fellows, i need 11,000 votes, give me a break. so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have. because we won the state. there s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you ve recalculated. no, i mean, nothing wrong with it if you want to commit a federal crime and state crime. yeah, totally fine. donald trump made that phone call just over two years ago, and he could soon face criminal charges because of it. a special grand jury in georgia sent its final report on the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election to a judge in fulton county. we ll take you through what is next in that probe. also ahead, the department of justice is reviewing classified documents found at a personal office for president joe biden. this discovery appears to be very different from what happened at mar-a-lago. we ll explain. plus, after hundreds i m going to ask jonathan lemire, actually. we re going to go down this
congress. we ll have the latest on the shocking unrest and how these riots were inspired by the january 6 insurrection. meanwhile in, washington, kevin mccarthy starts his term as speaker of the house after a week of chaos and failed votes on the house floor. we ll take a look at the significant concessions he made to secure the position he sought for many years. and the latest from president biden s about it to the border as he faces more pressure to address the humanitarian crisis there. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, january 9th. thanks for starting your day and week with us. there is developing news this morning out of brazil. yesterday thousands of supporters of the nation s former president breached multiple government buildings. video shows the moment that s rioters stormed the nation s congress and the supreme court in the capital of brazil. the chaos comes one week after the inaugurationst president desilva but falling on a day wher
of course big drama on capitol hill as well, as kevin mccarthy finally has the gavel. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. i want to provide an update on our ongoing efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place. there is really strong evidence that something happened, that something was changed in the transmission or inside. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. all converging and now we re on, as they say, the point of attack. look in the streets of brazil. look at the great patriots in brazil that at a lot of danger to themselves, have come forward in the streets of brazil. f brazl a corrupt president, the forces of fascism, and the mobs that believe the lies. this morning, we re following fast moving developments out of brazil where police have arrested hundreds who attacked the presidential palace and congress. we ll have the latest on the unrest
its own january 6th on january 8th. you write for the washington post, a piece entitled, america s trumpist export to brazil, election denialism. expand on that if you will, and weigh in as to how america is now viewed across the world where this is now what we are known for a riot like this in our seat of democracy, that we see emulated other places. how does that, perhaps, empower our enemies abroad. look, it s incredible. we think of ourselves as a beacon of democracy. we think of ourselves as trying to export democracy across the world and president after president, you can go back to john kennedy, and every president talks about democracy as the ideal, as what we hope for the world of this ability of self-determination of freedom and liberty, and instead, in this case what we exported was
actively and tacitly encouraging his supporters to deny the election, it led, i believe, to january 8th in brasilia. it s incredible, really, to watch, just to sit there at home, and watch what was happening on sunday in brasilia city. i know well because i covered it, i spent a lot of time there, and to realize that it happened here first, that we we provided the example, we showed how to try to stage a coup. fortunately it was unsuccessful in brazil as it was unsuccessful here. but the danger remains. those are still out there. the danger remains, and david, the danger remains especially when you look at some