Morning Joe 8/7/23

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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

3.9 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Trump spends weekend testing limits of judge's warning

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0:00.0	He said the president asked him to violate the Constitution, which is another way of saying
0:04.8	he asked him to break law.
0:06.1	He never said, no, that's wrong.
0:09.2	That's wrong.
0:10.2	A technical violation of the Constitution is not a violation of criminal law.
0:15.6	That's just plain wrong.
0:16.9	And to say that is contrary to decades of legal statute.
0:22.2	Let's get out.
0:24.2	All right, so let's get to straight a technical violation of the United States Constitution
0:30.8	that Donald Trump said he wanted to terminate.
0:34.2	So if you're keeping score at home, Donald Trump's lawyer has now moved from this being
0:38.1	about the first amendment.
0:39.9	Free speech.
0:40.9	Free speech.
0:41.9	Free speech, which of course, it's not, in fact, it certainly laid out in the first couple
0:48.6	lines of the indictment that it's not about free speech to suddenly admitting.
0:54.1	Last week, that in fact, Donald Trump did attempt to hold up a constitutional proceeding.
1:02.0	So he admitted that last week, and then yesterday he admitted that he violated the Constitution
1:08.9	of the United States just a technical violation of the United States Constitution like you.
1:14.9	Pretty bizarre.
1:15.9	But he violated the Constitution.
1:16.9	I mean, the admissions keep rolling.
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