Amazing. That guy is really bringing great work. These are regular American People who are disaffected and frustrated. I remember seeing this with al qaeda. And the taliban. Now, they dont have the same literacy curve that we hear, the exposure, the information and all that, which makes it even worse that people can fall for it, but they can. They can be, like, i support trump, you support trump and these people are trying to get him and heres how. One step and another step. And now the Republican Party is saying to people in their ranks, its okay to listen to these guys. Yeah. Its okay. Yeah. Well, you are what you eat. And its im serious. I cant explain to you i dont even have the words to tell you just how outraged i am and how just infuriating and frustrating the level of hypocrisy is right now. Were not talking about were not talki ing about fire brands. Right . There are fire brands in the Republican Party. There are fire brands in the democratic party. They say things that are p
Joining us this hour. Heres an interesting thing. Sort of a personal thing, but also a news thing. Right before President Trump was impeached the first time, i published a book called blow out and the weird surprising to me thing about blow out is that tended up being oddly well timed. I had no idea it was going to be well timed when i set out to write it, but thats how it landed. It was a book about the Oil And Gas Industry and the political power and geopolitical power of that industry. And a big chunk of that book was about all of the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine. And of course, then, right at the time the book came out, all the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine ended up being the setting, like the Playing Field for what President Trump got impeached for the first time he got impeached. I did not intend it to land that way. It was fortuitous and i hope helpful to people trying to figure out that landscape while we were looking at that first impeachment. Now, of course, mr.
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,
Ties to extremists linked to the insurrection at the capitol still has room for liz cheney, a conservative stalwart, who had the audacity to hold donald trump accountable for the incitement of the riots in january 6th. Also on the line today, who will have the fortitude to go on the record against the real threat, a Conspiracy Theorist in its own ranks. Right now the republican conference is behind the closed doors ahead on a vote tomorrow to remove congresswoman greene from her Committee Appointments. A woman who is dubious about whether the attacks on 9 11 were real, endorsed calls to assassinate barack obama, nancy pelosi, and hillary clinton. House Republican Leaders Kevin Mccarthy, for one, is reportedly feeling torn at this hour between cheney, a former State Department official, the daughter of conservative former Vice President dick cheney on one side, and a member of congress, Claire Mccaskill refers to as the q aknown lady. Reports of what went down inside the room. Mccarthy
i called my mom. she got a scholarship to the first one. we are done, we are done. you are going to that school. you are fine. we are going to go for the break. the kids have been denying so many memories and we see family a lot. don and i we see each other s families all the time. i saw your wife and son today. why is he wearing leg weights? how crazy. he s wearing ankle weights around because it is going to make him jack. looks like a bean pole. it is not going to happen. when i was his age, i would take weight gain powder and my mom said to me, one day you are going to regret that. and now i need weight loss powder it will come in time, mario, relax. he s built like tarzan. he s got his mother s genes. i had latasha. i know what they want. they want me to be on angry and outraged of what ron johnson says. that bothered me. the combination of saying i don t need the vaccine, i have covid and saying there is nothing about race when i say that white rioters don t