but first, a moment in court the judge called outrageous and simply not allowed. good day. i m chris jansing alongside andrea mitchell and katy tur and they are back in the courtroom. the judge is now planning to issue a new instruction to the jury after trump s defense attorney made a remark that the jury, quote, cannot send someone to prison based on the words of michael cohen. the judge did not like that at all and blasted todd blanche for even raising the idea of trump going to prison. it s not in the jury s purview. and of course, you can t unring the bell and now we are all watching to just see how the prosecution tries to rebut the defense s portrayal of michael cohen as someone with an ax to grind and quote, the greatest liar of all time, that he called the gloat. vaughn hillyard is with us, danny, catherine christian. both are msnbc legal analysts. okay, they are already back, as we said. we have a little bit of color from inside the room. all the attorneys are
the question is, how will the biden administration handle it? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that knows some very, very happy grandparents this morning. i am kasie hunt on this tuesday, march 9th. we ll start with the news. the cdc has released new guidelines for those who are fully vaccinated, offering hope that life could soon return to normal. we ve been through a lot this past year, and with more and more people getting vaccinated each day, we are starting to turn a corner. fully vaccinated people can visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or physical distancing. visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk of severe covid-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing. and refrain from quarantine and testing following a known covid-19 exposure if the vaccinated person remains asymptomatic. however, the cdc continues to recommend tha
Not just a friend, just a good guy, a friend for a very long time. Thats what the president said. And the two of course do seem particularly close in photo after photo. Here they are greeting the tesla ceo, elon musk, in the state dining room as trump signs an Executive Order about the oil pipeline industry. And this, trump speaking on the phone with vladimir putin, and who is there . Steve bannon. And then when they worked together in the white house, check this out, their offices, steps apart. In fact the only person who sat closer to the president of the United States than bannon was President Trumps soninlaw, jared kushner. Even the official chief of staff, reince priebus, sat farther away from President Trump. And of course as trump knows well from his real estate days, power is all about location, location, location. Slamming bannon, though, was only part of the white house operation today. The Press Secretary tried to rip the book itself and its author, Michael Wolff. Could you
Were used to seeing from the president. Perhaps this statement was lawyered, it was in response to a request that my colleague Ashley Parker and i made to sarah sanders, first to interview the president. He wasnt available for an interview, but she offered to get a statement from him which he provided. Look, its important because he seems to be creating some wiggle room for his son. We know from our reporting that theres anxiety in the president s inner circle including by the president himself who has fretted to associates and friends that hes worried about don jr. , worried that there could be some legal jeopardy, legal exposure there, and theres a feeling in the orbit that something could potentially happen in the next few weeks. We dont know what that might be. But this maybe the president trying to protect himself, distance himself from anything that may be afoot with his son. All right. So theres the issue of the Trump Tower Meeting which we know mueller has a good deal of inform
do you feed your baby? or do you save democracy? sure you have got formula in your pantry again but republicans won the house so vladimir putin runs the country. that s their argument. and that leads to us step number 5. when all else fails, invoke january 6th. as if anybody still really cares. the republican party has turned into a party that is built on fraud, on fear and fascism. you think about january 6th and what it looked like. think about the other things that republicans are doing right now in this country. they are trying to suppress the right of freedom of speech. they are banning books right now. they are in florida they re trying to keep certain words. they are repressing people in terms of their votes at the ballot box. jesse: just because no one bought hunter s book doesn t mean it was banned. they said georgia voting law that was going to suppress the vote? georgia s early voting is breaking all records. so another lie.