Im leaving this set and going to get a latte because i will be here tonight at 9 00 for my good friend rachel maddow. There will likely be no shortage of breaking news from now until then. For now, my thanks to jonathan, doug, matt and elise. That does it for now. Who do we blame for no cameras in federal courtrooms again . You can blame me. Boy do i wish we had a camera in a courtroom right now. Thank you, nicole. If its tuesday, Paul Manaforts trial is officially under way. Tonight, collusion confus n confusion. The wild evolution of the president s alternative explanations with yet another dimension of denial. Plus, midterm sabotage. Our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. Facebook you have . S snuffs out coordinated attempts of Election Interference but as the u. S. Government done you have no protect the integrity of the vote . Mark my words, america wont tolerate this meddling. And day one of trial number one for the special counsels office. How the Paul Manafort tax evasion
normandy every time. and he said, but that s a real flex, katty is related to monty. let s get to our top story this second hour of morning joe. donald trump is again suggesting his political opponents could be jailed if he wins re-election. as retribution for last week s guilty verdict against him in new york city. in an interview with the far-right network news max last night, trump continued to claim he didn t receive a fair trial, complaining the jurors never smiled at him. he also threatened to prosecute his perceived foes, including former secretary of state, hillary clinton, who had nothing to do with the verdict against him. mother teresa couldn t get a fair trial here, i said that. and no, you can t. i never saw a glimmer of a smile from the jury. it was a trial that everybody said shouldn t have been brought, including bragg didn t want to bring it, nobody wanted to bring it, until i decided to
constitution. he talks about s.e.a.l. team 6 to execute political opponents and says he would be immune from that. he actually had his lawyers argue that in court. go through you can go through all of it. and it is it s extraordinary. this is it s extraordinary that this man is talking like an autocrat, talking like putin, and right now, this race is too close to call. and i think it s really worth pointing out the difference between trump in 2020 and trump in 2020 so trump in 2024 and trump in 2016, is that this time around, his team and his campaign are much more focused on how they would do exactly the kinds of things that you ve just spoken about, joe. they have they have gone to the think tanks, they ve drawn up the policy papers, they ve dug into the workings of the american government to see how they could effectively take
best yet, we are making progress and i m going to be talking to joe biden every day. very professional. very smart. very tough. i just don t know what to say. i really don t know what to say here. let s begin with the fact that joe biden is 81 years old and donald trump, by the way, will be 78 next week. so he is not much younger. so, yes, does he move a little slower and speak a little softer than he did 15 years ago when he was vice president? yes. as former speaker mccarthy said in the piece? sure does. i think most 81-year-olds do or most people are different than they were 15 years ago. this does have the feeling of trump laundering their attacks in the the wall street journal. the important note about notes. president use notes in meetings. that is not unusual. they might have a sheet, they might have a card in front of them with some points they want to make. i would also point out donald trump has a person who follows
to have a convicted felony running for president. and so our program republican voters against trump, it hinges on a key theory around permission structures, which is, you need credible messengers to speak to these swing voters. and so, we have hundreds of people who have voted for trump in the past, many of them have voted for him past, who are explaining and there s testimonials all over our website, explaining why they won t vote for trump again. but after the conviction, we wanted to make sure that it stuck with people. we have watched donald trump, extraordinary things have happened. like his own vice president, not endorsing him. and yet, it kind of just rolls off of voters minds, you know, trump s been around for a long time, we have two functional incumbents. and that creates a dynamic where voters just aren t as tuned in, in ways that they might have. so you have to go offense. you have to have strong, affirmative messaging to make sure that things stick in the mind of voters