defeated confederates couldn t accept the verdict of the war. they had lost. so they say they embrace what s known as the lost cause, a self-serving lie the civil war was not about slavery but about state s rights and they call that a noble cause. that was a lie, a lie that had not just a law lie but it had terrible consequences. it wrought on jim crow. president biden yesterday in south carolina condemning white supremacy at the site of a deadly race related mass shooting back in 2015. the president s campaign creating a clear contrast between the words and actions of his potential opponent in 2024. speaking of the former president, we ll get expert legal analysis on a key hearing today for president trump s claim of presidential immunity in the federal election interference case. also ahead what investigators are learning about that alaska airlines flight that had a section of the plane break loose while mid-flight. good morning and welcome to way too early on this
yesterday s hearings. expert legal analysis straight ahead on all of that. meanwhile the former president is floating another birther conspiracy. we ll tell you who he is targeting this time and on capitol hill, how republicans will hold two hearings today focused on hunter biden and homeland security secretary mayorkas. we ll have reporting on that. plus, the new developments out of the middle east following secretary of state blinken s meeting yesterday in israel, the two sides appear to be at odds over plans for a post-war gaza. and days after a mid-air explosion on a boeing max 9 jet, the ceo is acknowledging the company s mistakes. we ll have the latest on that investigation and the very latest on secretary of defense austin and what is going on with his health. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s a very busy wednesday, january 10th. joe? yeah, it s very busy, as far as boeing goes, not a great stretch that if your plane blow aparts in mid-air you take respo
it is 11:00 a.m. in the east, 8:00 a.m. pacific. right now in atlanta, we are awaiting a decision on whether mark meadows, trump s former chief of staff, can move his election interference case to federal court. what it would mean if this request is granted. also, we re keeping our eye on the federal courthouse in washington, d.c., where a jury is deliberating. how much rudy giuliani is going to have to pay to two poll workers he defamed after the 2020 election. then to the border where we go to a tiny town in arizona that is fast becoming the new epicenter of the migrant crisis. meanwhile, on capitol hill, senate negotiators are work on a border policy delaying their holiday break. are they close to making a deal? overseas, reports of a second day that parts of gaza are under a telecommunications and internet blackout as israeli prime minister bibi netanyahu declares, quote, nothing will stop us. hey, everybody. good to see you. we re going to begin with the breaking n
far-fetched charges surrounding a legal nondisclosure agreement signed six years ago. according to the media mob, we re watching the crime of the century. today it was o.j. simpson and the white bronco. it was john gotti being brought to justice. nobody is above the law. less than 24 hours, donald trump will be the first former president in history to be charged with a crime but for what? allegations of a mislabelled document? a $130,000 nondisclosure agreement? a case that relies almost in total on the testimony from a convicted admitted liar? a felon by the name of michael cohen? a case that has never been tried before using a new legal theory that was never applied to anyone else? and a cause that looks to be well-past the statute of limitations. the charges are so weak, the bob mueller, the prior manhattan district attorney declined to bring a case. former congressman that voted to impeach donald trump, this is what he tweeted. we re going to indict a former president for
political ones development as well on the federal side. lawyers for the former vice president were in court today behind closed doors, trying to block a grand jury subpoena for his testimony in the january 6th case, and in the classified documents case. tomorrow is the day the former prisons attorney , evan corcoran, is expected to give additional testimony and turned over documents after the d. c district appeals court. upheld. the judge is incredibly rare decision to set aside attorney client privilege under the crime fraud exception. now we have reporting tonight on all of the above cnn s kara scannell on them and hadn t case and kaylen poland s on the federal action caress canal starts us off. so any idea why things have slowed down with the grand jury in new york. this grand jury has been hearing evidence in this case since january. we ve seen a number of the witnesses close to this david pecker at the national enquirer. um michael cohen, who is trump s fixed or the man