wear a mask for just 100 days. it s the easiest thing can you do to reduce covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths. the cdc puts out their guidelines ansds they re very important guideline, but i think this. i think that the vaccine was or goal. that was number one, because that was the way, it was the way it ends. vaccines in a vile only work if they re injected in an arm of people especially those most at risk. this would be one of the hardest, the most costly operational challenges in our nation s history. the president-elect and the current president. both speaking at the exact same time yesterday with very different messages. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, december 9th. joe has the morning off but along with willie and me we have white house reporter for the associated press john sthnathane and host of way to early kasie hunt and former chafe of the republican national committee and msnbc political analyst michael steele is with us.
still in jail after spending his first night behind bars after failing to negotiate bond. but this is the image that will go down in history. printed across front pages around the country, in atlanta, put simply as booked. the entire process took just 20 minutes for donald trump but will resonate for many years. terrible experience, i came in, i was treated very nicely. it is what it is, i took a mug shot, which i never heard the words mug shot at the wharton school of finance. and from newspapers to campaign merch, trump already fundraising off the iconic image, turning it into shirts, mugs, car decals, the punctuation mark on an explosive week. legal experts are raising serious questions about a bigger constitutional question. is he really still eligible to hold office? we ll talk to one of those experts later in this hour. but i want to begin this hour with this. when donald trump was president, he had a secret service name, mogul. now, in the fulton county criminal syst
he s actually before the election is called. yeah. mapping it out. he s mapping out the entire conspiracy. the enterprise. that they followed to undermine the election and to take votes away from the voters and have republican trump friendly state legislators steal states for donald trump, and they follow that road map. what s fascinating, again, he did this before before. the election was called. we ll have that videotape. a significant show of solidarity from allies in the pacific. we ll explain the major meeting happening tomorrow at camp david. with us we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico and author of the big lie, jonathan lemire, president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politics nation, reverend al sharpton, and founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes is with us this morning. new polling on how americans view the serious legal issues surrounding donald trump. and t
for next week s debate, his super pac has advised him to take a hammer to vivek ramaswamy but defend trump if trump is attacked by chris christie. here was some reaction after fulton county d.a. fani willis indicted trump and 18 codefendants for state rico violations. south carolina senator tim scott said this. we see the legal system being weaponized against political opponents. that is un-american and unacceptable. vivek ramaswamy said that should he become president, he would pardon trump. the reality is this, these are politicized persecutions through prosecution. trump s former vice president mike pence, who has criticized trump for putting himself above the constitution, says he prefers that trump s fate be decided, quote, by voters, not criminal courts. ron desantis said i think it s an example of the criminalization of politics. i don t think this is good for the country. even chris christie, who has been consistently critical of trump s underlying conduct tol
he faces legal peril from prosecutors, the stronger his standing among republicans, which is no doubt why his gop rivals largely avoid confronting him for the 91 felony counts he faces. it s why in ron desantis s prep for next week s debate, his super pac has advised him to take a hammer to vivek ramaswamy but defend trump if trump is attacked by chris christie. here was some reaction after fulton county d.a. fani willis indicted trump and 18 codefendants for state rico violations. south carolina senator tim scott said this. we see the legal system being weaponized against political opponents. that is un-american and unacceptable. vivek ramaswamy said that should he become president, he would pardon trump. and he said this. the reality is this, these are politicized persecutions through prosecution. trump s former vice president mike pence, who has criticized trump for putting himself above the constitution, says he prefers that trump s fate be decided, quote, by vote