our country. when i look to the future, i see america strong once more. and the america i see, the permanent politician will finally retire. and mandatory mental competency test for politicians over 75 years old. good morning, happy saturday morning. good morning micah, happy saturday. i love saturdays, you bring me my coffee. i do, and we re probably watching this right now while you re drinking coffee that i get for you. it s delicious. she literally pushes me out a bed at 5:30 okay, okay, that s a little much. people don t want that mental image. okay. it s her saturday morning routine. and your saturday morning routine of course is watching morning joe weekend. it s saturday february 18th, former south carolina governor nikki haley officially kicked off her candidacy this week at an event in charleston on wednesday. in his speech she said, there should be mental competency test for politicians older than 75. micah, that was kind of a dig at president biden
are tense again. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. a self-loathing has swept our country. joe and kamala even say america is racist. this is not about identity politics. i don t believe in that, and i don t believe in glass ceilings either. strong and proud, not weak and woke. that s the america i see. [ applause ] the only challenger so far to donald trump in the 2024 presidential race kicks off her campaign. during that speech, nikki haley took a dig at her former boss and president joe biden. we ll play for you those comments. also today, we ll get our first look at the pieces of the grand jury investigating the president s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. plus, mike pence wants all the credit for doing the right thing on january 6th but doesn t want to talk about it under oath. we ll show you what he had to say abou
politics nation. the focus on scotus. afua right now the conservative members of the supreme court are signaling that this court will not be moved by the times in which we live, but driven by history regardless of how distant. and yesterday, as expected, the court issued its five for conservative majority decision to overturn roe v. wade. in doing so, up ending 50 years of federal protections for abortion rights. in response, this weekend, our cities are erupting in protest. here in new york, los angeles, atlanta, and in washington, where abortion rights supporters and opponents have surrounded the supreme court for the second day. but also they re protesting in more than a dozen red states, cleared by the decision to enact trigger laws banning abortion. six of which have already done so in the days since the decision. three others set to join them in the next few weeks. well gun advocates in those states and elsewhere are hailing another of the courts decisions, this week, t
used in other states. because he s basically trying to do a statewide movement. we re, deciding we re deciding in the state who gets an abortion, how education goes, and the whole civil rights movement was against right. we need federal protection against state servant. one of the remarkable things i think about when this debate comes up is john louis is born in a segregated alabama in 1940, he cannot vote until 1966, 1968, parents can t vote he is buried from lincoln s in the capital of the united states. he goes from not seeing a white person, except for the mailman, until least 14 years old. to now being honored as a statement of the republic. that story itself is the country. it s not that the struggle is
i think the fear is what you raised. if he can get away with this and cement this in florida, it will be used in other states. because he is basically trying to do a state s rights movement. we re deciding in this state who gets an abortion, how education goes. the whole civil rights movement was against states rights. we needed federal protection against state segregating us. jon meacham. the remarkable one of the remarkable thing think about when this debate comes up is john lewis is born in a segregated alabama in 1940. cannot vote until 1966, 1968. parents can t vote. he is buried from lincoln s catafalque in the capitol of the united states. he goes from not seeing a white person, except for the mailman, until he is 14 years old, to being honored as a statesman of the republic.