Morning Joe 8/4/23
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ultimately, what President Trump said is, let's go with option D. Let's just halt, let's |
| 0:06.7 | just pause the voting and allow the state legislatures to take one last look and make |
| 0:11.8 | a determination as to whether or not the elections were handled fairly. That's constitutional |
| 0:17.4 | law, that's not an issue of criminal activity. |
| 0:20.7 | That's actually the mission. |
| 0:23.3 | You can say something is not criminal, but that doesn't make it true. That's Donald Trump's |
| 0:28.7 | attorney in the 2020 election case, seeming to admit that the former president did exactly |
| 0:34.6 | what he is accused of doing. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, all he wanted to do is impede, like, the counting of electoral votes, all he wanted |
| 0:45.2 | to do is impede a process that's, well, it's stated there in the Constitution, that's |
| 0:52.7 | all he wanted. |
| 0:53.7 | I'll be like a bankrupt and say, all I wanted to do is rob a bet. |
| 0:57.2 | Take all the money. |
| 0:58.2 | I mean, this is exactly what he's charged for, and he admitted it. |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah, you know, watching Mr. Loro and political defenders, like Lindsey Graham will talk |
| 1:08.8 | about him in a minute, attempt to defend Donald Trump over the last couple of days, it's |
| 1:13.7 | clear they don't have a lot to work with. |
| 1:16.2 | Mr. Loro is a real attorney unlike some of the other attorneys that Mr. Trump's had |
| 1:19.8 | around him. |
| 1:20.8 | He was a prosecutor, and he can't seem to come up with a cogent theory of the case. |
| 1:27.4 | Of why Donald Trump was acting legally around the 2020 election in the days leading up to |
| 1:33.1 | January 6th, because the evidence in that indictment, the allegations in that indictment |
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