Morning Joe 12/7/22

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Democratic Sen. Warnock defeats Republican Walker in Georgia runoff

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0:00.0	A hard fought campaign.
0:05.0	Or should I say campaigns?
0:15.0	It is my honor to utter the four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy.
0:28.6	The people have spoken.
0:32.6	The 118th United States Congress is now complete.
0:40.3	Incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock re-elected, giving Democrats an outright Senate majority,
0:46.3	51 seats, and doing away with the power sharing agreement between the two parties.
0:52.3	Steve Kornacki is standing by at the big board for how the vote
0:56.1	played out. And we'll discuss what this means for the state of the Republican Party, what it
1:03.2	means for Congress, what it tells us about the state of Georgia and Donald Trump's influence
1:09.3	on U.S. politics.
1:10.8	We're also following the latest legal drama involving the former president.
1:14.7	The Trump organization found guilty of criminal tax fraud.
1:19.2	The DOJ's special counsel investigating the 2020 election, subpoenas local officials in key swing states seeking information on Trump and his failed campaign.
1:30.6	And the House Select Committee investigating January 6th could soon be moving forward with criminal
1:37.0	referrals. Wow. A bad day for Trump, a good day for democracy, I guess, and an incredible speech by Herschel Walker. Good
1:47.0	morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It's Wednesday, December 7th. With us, we have former aid to the
1:52.7	George W. Bush White House and State Department's Elise Jordan back with us. She's an MSNBC political
1:58.1	analyst. Member of the New York Times editorial board, Mara Gay, joins us and the host of way too early. White House peer chief at Politico, Jonathan Lamar, Willie. He doesn't stop, Lamar. He just doesn't stop. But at least, but there's so much news. What an incredible night in politics. An incredible night in Georgia, it's the race we've been talking about for more than a year,
2:17.7	and we have a decision. After one competitive primary, two general elections, two runoffs,
2:22.8	Senator Raphael Warnock has won a full six-year term in the United States Senate. The incumbent
2:28.0	Democrat beat Republican challenger Herschel Walker for that last Senate seat of the midterm cycle.
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