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democrats panic is muzzled if poll numbers stay. there are big events, including donald trumps sentencing coming up shortly. john heilemann, well talk again in a little bit on "morning joe." thanks for getting up "way too early" on this friday morning from atlanta. "morning joe" starts right now. ill fix the taxes. we have a thousand trillionaires in america, i mean billionaires. whats happening? they, in fact, pay 8.2% taxes. if they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers...

Republicans appear to have underdelivered. thats not how hes spinning it, important to note. conservative media has a pretty interesting take on these results. >> yeah. im using this term advise bly. there are some cracks in donald trumps support among conservative media. i want to show the "new york post" cover. donald trump as hufmpty dumpty. this is the "new york post" being the "new york post." it is worth noting that on the day after the election, they had a headline about desantis and how ...

Harrowing to scroll through this but this is what so many families must do in order to track down the bodies of those theyve lost, poppy. >> phil black, live for us in kyiv tonight, thank you for that reporting, phil. and "outfront" next, the russian warship at the bottom of the ocean tonight, a huge embarrassment for putin. how is his state-run media, though, spinning it. we have a special report ahead. also, she was working at a maternity hospital on the day it was attacked in mariupol. sh...

In part, because the president and his allies were spinning it, but then when you pull out individual pieces of information, like that voice voicemail, they look incredibly damning. >> theres a bunch of stuff in here, and we talked about moments you felt had not gotten enough attention. marcy, you called attention to this lewandowski moment thats in the report. which has not gotten at lot of attention. according to lewandowski, trump asked him, basically, to bring a note telling jeff sessions to...

Mueller report. the president of the united states violated his oath of office. the question is, what do you do with the facts? now, as a public service, two people with a deep knowledge of the actual report, marcie wheeler and writing about national security and civil liberties and quinta is a managing editor of law fare and published this chart used by senate democrats when they questioned attorney general bill barr. let me start with you. you were tweeting and writing about this. the microcos...

Other than the president would be prosecuted. the president as i speak to you now, sir, is above the law. he is above the law. he will continue to be above the law until congress acts. we in this country cannot allow it to be said that the president is above the law. these prosecutors intricated in the letter that we prosecute people for obstruction because if you dont, the entire system itself can find itself weaken and may collapse. they didnt use those exact words, but you will say to people,...

Me again saying you cant do this and it wasnt you who did it? i did it. you know what? a quarter of all women do it. one of the reasons i wrote about this again and thought it was important for me to disclose it was just because im not special you know? theres so many women have gone through the same thing i have and its not weird. its health care. dont punish our health care providers because we would gladly throw ourselves in jail before we let them go? theres this moment i wanted to play, thi...

Testified that in december of 2016 when flynn was calling up the ambassador to russia and doing all these crazy things that violated the stated policy of the united states, trump was already pissed at flynn. he was angry at flynn because obama warned him about the investigation on november 10th, 2016. trump spent the day saying i didnt know about the investigation and that effectively according to the mueller report is him calling steve bannon and hope hicks liars because thats what they told th...

All 450 pages of it, it was difficult for people to process, in part because the president and his allies were spinning it, but then when you pull out individual pieces of information like that voice mail, they look incredibly damning. >> there is a bunch of stuff that we talked about certain moments that you felt had not been given enough attention. marcie, you had called attention to this moment in the report which has not gotten a lot of attention. according to him, trump asked him to bring a...

Efforts to blow up the investigation, ordering don mcgahn to fire mueller and telling him to bring this note to jeff sessions and trying to get him to unrecuse. he is saved from the outright commission by people not following his orders. >> thats absolutely right. i do think its important to remember legally speaking, attempt at obstruction of justice is the same thing as obstruction of justice. just because people like lewandowski and don mcgahn didnt go through with it, that doesnt mean legall...