Starts right now. Today was the deadline for Donald Trumps legal team to file their brief with the senate for trumps upcoming Impeachment Trial. And it looks like trumps lawyers will be arguing that the trial is unconstitutional because trump is no longer president. Im going to use this. Im going to use this next time a cop pulls me over. Im going to be like, well, im no longer speeding. I was. I was. Im not now. Therefore this ticket is unconstitutional. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, february 3rd, along with joe, will li and me, we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire, former u. S. Senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst Claire Mccaskill and politics and Journalism Professor at Morgan State University and msnbc political contributor Jason Johnson is with us. So Donald Trumps second Impeachment Trial kicks off next week. And according to the case against him, the former president s role in the capitol hill riot is,
Angle. Pursuing political prosecution against donald trump, real criminals are reeking havoc. Chicago, washington and new york, hardened criminals feel embolden, unstoppable. You are watching a vicious attack against phillip todd on northeast. He was stabbed in the head unprovoked, allegedly by a man released from prison a day prior. The video was just released. Democrats respond spend tens of millions to investigate one man, violent criminals are terrifying d. C. Residents. I thank god to survive, it raent easy. I cant believe, i keep looking at my hand, do like this, just troo to believe im alive. For some reason, god saved me. Laura hes an uber driver from iraq. Too many have not been saved, d. C. Murder rate is highest in two decades. Have we seen a change in permissive attitude policies, laws toward crime that frankly destroy what were so many once habitable and nice to live urban areas . None of that happened. We get meaningless platitude from bowser. We also know that we continu
After trump trounced haley in her home state of South Carolina. But the latest primary results holds some Warning Signs for the republican president ial front runner. Asa hutchinson, the former president ial candidate, is here to discuss the election, in the future of the gop. Which he says trump is turning into a pro putin party of grievance. The toll of war. Ukraines president says 31,000 ukrainian troops have been killed since the russian invasion began two years ago yesterday. As republicans continue to block much needed military aid, we will take a closer look at potential backup plans to get ukraine the help it desperately needs. And, the maga agenda, from abortion to immigration. We will dive into how donald trump and his allies are planning extreme policies, for a possible second trump term. I am jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. With the South Carolina republican president ial primary in the rearview mirror, all of the attention has turned to michigan. On tuesday, vo
first, i m still filling in for my friend velshi. good man, roughly one year after roe v. wade was overturned, supreme court issued another ruling that said two up and another aspect of american life. on thursday, the supreme court ruled that commissions programs at harvard and university of north carolina violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. it effectively puts an end to affirmative action, a decision that will back decades of progress and president and in fact colleges, universities, and younger generations of students around the country. the 237 includes a dissent written by justice ketanji joao brown jackson the first black woman to be appointed to the supreme court. she wrote quote, with let them eat cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the record and announces colin finest for all by legal fiat. but deeming race relevant law does not make it so in life. during his remarks on thursday, biden echoed those sentiments. today, the court on
he was born in 1827, he was a minister in the church, he served as a chaplain for the union army during the american civil war. then in 1870, he was elected by the mississippi legislature to the united states senate believe it or not. the first ever black man stand to either body of congress in our country s history, was him. it is sort of hard to imagine that today, mississippi was the first day to actually send a black man to the, congress but they did. and they did it all the way back in 1870. and then believe it or not, an 1875, they did it again. the mississippi legislator said blanche k bruise to the united states senate. that s the second time ever a black man was elected to that chamber. and you re probably wondering why or how that happened. the reason mississippi was actually able to make history like that all the way back in the 1870s was because of reconstruction. after the civil war, mississippi was forced to adopt a bunch of new laws and franchising the states n