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garland appointed a special prosecutor to look into it. well, today we got the results of the investigation in a report. the special counsel will not seek criminal charges against president biden. so if you re in a fantasy league for presidential indictments, it s still, trump, 91. every other president ever, 0. you got that? clean that up. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, february 9th. good to have joe, willie and me here together. along with us, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann. former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg. and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is with us this morning. we have a lot going on. we ll start with the special counsel investigating president biden for his handling of classified documents will not bring charges against the president. that s the conclusion. he wrote in the report ....
. that s it for us. have a great weekend. the news continues. the source with kaitlan collins starts now. and tonight straight from the source donald trump weighing in after president biden is facing no charges in his classified documents investigation. the former president claiming that he cooperated with the feds, which he didn t, also alleging that biden did not, which he did. the white house is blasting the report as politically motivated and certainly a political headache. meanwhile, a potential trump raining mate tells me she would not have done what mike pence did on january 6th, you know, abiding by that thing called the constitution. the apparent new republican litmus test to the second in line to the presidency. also tonight israel s prime minister wants its military to have plans to evacuate rafah where over a million palestinians are sheltering as the white house is warning military action there would be a, quote, disaster. i m kaitlan collins and ....
trump s case probably doing battle with multiple federal judges and multiple counts. this week alone was the d.c. circuit cut put his screams of presidential immunity temporarily on ice reminding him for the purposes of this criminal case, former president donald trump has become citizen trump, with all the defenses of any other criminal defendant. there were the nine supreme court justices who regardless of how they ultimately rule on the 14th amendment case sure sounded like they were not enjoying getting drawn into the nonstop cyclone of chaos that is donald j. trump. those keeping score at home, it is t-minus 72 hours till trump s legal team must file their appeal to the supreme court in the presidential immunity case, an appeal that must somehow convince those nine supreme court justices to agree to hear yet another trump case. that s just the cases we spent all week talking about. we also saw the judge, trump s civil fraud trial, judge engoran days away from rulin ....
ballot for stoking an insurrection in violation of section three of the 14th amendment. and by all accounts, the justices posture during this arguments suggest the court is looking for ways to punt on that central question, did donald trump incited insurrection, and instead hand the issue may be to congress. basically to let some other group of people deal with the possible insurrectionist president being elected another day. which would seem to be a win for donald trump. seemed to be a win. because even if mr. trump was taking his victory lap, a different judge in a different courtroom released this one page order. it is here by ordered, adjudged, and decreed that after a jury trial before the honorable luis a caplan, plaintive e. jean carroll has judgment for damages against the defendant, donald j trump, for an aggregate sum of $83,300,000. that order is essentially a bill. donald trump must pay the 83 point $3 million he owes to e. jean carroll immediately. it does ....
alleged role in the january 6th insurrection. we ll all be able to listen live tomorrow morning. let me make it easy to follow the conversation tomorrow. you ve been hearing a lot about the 14th amendment. it s at the center of the case. it has five sections. of the five, you may only really know section one, the one about due process, laws, that one. it s the other white meat, section three. that s the one that s important, the so-called insurrectionist band. at its core it says, you can t hold office if you ve engaged in an insurrection. if it were that easy, i wouldn t have to explain it to you, would i? and the supreme court wouldn t take it up. there s a couple words you to pay attention to. it s the words that bring us here today, the court there tomorrow, and that court will dissect these words when trying to understand whether the insurrectionist ban of section three fully does apply to donald trump. the first words to consider is officer. the big question, is t ....