and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. you want to sweep it under the rugment i don t want to talk about this any more than anyone else. when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. they were people that behaved badly on that day. i m not one of them. ms. abrams is going to lie about my record because she doesn t want to talk about her own. i don t have the luxury of being part of a good old boys club. debate night in ohio, utah, and georgia with the midterms exactly three weeks away, things are getting a little heated. steve kornacki is standing by at the big board. did you see that guy beforehand, he s going into the whole rage thing. out of hand. this guy s crazy. the state of the race, which is what we really want from him. republicans claim to care so much ab
happened in 2020, hillary clinton, i can t believe i have to keep reminding people of this, hillary clinton went out the next morning and conceded to donald trump. she wasn t happy about it, but she conceded to donald trump. i went to church that weekend, and i had one guy come up to me and he said, hey, you really need to check the votes in michigan. the republicans stole it. i was like, okay, great. hey, can i get you some coffee, and that was the end of it. i still have my friends, my family, people i grew up with going to conspiracy web sites saying the 2020 election was stolen because donald trump said that. because it s permeating america now on the far trump right. so please, let s not paint moral equivalency especially from a guy who called donald trump
good. you knew that was one specific incident and it would end. at the moment, we re back into a stage where people are looking at america, it s kind of, you know, how can you live there type moment, and so much seems to be going off the rails with democracy, and it s very hard to see, and listening to that conversation we had earlier, it s hard to see a way out of this one because from my travels around the country, people are absolutely committed to the notion that democracy is in peril on both sides. republicans i hear that from and democrats i hear that from, but with completely different reasons for believing that. they both blame the other, and i don t see in the system that is there how we get out of that. you know, you mentioned somebody like kari lake. the ground work is laid very early on. i mean, it was have laid very early on with donald trump, very early on in his presidency, and before the 2016 election, he started talking about if i don t win, it will have been rigged. d
the house counsel, i can t advise you and never passes on the message. she s looking for a lawyer to counsel her on what to do. if they had waited a couple more hours, history could have gone a different direction. and the democratic leaders were saying don t interfere with the presidency, it s nascent, two years later we re talking about president trump. that logic didn t work to the ends that they wanted but they ended up pulling punches they could have thrown, and that might have changed history. we talk a lot about republicans in the wake of january 6th and the hypocrisy there, running from the mob, and then all of a sudden a few days later embracing trump, going down to mar-a-lago and kissing the wrong, and we should continue to talk about that and call them out on that. we learned from our reporting that democrats were trying to shut the second impeachment down, not just that night. jamie raskin s team had reached out to the biden white house to try to talk to secret service
agents during the trial, to try to get certain amounts of evidence they thought could change republican votes, and they were basically snubbed and told to bug off. the other thing we learned about was that chuck schumer and his aides were putting pressure on these managers not to call witnesses, again, because they wanted to move to biden s agenda. you have to remember, this was a moment when trump was the most vulnerable. there actually were republicans who were having this sort of gut check at that moment. you have to wonder, what would have happened if what the january 6th committee is doing right now, what if they would have done that in that moment. the january 6th s committee. it s incredible. the fact that they have run subpoenas through the courts. they have not let go. they have brought in republican witnesses and taken the time to do it, even though it s politically inconvenient. three weeks away from the midterm election, they have still done it, which is almost acknow