Morning Joe 1/18/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.9 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The FBI is vetting all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into D.C. for the inauguration due to fears of an insider attack. Meanwhile, New Yorker footage shows new images of the chaos during the Capitol siege.

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0:00.0	The bottom line is that I believe Donald Trump would be an absolute utter disaster for the
0:04.6	Republican Party, destroy conservatism as we know it.
0:08.7	We would get wiped out and it would take generations to overcome a Trump candidacy.
0:12.8	It would destroy our party.
0:14.7	I hope the Republican senators know that because it is a reality and it will not help
0:19.6	the country the most important thing.
0:21.7	Impeaching him after he leads office will be disastrous for this country and our party.
0:27.6	So in 2016, Lindsay Graham said electing Donald Trump would destroy the Republican Party.
0:33.9	Preciant. Now he says convicting him would do the same.
0:37.2	It's interesting because Lindsay
0:39.3	at one point had said
0:41.3	maybe a week ago,
0:43.2	week and a half ago, after the riots,
0:46.5	after we find out
0:47.4	the rioters who were coming to kill
0:49.0	Mike Pence, the vice president of the United
0:51.4	States, and we're
0:52.4	coming to kill Nancy Pelosi.
0:55.1	And in fact, we have news that they were only minutes away, possibly seconds away, from running into Mike Pence, getting Mike Pence and doing serious bodily damage to him, possibly killing him, his family. And now Lindsay is saying,
1:13.9	wait a second, I just don't impeach him. Please don't impeach him. But after Mike Pence and
1:20.8	Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress's lives are on the line, Lindsay said, I'm off this.
1:26.8	I'm done. I'm done with this. I'm done
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