biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people interested in that witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness tampering by trump world was shocking, it wasn the last week hear about it. in december, the committee released transcripts o closed-door depositions with witnesses. through those depositions we found out that former whit house aide, mark meadows, an star january six com
of tomorrow. chris, the question o accountability in our american democracy seems increasingly vaporous it certainly. doesn t it has for a long time it s partly why trump exists but why would, is anyone gonna get him question the fifth avenue school o accountability, it s one of th biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people inte witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness
are tense again. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. a self-loathing has swept our country. joe and kamala even say america is racist. this is not about identity politics. i don t believe in that, and i don t believe in glass ceilings either. strong and proud, not weak and woke. that s the america i see. [ applause ] the only challenger so far to donald trump in the 2024 presidential race kicks off her campaign. during that speech, nikki haley took a dig at her former boss and president joe biden. we ll play for you those comments. also today, we ll get our first look at the pieces of the grand jury investigating the president s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. plus, mike pence wants all the credit for doing the right thing on january 6th but doesn t want to talk about it under oath. we ll show you what he had to say abou
manhattan courthouse yesterday pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records that is typically a misdemeanor. alvin bragg s strategy for elevating those charges appears to be a stretch legally and the case may not make it to a full trial, even the liberal media are seriously questioning the strength of this case. watch. if i had to characterize it it s disappointment. in terms of a case this being brought against a former president, it s a little underwhelming. there is not more to it. this is even weaker than i feared it would be. and i think it s easily subject being dismissed or a quick acquittal to trump. the fact the in the law, what is the crime that prosecutors are alleging escalated this from a misdemeanor to a felony? if this is the only pebble that gets thrown at donald trump, it s a very small pebble. and i do think it could the backlash against this pebble might cow other people who might otherwise have been courageous enough t
rogue, we ll explain how it may complicate things for the d.a. what a nightmare. come on. literally. wow. president joe biden is back at the white house this morning following his momentous, three-day trip to eastern europe. before he left, the president took time once again to reassure allies that america will not tolerate russian aggression into nato territory. we ll also play for you president biden s comments on vladimir putin s decision to pull out of a nuclear arms treaty with the u.s., and we ll show you how former president trump turned his trip to east palestine, ohio, into a branding operative. well he didn t throw paper towels, did he? not paper towels. he brought trump-branded water bottles. did he throw it? i don t know. pallets of trump-branded water. it s just tap water, guys. so fascinating week. i ve got to say, historic. people are going to remember, an american president going into a war zone, risking his life to show support for t