be convicted. right. those are good things in his column. do you think there would be any downside here for president biden were hunter to be convicted? of course, as the personal toll, of course. do we think there is political im impact? yeah, there are low information voters who are like, they re both in trouble with the law. i would say hunter biden is very different than donald trump and being a crack addict because you have an addiction is very different than a myriad after criminal charges, many cases which you ve been able to punt. then you have the fraud cases. i don t think they re the same at all, but i do think, you know, everything can be a problem, especially in politics. certainly, those close to president biden worry about just how he will receive this news. we know he is deeply worried about his son. also, the first lady coming back from france to go to the trial. i mean, the sister has been there. everyone in biden world, they re a close family. i t
class= nosel > artwork and his name. he seemed content. during one of his mental health evaluations, he told doctors, this is the happiest i ve been in my life. i m happy as a clam, to be honest. i really am. be honest. i really am. jr. who four decades after shooting an american president appeared at peace with his past. that s all for this edition of dateline. # thank you for watching. . good morning. and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a busy week, so let s get to the conversations you might have missed. you can t gag a nominee. can you imagine you are running for office and not allowed to talk. when that ndhappens, we are no longer s democracy. and we are not ppgoing to let that happen. and i know a lot of republicans want retribution and want to do that we are rigoing to see what happens. donald trump is ratcheting up threats to prosecute his rivals if reelected following his conviction on 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money
2016. we got millions of more votes, but a lot of bad things happened. they used covid to cheat, et cetera. impeachment hoax number one, hoax number two. everything is a hoax. there s a line. meanwhile, the former president spoke to dr. phil about wanting to take the stand in his trial and how, sometimes, revenge can be justified. i have a lot of lawyers that are friends and this and that. i had probably 25 guys over the course of a couple of months say, whatever you do, don t testify. because you ll say something that s a little bit off, and you will be indicted for lying, for perjury. these are evil people. these are sick, evil people. i think you have so much to do, you don t have time to get even. you only have time to get right. well, revenge does take time, i will say that. it does. sometimes revenge can be justified, but i have to be honest no. sometimes it can. revenge does take time.
This was this order. it posed an existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive. a sad reminder that there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy. this past weekend, the men who lost november s election continue to push the very lies that fueled the january 6th insurrection. we won so much and then we had a rigged election. democrats used covid to cheat, they illegally change the rules of the key states and mailed out millions, and millions of absentee ballots. how can so many people are still in jail over january six? of course, trump did not win the election, no evidence of widespread fraud or illegal activity was found. court case after court case that attempted to overturn legitimate results, tossed out. earlier on this network, one counter-terrorism expert warned of the threat of more violence