Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Thats 1,754 votes ahead in a sdlact h district that has been in gop hands for three decades. The official outcome way not be known until other ballots are tallied and the race could be headed to a recount if the k candidates end up within 1 of each other once the votes are certified. This morning, balderson is claiming victory. Oconnor has not conceded. Regardless, well see a rematch when they compete for full term in congress. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, august 8th. With joe, willie and me, we have Associate Editor of Commentary Magazine noah raufman. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst Steve Rattner and National Political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc news, is he still away, Steve Kornacki. But you see this same thing happening. Theyre bleeding. Republicans are bleeding so badly right now in suburbs, and then
on the participants and to foment that even among people who have taken an oath of office in congress is something that is relevant to considering the gravity of the offense, to the risk of recidivism of this offense. i just want to also quickly point out something that reverend sharpton focused on and michael cohen talked about, is this probation report that donald trump is supposed to sit down and do. just to be clear, he could decide not to do it. and not participate. when that happens, there s a huge adverse inference that the judge can draw a refusal to participate in that process. i ve seen it on occasion. it s very rare. and it s kind of a death nail
or not the proceeds from some of these sales have to go towards that. there has been a monitor put in place sort of to keep the status quo with these companies, with these properties so that, you know, during the trial they can t run off, run away with everything and hide assets, so everything is being, you know, stayed right now. he is looking, because all of his business certificates are cancelled and he has ordered that he can t do business in new york, yeah, that absolutely could be the death nail for the company. so, david, talk about the company itself. what do we know about it? what do we know about a possible judgment this high, $370 million, what it could mean overall? well, that s a huge amount of money, even for a purported billionaire like donald trump. as the graphic showed a minute ago, he does have a lot of hard real estate assets in very valuable parts of the country,
these debates. i think she has to do a little bit more. she needs to beat ron desantis in this race for second place and to get the momentum she wants going into new hampshire. she ll go to new hampshire regardless. while her focus may be on trump, you can t forget desantis when he s standing next to her on the stage, and he has to draw she has to draw him into the equation. she says trump is all about chaos, but desantis in many ways has emulated trump in his handling of politics and government in florida and she might want to weave him into the narrative a little bit and make herself the person who can take us beyond chaos, conflict, to a more cooperative environment in which things actually get done. doug, if nikki haley does beat ron desantis or come in second place and ron desantis comes in third in iowa, i assume would be the death nail for ron desantis campaign. what does he have to do tonight? he has to beat nikki haley and demonstrate he is somebody
win, the odds are extrem happen represents the united states, represents the biden administration, he would take the case to the supreme court certainly. it would be the death nail for his prosecution otherwise. neil: john, these cases that the supreme court will take up or hearings on colorado and the move to take donald trump off of the ball lot, they re backing up likes planes at la guardia. i m wondering how the supreme court deals with that, schedules that, handles that. seems like one almost triggers another. just now you put me mind the image of just justin john roberts as the air traffic controller from hell. that s his job. raising a good question. this is not what the supreme court wants to do. this is not how they wanted to spend 2024, was deciding not just the case like bush versus gore, which effectively called the election for bush.