I dont know what was achieved over the last six plus hours. None of the Witnesses Today were fact witnesses. None were involved in the investigation into the alleged activities in the first place. Whats more, none of the witnesses testified today of direct knowledge of what republicans have been claiming about joe biden. Whether its smoke today, we got more smoke. Thats fox news host neal cavuto with the same assessment that came out of yesterdays Impeachment Hearing and came out hearings before, about the inquiry into hunter biden and how joe biden got so fabulously wealthy off his crack addict son. Yeah. Lots of luck, fellas. Okay. As House Republicans failed to produce evidence linking the president to his sons business dealings, were going to have a lot more from that hearing. On capitol hill, it may take a miracle to stop a Government Shutdown right now. Were going to have the latest on any lastditch efforts to fund the government before sundays deadline and were going to show you the big moments from President Bidens speech last night in arizona. He actually focused on the threats to our democracy. You know, that was the idea that was supposed to be such a loser in 2022. That so many people mocked him about. It wasnt. Democrats won. Welcome to morning joe, mika. Yeah. Welcome to morning joe, willie. Good morning. How you doing . Were doing great. A lot going on. It is friday finally and its running smoothly. What im going to do. Im going to get off the set or actually im going to read the paper of record. I think actually, joe, a lot of what we saw and we saw neal cavuto kind of bringing it home, there is nothing that the republicans have put on the table thats nothing they already have put on the table and none of it is adding up to evidence. While i mean, its kind of funny along the way to watch them twist and turn and try to figure out how to make this into an investigation, but theyre wasting americas time while we edge closer to a Government Shutdown. And willie, their conclusion was the same conclusion the Wall Street JournalEditorial Page had about a month ago. A lot of smoke. Where is the fire . Thats exactly what cavuto was saying yesterday. A lot of smoke. You guys keep showing us smoke. Theres never any fire because the smoke is usually being puffed out by people who, i dont know, were international fugitives. Yeah. Did they ever catch that guy . I think hes still on the run, the agent of the Communist Party and arms dealer in the middle east. I dont think illegally tracked down Smuggling Iranian Oil to the Chinese Communist party. Thats comers big witness. Six and a half hours, Something Like that yesterday. We were open to hearing new evidence. There wasnt anything. Jonathan turley who said effectively, if you dont have have it. At this point maybe you will roll out more but lets have it. Jonathan turley said that . Jonathan turley said that. Hasnt he been in Donald Trumps corner over the past several years . Just a bit. Hes been a defender. And as mika points out, rightly, this hearing was going on while tomorrow now at midnight the government likely is going to shut down, and government workers are getting emails and their notices theyre going to be furloughed and not going to be paid. Take that snapshot of those guys and women in that room for six and a half hours on a road to nowhere, while the government is about to shut down and people are going to be out of their jobs. Word out comer is designating some of these impeachment people as Essential Workers who will work through a Government Shutdown. Come on. Im going to let this show start soon. I promise i am. But, you know, willie, the post is, as weve always said, the paper of record for morning joe and something on here that i just im having a little problem with. Zach, dont stop believing. Come on, man. How many octobers do you wait for the Great Pumpkin to rise from the Pumpkin Patch and give candy and treats to good little Boys And Girls, before you understand its never going to happen . Yeah. You kind of feel for the head coach robert saleh who has to keep going out and saying jack is our guy. Joe namath ripped him, Aaron Rodgers supported zach wilson as well. He will be on a huge stage this weekend because the chiefs are coming to town, maybe taylor swift is coming to town too. Hes in year three. It hasnt gone great. Seems unlikely they will turn it around. They signed a backup this week. How do you know when you are wildly out of touch with the rest of america . When you are a right winger, a far right winger, attacking taylor swift. Also, when you dont follow football and go hey, this kelce guy may start getting some good publicity now that taylor swift is public. Hes won a few super bowls. Speaking of the Great Pumpkin never rising from the Pumpkin Patch, lets go to the Boston Red Sox contingency. You know its bad when youre starting when your Starting Pitcher that loses is announced as your Home Opener Pitcher for 2024. Yeah, but the red sox, give them credit. They allowed the Baltimore Orioles to take complete command of the American League and clinched the American League eastnight. Youre saying we. We lost. By losing, we actually wo we gave a gift t charm city. Y. You know. Do you feel good about that, Jonathan Lemire . Look at that. 76 and 83. No, i dont feel good about that. Yes, were happy for the orioles fans. Its great fan base. They deserve this. We have finished under. 500 again, finish below the yankees again. The yankees won the fight for fourth that has captivated the nation for so long. It has. People in the central zone are going who is going to finish fourth . We found out last night. We clinched it. You have to calm down. Youre not going to make it. Ive been doing this for a while. Is this the third what about republicans who lost seven out of the eight president ial contests with the popular vote. Red sox i think six or seven last place finishes in the last decade. Four rings. The thing we have going for us, were a small to mid sized market team. People dont expect a whole lot. We dont have all the money in the world. Fans dont care. Fans dont care. A lot of people going to the top of the Prudential Building to celebrate and with that, lets go to mika with the news. Yeah. Its kind of about time, dont you think . With us the president of the National Action network and host of msnbcs Politics NationReverend Al Sharpton with us, host of the podcast on brand with donny duch, Donny Deutsch, and congressional investigation reporter for the Washington Post jackie alemany. Mika, we showed up on a news show here, i dont mean to interrupt you, we showed up on a news show and a fashion show just broke out on this side of the table. Look at these guys, i mean, tom ford eat your heart out. What are you i would ask you guys what you were wearing, but i know you both have tailors that make your suits so you dont buy things off the rack like me. Rev, that is a sharp suit. You could not have worn that in 1982. Those buttons would have been popping off there. I couldnt have buttoned it in 198 2. A brown motif, Fall Crunchy Leavings going on. Yeah. Are you going to do the news or what . Yeah. Im good. Im going to ask that you zip it. We have a lot to get to this morning including this, a panel has ruled that donald trump will go on trial for civil fraud on monday where his entire new York Real Estate portfolio could be at stake. Attorney general Letitia James she probably has hit his former president where it hurts more than any other legal action against him. You can see it in different mannerisms and reactions among the trump family. Yesterday five judges decided to lift a temporary stay on the start of the Nonjury Trial, put in place while they considered challenges by trumps legal team. The former president s attorneys claimed that some of the charges brought by new York Attorney general Letitia James fell outside the statute of limitations, an argument rejected yesterday. On tuesday, judge Arthur Engoron ruled that former president , his two oldest sons, and be his company itself, were liable of fraud. That means next weeks trial would be how much they pay, which could include aine of 250 million and the possible seizure of trumps new york properties. Yesterday, prosecutors informed the judge that they pn to call the former presidt and his sons to testify in addition to his Daughter Ivanka and former cfo Allen Weisselberg and trumps exattorney Michael Cohen. This is a dramatic turn of events in this week in terms of trumps legal issues, joe, and weve been talking all about whether or not joe biden needs to fight back an talk about the legal cases against donald trump. He made a pretty eloquent speech about democracy and went after the Maga Movement and well talk about that coming up. At the same time one could argue that you let the law play out, and boy is it it ever this week. You know whats fascinating, donny, everyone is focused on the criminal cases, of course, but weve known donald for a very long time, and you just get the sense that a lot of the criminal cases and possibility of incarceration is still an abstract concept to this guy, right. Theres nothing abstract about this. This is his life work, coming in from queens with a huge chip on his shoulder and doing everything he can to build a manhattan real estate empire. And the last few days, especially, with the appeal being rejected yesterday, show him that very soon, that New York Empire is going to be shut down, if things continue in this direction, an he may even be booted from his wall street location, from trump tower. Its being monitored. Yeah. Its being monitored. Its there are a lot of ways this could turn out, but it looks actually like this civil case may be whats hitting them the hardest right now. Great point. And despite him being president of the United States, everything has always been about money for donald. Still comes back to dollars. When people say why is he doing it . We always say follow the money. Its always about running for president , everything, yeah, he likes the attention, but the attention he thinks he can use to generate money. The real reason he ran for president was to get publicity for his business. This hits him in the gut and theres a good chance he will have to divest himself of his properties. He is a man and his Tall Buildings and big buildings and everything is about size. It means so much to him that in a very sick moment of any sick moments on september 11th, 2001, you know, as he was watching the towers go down, he goes, now i have the tallest building oh. That shows you how much those buildings mean to him. You know, there are two things that always meant things to him. The money and at stature with people like the people around this table in the media and people in new york city and l. A. And celebrities. Hes lost both. The money has shrunk and, of course, his standing with outside of tupelo, mississippi. He could not walk into a restaurant in new york city now. Both of those have been taken away. Your point is well taken. To a lot of people going to jail would be the scariest factor. To him the thing that is probably sitting with him right now is his big tall long buildings may be going away. Rev, youve known him for a long time. Would you agree . Absolutely agree. I think the criminal indictments is something that he can spar with, and he feels he may get away with. I think the civil case is an existential threat to him. This is who he is. And his family. And his whole family and his desire to show his dad who is gone that i told you i could be somebody. This takes away any inkling of him proving to dad that he could rise up. I was thinking just yesterday Riding Down Fifth Avenue, i have one grandchild, 4yearold grandson, marcus, one day i will be Riding Down Fifth Avenue with my grandson saying you know that building used to be called trump towers and tell a story. That is the thing that donald trump is scared about. He will be removed from the memory of the next generation because there will be nothing called trump if this civil case goes forward. I was going to say, its really, its already happened even in our time. You know, used to when i lived up in connecticut, i drove up the West Side Highway and as i left you would see seven, eight fwlgs a row, huge buildings, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump. And there would be people that would pay a lot of money to slap his name on the side of the building. Coming into the city 17 and 18 one at a time they were taken down, up and down the highway. Now theyre talking about actually taking trump tower and other towers away from him. By the way, some idiot, idiot, said this is this happens in stalinist nations. This happens in nations where theres rule of law and stalinist nations you say this is a stalinist nation and they take you out back and shoot you. Here, we have a rule of law. And everybody, lets just for people that arent from manhattan that havent lived in manhattan, everybody for years, have known that donald trump has lied about his net worth, has lied about his buildings, has lied on his loans. This is this is no shock to anybody. If this is a stalinist nation, then stalin has been deaf, dumb and blind for like 40 years because this is not a surprise. When he was running in 16 i would say, dont do business with him. He lies and cheats and dont pay his bills. You hear that from everybody. And also, he exaggerates how much hes worth. You cant trust this guy in any business deal. Yeah. This is the trump thats always been. Right. When he was a celebrity Real Estate Developer before he got into politics, i told the story how he renumbered the floors in trump tower to claim they could be tall are than any building nearby. His Business Empire has shrunk. His name has been stripped off buildings throughout the city. He still has a number of golf courses but risks losing those including a few in New York State. Trump tower was his pride and joy, signature building, his home for decades and yes, he is beat up by the way. He only spend a few nights a year in trump tower. He lives at maralago and bedminster. We forget it now, but his First Campaign was about being americas ceo and a businessman. That has dissipated. Now this, so much of what he has done is still about making that money and driving that attention and now huge parts will be gone. Hes going to have to appear next week and stand trial and likely take the fifth. But he will have to appear that this is not surprising to anybody who has lived in new york, even people who voted for donald trump, not surprised by this. When he was selected to run The Apprentice and go around saying youre fired, youre fired, like, you know, im not saying this to be mean, i mean, this was in al the papers. People who ran businesses they laughed and mocked him. The fact that this guy was going to be some big business genius. Therapy laughing. Something he always resented. This is a guy that inherited the equivalent of 400 million from his father and lost it. Well, that attitude that many people in new york, especially people in business, had a 30year run. They laughed at him for over three decades for his supposed business acumen. Whats happening starting monday in new york raises the question, why didnt it begin sooner . Why didnt anyone in Public Office, in power, Public Office, over these 20 to 30 years in the past, why didnt they take we asked that question in real time. Weve asked that question. Its just i dont know if people remember, but i kept asking about Jeffrey Epstein on here. Yes. I would say, whats going on with Jeffrey Epstein . Why is this guy still Walking Around . I dont get it. You know, a year or two later, of course, thanks to some extraordinary reporting, it happened. Julie brown in miami, justice came to him. But it was in plain sight and its the same thing with donald trump. Weve been asking for some time. They know hes lying on his loans. They know hes lying in everything hes doing on his net worth. Where are the charges . Everybody was afraid to bring charges against him. Where was the enforcement. The other aspect of it is, people will be delighted, many will be delighted when hes on trial beginning monday and say hes finally gett