The wall street journal spoke to people present in the final throes of the Trump Presidency who say donald trump was pressuring the department of justice to file a case with the Supreme Court to overturn joe bidens victory. And thats not all. Cnn also has reporting about a plot to fire the head of the Justice Department, replace him with a trump loyalist in the department, and keep the lies going about election fraud. It was a delusional strategy. And it didnt go anywhere obviously only because a group of Top Justice Department officials threatened to quit all at the same time. Echoes of Richard Nixons saturday night massacre. Were live in washington in just a moment. Also today save the date. Two weeks and two days from now Donald Trumps Second Senate impeachment trial is set to formally begin. Between then and now, Senate Democrats have a big job. Convince enough republicans to join them to convict trump of whipping up the mob to attack the u. S. Capitol. At least one Senate Republic
Joy reid picks up with am joy right now. [ applause ] good morning and welcome to am joy live this morning from the one and only java joes in des moines, iowa. Tomorrow voters in this very state will have the first say in the race for the democratic nomination. You see theyre enthusiastic. Practically every 2020 campaign is here this weekend in the final stretch making their last pitch to iowa voters ahead of mondays crucial vote. The outcome could potentially propel any one of 137 democratic nominees to the white house. Saturday night, just as we closing out our p. M. Joy show, something happened that never happened. The Des Moines Register, this paper right here, pulled its final poll ahead of the caucus, minutes before the poll was supposed to be released. It came after the Pete Buttigieg campaign raised concerns that buttigiegs name was not incl e included in at least one phone call of the survey. They said they couldnt confirm it so decided not to release the poll. Its considered
Trump and russia is a madeopen story. Openly admitting that his firing of the fbi director right in the middle of an investigation into the trump campaigns possibly collusion was with russia was exactly what to make the investigation go away. It was a stunning revelation after his team spend two days trying to explain. The message had been unance muss, the president was only followinged guidance of Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. That version of events was completely blown up by the president himself. Monday you met with the Deputy Attorney general. Did you ask for a recommendation . What i did is i was going to fire comey, my decision you had made the decision before they came in the room . I was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it, by the way. Because in your letter, you said i accepted their recommendation. You had made i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. The decision came days after, according to nonetheless numne comey asked for more resource. A
Mark halperin, morning joe economic analyst steve ratner, author of the book a world in disarray richard haas. Columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post, David Ignatius. Joe, i guess its good he checked. I dont know. Ill tell you why. You start adding up all the people that the president has insulted, we start with the president wanting to get tax reform done, wanting to get something done on capitol hill. You talked about bob corker, a battle with Mitch Mcconnell. Of course, a constant battle with john mccain, Susan Collins who wont be governor because shes going to stay there to fight the good fight. You can go down the line. Ben sasse. The resistance on the republican side against this insanity, this lack of conservative governance is growing. And you just have to what can this guy get done over the next 3 1 2 years . Doesnt look like a lot with him insulting a new, important senator every day. How was your weekend, by the way . Our weekend was great. We actually hosted
With Stormy Daniels may be putting the president in further legal jeopardy. Were learning this from a piece out tonight in the Washington Post coauthored by carol leonnig, who joins us in just a moment. She and her colleagues write, quote, giulianis media blitz to convince the public that neither donald trump nor his lawyer had violated the law by paying a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair might have backfired, giving investigators new leads to chase and new evidence of potential crimes, legal analysts said. Giuliani made statements that speak to trump and lawyer Michael Cohens intent an important aspect of some crimes and he made assertions that investigators can now check against what they have already learned from documents and witnesses. His comments to Media Outlets underscore a growing tension for the white house. The fbi investigation of cohen presents a legal problem for the president that his own lawyer might have exacerbated. Today the president acknowledged for