We will hear argument this morning in case 23939. Trump versus the United States. Reporter tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. Trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker how is our girl. As his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the Supreme Court. This court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. A private attorney to spearhead his challenges to the election results. What was up with the pardon for president nixon . If everybody thought that president s couldnt be prosecuted what was that about . If it fails completely it is because we have destroyed our democracy on our own, isnt it . Tonight, Rachel Maddow, nicole wallace, joy reed, chris liz. Lawrence odonnell, lisa ruben all here as msnbcs special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins now. Who has the time . Who has the time . You are telling me that simultaneously, we have nearly three hours of Oral Argument at the Unit
You will notice west it is drying out, we are finding those showers through south jersey. We will get closer zoom here. Dover is dry and some in southern delaware it is dry we have rain showers along the i95 corridor. They are light. Heavier rain showers are located close to the shore area. Forked river, and Little Egg Harbor we are looking at heavier rain showers. We will fine breaks in this as well. Temperatures not bad. Fortytwo philadelphia. Fortysix in wilmington. Fiftyone in dover. Fiftys along the shore. Fortytwo up in the poconos at this point. Visability, they are improving in lancaster. They have double. New they have half a mile up through allentown area. We have a little bit better wrist built along the shore areas as well. Temperatures today getting to 63 degrees. On and off showers. Not a bad day though because of those showers. It will get cold here. I will show thaw on the eyewitness weather seven day forecast nicole. Carol thank you. New this Morning Police are investi
According to the Washington Post, abc news, Cheesecake Factory poll, voters favor donald trump over Hillary Clinton 46 to 44 . But how do you feel about it . 46 to 44, if you do the math, that only adds to 90 . The final 10 kept whispering kill me. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is may 24th. Mika has the morning off. Willie, as you know, its may and this time of the year she goes around the world and tries to help young rebels trying to train them im in an undisclosed location in a Counter Intelligence operation. Willie, we will get through this, which may be one of the uglier days in recent american political history. I say that because of what happened yesterday. We knew that the bill clinton allegations were coming. We didnt think they would come this early or this hard, but the vince foster charges bringing
those up and casting a light on suspicious activities. Thats about as low as it goes. And i was shocked that its already happening in may. Yeah, were in 1993 Conspi
Chambers. Tillerson actually is done for the day im told. At the studio here with us, we have katie ter and nicole wallace. General mattis is the singling most comforting decision that donald trump has made since the moment it was known that he would be our next commander in chief. And his appointment gives comfort to the Intelligence Community, very much in the spotlight and in the headlines this week especially. His appointment gives comfort to the men and women of the military. His appointment gives comfort to congress. And those are groups of people that as the countrys commander in chief, you must provide some reassurance that youre going to surround yourself with people who can walk in and say, hey, all tha stuff y said about water boarding, not so smart. Not such a good idea. Heerdz why. And listen. What general mattis is in a leafing his own in the simple fact that hes changed Donald Trumps mind already. Hes not even on the job. Hes already persuaded him to change his thinking
Trumps dismissal of the agency and an agency thats already distrustful of outsiders. Donald trumps attack on the Intelligence Community delivers a direct jones from jaime clapper. He said he personally called the president elect to push back against his accusations that the intel agency leaked embarrassing information. Claims that russia has gathered compromising information on him. While we dont know what was said during that phone conversation, clapper does release a rare statement that raises some eyebrows on its own. Lets go to our senior washington correspondent who is joining us with details. Update our viewers. Reporter an extraordinary phone call from James Clapper the director of National Intelligence to donald trump. Donald trump pointed that out in a tweet this morning saying this. James clapper called me yesterday to denounce the false and fictitious report that was illegally circulated made up, phoney facts. Too bad. But, wolf, thats not how intelligence officials are desc