Joe to Mike Johnson: Tell Trump he’s wrong, the federal government doesn’t run elections
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What the president was referring to is the SAVE Act, which is a huge common sense piece of legislation that Republicans have supported that President Trump is committed to signing into law. |
| 0:11.6 | But to be clear, he does believe the state should oversee law. |
| 0:15.0 | The president believes in the United States Constitution. However, he believes there has obviously been a lot of fraud and irregularities |
| 0:21.9 | that have taken place in American elections. And again, voter ID is a highly popular in common |
| 0:27.4 | sense policy that the president wants to pursue and he wants to pass legislation to make that |
| 0:32.5 | happen for all states across the country. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt trying to explain what President Trump meant when |
| 0:41.0 | he said on Monday that the federal government should take over elections in several states. |
| 0:45.9 | But the president would undercut all of that a few hours later, ranting in the Oval Office about |
| 0:52.4 | false claims of election fraud and telling reporters |
| 0:55.6 | that the federal government should get involved. |
| 0:58.0 | I can't do that. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.9 | So there's this little piece of paper called the United States Constitution. |
| 1:07.5 | And somebody in there should read it. |
| 1:09.8 | Little Mike Johnson should read it as well because Mikey now is starting to kind of feed into this brewing sort of scheme. |
| 1:20.8 | The White House is getting engaged in and talking about trying to overthrow elections in the fall |
| 1:28.7 | by shredding the Constitution? |
| 1:31.1 | Details, details. |
| 1:32.3 | We'll get into it in a little bit. |
| 1:33.7 | Yes. |
| 1:34.2 | Plus, we'll hear from people whose lives have been forever changed |
| 1:38.1 | by the Trump administration's aggressive ICE operations. |
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