and the fda considers emergency approval of a new anti-viral drug. and a remarkable story of espionage, nuclear secrets, and peanut butter sandwiches as the fbi accuses a u.s. nuclear engineer and his wife of plotting to pass state secrets to foreign government sources. welcome to meet the press daily . i m garrett haake in for chuck todd. the last 48 hours have been a sobering reminder about the current state of politics in america and the unstable future that lice ahead for us. it s not just that republicans in congress and across the country have acquiesced to trump, despite him losing the election. it s what they seem to be acquiescing to. that the future of the party rests with lies and misinformation like this. the election was a fraud. if we want to save our country and make america great again, we have only one choice. we must elect strong and unyielding america first republicans at every level, and we must pass a complete overhaul of our entire election system t
you can second it, right? make the motion to impeach president biden. go ahead. it s your turn. you second it. no, nothing? okay. we have nothing. with my last couple minutes, i want to show the american people that they re never going to impeach joe biden. it s never going to happen. because they don t have the evidence, okay? this is a show. it s all fake. they just want to do these hearings. it s not leading to impeachment. they re lying to their base on newsmax, on fox, leading these people to believe that they re going to eventually impeach the president. it s not going to happen. at all, ever. period. they don t even have the votes even if they had it in committee. they don t have the votes on the floor. they know that. they have members resigning rather than taking a vote on the fake foe impeachment. ask ken buck who said the speaker ain t going to get me to take an unconstitutional impeachment vote. jared moskowitz challenging house republicans to hold a vote on pre
fantastic job, i have to tell you. fantastic job. but it s a very sad experience, and it is a very sad day for our country. donald trump talking about his arrest last night in fulton county. he s now officially inmate number pz1135809. we ll have all the new developments out of georgia. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, august 25th. for the first time in american history, a former president of the united states has taken a mug shot. donald trump surrendered at the fulton county jail yesterday where he was given an inmate number and fingerprinted. he was weighed. trump was processed on 13 felony charges over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the former president was released on $200,000 bond shortly after. he is now using his mug shot to solicit campaign donations. on x, formerly twitter, trump posted the mug shot and links to his website. the campaign is selling shirts saying, never surrender, with the picture on it, even th
i m joe. it s really great that you ve chosen to be with us on this first of our hopefully many shows ahead. that was some kind of debate last night, but nikki haley had some moments. she did. there was another moment, willie, where she basically said, let s stop lying to everybody. it s not joe biden that caused the deficit. it s not joe biden that caused the debt. it was donald trump. you went along with it and said nothing. it was a fascinating debate. ramaswamy was insulting everybody. everybody is bought and paid for. what i found in politics is, when you have somebody going around the stage saying everybody is bought and paid for, they re the one who is bought and paid for. but he reminded me of tracy flick in the old movie about politics. reese witherspoon, yeah. yeah, reese witherspoon. as tracy flick. just this little kid going around, trying to say the right lines and do the right things. everything was so prepackaged. everything. there wasn t a conspiracy theor
happened. he shouldn t be surprised and no one else should be surprised. he shouldn t be surprised, nobody else should be surprised, anybody that has followed this story at all, unless they re reading about it on, i don t know, websites run by chinese cults, would know that. everybody around donald trump warned him at the time, if you do this, if you keep moving forward, you are going to be fighting the law for the rest of your life. that was former attorney general bill barr, knowing something about that, making it clear that donald trump has nobody to blame but himself for his many legal troubles because he was warned all along that all of this could happen. good morning. welcome to morning joe. i want to jump right in here. it s friday, august 18th. we ve got the host of way too early white house bureau chief jonathan lemire, former white house press secretary under president biden, now a host, jen psaki and former white house press secretary under president obama ro