>> OH, LET’S GET THE GUY THAT’S
LOST 50 TIMES AND MAKE A SPEECH
FOR $10 MILLION.
LIKE YOU’RE HURTING YOUR OWN
GRIFTING SCHEMES IN THE FUTURE
BY SETTING YOURSELF UP TO LOSE
EVERY SINGLE TIME.
>> SO TODAY, JOE BIDEN AND
KAMALA HARRIS ARE EXPECTED TO
EASILY AMASS THE 270 ELECTORAL
VOTES NEEDED FOR VICTORY AND THE
FIRST STATES VOTE AT 10:00 A.M.
THE NEXT STEP IS JANUARY 6th
WHEN A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS
MEETS TO COUNT THE VOTES.
GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO
"MORNING JOE."
IT IS MONDAY, DECEMBER 14th.
AND WITH US WE HAVE WHITE HOUSE
REPORTER FOR THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS JONATHAN LEMIRE.
NBC NEWS CAPITOL HILL
CORRESPONDENT AND HOST OF "WAY
TOO EARLY" U KASIE HUNT.
AND HOST OF MSNBC’S
"POLITICSNATION" AND PRESIDENT
OF THE NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK,
REVEREND AL SHARPTON.
>> JONATHAN LEMIRE, HOW DO YOU
EXPECT TODAY TO GO?
I THINK A COUPLE OF PEOPLE
DIDN’T VOTE FOR TRUMP BACK IN
’16, WE EXPECTING ANY STRAYS OUT
THERE?
>> JOE, WE’RE LOOKING FOR THAT.
THAT’S ALWAYS A POSSIBILITY.
BUT WHAT I CAN GUARANTEE YOU
WILL HAPPEN TODAY IS MORE RAGE
AND FURY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
AND BASELESS ALLEGATIONS OF A
RIGGED PROCESS, INDEED.
ELECTORS ARE GOING TO MEET IN
ALL 50 STATES TODAY AND THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO CAST
THEIR BALLOTS.
THESE ARE ONES THAT ARE
CERTIFIED IN THE FIRST WEEK OF
JANUARY.
THAT IS YET ANOTHER POINT WHERE
TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES PERHAPS
WILL PLAY A STUNT THAT’S WHEN
CONGRESS MEETS TO CERTIFY THE
RESULT.
NONE OF THIS WILL CHANGE OF
COURSE THE ULTIMATE RESULT.
MORE DEFEATS FOR PRESIDENT
TRUMP, BUT AGAIN, MORE DANGEROUS
EFFORTS TO UNDERMINE THE FAITH
IN THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND THE
CREDIBILITY OF JOE BIDEN’S
ELECTION.
>> YEAH.
A LOT OF CRACK POTS WHO ACTUALLY
WOULD HAVE BEEN CRACK POTS
REGARDLESS OF WHAT DONALD TRUMP
DID.
LIKE DEMOCRATS HAVE CRACK POTS
AND THEY HAVE HAD CRACK POTS IN
THE PAST.
WE THOUGHT GEORGE W. BUSH WAS ON
THE INSIDE OF THE 9/11 ATTACKS,
DON’T GET PISSED AT ME.
I’VE GOT THE POLLS, DEMOCRATS.
BUT YEAH, BUT THE DIFFERENCE
THERE IS IT WAS CRACK POTS, IN
THE FAR REACHES OF THE INTERNET
WHO WERE PUSHING THAT.
HERE, KASIE, WE HAVE THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
ACTING IN A MORE DANGEROUS WAY.
HE HAD OVER 100 MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS WHO WERE CALLING FOR
SEDITION.
CALLING FOR SEDITION AGAINST THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
WHO WERE CALLING TO UNDERMINE AN
AMICAN DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.
IT’S NOT AN OVERSTATEMENT, IT
REALLY ISN’T.
AND THESE PEOPLE ARE POSING THE
GREATEST RISK, THE GREATEST
THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
THE GREATEST CHALLENGE SINCE THE
CIVIL WAR.
THEY SUCK AT WHAT THEY’RE DOING.
THEY REALLY SUCK AT THIS.
THEY’RE JUST HORRIBLE.
IT’S ALL GESTURES.
AND THE LOSERS THAT SIGNED ON TO
THIS BILL, THEY SUCK AT THIS
TOO.
BUT AGAIN, IT’S ALL GESTURES.
THAT SAID, IT’S A HORRIBLE
PRECEDENT BECAUSE THERE MAY BE A
TOTALITARIAN IN WAITING THAT’S
GOING TO GO TO SCHOOL ON
EVERYTHING THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS
DONE.
HEY, REPUBLICANS, GUESS WHAT, IT
MIGHT BE A DEMOCRAT.
IT MIGHT BE AN INDEPENDENT.
MIGHT BE A FASCIST, A MARXIST,
YOU DON’T KNOW.
YOU’RE BEING STUPID AS HELL
SNIFFING THIS GUY, FOLLOWING HIM
AROUND UNTIL THE VERY END.
ALL THAT SAID, KASIE, HOW IS
THAT A LEAD-UP FOR THIS
QUESTION.
WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ON CAPITOL
HILL?
>> WELL, I HAVE A FEELING I’LL
BE HEARING MORE AFTER THAT, BUT
NO, LOOK, THESE MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS ARE STILL AFRAID OF
DONALD TRUMP.
AND THEY ARE MORE AFRAID OF WHAT
HE MAY DO TO THEM THAN THEY ARE
OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO THE
COUNTRY.
WHICH I THINK TELLS YOU A LOT.
YOU KNOW --
>> WHAT ABOUT THEIR OWN
REPUTATION?
DOESN’T -- WAIT.
DO THEY NOT REALLY CARE WHAT
THEIR CHILDREN THINK OF THEM,
WHAT THEIR SPOUSES THINK OF
THEM?
WHAT THEIR GRANDCHILDREN THINK
OF THEM, WHAT HISTORY IS GOING
TO THINK OF THEM?
ARE THEY REALLY SO AFRAID WHAT’S
GONNA HAPPEN OVER THE NEXT FOUR
WEEKS THAT THEY’RE WILLING TO
SHAME THEMSELVES?
LIKE THIS IS -- THEY DO KNOW
HISTORIANS ARE GOING TO WRITE
ABOUT THIS CHAPTER IN AMERICAN
HISTORY AND THEY’RE GOING ON ON
THE SIDE OF SEDITION.
THEY’RE THE MODERN-DAY BENEDICT
ARNOLDS TRYING TO UNDERMINE
DEMOCRACY.
THEY’RE MORE SCARED ABOUT A
REALITY TV HOST THAN THEY ARE
BEING THAT DRAMATICALLY WRONG
ABOUT AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND
HISTORY?
>> I FEEL LIKE I HAVE BEEN
ASKING THAT -- A VERSION OF THAT
QUESTION TO SO MANY PEOPLE OF
THESE MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY, BOTH PRIVATELY AND