Overturn the results of the election here in georgia. And to support this, shes offered up a nearly 100page indictment that detail 61 acts that were part of this conspiracy across these 19 defendants. There were also 30 Unindicted Coconspirators and these allegations span 7 states and the district of columbia. While this is the fourth criminal indictment trump faces this year, this is by far the most sweeping. Rico cases are challenging. They tend to get drawn out. When you have 19 defendants and their attorneys, its easy to see how things could get drawn out for months or even years, but the District Attorney said she wants to try everyone together, and shes hoping to ask for a trial in the next six months. So former President Trump and the 18 others who have been indicted have 10 days to voluntarily surrender. How might this booking look different from the other arraignments trump has gone through . Reporter its going to look different than what we have seen at the federal level. We
they respond to tonight s top story. they ll be with us in justn u a minute. st a now, we begin this monday o with a fox news alert. the department of energy, they are now finally admittinge the obvious truth.s covid-19 was apparently developed in that by chinese scientists at the wuhan institute of virology, likely through gain of function research. now, the deadly diseas the somehowlab an leaked out of the lab and aninfe infected the entire world .ct and by the way, china knew at the entire time, side note, a sloppy attempt to cover up.m and then thatht all ensued from communist chinese and of the communist chinese and of course, their corrupt propagandists in part that we fund for china. woul and that would be the h.o. and maybe even dr. and ye fauci himself. and yet no one has been helde wh accountable. they have yet, to this point, even wanted to admit the truth, which was obvious.th mow, a message fro president reagan is more relevant than ever. quote, the nine most t
several of them are calling out fox news for down-playing the violence of that dark day. we ll have those comments in just a moment. plus, the latest on the kidnapping in mexico that ended with two americans dead and two others in the hospital. and also we could be closer to finding out who sabotaged a russian pipeline last year. that new reporting is straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 8th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with a growing number of republican senators blasting fox news and prime time host tucker carlson for showing select footage from the january 6th insurrection on his prime time show. that footage provided by house speaker kevin mccarthy. the fox news try today portray the deadly riot as peaceful, calling the insurrectionists sight seers and that lawmakers who suggest otherwise had lied to the american public. even alleging some capitol police officer
by catering to the hard right. conduct like theirs is just asking for another january 6th to happen. that s of course chuck schumer, but it s not just democrats who are calling out fox news for trying to down play the violence of january 6th. some republican senators did not hold back their criticism either. we ll have their comments straight ahead. speaker mccarthy making no apologies for his role in all of this. we ll tell you how he is justifying handing over thousands of hours of security video. also ahead, the latest on the kidnapping in mexico that ended with two americans dead and two others in the hospital. plus, federal investigators digging deeper into norfolk southern s safety culture following two train derailments in ohio and a deadly collision yesterday morning in cleveland. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, march 8th. it is international women s day, and mika is getting ready for her big event in our next hour, including a conversatio
expectation that he d be arrested this past tuesday. manhattan, d a. alvin bragg said that was never the plan. maybe it was all a head fake, designed by trump to rally his gop supporters in the house. or paved the way for last monday s grand jury testimony by former prosecutor and michael cohen, critic robert costello. perhaps it was just to make brag. think twice before indicting a former president. trump even posted this on a social media site, making it look like he s raising a baseball bat against bragg. he also called him an animal. that post was later deleted. on friday, a law enforcement source told cnn that bragg had been threatened with assassination in a letter containing nonhazardous white powder it s a lot to process let me try and sort it out. remember signs initially pointed to the first trump indictment, possibly coming out of georgia, where fulton county d a funny willis is investigating his attempts to overturn the 2020 election there. and then it seemed t