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up by the facts and when everybody from the tippy top all the way down to the company knows that that network is broadcasting lies to millions in america. should anyone still call that network a news network? it is a question worth asking today about fox news. in light of allegations by voting machine company dominion. we are still for our part pouring through court documents filed by dominion. those documents are filled to the brim with stunning revelations and evidence that fox news ...

on this tuesday night. >> good evening, once again. im stephanie ruhle. its the final phase of the mid term -- campaigns with the election now 14 days away. this was debate night for a key governors races in new york in michigan. the spotlight was on the state of pennsylvania. with a contest date could decide control of the senate. democratic senate candidate, john fetterman and republican, dr. mehmet oz faced off for the first and only debates. still showing signs of his recent stroke...

america. the president saying todays gop is, quote, dominated, driven, and intimidated by maga republicans. well have complete political and historical analysis of his address to the nation. plus, the latest developments in the investigation of former president trumps mishandling of classified documents, as another conservative legal voice predicts trump will be indicted. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is friday, september 2nd. with us, we have u.s. special correspon...

an injustice senior justice correspondent ivan perez. hes covering the hearing for us in fort pierce, florida, just north of palm beach oven, you were inside the court today. how to judge cannon handle todays important hearing? >> well, if this was a very unusual hearing in the first place, and judge cannon had some very sharp questions for the government, for the prosecution she questioned the prosecutors about what specific actions the attorney general, merrick garland oversaw action...

actions the attorney general merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith, the special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically on personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other people who worked for him here in fort pierce. and she also questioned trumps attorneys when trumps attorneys emil bove beauvais, said that he believed that jack smith was essentially a shadow governmen...

You know what, the people who really riled people up, who incited all of this knowingly, that is the key, are from fox news. the people on january 6 who were carrying in congress, who were afraid that people who were attacked, the people who died, all of those people have potential claims against fox news. and it is not like this is unforeseen. it is not like the people in fox news had no idea that their really dangerous rhetoric was going to lead to this kind of violence. now there is a lot of ...

Robert mueller, the special counsel who took over the russia meddling investigation, now has the memos james comey wrote after his meetings with donald trump. comey said the president urged him to drop the inquiry into michael flynn, forced toresign as national security adviser, but is that obstruction of justice, trying to interfere with an investigation? legal experts disagree. it requires showing intent, hard to prove. >> i think its certainly evidence of obstruction of justice. we wont know ...

Endeavors to impede the administration of justice, then you look at the specific mental state of the person who speaks the threatening language. this, as paul said, takes you another step closer to being able to prove that as a prosecutor. you have now not only the firing of the director, not only the asking for him to stand down on the investigation of flynn, not only the handshake in the oval office and the hug but now you have him relaying specifically what he intended in his elimination of t...

Quite inflated. and thats what always happens. the $50 million went away. >> neil: so why did you pay the $9 million? >> well, i agreed to mediation after 12 years. okay? we tried to get it before to mediate and get it over with. the a.g. refused. >> neil: right. >> went to court, trying to case. they recognized that case was going to blow up in front of them. they had very little -- >> neil: also something that is weird, the martin affect. unless prosecutors prove civil fraud without showing in...

Russia investigation, right? these are all bricks in a wall. this wall is getting a lot higher. >> a lot higher and a lot thicker. frank figliuzzi, you had a concise tweet. you think it is intent to obstruct. explain. >> i do, because obstruction as you all know and your viewers know, is about showing intent, mind-set, what was your purpose in conducting yourself this way. and so hes giving us essentially obstruction 101. and some may say, look, when you strip the clearance of a former cia direc...