democrats panic is muzzled if poll numbers stay. there are big events, including donald trump s sentencing coming up shortly. john heilemann, we ll talk again in a little bit on morning joe. thanks for getting up way too early on this friday morning from atlanta. morning joe starts right now. i ll fix the taxes. we have a thousand trillionaires in america, i mean billionaires. what s happening? they, in fact, pay 8.2% taxes. if they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers, they ve raised $500 million billion dollars, i should say, in a ten-year period. wipe out the debt. we can help make sure all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i ve been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do look, if we finally beat medicare after you rallied your supporters that da
reporters who seem to be opinionizing as well. jedediah: it s important point. as you said, brian, he is not a right wing guy. he has his eyes open. old school journalists remember a time when there was strict. and then there was opinion. and now it must be really bizarre to be in this industry for so many years and seat landscape and how it s changed. he is being honest. president trump heightened all of this. everyone decided on day one they wanted him impeached. it s brave for him to say it i m sure is he going to take a lot of heat. he looked at his wife after that access hollywood tape came out. looked at the headline and said the times is committed to making sure this guy does not get elected. wow. jedediah: it s true. brian: 10 minutes after the hour jillian mealy by unanimous vote we have elected you to be the person to deliver the news. jillian: that s what it says in the teleprompter. good thing you are following along here.