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the indictment is sealed, but just last hour nbc confirmed from two sources familiar with the matter that they are about 30 counts of document-related fraud charges in that indictment trumps attorney says hes expected to be arraigned on tuesday, and one of trumps lawyers told nbcs "today show" earlier today that trump will voluntarily surrender to authority. >> hes not going to hole up in mar-a-lago hell face this, and well face it, and well be successful im sure president trump will n...

majorities and avoid the shellacking he experienced in 2010. i will speak to michigan democratic congresswoman debbie dingell about the battle for the house and cheri beasley on whether democrats can pull off a surprise in a traditionally red state. jon meacham will join me. good day. im andrea mitchell in washington. we have breaking news from california where nancy pelosis husband, 82-year-old paul pill pelosi was attacked with a hammer. he is recovering at the hospital. we are...

and thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with us on this tuesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. >> you want to sweep it under the rugment i dont want to talk about this any more than anyone else. >> when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. >> they were people that behaved badly on that day. im not one of them. >> ms. abrams is going to lie about m...

people. tip oneill got along with ronald reagan. ted kennedy got along with orrin hatch. joe biden got along with john mccain. nancy pelosi got along with john boehner. ruth bader ginsburg got along with antonin scalia. all we are asking is house republicans to get along with each other. first time in 100 years there is no congress because of ambition or power grabs, dysfunction, and this is not a partisan criticism. understand this. its embarrassing, its dysfunctional. its dangerous, ...

health care there. then the doctor that performed the procedure got in trouble, or at least didnt really get in trouble, didnt do one thing wrong but the attorney general starts looking into her. when you hear stories like that, voters hear it, regular people hear it. and i think thats what was resonating with them. they want to be able to make their own decisions on reproductive health care. and i dont think we could put in their minds what they thought of restrictions or not. i just ...

An election away from what the will of the people demonstrated, then the threshold question about a democratic republic falls away because what the framers would have said is that we were a popular government, that ultimately for all the checks and balances it was rooted in the people. if you have state-level, county level, even precinct level people who are willing to perpetuate a fraud on the democratic, lower case d, experiment, then the threshold requirement of a democracy breaks down. and t...

But over the last five years, the republican party as currently constituted has not been a partner for peace and governing in the united states and so as unfair as this is, the democratic party has an immense obligation facing it at this hour, which is if constitutional democracy, lower case d, cannot deliver, im not sure what happens. and again, i dont want to be hyperbolic i dont want to be alarmist. but sometimes hyperbole and alarmism are justified and if the democratic party, as again, as u...

Same level of support that hes had since the beginning of his presidency which seems unbreakable regardless of what the facts on the ground are. you might hate that or love that, it is what it. >> we did not hear from senate republicans after he made it comment yesterday. jon meacham, i want to appeal to your constitutional spidey sense whens hear the president saying i have an absolute right to do something, what do you hear? >> i hear an unamerican and undemocratic, unrepublican, lower case d,...

Weekend with what happened to the mccarthy hearings when welch finally said, sir, have you no shame. how impactful do you think admiral mcravens comments were and the response to that? >> i think they were essential. i think they speak incredibly well of the admiral and of that broader national security community that i think signed a letter, bob gates among others, people who are, in fact, standing up and saying that as george h.w. bush said in other context, this will not stand. my fear is tha...