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,
President trump said that chinas handling of the coronavirus pandemic was meant to hurt his reelection chances. Not only that, look at what theyve started to doing to his hats President Trump yesterday held a meeting to discuss reopening the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic with Business Leaders including executives from waffle house, who, unfortunately, fielded most of the questions. Lets see. Its dry. So is it like a house made of theres no dry time waffles or is it a waffle shaped makes us wonder why we booked fifteensecond ad slots like a house dries instantly and keeps you protected because i think a lot of for fortyeighthours. Americans want to know. White house Senior Adviser and President Trumps son if law Jared Kushner said yesterday that he believes the country will be back to normal and, quote, really rocking again by june. Though im not sure id take this guys word on whats really rocking. He looks like hed try to start a mosh pit at an enya concert. Executives from the
Underway on this wednesday night. Good evening once, again im stephanie ruhle. Fulton county d a fani willis has wasting absolutely no time in moving ahead with the Georgia Election interference case. Today, she proposed a Trial Date Of March 4th of 2024, or donald, trump and 18 others. That is one day before super tuesday, which of course is in the heat of the president ial primary season. The eight witnesses also focusing on another big court, date when trump and his codefendants will be arraigned and enter the specific police. She wants that to happen the week of september, fifth right after labor day. Meanwhile, a judge will hear mark meadows request to moves child out of georgia tsais or sue federal court. That core data is now set for august 28th. Also this, evening we are learning more from a new legal filing about what special counsel jack smith was looking for in Donald Trumps twitter account. Earlier this, year smith got a Search Warrant to access a whole range of information
he s also asking the georgia supreme court to shut down district tierney fani willis s investigation into whether trump and its allies tried to overturn the 2020 election. in a filing yesterday in that case trump s legal team writes that allowing the georgia investigation to continue with cause, quote, reputational harm to the petitioner as he seeks his party s nomination for the presidency of the united states via a flagrant disregard for in violation of, his fundamental constitutional rights. and i spoke last night with congressman, jamie raskin, and about these increasingly desperate looking moose on the part of the trump team. listen to what he told me. you can t prosecute him when he is president, because he s president. you can t prosecute him after he sees president, because he is running for president. you can t impeach and convict him, they argued. you can t use the impeachment process because, really, he should be tried, they say. use the criminal statutes. but you
the ground. we talk to the pollster behind those numbers, jen sulzer. it could be a crisis averted for now. developing overnight, congressional leaders says they will pass a stopgap spending bill pushing government funding bills to march. jeremy raskin is demanding donald trump give back nearly 1 million dollars, from former governments, while he was president. we will ask him how far he will take that fight. grab your coffee, settle in, and welcome to the weekend. we are 36 hours away from the start of the iowa caucuses. i cannot believe it either. it is the first opportunity for republicans to vote for or against donald trump since he was charged with 91 felonies. not a normal election. the final iowa poll released late saturday night shows trump maintaining his dominant lead amongst the gop contenders. the nbc news des moines register shows 40% support among likely caucus voters. nikki haley is up 20%. ron desantis is at 16%. a one wildcard factor, the winter weather could