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Morning Joe

Morning Joe 8/18/23

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

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Barr says federal cases 'legitimate', predicts conviction by next summer

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0:00.0

I resigned on December 14th because I thought, at that point, the state votes were certified

0:06.7

and that was the end of the legal process, and I also didn't like the way he was spouting

0:13.0

the big lie.

0:14.0

I thought that was irresponsible, but he took it much further than even I expected, or

0:19.6

anyone expected.

0:20.6

And during this time, he was being told by lawyers in the White House that if he kept

0:25.1

on doing this, he would spend the rest of his life tangling with the criminal justice

0:29.4

process.

0:30.4

And that's exactly what's happened.

0:32.3

He shouldn't be surprised, and no one else should be surprised.

0:36.1

He should be surprised, nobody else should be surprised, anybody that has followed this

0:41.0

story at all, unless they're reading about it on, I don't know, a website's run by Chinese

0:48.4

cults would know that that everybody around Donald Trump warned him at the time, if you

0:54.3

do this, if you keep moving forward, you are going to be fighting the law for the rest

1:00.0

of your life.

1:01.0

That was former Attorney General Bill Barr, knowing something about that, making it clear

1:06.0

that Donald Trump is nobody to blame but himself for his many legal troubles.

1:12.0

Because he was warned all along that all of this could happen.

1:16.0

Good morning, welcome, morning, Joe, I wouldn't jump right into here, of course.

1:19.6

It's Friday, August the 18th, and we've got the host of Way Too Early White House Bureau

1:23.4

chief at Politico, Jonathan Lumir, former White House press secretary under President

1:27.6

Biden, now an MSNBC host, Jen Psaki, and former White House press secretary under President

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