which reportedly captured donald trump telling michigan officials not to certify the 2020 election results. we re going to dig into that explosive, new reporting. plus, as trump continues to double down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric, a recent poll shows republican voters say that his racist language makes them more likely to vote for him. also ahead, america s mayor is broke. rudy giuliani filed for bankruptcy just days after being ordered to pay $146 million in his defamation case. and regrets, he s had a few. what republican presidential candidate ron desantis is saying is the one thing he wishes he could change about the gop primary. here s a hint, it s not anything that he did. good morning. welcome to morning joe. i m jonathan lemire, along with the bbc s katty kay, in for joe, mika, and willie. with us, we have former white house director of communications to president obama, our friend, jennifer palmieri. also the co-host of the podcast, how to win 2024. y
were convicted today of seditious conspiracy. it s a rarely used, often difficult to prove charge. a fifth member was acquitted of seditious conspiracy, but he has been convicted on other very serious charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting an officer. but today s verdict means so far 14 people, including members of another far right group, the oath keepers, have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of conspireing and plotting a violent overthrow of the united states government. this victory by the justice department, while it is a milestone and a massive and hugely consequential federal investigation into that plot to overturn an election and overturn democracy on january 6th, only underscores questions about holding accountable the man, who the vice chair so memorably puts it, quote, some in the mob, assemble the mob and lit the flame of this attack. we re talking about the disgraced ex-president himself. as the washington post report
other drugs that can raise up to $70,000 a year based on need. a maximum yearly cost of $2,000. if you re on medicare and you have diabetes, your cost of your insulin will be $35. we wanted to cut the cost for everyone, including the hundreds of thousands of children with type i diabetes. i bet a lot of you out there have diabetes or your children do. republicans blocked limiting that cost to $35 for children. it only costs $10 for the prescription to be made and packaged, $10! drug companies charge families about 30 times more than that for every vial of insulin. i m deadly earnest about this. imagine being a mom or a dad, looking at your child, you know the need of insulin to live and not having the money to pay for it. not a joke. think about what you d think about at the time! think about how you d feel if you didn t have the insurance and didn t have the money. it s wrong! it s not who we are! and we re going to fix that too! it s just two minutes after 4:00. we are li
ways, none of them legal, to get state legislatures in swing states to either block the certiication of the vote, to claim there was fraud, to create new electors, that this effort at the willard that began december 18th, an important date from my perspective, december 18th, a group of lawyers move into the willard to help the trump campaign figure out how to block the peaceful transfer of power tin colluded bullying pence. in the fall of 2021, in march of 2021, there was evidence about the fake electors revealed in public information requests. that there had been completely fraudulent separate sets of electors created out of thin air to try to claim that trump had won in states that biden had had won. the effort by trump to get brad
michigan, and wisconsin. those three states were key to donald trump s failed plan to overturn the 2020 election. and he subpoenaed them for any and all communications with trump. his campaign and a long list of aids and al loiss. the post is siting the clerks although nbc has not confirmed it. that said, how significant is this news n your opinion? it s enormously significant. so early in his tenure, we have already seen that the special counsel is moving on a bunch of different fronts. we saw last week around thanksgiving that he is quite engaged in the litigation around mar-a-lago and the documents that were taken there. and now we see a subject that is also been on the plate of the january 6th committee, which is was there interference with the conducting and the certiication