infamously had a memo that was revealed in bob woodward and costa s book, showing ways to take steps to overturn the election. we saw it in black and white of the pitch he made. we didn t tell him to overturn the election. we told him to tell congress how to overturn the election. they re republicans and conservative groups held on whitewashing and what happened that day and their roles in it. i think the thing about eastman that unnerved so many people that it was clear that trump surrounded himself with folks like rudy giuliani or sidney powell who were clearly
like white tigers and cheetahs. you had trump s political appointees who s been accused at the state department taking high end trump s trust that s given to foreign leaders of the 2020 summit that was cancelled and walking out at the state department gift bags for the g-7 final days of trump administration. two examples of how the basics of government were not functioning normally, i guess? normally is exactly. michael schmidt, we appreciate your continued reporting on this. thank you so much for coming on this morning. still ahead on morning joe, one of the members of the january 6th select committee, congressman adam schiff joins the conversation.
misunderstanding of what patriotism is about, that you have people like you talk about lindsey graham going on the floor shaken saying he was done with donald trump and going out golfing saying there is no future within the republican party without donald trump. kevin mccarthy on the house floor saying donald trump shared a great responsibility to this and yelling to donald trump on the phone that it s his people pushing back and then about a week or so. going down to mar-a-lago to lick donald trump s boots. abandoning our constitution certainly. for sure. and the peaceful transition. we need to stop following donald trump and we should not have followed him in the first place at all and she too because of 2024 is doing everything she can to get back to donald
here s a moment from last week that pretty much sums up my feelings about the current state of our policies. biden was asked about a short-term deal to avoid economic catastrophe and raise the debt ceiling. in response he crossed his fingers, although at first i thought he was going for a very different hand gesture. mr. president, do you support the short-term debt ceiling deal? [ laughter ] it really does encapsulate where we re at politically. every response is a coin flip between hoping for the best and [ bleep ] off. welcome back to morning joe. it s 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. out west. let s get right to the news. we re learning new details about what was happening behind the scenes in the white house on january 6th. in his new book betrayal: the
watching the same television shows two or three times. it was there where he was that day watching a live footage of january 6th. let s remember the white house is pretty emptied out at that point. we still have a pandemic raging there. staffing levels were down because of the virus but also simply departures. the election is two months prior and people had started to police chief, joe biden is to be inaugurated. there were few people there who could talk to the president. phone calls like people like leader mccarthy urged him to do something and he didn t. he was trans fixed by the images and he would ignore phone calls. when mccarthy called to say you got to call these people off. trump s response was maybe they care more about the election than you do. it took several tries before they finally convinced him to do