OK, I'll do this. I'm going to do this. Let's go. But this election is now over. Congress has certified the results. I don't want to say the elections over. I just want to say

Congress has certified the results without saying the elections over. OK.

But Congress is now Congress. Yeah, right now Congress. I didn't say over. So let's let me see. Don't go to the paragraph before.

Hours after the deadly insurrection, Donald Trump still refused to admit the election was over those lies and all the ensuing damage inflicted on the country are now at the center of the new criminal case facing the ex president of the United States who is a candidate.

To be the next president of the United States. Good morning and welcome to morning Joe. It is Wednesday, August 2nd, the month of August coming in like a lion. Let's dive right into yesterday's unprecedented events out of Washington where former president Donald Trump who took an oath to preserve protect and defend the United States Constitution has been indicted for allegedly trying to subvert that very same document.

A federal grand jury convened by special counsel Jack Smith voted to charge the president for his alleged efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election.

The 45 page indictment lays out four felony charges against Trump. They are conspiracy to defraud the United States conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Trump is scheduled to make his first court appearance in the new case tomorrow at 4 p.m. in Washington.

Special counsel Smith spoke about the case after the indictment was unsealed and emphasized the seriousness of the charges.

The attack on our nation's capital on January 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.

It is described in the indictment it was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government, the nation's process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election.

Joe, we're going to dig deeper into all of these charges, the potential jail time that comes with all of these charges. But as people think back to January 6th, 2021, two and a half years ago, the way they felt, watching people storm into the capital, the way they felt, not hearing from the president of the United States to stop it, the way they felt, watching cops get beaten up with American flags, just as his patience.

And here it is, a 45 page indictment that shows the bill now has come due for that day.

Yeah, the wills of justice grind slowly, but they, they, they grind finally. Yeah, and we have, by the way, we have Jen Socky, Michael Bachelors, Chuck Rosenberg, Kindle Laney, and George Conway, Mike Barnacle, John Meacham, Claire MacAscal, Andrew Weissman, David French Al Sharpton.

I mean, you go down the list, Bob Woodward, Joyce Vance, Michael Schmidt, Neil Cartiel, Erie Melber, John Haim. We have so many people here today to talk.

About what certainly is the most important criminal case in the history of his great republic.

Well, you know, it's so easy, Mika, and Willie, we, we do this every day, and we see the lies.

And we, we see Republicans, unfortunately, and people on the Trump right in media just lying, going along with him and lying.

And it's very discouraging. What stood out to me, though, reading this 45-page document, is it far from being a democratic conspiracy against Donald Trump?

It is a document all 45 pages filled with not only Republicans that supported Donald Trump and voted for Donald Trump, but people whose lives depended on him winning the election.

Who would have been richer, more powerful, more connected, had he been elected? And these are the people, time and time again, that Jack Smith drew evidence from.

Got evidence from. And it is astounding, Willie, I go through this document, and I see he's just throwing things against the wall, one lie after another constantly.

And time and time again, it's not a liberal saying, no, that's not true, Mr. President. It's not an editorial page editor for the New York Times saying that.

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