Morning Joe 12/13/22
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A beautiful shot of Washington, D.C. this morning. |
| 0:09.7 | Six o'clock on the East Coast, conspiracy theories, a plea for martial law and other plots to overturn the election. |
| 0:17.8 | We are learning a lot more this morning about what dozens of Republican |
| 0:22.0 | lawmakers were reportedly texting to Donald Trump's chief of staff in the days and weeks leading |
| 0:28.3 | up to the January 6th insurrection. Meanwhile, the special counsel investigating former president |
| 0:34.5 | Donald Trump at the Justice Department wants documents from |
| 0:38.2 | election officials in Georgia and a handful of other states. Plus, Marjorie Taylor Green |
| 0:44.7 | downplays her latest comments about the insurrection as Republicans mostly stay silent about |
| 0:52.1 | that. And on Capitol Hill, senators are trying to buy themselves some |
| 0:55.7 | time to avoid a government shutdown. We'll have more on their stopgap plan. Also ahead this |
| 1:02.7 | morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci joins us as he wraps up five decades of public service. A lot to talk with him about this morning. A lot of questions for him. |
| 1:14.6 | Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Tuesday, December 13th. Joe is off along with Willie |
| 1:19.6 | and me. We have former White House Communications Director under President Obama, Jen Paul Mary. |
| 1:25.1 | She's co-host of Showtimes, The Circus. host of way too early White House Bureau of Chief at Politico, Jonathan Lemire, and MSNBC contributor Mike Barnacle joins us this morning. And Willie, we start this morning with the Mark Meadows text messages. Boy, he was receiving a lot of them from members of Congress, the president's |
| 1:46.0 | chief of staff. Yeah, shocking stuff here, perhaps not surprising, but it remains shocking. |
| 1:51.0 | Nearly two years after the January 6th insurrection, thousands of previously unseen text |
| 1:56.1 | messages are revealing the lengths to which Republican lawmakers went in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. |
| 2:03.4 | Talking Points memo has obtained 2,319 texts that were turned over to the House January 6th Committee earlier this year |
| 2:10.7 | by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. |
| 2:13.8 | They show Meadows in conversation with at least 34 Republican members of Congress, with many of those lawmakers sharing debunked conspiracy theories about a stolen election in order to help then-president Donald Trump stay in office. |
| 2:26.7 | In one text sent to Meadows just three days before Joe Biden's inauguration, South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman writes, quote, |
| 2:37.4 | Our Last Hope is invoking martial law. |
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