starts right now. today was the deadline for donald trump s legal team to file their brief with the senate for trump s upcoming impeachment trial. and it looks like trump s lawyers will be arguing that the trial is unconstitutional because trump is no longer president. i m going to use this. i m going to use this next time a cop pulls me over. i m going to be like, well, i m no longer speeding. i was. i was. i m 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 trump s second impeachment trial kicks off next week. and according to the case against him, the former president s role in t
polo sandoval in pittsburgh, pete muntean at reagan international airport and jennifer gray with the forecast. polo, how is it now? reporter: we ve seen it come down since yesterday. couple of pauses overnight but continues to come down. the national weather service snow totals around the area of western pennsylvania, parts of ohio, some communities that received perhaps half a foot of snow and the forecast calls for still a couple more inches on top of that. when it comes to the municipalities and various cities, they have working through the night to make sure the roads remain clear and this morning on a monday it s really not the typical monday morning rush hour that you might expect and roads and highways obviously the holiday has something to do with that. some folks are out and about but officials are hoping that is kept to a minimum. when it comes to pittsburgh, city officials received criticism about the way they responded to a recent winter storm and the mayor sayi
6th but condoning his conduct voting to acquit and opposing and working to rally more sort for the january 6th commission to investigate. we want to play for you his comments about the investigation and the work it sit out to do back in may so we can note together the change in tone we saw right there today? as everybody surely knows i repeatedly made my views about the events of january 6th very clear. it is not at all clear what new facts or official investigation yet another commission could actually lay on top of existing efforts by law enforcement and congress. hmm. so he said there it s not at all clear what new facts or additional investigation yet another commission could lay on top of existing efforts by law enforcement and congress. that was mcconnell back in may. yet today, maybe coincidentally on the heels of those dramatic revelations revealed this week from the select committee thanks to documents, especially those text messages turned over by exwhite house
drugs? the agents never found any. and back onshore no one could find a missing young mother either. was there a connection? i was afraid for her. lynne was just months away from her wedding when she vanished, leaving behind a young son and a mystery. any sign that someone had broken in and abducted her? no. the search continued on land and at sea. no bag, no body, no case? i didn t have anything that would show she was actually dead. decades go by and the mystery is almost forgotten, but not by everyone. they knew he was the bad guy. they just couldn t put him in jail. all they needed was a miracle or a witness. it wasn t april fool s. it was a body. hello and welcome to dateline. a devoted mother with wedding plans seemingly vanished into thin air. florida police suspected foul play. but with no body, no witnesses, no crime scene, this investigation went cold. then a new prosecutor was determined to find out was this the story of a runaway bride or
how effective the existing vaccines are going to be against them. according to the president, the unknowns are exactly why it is too early to overreact calling for time to let the data and emerge and the science to led. today there are three messages about varnt i want to family to hear. first, this variant is a cause for concern new york of the a cause for panic. we have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, the best scientists, and we are learning more every single day. and we will fight this variant with scientific and knowledgeable actions and speed. not chaos and confusion. we have more tools today to fight the variant than we have ever had before. from vaccines to boosters, to vaccines for children, 5 years and older, and much more. while we have that travel restrictions can slow the speed of omicron, it cannot prevent it. but here s what it does. it gives us time, time to take more actions, to move quicker, and to make sure people understand you have to