Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe.

It is Monday, March 22nd.

With us on this Monday morning, we have White House reporter for the Associated Press,

Jonathan Lemire, the host of MSNBC's Politics Nation and president of the National Action Network, Reverend Al Sharpton, joins us.

Staff writer at The Atlantic Magazine, and author of the book, Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum joins us this morning.

Also with us, U.S. national editor at the Financial Times, Ed Luce. And we begin this morning with the

official who led the Justice Department's investigation of the January 6th Capitol Riot,

now saying the evidence supports charges of sedition. In a 60-minute's interview that aired last night, Michael Sherwin, the interim U.S. attorney who

stepped down from the investigation on Friday, was asked why more people weren't being charged

with sedition and whether prosecutors are looking into former President Trump's role in the

riot. Take a look.

Seems like a very low bar, and I wonder why you're not charging that now.

Okay, so I don't think it's a low bar, Scott, but I will tell you this.

I personally believe the evidence is trending towards that and probably meets those elements.

Do you anticipate sedition charges against some of these suspects?

I believe the facts do support those charges.

And I think that as we go forward, more facts will support that, Scott.

Has the role of former President Trump been part of your investigation? Well, we have soccer moms from Ohio that were arrested saying, well, I did this because my president said I had to take back our house.

That moves the needle towards that direction.

Maybe the president is culpable for those actions.

But also, you see in the public record, too, militia members saying,

you know what? We did this because Trump just talks a big game. He's just all talk. We did what he wouldn't do. In short, you have investigators looking into the president's role. We have people

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