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,
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no trickle-down effect here. just the increase to the child tax credit alone will lift millions of children out of poverty and cut the child poverty rate nearly in half. because of this bill, some experts expect the economy to grow by more than 6% this year and add 7 million jobs, a level of growth, quite frankly, we ve not seen since the 1980s and it will boost the income of the poorest americans by an average 206%. given all that, it s important to remember that zero republicans reported this legislation. that s not stopping them from attempted to take credit. senate republicans led the bipartisan cares alkt that got us through the last year. the american people have built a parade marching toward victory. democrats want to sprint in front of the parade and claim credit. it s remarkable legislation. unfortunately republicans, as i say, you know, vote no and take the dough. you see already some of them claiming this is a good thing, this is a good thing, but they couldn
And theres the waves there, south florida on saturday night, as the storm gets ever closer. Shelters there are opening up. Some officials worry having people together, though, could lead to a rash of new infections. Hurricane season could put a further strain on hospitals filled with coronavirus patients as well. The states reported more than 480,000 covid19 cases, more than 7,000 people dead. Now, the storm is expected yet stronger in the hours ahead. For that lets turn to cnn meteorologist tyler malden whos going to fill us in on where it is and where its headed. Tell us what you know. So michael, right now its 100 miles to the southeast of west palm beach. And exactly 70 miles to the eastsoutheast of miami. You can see the center right there. It is moving to the northwest at nine Miles Per Hour, packing winds of 70 Miles Per Hour. It was an 85 mooilt perhour hurricane. It has since weakened since the last time i saw you 24 hours ago. But it is expected to strengthen back into a cate
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