Youre in the cnn newsroom. Were glad to have you with us. Lets start with charges against r. Kelly. He is 51 years old, accused of sexual acts. The abuse dated back as far as 1998, spanned more than a decade. If convicted, he faces up to 70 years in prison, ten years for each count of sexual abuse. Nick watt joins me. Nick, a bond hearing is scheduled for this afternoon for kelly. What are we expecting . What do cook county prosecutors want for him . I think that they would like to keep him in custody but we will find out lunchtime whether he is released on bond or whether he stays in their custody. We heard from the sheriffs department, they say he is now in their custody and is being held apart from other detainees, they say it is Standard Practice for a high profile person such as r. Kelly. Now, we heard last night from his lawyer, gave us something of a clue what their defense will be. Take a listen. Do you think these women are lying . Yes. All of them . I think all the women are
I morning joe starts now. The lower 25 cant afford private. Universal health care . Im going to take care of everybody. I dont care if it costs me votes or not. Are you going to make sure people with preconditions are covered. Theres going to be a period when you repeal it before you replace it were going to do it simultaneously. Its just fine. It an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated. The Republican Party will soon be northeasteknown as the health care. I mean it, 100 . I understand health care now. A lot of people dont understand it. So four years of promises and donald trump says he understands health care now, but you wont see a plan for another 19 months. After boldly announcing the impending overhaul of health care hes tweeting that the big vote will be taken right after the 2020 election. Believe him good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, april 2nd. With us we have former treasury official and morning joe economic analy
We have the new yorkers dexter philkins and well hear more about that. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, april tuesday, april 30th. We have the cohost and executive producer of the circus, John Heilemann, National Correspondent for msnbc news, Steve Kornacki is with us and associate editor for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. Good to have you all with us this morning. And, willie, its great to have you here. We talked yesterday about the avengers and you had that great interview with jeremy rinner. Who would have guessed count chocula and booberry getting killed off at the end. This is going to be huge. It already is huge. The Biggest Record opener was 600 million. This one doubled that is correct 1. 2 billion avengers has made in its first weekend. I think it already the 17th highest grossing movie in the history of movies and it looks look its going to become only the fifth movie to gross over 2 billion. It helps, all the hype helps,
Figure. Youre never going to get it out of me. I dont know why youre being so goofy. People says it . I would have to believe it if people says it. For donald trump, the direction was going down. Thats according to the New York Times analysis of trumps taxes, which documented a decade where trump touted his art of the deal, all the while he lost over a billion dollars. And, by the way, thats not an accomplishment. Thats like bad good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, may 10th. Along with joe, willie and me he was not here a half a second ago. Oh, yeah, this was not pretty. This was a courough start. Willie and i have been here flew 4 15, going through the papers, going through the dogs. We know which dogs to bet on this weekend. We have a very big day ahead. Yes. You a know what . A lot of people can just wing it. Not you. But you do my psychological mackup, will makeup, willie, too meticulous. What were you saying . You still pore through those world books and the ency
On the issue. The about either recent missile test. President trump was asked about that overnight. He said those missile tests didnt bother him. He effectively dismissed them, saying he didnt despite the fact that his own National Supreme Court Divorce had said as much upon landing here in japan, so real mixed messaging, and President Trump making it clear hes Still Holding out hope for a possible dewithnoic, but also adds hes not in a rush to get one. The question is what will that to try to pressure north korea to abandon the nuclear ambitions. The other point that was so remarkable. Typically leaders do not criticize their domestic counterparts on the world stage. Well, President Trump has broken with that tradition, not a surprise, hes broken with a number of traditions, of course, as. , but he sided with kim jongun, taking a swipe at joe biding. He said kim jongun is right. And then the other issue of trade, ali. President trump had wanted to at least make some progress on trade