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good morning. happy new year. welcome to a special new year s day edition of morning joe. we re on tape this morning with some of our top, recent conversations. we begin with a discussion about donald trump s increasing use of authoritarian language in his speeches and social media posts. in recent months, trump has repeated fascist rhetoric, including saying immigrants are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country, and referring to his political enemies as vermin. we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the threat from outside forces is sinister, dangerous, and grave, more than the threat from within. donald trump echoing the words of 20th century authoritarians at a rally earlier this month. joining us now, national affairs analyst john heilemann. special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast, molly jong-fast. ....
the reidout is up next. tonight on the reidout we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to have a country anymore. we re going to walk down pennsylvania avenue, i love pennsylvania avenue. and we re going to the capitol. a ruling about those comments from donald trump would seem to open up the possibility of lawsuits against the former president by victims of the january 6th insurrection. meanwhile, more transcripps were released from the january 6th committee revealing a whole lot of trump insiders with very convenient memory lapses. also tonight, more of george santos lies are uncovered. we ll look closely at his finances which highlight the glaring need for campaign finance reform. and in state after state, midterm voters rejected election deniers. and now democrats have a golden opportunity to safeguard voting rights. one of the governors leading that fight joins me tonight. good evening, everyone. i m mar ....
tonight on the readout tonight on the readout and we fight like hell, and if you do not fight like hell you re not gonna have a country anymore. we are going to walk down pennsylvania avenue, i love pennsylvania avenue. and we are going to the capitol. a judge ruling about those comments from donald trump, which seemed to open up the possibility of lawsuits against the former president by victims of the january six insurrection. meanwhile, transcripts just released from the january six committee, revealing a whole lot of trump insiders with convenient memory lapses. also tonight, more of george santos lives are uncovered. we are going to look closely at his finances, which highlight the glaring need for campaign finance reform. and, in state after state, it may turn voters rejected election deniers and how democrats of a golden opportunity to safeguard voting rights. one of the governors leading that fight joins me tonight. good evening everyone, i m in for joy reid. ....
says the president should call it quits after one term. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, mentally gone, detached from reality or just a liar. put star witness of today s january 6th committee hearing was trump s attorney general, bill bar who says in no uncertain terms that he made it clear to trump that the lies about a stolen election were exactly that lies. but according to barr, and many other trump aides who testified, trump didn t care. there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. there was somewhat demoralized because i thought boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, lost contact with he s become detached from reality, if he really believes this stuff. and the so-called stuff being peddled by the president and his rag-tag team of lawyers, this is how they were described by the trump aides and officials who looked into them. they were idiotic claims, b bullshit, crazy, c ....