impeachment managers today, and bring you disturbing new details about the downfall of the anti-trump group the lincoln project. our guest tonight says it sal worse than what is being reported. who had a two our phone call with president xi?o joe biden. mike pompeo will tell us what that means.om but first, the house impeachment managers percent of their final argument against former president trump today and they close their case by inventing a totally new and arbitrary standard of guilt. president trump s lack of remorse and refusal to take accountability during the attack shows his state of mind, it shows he intended the events of january 6th to happen, to sit back and watch and delight as insurrectionist s attack us. he reacted exactly the way someone would react if they were delighted. laura: that was just one example of their dramatic, olympic leaps in logic. they sliced together footage of trump talking about a g.o.p. house candidate body slamming a reporter in 2
bet against. game stop and amc may be in the headlines, but the question this morning, is the stock market as the whole a gigantic bubble that s just waiting to pop? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that never bets against the little guy. i am kasie hunt on this thursday, january 28th. we will start with the news. more than three weeks after the deadly riot at the capitol, the department of homeland security has issued a national terrorism advisory, warning of a, quote, heightened threat environment across the united states. the alert that went out yesterday didn t have any information related to a specific, credible plot, but said motivation for a possible attack could include anger over the presidential transition as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives. it s a clear reference to the false voter fraud allegations that have been pushed by former president trump. an intelligence official involve
i will participate in that and i plan to listen to the evidence. that was senator mitch mcconnell in 2019 ahead of trump s first impeachment trial. compared to what he said yesterday ahead of trump s second impeachment trial. he might vote to quit but he is pretending to be impartial this time around. you can say that at least. good morning. welcome to morning joe . it is thursday, january 28th. we have jonathan lemire. founder of the conservative website the bulwark and author of how the right lost its mind, charlie sacks is with us, msnbc contributor. good to have you both. you know, though, willie, about mitch, regarding mitch, he s been trying since january 6th actually, he s been trying since after the president s election and before january 6th to drag his conference along with it. what did he say? do not contest the electors. this will end very badly for us. mitch warned us. he warned america. josh hawley was too good, too smart, little bird-handed okay.
team has quit, all of them. a trump adviser saying a final decision on legal strategy has not yet been made. that leads to the trump problem part two. will the former president show up at his trial and personally take part in his own defense? what would that look like? the trump legacy that so many republicans have hitched their futures to is on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination. so to washington we go now and correspondent sunlen serfaty is joining us. sunlen, we are days away from trump s second impeachment trial. we have a mass exit by the lawyers and the clock is ticking. reporter: the clock is ticking, ana. this is such a dramatic development, the fact that you have the entire trump legal team walking away. but the fact that it is also happening so close to the start of the trial. now, if you look at the calendar here, just days away from some of these key deadlines the trump legal team should be needing to set up to meet including legal briefs due in two days.
atlanta, and it s sparking speculation that another indictment could be coming very soon for the former president. and also ahead we ll look at a special election today in the state of ohio that could change the rules for amending that state s constitution and how it could impact abortion rights there. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, august 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll get right to the news, and it was another fast moving night on the legal front yesterday in the newest federal case against donald trump. judge tanya chutkan has summoned both sides to appear for a hearing no later than this friday, after they were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of a protective order requested by special counsel jack smith. just before 5:00 p.m. yesterday trump s lawyers filed a response pushing back at smith s motion to bar trump from sharing sensitive evidence on social media. they argued this and i ll quote,