nancy, nancy! donald trump last night in his cnn town hall, calling january 6th a beautiful day. the event, of course, last night full of lies, misleading statements. we ll go through the biggest ones, and also his comments about writer e. jean carroll that drew laughs and cheers from the crowd. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 11th. we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief jonathan lemire. jen palmieri. jon meacham. and reporter for the washington post, jackie alemany. we watched a rerun from 2016 and what we saw throughout donald trump s presidency. he committed again last night the claim that the election was rigged in 2020. it was not, of course. he called january 6th a beautiful day. he said he was going to pardon the people who attacked police officers on that day. the list goes on and on and on. would not commit to supporting ukraine in its war with russia. we ll get into some of it but, frankly, no surprises in w
and it didn t happen last night. but, again, that serves as a notice to the rest of us moing forward, about what we need to do in 2024. because we re on notice. we ve had eight years of notice, and we cannot let him just spew lies nonstop in any interview or any town hall meeting. and the moderator, kaitlan collins, did have some of that information and did push back on it. the problem was, in that format, it was a rally. it wasn t a town hall. it was full of trump supporters. they laughed at every insult he threw out, supported every lie he told, and he fed on that. he turned to the audience as an ally against her. within the first few minutes of the cnn town hall last night, trump already was pushing the lie about the 2020 election. why should americans put you back in the white house? because we did fantastically. we got 12 million more votes
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held accountable and if congress does not act responsibly, this will remain a cancer on our constitutional republic. while our institutions endured and while joe biden is the legitimately elected president of the united states, a peaceful transfer of power didn t happen this year. a violent mob was pointed toward the capitol and told to win a trial by combat. the justice department has already told several former trump white house officials that they can answer questions from congress about efforts by the former president or doj officials to challenge or overturn the 2020 election. during today s hearing. republican congressman adam kinzinger joined house colleagues this praise police officers and pointed out how partisan politics kept the investigation from moing