happy saturday. happy saturday. everybody. welcome to morning joe weekend, it was another busy week. crazy week. well, this week, on monday it felt like it should ve been friday. there was a major shake up. it felt like it should ve been thursday. on fox news, president biden officially launching his reelection campaign. we ll get into all of that, plus some of the week s other top stories, take a look. the new york times has new reporting on fox s firing of tucker carlson. two sources tell the times a day before the start of the dominion defamation trial against the network. the fox sport of directors and top executives learned about private messages sent by carlson that had been redacted in legal filings. according to the sources, the redacted material contained highly offensive and crude remarks that went beyond the inflammatory, often racist comments of his primetime show and anything disclosed in the lead up to the trial. well, go ahead. let s dissect what
politicsnation. tonight s lead, 100 days to election. a lot is on the line. who will take control? right now, america s going towards a milestone election. the culmination of a mid term cycle defying uncertainty of over the economic shocks still really roaring or nation. over the supreme s court decision overturning roe versus wade. and the political upheaval still playing out over a year after the january 6th insurrection. the struggle is real for democrats trying to hold on to their majorities in the senate, and in congress. both of which hanging by a thread while the biden administration has to fight off out from midterms, trying to promote its and the parties considerable accomplishments despite the president s dismal approval ratings. the injuring influence of president trump and his big lie on the republican side. hanging in the balance, the future of the congressional january 6th investigation, republicans having vowed to dissolve it, along with the biden legacy to
police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and
Allegation that trump abused his power as president by asking ukraine for investigations while withholding congressionally approved aid. Managers spoke for almost eight hours in the end. Here is some of what the 100 senators who make up the jury in this case heard on thursday. President trump has placed his own personal political interests first. Acting on the president s orders, u. S. Diplomats, including ambassador sondland, and ambassador volker, worked with mr. Giuliani to continue pressuring ukraine to announce the phoney investigations. Neither investigation solicited by President Trump had anything to do with promoting u. S. Foreign policy or u. S. National security. Does anybody really question whether the president is capable of what hes charged with . No one is really making the argument, donald trump would never do such a thing. Because, of course, we know that he would, and, of course, we know that he did. You may be asking, how much damage can he really do in the next seve
Disgusting. It was not the thoughtful presentation from President Trump with putin next to him, and not forceful at all. And the big question that we are asking today is, is the president listening to the tidal wave of criticism from his own party . Nbcs hans nichols is at the white house, and ashley is a political analyst, and Kimberly Atkins from the brld and msnbc contributor and jake sherman a Senior Writer for politico. And before we go, i want to play two sound bites for you. And one is the president yesterday calling this whole investigation, this Mueller Investigation, the investigation into russia a witch hunt while he is standing next to Vladimir Putin. Listen. We have had a phony witch hunt deal drive us apart. This is the biggest wedge. This is the biggest wedge. It is the thing that he told me when he went in, and he said, what a shame. He felt it was very hard for me to make a deal. Because of, you know, all of this nonsense, and much of the case. And he used the word non