bloodless coup would have succeeded if it weren t for the violence on january 6th. here he is. peter navarro on this very network with our amazing colleague, ari melber. we ll see ari in a moment. on yesterday. the very same die the indictment unseal
supreme court s first female justice. also, a guy who claims to be all three of those things. elon musk met with benjamin netanyahu this week and agreed that israel must destroy hamas. i think musk could destroy hamas almost instantly by becoming their ceo. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, december 4th. we ve got a lot to get to this morning. israel expanding its offensive in gaza with ground forces moving into the southern part of the territory. it comes as israeli officials have withdrawn from negotiations for another humanitarian pause. we ll get the very latest on these major developments in just a moment. plus, an update for you on the string of attacks on an american warship and multiple commercial vessels in the middle east. also ahead, the dangers of a possible second term for donald trump. we re going to go through a special feature from the atlantic. a major effort to detail all the threats our democracy could face. here s what th
republican party when donald trump, before he was the nominee, talked about jailing opponents. now you hear it constantly. so i think you re bearing down on this. there s a writer who wrote that a coup without consequences is a training exercise. a failed coup. there were people inside the government, this committee trying to figure how many, wanted to do exactly that. knew they lost. knew that the electors were against them in the states they lost and their plan abuse incumbent government power to hold on to power. that s the little ral desks of a coup whether involving violence or not. threat of violence or actual violence. mr. in a vor oh in his interview and part of 9 book, we can do more of this. running for secretary of state reported maybe elections aren t up to voters. maybe elections are up to voters if they pick republicans. they don t, up to the politicians who are also republicans in those states. that s where fascism comes from. this is much bigger than just
undergoing now, they have secret witnesses. i think it violates all sorts of protocols that you would expect in a fair trial. so it s bad, but i hope it gets resolved because turkey there are a lot of equities in play. they are a member of nato. turkey is sort of the center of emerging markets investment in terms of finance and loans. so if they were if this were to deteriorate, and if turkey were to deteriorate, that would be a bad thing. so i welcome those discussions. eric: what are the dangers to the relationship? you know, they have got the airbase which has been very vital. they are a nato ally. though they certainly sometimes don t act like that. that s right. eric: erdogan is basically a dictator, jailing journalists, jailing lawyers, jailing opponents. he s really cracked down and it is not the democracy that we have known in the past. i think you are absolutely right. after the attempted coup, he detained 160,000 people, tens of