Has officially finished. The defense only called two witnesses. And yesterday, rested their case. Former President Trump did not testify in his own defense despite telling the press multiple times he wanted to. You testify in your trial. Yeah, i would testify absolutely. Its a scam. Its a scam. Are you going to testify . Yes. Will you testify . No he wont stop. He the gag is not to testify. Do you plan to testify in court . I probably so. I would like to. I mean i think so. I mean, theres a story of his life, who shocked me can nobodys shocked. It is a guy who said of course i am going to testify, you knew he was not going to testify for a couple reasons. One, he is just a walking perjury machine. Seriously . You got a new Ice Cream Machine that you say makes ice cream. The mcreamy by ninja. And creamy, yeah, well, he is a Ninja Perjury Machine right . You stand in front of it for a couple seconds. I will never look at the creamy the same way. It creates instant perjury and so we all k
The plan thaet can do that other than the pope. The pope. Republican congressman troy nells of texas with a totally normal comparison for the former president , the pope. A recap of what happened yesterday in Donald Trumps Criminal Hush Money Trial in just a moment. Plus, trumps comments about Birth Control that he quickly had to walk back. Also ahead a former Senior Adviser to President Obama lays out an alarming Supreme Court scenario for democrats if donald trump were to win in november. Well play for you that warning. Thats another one, elizabeth. Well get to that. So good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, may 22nd. Were in washington. The table is going what are we talking about today . With us we have u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, elizabeth b. Miller and Deputy Managing Editor for politics at politico, sam stein is with us. Well start with Donald Trumps criminal trial where testimony in the former president s hush money trial has officially fi
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Warming is making this country have very severe weather. This will rank as one of the worst losses of life to a fire in many, many years. My mom texted my sister they were trapped in the room. Our hearts go out to every family who lost a loved one. This is new day with chris cuomo and alyson camerota. Welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is your new day. Chris is off. Bill weir skwroeupbjoins me. Good morning. He thinks special Counsel Robert Mueller will be fair to him. He says the russia investigation makes the u. S. Look very bad. This was an impromptu interview in which the president insisted 16 times there was no collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. He said he has every right to do whatever he wants with the Justice Department. He made news last night with a tweet tweeting that the east coast could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming. As bitter cold temperatures grip much of the nation, once again trying to undermine the Scie
Well see. How the Russian Investigation got started, with George Papadopoulos winesoaked night in a london bar. In that conversation he let slip that hes aware the russian government has political dirt on Hillary Clinton. When the emails started to come out a few months later, the australians very close ally of intelligence to the United States, they come to the fbi and say, hey, we have something you should note. And jam packed january. Congress getting back to work facing deadlines on dreamers, health care and a whole lot more. We clearly have to get a budget passed in january and make it longterm, but there are so many subjects that have to worry about pensions, health care. The next thing we need to worry about is health for workers. We need to make those welfare programs not trapping people in a welfare state. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Its good to be back. Happy new year to all of you. Meanwhile, tensions are rising in iran where nine people were ki