Donald trump blocked overtime benefits for millions of workers. [ Crowd Booing ] he opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage. As the president said, he appointed Union Busters to the national labor relations board. [ Crowd Booing ] and, dont forget, he supposed socalled right to work laws. I remember a time when republicans talked about things like freedom, they meant it. They would never turn their back on our allies. But thats not these guys. Trump and vance, when they talk about freedom, means government should have the freedom to invade every corner of our life. They talk about small government, small enough to be in your bedroom. Small enough to be in your exam room. Small enough to be in your library, telling you the things you should make decisions about. The Harriswalz Campaign spent the Labor Day Holiday speaking to Union Workers in Battleground States. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Jd Vance took The Day off from the Campaign Trail. We are now just a little over two months away
good morning. happy new year. welcome to a special new year s day edition of morning joe. we re on tape this morning with some of our top, recent conversations. we begin with a discussion about donald trump s increasing use of authoritarian language in his speeches and social media posts. in recent months, trump has repeated fascist rhetoric, including saying immigrants are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country, and referring to his political enemies as vermin. we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the threat from outside forces is sinister, dangerous, and grave, more than the threat from within. donald trump echoing the words of 20th century authoritarians at a rally earlier this month. joining us now, national affairs analyst john heilemann. special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast, molly jong-fast. and co
go basically around the clock until the x date. margaret talev, thank you for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this tuesday morning with us. morning joe starts right now. optimistic we may be able to make some progress because we both agreed default is not really on the table. we have to get something done here. and the consequence of failing to pay our bills would be the american people would have a real kick in their economic well-being. as a matter of fact, the rest of the world would, too. president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy continue to take positive have that positive tone on the debt ceiling and how it is going, but there s still no deal with just over a week until the country could default completely. we ll look at the disagreements that are holding up a deal for now. also ahead, donald trump s comments about e. jean carroll during his town hall could cost him more money, as the writer takes new legal ac
in your car right now listening to the radio, we ve put together a helpful voters guide for republicans. trump, haley, hutchinson and scott. sparked violent insurrection. trump, yes. liable for sexual abuse, trump yes. felony charges, trump yes. hoarded classified documents and refused to return them, trump yes. subject of civil freud lawsuit, trump yes. and called for terminating the constitution, trump yes. then the last two, accepts legitimate election results and supports ukraine, no on those two, but yes for all the others. it is interesting, gene robinson, listening to sarah and talking about the abusive relationship with republicans and talking about republican women, you know, what i find so rich is these are the same republican women, type women, primary voters, that would come up to me yelling repeatedly in 98, 99, 2000, after he wasn t
economy, gas prices, all the action at the southern border he s taken during his four years in office, and they ll compare that to whether it s president trump or someone else who gets the republican nomination. it will be a battle between joe biden s policies and results versus what a republican candidate can offer. yeah. i think when you say that, sir, it sounds pretty straightforward that there s a policy debate. of course, the candidate running now, donald trump, isn t making that any easier or really a policy based discussion. he s doing a lot of other things i think you re familiar with. let s just take one example since you re here tonight. he s openly calling on, quote, terminating the constitution. how can you support a candidate for office who s vowing to betray what is the oath of office to uphold the constitution? i think everyone knows obviously there s no mechanism in the constitution or the law i ll defer to you, you re the lawyer that would allow