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morning joe. it is a busy monday, february 7th. with us we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico jonathan lemire. and national security expert, columnist at usa today , tom nichols joins us. the republican national committee is facing growing push back from some members of the party following a vote on friday to censer representatives liz cheney and adam kinzinger. the measure describes cheney and kinzinger as, quote, participating in a democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. several republicans, including senators mitt romney, bill cassidy and lisa murkowski along with maryland governor larry hogan either criticized or questioned the move to censure those two lawmakers. some members of the party are taking issue with the rnc s characterization of the capitol attack as legitimate political discourse. did you see legitimate political discourse that day? from my seat i did not ....
believe silencing rogan is the answer. the latest on the republican party tying itself closer and closer to former president trump. this morning we have brand-new sound from trump during an interview with the new york times jeremy peters in which he essentially lays the groundwork for the rnc s resolution that called the january 6th insurrection, quote, legitimate political discourse. even when rioters were calling to hang vice president mike pence. did it bother you to hear them say they wanted to kill pence? yes, i don t it did bother me. i didn t like it. i think it was an expression. i don t think they would have ever thought of doing it. i also think that there was an ill filtration with some very bad people in there, there was an infiltration. antifa? absolutely. we should make it clear, there was absolutely no evidence that anifa was involved on january 6th, but we re hearing all of this at time when former vice president pence has made his stron ....
democratic party chair demanding an investigation after some senior citizens say they were duped into changing their party affiliation. and aiming for gold, the first medals are handed out at the winter games. we re going to take you live. new day starts right now. take a nice deep breath as you get into your saturday morning. i hope you are still in your pjs. we clearly are not. good morning, boris. not in the pjs you see up here. the suit and tie stays on. that s a very good point. nobody knows what s going on. let s talk about what s happening with former vice president mike pence. he s calling out his former boss by name saying, quote, president trump is wrong in claiming he could overturn the 2020 election, meaning the vice president could do so. right. price has previously defended his actions on january 6th, though, trump has ramped up his push for the big lie. yesterday s remarks are pns s most forceful pushback yet. cnn s paula reid has the story. ....
plus the republican party formally censuring two of their own to get to the bottom of january 6th and party leaders sparking criticism after calling the events of that day legitimate political discourse. we knew they were coming after liz cheney and adam kinzinger, which is in addition to everything else completely undemocratic but the real shocker of course was trying to sanitize the mob violence and attempted coup on january 6th as legitimate political discourse. we are now the party of the big lie officially. plus a moment of defiance on the sidelines of the olympic games. russia s vladimir putin and chai into china s xi jinping showing a united front. how they blasted the u.s. and its allies over the standoff at the ukraine border. and controversy with cameras in the classroom and punishing violators including teacher. why critics say it s designed to censure and intimidate. good morning, everybody. it s saturday, february 5th. i m lindsey reiser. from c ....
democratic efforts to destroy president trump more than they support winning back republican support in 2022, end quote. at this surreal headline in today s paper, the party of lincoln and reagan now formally and publicly holds the position that the deadly mob of people trying to overthrow the u.s. government consisted of, quote, ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. in case you missed that. the official position of the rnc now is that legitimate political discourse is what happened on january 6th. a day in which resulted in the deaths of at least five police officers and multiple insurrectionists including one who was shot and died while attempting to forcibly breach a barricaded area of the capitol building. according to the rnc, legitimate political discourse now includes publicly chanting a desire to hang the former vice president mike pence. it also includes bringing a pre-constructed gallows along. i ve never seen a gallows in my life, not i ....