greg: our first hero "msnbc"'s joe scarborough on the left there.lamming the idiots on cable news channels for comparing the destruction of the capitol in january to the destruction from riots over the summer. >> idiots on other cable news channels will say well you know it's mom-and-pop store vandalized during the summer and that is just as bad as the united states capitol being vandalized. actually it's not that i'm not going to confuse a taco stand with the united states capitol programs not going to confuse the selling of tacos with actually moving through the constitutional process. greg: the selling of tacos, what it tomato faced toured with so. the truth is the riots resulted in more than 20 deaths. but property damage estimated into the billions making it the most expenses period of unrest in our nation's recorded history. that is some taco dandies sunbaked white hat but i think i can speak for planet earth when i said you joe scarborough. runner-up nicole wallace moaning in delight for a trump casino explosion. >> let me play this. this is

they set up a grip and they did so with the help in the media, joe scarborough and they were useful idiotshey were useful perverts in some cases and they were protected by people in the media. we should be asking questions about that. mike: okay. to the shake-up of the white house press, tj ducklo didn't make it for the first month. >> nobody likes to see a love affair but that was reserved in the instance. for ducklo to single out a female politico editor, call her out, use misogynistic comments, he needed to go, he was dually fired by the biden administration. they are walking the walk and also different than the last 4 years and different than what we saw yesterday when trump's attorneys could have held a cooking show in the well of the senate and 43 republican senators would still have vote today acquit. this is what we see, this is accountability. this is democrats walking the walk. mike: briefly before i go over to chris, what about her publication, his girlfriend's publication allowing her to go on doing some biden administration coverage while also covering progressives? chris: thi

joe scarborough and nicole wallace, that kind of thing.chmidt, the republicans that are trying to claim that it's a party of decent americans who are sane and on the side of all americans. they are going to have a hard time justifying the claims andthe allegiance in the face of the ongoing rise. she ises more of a threat to the republican party. >> and bill crystal, you made the point that it's better to do have her around. that you think it's actually useful, expand on that. >> well, i'm being slightly ironic, she says out loud what others don't say. the party is trumps and nobody els. think of that for a minute. what is she talking about in in america, political parties blng to the voters who vote for them. the people who belong to the parties and the elected foised officials of the party. the party is trump's and nobody els, that is something that you say, lit are -- that is literally an authoritarian leader. it's not even thepresident that is in charge. it's the expresident. nobody can think of saying this even about a former beloved p

. >> joe scarborough discussed harry truman's work to prepare america for the cold war.here is a portion of the talk. >> when harry truman got the word from the british that they could no longer defend greece and turkey against soviet against thedesign, he was havinl with a republican congress that had just gotten elected. democrats faced a disaster this midterm election in 1946. german's first midterm while president and republicans were back in power for the first time in 14 years. anybody that's read about fdr knows when fdr was president, washington was fdr's town. he did not care much for the dissent not either from republicans or people inside of his own oval office. so, republicans had had enough of the democratic presidents they were isolationists they finished world war ii. it was a nation that was exhausted from the four years of war obviously. and so, gary truman gets the message that he's got to engage a republican house, republican senate, and mainly the chairman of the foreign affairs committee then chamberlain had appeased hitler's design on the same regio

that's the hour of power with david french and joe scarborough.ask mike barnicle about what's happening in new york state. andrew cuomo, who was held up as a governor that was doing just about everything right for months. there has been sit similar of him sending covid patients back into nursing homes. now we have him reportedly threatening democrats and saying he's going to destroy their lives. what do you make of the crisis that's building around andrew cuomo right now? >> you know, joe, it's interesting. you mentioned gavin newsom, greg abbott in texas. the overlying issue is governance. a lot of people believe in strong deposit, making deposit work for the people. governor abbott believes in no government, so they are freezing, partially. with andrew cuomo, it may be arrogant of office. the first time he was elected i think was 2010, re-elected in '14. he's been there 10 years. and the arrogance that can build up in that period of time, that accounts i think for the phone call to assemblyman kim, who we just heard. and it's endemic in this cou

and then they would go to pete and say, hey, did you see what joe scarborough said about you in rolls has been happening for hundreds of years. this is what reporters do. . >> of course it is. by the way, pete king brought that up literally every time he ever came on the show. about you and the tent revival, joe, are you wearing shoes now? seung min kim is one of the most respected reporters on capitol hill. we heard reports from kasie, jake sherman and people who worked aside her for years and years and years. she was asking for a comment on a quote against her. many of the people attacking her, partisan hacks are some of the same people who will appreciate simultaneousously about inclusion and representation and everything else but going after her in a sexist and racist way for doing her job is appalling. i'm glad to see she is getting so much support. >>> president joe biden took his first known military action, authorizing air strikes against iranian-backed fighters in eastern syria. a senior defense official telling nbc news the attack involved two u.s. aircraft that launched 6:

. >> that is a point that our friend and colleague joe scarborough was made is that you would have a complicit senate, can they force respect or decorum for the impeachment itself. >> to my knowledge, under the rules, the constitution provides a framework where you have a serious meeting. this is more senators on the floor together for a long period of time. but with regard to how that comport themselves, whether or not they take the evidence or the process seriously or not, i think that is up to each individual senator unless there is such a breach that it would be patrolled through decorum rules. >> claire mccaskill, your name was invoked. any thoughts about how people will feel about their senator with his feet on the desk. >> he wants to be seen as "the guy." he is the guy who did this. if he had not objected, i don't think there would have been any debate or vote on this. i think it would have been like all of the other pro forma certifications of the electoral vote. he did this. he set this in motion. and he is proud to pull himself apart from everyone else to be the only guy.

they made the argument today, and you know, our friend, joe scarborough made a very, i thought, a brilliantly concise point this morning on "morning joe," drawing on his legal expertise, and he pulled this thing out of torts, which is called the but for test. the but for test is a test that basically says, it's used on negligence cases, and it says, you know, if you take somebody out of a story, would the thing happen? and if you take the person out, and the thing wouldn't happen, then that person is responsible for it, right? so the but for test applied to trump is, take trump out of this picture, and try to imagine, would any of this have happened without trump? tim talked about the big lie. i'm talking about the whole of it. if donald trump didn't exist, he's the car who causes the six-car pile-up. you take that car out of the picture, the pile-up doesn't happen, that car is responsible. in this case, anybody, just using common sense, thinks about this, if donald trump didn't exist, none of this would have happened. all of this was contingent totally on donald trump and i think there's abs