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,
a new cnn exclusive. former at the present time donald trump subpoenaed for records after he was caught on tape, discussing how he held on to a classified document. cnn has learned his attorneys haven t been able to find that key document. critical details in a case that prosecutors could be building against the republican front-runner. mike pence cleared. he will not face charge in his classified documents investigation. we have these stories and more, ahead on cnn news central. we have exclusive new cnn reporting about the special counsel, and that audio reporting of former at the present time donald trump. sources tell cnn that they turned over documents can bed to a classified military documents, one that prosecutors hear mr. trump describing. sources also tell cnn there is a giant unknown. whether the document in question, an iran attack plan, was ever actually returned to the government. paula, lay out the question of what happened here. so, let s go back a few
potentially deadly fungus being found at hospitals across the nation. what s being done about it? a new battle front. we speak with a paver experts increasing threats developing in outer space. but, breaking tonight, day two of the high stakes summit between chinese president xi jinping and russian president vladimir putin. fears over the leader s cooperation growing today as the pair signed an agreement expanding their economic ties. the duo also touting china s supposed peace plan to end the war in ukraine. a plan ukraine says is a nonstarter. it comes amid heightened criticism over president biden s lack of communication and confronting of president xi and a perceived lack of strength from the biden administration. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off with that story live on the north lawn. peter, good evening. good evening, trace. as white house officials try to read the tea leaves from russia to figure out how this putin xi meeting is going to effect t
do anything to hurt either one of them. what is he doing there is brilliant. is he creating the premise for a down-charge. ainsley: spirit of revival is contagious. several universities hold marathon prayer services inspired by asbury university. it can t be stopped here and he is really commissioning and sending. olgd catch. do it. fall down the right slirn he for the touchdown, what a catch home is wherever i m with you. ainsley: i had to do a double-take when i looked up the weather in green bay, wisconsin today. it is had right now 5 degrees but it feels like negative 5. you are going to have a high today of 18 degrees at 3:00 p.m. so you can wear your bathing suit then. steve: the good news is that storm has stopped snowing out there it s just the residual, unfortunately a lot of people don t have electricity because of the ice as the storm marches toward the northeast. brian: when i think of green bay wisconsin jane skinner. she could handle all type
way he was doing it was very, very cunning. defense called murdaugh a former law partner. murdaugh could take the is stand in his own defense. what doesn t help is someone saying thattens his voice. he was at the scene. he s a liar. it started one afternoon and it just kept going. joined by other universities. for me, it s just been transformative. to-to-see people who have made amends. we are happy to see what happens going forward. ainsley: we begin with a fox news alert. three people are dead, including a florida tv news reporter and #-year-old little girl after a gunman returns to a murder scene and opens fire again. steve: journalist identified as 24-year-old dylan lions. police say two other victims were critically injured. brian: todd piro joins us more with more on the tragedy in orlando, florida. todd: they say the reporter and child were gunned down yesterday afternoon by a suspect wanted in an earlier deadly shooting at that same locatio