Noem is not backing down, defending her decision to shoot her own dog. Now implying President Joe Bidens dog, commander, which no longer lifts in the white house after several biting incidents, should be put down. She reportedly writes the first thing shed do if she got to the white house is make sure joe bidens dog was nowhere on the grounds. Commander, say hello to cricket. Dear lord, this woman has a taste for dog blood. Its like she thought All Dogs Go To Heaven was a personal challenge. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. She cant seem to kick it. She dries to blame it on us, but she wrote it, willie. It is tuesday, may 7th. We have a lot to get to this morning. Well go through yesterdays key moments in Donald Trumps Criminal Trial, including the judges warning about potential jail time for the former president. Also ahead, georgias former Lieutenant Governor, a lifelong republican, says he will vote for President Biden. Well read from his oped, calling on other republicans to d
It is a Binary Choice. How do you convince people that it is a Binary Choice . Well, im only speaking to those republicans are conservatives like me. Ive got a historical voting record that is this conservative as anybody. Im putting the piece that ive been a republican my whole life, unlike donald trump. And i think weve got it, weve got to take our medicine and its painful. It hurts its sometimes maybe doesnt seem like it makes sense, but if were going to heal, weve got to move past donald trump. Hes taking us to the bottom of the ocean and some of us dont even realize it all right, formulas and governor geoff duncan, scott jennings, i deeply apologize. We are at a time, but thanks. To both of you, a new our of cnn, new central starts right now i think over ip, is really military takes control of the palestinian side or the Raffa Crossing. And Ceasefire Talks resumed. And destruction in oklahoma, powerful tornadoes, rip through the state, killing at least one person. Search rescue kr
President trumps legal battles. The woman at the center of his criminal trial in new york took the stand today and gave graphic testimony about their alleged sexual encounter in 2006. But we begin tonight with the judge in the former president s trial over alleged misuse of classified documents postponing the start of that trial indefinitely. Correspondent david spunt has details tonight live from the justice department. Good evening, david. David good evening, bret. This case was supposed to go to trial in fort pierce, florida on may 20th. That is no longer happening. That date has been pushed back and while there is not a new trial date set, judge Aileen Cannon has set some deadlines, many deadlines, at least a dozen going on late into the summer, pushing the trial back at least until the end of july. In an order, just late this afternoon, about an hour or so ago, judge cannon announced she is extending several key deadlines in this case that take it out as i said until the end of ju
Congratulations. Thank you. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. Ready . The clerk. This is the people of the state of new york against donald j. Trump, smz71911 24. Appearancing starting with people. Prosecutor joshua steinglass, for the people, assistant District Attorneys joshua stein glass, michael colangelo, becky mangold, christopher conroy, and catherine ellis. Good morning, emil bove, joined by donald trump and todd blanche, susan necheles. The judge, good morning. Good morning, mr. Trump. So the matter called into the record is the peoples motion for contempt, meaning the prosecutions motion for contempt. The judge says, quote, before i hand down my decision, i wanted to address the defense and mr. Trump. Mr. Trump, as you know, the prosecution has filed three separate motions asking this court to find you in contempt. In a moment, im going to hand down my decision on the third motion. Which i in which i find you in Criminal Contem
Reviewing it. We are also expecting additional comments from the white house. The Daily Briefing happens a little later this hour with john kirby, so we will get new information we expect then. The other big story were following, just about 15 minutes, testimony will resume in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. It has been quite the morning. The jury spent it hearing from jeffrey mcconney, a former Top Executive at the Trump Organization. He handled the reimbursements to Michael Cohen for paying off Stormy Daniels. There are a pile of documents were seeing for the first time, including these checks. If youre familiar with Donald Trumps signatures, those are checks that were signed by donald trump himself after an explanation about the difference between a trust, which was an account for the company, and a, essentially, private account for donald trump. Well, mcconney detailed how he kept notes and Bank Statements related to cohen stored in a locked door and how the Hush Money Checks had t