And every step that we take. Bill it is that day again. September 11th, 23 years ago Today America came under attack in our lives and our country changed forever. To this day it changed forever. Thats a live Look Ground 0 lower manhattan. The families remembering the names of those killed in the deadliest Terror Attack in american history. It is important for us to share this day with you at home and it is very important to share this day with you, partner. Dana always an honor. Bill im Bill Hemmer live in new York City. Well watch it together. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. Down there right now President Biden, Vice President harris, former President Trump and Vice President ial nominee d. J. Vance are all in attendance. One of several ceremonies for biden and harris. Theyll later head to shanksville, pennsylvania and also attend a ceremony at the pentagon. Bill there will be several moments of silence coming up in the next 90 minutes. Well get to one in a moment a
A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. There has to be some discrimination here. There has to be something against Asian Americans specifically. This case is going to be something more than just about admissions. The notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating for a number of areas of the law. An
Us to deal with. And i love the way you two talked about whats happening and whats going to happen. Well, i mean, shes setting the tone for the administration. We have actually heard a lot from the new president in the past eight days. He has spoken publicly a lot. But we are hearing even more from jen psaki in the briefing room, and shes setting this tone of normalcy, accountability, Expository Work that tells us what the administration thinks the problem is, what they are doing to work on it, who is in charge of that work. And that person will be answering questions about it, as will jen psaki on behalf of the entire administration. Its just basic accountability, which is basic small deed democracy, which is just something we were used to before. We lost it for four years, and now it just feels so radical to get back to it. I hope it never i hope we never take it for granted again. I think we have, for this year, a series of rachel and jen conversations coming up at 9 00 p. M. Interm
Starts right now. Today was the deadline for Donald Trumps legal team to file their brief with the senate for trumps upcoming Impeachment Trial. And it looks like trumps lawyers will be arguing that the trial is unconstitutional because trump is no longer president. Im going to use this. Im going to use this next time a cop pulls me over. Im going to be like, well, im no longer speeding. I was. I was. Im not now. Therefore this ticket is unconstitutional. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, february 3rd, along with joe, will li and me, we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire, former u. S. Senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst Claire Mccaskill and politics and Journalism Professor at Morgan State University and msnbc political contributor Jason Johnson is with us. So Donald Trumps second Impeachment Trial kicks off next week. And according to the case against him, the former president s role in the capitol hill riot is,
Breaking tonight, there is word that New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers could be in the running for the vise presidency. Hes reportedly on the shortlist for Robert F Kennedy junior and rfk junior joins us live with answers about that in minutes. But first, dismissed. Several key charges in the election interfere his case against former President Donald Trump have been dropped and the Fulton County da pursuing the case might also be on her way out. For Senior National correspondent kevin cork is live in dc with wear the case goes from here. Reporter good evening trace. The charges dropped against the former president , notably involving what prosecutors have deemed a Pressure Campaign on georgia secretary of state. Including the infamous call in which mr trump asked him to find enough votes. Exactly 11,779 to overturn joe bidens apparent victory in the state. The judge ruled that as written, the six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but failed to allege suffic