Edition of Morning Joe. We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. Were on tape this morning bringing you some of our best discussion from the past two months, and we start today with our conversation the morning after Kamala Harris accepted her Partys Nomination for president on the Last Night of the dnc in chicago. Willie, you obviously are in chicago. Describe the scene if you will, because it is awfully hard you know, debates, ive heard one journalist after another say never try to judge how a debate turned out, president ial debate, when you are in the room. It is quite the opposite at a convention. You could walk into a convention, you can be watching it from you know, you had the Bob Uker seats which are usually the best seats to stand in, take it all in and say, okay, what is the state of this party. What is your answer to that . Youre right. John and i sat in section 315 Last Night eating those blackhawks and bulls nachos. Yummy. A pretzel with no salt. We really had the
everyone, as we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time. american presidents are no different. president trump, in order to prepare the work the next day, often took documents including classified documents, to the residence. he had a standing order. there s the word i ve been looking for. that documents removed from the oval office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. we now know that special counsel has a recording of trump post-presidency, admitting he had in his possession, a secret document that he could have declassified when he was in office. but that he can no longer declassify because he was no longer president. among the other explanations that trump gave about holding on to classifies documents, everybody does. .former president falsely claimed his predecessors left office with copious quantities of classified materials. like when he baselessly accused former president obama taki
Although veteran conservative columnist and former Nancy Reagan speechwriter Mona Charen voted for Joe Biden in the United States’ 2020 presidential election and is a scathing critic of former President Donald Trump, she hasn’t been shy about criticizing Biden’s presidency at times.
under the trump presidency and particularly the trump post-presidency, the idea that elections could somehow be stolen. they weren t. that mail-in ballots would be fraudulent. they weren t. things put in place because of the pandemic to make voting easier and more accessible should now be rolled back because the pandemic is being rolled back has really caught on on the right, and i think you re seeing republican-led states try to outdo each other with who can come out with the most stringent republicans, and you have representatives who represent those states in many cases who don t want to step on the messages that their own state legislators are putting out there, because that s where the trump base in this country are in state legislatures and governors mansions, and that s what pushes elections in congress even further to the rye, because they re seeing these folks come up behind them. garrett, that s such good context. i appreciate that. wendy, let s talk about the for