2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham released his findings yesterday, a 300-page report. and in it, durham, who was first appointed by that attorney general william barr in 2019, accuses the bureau of acting negligently but did not reveal any bombshells, as many republicans had long claimed he would. durham found no evidence the justice department and the fbi conspired in a deep state plot to investigate trump s ties to russia in 2016. in addition, durham did not recommend any wholesale changes at the fbi. the special counsel also appears to relitigate two of the cases he lost that went to trial, in which he brought criminal charges. the durham report has been contradicted by two of the reports, including one released in 2020 by the republican-led senate intelligence committee. the committee s report as well as one from the justice department watchdog found the fbi s investigation with some laws but warranted. and said the trump campaign closed a counter inte
good morning. welcome to morning joe. this morning, a debt ceiling deal seems to be on the right path. house speaker kevin mccarthy had a much more optimistic tone yesterday while answering questions about the negotiations. we ll have those comments for you. it comes as president biden is busy with world leaders at the g7 summit in japan. the group just announced a new round of sanctions for russia, aimed at closing loopholes moscow has been using since the start of the ukraine invasion. meanwhile, ukraine could be receiving more u.s. military aid thanks to an accounting error. we ll explain what happened there. also ahead, the manhattan d.a. shuts down what appears to be a delay tactic from donald trump s defense team. and nikki haley finally pushes back against her old boss. we ll have her response to trump calling january 6th a beautiful day. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday. willie, can you believe it s friday? i m still processing.
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were moved. and quickly, the january six investigation, the main thing i think there, is to see whether or not dome trump had the requisite intent of the insurrection is the vice president. and executive privilege is real. it is a real privilege. the conversations between vice president and the president are sacred, but that is overcome if it is part of a criminal conspiracy. despite what mike pence says publicly, he talked to the president on january six, he talked to him before, and he talked to him after, and i think that those conversations will show if donald trump is personally culpable. but as i said, the constitution that he trashes, the judges the trump trashes, they are all going to protect him, because that is what our system is all about. hey david, sam stein here. to get back to the original story about the lawyer quitting, look, i know you are a prosecutor and defense lawyer, but i m just curious, have you ever seen a client like this,
he trashes, the judges that trump trashes, they re all going to protect him because that s what our system is all about. david, sam stein here. to get back to the original story about the lawyer quitting, look, i know you re a prosecutor not a defense lawyer, but i m curious, have you ever seen a client like this, someone who steps in it in his own legal cases all the time, whose lawyers end up in legal trouble? if you were approached by donald trump to be a defense lawyer, how would you go about even considering the case at this juncture? i m curious for your thoughts on what he is like as a client. yeah, good to be with you, sam. as a prosecutor, i don t have to worry about those things. i ve never seen a client like it. jon sale turned down donald trump, so it is good to be with jon. he had his own reasons for it. to me, what stood out with the