Morning Joe 2/15/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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3.9 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Senate on Saturday voted to acquit former President Donald Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection despite significant Republican support for conviction. The Morning Joe panel discusses the 57 to 43 vote.

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0:00.0	After he's out of office, you go and arrest him.
0:04.0	So there is no opportunity where the President of the United States can run rampant in January,
0:11.0	at the end of his term, and just go away, Scott Free.
0:14.0	The Department of Justice does know what to do with such people.
0:18.0	President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office as an ordinary
0:25.0	citizen.
0:26.4	Unless the statute of limitations is run, still liable for everything he did while he's in
0:32.1	office.
0:33.8	Didn't get away with anything yet.
0:39.3	Yet. We have a criminal justice system in this country.
0:43.3	We have civil litigation.
0:46.3	And former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one.
0:51.3	Good morning.
0:52.3	Welcome to Morning Joe, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with the not-so-settled
0:56.5	suggestion. There are still other paths to hold former President Trump accountable despite his
1:01.5	acquittal on Saturday, something even one of President Trump's lawyers pointed out during the
1:06.0	trial. This morning, we will look into possible criminal in several charges, what those could be.
1:11.7	This comes after the United States Senate did acquit former President Trump for a second time this past weekend,
1:17.5	a 57-43 verdict that was 10 votes short of the 67, two-thirds majority needed to convict.
1:25.4	Seven Republicans did vote to convict. We will to dig into what the
1:29.7	future holds for those seven Republicans who are already feeling heat from a Republican Party,
1:34.7	still grappling with whether Donald Trump will be its leader. And what the end of the impeachment
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