good morning. happy new year. welcome to a special new year s day edition of morning joe. we re on tape this morning with some of our top, recent conversations. we begin with a discussion about donald trump s increasing use of authoritarian language in his speeches and social media posts. in recent months, trump has repeated fascist rhetoric, including saying immigrants are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country, and referring to his political enemies as vermin. we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the threat from outside forces is sinister, dangerous, and grave, more than the threat from within. donald trump echoing the words of 20th century authoritarians at a rally earlier this month. joining us now, national affairs analyst john heilemann. special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast, molly jong-fast. and co
the russia hoax. the daily mail is reporting that in 2016, just as theramped bureau ramped up crossfire, hurricane, the fbi shut downn fe four separate criminal investigatiocriminn into bill ao hillary clinton and the clinton foundation . in response, the clinton foundation laughably claimed there has never been anylinton evidence of wrongdoing . not only did the fbi and department of justice abuse their power and lie to thee public, they seem to be proude u of it.d there are no apologies afterapog the durham report, no resignationsiethe duru, no admif wrongdoing whatsoever. as i pointed out in an op ed as tote for fox news .com, the justice department cannotic and will not police itself. in the latest example, the fbi is still refusing to turn oversd an unclassified record alleging a criminal bribery scheme against joe biden despite a legally binding subpoena from congress today. chairman colmer once again demanded access to this subpoenaed material. but director wray is n
we ll see you tomorrow. now, it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. i hold in my hands the democrats secret plan to seize power from kevin mccarthy in the house of representatives. it has been hiding in the house of representatives since it was filed on january 30th, and today we discovered how this secret plan is supposed to work, and the secret agent, the secret legislative agent who introduced this plan, is gonna be my first guest tonight. america is going to find out who it was who planted this in the house of representatives, this being the device that can save the country from default for the first time in history. and alex, here s the great thing. i barely understand how this works. and you know from capitol hill yeah, here is the level that s at. when i read it, i understand it while the words are passing through my mind. i couldn t possibly then transfer that knowledge to another human being. but we re gonna do a version of
we ll see you tomorrow. now, it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. i ve got, for me, a very exciting segment coming up. i pulled my hands, the democrats secret plan to cease power from kevin mccarthy in the house of representatives. it says hr 626, so it doesn t look like a sacred document. it has been hiding in the house of representatives since it was filed on january 30th. yeah. and today, we discovered how this secret plan is supposed to work. and the secret agent, the secret legislative agent who introduced this plan is gonna be my first guest tonight. oh, that s great. we re gonna find out who it was, who planted this in the house of representatives, this being the device that can save the country from the fault for the first time in history. and, alex, here s the great thing. i barely understand how this works [laughter] and you know from capitol hill. yeah, here is the level that s at. when i r
joining us, eugene scott. have a great weekend, everybody. thank you for joining us way too early. morning joe starts right now. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. that conversation is the main reason a special grand jury in georgia is investigating election interference. yesterday, we got some of their report, and it reveals that the jurors believe that witnesses lied to them. and, somehow, the former president, donald trump, thinks this report exonerates him. we ll explain why that s not even close to being true. plus, the group trump famously told to stand back and stand by now wants to call him as a witness in its trial tied to january 6th. we ll have an update on senator fetterman, who is in walter reid for treatment of clinical depression. he checked himself in. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, february 17thment we have the host of way to early, politico s jonathan lemire.