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Welcome back. Lets get a check of the day ahead. The president and first morning. The dali llama is expected to attend that as well. A new york judge will hear arguments today on whether to release the secret grand jury records in the eric garner chokehold case. Hopefully well have details later on this day for you. Stick around. Morning joe starts right now. It is 6 00 on this east coast. Welcome to morning joe. We have a lot to get to this morning, guys. Well start right here in new york. New details are emerging about tuesday nights train accident north of new york city that left six people dead. Investigators still trying to determine how exactly an suv ended up on a Railroad Crossing as a packed metronorth train
was speeding. Thats where we find nbc news correspondent tom costello who is following the developments there. Reporter mika cold good morning to you. Theyve moved the train or the burned out remains of the train further down the tracks. Theyre beginning to process removin
Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly giving President Trumps legal team a list of questions as investigators eye an interview with the commander in chief. Lawyering up, fired fbi Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe hiring a powerful d. C. Attorney, and theres fierce new reaction today from lawmakers. 48 hours to go before retirement, i would have certainly done it differently. We have to be very skeptical about the reasons for the mccabe firing. A new bombshell as the Stormy Daniels drama continues on just how many years the trump attorney tried to keep that story a secret. We begin with a president who switched gears in his assault on the russia investigation by directly attacking special Counsel Robert Mueller. This after former fbi director Andrew Mccabe was fired, mccabe hitting back tweeting, quote, we will not be responding to each childish defamatory, disgusting and false tweet by the president. The whole truth will come out in due course, but the tweets today confirm he has corr