which reportedly captured donald trump telling michigan officials not to certify the 2020 election results. we re going to dig into that explosive, new reporting. plus, as trump continues to double down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric, a recent poll shows republican voters say that his racist language makes them more likely to vote for him. also ahead, america s mayor is broke. rudy giuliani filed for bankruptcy just days after being ordered to pay $146 million in his defamation case. and regrets, he s had a few. what republican presidential candidate ron desantis is saying is the one thing he wishes he could change about the gop primary. here s a hint, it s not anything that he did. good morning. welcome to morning joe. i m jonathan lemire, along with the bbc s katty kay, in for joe, mika, and willie. with us, we have former white house director of communications to president obama, our friend, jennifer palmieri. also the co-host of the podcast, how to win 2024. y
conversation. i will be sharing it with you with little bits all this weekend. michigan is a state that has been a key battleground for several election cycles now. this year is no different. even though it s not a presidential election year, and neither of the states two u.s. senators are up for election, there are outcomes of several races here that will have huge implications in the years to come, especially for the 2024 presidential election. for one thing, democrats hold a very slim majority in congress. the senate, as you know, evenly split. 50/50. in the house of representatives, democrats only have an eight seat advantage over republicans going into election day. right now, michigan has an even number of democratic and republican representatives in the house. seven representatives each, but due to redistricting, michigan has lost one district, which means one party is certain to lose at least one of its seats in congress. on top of that, four of the most competitive h
as a progressive place. then there s the future of democracy itself today, with the republican party, in some places like arizona, deciding through its voters tonight whether the party s nominees for top jobs are backers of the big lie of baseless election fraud claims, of attacks on the way we do nonpartisan democracy in this country, with trump encoursed candidates currently viewed as front-runners, including a maga governor candidate who s pushing claims of fraud, kari lake. those who do stand up to trump, including three who threatened to voted to impeach president trump. there s more at stake than a typical primary night, and a lot more issues. as the political guru s de la soul put it, issues close like an elevator door but open once we get to the next floor. as the stakes is high, you know the stakes is high. fact check, true. the stakes is high. it is primary election day in missouri, and several high profile races could help bring voter out to the polls. histor
going to ritual actively declassified, or whatever i took home had the effect of the declassifying them, is absurd, the nonetheless, the statutes, the justice department are asserting in the search warrant, don t even require that they still be classified if they would be damaging to national security. it s a problem. would isn t arguably a problem, that any former president would handle such sensitive documents the way trump reportedly has. nbc news shedding light on how trump s final days and office led the fbi to his florida resort. trump was so convinced, so convinced he had won the 2020 election, they flat out refused to pack up the white house until the very last minute. one source tells us that everything in a box was dumped into a room at mar-a-lago. security video of that room eventually obtained by the doj through subpoena. a person familiar told the new york times the footage showed boxes moving in and out after the doj had been in touch. as for trump himself, he
in a way that i don t think fact checks are going to be all that effective at doing. yeah, it does seem that s what he s modeling himself after, indeed, the trump the trump performance on the stage. tim, here is how a new hampshire voter took senator tim scott to task and how tim scott responded, because he s an elected official and this surprised some about the do s and don ts of detail politics. you don t stand up to trump, how are you going to stand up to the president of russia and china? i think the truth is, it s not standing up to trump. you re avoiding standing up for his past. you don t have you don t want to lose his votes, i get you. the premise of the question is, why don t you stand up to trump? you re just wrong that i don t. i didn t hear you the other night saying i can t accept him as president. do you want to have a