The Morning Joe panel discusses NYT reporting on the Democrats' strategy for dealing with former President Trump. Reporter Michael Bender joins the discussion.
is a democrat from pennsylvania and a former impeachment manager. she joins me live now. congresswoman, as a former impeachment manager, what are you thinking when you hear about the scope of mark meadows efforts to help trump overthrow the election? wall street journal reporter michael bender writes in his new book that mark meadows had helped introduce trump to doj attorney jeffrey clark who was putting together to oust rosen the acting a.g. and force georgia to overturn his results. mark meadows seems to be integral to all of this, was he not? thank you for having me. i m joining you from my car. i apologize, we re in between summer storms here in pennsylvania in my district. i just left a roomful of montgomery county young democrats. they are so eager to learn more about what happened, what failed, who stepped up and served and who did not. so mark meadows, what a deep, deep disappointment. but you can see what happened here. as you pointed out in your reporting, this is his fou
still fervently support donald trump. an article adapted from his new book, wall street reporter michael bender provides a window into the dangerous, most cultish devotion to trump, the folks that follow him from rally to rally called front row joes. one, randall thom, a 60-year-old ex-marine with a long gray mustache, fell severely ill with congestion and refused to go to the hospital. he was a heavy smoker who was significantly overweight and knew he faced an increased risk from covid-19. still, he refused to take a coronavirus test and potentially increase the case load on trump s watch. i m not going to add to the numbers, he told me. he knew he could die but he didn t get tested so he wouldn t hurt trump s covid numbers. that man actually lived through that ordeal, but then tragically died months later driving home from a trump boat parade. edgar also spoke to a trump
military force to end the demonstrations. wall street journal reporter michael bender describing the heated exchange in his upcoming book frankly, we did win this election. according to bender, milley privately pushed back against trump s efforts, telling trump, he was an adviser and not in kmond. command. this kautzed the former president to lash out during a situation room meeting with other officials. trump shouted at milley, i said you re an f-ing in charge. well, i m not in charge milley yelled back before saying to others in the room, god dam it, there s lawyers in the room. will someone inform him of my legal responsibilities? he replied, he s right, mr. president. the general is right. we are also getting fresh insight into the trump administration chaotic response to the pandemic in a new book out today with the former president fretting about his reelection as he berates alex azar in mid-march. testing is killing me, trump
on his new book, vendor describes how crump trump claims he quote made juneteenth very famous after he was. is the book also notes trump told advisers he wished he d get a more aggressive response to the protests after george floyd s murder. and that he regretted supported his son-in-law jared kushner s push for criminal justice reform. bender writes that trump told one confidant quote, i ve done all this stuff for the blacks. it s always jared telling me to do this. and they all blank. hate me and none of them are going to vote for me . tonight we have yet more images of what happened during the january six infants insurrection, right desecration at our capital the. justice department release more evidence at the request of other news organizations. the feds say this clip shows a