investigators who investigated the ties between the trump campaign and russia and beyond. as new york times reports today, durham delivered a report that scolds the fbi but fails to live up to the expectations of supporters of donald j. trump that he would uncover a politically motivated deep state conspiracy. he charged no high-level fbi or intelligence official with a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign did nothing prosecutable either. to no one s surprise though, the disgraced ex-president and his allies have used it as evidence of their priors and what amounts effectively to a campaign of disinformation. once again from the new york times, predictably the reporter s actual content, it contained no major new revelations and it accused the fbi of confirmation bias rather than making a more explosive conclusion of political bias, made scant difference in parts of the political arena. mr. trump and many of his loyalists iss
joe weekend! there was a lot to talk abou this way let s get right to some of the top stories. we re gonna begin with th new york times reported that the manhattan district attorney s office has signaled two attorneys for former president trump. he could face criminal charges the paper sites for people wit knowledge of the matter. it all stems from th investigation by manhattan da, alvin bragg s office and trump s role of the hush money to adult film actress, storm daniels ahead of the 201 election prosecutors now offered th former president the chance to testify next week before the grand jury, that has bee hearing evidence and the potential case the times reports it would b unusual for a da to notify a potential defendant withou ultimately seeking charges against them, but trump is likely to declined that offe according to the paper, former presidents lawyers also coul meet privately with prosecutor in an attempt to fend of criminal charges two of trump s defense attorney
jokes with him alongside a budget proposal while he was in philadelphia yesterday. his plan has little chance of passing the republican-controlled house, making this more about campaign messaging than the actual numbers. meanwhile, there are significant developments this morning out of the manhattan d.a. s office that signal criminal charges could be coming for donald trump. we ll get into the details of why. also ahead, a lackluster debut for the subcommittee on so-called weaponization of the federal government has some republicans frustrated now with congressman jim jor t jordan an game plan. we ll be joined by the writer of the piece in a moment. good morning to morning joe. we have jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington post, eugene washington. and special correspondent for bbc news, the great katty kay. good morning to you all. as i mentioned, we re going to begin with the new york times report that the manhattan district attorney
we are currently leaning a little too far on the side of everything is robotic and fake. because of that, the people in our politics who take most advantage of that are the people who don t want to play by the rules, are the people that says when something verifiable comes out, that didn t happen. imagine the tape from october of 2016. imagine that coming out now, how easy it is. you can make it happen. you can make one of those in 15 seconds. that s the worry, not the technology itself, it s the confusion and doubt and how people who have always used that for political advantage, how they ll use it in the future. people trying to understand the writers strike, ai taking over the jobs of our geniuses bringing our favorite shows, we re all at risk. part of my brain says more free time to learn how to bake. but that s besides the point.
there is a slew of legal cases meeting donald trump potentially at the moment of our viewers may be forgiven fo having that s not keeping trac of them all. now you see that this one ha potentially an indictmen coming where do you put it? i mean maybe this is a cross way of thinking about it, bu if you put in the kind o consolation or the latter of cases that donald trum potentially faces, which you kind of like it in the hierarchy of severity? i put it as number four i see four criminal cases that are lurking out there. this is probably the least significance of them, but an felony is a very serious charge so i don t want to diminish it and anyway i think the likely priso sentence in a case like this i probably relatively small, but it s not insignificant because not only was it a falsificatio about business record, it wa down to what to the presidency in 2016. imagine if those facts had com out shortly before the electio in 2016. it would have really amplified