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,
For. it s unmistakable, i ll go with peggy noonan s word, the normy republicans,sununu, d terrific. those who were deniers, peter meyer in michigan, you know, an old school conservative for sure, republican in grand rapids, that he got defeated by an election denier who bought into some of the crazy conspiracies about hillary because trump was offended that meyer voted for impeachment. okay, look what happened. the ds pick up the seat that otherwise would have been meyer s for as long as he wanted to serve in the congress. make sure you re answering the poll question at smerconish.com. an interesting one. i pushed selena zito at the outset. she wasn t sure of the answer. can donald trump win a gop nomination without the support of the conservative media? because many of them this week jumped ship. still to come, speaking of all this election data, what happened to the midterm red