"For those of you funding Donald Trump's re-election campaign, you may want to take note: Because you keep writing checks to this president, it's on you...because you are funding this white supremacist campaign...It is your money that is funding this white supremacy." --
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"He is aiding & abetting Putin’s ongoing attempts to subvert U.S. democracy, according to the Republican FBI, CIA, DNI…All Republicans are saying Russia is trying to subvert U.S. democracy & Moscow Mitch won’t even let the Senate take a vote on it. That is un-American.--
"Donald Trump, you have a copy of the warrant. It explains what they were looking for, what statutes they think were violated, what judge signed off on that...If you believe this is such an abuse, release the warrant and let us decide for ourselves."
"You owe Robert Mueller an apology, the men and women of the FBI an apology and you owe the American people an apology." --
"I think we all will be absolutely fascinated when we finally figure out what Vladimir Putin has on Donald Trump." --
"Donald trump is upset because Congressman Cummings is everything that Donald Trump is not. He is calm; he is smart; he is thoughtful; he actually works for his constituents. He is a good public servant. He is the example of the American dream." --
"I will say it to Democratic candidates again: Focus on Donald Trump. OK? Repeat after me: 'I will not attack Barack Obama; I will focus on Donald Trump and the dangers his presidency brings.' It's really easy." --
A Special Sunday Morning Edition of Morning Joe Tomorrow at 7AM as the New York Times Dedicates Page One to All Those Who Have Lost Their Lives in the Pandemic.
"If you want to stop Donald Trump, it is time to...roll up your sleeves and go after him and do whatever it takes to win. If you don't do that, you'll have [him] for four more years." --'s message to Dems
"The Republicans have no choice but to condemn this. If they don't condemn it then, of course, they are being disloyal to their country and choosing instead to be loyal to Donald Trump." --
If Trump runs in 2024, 16% of Republicans say they'll vote for the Democratic candidate, someone else, or not at all, rather than the former president.
"We are Americans and we do not do that. We do not want the world hearing us chant 'Lock him up' to this president or to any president." --
"Who is this guy to say that you cannot criticize the U.S. when that is all that he's been doing for 40 years?" --
'You had a law that could have been passed yesterday. That would've required...a candidate or a campaign to report illegal actions to the FBI and Mitch McConnell and Marsha Blackburn and the Republican Party of Trump opposed that. Let that sink in for a while.'--
.: "Of all the things that Trump's done—eight decades of lying, cheating, and stealing...For this man to go to jail for potentially a long time for something so pointless and silly and useless as keeping these documents, it's actually kind of fitting."
"Trump has shown one thing through all of this: That he is absolutely petrified of running against Joe Biden." --
"He is so despised on Capitol Hill. He is so despised by GOP governors across the country. He's so despised by members of the House personally that it's only a matter of time that they start planning ahead for post-Trump Washington." -- recounts a talk with GOP insider
"I don't want to overstate this, but he is assassinating the presidency." --
"So now [AG] Bill Barr is investigating himself and clearing himself? That's not how our justice system works." --
"I'm a single-issue voter now, and that single issue for me is whether or not you support democracy or whether or not you stand up against disinformation." --
"Republicans...all they could do was just lie, scream and yell yesterday. A very bleak day for House Republicans." --
"The fact that no Republican thinks that this is worth looking into suggests to me that passion and superstition and blind obedience have replaced reason for those people in this moment." --
"What Mr. Trump did yesterday was to betray the women and men of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA and others and to betray the American public. And that's why I use the term that this was nothing short of treasonous. Because it is a betrayal of the nation." --
"Beau should be the one running for president, not me. Every morning I get up, Joe, not a joke, I think to myself is he proud of me." -- on.msnbc.com/30KUHcX
"The law is pretty clear, Willie: It is absolutely illegal for anyone to solicit, accept or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with any election in the United States." -- to
"There is no policy that I want enough to trade off the norms that we are destroying daily in the Trump administration. There is no judge; there is no policy; there is no tax cut. Nothing to me personally is worth what we're paying for." --
Biden leads Trump by nine points in new polling
Sen. Graham praises Biden, condemns Trump in newly-released audio
"This was a vintage mob operation with Trump at the top not putting his fingers too directly on things but sending out his lieutenant Rudy Giuliani..." --
"This is no cause for any joy. This is a very sad time for our country." --
“I’ve said it for weeks now. Mr President, I’ll say it again: This is not an economic crisis; this is a health care crisis. If you will do everything that’s required to take care of the health care crisis, then the economic crisis will go away.” --
"The things that Kentuckians voted for Trump for are not being done. He's not able to get it done because of Senator McConnell." -- on why she's running against Mitch McConnell.
"How do you qualify something as a good speech if it's fed by lies?" --
. discusses voting with his grandfather in 2004 and then bringing his two sons to the polls this year.
"I will never be able to fully comprehend the inability of even a small critical mass of people to just come out and say this guy is completely unfit for office. I still cannot fathom it to this day because they all knew," - on testimony from Jan. 6 hearings.
"If I were advising a president at a moment like this, I would advise being as transparent as you can. And instead it sounds like what they want to do is describe this thing and then hand it over." --
"Would Donald Trump not do whatever he could do if he could get away with it? Seriously. If he could arrest every journalist he didn't like, if he could arrest us tomorrow...If you say he wouldn't, you're just lying to yourself." --
"This is how far we've come. We now have a president…who attacked an American vice president and an American president on foreign soil. That is something you do not do." --
Who Americans prefer to handle the coronavirus crisis, per NPR/Marist poll
"I refuse to suggest any Democrat can lose. I think we could run Mickey Mouse against this president and have a shot." --
"History has chosen the Democratic Party at this point in time to be the only party in America who will stand up and defend the rule of law. There is no one else there...Whether it's the smart political calculation or not, the Constitution requires it." --
"Words have consequences. The president has made my community and my people the enemy. He has told the country that we are people to be feared, people to be hated." --
"Donald Trump can release the warrant. He should release the warrant. If it's such a scam, release the warrant. Stop the scam, stop the grift. Release the warrant. Let us see why they came in to Mar-a-Lago. Let us see what they're looking for." --
"I think what Sen. Manchin did yesterday represents such an egregious breach of trust of the president." --
"Everything in these rules is rigged...They are so afraid, so afraid of the facts coming out that they want things to be presented at two, three in the morning. Give me a break." --
"We don't know how this ends in the Senate...But we do know how this story ends. We do know how history writes this." --
"It was a master class yesterday in the difference between humility and hubris, between class and someone who is classless." -- on the difference between Clinton and Trump post-acquittal speeches.
'A tragic moment out of Texas, but also sad for democracy when you have a governor of one of the larger U.S. states feeling the need to be hateful and callous after a mother tries to shield her 9-year-old child." -- on Gov. Abbott labeling victims 'illegal immigrants'
"Barack Obama was an extraordinary president and...one of the best presidents in our lifetimes. What he did and what he accomplished in getting the ACA to actually come into being was extraordinary." --
"Donald Trump has two kinds of visions of black people: One [is] celebrities and sports stars that he wants to be around. And two: every other black person that he thinks is beneath him. Black celebrities are in one bucket and everybody else is in another." --
"I know I'm viewed as a congenital optimist, but I really believe it. I believe we have an opportunity to move forward in a way we haven't before." --
"This has been an extraordinarily successful two years legislatively. Any way you cut it. Republicans have to admit this privately and they are. It’s been a hell of a run." --
"There is no question that Soleimani had American blood on his hands & that he was a bad actor in the region. But if there is anything that we have learned in the last 20 years about the Middle East, it's that taking out a bad guy is not necessarily a good idea."--
"And now he's saying because these duly elected members of Congress are doing what he does every day -- criticize things about the country -- they should go home? It's ridiculous." --
"There is a reason why Donald Trump fears Robert Mueller in front of the TV cameras with the nation's attention turned to him more than anything else...[it] will stop tens of millions of Americans in their tracks..." --
"Why is it we are building walls and moats at the border, but we can't put up a wall around our own sovereign elections? I think that's a question that should be asked." --
.: Garland may not want to indict a former president — but "I don't think he has a choice."
'He exposed hate with love, and he did it beautifully.' -- on how handled a protester
"You take the word impeachment, and you change it to 'criminal activity.'" -- has some thoughts for Democrats
.: "This is a sickness. And it's not an American sickness…because 90% of Americans want to do something about this. This is a sickness among a small subset of Americans who have twisted and perverted the meaning of the Second Amendment in a way that's unrecognizable."
A look this morning at the newly-painted message on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
. says 'It doesn't matter' if Trump accusers are ‘lying or not’, blames 'you people in the media' nbcnews.to/2e2U9Hg
"How much stress on our system and on our democracy do we need to endure before we see this man is a fascist and that he has very bad intentions? Republicans you are helping him by not stepping up...saying what is right." -- on Trump call to terminate Constitution
"He was an amazing man. He was not just a great congressman; he was a great man." -- on Rep. Cummings
"My advice to everybody today is don't make today a special day about celebrating love. Do it every chance you get. Tell those who you love how much you love them." --Gun Safety advocate , who lost his daughter, Jamie, in the Parkland school shooting.
Watch: What are some major concerns about Trump's handling of national security? Hayden and #morningjoe weigh in. nbcnews.to/2aSDCEt
"At the end of his statement, we're left with this feeling: Why couldn't the public have heard Mueller's words first?" --
"And so I think the shoes that are yet to drop are going to be the ones that are going to be the most profound." – Fmr. CIA Director John Brennan
Americans Need to Know the Truth About William Barr's Friday Night Massacre. We Can't Afford to Wait bit.ly/2Z2T6i5 --
"Republicans are behaving like complete disgraces. By saying Trump is being persecuted, they're essentially saying you can't touch Trump and Trump is above the law. Whatever slack you might have wanted to cut a former president, that was gone after Jan. 6." --
"We will not have actually resolved this issue until we come to the day when your race has absolutely no bearing in predicting your life expectancy, predicting your wealth or income, predicting how you're going to interact with law enforcement." -- on racism
"It's not up to the AG to decide what classified information Nancy Pelosi is grown up enough to see. It's not up to the AG to decide whether the chairman of the Judiciary Committee can handle classified information." --
"This is not a coup; this is a constitutional process." --
Breaking overnight: A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Monday from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally.
Since Trump made up his own Time cover, we made one for Joe #morningjoe
Biden leading Trump in states Trump won in '16: polling on.msnbc.com/3kwrEmQ
"The City of New York is severing all contracts with the Trump Organization," says
"There is nothing that is going to get under Trump's skin more than this." --
