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Morning Joe

Morning Joe 2/16/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is doubling down on calls for a 9/11-style commission on the Capitol attack, following the impeachment and acquittal of former President Donald Trump. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

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0:00.0

The fact the matter is, this didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me.

0:05.0

I mean, armed, when you think of armed, don't you think of firearms?

0:09.0

Here's the questions I would have liked to ask.

0:12.0

How many firearms were confiscated?

0:14.0

How many shots were fired?

0:16.0

I'm only aware of one.

0:17.0

If that was a planned armsurrection, man, you're really a bunch of idiots. I'm sitting back in my office watching video of the, if that was a planned arms direction, man, you, you're really a bunch of idiots. I'm

0:22.0

sitting back in my office watching video of the armed insurrections staying within the

0:27.2

lines inside the Capitol. I'm seeing a bunch of people milling about. You know, it wasn't until I

0:33.2

really saw the video in the trial that you really saw, you know, what was happening and

0:39.4

and how officers got, got injured. To call that an armed insurrection, it was the most pitiful

0:48.7

armed correction anybody could ever possibly imagine. I mean, the one guy in the Senate chambers

0:53.7

there, he had plastic risk ties.

0:56.5

You know, what was he expected to do?

0:57.5

Literally go up to Mike Pence and capture him.

1:01.5

Right.

1:01.8

Take him under arrest.

1:02.6

Citizens arrest.

1:03.2

It's absurd.

1:06.8

That was Republican, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, questioning whether an armed insurrection even happened on January 6th.

1:16.6

Just to remind people, police recovered a dozen guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from seven people who were arrested over their involvement in the riot at the Capitol that

1:28.5

left at least five people dead. Senator Johnson should read his own state's paper, the Milwaukee

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