The question is, does he have a defense for the actual charge against him . Plus Kevin Mccarthy meets with Marjorie Taylor greene as pressure grows to have her stripped of her committee assigns, the question is whether mccarthy is ready to take action. And a major shakeup in the tech world as jeff bezos prepares to step down. But does he plan to step away . It is way too early for this. Good morning, and welcome to way too early. The show that really just show that its delivers stay on time. And we start with the news. House Impeachment Managers are arguing that Donald Trumps responsibility for the events of january 6 is, quote, unmistakable. While the former president s lawyers countered by denying the allegations and calling the whole trial unconstitutional. In detailing their case for why the former president should be convicted and permanently barred from office, the legal briefs linked trumps faufls claims that the election was stolen and his baseless efforts to overturn the resul
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,
Boston. But, we talk first to nancy pelosi. Good friday evening. And you are for being with us. We begin with the numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Worldwide, 3. 9 million confirmed cases of covid19. Globally, 270 4000. Here in the u. S. , the death toll 1. 2surpassed 77,000 with million confirmed cases. Up next, our conversation with House Speaker nancy pelosi. Seen theaker, we have shortterm changes to congress during the pandemic but im wondering if you think this will result in any fundamental, longterm changes to the house of representatives . Speaker pelosi thank you for focusing on how we do our congressional work to represent the people of our country and to bring their views to washington, d. C. We have had quite a challenge. Of ourthe great guidance capitol physician and the sergeant at arms. On two occasions, one with the voice votes and one with the recorded votes when we had a large number of members here to make the decisions necessary to pass legislation. In
Impeachment is a political suicide march for the democrat party. This morning, whats next for the senate trial and why the timing of it is suddenly up in the air. Final faceoff, the last democratic president ial debate of the year just hours away with only seven candidates. And just this morning, our new poll on the state of the race whos moving up who needs to score big tonight. Wild weather, tens of millions from maine to florida waking up this morning to brutally cold temperatures. Al will tell us how long theyll stick around. Plus, the story behind this sudden snow squall that hit new york creating chaos for commuters. Those stories, plus alarming breach, the Airport Security concerns being raised after a 17yearold girl steals a plane and then smashes it into a building. tis the season, the new holiday scams you need to watch out for before the last holiday weekend. Eddie murphy is back and ready for his saturday night live home coming. You dont want to come back, i thought he was
control room to pull you have a live shot of the house floor. this is happening. we re about halfway through the alphabet. you see the shot of former house speaker, nancy pelosi. 14 members so far. 15 members so far have chosen somebody other than mccarthy. the vote is not final. the vote is not gavelled, however, if this holds, he will not be speaker for time number two. ali, what happens for time number three? what s the next card to play? that s the next question especially as you have members like chip roy of texas vowing he will still continue to hold mccarthy to a count on a whole list of concessions that he s been trying to get the leader to make over the course of the last few weeks and months. they have made inroads here. these members like roy. who chairs those committees and has prioritized for them, but especially to this idea of the motion to vacate. it s a move that would weaken the speaker and make it easier to oust members. mccarthy holding to a compromise i