talking about the case over the weekend. it comes as trump s rivals for the 2024 nomination rally to his defense. some of them do. we will have the comments. some of them do. some don t. some do and don t. mixed bag. you know? what is the strategy there? sad thick. the latest from ukraine with the counteroffensive claiming small victories over the russian forces. also ahead, an update on the i- 95 collapse. a disaster that has shut down the section of one of the busiest highways in america. good lord. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. if is monday, june 12th. with us we have the host of way too early, eddie claude jr., and richard hoss joining us. richard, jonathan, so much news. we cannot talk about sports. is there a minute? not even a minute to talk about what happened at yankee stadium or the stadium as they call it. the red sox taking 2 of 3. we don t have time to talk about it? we don t have time to talk about it. the little league team
our country is going to hell, and they come after donald trump. in all of my years of public life, i have never obstructed justice and i think too that i can say that in my years of public life, that i welcome this kind of examination. they re trying to destroy our reputation so they can win an election. that s just as bad as doing any of the other things that have been done over the last number of years and especially during the 2020 election. people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook, well, i m not a crook. i ve earned everything i ve got. so i just want to tell you i m an innocent man. i did nothing wrong. donald trump and richard nixon each proclaiming innocence 50 years apart. nixon was never federally indicted. donald trump was just indicted on seven charges. we ll go through what we know about the federal charges and what happens next in the case. plus, we ll explain why this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it
charges. we made it 234 years is a country without a single president or former president fa criminal indictment. this year, 2023, donald j trump broke that record. not just once, he was charged in four separate criminal charges this year. trump is 91 federal indictments are far in a way the biggest story of 2023. as the year draws to a close, it s worth considering the magnitude of each of these charges. it s also worth reminding ourselves how big the story is. how big this moment says. it s historic. how very not normal everything about trump world has been. donald trump s disregard for social norms, common courtesy, and the rule of law was shocking at first, but, like any of these campaigns, it can be exhausting to think about, to talk about, to live through each and every day, day after day, year after year. today, with his last day of the first year that a former president was criminally indicted, i want to underscore just how imperative it is that we is a country, as an
my brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. those of us who loved him and will take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. as he said many times in many parts of this nation to those he touched and who sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say why, i dream things that never were and say why not. that was senator ted kennedy at the funeral of his brother bobby. second funeral he would have to mark and today is june 6th. david ignatius, two monumental things happened on this day, of course, the assassination and the death the assassination and the death of bobby kennedy on june 6th, 1968, a day that really marked in many ways a low point, the chaos of the 1960s and i must say also a
presidential actions on january 6th, and is disqualifiedro holding office under section iii of theh amendment. importantly eedd was the ticking countdown clock, giving any party, not just donald trump, until january 4th to appeal to the supreme court and saying if anyone asks the supreme court to review this case, then donald trump s name stays on the ballot until the supreme court weighs in. well, no surprise, the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted ex-president made a lot of noise after the ruling came out whining and bloviating and promising to, quote, swiftly file an appeal to the supreme court. but then a funny thing happened. while trump and his lawye were working on that swift appeal look who beat him to t proverbial punch, the colorado republican party, who filed their owneal urging the justices to take up the case and d while mr. trump is expected toil his own petition in the coming days, the move by the colorado republican party has a, quote, practical i