we re going to de-bank. i don t know what the hell de-bank means, but he might have to take de-ambulance to see de-doctor. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, january 29th. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the massive payout donald trump now owes e. jean carroll. talk about being de-banked. after a jury awarded the writer $83 million in defamation damages. we ll get expert legal analysis on that, as well as the looming case that could further impact donald trump s bank account. you know, that s the big one, really. a lot of de-banking. look at the fraud case, he s already found guilty. that one this is all just damages stage. i don t think he helped himself in the defamation case, though you haven t heard from him in the first time. has he defamed e. jean carroll since this came down on friday? i don t think he has. i haven t heard it yet. came close on stage. it s what the jury tried to do. we shall see. meanwh
behind the trees and he shot me. what in the world was going on? that s what i wanted to know. this wife was brutally beaten. did he hire somebody? we just don t know. her husband had an alibi and something else, hala, a lover. it was shocking. we would have never expected it. and as police got closer to the truth he says i think i know who did it. the truth got closer to home. he just told me, hold on, it s about to get a lot more crazy. you won t find it on the map, but if close neighbors, good schools, and plain old civility is what you are looking for in a place called home, you can do worse than settle in grovetown, georgia. she has lived here for 14 years. you see the children outside, playing, having a good time. just a nice quiet place that you want to move and take your family to. the way we think america used to be, and seems to be, harder and harder to find. the army s fort gordon is just down the road. and a number of the city s 1
smith. this is america reports. a house panel voted yesterday to release testimony given by the two irs agents last month and both of these claim the president s son received preferential treatment during the department s investigation. but it s a whatsapp message in the hands of house lawmakers now that s raising some eyebrows and new questions today. john: members of the ways and committee say the 2017 text hunter biden appears to invoke his father s name while pressuring a chinese business associate for payment. it seems to contradict president biden s claims he s never been involved in his son s business dealings. aishah: jonathan turley will join us in a few minutes. john: jacqui heinrich is live on the white house lawn. all we know about it comes from house ways and means republicans who saw this presented to them by the whistleblower. we have not heard from anyone else about the authenticity of the text. the president, though, has long maintained as you said,
s face for hello, everyone this is the ninth i am here with michael hooks emily compagno ann cohosts of the bottom line, dagen mcdowell, founder of polaris national security and form a pennsylvania congressman there he is, 32nd undersecretary of the army, patrick murphy. it is friday everyone. we are just 72 hours away from the first presidential contest in the country, of course i mean the iowa caucuses. thousands of voters are going to go into the cold temperature for their favorite presidential hopefuls. monday, it could be the coldest day on record for the caucus. subzero temperatures. another major storm is expected to hit iowa today. and it may have a major impact on turnout. it s already causing the candidates to cancel and it s at a crucial time where they are hoping to pick up the wind that could propel them to the g.o.p. nomination. for the first time, nikki haley has put ahead of ron desantis in this brand-new iowa poll. but right now, both remain far behind donal
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we are tracking several stories tonight, including another supreme court ethics scandal, tying gop appointee samuel alito to another billionaire on a fishing trip. we ll get into that later. it s a big story. but our news program begins tonight with not only the criminal trial of donald trump, now slated to begin on august 14th buck the broader ongoing threat of right wing individual lantyism and authoritarianism. tonight we begin with a special report on that very challenge, and trump s efforts to hijack the criminal justice system that now is trying to potentially hold him accountable. we re talking about a range of actions that has prompted already fear of violence over the violent rhetoric and whether that could turn to action. we re about one week out from the federal arraignment that trump did try to prevent. we remember he was forced to sit silently in that miami courtroom. outside cameras showed a very small crowd. the scene was