Country have we had a president with these kinds of extensive business entanglements. Or a president who refused to adequately distance himself from their holdings. President trumps businesses and his dealings violates the constitutions anticorruption provisions. Known as the emoluments clauses. The lawsuit filed in Maryland District Court contends that the president s ownership harms the state and districts. The defendant has used his position as president to boost the patronage of his enterprises. Foreign diplomats and other officials have made clear that the Defendant Position as president increases the likelihood they will frequent has properties and businesses. The Press Secretary dismissed the suit. It is not hard to conclude partisan politics may be one of the motivations. The suit was filed by two
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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Robert mueller is not. See you in a bit. Here onset for another day, dan goldman, an msnbc legal analyst along with our pal nbc News Reporter carol lee. It is less hot than it has been all week. You picked a good day to be here. Dan, let me start with you, if you look at what each side wants, they are both looking for leverage. And the sticking point, one of them seems to be this idea much an in person interview. What is the framing behind that . The trump team wants questions on collusion only and special counsel wants to hear about it all. I think Rudy Giuliani is trying to figure out a way to drum up some leverage because ordinarily the witness of the defendant or target or subject does not have the leverage, the prosecutor does. And but because bob mueller is not talking and Rudy Giuliani is, hes able he has the whole Public Domain to make all of his arguments, even though as
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enjoy your sleep. thank you for everything you have done. we love you, bill. bill karins, happy friday. we love you, man, and we will see you again soon. all right. coming up, john heilemann is standing by for the big political story of the morning. kevin mccarthy flat-outlying and not understanding that tapes actually prove he is lying. we will lay it out for you. and how it is going to affect whether kevin is ever going to be speaker of the house or not. yeah. you know, on these tapes you actually have liz cheney and kevin agreeing that trump has to go. what changed? liz stayed true to what they were saying that day. she decided to do what was right instead of what was politically expedient. we will break that down. also, republicans, they re going after the magic kingdom in the political war against mickey mouse, and they re going to raise taxes on millions of
governor. so it was already a map that was favorable to republicans and was chose to curry favor with desantis. desantis looked at the map and said, no, i don t want that map. here is my map and put a map in front of them that was even more favorable towards him and towards republicans and diluted black voting power even more. they said, okay, whatever you say, governor desantis. adding this case with disney, a lot of people thought they were winning on the issue as a culture war issue, that beating up disney over what the opponents of the bill call the don t say gay bill, that it was a winning culture war issue for the republican base, but symbolic only. don t take the next step. don t actually go after disney on an economic basis, don t hit their bottom line. desantis was thought to be leaning in that direction, and then out of nowhere, shocking every one, democrats, republicans, reporters, he decided on tuesday, no we re going to punish disney. it wasn t that they fought the
border, and then that creates a nuclear crisis? richard haass and retired admiral james stavridis covering the many fronts of the war in ukraine for us on this friday morning. thank you both very much for okay.. still ahead on morning joe, we will be joined by pentagon press secretary john kirby on the heels of president biden s new pledge to send more weapons to ukraine. we can pose a lot of those questions to him. plus, the big political story this morning. kevin mccarthy denies he told republicans in the days after the january 6th attack on the capitol. kevin, kevin. that he would urge donald trump to resign. he made that promise, it was the right thing to do. poor kevin is home alone now without donald. apparently mccarthy isn t aware of this new phenomenon known as audio recordings or i would say he is using a trump tactic which is pretending something very real doesn t