we appreciate it. stick around. we ll talk to you again in a few minutes on morning joe. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. to do something with 50 votes is rough. to do small things with 50 votes is rough. to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes, republican minority, a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin, wow. senate majority leader chuck schumer after the senate passed a sweeping climate health care and tax bill, putting democrats on the verge of another major win ahead of the midterms. republicans also scored a win for big pharma. we ll explain. donald trump s republican party gathered in dallas for cpac this weekend, where the big lie was on full display. along with an incredibly ridiculous guest and this is not the one i m talking about. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 8th. with joe and me, we have corresponde
unsealed by the justice department. among those documents, the search warrant and property receipt of once the fbi was after, both obtained by nbc, and confirming an investigation into potential crimes associated with violations of the espionage act. after the agency removed nearly two dozen boxes of material, 11 sets of qualified documents, some of them top secret. were removed from trump s mar-a-lago office six days ago. two months after a trump lawyer signed a letter saying all classified material had been returned to the government. that is according to new reporting from the new york times, citing four sources familiar with the letter. regardless, over the last week, their response from republican politicians has ranged from uncritical solidarity with trump, to an increasingly marked silence, as the depth of the implication becomes too extreme to dance around. of course, that hasn t stopped many from trying, as some republican lawmakers continue to demonize federal law e
store you are watching our live continuing special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict. in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow, i m here with my colleague, stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes, in a courtroom in downtown manhattan, just after 5:00 eastern time this evening, a foreperson of the journey rose and delivered the jury unanimous , guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal the scheme to correct the 2016 election. the scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight, it is official a criminal scheme, he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions, we enter uncharted territory as a country, for the first time, a president has criminally convicted and for the first time for one of our two main political parties is about to
A very clear contrast with the republicans. point out that yes, with for example the burn pit bill, republicans are voting against critical health care for veterans. with the marriage equality act, and the bill that they put on the floor for a senate vote for that. republicans are voting against the ability to marry who you love with this inflation reduction act. republicans are voting against capping insulin cost for seniors at $35. going point by point, i think it s gonna be critical for downing kratz to keep this energy going. because what they have here is energy that is not only going to be fully whoever seized by democrats, but also independent. because when you talk about republicans trying to paint trump as a victim, for example, we know the cap on that is only with the people who already support trump. i think i saw a recent poll that showed that only 33% of voters said that the fbi search at mar-a-lago was unjustified. whereas, you have the vast
The republicans response. my god, they re against capping they re against letting medicare negotiate. they re against capping insulin cost at $35, when big pharma is price gouging people like my son, who is type i diabetes. i can pay for it. they can t. republicans against 10-year-olds who have been raped by being able to end that pregnancy. they re you know, they re against you look at texas. they re trying to stop mothers from being protected on operating tables when they re about to die. it s crazy. then you add all of the things they were against in this bill, and i m focusing in on that $35 cap on insulin. i ve seen it. i can afford it, obviously. no concern for me. but because people know my son