Through loud and clear, if it hasnt already, the extent of the January 6th Riot On Capitol Hill and the former president s role in all of it. An Impeachment Trial Set to start in just three days time, but Donald Trumps lawyer says that he has found the real villains in all of this. The democrats. Theres an awful lot of tape of cities burning and courthouses being attacked and federal agents being assaulted by rioters in the street cheered on by democrats throughout the country, and many of them in washington using, really, the most inflammatory rhetoric its possible to use. When you have the president of the United States give a speech and he says you should peacefully make your thinking known to the people in congress, hes All Of A Sudden a villain. So, while the previous president s preparing to defend the indefensible, the current one is trying to solve the crisis that he left behind. From new efforts to get more vaccines to all americans to the push for covid relief, President Bide
Alone and leaving republicans behind . Lets go out front. Good evening, im erin burnett. Out front tonight the breaking news. Kevin mccarthy with qanon supporter Marjorie Taylorgreene and could determine the future of the Republican Party in the United States. Because tonight the Republican Party is totally at odds over whether it will embrace qanon Conspiracy Theories as the core of the party and rhetoric like this from Marjorie Taylorgreene from 2019 thats just coming to light, will they embrace whats seen in this video uncovered by twitter user zedster . If we have a sea of people, if we shut down the streets, if we shut down everything, if we flood the capitol building, flood all of the government buildings, go inside. These are public buildings. We own them. We own these buildings. Do you understand that . We own the buildings and we pay the people who work in the buildings. Flood the capitol, flood the government buildings, we own the buildings. Sounds now so sinister, right . No
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,
Did you say am i hope . In my humble opinion. Do you pronounce it lol or lol . I say in my humble opinion, or i laugh out loud, but i appreciate the text shorthand. In my honest opinion. I will be sure to take it up with senator tim kaine. He watches this vote on the house floor, thank you, buddy. And that is it your home for joining us this evening. Right now, we are, as i just said, to chris hayes, watching the house of, where any moment, the bill to avoid catastrophic default is about to face the vote on the house floor. The dynamic here, what you will see unfold tonight, the dynamic, that dynamic, was set earlier today, when democrats had to bail out republicans on a procedural vote that republicans claim they could pass on their very own. Prior to that vote, politico reported, when asked if the gop would need democratic help to pass this procedural measure, majority whip, tom emmer, said, republicans are the ones who are running this place and republicans will pass the bills, and
did you say am i hope? in my humble opinion. do you pronounce it lol or lol? i say in my humble opinion, or i laugh out loud, but i appreciate the text shorthand. in my honest opinion. i will be sure to take it up with senator tim kaine. he watches this vote on the house floor, thank you, buddy. and that is it your home for joining us this evening. right now, we are, as i just said, to chris hayes, watching the house of, where any moment, the bill to avoid catastrophic default is about to face the vote on the house floor. the dynamic here, what you will see unfold tonight, the dynamic, that dynamic, was set earlier today, when democrats had to bail out republicans on a procedural vote that republicans claim they could pass on their very own. prior to that vote, politico reported, when asked if the gop would need democratic help to pass this procedural measure, majority whip, tom emmer, said, republicans are the ones who are running this place and republicans will