those republican senators, those allies of joe mccarthy, they used their political power for political reasons to abuse and pervert the legal system into pursuing a young man for, yes, something that he did but for something which anyone other than him would never have faced serious legal consequences. and they did it because of who his dad was, and they did it because they knew this young man's dad loved him. and they decided that father's love for his son would be their best and most effective weapon against the father. get him right in the heart. one of the most despicable episodes i know of in the entire modern history of american politics. just a shakespearean crash of -- of evil against love. with the result being a good man shooting himself at his desk in the united states senate. that was 70 years ago. it was 1954. last night president biden put out a statement explaining his pardon of his son hunter. the statement said, quote, from the day i took office i said i would not interfere with the justice department's decision making, and i kept my word even as i have watched my son

whereupon joe mccarthy's allies in the u.s. senate came back to lester hunt and said, i bet that was pretty terrible for you and your family, right? wouldn't it be a shame if we put a flyer in every mailbox in the state of wyoming explaining just exactly what buddy was arrested for and what he did, and that he is your son and it is on your family, wouldn't that be a shame? and are you sure you don't want to resign from the senate? senator lester hunt worried so much about his son, buddy, he worried about his wife as well, buddy's mom, that trial -- the trial itself had already almost killed her. senator lester hunt's friends in the senate said he was basically reduced to a shell of himself by the worry. he had been really gregarious and outgoing and friendly by some contemporaneous press accounts, he was the most personally popular member of the senate among other senators, he was just a great guy, very outgoing. but when all of this started happening, he retreated into himself, he stopped talking to people, he ate alone in his

republican female senator from the state of maine and the first republican to speak out against joe mccarthy amidst- - yes. isn't that funny? the only republican senator and she was the only one who stood up to that bad man. - you wrote this kind of courage is the kind of courage, i'm paraphrasing, not as beautifully as you, that we would like to see now against the backdrop of a lie about our elections. and it was a more subtle criticism, it seemed to me, of donald trump in 2020 not accepting the election results, but without bamming him on the nose, right? it used- - i achieved subtlety. yay. i picked my columns that i wanted to give another chance, and i realized there was a theme to those i wanted to give another life to. and it was that we need to remember as we self-criticize and beat ourselves up, as we take another look at our history, try to remember the great ones who lived difficult, arduous lives, but who produced wonder, who did fabulous things in politics, in art. i just think it's an important thing for us now to hold on to a certain amount of wonder and awe about what wonderf

you know, today 70 is to the day the senate voted to sent you a joe mccarthy versus how do you go, i mean, is which on what did you learn from your run for the presidency this year? and this is mccarthy, as i'm alive and well in the united states. uh, uh, well 1st of all, awesome, thanks for having me. um. so the social's, the quality party as a communicator, we ran in the presidential elections against both the democrats or the republicans . um, i would say that there is uh, in the working class among young people in the united states, a norm is opposition to the escalating global war to the genocide and cause of 2 extreme levels of social inequality. and to both parties of the capitalist ruling elite, the democrats and the republicans. and there is broad interest in and support for an alternative to capitalism, which is a socialism in terms of the ruling class, mccarthy is a more anti communism. anti socialism is, of course, very present to the capitalist oligarchy, their main enemy, trump refers to the enemy within. as the working class of their greatest concern is that the workin

you know, today 70 is to the day the senate voted just sent you a joe mccarthy vers. how do you go? i mean, is which aren't. what did you learn from your run for the presidency this year? and this is mccarthy as i'm alive and well in the united states. uh, well 1st of all option thanks for having me. um, so it shows the quality party as a.

thank so much for coming on, you know, today 70 is to the day the senate voted just sent you a joe mccarthy vers has you calling me to switch on? what did you learn from your run for the presidency this year? and this is mccarthyism. i live in, well, in the united states. uh, uh, well 1st of all option bags for having me. um, so it shows the quality party as to indicated, we ran into the presidential elections against both the democrats and the republicans. i would say that there is a, in the working class among young people in the united states. enormous opposition to the escalating global war to the genocide and gaza to extreme levels of social inequality into both parties of the capitalist ruling elite. the democrats and the republicans, and there is broad interest in and support for an alternative to capitalism, which is a socialism in terms of the ruling class of mccarthyism or antique communism. and to socialism is of course, very present to the capitalist oligarchy, their main enemy, trump refers to the enemy within as the working class. their greatest concern is that.

you know, today 70 is to the day the senate voted just sent you a joe mccarthy versus how do you go, i mean, is which on what did you learn from your run for the presidency this year? and this is mccarthy, as i'm alive and well in the united states. uh uh, well 1st of all, awesome, thanks for having me. um. so the social's, the quality party as a communicator, we ran into the presidential elections against both the democrats and the republicans. um, i would say that there is in the working class among young people in the united states, enormous opposition to the escalating global war to the genocide and gaza, to extreme levels of social inequality. and to both parties of the capitalist throwing away the democrats and the republicans. and there is broad interest in and support for an alternative to capitalism, which is a socialism in terms of the ruling class, mccarthy is a more anti communism man to socialism. is of course, very present to the capitalist oligarchy, their main enemy, trump refers to the enemy within as the working class of their greatest concern is .

taught his other great warning which more relevance today he was so concerned about what senator joe mccarthy was doing accusing everybody that disagreed him of being a communist and trying to terrify people and people torn up and upset that he said, i'm i'm not sure we can preserve our democracy there's a reason that we were then closing in. on being the oldest democracy in human history that it requires a lot of mental discipline to learn what the facts are and different circumstances and to try to think through and work with other people who were trying to do the same thing and deal with honest differences and the thing that i have worried most. about in the current environment is that. the it seems that people that are running the current transition quite unquestioned loyalty with patriotism and questions with this loyalty and with a lack of patriotism. and when i was became president first week i was in office, i brought the young people that had supported me in to the office. i said, if any of you ever comes in here and tells me what you think, i want to. on any of these issues, i might

there are no schools or parks named after joe mccarthy.ation. he got censored and destroyed. things turned quickly. he had presidents, generals, congressmen, ceos, fearing him one day, rebuking him the next, and he died a broken man. again, time and time again we've seen this throughout history. we'll see the incoming white house understand that. >> state attorney for palm beach county, dave aaronburg, thank you very much. >>> president-elect donald trump was named "time's" person of the year. we'll talk time's editor in chief about that selection. that's next on "morning joe." 's. nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. (♪♪) (agent) we've always said never sell a house in the winter. that's not true. with 30 grams of protein. with opendoor, you can skip the showings and get a real cash offer. you are disguising my voice, right? (director) ahhh, of course. (agent with altered voice) foof, just checking. (vo) it's true. opendoor makes selling easy, in any season. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ woah, limu! we're in a

he was senator joe mccarthy's adviser and he was donald trump's fathers political adviser.ways deny everything, always attack and accuse other people of doing what you are doing. pretty soon, the most important people who believe that are your own supporters. and then, nobody believes anybody about anything. we need to go back to where people live and talk to them about what they are interested in. it is easy to underestimate the intelligence of people when they are focusing on what they care about. but you've got to deal with what people are living with. president biden will leave office with more jobs created in his four years in any previous four-year period in history. if the number were 50 million, it would be about 16 to 18, if it were 50 million it would be nowhere near the number of people affected by inflation. so you have to discuss these things. you can't pretend, no business, marriage or friendship, nothing can succeed and thrive if you don't deal with the pink elephant in the room. >> talk about how democrats maybe can learn from that and maybe stop firing at e

you also have political influencers who play toxic politics, senator joe mccarthy, the famous communistunter who was in the category of a toxic politician, huey long was the air and senator from louisiana. part of the time he was so obsessed with being a strongman he was the governor and the senator at the same time and was able to vote -- pull that off. he was so popular that franklin roosevelt felt he could be a threat to his reelection. he was assassinated before he could run against franklin roosevelt in the 1930's. that is the other thing i wanted to bring up. that is one of the real problems with toxic politics, does it lead to violence. you had the civil war as i mentioned before which was probably the worst domestic cataclysm we had were we couldn't resolve inches. the question is today, we have such a toxic environment, is it leading to violence? the cases of people attacked in politics, donald trump had two assassination attempts against him in the last year, one of which the famous case where he was shot in the air during a public event in pennsylvania. we all know enough abo

we had joe mccarthy, huey long, one republican, one democrat, and other local or state demagogues in history but nobody at the level of trump. the color also raised a really important point. so local news, and i made a documentary for hbo to find local journalists and local news are the loans of democracy and have been since the formation of the republic. if you are not informed you cannot make good decisions at the polling place. all of the country local newspapers are closed and some have been replaced by local websites but not at the same level. you can actually draw a map of news deserts with a don't have any daily local newspaper. so is alarming because democracy requires at least a semi-informed electorate. i am not saying that trump voters were not informed. in many cases they were very informed, like a lot of viewers today. they chose to vote on different issues and that is the right. i do think it is hard to convince people if they are not getting the news. there was an amazing clip this fall of sarah mark talking to a guy in an maga help is a veteran -- hat is a veteran. th

it was the red scare in the 1920s, it was joe mccarthy in the 1950s .t was civil rights protests or vietnam war protesters in the 1960s . it was the war on drugs in the 1970s . it was the war on terror after 2001 and most recently it was the covid pandemic. maybe a brain worm eight that part of my memory ... [applause] i don't recallany part of the united states constitution where there is an exemption for pandemics . in fact there is not one of the amendments of the bill of rights that has a preamble that says except when officials choose to declare a public health emergency . they all say very simply the government shall not infringe on these rights no matter what. if the government can take them away at will then they are not rights at all. they are really just privileges granted or revoked by an authority . is that the kind of country you want to live in? and every time they suspend rights and then pretend to give them back again they establish a dangerous precedent . the rights they give backare never quite as strong as the ones that they took away

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you also have political influencers who play toxic politics, senator joe mccarthy, the famous communistter who was in the category of a toxic politician, huey long was the air and senator from louisiana. part of the time he was so obsessed with being a strongman he was the governor and the senator at the same time and was able to vote -- pull that off. he was so popular that franklin roosevelt felt he could be a threat to his reelection. he was assassinated before he could run against franklin roosevelt in the 1930's. that is the other thing i wanted to bring up. that is one of the real problems with toxic politics, does it lead to violence. you had the civil war as i mentioned before which was probably the worst domestic cataclysm we had were we couldn't resolve inches. the question is today, we have such a toxic environment, is it leading to violence? the cases of people attacked in politics, donald trump had two assassination attempts against him in the last year, one of which the famous case where he was shot in the air during a public event in pennsylvania. we all know enough about

we had joe mccarthy, huey long, one republican, one democrat, and other local or state demagogues inur history but nobody at the level of trump. the color also raised a really important point. so local news, and i made a documentary for hbo to find local journalists and local news are the loans of democracy and have been since the formation of the republic. if you are not informed you cannot make good decisions at the polling place. all of the country local newspapers are closed and some have been replaced by local websites but not at the same level. you can actually draw a map of news deserts with a don't have any daily local newspaper. so is alarming because democracy requires at least a semi-informed electorate. i am not saying that trump voters were not informed. in many cases they were very informed, like a lot of viewers today. they chose to vote on different issues and that is the right. i do think it is hard to convince people if they are not getting the news. there was an amazing clip this fall of sarah mark talking to a guy in an maga help is a veteran -- hat is a veteran.

roy cone was senator joe mccarthy's main adviser and came back and he was donald trump's father main political adviser, and then president trump and roy cone said, no matter what happens, always deny everything. always attack, and always accuse other people of doing what you are doing. and pretty soon, the most important people who believe that are your own supporters. and then nobody believes anybody about anything. we need to go back and meet people where they live and talk about what they are interested in. i realize that you know, it's easy to underestimate the intelligence of people when they are focusing on what they care about. but you got to deal with what people are living with. president biden will leave office with a record of creating more jobs created in the four years than any previous four year period in american history. no matter how many -- that if it were 50 million, it will be about 16 to 18 somewhere between that. if it were 50 million it would be nowhere near the number of people who are affected by inflation. and food prices, so you have to discuss the things.

roy cohn was senator joe mccarthy's main adviser and then he came back, and he was donald trump's father's doing what you're doing. and pretty soon the most important people who believed that are your own supporters, and then nobody believes anybody about anything. we need to go back and meet people where they live and talk to them about what they're interested in. i realize that, you know, it's easy to underestimate the intelligence of people when they're focusing on what they care about, but you've got to deal with what people are living with. president biden will leave office with a record of creating more jobs created in his four years than in any previous four-year period in american history. no matter how many -- if that number were 50 million, it will be about 16 to 18, somewhere between that, if it were 50 million, it would be nowhere near the number of people who are affected by inflation and food prices. so you have to discuss these things. you can't pretend no business, no marriage, no friendship, no nothing, can succeed and thrive if you don't deal with the pink elephant in the

it was different with kevin mccarthy when it was joe biden who was in the white house.hink perhaps there will be an effort to try to really get something -- a speakership through quickly. we'll have to wait and see. >> there are comparisons to kevin mccarthy and the scenario because it was a spending fight. trump was threatening primary fights, and 170 republicans still voted for the final package. i don't know if that means he still has a lot of power or doesn't. mike johnson always said when people raise this, you know, bless their hearts if somebody can get the votes. can somebody else get the votes, or what's the alternative here? >> no. if you remember -- less than two years ago now, mike johnson wasn't on anybody's radar screen. and so many times -- >> hadn't served many terms. >> he was vice chair of the republican conference. there were stories of this unknown mike johnson. like, well, if you don't pay attention to capitol hill, most people don't, you don't know who mike johnson is. so then that short list is really short. and this is i think where republicans w

former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy on the incoming 119th congress. plus, who's next on joeen's pardon list? >> i think the other part of the tell will be does it expand to other members like jim biden and joe biden himself. maria: new york post columnist miranda devine on president biden's blanket pardon for his son and who is next in the biden family pardons. it's all a right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ if. ♪ maria: and we begin this sunday morning with the fast-moving power shift in washington as global events put a spotlight on new, incoming leadership in america. the government of syria collapsing weekend with rebels storming the capitol in damascus saturday night sending president bashar al assad fleeing the country and his family dictatorship that ruled syria for more than 50 years ending this weekend. all of this while president trump is in paris meeting with french president emmanuel hama caron for the roping of france's majestic notre dame cathedral while conducting a sideline meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy who later called the talks

it was different when it was mccarthy, it was different when it was joe biden in the white house but be an effort to get his speakership through quickly, but we will just have to wait and see. >> there are kind of comparisons to kevin mccarthy and that whole scenario because it was a spending fight. no, trump also lost, he was threatening primary fights and 170 republicans still voted for the final package, so i don't know if that means he still has a lot of power or he doesn't, but people always say bless their hearts if somebody can get the votes. can somebody else get the votes or what is the alternative here? x if you remember, it was less than two years ago, mike johnson wasn't on anybody's radar. he was vice chair of the republican conference and there were so many stories of this unknown mike johnson. well, if you don't pay attention to capitol hill, most people don't, you don't know who mike johnson is. and then that shortlist is really short. and this is where i think republicans will find themselves if donald trump says something against mike johnson. if he doesn't, mike jo

mccarthy tried to rewrite history. >> indedents believe the greatest threat to democracy was joe biden getting reelected. >> so the ideafense of merrick garland, sure. donald trump lied about an election being stolen and then sicced them on the capitol. it's funny you roll your eyes, because you went down and resurrected him. you want to know what happened in the 2024 election is we elected the most dangerous criminal human being, corrupt human being, that america has ever elected. and kevin, you helped him. you're the one who went and got him after, after -- >> you're welcome. >> yeah, thank you. and in doing so you enabled this. and so joe biden -- the idea that joe biden's justice department is the problem here as opposed to donald trump and the fact that he tried to overturn an election and sic people on the capitol is -- i don't eno if people let you get away with that in rooms all the time, but you should never be allowed to get away. >> here's to more of that energy in 2025. s that is our show for tonight, and a reminder, you can listen to every single episode of alex wagner tonight as a pod cas for free. scan t

mccarthy tried to rewrite history. >> independence believe the greatest threat to democracy was joe biden.en what the american -- so, the idea -- i don't know why -- i don't know -- the defense of merrick garland, sure. donald trump lied about an election being stolen, and then sit him out on the capital, and it is funny that you roll your eyes at this, kevin, because you are the one who went down and resurrected him. you want to know what happened just now in the 2024 election? we elected the most dangerous criminal human being, corrupt human being, that america has ever elected. and kevin, you helped him. you are the one who went and got him after. >> you're welcome. >> sure, thank you. and in doing so, you enable this. and so, the idea that joe biden's justice department is the problem here, as opposed to donald trump and the fact that he tried to overturn an election and sick people on the capital, is i don't know if people let you get away with that in rooms all the time, but you should never be allowed to get away with that. >> here is to more of that energy in 2025. that is our show

joe burrow be played by bart simpson. they kind of look alike are ready. and mike mccarthy kind of looks like homer simpson kind of a big round guy. he's losing his hair interest that. all right. well, you know what? i didn't know this was going on. so all have to tune in just to catch a glimpse and see what all the fuss is about. >> will be a it look, it worked. they just got a pair eyeballs, at least for a few minutes tonight. how about that? let's get james from joint. yeah, thank you as always. we're going to chat with robin tomorrow. we've got his contact information on the screen there below. so let them know. now there's topic or company wanted to talk about tomorwe're back at 9.24. and a new twist now to a high-profile case, sean diddy combs. that lawsuit where it's accusing him and rapper jay z now of a 13 year-old girl in 2000. this lawsuit originally filed in october has been refiled was over the weekend to include jay z as a defendant. so the anonymous accusers claiming that the assault occurred at an mtv video music awards after party and details that jay z rap

joe biden for not pardoning hunter. and now about face with a new set of questions about weaponized doj. andy mccarthyhts on what this could mean for president-elect trump's return to office. for god so loved the world that he gave his only son. so that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but might have eternal life. i'm not in perfect health but i want to stay in my home. i can do it with help from a prep cook, wardrobe assistant, and stylist. life's good. when you have a plan. ♪ (vo) red lobsters across the nation got a new menu celebration. look! ♪ we got lobster. pasta. ♪ ♪ crab. bacon. ♪ ♪ shrimp for the takin' ♪ ♪ 500 locations! ♪ ♪ seven new creations ♪ ♪ come taste it! ♪ >> biden actually believed his son was politicized by the justice department's prose prosecution, then why has he not fired one employee of the justice department? because if he believes there is corruption and if he believes unfairly targeted individuals, he has the authority to fire those prosecutors. yet, he has not done that. speed to congressman jason smith led the investigation into hunter biden reacting to bi

joe biden has gone. >> dana: senator klobuchar agrees. asked about it this weekend and said some of this doesn't look good. kevin mccarthyank you for joining us on monday. if we don't see you, have a merry christmas. >> bill: thank you, sir. in the meantime, jimmy foxx attacked at his own birthday party. didn't hear about this one. it happened at a restaurant in beverly hills. someone at another table threw a glass that hit foxx in the mouth. police say upon investigation officers determined that the report evidence assault with a deadly weapon was unfounded. the incident involved a physical altercation between parties. police conducted a preliminary investigation and completed a report documenting the battery. no arrests were made. oscar winner got stitches and is recovering. >> dana: in his face? >> bill: not sure. not sure. but something went down. we know that. something happened. >> dana: stay home. >> bill: that's right. >> dana: we'll get you to this breaking news. president-elect donald trump set to speak from west palm beach at 11:00 a.m. eastern. we'll get you more on that as we can and bring it to you live. pl

joe, you were talking to my colleagues on the weekend and they were saying when happens if mike johnson doesn't win and you suggested kevin mccarthyresurface as speaker of the house. i don't know if you're still thinking that way or whether you think this endorsement is what mike johnson needed. what's your take on it? >> ali, good to be with you. trump did meet with mccarthy this weekend. look, here's the one constant about donald trump. all he cares about is donald trump. the house can't conduct any business until they pick a speaker. there's business they need to conduct on january 6th, monday, and that's certify the election result. my god, donald trump doesn't want that to go disturbed and you and i and april, we all know trump has a very aggressive and cruel agenda he wants to begin to commence on january 20th when he's sworn in. the laest thing he wants is any chaotic sort of speaker fight. i think that's why he endorsed mike johnson. trump doesn't give a damn about mike johnson. donald trump just don't want his january ruined. >> april, talk to me about this because there are a few republicans who were pretty clear on the