states soon follow? it's "way too early" for this. good morning. and welcome to "way too early." the show that wonders if any political discourse is legitimate at this early hour. i'm jonathan lemire, on this monday, february 7th. let's start with the news, there's a lot of it. several leading republicans are backing former vice president mike pence after he openly rebuked donald trump before a group of conservative lawyers. here's the former vice president pushing back at trump's claim that pence could have overturned the 2020 election. >> this week, president trump said i had the right to overturn the election. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people, and the american people alone. and frankly, there's no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. the truth is, there's more at stake than our party or political fortune. men and women, if we lose faith in the constitution, we won't just lose elections, we'll lose our country. >> the former vice president said his decision to certify the election on january 6th is rooted in article ii, section 1 of the constitution, asserting elections are run at the state level and the only role of congress is to open and count the votes that were certified by the states. republican senator marko rubio said pence is right, and republican senator morasso says the former vp did his constitutional duty that day. here is one of former trump's former advisers chris christie. >> i think the actions that the vice president took on january 6th, i'm glad he has finally put words to it, i don't know why it took him so long, but i'm glad he did. let's face. it let's call this what it was. january 6th was a riot that was incited by donald trump, in an effort to intimidate mike pence and the congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week, overturn the election. now, he's trying to do a cleanup on aisle one here, with correcting that stuff, but it's not going to change, he actually told the truth by accident. he wanted the election to be overturned. >> the republican national committee is facing growing pushback from some members of the party following the vote on friday to censure representatives liz cheney and adam kinzinger, the measure which was adopted by a voice vote at the rnc's annual meeting describes cheney and kinzinner as participates in a democratic prosecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. let those three words sink in. legitimate political discourse to describe january 6th. several senators including murkowski, romney, and larry hogan, either criticized or question the movement to censure the two lawmakers. some members of the party are indeed taking issue with the rnc's characterization of the capitol attack as legitimate political discourse. >> did you see legitimate political discourse that day. discourse. i did >> did you believe january 6th was in any way legitimate political discourse. >> no, it was illegitimate political discourse because bass an assault on the first branch of government. >> i think part of the problem with my party is they view it as a weaponization of pelosi's weaponizing january 6th, politicizing it, to her advantage. but at the end of the day, i think the truth needs to come out. >> do you stand by the rnc's actions to these statements? >> as i understand it, they were referring to the peaceful protesters, when they said that. i do not agree with that statement if it's applying to those who committed criminal offenses and violence to overtake our democracy. >> i think that there's two mistakes here on the rnc. first of all they say part of the reason for the resolution is they want to keep the focus on joe biden and the failures of the democratic administration. how did that work for you? all anybody is stalking about this weekend is this -- is talking about this weekend is this resolution rather than talking about the failures of the biden administration. and secondly, it is not picking up on what is, as i sense, around the country, from traveling around, a shift that is occurring, which is that people are tired of hearing about the 2020 election, from donald trump, and from some who support him. >> coming up later on "morning joe," congressman adam kinzinger will be a guest on the heels of the rnc censure. turning now to overseas, the white house is warning that russia could launch an attack on ukraine any day now. national security adviser jake sullivan said yesterday any conflict would come at a quote enormous human cost but adds that the u.s. and its allies are ready to response to any contingency. >> we're in a window where something could happen, that is a military escalation, an invasion of ukraine could happen at any time. we believe that the russians have put in place the capabilities to mount a significant military operation into ukraine, and we have been working hard to prepare a response. >> sullivan's warning comes as a new u.s. intelligence assessment finds that moscow has already assembled 70% of the forces that it would need to launch a full-scale invasion of ukraine. the report says that if the kremlin were to attack, the ukrainian capital kyiv would most likely be captured in the early days of the invasion, possibly within the first 48 hours. it also says as many as 25,000 ukrainian troops could be killed or wounded, and up to 5 million people could become refugees fleeing the conflict. it is still unclear how the government arrived at those estimates. meanwhile, moscow continues to deny that it plans to invade, as new satellite images show details of a russian military buildup in belarus, near the border. joining us live from ukraine, nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. thanks for being with us today. as you just heard, u.s. intelligence had some pretty ominous findings that they released over the weekend, saying that russia has 70% of the forces that it could need to invade, ready and near ukraine's border. what are you seeing and hearing there? what's the level of concern on the ground in ukraine? >> reporter: yes, jonathan, thanks for that question, because honestly the level of concern here could not be lower. and it's really interesting that you mentioned this, all of these ominous sounds coming out of washington and other european capitals, we just heard that this, we just heard this from the defense minister of ukraine last night, he said in this statement, that we have all completeness, i'm going to read it a little bit, we have all completeness and realistically evaluate the information, many different hypothetical estimates and predictions can now be heard, especially in the foreign media. that's us. he scolded the foreign media once again. he says that this is happening now. now that the probability of a significant escalation as of today continues to be assessed as low. so despite what we're hearing from washington, despite these intelligence assessments that really are quite alarming and really show an enormous amount of forces all around the border, folks here, ordinary people on the street, they are not concerned, the government is not concerned and this isn't new, we have been hearing this two weeks ago from the government, from the president of ukraine, was essentially dismissing this, in the conversation with the foreign media, and once again, he scolded the foreign media, for basically drumming up panic, that he thinks is going to hurt the economy. that's one of the major concerns of the ukraine wran government here, is that all of this hand-wringing is going to dampen their economy. now, if that seems unrealistic to you, considering the hardware that we're seeing just east of here, it really is a remarkable disconnect. and we've kind of seen the government here veering back and forth. they have made some alarming noises as recently as last week. so far, this government and the people of ukraine are just not that concerned, jonathan. >> we're seeing some efforts of diplomacy here, and president biden is hosting the german chancellor today, french president macron will meet with putin this week, but as much as the ukrainian officials are downplaying with the rhetoric the threats, give us a quick sense as to what sort of military preparations ukraine has taken, if any, just in case. >> one of the things that was in the statement from the defense minister was talking about, he thanks foreign governments for giving so much material an weapons, but a lot of the defense preparations are being done by ordinary people, so yes, people are not panicked, but they're learning to fight. and this is something that the keeper, ukrainian government keeps reminding us, scolding the foreign media, we have been at war for eight years, this is not new for us, so a lot of ukrainians already have military training and refreshing and getting ready to fight in the streets if they have to. >> nbc's matt bradley joining us live from ukraine, we really appreciate it. still ahead, a major change in covid philosophy. the state that is dropping its mask requirement in schools. after having some of the strictest policies in the country. plus, we dive into trump's document destruction. new reporting on a bad habit of the former president that's also against the law. those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back as we look at a pre-dawn u.s. capitol. at a pre-dawn u.s. capitol. i'm mark and i live in vero beach, florida. my wife and i have three children. ruthann and i like to hike. we eat healthy. we exercise. i noticed i wasn't as sharp as i used to be. my wife introduced me to prevagen and so i said "yeah, i'll try it out." i noticed that i felt sharper, i felt like i was able to respond to things quicker. and i thought, yeah, it works for me. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. trelegy for copd. 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time now for the weather and meteorologist bill karins, please don't do this forecast perched above a ravine. >> no way. jordan spieth is worth more than one shot, too. he was leaning backwards. this morning, on a little sneaky storm up the east coast, we are greeted with a glaze of ice in areas just outside of dc and north carolina and eventually up through new england, and not a big winter storm but the timing of the glaze this morning, especially with the morning commute will make things a little bit dicey. you can see the green there, that is rain. but the pink is ice. and we are watching the ice over long island. it may start as a little bit of brief snow but move over to freezing rain and slide into southern new england through the morning. ice forecast. it is not a ice storm. it will not knock power out. but again the coating of ice is really possible. new york city, northward and for that reason, we have the winter weather advisories that cover 30 million people from philadelphia to new york all the way up through central new england and into areas of maine. most of it will be this morning, and getting warmer later this afternoon. and our friends mainly in a little bit of snow out of this, too about two to four inches just enough to do a little shoveling and plowing. so the forecast this week, the east coast with the storm but the rest of the country mild week ahead through tuesday and wednesday. no big snowstorms coming our way. and the temperatures for about, you know, almost all of us, except the great lakes and the northeast, mild everywhere. enjoy it while you can. >> after a couple of weeks of really cold weather and storms, it looks like a little reprieve. we don't mind it. bill karins, thank you very much. and donald trump got elected to the white house in part for attacking hillary clinton and deleting emails. now he has been destroying his own official documents. before we go to break, we want to know why, are you awake? 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"new york times" reporter peter baker tweeted his response to the story, quote, trump got elected in part by attacking clinton for deleting emails that she deemed personal, and then spent four years destroying official documents despite federal law. joining us now, one of the reporters who chronicled former president's habit of ripping up documents, the white house bureau chief of the "washington post" and msnbc analyst, ashley parker, good morning, thanks for joining us. great story. give us a sense, though, as to what the actual repercussions might be for violating the presidential records act and how it plays into the january 6th investigation. >> well, the repercussions are a great question, because it is a violation of the presidential records act, experts we talked to said it is against the law, but they also said that the law as currently written does not have particularly great enforcement mechanisms, and one person put it, it is toothless, and a bit like the hack jack, this is something that people tried not to violate, presidents did potentially tear out hundreds and hundreds of documents, but what you've seen with the the trump white house, they have reeled for now, that this is something that is a norm that they could blow through and be at least, at least one u.s. president, impervious to the consequences. >> ashley, you covered the trump white house, as i did, and i wanted to shift back to some of the seismic republican developments over the last few days. what's your latest reporting on what went into former vice president's decision on friday to unequivbly say that trump was wrong in asking him to try to overturn the election and how is that being received by trump world and the former president? >> well, i think you saw a little bit of the reception by the former president just in the statement he put out, but it was a fascinating thing to watch, because former vice president pence is someone who spent four years being this incredibly loyal, basically subservient foot soldier to donald trump, and even after january 6th, even in moments when the pence people would say, you know, we're being very strong, we're being very forceful, sort of the most that pence would say it was a dark day. we did not see eye to eye about the insurrection. and so for him to come out and say trump was wrong was incredibly forceful. but it is for him, for pence. but it is important to note that it was a very limited thing that the former vice president was speaking to. he was basically saying, and this is because trump himself had come out and said some things to the country, and the vice president was saying that trump was wrong, and saying that pence had the power to basically overturn the election. and hand it back to trump, and that was sort of the north star, even in the administration, that pence would say, look, look at the legal memos you're giving me, listen to what your friends have to say, but i just don't think i have that power. but then, the top adviser marc short went on the sunday shows and quite forceful in certain ways in pushing back against trump but also said look, the vice president has a lot of concerns about the election, so i think it's important to be clear that this was not the sort of full-throated, you know, break between the two men. at least from the former vice president's side. >> i think you said it well. forceful for pence. the other of course headline that emerged over the weekend is the characterization from the rnc of january 6th as legitimate political discourse. they watered it down a little bit later, but give us, ashley tell us, is this yet further evidence just the tight grip that former president trump has on his party? >> i think that is what it is, and again marc short and top adviser, former chief of staff, when he went on the sunday shows, he did say, and again, this was quite forceful, and he said front row seat and keep in mind short and pence were in the capitol that day when people were chanting hang mike pence and they had to can evacuated and this is not legitimate political discourse and when you look at the republicans, there are so few and far between that say that sort of statement is unacceptable by the republican party values because donald trump, although he is not officially announced a run, he is very much the head of the republican party, just about everyone in the party is looking at running in 2024, and no one wants to do or say anything to displease him so you're seeing the republican party running around and scrambling to please their mercurial leader. >> ashley post, thank you for being with us today. still ahead, we are live with cnbc for a look ahead on wall street. and potential peloton reportedly kicking the tires on the struggling bike maker. 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>> that is absolutely right. reports that nike and amazon could both be interested in a deal for peloton. now, in my sense, it is something of a white elephant pandemic purchase, for some, you know, very expensive exercise bikes and only seems to be interest in the company and the shares seem to do well, when this are talks of major changes, like another big company consuming it, m&a activity and another call for the ceo to stand down but they want to see the company sold off. the company, like disney, like nike, like amazon, there's a lot in peloton, but with the data and the equipment itself and there is the exercise classes that it has, but as i mentioned. so beleaguered questions, over the last few months we saw the peloton share price fall 20% at one point in january on reports that it basically halted production of some of the bikes and too many sitting in warehouses and of course, featured quite famously recently, in this "sex and the city" reboot and it is a really interesting company to watch, and it keeps us interested here, but certainly if there is some sort of takeover, you might see the shares surge. >> the bike causing a heart attack, not the pr any company would want. thank you, we appreciate it. still ahead we will dive back into the former vice president mike pence's comments on the 2020 election. a republican senator is supporting pence's decision while seemingly trying to avoid making the former president angry. we will explain next on "way too early." n next on "way too n next on "way too early. 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and if trump runs again, aren't we going to see a repeat of the election fraud shenanigans of 2020? >> yes, first of all, as an analyst, i think it would be right, i think if donald trump runs again he at least has a shot at beating joe biden. first of all, as we've seen, sort of backing your way into the nfl playoffs, right? once you're in the game, you can win, even if you didn't have the best regular season, you are dangerous, and so but look, joe biden's got a lot of problems now, whether it is violent crime or inflation or whatever, and so donald trump would have a legitimate shot if he did so, and i think what we've heard however is a condemnation of donald trump for trying to steal the election for inciting an insurrection, rather than rubio engaging in political punditry. maybe leave that to us. >> matt, one more quick one for you as we assess. let's be clear, it is many years off, things could change between now and the 2024 campaign, but you're right, trump would be the favorite right now. but doesn't he have a ceiling of support? didn't we see that in 2020 or do you think he could pick up more votes this time around? >> first of all, this is dynamic. it depends on joe biden. joe biden has problems. and if voters are forced to make that choice, the lesser of two evils, it kind of depends what they prioritize. personally for me, you know, i think that things like preserving liberal democracy are priorities that probably take precedent over other ideological issues. but if you are a family that, you know, prices are going up or there's crime in your streets, you may see things differently. you may not -- the idea of preserving liberal democracy could be an esoteric idea compared to groceries being more expensive. again, you know, and trump doesn't need to get a majority of the vote. we've seen that before. i think that will be a problem for republicans trying to fix their situation because in the mid terms, you know, there's like an adverse selection where healthy republicans are being pushed out, sick republicans are being promoted, and there won't be a feedback mechanism because republicans, whether they do well or not, are probably going to do well -- are probably going to win in the mid terms regardless of what they say or do. >> right. >> so if you were expecting them to have a come-to-jesus moment and suddenly change, it will be a while. >> yeah, and we are certainly already seeing efforts by trump and his allies to potentially rig the system for 2024 in terms of counting the vote. ""the daily beast" matt lewis, we appreciate your thoughts. come back soon. earlier in the show we asked why are you awake. becca writes, got up way too earl towe watch the women's slalom. what do you have, dan? >> i got one from dominic. because our washing machine decided this was the morning to cross the rainbow bridge. >> oh, no. we're sorry about that. our condolences. another viewer shares this picture. new puppy. up at 3:30 a.m. and napping by 5:00. that's a brutal schedule but it is an adorable little dog. up next, a look at the "axios" one big thing. coming up on "morning joe," as i mentioned earlier congressman adam kinzinger is a guest this morning. he will weigh in on the rnc vote to censure him and fellow republican liz cheney. 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"morning joe" starts right now. when you look at so many of the things that have happened, why didn't they go after hilary clinton for her e-mails? she had 33,000 e-mails that were deleted after receiving a subpoena from congress. >> so donald trump had a big problem with the thought that hilary clinton may have deleted thousands of e-mails, but apparently ripping up official documents beyond recognition was not a problem. >> i guess he kind of did that throughout his administration. they said, don't do that. >> tiny pieces. >> he shredded them into tiny little pieces. bizarre behavior. >> the new reporting on trump's widespread and indiscriminate shredding of documents while president, which is against -- >> it is illegal, yeah. >> -- federal law. meanwhile, republicans don't like cancel culture except, of course, when it comes to those who speak out against the january 6th insurrection. the gop is now punishing two of its own for standing up against the forces tearing down democracy. we will show you which republicans are actually calling out the rnc's attempts to white wash the attack of the capitol as, quote, legitimate political discourse. plus, if a vice president can overturn an election, what is stopping kamala harris from doing that in 2024? it is the constitution, of course. now some of the same voices who gave donald trump cover for years are finally speaking out. also making headlines this morning, new jersey is lifting mask mandates in schools with several other states considering the same. >> as omicron variant, the number of infections just dropped straight down. >> yeah. >> it is really, really on the decline fortunately. >> it is a big topic in georgia right now after a candidate for government tweeted and then deleted a photo that is sure to pop up in campaign ads this fall. and on the foreign policy front, the u.s. says the european capital could fall within hours of a russian invasion. according to the biden administration, war in eastern europe could break out any day. good morning