upside down american flag today. buy ten or more and receive an under-down bible absolutely free. give me cash. just give me money! good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, june 5th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire and mike barnicle is with you also off the top. u.s. correspondent for bbc news, katie kay. and richard hause is joining us as well for the conversation. when people see richard, they think we immediately why they come here and drives you crazy. right. i ll talk about it. you know? it will break. what? sometimes things get a little yeah. let s talk about india s elections. what? not what you re expecting! i got to say, whoa! you know? very few election results where you are surprised. i think poland was one of them last year, despite the fact that he had all of the disadvantages and none of the advantages. the only justice department basically controlled all of the levers of
receiving trial by jury, due process of the law. they ll have the right of appeal. i have no idea whether hunter biden will be convicted or acquitted. but i do know that he has two cases against him. the second of which, the tax one, starts on september the 5th, at the beginning of the general election, in california. biden could at any point have stopped this from happening. he s not, he s not interfering. there is no rigging coming from this president. where it s coming from is the supreme court. we re going to get them later this month, presumably later this month. they might prevaricate even longer. but later this month, finally coming down with their ruling on what should have been an open and shut case about whether the president has immunity for whatever he does in office. thereby ensuring trump will not be held accountable for january 6th in court, before november the 5th. that is that s the real story going on here.
again, as the government was trying to get them back. and the it is frustrating to see what is happening. it is also the judge that we got. the judge that is in this case, the judge that was given this case. and that is the way it goes. you will not hear here, unlike on fox news, that this is a weaponized justice department. you will not hear here, unlike on fox news, that somehow, you know, joe biden s up to this. or donald trump is up to this. and somehow maybe he s pulling the strings here. you will not hear that, because this is the judge we got, and that s the way it goes with the rule of law. like it or not. the new piece online for now for the financial times, u.s. national editor at the ft, ed luce, thank you very much. and still ahead on morning joe, president biden has signed a new captured aimed at
run. and then was beating everybody by a lot, then was beating biden by a lot in the polls. but you know, it s a very terrible thing. it s a terrible precedent for our country. does that mean the next president does it to them? that s really the question. wouldn t it be terrible to throw the president s wife and the former secretary of state think of it, the former secretary, but the president the president s wife, into jail. wouldn t that be a terrible thing? but they want to do it. so, you know, it s it s a terrible, terrible path that they re leading us to. and it s very possible that it s going to have to happen to them. so there we go once again, willie, donald trump threatening to jail his political opponents, as he has repeatedly over the past several months, several years. what s so interesting is that again, here s the big lie that
we don t have to talk to anybody but the person they quote, kevin mccarthy, who is the source. again, kevin mccarthy who is on actually a sort of a p.r. tour right now to clean up the fact, and politico written a story about this, the fact he lies and the fact he bounces back and forth. he is trying to go on a basically p.r. tour but we don t have to ask world leaders but please feel free to jump in. let s just talk to the guy that was the source of this story and quoted. mccarthy mocked biden s age and mental acute in public while privately telling allies in private he found him sharp and substantive and called him very professional and very smart and very tough and this same meeting, again, the wall street journal is basing this story on, on kevin mccarthy s lies? kevin mccarthy s lies, which