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branch to bear on this issue. eddie glaude jr., we deeply appreciate you being here today. it was 365 days ago when we saw an attack on the u.s. capitol and the attack of this heart of this nation s democracy, we ll be remembering it all day today on msnbc. thank you for waking up way too early with us, thursday morning, january 6th, morning joe starts right now. democrats are hopeless, they never voted for anything. not even one vote. we ll try and give our republicans, the weak ones, we ll try to give them the kind of pride and boldness they need to take back our country. let s walk down pennsylvania avenue, i want to thank you all, god bless you and god bless america. the president bares responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have denounced the mob when he saw it unfolding. quell the brewing unrest and ensure president-elect biden is able to successfully bin his term. when i talk to president trump, i was the first perso ....
votes of states, among them sean hannity. what do we know? reporter: clearly the committee thinks sean hannity has a direct line, a direct amount of information that would give very colorful detail about what was goings-on within the white house and what was going on in trump s mind in this lead up to january 6th. trump s mindset is a critical fact pattern here that the committee has to establish. that s why they re going to these people who they really think can understand and articulate how the president was thinking, what he was intending to do leading up to january 6. the committee released a list of text messages. here are a few of them we can pull up on a full screen. among them are hannity saying things like this, can he make a statement? ask people to leave the capitol. this is between sean hannity and mark meadows on january 6th. another example of something we ve talked a lot about, which is there were tons of people in the trump orbit begging mark meadows t ....
i kind of take offense to that. because what if one of your white anchors said, well, white people eat this on new year s day? i don t think it was appropriate that she said that. she was being very asian and, i don t know. she can keep her korean to herself. wow. cari? ridiculous. ridiculous. and, by the way, i think kudos to michelle. i know this story very well. she played that because it is ridiculous, and i m sure it s not the first time she heard this in her career, as a woman of color. trust me, i know. i d like to add, for the record, i, too, loved black-eyed peas for new year s day because it is good for you. this woman made it about her. you do tell me what you d like to eat. that s fine. but good for michelle. i love the way in which the hashtag very asian became something positive, in the way people responded. it is unfortunate we live in a day and age where we can t say what we like culturally, and it becomes a versus type of situation. and it is sad. ....
many drivers. now the virginia department of transportation says some vehicles have been stuck since monday morning after a major snowstorm hit the area. and virginia senator tim kaine is among those trapped on the interstate. just moments ago, he tweeted this photo behind a tractor trailer saying he started his normally two-hour drive to d.c. yesterday at 1:00 p.m. and 19 hours later, he is still not near the capitol. pete muntean has more on this, and, pete, as we hear from the senator and countless others who are calling in, and just maddening that they have been there for so many hours, do these drivers know how much longer they re going to be stuck there? the situation is getting pretty desperate. 48 mile shutdown. we know people have been there in some cases for 15 hours. this stretches throughout three counties in northern virginia, stafford, prince william and caroline county. some drivers have been there so long, they have run out of gas. now, virginia s depa ....
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